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CHAPTER XXXVI.

Nan Carroll Morgan was not one of thuse women who thrive on drama. She had never lost her little girl horror and sick distaste

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the suit was led but I give you my word that it is perfectly legal and that Nan la my Inwful wife.'

"Nan Nan!" Iria cried, her voice rising on hysterical laughter. "Nan Oh, oh" What started na scenes, Her own weltbred laughter rose and

rose until L was a nerve-shattering scream.

home lind been singularly free of open discord, but once, inadvertent- ly, when she was a child, she had overheard her mother and father quarrelling bitterly. For days her shamed eyes had avoided them. fearful of seeing those two she had idolized in that dreadful slate of soul-nakedness to which their quar- rel had stripped them.

Then, abruptly, when Nán felt that human earn could no longer. endure the agony of that dreadful assault, the sound broke off. Iris' clenched hands, which had been flung above her head, dropped nud. denly, wavered. Then, before either Nan or her husband could move to give her help the tall, fragile body Now, her hand on the knob of crumpled, fell in a heap at Jolin the door beyond which an ensprak-Curtis Morgan's feet. ably shameful scene was beira en- cated, every ounce of physical cour age which the girl possessed had to be desperately su noued before she could force herself to go on.

'Nan! She's fainted!" Morgan called hoarsely, as he dropped to his knees. "Brandy quick!. The sideboard! I'll carry her into the living room-

A wave of nausea swept over her. Nan was too sick and dazed' to If she had had only herself to con- obey quickly, but somehow she alder she would still have done as managed to find the brandy bottle. Estelle had foured-she would have spilled some into a glass, caught Bled the house, leaving Iris in pos-up from the breakfast table her sion. But, as always, John Cur-own untouched glass of water, ram tis Morgan came first. What was with mm jerkily, on ley feet.. But it he had said last night?"I was just on the threshold of the living a nave in bondage--"Could she, room she halted involuntarily. Her whom he had loved as his 'delfy husband had laid the unconscious eter, consign him to slavery again body of his former wife upon the He had said, too, "I hope 1 shall be couch and was kneeling besitie never see Iris again." Well, now her, his head bowed upon her That he had seen her again... But he had sent Estelle to find her. head in a gesture of such pro- breast, his hands locked above his He ticeded her. She

had never found despair that Nan's heart failed him yet.

cred out in a passionate prayer for unconsciousness for herself.

Nan's icy fingers turned the knot stowly, noiselessly, though with no intention of muting her entrance. She forced her eyes to take in every detail of the tablenu before her:

Morgan standing tall and stif, his pale face stern and forbidding it stigh agony in his deep-set blick eyes that. Nan could have screamed.

Swaying against his stiff body, her hunds locked behind his rightly un- bending necek, was an Iris Morgan Hach as Nan, in her most uncon- trolled flights of imagination, could not have pletured.

knut on her neck almost

shaken

•

him, instead of the God to which As if that prayer had reached it had been directed, John Curtis Morgan suddenly raised his head and turned it toward the where Nan stood. In his eyes was

door

recognition of the girl as his wife, only a wild urgency.

afraid she's dead-

"For God's sake, hurry! I'm

with that queer grave aloofness Nan stood beside him, watching

The divorced wife had torn off) which had come upon her, 'ns his her hat and thrown aside her fur shaking handa hell the tiny glass coat the same mink cont in which of brandy to Iris' pale, parted lips. she had gone away to join Bert She did not speak. What could Crawford. The glorious red-gold the possibly say that would help hair was in wild disorder, the thick him now? But when Iris' bronze lashes gan to Butter against her almost transparent white cheeks, free by the violence of her emo-Nan quietly moved out of range of Lion.

Before Nun became aware of the Iris' returning vision, took her words Iris was pouring out upon place at the end of the couch, her her former husband her eyes took grave eyes fixed in an unwinking ln, with curious detachment, the stare upon her husband's ravaged fact that Iris normally slender

face. body had become painfully thin.) But somehow, subtly, her beauty had fed upon the wasting of her body. Undoubtedly Iris had auf- fered, and as a resuli was far love Her than ever. Even her volce hat a new quality, a throb of sincerity

A white hand rose feebly, way- gred, then fluttered to rest upon Morgan's black-and-silver beal.

"Such a horrid dream, Jack," n thread of a voice whispered. "I knew all the time I was dream ing, but I couldn't wake myself

in what had formerly been an ar up. Deur, silly Jack" The long tificial, beautifully modulated rip-white fingers rumpled his hair ple of music. Gradually her words feebly. beat into Nat's still half-dazer brain:

•

With a groan of sheer agony the man dropped his head to her breast again. Nan knew he did "It can't be true; Jack! You've not even remember that she was sald these horrible things to there. The thread-like voice went punish me. I'm punished! See! on:

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She felt a amile twist at her lipe; wandered "Am I going crazy? Or am I just having what Iris calls a horrid dream"?"

But if it was a dream her, hus- band's volce--or was he Iris' hus- band, really?--seemed amazingly real. She latened with grave at- tentiveness.

"You mustn't, talk just now, Tris," he was saying slowly, hoarsely, as if each word

WAX wrong from him. "Close your eyes and try to sleep, darling-" He caught himself, remembered, Nan, flashed her a look of such píteous appeal that her numbed heart stirred, lunged sickoningly.

It was not a play any longer. It was bitter reality and happiness was being snatched out of her lax hands. Aloof no longer, Nan was swept into the whirlpool of pain and horror into which Iris' return! had plunged her husband. If she did not do something both of theri

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foolish dream, Jack?" locked fingers of the woman who was no longer his wife.

I'm crying, Jack! Now put your "So tired, Jack-so tired! Poor arms about me. Kiss me! Hold Iris has been awfully sick. Did me so tight I can never leave you you know? So sick! Tried to-

Iambang again! And then tell me--tell me!" commit suicide. So alck, Jaek

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The long while fingers twined about a lack of the man's hair, "Stop, Iris!" his hoarse voice tugged at it with feeble playful commanded sternly. I can't have ness, which suddenly becam you humiliate yourself and me like frantic as his head remained bow this. I've told you the truth. I'med on her breast. "It was justpital whether she wants to go or sorry you had to learn the truth dream, wasn't It, Jack? Tell me!"

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