New Britain Herald Newspaper, July 5, 1929, Page 20

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 5, 19 0 [VA R © 1929 & NEX SERVICE ING THIS HAS HAPPENED Nan Carroll, private secretary John Curtis Morgan covers she is in love Being honorable, sh must resign, but postpc nation when she lear 1s staking his p defend his friend d for embezzle Nan be and also lover of I of the lawye trial sh his guilt 2 with Iris, to Awyer with Morg fessi honor to Bert Crawford On the last day of oper room *“not brought in is leaving departs a few posed plo n believes husband and child While she and ing on Mor fense of Lois cused of mt special deliv Iris telling Morg him and that The le ford a for her. Morg friend to whor trouble, reads t quest. She w words are f outside ofice (NOW GO ON W finds she guilty"” Crawford town. W dny re trip Iris is will menti John Cv certain b his eye penetrable blac which he had read his wife of her desertion “The Lois Downs case peated mechanically, as if tl rang no bell in his hand went to his again; long, thin fingers pressed hard his eyelids, but when his hand drop- ped Nan Carroll burst tears of relief and faint flicker of a gray-white face “You are not to he 17 You're surely— of infi Nan thick te answer admitted tion of her Simon Le, lock Holme: nice, obliging i flaws in my chair. T'll b ed b She w office, snatched with coarse-c humidor wr stocked for moved words emory. His eves iimost oy lool clouds.” She mese the tim ns—motive up against a e. The y. who Downs, I There except o made es of poison i els who to slip old M y call D 1 the fingerp ind mi LVIVE nd only had both don't rd for heing so cocks er. T was li blameé of rally mysterious n paral inion Aly nts on medi- 0 Mrs k that in op- 4 a but a if Holtzma tri 1 sh him ad- hard couid Tl bet you t that e w i told ed to could reach poison it he brown Limpi Mor and she n af fig- ht she r three it look Lois Downs had her sleeps in the adjoining 1 1 her door closed. The old has never kept her night room with her. It's my opinion Ward sneaked a good many chances walK, but r that may be, her determin- ation lent her energy “She gets up about one o'clo Lois has gone to and to slecp, creeps into the irdered Loi d- room, w lady nurse in to oweve long after bed probably bathroom, op net, leaving a ts, thank as the medicine cabi- nice heave tween bichloride of mercury fing hesitates be- and the set of casiest way out of trouble.” rychnine which is given her in doses as a heart stimu- against the bichloride of mereury after touching the bot- tle; takes a big quantity of strych- nine. also a bromide tablet that she ild have to make her sleep, mere- king th for it taking a fills it creeps 1 her very small lant; decide nurse with dis- the bed the bromide ablet in and drains it ne, to make had given along it look her the s if the whole 1 remembers just in time that nurse’s fingerprints probably on the clean glass left in buthroom by the and it so that there v e no rints at all it.” Morgan contributed. nodding slowly. * obably figured that that 1d be just one more black mark against the e—that it would lcok like a clumsy attempt on Lois's part to desiroy evidence, Well my dear Hol he smiled almost naturally at Nan, “I'm going to risk makin fool of myself by asking the court in the morning for per- mission to exhume the body and take e old lady's fingerprints beautiful theory stands or falls on what we'll find out then.” ‘But you—do you think my hunch was a good one?" Nan insisted. as rose and knocked the ashes from his pipe into her empty metal waste- paper basket Nag.” John iskily, laying shoulders, not also Curtis Morgan sid hands on her had two g hunches tonight, my dear. T—can't < you. But 1 think you know vou've for me tonight. Good unior partner. his o ol what it those last promise to her- to his own swered un- smiling through When herself he was gone, she gibed o this is how T resign be- I'm in love he's not with a married really married R XIX afternoon r the had 1 for of Tuesday the first two-day ad- been granted the exhuma- Mrs. Andrew ler Lois ing tried red his of- mph in his for body tis v hoss is Nan icked the girl, he talk He expert ation, but Il a hair's and | with the | Your her | | hero's role, even though the heart in his breast was heavy with humilia- tion and despair. A man to be wor- shipfully proud of—this man she loved! “I didn't after my testified, all Dr. Holtzmann until | gerprint expert had but I let him hear Corn- wall's evidence. Fortunately, the doctor is a brilliant, fair-minded man. When I asked him if it would | ive been physically possible for Mrs. Ward to walk, he said that it would have been, if her desire had | been keen enough. Her paralysis | was due to a psychosis, or, possibly, | was shammed, he admitted, while Brainerd positively ¢lawed the air.” | “I wish I'd seen him,” Nan| chuckled. “Did you call Lois Downs' | young man. Chester Parks?" H “Yes. Parks testified that Lois were engaged to be that had complained 10 him of Andrew Ward's unwelcome atten- | tions. His testimony wiil go far to- ward destroying the motive which | Brainerd has tried to pin on the girl, especially as Ward himself has admitted that lLois did not return | his love. “Bra he and married, | nerd rested without calling [any witnesses in rebuttal, but he'll make a stab at saving his face be- | fore the jury tomorrow in his sum- mation. Naturally he'll contend that the old lady's fingerprints in the bathroom don't neccssarily mean that she killed herself, even if she did toy with poison bottles, but the ury will be glad enough to believe | that the unpleasant old lady com- | mitted suicide, rather than that a | pretty young thing like Lois Downs committed murder. And so—that's | that!" | PRI The moment which Nan had been dreading and pushing away since | Friday night had come at last. His | only biz case on the court calendar at present was won, or practically so. | There was nothing to keep him from | sinking into the slough of despond. The telephone rang with that pe- culiar long-d -out insiste which heralds a long distance call | "Maybe," Nan thought gloatingly, | | as she swooped for the instrument | before Morgan