Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 10, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 May 1929 — Page 10

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THIS HAS HAPPENED HAS CARROLL, for three rears private secretary to ATTORHEV JOHN CURTIS MORGAN. is happy In her work and In her pro*pecte for soon passing the bar examinations The only discordant note in h'r day t* the Insolence of IRIS MORGAN, beautiful and selfish wife of Morgan, who treats Nan as if she were a menial and a servant. Because of her brilliant mind. Nan is able to help Morgan with hia cas- and he depends on her When '.VILLIS TODD ar. ardent suitor of Nan's, propose* marriage to her for the fifth time, she refuses, saying she can not give up her position. Willis. Jealous, accu her of being in love with Morgan and Nan s'unned hv his word', is a* .ast forced to admit to herself that they are true Being honorable and ‘square as a mar ’ she despises herself ’or being :n love w.'h another woman's nuifcand and de’erir.;:.*'- to turn In her resignation the next morning At the office she find' a blackmail note warning Morgan to ‘ lay off th enemies of Grace Cox. former U trr club, v ho is indicted for blackmail and whom Morgan is now defending A postscript to th note contains a nasty insinuation about Iris Morgan. There is no opportunity in the rush of th' busy morning for he to turn in her resignation When the transcript of the case arrives. Nan r cans it r.;idiou.s!y for some clew that might } ad *0 the real truth m thr Cox case bhe finds it—tn a few words which send her flying to locate ANNIE CRAYFISH, former n-.ftid in the country club. Annie admit; to Nan that a MRS. FLEMING sent her ‘Annie west because Annie had in her writing a suspicious note with her left hand. Nan believes she has run down the truth at last, and pleads with Ar.r.. '■ to rush w ith her to t.ne courthouse to tell what 'he knows about Mrs Fleming thus saving Grace Cox ar.d winning another victory for John Curtis Morgan. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER VI IN less than two hours it was all over: the sensational Grace Cox blackmailing case had come to a sudden and dramtic end, with John Curtis Morgan the undisputed hero the superb last act of the drama, and humble Annie Crayfish its heroine. For Annie had testified simply, convincingly and unshakably to the facts which she had previously told Nan Carroll, and Martha Fleming, pseudo-society woman and adventuress, had collapsed into a snivelling confession almost as soon as Morgan had put her upon the stand which Annie Crayfish had just vacated. Grace Cox was free, or would be as soon as red tape had been cut, for District Attorney Brainerd, confronted with Annie Crayfish’s testimony and Mrs. Fleming's own confession, had been forced to ask the court to dismiss the indictment against the hysterically happy telephone operator. Nan Carroll received and desired none of the congratulations which were being showered upon John Curtis Morgan. No one but Morgan himself knew that it was his private secretary who had discovered and brought Annie Crayfish into court, and it was Nan herself who had insisted that her part in the drama be kept a secret. •'Don't dare tell the press how we got hold of Annie Crayfish,” she had whispered urgently to Morgan when she had turned her witness over to him. ‘‘Remember the papers are going to cal! you the greatest criminal lawyer in the state when this trial is over, and they mustn’t get an inkling that accident and luck had anything to do with it. And I was working under your orders, wasn’t I? Hadn’t you told me to go over the transcript of the case? You had a hunch, and you let me play it—that's all!” But Nan would not have been human if she had not remained in the background, drinking in every detail of the dramatic triumph which she had helped Morgan achieve. a a a THE annoymous letter, by which Martha Flemming or someone associated in crime with her had attempted to blackmail the defense attorney, was still safe in Nan's

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But, for once, Pat Tarver failed his daughter. He was so engrossed in a close game of dominoes with Dennis Ross that he had only an absent smile for the distracted girl who came rushing into the Ross j “settin’ room” and laid her hot cheek against his thick, curling black hair. So Tony fled again, not waiting to answer her father's "Did you want anything, honey-girl?” And as she stumbled into the room that was to be hers during the week she had volunteered to nurse Mom Ross and to keep house for her, Tony asked herself wildly: "What if I'd said. ‘Yes. Pat. I do ! want something! Something I can't have, something you can't give me. I want Sandy! Oh, dear God. what a fool I've been, what a blind, thrillhungry, greedy fool I've been!” Tears were crowding her eyes, so that she had to wipe them away on the sleeve of her dress. "Lost my hanky,” she moaned, like a desolate child. "Got to send Pat home pretty soon to get some clothes and tilings. Mustn't forget to phone Annabel to pack a bag. Enough things to last me a week. A week here, in Sandy's room. . . . Sandy's room. “Oh. no. I can't stay in this room, with the ghosts of all the Sandvs I ever kne wcrowding it, I can't, I can’t.” But even as she protested, she knew that she must stay, for she could not hurt Mom Ross by de- ■ serting her now. when she had begged the doctor for permission to act as nurse. And she would have to stay here, in this room, for the Ross' five-room cottage had only two bedrooms, and the hospitable Rosses would be outraged if she should insist upon sleeping on the living room davenport. That would be Sandy’s bed when he came back from New York, and he was coming Sunday. For the first time in all the years that she had known Sandy Ross. Tony Tarver wanted to run away from him. instead of to him. like a homing pigeon. “But how can I bear to see him now. since I know?” Tony whimpered. “I’ll have to see him with her .... He laughs at her. thinks she is cunning and cute. I can see his eyes crinkling . . . . Oh. no. no!" She had been in that room of

