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s. THE EUGENE GTTATJD LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE The Job Hunter By. HAROLD GRAY G O . A . , THIS HAS HAPPENED JOHN CURTIS MORGAN l jnadly In love with hit beautiful Wife, IRIS. NAN CARROLL, Mor- : Sjan's seoretary, love him. She hit a fine tense of honor, however, end determines to leave hit employ. She - llsgars whan she heart Morgan It to defend a tuppoted friend, BERT CRAWFORD, Indloted for ambezils ent. CURTI8 MORGAN, age 8, Inne eently plaoea In Nan'a handa a let ter taken from hit mother't hand bag. Crawford leavea town Immed iately after hla acquittal and Irla ' fellows In a few days. She writes bar husband she will never return, eleverly omitting reference to Craw ford, whom Morgan doea not tut- Rtot. Morgan It broken-hearted. Ian begs him not to place Curtla .'. la a boarding school, agreeing to go to the house while Morgan Is away a butlnets to set the wheels of a aow housekeeping arrangement In notion. For six months Nan aots as long flatanoe housekeeper, winning the love of little Curtis, who adores her. Nan, who has been studying law, goes to the capital to take her bar exams. When she returns Morgan kreaks the news to her that he Is preparing to divorce Iris. He attempts to propose to Nan, telling her of his and the child's sssd of her. She raallics thai mr rlage to him who loves another oaenot be completely satisfying, but she would rather have him that way than not at all. They are married with the ghost of Iris hovering near. Before their train la to leave, Mor gan hurriedly takes her to the of fice where she finds her name on the door beside his. He has made her his partner but she fears It Is to be In business only. NOW GO ON WITH THE 8TORY CHAPTER XXVII OTOIE a march' on you!" John Curtis Morgan exulted as he laid a hand upon the knob of the outer door of eulte 718. "We're all moved without your knowing a thing about It unless your woman's in taltlon. of which you are sinfully proud, by the way, gave you an ink ling of what we were np to." .. "No I never had the faintest sua " pldon, Nan confessed. "But be fore we go In and fsce everyone, tell me ' And she laid a restrain ing hand on his. I 'With a muttered excuse to which the newly married couple paid not the - slightest attention, the sign painter abruptly left hla job. Mor gan's eyes were twinkling, but they were suspiciously moist as he smiled down upon the girl who had been hla secretary for four years and waa now hla partner and bis wife. Of course, I've had this In mind since long before you were admit ted to the bar," he explained. 'The sign, however, la a rather recent inspiration." and he pointed to the words, "Morgan & Morgan.'" Attor-Beya-at-Law." "I gave the order for it three days ago when we took out our marriage license. The ieese for the new suite of offices was signed a month ago, on the very day you were admitted to the bar. The old lease expires today and I wnnted the move and the new sign to be my wedding present to you. There's another sign in ' aide, on the door of my new law partner'a private office. "Oh!" Nan choked and raised trembling handa to hide her face from him. From behind the screen i... i. fineera she murmured t,.V.nh' "Thank you John. I hall do my bestr to oeserve riir1 olreadv deserved a part- ....WnjiTid more." Morgan Inter tupted hnakily. "Want to run away bow or do you want to face the jnusic and see yonr new office! "I please " Nan began, but waa Interrupted by the opening of the "Oh, it la yon, Mr. Morgan 1 I thought T recognised your shadow agaUst the glasa pare of the door, a blithe, excited young Tolce cried. That's one of the curses of be ing so tall." Morgan admitted rue fully. "What ia it Miss CHara? Miss Carroll I mean, Mra. Mor gan " he floundered, his anstere face flushing darkly "and I are about to catch a trnjn " The pretty Miss O'Hara clasped her hands and glowed her plea sure. "So you're actually married! I'm too thrilled for words. I do hope Mrs. Morgan deddea to let me stav on But whet am I think ing of?" she broke off with charm ing contrition. "Mr. Blake wanted to go right over to City Hall to make sure of finding yon before you left on yonr honeymoon, but I aid that would be simply terrible, and I knew anyway that you would want to thow Mrs. Morgan the new fflcea and the elgn and everything Morgan cut short her breaihlesa Fuah of words. "Just what has hsp pened, MIbs O'Hara?" "Oh. I am dumb, but I'm so ex jtted!" Kathleen O'Hara excused lerself with a bubble of laughter. "Well. Inst about ten minutes after you left this morning. Mr. Morgan, a long