New Britain herald., 1929-06-28


 inn, Nan is able to bring into court . witness who testifies in the Grace Cor case, bringing Mrs. Fleming, the real author of the blackmail notes, to . confession and winning for Morgan another spectacular tri- umph.
 In the court room. Nan and Nor ean meet Herbert Crawford. hand some friend of Iris and John Curtis Morgan and the young lawyer invites Nan and Crawford to his home for celebration dinner that evening. During the dinner and throughout the evening she is treated with im- perial disdain by Crawford and Iris. who are significantly interested in each other. Nan is cut to the quick by 1his treatment and b1na - mud see the man she lovsa tay1 paaDonate homage to wotnAA w6e aAots him the barest attention and aRe6tion. While Crawford and 1rte ars dancing afterdinner. maid ap- psars in the doorway. Behind her stanA . policeman and man in viiian clothes. Sorry to interrupt . party. MT. Morgan. but we have a warrant for the arrest of Herbert Crawford"
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 CHAPTER VIII
 At il o'clock the next day. Sat 'ur1Ay. very miserable private secretary awaited the arrival of her employer at his law offices. Nan Carroll had not seen John Curtis Morgan since the night before wAen she had watched him leave his home in company with the men from police headquarters, and the accused man, Herbert s. Crawford.
 The had fingered only few min- Ateo in the Morgan living room, of fering brusque reinsurance and sym pathy to Iris Morgan. who had crumpled into chair like a broken stalk of the flower for which she Mas named.
 The morning papers had broken" tho story on the front page. with enormous headlines but very little real information in the small type below. On charges suddenly and frantically preferred by the secre- tary of the Mid-West Packing Com pany. a new corporation, of which Herbert g. Crawford was president, warrants for the arrest for both the president and the treasurer had been sworn out The treasurer. Roy Bland. had not been found. and there were fumors, according 10 the papers, that Bland had made good his get Away.
 According to Crane. secretary of the company the chairman of the board of directors had a letter of resignation from Bland. but had not yet met to act upon it. when the company's auditor had discovered shortage of nearly quarter of a million dollars in the corporations s bank accounts
 The money had been accumulated Turing the last month in a sensa- tlonal whirlwind stock selling campaign. and was to have been speedily used in building a huge packing plant. It was the success ful promotion of this enterprise which Crawford had been celebrat- tng at the home of Morgan the night before.
 It had been on information ob- aimed from Gladys Payne, private secretary of the vanished treasurer that Crawford had been drawn into .he case. but what this 1nrormation sas the district attorneys office had 'efused to divulge.
 Miss Payne" one of the papers .tated circumspectly. ''confesses that she was the fiancee of the accused treasurer. and stoutly maintains that ae is innocent Of the charge of en- excitement. alleging that he was a 9upe in the hands of cleverer man. She admits. however that she has dad no word from Bland since he eft the city 10 days ago, ostensibly sn his way to Chicago on business or. the firm.
 Tt was largely due 10 Bland's allure to communicate with the ornpany since his departure for