handbag. The teeth of the tigress had been pulled by her own confession. A rumor was already current that Martha Fleming would plead guilt and throw herself on the mercy of the court, without subjecting the i state to the expense of a trial. John Curtis Morgan, thanks to his secretary’s culpable tampering with his mail, would in all probability never know that his peace of mind and the “sanctity” of his home had been threatened. “Let’s get out of this, Nan,” Mor- ; pan called to her across the reporters who were still clustered about him. “I’ve got a lot of work j piled up at the office, boys. ExI cuse me, won't you?” Blake, the young lawyer who asj sisted him with routine work, had already been dispatched on red tape I business connected with obtaining ! Grace Cox’s immediate release from jail, and Nan was helping Morgan pack his brief case when a blithe voice interrupted: “Hello, Morgan! Been trying to get a word with you, but the newspaper boys had me crowded out. Congratulations, old man! I’d just dropped in to see you strut your stuff, and was lucky enough to be here when you touched off the fireworks. Some show! I'm proud to know you, boy!” “Thanks, Bert!" Morgan grinned at the amazingly good-looking young man who was slapping his back with jovial good-fellowship. “You're coming out to dinner tonight. Iris tells me. Sort of a celebration for some high-finance deal you’ve put over, isn’t it? Congratulations right ; back at you!” “I’ll take a back seat tonight,” | Bert Crawford laughed, his blue i eyes beaming fondly upon his ! friend. “It’s going to be your celebration! By jove, Iris is going to . be proud, of you—already is, of ! course!” He turned to Nan, giving her the ! magnetism and vitality. “Hello, Nan i —or do I have to be formal around the boss and cal! you Miss Carroll? We're carrying on a desperate affair behind your back, old man. You’d better look out or you'll find yourj self minus a secretary.” “That being the case,” Morgan ; twinkled, “I’d better be a good sport ; and encourage the affair. Nan’s | coming to dinner tonight, too —that ■ is, if it’s really my celebration, for j just between you and me. Bert, it ! was Nan who discovered Annie Crayfish and brought her to court this morning. She refuses to accept any credit publicly, but of course you and Iris must know' what I owe to her—my junior partner!” Nan flushed brilliantly. “Oh, I ! can't come to dinner, Mr. Morgan. Really I can’t. I—” “She’s going to say she hasn't a I thing to wear.” Bert Crawford | laughed, “and yet I saw her at the j Vincent the other night in one of I the swankest evening dresses i among a pretty swank lot of flap- [ pers. There with Willis Todd, my ! rival, Morgan, breaking my heart—” “Os course you’re coming, Nan,” Morgan said brusquely. “It's an official order from your boss. If you've already got a date with Todd bring him along. I'll phone Iris as soon as we get to the office, and she’ll be delighted to have you.” Nan accepted as gracefully as possible. She could not tell him her real reasons for not wanting to join the dinner party, for those reasons were, simply, that she distrusted and disliked Bert Crawford, Morgan’s and Iris' closest friend, and that she hated Iris Morgan so much

Sandy’s a thousand times, but now she looked at it with new eyes, desperate, hungry eyes. And as she looked at the grown-up Sandy’s room, a dozen other Sandys crowded about—Sandy at 10. Sandy at 12, i Sandy the first year high, Sandy at 14—crowded closer and closer, grinning at her with the grin that had never changed. A single white iron bed, with one of the brass knobs missing. It had been lost for—let’s see—eight years. An old-fashioned patch-work quilt ias a spread. She looked close, then j snatched up a corner of it and | pressed it to her lips. ) It was the same, the same! Why, | she’d pieced it herself, as Sandy i laughed at her for her sudden inter- | est in sewing, not knowing that it ; was to be a Christmas present for ! him. How long ago was it that she j had pieced him a quilt? She was 12 then, wasn't she? Yes! Nine years ago, and it still covered his bed. Mary Burns never had pieced him a quilt! And there was the hole in the rug—the funny, flowered old axminster with its nap worn off—burned that long ago when she and Sandy had locked themselves in to smoke cigaretes made of corn silk. Mary Burns hadn't that Sandy to love! But would Mary Burns care, having today's Sandy to ; adore? (To Be Continued)

