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i 14 NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD., MONDAY, JULY 43 4, 1929, = - = RIVALVIV] © 1929 # N SERVICE INC THIS HAS HAPPENLD jdenly developed a violent passion | Nan Carroll, secretary to John to troom drama? None other Curtis Morgan, successful lawyer \an the fair Iris—the boss’ ex- in Jove with Morgan. His beautiful| frau, you know. Fact! Had a front | wife, Iris, elopes with Bert Craw-|row seat this morning and yester-| ford, a fami nd, whom Mg duy morning. 1 heard she tipped | never suspe gan is in desy new \bell of & bailif to | nd Na liverts [ by | fix it for T Was the boss, forcing ) vo 42 Don { For six months s “She to be ridden out of | distance housekeeg town on a rail—coming back here bring onifor 1k 3 mr ap the works Just and his ild ttie ix-y Nan and. £ Mor b « a8 1o 1 sound of ro ame, in her he is divorcir swering growl, roused the per from t of which Blake's news had inon her. She turned’ back | ) s wn offic for an hour \ B on trial for his ia = 14 i ery atom of ) s 1 ir was coni- v rvices. d \ of court-room pro ) f ared uily o mo cet and dramatic 5. W Roc cd across . v the slim body of s r ri o the door, Lo 8 vy 2 Jiany as carr s . D Morgan saw, too, NOW GO ON WITH THI STORY 3 T ot foeking Danites . rately, Nan el el e . 1 what she had been i saving t the man perforce : b 3 Zelm t to hear her out. Just as | ke she was concluding ¢ remark— | so1 vg about the Blackhull case ladder directly of the porch hght, climb, an tric hed | On oned th e globe d to ele tret nd apparently 1. with a shrill the floor. bulb shattered way. Nan tachment her husband knecl and | wife into his Kicked the disappear his divor wtehed door wid f n into hous his irde 1 1 de L « she turned and 1 ouse. Not e o st even 1o al 1e neighbor- work day inevit came | hood cov herself end, and the two who had | Cross the and enter that other been one in work ha 10 turn to | house. It Ir was badly hurt and their nd become two t needed more help her hus ically divided ¢ band could gi her, 1 him tele- Not that Slor d not try. His| phone for a doctor or a nurse. It efforts to play the role of devoted |the tumble from the ladder had husbar were even more en just a clever bit of acting. and Nan than the ells of Irs was not really hurt, certainly P 1 to which he in her—Nan's—interference was th cumbed before the Jast g Tris desired was over T It half an hour before Mor- ner hours were the hardest of an irned, and because it was day, for it was then that the alarm- en moit time for court to open ing « in Cur most oh- was in 100 great a hurry o giv vio child ym Nan in | Nan more than a few words of ex- less s had transformed | planation into a ¢ ul, sturdy little bhoy. 5 twisted her ankle—rather reverted with the suddenness of {badly, I'm afraid, but she black magic to the whining, ob- call Dr. Black. I streperous,. “sickly I had | in liot water. I then bandared i been under his mother's ca tghtly with liniment. You migh Nan knew, and fierc i telle over with a luncheon wretched that she could not say tr AT Curtis will there to to the father, that do little things tor her this after- liberately using the child c Now T've got to make her m powerful weapons in her |a dash for the courthouse fight against her successor When he had gone, Nan won- knew, and did not s how Morg dered if he had emphasized his need could fail to sece, that t 1 for hurry to cxcuse his not kissing4 vias actin under orde rom the | he odby woman across the street when he | Quictly, she gave the necessary tulantly refused to cat the whole- | instructions to Estelle, cut short some vegetables sct hefore the maid's sullen protest at being when he id bitter, u unchild- | cal n to “wait on that wo ish things to the girl who had been man” a a wmother to him whe o ged in moth at leg luring pre- | cos 1 left for the office in her car. At one o'clock, just a n was leaving for a lonely lunch Morgan was staying at the sstelle telephoned. at woman ain’t no more crin- pled than T Morgan!” Fs- | times Lame every me cozion why his ov home nights, as well as =3t lon't you to, and speak to her with co will n motker could not am, Mrs. ain to live an with I to th and bec musi vas loud she didn't hear me knock, tesy, vo ind go right to ] table remark eyd least right, E l crisply Goodby Naun iything then.” inter- 1 since ©'s ankle is she wish having the courag | meantime, Mprgan & Blorgan had |sobbed He broke The Direct Way to make off abruptly, kissed her awkwardly but tenderly, and turned sharply | P AWy | - B v o ew | Out-0f - Town Telephone hour. The first thing that Nan's questioning eyes r,‘m_u was ”"i smudge of white powder on the | a S left cout “Iris—it he will be said with lapel of his dark-blue flannel all right assumed che Hness, Now, are you too tired to go over A a few points of the Blackhull de. , V] jom—— 2 fow poinis of "ihe Plackhu This is all you need do “Of course not,” Nan answered. | = "Diat ena Groviie idenatiioaa | When vou know the number of John At his iff nod, she laid | # an apologetic little hand his. wjanolgerllcilite it unont il | the out-of-town telephone and I'm dreadfully worried. 