distance call came for you. T took it. of course, and It was David Blackhull that the papers " "Pavid Blackhull!" Nan and her ew husband cried In chorne. Kathleen O'Hara's face glowed. ! knew you'd be absolutely dumb founded! Imagine It! The police and the reporters combing the coun try for him and he telephones you long distance! Ton know. It gnve me the oddest feeling actually talk ing to a murderer " We dnn't know thst he Is a mur flertr." Morgan reminded her eurt i ly. "What did he say? Pleaao be as brief as possible. We have a train to catch " "Oh. I'm eo sorry? JTIm O'Hara fluttered. Nan wondered if she had acted so sil!v. so Lero-worshipping. when "he firt came to work for John Curtis Morgan. "He said he waa Just ready to fake-off in a friend's plane, and jrouid be here or 11 o'clock, and It's 10 minutes after 11 now, and " "He wsnts me to defend him?' Morgan Interrupted again. "Oh. of coo rue. snd when I told hhn you and Mies Carroll were be ing married and were goir.g to 'leave st 11:80 on your honeymoon, ha said. 'Ask him for Ood's sake to wsit till I see him' " "Well. I can't e Mra that's finsl." Morgsn decided flatly. "Pleese. Mr. Morgan!" Nan broke In. "Shall we go into your office and talk It over for a minute? There's time enough. I'm snre." After working hours the night before and while she was being mar ried this morning Nan hed gone direct from her little apartment to Citr Hall the move hsd been sl mot mirsciiloiielv sccomplished. Everything from the old offices wes ha place, even to telephones. As a matter of. courts, Nu O . W29 NCA SERVICE INC. tironned into the stenographer' chair drawn op to tne aiae or me big desk, and Morgan took the swi vel rhair. It waa as if nothing had occurred to change the old relation ship of employer and secretary. 1 don't wsnt the ease. Nan. and even If I 'did. I wouldn't take it to day of all days " Morgan began) llrmiy. Because everything points to the boy's being guilty?" Nan challenged him tensely. "I don't believe he is I 1 uon t care u be dia teem to be in hiding while the nolice searched for him! He's coming forward now, voluntarily, to glvs himself up for questioning. If he does reach this office TitEout being stopped by po lice, I want yon to see him. Please Sive mm live minutes, ii ne lent ere by then, wo can atHl make our train" "You've always pv.t business be fore pleasure, hsven t you, Nan 7" Morgan asked, witb :i queer smile turning down a corner of his mouth, 'or a moment Nan had a fleeting heart-twisting fear that he waa hurt. There was a knock on the door, immediately followed by Kathleen O'Hara's vivid, excited little face. "He's here!" she gasped in a thrilled whisper. "And he doesn't look like a murderer st all! Isn't it marvel " that the police Sidn't catch him before he got here? Shall I show him in?" one could have looked less like a patricide than David Blackhull. - A slender, well-groomed boy of about 20. with wavy nut-brown hair, frank eyes, a fair, freckled skin, he might nave posed lor a picture to be en titled, "Composite Portrait of Am erican College Xoulu." ' Nan liked the way he thrust out a steady hand, as if It did not oc cur to him that anyone might hesi tate to clasp it She offered her own hand unflinchingly when Mor gan performed the introduction: "My la aw Darter and mv wife. Mrs. Morrsn. Ironic, Nan thought, that the first time those words, "my wife" passed hia Una in reference to her, they should be addressed to a boy sus pected of the murder of his father. "Well I made it. air." David Blackhull said, with just a trace of boyish bravado. "But I can't blame the police for not spotting me right off. I look too much like most other fellows. I wasn't in hiding, sir. I I didn't know mr father had been killed until I saw a paper tms morning, i ve neea up norui in the woods with a pal of mine. He has a hunting lodge and when he came in at dawn this morning from Moutain View that ia the nearest town to his lodge with a DaDer. why, of course, there waa nothing to do but to coma and give myself un. nut 1 wanted to see vou first' "And the Diane?" Morgan nromn- ted, after he had aeated the poung man in tne armchair across the desk. "Oh, he has a moth monoplane that he buaaea around it,"- thia son of wealth explained easily. "Ste phen Grant's his name. Maybe Kvou've heard of the family?" At aiorgan s nod. the Doy went on eag erly:. "He offered to bring me in and we atopped juat once on the way, to telephone. I put the call through a pay station In a village, using Grant s name, but when I got your office 1 told who 1 was. I thought maybe the police would have the operators liatening