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THE EUGENE GUARD
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LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE
The Worst Arrives
By HAROLD GRAY
CHAPTER XXXV111
7 tl was 6 o'clock when Nan Mor
Li. In a ttmjiaat of ijoMasoning fury
7(,.r locked her door against any
Sumot her husband mljht make to
JL, to bar hla load of deapalr and
E&V.Ttved lov. for hla first wife.
J Rin shan't haunt this room, too,
" , does every other room In the
Joum!" Nan sobbed.
a gm was trembling with the fury
f her own determination, but her
Li betrayed her by "training to
Itch the faintest sound which would
bdlcata that he was trying to come
to her Alter many minutes Bhe heard
Lim oien his door. Breathlessly she
iltei savagely eager to have him
Jua the knob of her door and find it
locked.
S Bhe herself was suffering so ter
ribly that it gave her a fierce, par
tem pleasure to think of his being
-i'r wo. Kneeling down before that
.Oman who had never loved him and
'ho hd deserted him! Nan clenched
.r hauJi as htr eyas stared at the
doorknob. Going to the hospital twice
h one day to see her, when she wasn't
MiUy sick at all, but Just shamming
Z win his sympathy! He'd always
ten n In Iris' hands. Well, let him
L hurt now! It would serve him
iiiht She bad been hurt enough. God
knew!.... But her straining eyes told
Jan that he had not touched the knob
et her door.
X She heard valor running; faint, fa
Bihar sounds which told her he was
getting out his shaving things. She
could see every step of the process
li if ibe were ii; the bathroom beside
iim. The way he stretched his upper
Jip in ricul grimace; the brood
ing gravny in his dcep-ael bluck eyes,
is-hich saw nothing tunny in the facial
contortions a man makes when he
'shaves himself. The infinite care
.Vita which he circled the safety razor
about the little brown mole on bia
Tight cheek. Oh! Nan caught her
truth in agony. It was terrible to
ilove a man so much. Only this morn
ing she had stood close beside him
ai he shaved, so close that his elbow
-Wgleri her ribs and made her double
lip in a childish fit of giggling. And
-Mw-now.... f t
! She waited until she heard him re
enter his own room, then with a great
ielfort, Nan went about her own dress
ing for dinner. The amber chiffon.
He liked it, but why try to please
'him now? He wouldn't notice what
,ihe had on. His eyes would be turned
in upon a vision of Iris, lying in ap
pealing helpfulness upon a hospital
bed, her fragility clothed in an ex
:ouiitely colored, subtly scented neg
ligee. Even as her hairbrush gave furious
ipunctuation to her defiance, Nan
knew, deep down in her heart, that
if John Curtis Morgan wanted ber
to relinquish him to his first wife,
he would do so. He would be the
last court of appeal. If he decided
arainst her, there would be no fight
leit in her.
! She did not descend the stairs until
ebe had heard her husband go down,
lowly, like an old man. It waa their
cuBtom to assemble in the drawing
room, there to wait for Estelle's sum
mons to the dining room. It took all
ser courage to cross the threshold,
and so strong had been her premoni
tion of what she would find when she
did so that she felt no surprise, only
an overwhelming despair.
John Curtis Morgan and his eon
itood before the fireplace, looking ab
lurdly like each other, in spite of the
difference in their sizes. Consciously
or unconsciously, Curtis had dupli
cated his father's pose feet planted
Tide apart, hands thrust into trous
ers pockets, shoulders hunched, head
lowered, but eyea raised to Iris
Morgan's breathtakingly beautiful
portrait. How closely kin those two
werel Father and son, by virtue of
the woman at whoBe picture they
sued.
N'an was powerless to move toward
them. She was an interloper. It would
be indecent to intrude upon their
tragic brooding. All fight melted out
of her for the moment, giving way
to a nauseating self-batred. If she
had not "wormed her way" into John
Curtis Morgan'a home, into his grief,
into the affections of his son, so
that marriage with her had come to
eem inevitable he and the child would
nave been free to welcome Iris home.
What did it matter that they had
keen better off without her? If they
preferred sickness to health, misery
to peace. Iris to Nan, why ahouldn't
they hsve them? People never thauk
i you for doing things for their
lood.
"Oh, excuse me, Mrs. Morgan, I
didn't know you waa there," iustelle
ipologued aa she almost bumped in
to the frozen little figure in the door
way. "lJinner la served ma'am."
The two before the fireplace start
nL the man guiltily. The 7-year-old
oy stared at Nan aa If he had never
en her before, a strange hostility
in hia liquid black eyes. There was
1 deep flush on hia cheeks. Nan's
Jeart contracted sharply with anxiety.
Wd he hsve a feTerV Why waa he
'taring at her like that? Had Iris ar
ready begun to poison the child
itsinst her? But why ask) She had
uiown Iris was going to fight ber
ith every weapon she could lay
uds on, and of course the child
ouid be the most potent, next to the
"rriiic appeal which she had always
"de to the senses of the man she
ever loved and had deserted.
"Hello, dear!" her husband greeted
' constrainedly, aa he came for
rd to take ber arm. "Sorry I
u!dn't meet you for lunch."
