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RIVAL WIVES

By Anne

Austin.

Author of The Black Pigoon."**

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about my defending him on an em bezzlement charge, and thought I right bo interested to know that Crawford had been living in Paris. He saw him there about six months ago, playing about) with a woman so beautiful that; she was the talk of the town Up to his old tricks, I suppose," he added, with a wry grin.

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CHAPTER XXXIII

1. When they had gone, hilarious When, that Wednesday evening, Nan stared for long minutes ly chummily her work, that the third monthly anniversary the mass of papers on the library of her marriage to John Curtie desk, but a thick lens of tears had no suspicion at all of the Anaconda Copper .... Morgan, the little. Curtis loudly makes a poor reading medium.. shameful alliance of the two who | Bothlehem Steel- .110 clamoured for a game of anagrams,

No, she couldn't go on like this had wronged him so deeply. She Chrysler Corp. (Com- Nan had no prosentiment that any longer.

mon) Why should she? was answered now. He had not crisis in that still incomplete mar-Every day was torture, every night the faintest auspicion that the wo- General Motor (Com- riago was rapidly hurting down a hell of loneliness and crushed man "so beautiful that aho was Goodrich B. F. (Com upon iter, ..

hope. Curtis had put it with ter-the talk of the town"

was Iris

mon) Curtis' very modern school-rifying clarity: "Poor Nan Morgan, teacher had introduced the game Father takes. her 'hopes and I Morgan took his sent on the op- of anagrams into her classroom inke his love' before she can posite side of the fat-topped desk, International Cement as a novel but effective aid in the

For three months he had daily and reached for the thick sheaf of (Common) teaching of spelling and defini-given her a tiny modicum of hope, papers which Nan been pretend-Liggett and Myers "B" 89 tions. And Curtis had become so only to kill it; by a casual gooding to study.. Ifis hand touched Missouri Pacific (Com-,

mon) enamoured of the game that he in-night, kisa on her chock or forchers, inadvertently, then closed

Consolidated Novada sisted upon a session of anugrams head or hand. For three months over it.

47 Copper with his father and stepmother she had striven with every ingenu- "Why, Nan denr, your hand's Packard Motor every evening after dinner. ity known to a woman in love to like Ice!" he exclaimed, instantly (Common)

185 They had been engrossed for win his love, and she had solicitous. "Aren't

you well, Radio Corporation of 10 minutes this evening with the failed. She had made his home child? Or did something I any

America (Common) 83 little wooden lettera when, Curtia a haven of comfort and peace and upset you?...

Standard Oil Co. of Good heavens, triumphantly formed word beauty. She had mothered his boy Nan! It's not. Crawford's Standard Oil Co. of

58' New Jersey the three until the boy's own mother would name that 's made you look like "h-o-p" adding it to other words he had captured.

New York scarcely have known him, so splen that, is it? ... I used to think-Southern Pacic "Only trouble Is, it's too easy didly healthy and happy and nor

She had why, Leven tensed you about Texas Corporation to take," the little boy grumbled, mat he had become. "There! I knew I'd lose it! Why brought father and son into such him! Look at me, Nan!" he com- United States Leather did you have to xet E No quick, close companionship and congeni-manded sternly. Nan7"

the

His stepmother grinned at him as she took his three letters and made the word into "kope."

"And here's an 'S' which I can't

ality that an editorial writer for a Jnvoluntarily the sleek, brown woman's magazine would have end jerked up. a pair of great burbled with joy as he described brown eyes, blazing with anger, the two. She had worked on his raked his suddenly perturbed and cases with a brilliance and zeal anxious face.

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In its earlier days, she said,

when the College was at York 72 place, Baker-street, they had what were known as "lady visitors," 83 whose duty is was to chaperonej

the girls to all lectures delivered 85 by men.

"The outside world was

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easily shocked in those days," com- mented Miss Tuke, “but that camo to an end even before my time 95 here, somewhere in the early, "nino-

ties, I believe."

When Miss Tuke wont to Newn- 136 ham.in 1885, she said, it was look-

ed upon as quite a daring thing 79 for a girl to go to the University, und they worked enormously hard

and took particular care to be most circumspect for fear of being 18 turned out and heving the door of

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"Nan darling! What is the above the village, a great avalanche short but the girls themselves are If Father gets an he can. tak sort, and he was obviously grate

of earth and rocks hurtling downj much the same. The one thing Hopes away from you, Nan, and ful. But what had he given her? matter? I don't understand-”

the mountain alde, carrying all be, that atrikes me particularly is Bacteri Umd Oles:-BATAVIA. Banking Corporation in San Fran servo him! "Let me go!" She jerked her fore it into the sea.--Reuter. leave you hopeless' ! That's Well, a chance to

that they are so much more reason« | BRANCHES : — Bandiersonals. Bando cisco, Spain and the Philipin. joke, Father! Get it? It's a pun, Once that would have been enough hand from his, and sprang up

able, which comes, of course, of a wider and freer life. 'cause a pun is a play on words for Nan, but now it was not from the desk so precipitately that

"As to the modern love of plea- We had it in spelling yesterday" enough. She had earned more she overturned her chair. Be

