Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 9, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 May 1929 — Page 9

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THIS H\S HAPPENED M previously, NAN CARROLL iss bprivate secretary to ATTORNEY JOHN CURTIS MORGAN While they are *t work, IRIS MORGAN. i.außhty. beautiful wife of Morgan, „-r vs- accompanied hv her handsome . e CURTIS She peevishly de:i Is * large check to finance a shop- „• • •••..edition and leaves little Curtis Nai hands while she goes out to or Nan fcltteriy resents being thus • -s-ed as a nursemaid, and her dislike -f Iris trebles. T.ost evening Nan dines with WILLIS TODD who lor the fifth times proposes a-r:age to her When Nan Insists she not give up her prospects for pass--7 ’he bar examinations. W'Uiis accuses of h'ir.g in love with Morgan. After ieuve*. Nan fries to dismiss his r.• • .-• n- a gesture of Jealously, but - heart tells her differently and at las', e adrr.i's that she. Nan Carroll, who us always prided herself on being honorable. square as a man. Is In love with another woman's husband. The thought Is so Intolerable sh goes ’o the office next morning determined to re? gr. There in the morning mail ■ a blackmail r.ote directed to Morgan Nan is torn with conflict; shall rive him the note and !<■' him learn * t-uth about his cold wife, or shall .-.e withhold it 7 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORE CHAPTER V vtAN' took his brief case from lxl John Curtis Morgan, rifled through a sheaf of memoranda and found —as she had known she would —the MoTeague deposition. How helpless he was. how dependent upon her! And how happy she was to serve him. Would his next secretary be as alert and intelligent as herself, as eager to wait upon him? i He loathed detail, wanted to have his mind free for concentration upon the btcpsT aspects of the legal r' uiems which ho was called upon • o handle. And yet incompetence n those who were responsible for rM::i made him nervous and impatient f "“n ill. It took a lot of >r rjei-vr > r i: •• ,nd patience and In-A teih<;-nce to work for John Curtis Morgan. !: l next secretary serves him as iaithfuliv a T have done, it will b because she loves him,” Nan derided, and hot jealously of her prospei tjve uccessor flooded her already tortured heart. Nan followed him into his private office. 'he anonymous letter tucked • ‘a the pocket of her blouse, the other mail or such of it as required his personal attention, in her hands. He lifted a warding hand, his black eyes pleading with her humorously for indulgence ' Haven't time to read a single letter. Nan. You handle all of it if you can, and let the rest ride. Nothing of life-and-deafh importance. I suppose?” Nan decided irrevocably then. The anonymous letter should stay In her pocket. She had her orders—"No, Mr. Morgan, nothing of life-and-death importance. Anything special you want me to do today?” “Nothing special.” Morgan answered absent-mindedly, his eyes on the memoranda in his hand. "Oh. yes! When the complete transcript of this Grace Cox case comes from the court stenographer this morning. Id like to have you read I through it carefully. I can depend ; upon you to see light where appar- j ently all is dark. I'm pretty sure of | making Brainerd look like a fool ; before the day is over, but I'm not j taking any chances. That's a slippery erdwd. I'll phone during the morning if I have an opportunity. 1 end will come bock here when court; recesses for lunch.” I ll order a nice lunch sent up : from the Beilaire Grill, and you can eat it while you go over your notes," ; Nan planned cheerfully. e a a OF course she had had no opportunity to resign, she scolded j her conscience, when Morgan had I departed for court. "Besides,” she reminded herself. “I've decided to | write him a note of resignation, but j I'm certainly not going to bothei 1

