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notes." Nan planned cheerfully.


 
 Of course she had had no oppor- tunity to resign, she scolded he' conscience, when Morgan had de- parted for court. Resides" she re- minded herself. Eve decided to write him note of resignation. but I'm certainly not going to bother him with it until this case is settled. It ought to go to the jury by Friday night, and satur- day morning will be time enough. Maybe if he finds out l heio out this anonymous letter he'll fire me and save me the trouble of resign ing"
 She tried 10 forget the blackmaii- ing letter. with It's unspeakable in- situation against Iris Morgan, but her mind tugged and worried at the thing. while her neart follower John Curtis Morgan to the court house.
 Evans, the middle-aged, sour mouthed clerk. arrived just as Nor gan was leaving. and Blake, the young lawyer on salary, raced in and out again in time to catch his chief at the elevator.
 If only she could so with him. could be there to ward off evil- If she. not that silly Blake, sat at his elbow, she could sense . trap before it was sprung. warn him. save him the ghastly humiliation which, if the anonymous letter. writer was to be believed. awaited him at the courthouse tocay. He had told her often enough that he counted on her intuition A messenger boy with the court stenographers transcript or the case interrupted Mans milling thoughts. She seized upon the bulky manuscript, fiercely deter mined to winnow the prosecutors evidence so thoroughly that no ciue to the real truth, however infinites- imal, might escape her.
 The clue. when she did find it.. almost escaped her. 1t was SO tiny: just name, an odd name, and for some obscure reason, familiar to Nan. The name occurred in the testimony of a chambermaid of the Riverside Country Club: Q. District Attorney: How long have you been employed as a cham bermaid in the Riverside Country Club?
 X. Since September 5. Annie Crayfish recommended me for the job when she was leaving. sir"
 K. (District Attorney): Please confine yourself to answering ques- tions. Now. Bertha, what were your hours on duty?
 Nan knitted her brows. Crayfish why was the name so familiar She herself had written that name had laughed at it-Oh. or course The head cleaning woman of tha, very office building was named Crayfish. Nan had learned her name at Christmas time last year had written It on the envelope con- taining Morgan's Christmas gift oi money for the woman. Undoubt. edly Annie Crayfish, former cham bermaid of the Country Club, was related to old Mrs. Crayfish of the Sanderson Building.
 Impulsively. her brown eyes shining, Nan called the superin. tendent of the building upon tht telphone. This is Miss Carroll of John Curtis Morgan's office. Mr Bennett. I very much want to ses Mrs. Crayfish, head of the cleaning staff. Is she on duty now?"
 "Not until four o'clock. The ol6 danes work until 10. you know. Bennett answered.
 Could you give me her address please, Mr. Bennett? It's ,erribi, important, really. or l shouldn'' bother you.' Nan pleaded in hei sweetest voice.
 Five minutes later. Nan. having left q rcsentful and bew;;derei clerk in charge of the front office was on her way to the address which Bennett had supplied. Mrs Crayfish had no telephone: ther> was no time to be wasted on ,ef,,' grams or messenger boys. She wa: playing long hunch. at the FISK o1 incurring Morgan's displeasure fo! having deserted the office. but heI eyes were still shining with excite. ment when she knocked upon tnt door of a small frame house on the outskirts of the city.
 "I want to see Mrs. Crayfish please" Nan told the p;umr. homer, woman who answered her knock.
 Mama ain't home. Could I dc anything for you. Miss? I'm Annie Crayfish-"
 Annie Crayfish ?'' Nan alnost sang the unmusical syllable. "Ther you're the very person I want tt see. You used to Wor:, at the Riv erside Country Club as chamber. maid. didn't you, Annie? Will you tell me why you left your job?"
 "Yes. Miss. been out to Arl. zona. staying with my sister wht was sick with T. B. She-she died