New Britain herald., 1929-06-27

"So you've been unfaithfil to mo Crawford lightly, but Nan saw . h: bluc- green eyes.
 her the full benefit of his extraor- dinary magnetism and vitality. | Hello. Manor do l have to be l formal around the boss and call you Miss Carroll? We're carrying on 2 desperate affair behind your back. old man. You'd better look out or you'll find yourself minus q secrc- tary."
 That being .he case" Morgan twinkled, I'd better be good sport and encourage the affair, Mans coming to dinner tonigs,. too - thet is. if it's really my cele- bration, for just between you and me, Bert it was Nan who discov- cred Annie Crayfish and brought her to court this morning. She re- fuses to accept any credit publicly, but of course you and Iris must know what o"e to her-my junior partner"
 Nan flushed brilliantly. "Oh. ' can't cone to dinner, MT. Morgan. Really I can't. r."
 "She's going to say she hasn't a thing to wear" Bert Crawford laughed. ''and yet I saw her at the Vincent the other night in one Of the swankest evening dresses among pretty swank lot of flap pers. There with Willis Todd, my rival, Morgan. breaking my heart-N
 "Of course you're coming, Man." Morgan said brusquely. Its an official order from Your boss. If you've already got date with Todd. bring him along. I'll phone Iris as soon as we get to the office. and she'll be delighted to have you"
 Nan accepted as gracefully as. possible. She could no, tell him her real reasons for not wanting to join the dinner party. for those reasons were, simply. that she dis trusted and disliked Bert Crawford. Morgan's and Iris's closest friend. and that she hated Iris Morgan so much that the thought of accept ing her hospitality was abhorrent to her. But she could not dash heT beloved employers joy in victory. could not cheat him of the pleasure of paying a portion of his debt to her. As always. she put his pleas ure, his good before her own.
 As the three of them left the courthouse and entered Bert Craw- ford's expensive sedan. in which h." had insisted upon taking the law yer and his secretary to their of flee. Nan studied Crawford covertiy. and wondered for the hundredth time why she disiiked and distrust- ed him. ..
 He had been a rather frequent caller at the office during the past year, ever since he had come to the city. in fact. Nan had only a hay idea of Crawford's business it being covered by the vague Sut magnificent term. finance" The papers occasionally alluded to I4s. bert s. Crawford as promoter" or as financial wizard" but his lordly activities were too Olympian for Nan to understand. even if she had been interested enough to try to do 20.
 At first it had been enough for her to know that he was an old friend of John Curtis Morgan: she had accepted him simply on that basis. Then it had transpired. through a chance remark of Mor- Ean's. that Morgan had only known Crawford slightly when the two had attended college together. But there was no question now as 10 the firm place which Bert Crawford had made for himse,f in the affections of Iris and John Curtis Morgan. The three of them went about to- gether constantly.
 Crawford tactfully remained Tn the outer office with Nan wh;:e Morgan talked en the telephone with his wife. The conversation lasted 20 long that Nan became hotly embarraSsed. sure that Nor gan would emerge finally with < !. humiliating report that Iris could not after all arrange 70 nave four at a table instead of three.
 But Norga1. in his iubilat:on over lis dramatic triumph at the courthouse, must have exercised some of the rasterfulncss which marked hin n the courtroc:n rna in his own offices. but to which Iris Morgan was almost a stranger. for when Morgan did rejoin them. his face flushed with the hattie he had fought. his words were not a shame full confession nf failure:
 My wife is delighted to have you. Nan. Dinner win be a. hair past seven. You'll bring her, won't