Hod did the trial progress? Any
rarors chosen?" Nan asked, with ap
".r"tlj cheerful cnsuulncss.
" went to the hospital to see
81 anther," Curtis cut in, his voice
waning oddly mature and childishly
'ejjuterent. She "
h",a aked me a question, son,"
M lather reproved him sternly, but
" a hand on the boy's shoulder,
""'at you seen the afternoon pa
Nan? The trial is adjourned un--J
January ." a
No cei now to pretend interest
,B cried: ' Adjourned? WhvY What
'Wned'; You don't mean Hraiuerd
r'n t ready? Or do you suppose he'd
lot wind ,,f h.
we're going to
Pritig?
'rgan wss obviously grateful for
"vrem and lor a chante to think
talk of something else besides j have been so altered a
saazing return of his divorced
'!iT i dr'w out 1 c'lilir 'or N,n
' i ujual meticulous politeness
'! answered:
-"-.n. nothing like that. We were
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tar witness, the butler, Edgara, had
been atricken with acute appendicitis
end rushed to the hospital for an
emergency operation. He's in pretty
bad shape, I underatand. Naturally
the trial couldn't proceed without him,
and Judge Bunce granted an adjourn
ment until the old man is in a condi
tion to be brought to the courtroom
if he survives,"
"Good heavens!" Nan said slowly.
"It will be more of a blow for us
if the poor old man dies than for the
prosecution."
"True," Morgan agreed. "But
still we have the goods on Nina
Blackhull, even without the butler's
testimony aa to her relatione with
the chauffeur, Bassett. But naturally
what he waa willing to tell us on cross
examination would have been mighty
important. Brainerd, of cour8e, can
use Edgars' testimony before the
grand jury, aa to Blackhull'a quarrel
with David the boy's leaving in his car
at 2 o'clock in the morniug, and the
finding of his body. I hope we'll have
our cnance at him, though."
"Where ia he which hospital?"
Nan demanded, as she made a pre
tense of eating her soup.
"He's at St. Luke's too, where
Mother is," Curtis answered the ques
tion. "Father went to talk to the
doctor about bim while I stayed with
Mother." Again that curious, direct
glance of hostility from the black eyes
which had been so full of love aa lute
as this morning.
"Yes," Morgan agreed, flushing and
lowering his eyes. "They were oper
ating them. No one could say how it
would turn out, but a few minutes
ago 1 telephoned the hospital and the
poor old man has come out of the
ether all right. If there are no serious
complications he'll pull through, Br.
Matthews says.
"I'm glad," Nnn said in a low voice.
There seemed to be nothing else to
add, nothing whatever to talk about.
For iris was as much a member
of that constrained group as if she
sat on the vacant fourth side of the
tnhle. Nsn felt that the insolent blue
green eyes were mocking them ail.
"Don't want any spinach and car-rots-and-peaa,"
Curtis said suddenly,
violently thrusting aside the vegetable
dish from which F.stelle was about to
aerve him.
Morgan snapped out of a period of
brooding abstraction to frown upon
his son. "Eat what's put before you,
Curtia," he commanded sternly.
"I won't!" Curtis shouted, the fe
verish flush deepening alarmingly on
the face which had once been so thin
and anemic and now was plump with
health. "Mother aays I don't have to
eat things I don't like! 'Sides, she
give me all the chocolates I wanted
out of th:it big box you took ber. I
aren't hungry!"
Morgan seemed glad of the chance
to Bhow furious anger. The two were
so alike and yet so different glared
at each other. "Then leave the table!"
the father ordered savagely, "And go
straight to bed. You know you're not
permitted to eat between meals and
that "
The child's howl of rage cut across
hia father's furious rebuke.
Involuntarily, Nan reached out a
hand and laid it soothingly upon Cur
tis' clenched fist. "Please, John! Let
me Curtis, darling, you don't want
to lose your gold star for a perfect
Health Chart, do you? If you aren t
hungry, you can skip dessert, but Nan
does want you to eat the vege
tables "
'Won't eat them!" Curtia scream
ed, pushing his plate so violently that
part of the food apillcd upon the im
maculate white cloth. "Don't have to
do what you tell me to! You ain't got
any right to boss me! Mother says
"Go to your room!" his father roar
ed, rising and bending over the child
as if his clenched fists longed to
strike him. "And stay there till you're
ready to apologize to Nan and to
promise to obey her Implicitly. Do you
understand?" , ,
Nan shrank Into her chair, every
nerve outraged by the acene, the like
of which had never taken place in that
home since she had become its mis
tress. Helplessly, she watched the
child scramble out of hia chair and
run howling from the room.
"I'm sorry, Nan," Morgan apolo
gised stiffly, extreme pallor sudden
ly taking the place of the flush of an-
8'xan nodded dumbly and the miser
able meal progreased in silence. Dish
es were brought and removed, their
delicious contents acarcely touched
bv either. It came to an end at lant
and the two who had been so close
moved together, but miles apart, to
ward the drawing room.
For a few minutea they talked
conatralnedly, unnaturally, about the
Blackhull case, then abruptly Morgan
Introduced the only subject about
whle heither of them could think:
"I ian, we'd better face thia
thing, hadn't we? I've got to talk to
you about Iris."
(To be continued)
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