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By Anne Austin.

CHAPTER XLVII

Author of "The Black Pigeon."

"I'm Mr. Morgan's-wife," Non brought out the words ferkily.

"Then who is the beauty in. areen? I thought she was the boy's mother."

like as the child who lay in the room beyond:

Nan went at once to the point. No use to express sympathy now. "I'm going to the courthouse, John, and take your place today. We can't ask for an adjournment, and If we delay putting Ninn Blackhull on the stand, she may seize the op- portunity to leave the country."

Morgan stared at her as if he did not know what she was talking about. Then, with the gesture which his troubles had made fn- miliar to Nan, he passed his hand across his eyes. "I'd-forgotten about the trini, Nan. I'll--go."

If she could have done anything

"No. Curtis- You must be here to help, Nan could better have

until--"Nan floundered. Thon endured those two hours that clapsed between the arrival of the

more steadily, "You are going to "She is," Nan answered dully. stay here. John. I can examine Aurgeon, Dr. Drew, and the appear-

Nina Blackhull, even if 1 have never Auce from the kitchen of the wheel- Why try to explain?

"I sec.

Odd triangle," the sur-appeared before the bar, I'm quali- ed stretelier with ita still, blanket-'

commented. "Well, young |fied, you know—" | wrapped burden. But even Dr. geon

"Yes," Morgan agreed. "And you Black, her champion and friend, lady, I can't tell you whether the brusquely ordered her from the child will live or not. If periton-know as much about this case ns turned itis doesn't set inds it probably do. You'll take those questions kitchen which had been

His will-he has an even chance." we drafted last night?" It was into an operating room.

"Of course, And I'll try to do Already crowded with himself, the frosty eyes softened a bit at sight

trust Burgeon, the anesthetician and the of her profound misery. "You you credit, John. Please murec. Science was in charge; look all in, child. Better go to bed. me."

"You-oh, God bless you, Nan!'. love could avail Curtis nothing|There's nothing you can do-noth

ing anyone except the nurse can do He took her hands and bowed his face upon them for an instant. They came away wet with his tears.. Probably because the Blackhull ease had sunk almost to insigni- In comparison with the ficunce impending tragedy in her own some, Nan faced the court calmly, unafraid. Her ono thought was to have done with this business, cred- itably, of course, and to get back

ΠΟΥ.

now.

She put the pre-arranged ques- tions to Nina Blackhull, widow of the man for whose murder his sou was on trial; put them calmly, but her great, tired brown eyes blazed with a fire that seemed to wither the beautiful young witness, who, Kan was convinced, had actually planned the murder, the exceution of which she had left to her lover, the chauffeur, Bassett.

And so the desolate girl wan-

Nan did not take his advice. dered from roum to room, feeling more like that outcast spirit in Twice, before dawn, she crept to "Tomlinson," of which Kipling the door of Curtis' room, opened writes: "The wind that blows beit noiselessly and peeped in. And tween the Works. It nipped him both times she saw the father and beside, to the bone," than like a hunian mother kneeling at the being. For in this hour of hover their eyes fixed upon the white, un- ing death she was indeed an out-conscious face of their son. Nun At G o'clock she cast. It was not delicacy, entirely, did not enter. which forbade her to obtrude her went down to the kitchen and pre-to Curtis. own anxiety and grief upon that pared breakfast for the watchers. of the father and mother. It was, Her hands shook as she set the rather, a desolate conviction that table for two-Iris and John Mor- they would grant her no right to gan. The nurse would want hers grieve with them Iris heron a tray, Nun decided, so that she self could not have devised a more should not have to leave the uncon- terrible punishment for the Inter-scious boy for a moment.

Maude O'Brien had gone back to loper she hated.

But Iris and John Morgan,were bed, and Estelle, who lived nut," wandering distractedly about the had not yet arrived. It was Nah, house, too, and it was not always therefore, who summoned her hus- easy for Nan to keep her small per-band and his former wife to the son out of their sight. Two or then she had prepared for them. three times it seemed to Nan that "But there are only two places. John was looking for her, that his Aren't you going to eat, Nan?" Wenry voice tragic, eyes, when, by accident, she Morgan naked, hin was forced to meet them, were whipping itself to what sounded praying to her for comfort and re-like genuine Rolleitude.

"Inte in the kitchen." Nan and assurance. But Iris clung to his arm, munning, weeping, or hysteri-swered. eally justifying herself for her un- "Imagine eating at a time like the this," Iris sighed, as she settled in doubted responsibility for

her chair, amid a flutter of drap. child's condition.

Not even the shadow of death, erles. however, had dimmed Iris' beauty.

