THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
RIVAL WIVES
By
CHAPTER XLII.
Anne Austin.
Auther of The Black Pigeon."
was giving the most exquisite piness to the girl he loved.
"We couldn't wait for you, Wil- is!" Nen cried. Forgive us, won't you? And come look for what Santa Claus left for you."
If Nan Carroll Morgan had not been so completely in love with her husband, she would have fallen in love with Willis Todd, out of sheer gratitude for the way he met
She made a great adn of turning what might have been a very em- her back while he opened the pack- barrassing fluation. Rather, itage containing the cravat she had was not what Willis did, but what given him, "to allow him time to he did not do which Nan, even
recover from the shock," as she in her confusion, recognized as the laughingly warned him. height of tact..
that her voice sounded cold and reproving.
to
"I said she's here-right here in this house," Estelle, repeated, with argent Impatience. "I tried. keep her out till you come home, but I couldn't do nothing with her, ma'am. Honest, I couldn't!"
TUESDAY, JULY 23, 1929.
CHIEF OF C.I.D. TO RETIRE.
SURPRISE DECISION BY MR. WENSLEY.
"Now As Happy As Can be”
Ceylon Father Tells How His Little Daughter Was Cured of Stomach Trouble and Vomiting By Baby's Own Tablets.
"What does she want?" But why. Universally regarded as one of ask? She wanted her home, her the cleverest detectives in the husband, her child. Hadn't Dr. world, Chief Constable Wensley,
"Just after my little girl had. Black warned her that Iris Mor- of Scotland Yard, has handed in turned one year old she became gan would stop at nothing? his resignation, and will leave the troubled with disordered stomach
"She says she wants her own police force at the end of July. hap-things," Estelle panted." She
and constantly vomited after 'tak- His retirement comes ns. a big jing her food. This worried both brought two men with her and (surprise to his colleagues, for hor
mother and myself and I she's going all through the house, after several rumours had been consulted A friend in the drug gathering up thinga she says be denied it was believed he would business, who strongly long to her-"
remain in office until February mended Baby's Own Tablets. I recom- "Mrs. Morgan may-
have any next. He is 63.
It is understood the retirement bought a vist and administered thing that belongs to her," Nan heard her own voice answering, is due entirely to Mr. Wensley's them according to the directions. clothes and other personal be age limit. "Naturally she will want her decision not to remain over the Then baby's lis
sot right and to-day she is as longings. Please give her all the It has no connexion with the happy as can be," states Mr. R. help she needs,"
reorganisation which is at pre-Homer, of Wellawatta, Ceylon, in "I ain't going to help her, after sent taking place in the Metropoll- a letter of thanks. the way she talked to me! Trent- tan Force.
Especially designed for the use Mr. Wensley has been in the of infants and little children, ing me like I was dirt under her fect," the maid sobbed. "And if police force 12 years, folning in you knew what she's done, you 1887. His keennesa as a uniform. Baby's Own Tabieta wouldn ask me to "
led constable gained him promo-
absolutely safe and reliable "Estelle" Nan reproved her tion to the C.I.D. before two specific for infantile stomach and bowel troubles. They nllay teeth- harply. "You must realize I can't years had elapsed, let you talk this way?
Many brilliant' achievements ing pains almost as if by magie, most cool feverishness, relieve croup "Well, I guess sunnebody's got to stand to his credit. Bis tell you!" Estelle retored. "She's recent the directing of and colds, expel worma. rented that furnished cottage right inquiries into the murder of P.C. across the street, and she's going to Gutteridge,
The early days of Mr. Wensley live there. She told Curtis 80, right in front of me. She said she were spent in Whitechapel. One wanted to be near, so he could of his successful cases there was speint all his afternoons with her. The breaking up of
of a gang And she and-"
Jarson conspirators who had defied detection for several years.
"These husband-and-wife sec-
"The tie I've always longed for! Willis did not remove his arm Exnetly what I wanted!"Willis from about her shoulder; he did not announced, emphatically and pre- apologize; he did not try to explaiffended to be very much hurt when to the husband who had halted un-
hia host and hostess exchanged certainly on the threshold of the amused, significant glances, then drawing room. He did did not feel burst into uncontrollable laughter. guilty. He had done no tong : San and done no wrong. He simrets," he grumbled. "Anyway, the ply refused to put himself in the tie isn't funny! It's a beauty!" wrong by acting like a guilty lover
And they lànghed at him again, caught by a betrayed husband,
"The male. Morgan explained: "Hog's the boy, Mr. Morgan vocabulary, under certain circum- he called out, with just the right stances, seems to be curlously limit- amount of sympathetic interested. You've said exactly the same "I like to run up and speak to thing about that the that I've just him, if he's awake. You know I
been saying to Nan used to see him at the office when watch she gave me. What is it, I called for Nan,"
"He's still slightly feverish, and Estelle?" he broke off, as he caught had very little appetite for his milk sight of the muid beckoning to him toast, though maybe that was be from the doorway,
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about this
cause he was mourning for the tar-Telephone." sir, she answered. key he couldn't have," Morgan and swereal, exactly as if nothing had with an odd note of resentment happened. "I'm sure he'd be glad or sulkiness in her voice. to see you, Willis. I told him you were here and he said he had a Christmas present for you. Prub ably some little trifle he made in ha manerat training class at school
"Then I run up." Willis said. He rose and not fit then did he withdraw his arm from arrass Nan's shoulders.
"Don't be gone too long. We're going open Christmas gifts and there is a Santa Claus!" Nan promised him gally.