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“Well, what do you think of our new ‘little-girl-next-door’?” Mom Ross asked, when at last the doot had closed on Mary Burns. "Come back over here where 1 can look at you, Tony. It's a sight I've never got my fill of." “In lust a little while, if you don't mind.” Tony answered carefully. I'm—l'm watching the sunset." Not until she got control of herself could she show her face to Mom Ross's keen eyes. "She's—verypretty. Is she —Sandy's—sweetheart?" Would that catch in her voice betray her? But Mom Ross's chuckle was reassuring. “I guess you might call her Sandy’s girl. Lord knows she comes nearer being his girl than anybody else ever did. I might as well own up that I used to get sorta worried about Sandy. “It ain't- natural fora boy not to take any interest in girls, and Sandy's going on 25. High time he was thinkin' of gettin' married. I tell him. I been eggin' this thing on for all I'm worth—-not that Mary needs any pushin’. but it's like trvin' to lead a balky mule to get Sandy to make a date with a girl—" "But he does make dates with Mary Burns?" Tony asked, pretending to yawn luxuriously after the question. "Well, he lets her tag along with him in that rattly old flivver of his sometimes, ai I he’s took her up in his plane twee. He said it was worth $lO to hear her squeal." Mrs. Ross laiuhed. "She tickles his funny bone, with her cute little tricks and her ‘down south' way of talkin’. “A natural-born flirt, Mary is. I never heard Sandy laugh so much in all his life put together, as he has since Mary Burns has been frolickin’ around him. He teases her and treats her like she was a funny little kitten—" Tony could bear no more of that picture. She interrupted crisply. And you want Sandy to marry her. Mom?" Better td hear the worst and get it over. . . . Mom Ross chuckled. "Reckon it ain't what I want but what Sandy wants that counts. Tony. He don't take her serious yet, but he gets so much fun out of her that I wouldn't be surprised if he did wake up some fine mornin’ with the idee that it might be a good thing to keep her around to be laughed at and played with. She’s a sweet, pretty little

him with It until this case is setUed. It ought to go to the jury by Friday night, and Saturday morning will be time enough. Maybe if he finds out I held out this anonymous letter he’ll fire me and save me the trouble of resigning.” She tried to forget the blackmailing letter, with its unspeakable insinuation against Iris Morgan, but her mind tugged and worried at the thing, while her heart followed John Curtis Morgan to the courthouse. Evans, the middle-aged, sourmouthed clerk, arrived just as Morgan 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 go with him, could be there to ward off evil—ls she not that silly Blake, sat at his elbow, vhe could sense a 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 toddy. He had told her often enough that he counted on her intuition— A MESSENGER 0 boy with the court stenographer's transcript; of the case interrupted Nan’s milling thoughts. She seized upon the bulky manuscript, fiercely determined to winnow the prosecution's evidence so thoroughly that no clue to the real truth, however in* finiteslmal. might escape her. The clue, when she did find it. almost escaped her. it was sc tiny: just a 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 chambermaid in the Riverside Country Club? A. Since Sept. 5. Annie Crayfish recommended me for the job when she was leaving, sir—” Q. (District Attorney): Please confine yourself to answering questions. 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! Os course! The head cleaning woman of that very office building was named Crayfish! Nan had learned her name at Christmas time last year, had written it on the envelope containing Morgan's Christmas gift of money for the woman. Undoubtedly Annie Crayfish, former chambermaid of the Country Club, was related to old Mrs. Crayfish of the Sanderson building. Impulsively, her brown eyes shining, Nan called the superintendent of the building upon the telephone. “This is Miss Carroll, of John Curtis Morgan's office. Mr. Bennett. I very much want to see Mrs. Crayfish. head of the cleaning staff. Is she on duty now?” “Not until 4 o'clock. The old dames work until 10, you know," ! Bennett answered. “Could you give me her address, please. Mr. Bennett? It's terribly 1 important, really, or I shouldn't j bother you." Nan pleaded in her sweetest voice. a a a I~HVE minutes later. Nan. having left a resentful and bewildered clerk in charge of the front office, was on her wav to the address which Bennett had supplied. Mrs. Crayfish had no telephone; there was no time to be wasted on telegrams or messenger boys. She was playing a long hunch, at the

thing, with a heart as big as all outdoors.” “Yes, she's—very feminine.” Tony said slowly. "Somehow I never realized that Sandy would fall for that type, though.” "There ain't no tellin’ what a man will fall for." Mrs. Ross replied judiciously. "Os course, if the good Lord had left the job of pickin' out a wife for Sandy to me. Id a-picked you. “But you and Sandy was just pals, chums, and neither one of you couldn't stir up a spark of romance for the other to save your life. But I was sorta worried for fear that was all Sandy was lookin’ for. "Looked like I might never have any grand-babies to spoil, and these | fat old arms of mine just achin’ for em—” "I'm—glad you're going to—be happy,” Tony managed, "And—and Sandy, too—” “Well. I shan't count my chicks yet." Mrs. Ross answered cheerfully. ; "but I must say the prospects is a \ little brighter than they was before Mary Burns moved in next door. I . . . Where you going. Tony?” “To see Pat!” Tony choked, as she fled. (To be Continued.)

