Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 19, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 June 1929 — Page 10

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THI- HA- HAPPENED JOHN CURTIS MORGAN lav-ver. who 1* madly In iov* with his wife. IRIS, dh*s not suspect that hit stctetary, NAN CARROLL, loves him. Nan. beira honorable, determines to rev.jrn, c t pbctpcnes her resignation because she fcaiwve* Morgan is to need a faithful secretary during his defense of BERT CRAWFORD. supposed friend. sha Is indicted for embesz.ement. Nan distrusts Cranford and Iris. Fho overhears Crawford ’fix ' a witness ar.d she forces from him a promise to give up Iris. Nan prepares to go to the courtroom op the last da> of the trial when Iris Morgan rushes in with her small son. CCRTIS6 S!.e Raves him on Nan s hands while the hurries to the courtroom. When the boy falls asleep. Nan finds beside him a note, evidently stolen from hts mother's handbag. In which Crawford protests his love for Iris, admit* his guilt, and lavs plans for their tlopment after the trial. Nan is faced with a bitter conflict, but at last decides to hurry to the courtroom with the letter. She arrives there too late. The Jury has reached a verdict of "not guilty." Outside the courthouse she meets an old suitor. WILLIS TODD, with whom she has lunch. She shows him the note from Crawford and he advises her to destroy It. She tuck.' It in her bay. . Over the Christmas holidays Nan is •wick with anguish over the disappolnt•wr.ent and sorrow which she knows awa t Morgan Wben he comes into the office "happy ar.d gay she D immensely relieved. C*awford calis and presents Morgan with a hv.k for stO.OOO a' his fee, and when Morgan rc'ces, Crawford suggests he give it to Iris. He tells Morgan he is leaving town. Nar. waits, frightened, nervous, until after Crawford's train leaves, wondering if Iris will 60 with him. NO GO ON WITH THE STORY

CHAPTER XV ON Monday, the ninth of January, the day Iris Morgan had rhoeen for her departure for New York on what her husband believed to be a short pleasure trip, John Curtis Morgan had to appear in court as defense counsel for lois Downs, a pretty young nurse accused of the murder By poisoning of her patient, a middle-aged | chronic invalid whose husband and i fortune she was supposed to have i coveted. The case had been twice set for hearing and twice postponed, but now a jury was being impaneled. “If he doesn't come soon I shall :. have to leave without telling him good-by, and it will serve him right!” Iris protested petulantly to Nan for the third or fourth time. T only have half an hour to make my train. Careful, Curt, lover, you’re mashing the pleats in mother’s skirt.” ‘T wanna go to New York, too,” the little boy pleaded. ’’Mother's explained over and over, sweetheart, that New York's a horrid big place, not at all nice for little boys,” Iris answered cajolinglv. Nan, stealing a glance at the two. saw the mother’s arm tighten convulsively about, the thin little body that leaned forlornly against hfr knees. "I suppose she has got something that passes for a heart,” Nan admitted grudgingly to herself. “And I hope it hurts her so bad tonight that she can't sleep—running away to New York in a drawing room that her husband has paid for, to join a lover who owes his freedom to her husband. Oh, how can she do it? And how can he love her so much, when she's rotten, rotten! •hast because she’s beautiful—” a a a ALTHOUGH she hated Iris Morgan with every throb of her own honest, loyal heart, Nan Carroll had never denied or underestimated the other woman’s beauty. “I’m pretty, too,” Nan reflected bitterly. “But do you suppose he knows it? I might as well have a harelip and greasy, mouse-colored