When the young man had left the rooni, Nan rose from the cónch and strollad to the tree. She wondered if Morgan had noticed the still un- dritsi tears on her cheeks and what she would say if he questioned her. "Shall we light the tree now she called over her, shoulder: "Tress the left-hand Intim for the Christmas tree lights and snap of the others. Now! Doesn't it look lovely?"
hope you'll like your presents, deur." Morgan-said,, in a voice that sounded a little constrained, for all his effort to make it cheerful. "It was hard to know what to get you Want to open the box now, while we're alone? I'd rather be the sole witnows of your disappointment, il'; you don't like them.'
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It required no unusual amount of intuition for Nan to guess that the call was from Iris Morgan.
"Don't look like that, honey," Willis whispered, AR Morgan. strode across the room toward the
gry to answer the call. "T glad I came to-night. I see now why you feel about him as you do. He's a prince. Fight for him, Nan. He's worth, it'
* "That's big of you, Willis,” Nam murmured huskily, "I'll fight all Yight, but-so will she. And she has the biggest advantage over me that one woman can have over un- other."
"And that is?"
John was mad about her for the whole eight year they were married, and he never really pós- Bessed her. Now she pretends she's just as much in love with him as he ever was with her. Can't you see how the thought of possessing her completely, after all the years of frustrated adoration, mis affect him?"
But he loves you." Willis Todd protested. "Not in that insane, slavish way, perhaps, but truly, deeply. You've got to hellove that Xan."
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"do" Xan said singly. wouldn't fight, for a minute if 1 "Them?" Nan repeated, laughing, didn't believe that. Now, For go- "This bus in pretty small to holfing to tune in on some choir musie. more than one gift. Oh. John! [
1 love the Christmas hymns. Don't never had anything so gurgeons in
You?" all my life!"
St lifted from their satin bed an antique reklace and pair of bracelets of square-ent topazes, set in exquisitely wrought guld fit
grer,
San was at the radio cabinet and Willis Todd was relaxed in 20 by wing chair before the fireplace when Morgan re-entered the room. With a deep sigh, whether of worry or contentment San could not know, he dropped to the eauch and stretched his long, legs toward the rackling flames of the wood
Bre.
"I get them because they're' just the colour of the highlights in your hair and eyes," Morgan told her, his voice rich with satisfaction. "They're 150 years old, by the way -first presented to'a very funERIS, French netress by a royal prince.
"A sindwich-music, talk, more Full pedigree furnished on request. But. There's something else in the music. Sono carols, if you can box. Lift up the satin pad, dear." | find any in the air," her husband
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San obeyed and drew out a eredit memorandum upon the city's most fashionable furrier? The sim staggered her for a moment.
"Why, John, darling, we can't af-{
ford-*
"How many times must I remind you that you're only the junior partner in this firm?" Morgan scolded her, "I want you 19 have
"Music, John? Or would you rather just talk?" Nan called.
answered,
Fur days later Nan Morgun looked bark upon that t'hristmas evening and fried, desperate with need of its happiness and peace, if only in memory, to recaptur
every moment of it.
"And I sat there, smug as a Bussy-eat listening to carols and telling myself that I'd been making a mountain out of a molehill; that
a decent fur coat, young woman there was nothing to be afraid of,"
i was tempted to choose it myself, Nau reflected bitterly, on the day
but didn't dare assume the respon-that she knew that Dr. Black's sibility."
warning and not been the idle med-
"Thank you, John," she said sim- idling of a be-gossip. ply, for her voice was too husky with tears to permit more, Then as simply, she lifted her face for his kiss,
The nurmory of the his, hungry pressure of his lips was still with her as she watched him fumble wwkwardly with the wrappings of her gift to him. She had bought him a wafer-thin, platinum-eased watch. Very plain, very expensive. looking. With it, a thin platinum chain.
She was in her own office, read- ing a long, telegraphic report from her husband, filed at the state eap. ital, where he was conducting the Bradley defence on its appen to the supreme court.
she reached for the receiver, her Her Lelephone rang. Absently, eyes still fastened upon the tele gram.
"Hello.
the matter? Quit penting and try Yes, Estelle. What's
to talk plainly. Is it-Curtis?"
"No'm, it's her!" Estelle's urgent, gusty whisper came over the wire. "Mr. Morgan's other wife, I mean."
Morgan's eyes lighted up with boyish pleasure. "And to think I ever teased you about your woman's Intuition I wonder if anyone else Nan's heart langed, was caught today has mid, 'Just what in the grip of a palu so intense that wanted!" and meant it as whole for a moment there was nothing heartedly na 1 do. Thank you, dear else in the world but that terrible Nani It makes this old watch of pain. After a bit, when that dread- mine look like a turnip. And, I ful contraction of the heart muscles thought there couldn't be a finer had relented somewhat, she became watch made when my father gave aware that Estelle's gusty whisper it to me. George! What a beauty was vibrating against her eardrum, It is he added, with such naive "Mr. Morgan's other enthusiusm that Nan layghed aloud, that was how even the servants wife." So joyously.
thought of Jahn Curtis Morgan-- That meant another kiss, of a man with two wives. But she course. And this time it was WIT-most listen, mitat answer intelligent- lis Todd who halted uncertainly only.
the threshold, unwilling to inter-1 "I don't quite understand, Es- rupt an embrace which he knew, telle," she nid, and was aware
"Please, Estelle!" Nan inter- rupted sharply, but automatically.
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She was not conscious of the net of hanging up the receiver, nor of rising from her chair and walk ing toward the window of her of fee. But she must have done these things, for after a while she heard herself whimpering. Some how, during those first black mo- ments, she had fallen and struck her head against the sharp, corner of the radiator.cover.
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