in, but it looks aa if they -didn't " "lour lucic waa certainly wita you, Morgan interrupted dryly. see Nan sprang to her feet, excased heraelf with a word and ran out of the office, to return a minute later, breathless. Jerking out the stenog rapher's leaf of the deak, abe flung open her notebook and began to take rapid shorthand notes of the boy's story. In spite of her half-fearful, half Joyful absorption In her approt.thing wedding, Nan bad taken an enor mous interest in the sensational murder of the millionaire automobile manufacturer, Thornton Blackhull. The papers had shrieked the news of the disappearance of the old man'a eon within a few minutes of the murder. The mlllionsiro had been found dead, shot through the heart, his son's automatic clumsily hidden behind a row of books in a case near the door. The butler who found the body, and noticed the disarrangement of the books which led to the diacovery of the weapon, had told of hearing a violent quarrel between the old mil lionaire and his son early in the evening. The murder had taken place, according to the medical ex aminer, at approximately 2 o'clock In the morning. The butler, asleep In his room on the third story of the Blackhull msnslon. had not heard the shot, but, had been e roused at five minutes to 2 by the sound of a ear on the gravel drive below hia window and had gone to the window to look out. He said thst ths ear waa Dsvld Blsckhull's. snd tiie next morning. when he went to notify the boy thst his father had been murdered, the hoy waa missing, had not slept in his room thst night Naturally, the police had been searching the coun try for the missing son, with war rants out for hla arrest And now he sat In John Curtis Morgan'a office, telling his own story or tnst Isst day and night of n s rstner a lire. He didn't kill his father, hot he'a holding something back," Nan told herself, ss her pendl flew. At Isst she could keep silent no longer. With sn audacity excused by her new ststus ss Morgan a law part ner. she interrupted: "Mr. Blackhull. waa your father i.happily married to your young step- motnerr The painful blnth which suffused the hoy's face told her that she wss on the right track. Iehe they " David Blackhull stammered. "Phe was eo much youncer then Dsd. you know just to nia n. mi lr you re s-s suspectang Moa I mean, my ste' 'tie motner sne iswr ior unicao dsv before before It happened." "But after the left for Chicago, your tamer man a win in wnicb he gave her nearly everything, lesv. Ing you only $10,000." Nan told hlra nuietly. "Do you know why?" An hour later a very subdued and bewildered young man left with the senior member of the firm of Mor gan & Morgsn to give himself up for srrest. There would he no honeymoon for Nsn Csrrell Morgan. 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Oh, gee. some place where we ar good and aafe la where we all belong," The scarecrow then snspped, "I agree. Come on, you Tlnlet, follow ne, m find a plaae where we can hide. Be quiet If yon can. A cave, of eourae, would be the best We'll find one, if with luck we're blest. And so the scarecrow took the lead, and off the whole bunch ran. They all glanced backward now and then, and everyone ran faster when they saw the eyes were traveling too. Bald Coppy, "We are lost Those eyes are getting closer now. I'm sure we'll soon be in a row. Well have to find a hiding place right now, at any coat" The ecsreerow whispered, "Here a cave. I know that somehow I would save yo'i Tinymltea." Then In they rnshsd, snd felt they were all right The scarecrow then said, 'Tve a plan, and you can help. I'm sure too cant I plan to chase those two big eyes ontll they're out of sight "There's grant in here. Wen, start to pull It np and quickly stuff me full. My clothes will stretch and yon can make me big as big can be. Whoever nvni those two big eves will very. thortly realise that when I'm big I do, not fear a thing. Just wait and see,"' The bunch thought this idea great and so they dldnH hesitate. They' ripped the scsrecrow here and there to they could make him grow. They then polled all the grass in tight end finally stuffed him good and tight The scarecrow was so very fat he sighed and whispered, Oh." (The scarecrow rtit- VMHftR IN TH lOOKtO Au. 0)E. VMOw.LT HavMt . SOU TO I tT OLO dOSS T -WOW.1 60TTA T'GEI fWf TROM VtRE -TOR bOOT&' 6AE ! &0 f R AS V COKiC'cRVfcO,! 0OKfT CARt WWtTVXDR. hW&Xti f MOS OS M MOT TWl&b fRST VXVA'E ME BER i BEIV4 VTW WEB, TVAT 1 WAVfctfT WC TO , WORRV NBOO SOHE-ONri dOTTVM' IM Art WOUUG,WE gets into a flght In the next story.? 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