New Britain herald., 1929-07-03
RIVAL WIVES
THIS HAS HAPPENED
0 1929 W NEA SERVICE INC.

SIdM "iO 10 illuiSlNu iOA ~AAA bezzlement.
 Nan Carroll, secretary to Nor gan, discovers she is in love with him and, being honorable, deter mines to resign. Her resignation IS postponed when she learns Morga is defending Crawford. She distrusts the man and believes Morgan will have need of her during the trial
 By means of a listeningin de- vice. Nan oVerhears conversation between Crawford and his switch board operator in which he fixes" the operators evidence and admits his interest in Iris Morgan, beau- tiful wife Of the lawyer. Nan con- fronts Crawford with what she has heard and tells him the price of her silence is that he give up Iris immediately.
 On the last day of the trial Nan finds convincing proof of Crawford's guilt in a note which little Curtis Morgan has evidently stolen from his mothers handbag. Nan arrives in the courtroom just as the jury returns with a mot guilty verdict and is spared the necessity of giving Morgan the shameless evidence Of his adored wifes faithlessness and the perfidy of his friend.
 A few days later Crawford calls and presents Morgan with check for s2O,O00 as his fee, and when h. 6laN-p,slIy gests that Morgan give it to Iris. Crawford announces he is leaving town. When Iris Morgan leaves foH a pleasure trip to New York several days later, Morgan is unsuspecting. Five days pass and then Nan learns has been justified.
 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
 CHAPTER XVI
 What are you doing here, Nan Carroll?" John Curtis Morgan de- manded with mock severity, as he entered his office at eight o'clock that Friday night. q thought l told you to take night off for tfldlSt. l oi II ipC S'tIllS lilN iiitc trouble with the labor commission. if you don't watch out-or with the Society for the Prevention of Cruel ty to Children. You look about 13 years old in that outfit and with that haircut
 Nan, who had risen at her em- ployer's entrance, flushed and laughed, then whiried before him on the tip of a smart, flat-heeled little brown Oxford, plunging her hands into the pockets of her brown velveteen suit. New dress Size 13, junior department" she grinned. Like it?"
 Tremendously" There was that humorous, downward quirk of one corner of his mouth that Nan loved and delighted to call forth.
 You look like a naughty but very pretty small boy in skirts Morgan teased her. No" he de- cided. regarding her with frank. friendly eyes, I'm sorry to dis illusion you, if you're congratulat- ing yourself on looking boyish. but I'm afraid you're incurably femi- nine, Nan Not only in looks but in temperament. It's your femi3 nine curiosity that's keeping yoH in this sweatshep when you ought 10 be out with your best boy friend, dancing holes in pair of three dollar chiffon stockings"
 "Curiosity?" Nan flushed with pretended indignation, to hide her consternation. Was it possible be suspected that she was watching over him, almost unable to let him out of her sight lest the blow fall when she was not there to con- fort him? But that was silly, of course. How could he suspect? Curiosity" she repeated more in dignantly. Well, I like that! Here I say to myself, says I Poor MT. Morgan will be working at the of flee till all hours on that Lois Downs case, and the least you can do, as private secretary who's just got a fat raise, is to sit by Nltil ttOph anu b'llNii
 Yeah ?" Morgan grinned. "You're just dying to know all about An drew Wards testimony. Couldn't wait till the morning papers came out. But if anybody should ask me what I really think, young lady, I'd have to admit that l don't believe you trust me to handle even one day of trial all by myself"
 "Oh, of course, if you're going to develop an inferiority complex, just because you haven't q woman's in- tuition" Nan retorted, laughing and flushing. But what I'd like to know is who's been encouraging my unsuitable curiosity for three years? Who's taught mo to-?"
 "Oh, all right, all right" Morgan pretended to capitulate resignedly. Get your notebook and pencil and along. It's your health! l suppose you can be permitted to ruin it if you insist
 When they were seated at Nor gan's desk, with the leaf of her notebook drawn out between them, Nan wished that magic circle could be drawn about them beyond which evil and change and even time itself could not pass
 She loved him - yes; loved him with every thought in her mind. every throb of her heart every nerve in her body. But she thought that if he could be spared the pain and disillusionment which she still believed was hurting inevitably toward him, like a deadly missil" hurled by lris's beautiful, cruel hands, she would be happy 10 go on like this with him forever.