1 hope e . 1 it Tant 100 Inte.” | will speak with anyone who an- AT G it - or swers — no matter how far awa night hefore seemed a | . i, Didlla sloe ‘ the distant point may be— 1 looked almost I I to reproach herself hitter it B e e Give the Out-of-Town Number S to your LOCAL Operator “’n> i She will handle the call for you. Rl R If you do not know the number, Hl“mj,\li ask “Information” for it. his milk, and chattered | Nonse If you require our operator person change—ask for “Toll Line” heretofore. Now it’s just as easy to reach e, that s i is to make local calls. S e See page 4 of the new e S Telephone Directory wse ! COMP tension of a private branch es to connect you with a particular or with a particular ex- out- of-town friends by telephone as it | THE SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND ANY T “J1ll this ice bag and bring | quickly slain, for Dr. Drew, bonded warehouses classed as ques: barrels in the he believes, can be a thin | for sale ith cold blue eyes and har | regards sug- | better do the best they can for |it up to me as soon as possible.” man W The commissioner | David Blackhull. Now — what do| “Poor lad! I he dies, it will ba|so fair as to ve Tlmosl white, €on- | ouions that Jarge amounts of the tionable. ou think? Would you advise put- | his own mother as Killed him, stuft- | firmed Dr. Black's opinion withiv |’ ' el = T old Edgars on”the stand first|ing him with God knows what | three minutes of his arrival. W hm,,"z;’;“l':_' v;:‘”‘}"“a‘iu;“m(“i ‘:‘0”':"'?;';“‘1‘ | Fourteen people tn New York City thing tomorrow morning? I did | trash—" | Dr. Drew was telephoning to mu‘{.m ”’W"‘ than 1,000 of the 300,000 | are married every hour | not cross-examine him when Brain- dh, hur interrupted | nearest hospital for an anestheti-|* e | lerd was using him, ‘you know: | franticaily. John! Did |clan and a nurse. Nan beckoned | | didn't want to spill the beans pre- |you get Dr. her stricken husband to follow her \fter he had been very sick in- { maturely and give the lovely ‘widow, n stepped out of the li-| out of the room. Outside the child's deod. with Nan holding his head | Nina Blackhull. too much warning | brary and put his arma steadyingly | door she faced him resolutely, her | e thy bathroom basin, Curtts |&s to whieh way. {he cat will jump." |around her shoulders. tDon't los: | voice steady with the calmness of Weakly urged his father out of the| Nan knlt her ‘‘brows.*Then, 1I|vour head, darling. Dr. Black will| despair | eon believe, Jolin, it would be better to | be withia 15 minutes, Me's| “Go for Tris, John. She has a “Want Nan,” he seated. “Want | put Nina herself on the stand first to call a surgeon, just it | right to be here now.” Nan by Rerself.” When he had | You've subpenaed her as a defense And thus it was that Iris Mor | his wish. Curtis hid his clammy, | Witness, haven't you?" s appendicitis, John!” Na- | Ban returned to the home. the hus- | pale little faze against the gi “Blake:was o #orve her {his eve. | sobbed, her icy hands clinging to | band and the child whom she had breast and whispered gaspingly ning,” Morgan replied belleve | his coat lapels. “I'know. And ivy | deserted just one year before don't hate you, Nan. Honest—I |you're right as usual, honey. Better |all my fault—" | But Nan, with the child she loved don't! I'm awful mean—" | make a grand-stand play, with Nina | “Hush, Na Morgan com- | lving upon the kitchen table as an | “No, no!" Nan soothed him, tears [as our unwlling star witness. Then manded sternly. “Come! We must | improvised operating table. had no gushing out of her eyes. "You're |we can ‘call old Edgars and his|go to him.” | room in her heart or mind for re- ust ill, darling—" daughter, Mary, to prove the sen- | When they re-entered the room | alization of the irony of Iris' re- “No, I'm mean!” Curtis insisted. | sational char against ina | they were astonished to find ths ! turn—at her own bidding. She felt Do you hate me. Nan? Do you?" | which she will- perjure herself (0 | child stretched out ®n his bed, a | @bsolutely nothing as she saw her 1 love vo Nan cried [deny. Now, let’s 1 2 Tough | wan lltlle smile on_his lips. “Bet: | husband trudge’ neavily up fiercely But, darling, don't fret|draft of questions T'll put (ol ey now, Nan—fathe It hurt | slairs with his former wife's suit now Nina awlullest,: and Ahea its.got better| in his left hand and his right | “It's awful to have two mothers.” — k.o | arm about Iris. shuddering shou.. | irtis