Nogales international., 1934-07-21
Fourth InstalInnent

TO marry the well -to-do DR.. Richard Morgan
Her beloved brother, Roddy, has come home
from New York to confess that he has taken
that amount from the bank where he works
because a woman needed it-and that he
will be jailed if he is found out before he
returns it. So Nancy, in love with the
penniless Page Roemer, decides to borrow
the money from Morgan, and pledges herself
to marry him in return. He agrees to the
bargain, feeling sure he can make her love
him. While they are talking at his house;
Roeiner comes to see him. ooh, Richard
don't let him come in here" begs Nancy
looks at her the pitiful little secret OF her
love for Page is revealed to him.
NosV go on with the story.
Nancy, you don't quite hate me
do you?"
She blushed; she remembered sud
denly her cry to her father: Il hate
that manW And she was going to
marry him. She felt i'll and weak and
trembling, but she remembered her
fathers ashen face in his sleep.
"N-no, l don't hate you!" she an
swered family. "I-oh, don't ask me
Richard"
He did not he was silent for a
while, looking at her, and then he
remembered.
"I'm going to get that money for
you, Nancy. Fortunately, | have it here
in the bank, in such shape | can get
it, the whole of it, today. But it's only
eight o'clock, the banks aren't open
won't be for an hour. Will you break
fast with me? I've only got Nanny
Polk here, but she's a good cook
Come to breakfast with me, Nancy
for the first time"
Then she raised her eyes involun-
tarily to his and her heart seemed to
stand still. How his face had changed
She would never have known it. She
trembled. If he loved her like that it
was terrible to treat him so; to come
into his life and wreck it-for-for-
money! Every noble instinct i'll her
nature revolted against it, and yet
there was Roddy and her mother and
her father Suddenly she covered her
face with her hands and groaned.
"Oh, Richard!" !"
He was startled; he felt change in
her, and his flush deepened. Some
thing almost like hope Quickened in
his heart, bit he did not speak.
Neither did she, they had no time.
Nanny Polk came to the door.
"Breakfas' a ready, Mist Richard" "
She was a tall, old black woman,
gaunt and erect in her striped purple
calico and her long apron.
Nanny Polk, we've got company
to breakfast" said Richard quickly.
"Miss Gordon is going to eat break
fast with me-"
Nanny Polk courtesied.
"Howdy, Miss Nancy? We'se got
waffies an coffee; de doctah, he don
cat nofin mornins. Can't | drop yo'
egg on bit OBJ bacon, Miss Nancy"
mo, no! l like waffles, Nanny
Polk. I'll take anything you have"
Nanny Polk smiled Il reckon
yoll like de waf1es," she said proudly.
"Mammy's famous for them" said
Richard. Come, Nancy, let's go out
to breakfast"
He bent over her, his face aglow,
offering his arm. Nancy took it and
tried not to look at him. Together
they walked into the dining room, fol-
lowing the tall figure of Nanny Polk.
Richard led her to a chair opposite
his own. Nancy sat down weakly,
hardly daring to lift her eyes, she was
afraid the old negro woman would see
the traces of tears.
TRY to eat something, Nancy, you'll
be i'll if you don't" she heard Rich
ards voice.
Indeed I can't eat, Richardp
She felt his eyes On her and tried to
hide her own, toying with her fork.
Her lips trembled. Was he wondering
why she wanted that awful money?
Don't ask too much, Richard!" she
cried, agonizingly.
He shot look across at her, and
his own color died away slowly.
II wish you'd try to eat-sce these
waffles," he offered Nanny Polk's
best.
Nancy took one and sat looking at
it, her lips still trembling.
Il don't want to cry into waffle, "
she said in choked voice, don't
watch me, please don't!
Il can't-there's someone at the
door now to see lis" Richard rose.
"I'll send him off in jiffy-why, it's
Page Roemer !"
Nancy sprang up, her face white.
ooh, Richard, don't let him come in
here" she gasped.
Richard who had started for the
door, turned and looked at her, his
heart in his eyes. For a full minute
they stood thus, looking at each other,
and Nancy's ptiful little secret told
itself. Richard knew it. He seemed to
hesitate, to be thinking hard. and his
strange eyes deepened and darkened
Wonderfully
Il sha'n't bring him in here, Nan
cy," he said quietly, and went into the
next room.
Nancy sank down again into her
chair at the table Every nerve in her
body throbbed and quivered, she heard
Page Roemer's voice. then Richards,
then the movements Of the two men
out there in the hall Richard was
sending him away and she felt like
death. If Pace came into the room,