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risk of incurring Morgan's displeasure for having deserted the office, j but her eyes were still shining with excitement when she knocked upon the door of a small frame house on 1 the outskirts of the city. I “I want to see Mrs. Crayfish, please,” Nan told the plump, homely woman who answered her knock. “Mama ain't home. Could I do anything for you, Miss? I'm Annie Crayfish—” “Annie Crayfish?” Nan almost sang the unmusical syllables. “Then you'fe the very person I want to ' see. You used to work at the Riverside Country Club as a chambermaid. didn’t you. Annie? Will you tell me why you left your job"” “Yes, Miss. I been out to Arizona, staying with my sister who was sick with T. B. She—she died last week, and I buried her out there and come home. I just got home today. Me and Mama are feeling awful bad about Madge, Miss, so I hope there ain't going to be no trouble—” I'm awfully sorry about Madge,” Nan said softly. "But it was awfully nice you had saved up enough money to go 'way out there and stay with her until the end.” “I didn’t have enough saved up,” Annie Crayfish confessed. "I never coulda gone if Mrs. Fleming hadn't sent me. It was funny, too,” she added in a burst of confidence. “I didn't know she was so kindhearted. And I didn't think she liked me very much. One time she scolded me something fierce—” “What for. Annie?” Nan scarcely dared to breathe. “Why nothing a-tall." Annie bridled. "I ivent in to clean her room—you know, lotsa the members keep rooms out there and stay week-ends —and I seen her a-writing at her desk, and I said, ‘I never noticed before you was left-handed. Mrs. Fleming,’ and I thought she’d take my head off. And—funny thing!— she wasn’t left-handed. Miss! I took pains to notice after that!” “Os course.” Nan said casually, to keep from frightening her witness, "you never happened to notice what it was that Mrs. Fleming was writing with her left hand that day, did you? Just as a matter of curiosity, such as anyone would have felt?” she suggested subtly. “Well, yes. Miss. I did,” Annie Crayfish flushed. “It hurt my feelings the way she carried on just because I made an innocent remark like that ana so when she was called to the door to sign for a telegram I stooped real quick and slipped the book off the letter she'd been writing writing with her left hand—j she'd covered it up soon as I came in—and it was the funniest writing —almost lying on its back, and square, like a kid's just learning to write—” bob N'AN gasped involuntarily. Handwriting experts, learnedly analyzing the queer script in which the now famous blackmailing letters were indited, had not been half so vivid as Annie Crayfish! “Did Mrs. Fleming see you looking at. the letter?” Nan asked, dizzy with joy. “Yes, Miss,” Annie confessed. “And she slapped my face. But the next minute she was apologizing and trying to make-up to me for her hot temper, as she called it. She seemed so awful sorry that I couldn’t stay mad, and when she offered to send me out to Arizona to stay with Madge—l'd told her all about Madge, long before that—why. I was just tickled to death, of course. I couldn't let false pride stand in. the way of going to my sister, could I, Miss?” “Os course not,” Nan agreed heartily. “Listen. Annie, do you think Grace Cox guilty?" A puzzled look spread over the chambermaid's pleasant face. "Guilty—of what. Miss? Miss Cox that's the switchboard operator of the club? An awful nice girl, not a bit stuck-up—” “Haven't you been reading the papers, Annie?” Na.i marvelled. “Grace Cox is accused of having blackmailed several wealthy members of the Country Club, including Mrs. Fleming herself. And the letters were in the funny handwriting you’ve just described to me. Annie! They’re trying to send Grace Cox to the penitentiary for writing those letters, Annie!” she emphasized slowly. “But—l don't understand." Annie Crayfish protested dazedly. "I ain't seen any papers from here or hardly anywher else since 1 left home. I'm not much hand for reading and Madge— But I seen Mrs. Fleming writing one of them letters, Miss!” The full truth dawned on the woman’s slow intellect. “Don't you understand. Annie?” Nan exulted* "Mrs. Fleming bribed you to leave the state, so you could never testify against her! She's a wicked woman. Annie, and they may send Grace Cox to prison for a crime Mrs. Fleming committed, if you don't come with me right now and tell the court exactly what you've told me! Will you, Annie? 1 know you didn't mean to commit a crime yourself in accepting a bribe, and I know you don’t want poor little Grace Cox to suffer for a crime she didn't do. Come. Annie! Hurry!” (To Be Continued)

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