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At the third question, put in Nun's even voice, terrifying in ita' Very calmness, the woman in the witness box suddenly sprang to her 1fect, her hands warding off the giri lawyer as if she were infected with some terrible plague,

"Quit looking at me like that!" Ninn Blackliull screamed. 41 didn't do it! 1 tried to keep Ern- est Bassett from killing my hus- hand! I swear I did! I swear it! And now he's doublecrossed me! He's trying to put the blame on me"

1

That was almost the end, of course. Somehow Nan managed to get through the necessary formal. ities-the resting of the defence; a motion for the quashing of the in- dictment against David Blackhull. which was, of course, denied until Nina Blackhall's amazing half- confession could be corroborated; the congratulations of Judge Bunce

"You must try to eat, to keep up As she walked the floors with her your strength, darling," Morgan husband, the drapes of her charged, and Nan knew that the old, treuse chiffon negliger fluttered en-familiar endearment had slipped

that tall, slimt unconsciously. Not chantingly about her body-if there had been anybody mattered now.

"I suppose I must, Jack," Iris to observe and be enchanted, Twice Nan saw her unb at her greed, with a forlorn catch in her checks with a powder puff once, lovely voice. Then, with tearful "Oh, Juck, dar- even as she hirenped her grief, she rush of words: made up her quivering mouth withing to think it took this to bring

us together again!" a geranium lipstick.

f:

and even of District Attorney Brainerd, who was ready to admit It wás Nan, not iris, who remem-

Nan did not wait to hear Mor-defeat. Press photographers caught bered to make up Curtis" lttle bed

She fled, her hand snapshots of the "girl lawyer" as with fresh Bens and blankets; gan's answer,

pressed against her heart. It she hurried frantically down the Noni who had the presence of mind did mutter still! Oh it did! But courthouse steps and as she sprung to place three hot water bottles be she remembered her childish prom Into her car parked at the curb, tween the sheets as a precaution

ise to God to give this man up to against post-operative pneumonia this woman if He would only spare But when that small service was Curtin life. And she would keep done. there was nothing to do but that promise regardless of what it wait and weep inward tears agony which her hot eyes refused str

to Mind,

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For two interminable, bours she She was in the library, trying lag on her bed, her lady taut, every desperately to focus her mind on terve listenting. The nurse had the Blackhall care, so that the wait-promised to call her if there was ing might not be so unbearably change. At half past 8 she loug, when faint sounds told here, took a cold shower, and dressed in office clothes. There that the boy was to be taken to his had still been to word from the room. She crept out, trembling sourse, but as she emerged from violently that each step was an ef-her own door she saw Allas Powera

"I be?" she heard her hiss tiplocing out of Curtis' room. band's almost unrecognizable voice Nan whispered..

"Anlage, Miss Powers?"

croak.

"Yes. lie's come out from the "He's still alive. That's all I can ether, Mrs. Morgan, but he's By now," Dr. Black answered weak to talk," the nurse answered, brusquely from behind the yellow "Dr. Black is keeping als anger ish-muslin mask he wore.

on his pulse. The action lavery faint."

"Then-you think?"

furt.

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Su extreme was her nuxiety for Curtis that she had forgotten the courtroom drama before she ar rived at her home. But evidently

John Curtis Morgan had had room in his heart for both his child and his wife, for his brat question was:

"How did you get along, Nan? I've been ashamed of myself for letting you face that ordeal alone."

"Nina Binckhull confessed- practically-te conspiracy,' and in- criminated Busselt?" Nan answered impatiently. But---how is Cur.

Lis

"He's holding his own-is stronger, if anything, than, Dr. Black expected," Morgan answered, his deep voice shaking with joy. "We we run hope now, Nan.'

It was three full days, however, before hope settled into virtual cer- tainty that little Curtis Morgan would recover. And during those The slow procession began the

strained days of watching and waft- diflicul negotiation of the stairs.

"No one can tell yet," the nursing and praying, Nan Morgan Found Morgan and Iris, the latter subbing answered in her kind, cheerfully herself reduced to the status of convulsively, brought up its rear, sympathetic voice. "If he rallies housekeeper for Iris Morgan. Ar and Nan sank into a little huddle from the shock of the operation rogant with the yletory abo believed in the hall, unnoticed until Mande and peritonitis doesn't set in she had won, Iris treated the hated O'Brien found her there and She

a servant. And hesitated, then continued interloper like administered to her,

frankly: "It will be several hours whenever Morgan was in the house, At 3 o'clock Dr. Drew went home, yet, Mrs. Morgan, before we can

which was most of the Ume, Iris satisfied that the operation was definitely hope; that is, if he"

was with him, playing superbly the "successful," no matter what fla "If he doesn't die in the mean-

role of anxious mother and wronged utcome, and leaving Dr. Black and time, she means," Nan forced her though forgiving wife. the trained nurse in 'charge. self to complete the nurse's omi- "Please, Dr. Drew-" Nun dared nous sentence. Aloud, she said,

"Will he live?"

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So hard to bear were the humilia- tions which Iris, unknown to Mor-

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