could reach it. | | A e | “there's a nice, juicy murder, just! dripping with mystery which will keep him so darned busy—" Then, aloud, “Hello! Yes. John Curtis | Morgan's offices. Oh! Yes, he's ! right here! She cupped her hand over the re- ceiver and whispered excitedly to Morgan: ‘It's the ogvernor's secre- tary. Says the governor wants fo talk to you." “Governor was eager | Brownlee case, I hope. | hello! Morgan speaking. Yes. : | Oh, hello, Governor! Yes, still try- ing to keep ‘em out of jail. Not s0's you'd notice it! But I'd li to flirt with the trout with you this summer, if you can get aw; Hogarth?" Morgan “About that Hello, again | Yes. 1 suppose so. Presidential year is a God-send to the long-suffering ! trout, at any rate, Gov- | ernor? Of course I'm mighty | anxious to see Brownlee get a com- | mutation of sentence to life sonment That's mighty. decent of you, Ben, but I don't see how T could get away just now &z | Nan laid an eager { shoulder, shook him course you can go—tomorrow T'll look after everything.” Morgan shook his hezd at her and frowned. then grinned with wry | humor, as he turned hack to the | telephone. “All right, Ben. T'll arrive |at the oapital tomorrow evening, Oh, don't hother Evelyn. A hotel will he 1 right for m Oh, all right, and thanks. Ben. My best to Kvelyn and the future presi- dent of the Unite: tates. (e Yes. impri- hand on slightly his “of night. When he hung up the r | turned to Nan ruefully | ernor insists on my executive mansion. he ! he gov- | staying at the Ben and Evelyn Hogarth are both good scouts, and ! usually I'd enjoy a visit with them, | | but right now He paused, pa ed a hand wearily across his eyes. | and Nan knew that his unfinished thought was that it would be al- most unbearable for him, a man whose wife had left him because she love him. to go into 4 that was nationally famous dom felicity. ind d ot hone for its nt of njoy it more than insisted with “Isn't it splendid that governor's around to the 50 s00n? I'm sure you m see th this is one zranting of executive high privilege, not ct of mercy.” Morgan's mouth twisted in the wry, humorous smile that she loved | to call forth. “I think I'd better send you to the capital in my y Brownlee always on special pet, anyway.” Thanks awfully,” Nan grinned “but it would be very inconvenient to got away right now. tis for me.”” Morgan re sered gloomily. “T had intend- er the Downs case to the jury in hunting for a for Cur ‘Oh them you forced casual 2ot can mak 1se whe cleme mere th ney is a your ed to most of this boarding school Mr to shut Morg ve t mean him school! He's Why. he’s ju Do you think it's f Whoa, Nar away in a little, L baby boarding so so young! six years old! interru to the watching hin more observingly than usual since— I He still could not yring himself to utter Iris's name. | “He's a spoiled little devil. No nurse | stay more couple of | Morgan admit it's not I've been ed but rather since will than a weelks. Yesterday when I got home 1| found Clara, the hired only that Ir—that 10 days ago. just har money and wa and T couldn't flung a fork at her ty bad- nurse wailing to get her. Curtis had head and cut her cheek pre Nan demanded I sup- \amined | dant on the st d oSS+ and ed at her vehemence, that he was grateful for 1mpionship of the he insisted on his father with his ner with the nursery Nan triumphed, rath- He should have ther, T'd fling ouldn't havv a nurse din- forks, thre tthat will —a great big boy of six—" “You just saying tnat he's a baby,” reminded her, smiling “Well, a baby as far as being sent away to school is concerned, and a big boy as far as having a nurse goes.” Nan explained impatient “He belongs in public school, along with other six-year-old boys him with a bunch of other young hoodlums and they'll knock selfish- ness out of him too quick to talk about.” “The primary half-day ed her respon were Morgan grades only sessions.,’ Morgan remind- omcone would have to be ihle for him until T got home, Besides,” and sighed heavily. “there's the a big house, just child—" “T think." hesitati gently he nu for a man and a broke the silence laying the words down to anger him, “that Curtis has a right to a real home {o grow up in. And since he's teen—left—to you alone. it will have to be your job to make that home for him somehow. It won't be easy But seeing him grow up, your com- panion and well as your son, will pay vou, T believe—Oh can’t you see the other side of the picture?—a poor. lonely little misfit, shuttling from boarding school to ummer camp and back to school \gain, homeless, parentless, except for a father whom he sees two or and who is worse he takes Nan S0 as n friend as e times a ycar than a stranger liberties and scolds Morgan groaned I'm not like Brainerd. I know when I'm licked. Will you help me A bit — dig up a good housekeeper take an intelligent inter- in the boy? God knows I want to do the right thing by him.” Nan considered a moment, her ble im fingers twisting a of her short brown hair. “Youw'll be at the state capital sev. cral days, 1 imagine. . Would vou | think it awfully cheeky of me if 1 suggested going out to your house and staying nights with Curtis while you're gone? I could get things in with the cook and the maid. T could also get Curtis started in school and have time to look about for a housekeeper—'* “Would I think it cheeky?" Mor- gan interrupted. “Good Lord, Nan I'd think it angelic of you, and you know it! Curits will be tickled to death, too. You're the only hu- man heing that can do anything with him."” The next went to the hecause “Lay off, Nan! est shape the Lois Downs e jury hefore noon, and within five minutes a verdict of “Not guilty” returned John Curtis Morgan, with another sensational court his credit, hoarded two o'clock fo visit the governor of the state and at half-past five Nan Carroll walked up the steps of the home which Iris Morgan had aban- | doned. A small figure hurtled out of the door and into her arms. | “Hello, Nana! I wanted to see you. Nana, Estelle’s an awful liar She says my mother ain't coming | back. If she ain't, are you gonna stay, Nana?" 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