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■ that the thought of accepting her hospitality was abhorrent to her. But she could not dash her beI loved employer's joy in victory, could not cheat him of the pleasure of i paying a portion of his debt to her. As always, she put his pleasure, his good before her own— AS the three of them left the . courthouse and entered Bert Crawford's expensive sedan, in which he had insisted upon taking the lawyer and his secretary to their office, Nan studied Crawford covertly, and wondered for the hundredth time why she disliked and distrusted him. He had been a rather frequent caller at the office during the past year, ever since he had come to the city, in fact. Nan had only a hazy idea of Crawford’s business, it being covered by the vague but magnificent term, “finance.” The papers occasionally alluded to Herbert S. Crawford as a “promoter” or as a “financial wizard,” but his lordly activities were too Olympian for Nan to understand, even if she had been interested enough to try to do so. At first it had been enough for her to know that he was an old friend of John Curtis Morgan; she had accepted him simply on that basis. Then it had transpired, through a chance remark of Morgan's, that Morgan had only known Crawford slightly when the two had attended college together. But there was no question now as to the firm place which Bert Crawford had made for himself in the affections of Iris and John Curtis Morgan. The three of them went about together constantly a a a CRAWFORD tactfully remained in the outer office with Nan while Morgan talked on the telephone with his wife. The conversation lasted so long that Nan became hotly embarrassed, sure that Morgan would emerge finally with the humiliating report that Iris could ; not after all arrange to have four at a table instead of three. But Morgan, in his jubilation over his dramatic triumph at the courthouse, must have exercised some of the masterfulness which marked him in the courtroom and in his own offices, but to which Iris Morgan was almost a stranger, for when Morgan did rejoin them, his face flushed with the battle he had fought, his words were not a shameful confession of failure: “My wife is delighted to have you. Nan. Dinner will be at half past seven. You’ll bring her, won’t you, Bert?” For a second Bert Crawford hesitated, and Nan saw the color deepen slightly in his pink-and-white cheeks. “Delighted, old man. About seven-fifteen. Nan?” “Please, I’d rather join you both at Mr. Morgan’s,” Nan answered. “I’m sure you three have a lot to talk over before dinner, and I’ll want to arrive at the very last possible minute, if I may. Things to do to my dress,” she explained offhandedly. She caught the fleeting expression of relief that lighted up Bert Crawford's blue eyes. “He’s as much of a snob as Iris,” Nan told herself contemptuously. “He didn’t want to call for me for fear I'd presume on the intimacy later, regard him as my boy friend,’ I suppose. Or maybe—but that nasty anonymous letter is making me ga-ga with suspicion. Better curb your imagination. Nan Carroll, or yous’ll get yourself in trouble.” “I’d like to see you a minute, Nan,” Morgan stopped at her desk after bidding Bert Crawford goodby. "Now’s my time to tell him I'm going to resign,” Nan realized, with a dreadful sinking of her heart. “He’s so elated over his victory that my news can’t make him terribly unhappy, and since he hasn’t any very big case on right now, he can do without me better than at almost any other time. I’ve got to do it! I can’t stay on, knowing that I love him—” She followed him into his private office, stood trembling before him, trying to make her lips form the words. But he forestalled her: “I can’t begin to thank you, Nan, for what you did today. I might have forced a confession out of Martha Fleming, with what evidence and conviction of her guilt I already had. but your bringing Annie Crayfish into court today was a stroke of genius. “Nan,” and he laid a big, warm hand upon the small cold one that was clenched upon the edge of his desk, “I've been calling you my junior partner, half seriously and half in fun. Let’s make it come true, Nan. You're going to be ready to take your bar examinations by next June, aren't you? Well, then —how about it, Nan? Partners?” To be Continued No Ceremony in Papal Recognition ROME, May 23.—N0 formal recognition of the new papal state will be necessary or likel yon the part of those nations now having repre- ! sentatives at the papal court, it was | understood today. States friendly i to the Holy See will be expected to 1 grant formal recognition after the j Italo-Vatican agreements are rati- | fled.

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