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Taking Crystal's curiosity for j granted, and not at all sensitive to the ominous meaning behind her limp quietness. George rattled on eagerly, his voice rich and vibrant wjth joy: “We had a long talk— Dad and I—when I'd admitted that nothing would suit me better than to marry my model if she'd have me and if I could support her. “Naturally, I told him without quibbling that I couldn't get married on what he had said he was willing to allow me if he considered the picture gocd, and I got about halfway through explaining that I was willing to give up waiting in order to get married “You ought to have heard him then, darling. You'd loved him ’’ Crystal smiled as she remembered her last interview with George's father. Never had a stenographer been more thoroughly and brutally fired. “He said,” George continued happily, “that I'd long since convinced him that the wholesale hardware business could wag along without my services, but that, if this picture j of mine was any criterion to go by, the world of art might be the poorer if I left' it flat.” , v “I'm awfully glad for you. George, ’’ j Crystal said gently. “For us!’’ he corrected her joy-1 ously. ‘“This is his offer, honey; j he'll create a trust fund of a quar- ! tar of a million —” Crystal gasped. ‘ A quarter million! Why, George—" He hugged her close as he laughed. “Sounds like a whale of a lot. but it Isn't really, honey. The yearly ipcome on that amount invested conservatively by the trust com- : psnv will not be more than Thirteen or fourteen thousand, but it will be enough, won’t it, sweet?” To save her life Crystal could not answer in words. She could Qplv nod. “Oh. how can I tell him?’’ {she moaned to herself. “He is so happy, so sure. He's almost beside himself with joy. How can TW*” But George was too happy to feel any lack in her response His words continued to tumble out in a joyous flood. “We can do anything we please, go anywhere, have anything in the world we really want. “Isn’t Dad a prince, darling? I qever realized—of course he tied a string to his generosity. Dad would.” he chuckled, “just to make me work hard As if I wouldn't anyway, wth vou to in?nir*> me!” Because she knew that he was about to kiss her again, Crystal t'ked ouickly: “What is the! strife. George?” j

hair, for all he sees—or cares. But j she's leaving him; he may never | see her again, after today,” her love, audacious with hope, dared whisper in her heart. Then shame made her flush scarlet. “No, no! I’m not that bad! I'm staying on only because he’s I going to need a friend so badly. Afterward, when the worst is over, I'll go away. ... I will, I will!” she reiterated sharply, desperately, stamping upon that treacherous hope until she thought it was dead. But It only slunk Into the very depths of her heart and lay down very quietly. . . . “Well! At last! I was just leaving without telling you good-by,” Iris greeted her husband crassly, “There’s hardly time to make my train.” “Oh, lots of time, darling,” Morgan reassured her. “I’m awfully! sorry to be late, but I could hardly ask for an early Hello, Sonny-Boy! Know ’what were going to do soon as mother’s on the train?” He knelt beside the little boy, who was still drooping forlornly against his mother’s knees, and put his arms about the two of j them, hugging them close. Nan, | before she turned sharply away, ! saw one of Iris’ hands flutter to the boy’s black head: saw Morgan lay his cheek against its slim white* ness. “I wanna go to New York, too!” j I Curtis sobbed. “And leave Daddy all by himi self!” the father reproached him jtenderly. “Listen, Man-Child! You land I are going to a wild west ; movie and then we're going to drive i out to the Banbury kennels and I you’re going to pick out a—guess j what!” “A dog!” Curtis shouted, happy again. “I wanna German police dog, just like Strongheart—” “Oh, Jack, think of the furniture! A police dog galumphing through the house!” Iris exclaimed petulantly; then she must have remembered that that house would no longer be any concern of hers, for her voice softened, grew a little husky: “Oh, all right, lover! You can have any kind of dog you want. Just be sure he isn’t vicious, Jack. But we must be going,” and she rose abruptly, disengaging her slim body from her husband’s embrace. “Isn’t she the most beautiful thine you ever saw. Nan?" Morgan asked as he rose and stood beside his wife. ‘Don’t you think I'm foolish to let her go off to New York without me along to see that no one steals her?” “I certainly do!” Nan made her voice sound gay, but in her heart was a rage of anger against the woman and pity for the man. “Silly Jack!” Iris laughed, and Nan hoped fiercely that she would never hear those scornful lips utter I that phrase again—those two words with which Iris Morgan always 1 answered her husband’s adoration j and reduced him to absurdity. “Tell | Nana good-by, lover. Good-by, Nan. ' You’ll look after these two bad boys of mine while I'm gone, won’t you?” Nan flinched from the kiss which Iris’ velvety red lips laid on her cheek, but her brown eyes were very steady as they met and held for a moment the blue-green eyes of John Curtis Morgan’s wife. “I’ll do my best,” she said clearly, but no one else In the room realized that a solemn promise had been given.

is all I—or rather, you and I—ever will get out of his estate if I fail to achieve a reasonable success as a painter.” George answered readily. “He has some, sort of elaborate scheme. I gather, for having my work judged by experts at his death. “If I’ve wasted my time or overestimated my talent, we’ll have to struggle along on the income from the quarter of a million, instead of coming in for our share of his six or eight million dollar estate. • That's the penalty he attaches to giving me a slice of it now, knowing how dangerous a comfortable income may be for an artist. No incentive to work hard, you know. “■So he's creating the incentive of a million or two more after his death, if I’ am good, hard-working boy. If he only know how little I care for money Os course, for you —” His arms tightened about her again. But Crystal hardly felt them. She was in the grip of something stronger than a man's arms. Its name was Temptation. <To Be Continued!

