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By Anne Austin.

CHAPTER XLV.

Looking back upon that hideous week, Nan Morgan realized that ense which it was the Blackhull made it possible for her to endure the miseries which 1ris Morgan in- flicted upon her, Hours spent in ne ofice were not so bad, were even almost happy ones, for she was serving the man she loved as Bo one else could serve him,

Author of The Black Pigeon."'

fix it for her. fussed? Don't ask!"

Was the bos

"She ought to be ridden out of town on a rail-coming back here and gumming up the works just when Nan had-

The sound of her own Barne, in Evans' answering growl, roused the eavesdropper from the lethargy of despair which Blake's news had brought upon her. She turned back into her own office, and for an hour David Blackhuil, on trial for his life and in need of every niom of help she could give him, was 'com- pletely deprived of her services.

There Iris as a rival ceased al- most to exist for the man as well as for the second wife. From 10 to tive, whether Morgan was in the courtroom or at his desk, the junior and senior partner of the firm of The tedium of court-room pro

การจ have bored Iris, Morgan & Morgan were united by endure boids so strong that it seemed ab- however, for on Monday she re surd that a red-haired, green-eyed | sorted to more dirvet und dramatic woman who cared nothing for the methods. Nan, necompanying her career of the man she had been mar-1 husband to the front steps to tell ried to and deserted could dissolve him goodbye until noon, glanced them.

across the street and say the slim body of her rival suggering put uf the door, but under the weight of the heavy stepfalder she wrs entry- ing.

But the longest, most intensely | exciting work day inevitably came to an end, and the two who had legit one in work had to return to their home and become two brag 'iently divided creatures,

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She knew that Morgan saw, too, for he took a quick, involuntary step Not that Morgan did not try. Uis as impelled to go to his for- forts to ping the, vale of devoted | mer wife's aid.. Deliberately, Nan husland werd -vyon more painful to kept on with whist she had been San than the spells of black-de-saying, so that the man perforee “pression to which he invariably sue mid wait to hear her out. Just as

Cumbed letore the terrible evening She was comelading her remarkki was over. The breakfast and din-squething about the Blackhuli case: new hears were the hardest of the Iris stationed the larbler directly day, for it was then that the alarm beats the lesher of the porch light, ing ebaute in Uertis was most obami strted to climb, an electric vious. The chỉd whom. Nan D] bulb in me outstretched hand. Ou less than a year had transformed tis third „ten she apparently fast into a chrful, sturdy little buy, or date, tend with

a brill Fouried with the suddeness ņi | serram, togriled to the floor,

Almost before the dull shafteresi, Black magic to the shining, obe deópermy Belly Curtis he had torran on his way. Nan besonder his mother's eare,

watched, with eigious detuiiament, Nan, knew, and was fiendely A he saw her husband kneel and wel bed, that She could not pay rather his divored wife into his to the Lather, that ris was de Farmer watched as he kicked the liberately in the wild as one front dyre vide ad disavoared- hey most powerful weŋpons in her into the hun with bis burdo. fight at her

She Then, very deliberately, she turned linow, 'and did not see how Morgatt fand · ressentend her own honse. codd it to are, that 14 elid | Not even to allay gossip the the was ating under onsters from the neighbourhood muld she force her- mat and the red when be selt to erosa the Street and enter Jotal adly rim, ed to eat the whore that other linse. If Iris was badly om vegetables, set before en, hartzent neeskd more than her hus whom he said täites arly, meldlá- Į band would give her, let him feles ich things to the rif) who had brett jiphone for a dovor dr a murse. If ow them a mother to him, when the Lambie from the Fader had he deurged in his real mother's | been just a eleven' bit'et arting, and uane at least thre Lubes durtag | Tris" was not really hurt, certainly, very goat: when a ked pr gor Nond interference was 'the

Boarching questions as to things Iris desired why his teether cont de 3 rommet.

Stressors.

It was half an hour before Mor-

homa agron to Pre and be whch bia | can votɑrned, and because it was

ני

by a wind afrenica

teen.must time for court to apen was in too great a hurry to give Nan more than a few words of ex- plant out,

"If you don't eat what San 1 vou tu, and speak to her with rour- 1. y will have to leave the 14 and you right to deal,” was a She's twisted her ankle-- rather regard which the harassed, trauriesbury, I'm afraid, but she wouldn'i

let me wall Dr. Black, 1 bathed it eyed tather was forved to make at Fast once during every dinner that | dy hot water, and then bandaged It Mack erved in that iniserable home, tightly with liniment. 'You' might end Estelle over with a lunchéen Won't cat spinach Bate it, dear. Curtis will be the to Won't drink milk, neither!" Cirtis, do little things for her this after- would seram, his pale fare ruing comm... Now I've Pot to make a fivid with rage. "Won't be nice to duh for the courtbättre," NAA! Ha' for She won't let int mother come home!"

13

And Nan, white-lipped, nauséaded, stould inave to sit wordless before nem carny touched plate and ne, the dreadful finale furtis' bishment to his own ro'm, howl in, kicking.

Periap under the viccum stances, a private schon would be bett Morgan said vaibre's after his return to the table from nine such serbe,

"Bass his mother wish it?" Nan asked coldly.

When he had prope, Nan woh- dered if he had emphasized his neat for hurry, to exrase his not kissing her pundbye,

Odiptly, she gave the nervesary in tructions to Estelle, eut short the mail's gullen protest at being called upon to "wait on that wo man," left for the offles in her own car. At one o'clock, „Just as Nan was leaving for a lonely lunch. since Morgan was staying at the edurikoase, Estelle felephoned.

"That woman ain't no more crip- pled than I am. Mr. Morstan!" "Yes," Morgan answered. The | Estelle reported indignantly. "She Clush on his thin, drawn face deep-was dancing to the phonograph, neit. "She--Iris stopped me on all by herself, and because the the street yesterday. She seems music was loud she didn't hear me very much concerned about the by knock, and thinks boarding school might be a “All right, Estelle!" Nan inter- more--wholesome atmosphere, ifrupted crisply. "Anything else? since" He floundered" to u stap..

.. Goodbye then." and Nan saw that the hand which

At dinner that evening Curtis held his fork was shaking like a remarked, in the sullen, belliger- siek, old man,

Non did not answer alond, butent voice he had adopted since his her lips twisted with that cynical, other's return: "Mother's ankle is awful bad. She said she wish- bitter smile which came so fre quently now, as she finished his sentence mentally: "If I won't acknowledge myself beaten and make way for her to come back,"

ed you'd come over and stay with her this evening, father. She said she knew you wouldn't, but she wished you would."

In the meantime, Iris took care

"I'm sorry, son, but I'm afraid 1 that Morgan should not forget her bennty, the weapon which, after all, can't," Morgan answered gently, was the deadliest in her possession. "You see, I've got a terribly im- Regardless of swirling snow or bit-portant case on in court, and Pve ter winds, she appeared upon her got to work all evening." front porch every morning just be-

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day morning, I heard she tipped noon, Curtis?" Nan asked quiet-¦ that new dumbbell, of a bailiff to jy,

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I know. I understand just how hard it in for you, darling. Now kiss Nun, and go to sleep." As she groped her way down the stairs, Nan told horself fiercely, "This can't go on!, It can't! But how can it end, unless I-?"

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