"Did you also learn that the pan everything. And since, his love fore he could cirele the denk she through, through! She had tried sure, there have always been the for. Iris could not die, he had no was through the door. The. alam her best and she had failed. gay sets-we used to call them fast is the lowest form of wit?" his coin with which to pay his debt to or its closing was like a slap in What if they did still need her?but, speaking generally, I find father gibed. "Well, what do you her. To his credit be it said his face, but what did she care She was sick unto death of think that they work hard and play know about that?" he pretended Nan reminded herself with vast amazement and triumph, "Ibitter mile he had not tried to as she fled up the stairs to her ing her love every day on

now? It was all over, she sobbed, Ing of them all the time, of crucify-hard." have got the 'L'—"

pay in counterfeit,

room. Hadn't she known

all cross of self-sacrifice. "Poor Nan! Father takes her "Slaving away dear?" Morgan evening that she couldn't go on 'hopes nway from her," Curtis interrupted from Che doorway any longer? Let him think that

She was cramming dresses into] sympathized. "Don't you mind. "See any loopholes in the Nan. Father's got some little old Want to be in court in the morning at him think anything he chose terrupted her. Her heart lenped.

bis insult had driven her away. auitcase when a low knock in three-letter words over there you when the ease opens ?"

It didn't matter.... All that Oh, couldn't she ever learn not to. can steal. Look! I betch you Nan bowel her hand lower over mattered-she told herself, as ahe hope? Let him knock?... Slow. can take his love with a Gor the papers, no that he might not jerked open the door of her clothesy, jerkily, she, crept toward the an 'R'--Gee!" he marvelled aloud, see the traces of her tears. "I can take his love with that believe not, John." She could not closet was that she had reach-door to open to her husband.... It' thats been in the pool all along, explain that the jovial, teasing ated the end of her rope. She was Peor Nan! Father takes hertitude of her husband's legal

case?

"I

hopes' and I take his 'love' before colleagues Loward the great she can-"

criminal lawyer's partner-wife was unbearable to her. If she had been his wife in fact, as well as It was then that Nan is her in nime, she would have gloated heart cried out despairingly: "over their pleasantries... "The can't go on like thin! I'll go cruzy case looks watertight

or run away. ... But I can't go #00

to me.

the you have the last of

on like this! Even a silly little depositions from Riverside, Cali- word game stabs me in the fornia. Basselt doesn't suspect a

hoart-"

She played on mechunleally, her small face pale and set. her wide

brown eyes blind to Ho

thing, does he?"

"No, and neither does Nína Blackhull, so far I know," Morgan answered, his deep voice throbbing many with triumph, "if nothing alips chances that at last Curtis de-up, Nan, we'll get a

dismissal manded resentfully: "What's the of the indictment against young matter, Nan? You aren't trying David Blackhuil and any more! Are you mad, Nan? dictments against Nina Blackhull) You won't let me be a bad sport und Bassalt before another week and sulk when I, loše~~”

kaa pärsed into history. A fine

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"Sorry, darling!" Nan apologizChristmas present for young. ed. "I wasn't sulking about the David, cl?... Let's game honest I was thinking of this time last year J

drag. endlessly,

see about WHA

and

Bert

to

then

something cise. You've won maneuvreing an acquittal as, A again, haven't you. Curtis?... Christmas present for Finol Suppose you and your fa Crawford. Time Heems ther play alone for a while. I've got some work to do-"

And before Curtis could utter half the protests that were tum- bling off his clamourous tongue Nan had run into the library and shut the door.

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all of a sudden you wake up to realize that it hasn't been dragging at all, but flying—”

His voice trailed to a constrain- ed pause. Nan knew that he was thinking not only of the anniver- Fifteen minutes later father and aary of the opening of the Craw son appeared in the doorway, handford case, but also of another on- in hand, the tall man smiling down niversary that was hurtling In- fondly-upon the flushed, excited evitably toward him-the anniver- child.

sary of his adored first wife's. "He's licked me again, Nan," desertion. Was there any won- der that be had no thought at all Morgan told her. "I'm getting even with the champion anagram for the significance of the date, so player by sending him off to bed, far as he and she were concerned? it's after eight. He's 10 minutes He had not indicated by word or to the good, and gloating indecent glance that the twelfth of the Jy over having won three games month meant anything.... Per straight."

| hapa it didn't—to him, since the "I'm going to take the dictionary marriage was not really a mar- to bed with me," Nan threatened ringe, and thero was room in his blithely. Would either of them heart for celebration of only one notice that she had been crying? wedding anniversary. "Good night, Curtis, Your "I've often wondered about father'll go up with you to-night. Crawford," Morgan went on, his I'm busy, darling."

voice almost normal again. "You "Going over the Blackhull case, know, it's rather hurt me that ho Nan?" Morgan asked cheerfully has never written. After all, I "Good! There are one or two did get him out of a nasty situa points I'd like to smooth out with tlon... By the way, I got into you, if you feel like it.... Come conversation the other day with a along, champ! ... Oh, all right, new vice president of the First But might I remind you that you've National Bank. He brought up already kissed Nan twice?"

Crawford's name; said he'd heard

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