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•et 7-HEN they were gone Nan sat * * idle at her typewTiter, her frightened eyes fixed on the little desk clock. Had she committed an unforgivable crime in not warning Morgan that his wife was leaving him for Crawford? But, as she had told Willis Todd, she would rather have died than to have shown him that letter of Bert Crawford’s, which proved that Crawford was not only a thief but Iris Morgan’s lover. And as Willis had pointed out to her, Morgan’s knowing would not have stopped Iris, and, if it could have, Morgan would not or should not want her. . . . But Willis didn't know how much Morgan loved her The minute hand of the clock moved slowly and inexorably. Train time! Too late now! Five minutes pas train time now. . . . John Curtis Morgan and his child, happily innocent of the fact that they were deserted, would be turning toward the movie theater now, Curtis shrilling excitedly about his police dog. . . . “Will he know tonight! Did she leave a letter? Surely she wouldn’t just go away, leaving no word behind. ... I wish I could work! I feel as if I'm going mad,” Nan moaned. At last she forced herself to concentrate on the Lois Downs case, which had opened that day in Judge Trimble’s court, It promised to be one of the hardest fights that John Curtis Morgan had ever waged for the life of an accused murderer. Nan knew that District Attorney Brainerd was as convinced of the guilt of the pretty young nurse as Morgan was sure of her innocence. The crime of which Lois Downs was accused had been committed in July—six months ago. Mrs. Andrew" Ward, 54 years old, a wheelchair invalid, who had not walked for three years, had died at 2 o'clock in the morning of strychnine poisoning, and her nurse, Lois Downs, had been immediately arrested on a charge of murder. Mrs. Ward, a multi-millionaire in her own right, had married, at the age of 49. a handsome young ne’er-tio-w r ell of 26. Living in the home of the illmatched couple were two spinster daughters of Mrs. Ward's by a previous marriage. Three years befoz-e her death Mrs. Ward declared that she was paralyzed from the waist down, and settled herself luxuriously in a wheelchair invalidism, requiring the constant care of a doctor, a day nurse, a night nurse and her young husband. After her death by strychnine poisoning. Mrs. Ward’s daughters told the district attorney and police detectives that their mother had beeen insanely jealous of young Andrew" Ward's attention to the pretty night nurse. Lois Downs, telling them that she believed Ward wished her dead so that he could marry the girl Because Ward had a perfect alibi, and because Lois Downs had been the only person with the invalid the night of her death, the nurse’s arrest and indictment for murder had followed. . Morgan had listened to the girl’s story, had believed her innocent and had. with Nan’s enthusiastic help, worked up the defense which Nan was reviewing the afternoon of Iris’ departure for New York. a ts a TECOMTNG absorbed, she worked steadily until 6 o'clock, then went, out for dinner at a restaurant in the neighborhood. But her anxiety for Morgan made it impossible for her to eat. She left a tip beside her plate of almost untouched food. laid her check, and ran through the cold, w'indy business street to the office building. She could stand it no longer; she must know’ something— The telephone was ringing with shrill insistence when she reached her office. Her suddenly icy hands fumbled interminably with the key and lock, but at last she was at the instrument panting. “Hello! Hello! Oh! Yes. Mr. Morgan! ~ . Yes.” She was almost sobbing. “Nothing’s the matter. Just out of breath. Ran to answer the phone. ... Yes I’ve just been to dinner. I thought I’d work on the Lois Downs case; refresh my mind.” “I’m coming down, too,” Morgan’s deep, pleasant voice was saying. “It’s rather lonesome at home, with Iris gone. But I promise not to keep you late. There are one or two points. . . . (To Be Continued!

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