sobbed on. “And 1 though! | ey were hard at work. in the PProving you never can tell about | 4¢ What did anything maiter | would be swell, before—before | ¢iose harmony which had always | children,” Morgan chuckled, so tre- | ROW, if Curtiy was to die? | mother came back. Two oughta be | inaiked their professional associi- ous was his relief. “Show | “Oh. God!" Nan prayed. “don’t twice as good as onc, and I BUESS | jjon when a shrill scream, like th ce where it hurts, Son—" | let him die! T'f TI've becn wicked. | it would be way if they didn't | houl of an animal in pain, penetrat- s | trying to keep him and John from ! wte each other—I don't want 10| g {heir absorption. brought both don‘t touch him!" Nan cried | —her, Tl do anything—give him be mean to vou, Nan, bul— |to their fect in terror. The clock in ly. For she was not de- | up gladly, it vouwll only let Curtis “I know. I understand 3ust 0w | {10 drawing room had just chimel ceived. She knelt beside the bed, | live hard it is for you, darling. Now |y, took one of the limp Jittle hands in | in her extremity, Nan did not kies Nan, and <o o sleep | “cur Nan' gasped, as {wo | hers and searched the beloved -ace | realize that she was Insulting Gosd | As she groped her way down the {pop, yelping screams quickly with wide, terrified eyes by assuming His tisanship for | Nan told hersell fiercely. | jo\wpq the first And as she watched, the child’s | the wicked, tha [AD rOR I“E '.I I I_D “This can't go on! Jt can't! But ybe the poot little fellow is ryes slowly grew vacant, then the | gooq, how "x"" t end, U ! "' |just having a nightmare,” Morgan | lids fluttersd, clung together. | (TO BE CONCLUDED) At midmg the next might her fqygeested, but thefe was panic in “Asleep?” Morgan whispered, tip- e o . . . con il e e R iy ek ‘ HE growing child, with his inces- for horne in on the WINgS |syiftly running wife up. the stairs | Nan shook her head. “Uncon- T Iris Morgan returned t0 1 ey found the child rolling ir | sciois Oh, John! There’s no ”. S T[] REPLENISH i San!.actlvuy, neceds a generous she had deserted & year | agony” upon his tumbled hed, his necd 1o whisper now:” she cried | ) | proportion of energy-supplying | fists pressing frantically against his | acspaiving Won't the doctor | b saay | abdomen, his black eyes wild with | ever com ¢ { 0ods. Bread contains a large amount D XLVI | pain and terror 1 loss than 15 minutes Dr. Black | - 2 Not realizing thet she was al-| “Phone for Dr. Black. then run |wax tiierc. Waving aside their ter S | Of‘ S.lfll‘Cll. and protein which when sady far too late, Nan went direci- (o the garage for Maude,” Nan lung | rified, broken explanations, the doc- oan o ow Distilling 0 utilized in the body provides this {1y to her husband where he was at | over her oulder to her hu b tor took the child’s pulse and tem- D { A” D l g I‘ 5 . . . work in the library. his desk clut- | as she reached bed. “Stomach. | perature, and made a swift abdomi o 4 energy. It is easily digested and al- tered with R ache, darling”” she asked the child. |val examination. Then he turned Medicinal L]qu()]‘ Soon | most completely assimilated by the {estimony on ihe Blackhull case. |taking care, cven in her terror |curtly to Nan and requested her to ] I'he prosecution had rested at four |not to excite nim re Wit she had been trying to —_— body. The child’s hunger is satisfied | o'clock. Morgan was 1o open the du- | “Tt hurts—awful,” Curtis gasped | tell hi Washington, July 22 (P—Live or 'R - fense of David Blackh charged | trying pitifully to smile, “He was screaming with pain, his | six distilleries will be given permis- | by a food which he likes. with the ¢ of his father, the! “Lot Nan see” she hegged ten- |abdonien wos hard and rigid as 2 | sion by the prohibition burcau in the | nest morning—-Wednesday | derly. “Stretch out for just a min \ and then—then—suddenly he | near future to resume the prodiction | Bread occupies an important place 1 it was not the Blackhull =ase | ute. if you can, darling.” this,” Nan told him. of whiskey in the United States to z 5 P P of which Nan had to speak, | The child obeyed, but could not iptured appendix. I Lelieve | replenish medicinal supplics | in the diet of the normal indi- Srohn 5218, lin ‘2 ideseplively| renrens anothier ¥ screnr Jost | Dr. Drew will confirm my diagnosis | In making that announcement 9 calm voice. *I think you had better |before her gentle fingers hal | whe here. Ought to'ar-| Commissioner Doran said the na- vidual, and properly baked bread 0 ucross the street to sce Iris to- | touched his abdomen the little body minute now. 1 fold hin: | tion's government-guarded supply of made with milk is a wholesome, ht was drawr info a knot again was probubly appendicitis | medicinal whiskey had dwindled 4 5 The man't startled eyes scarched | But Nan had rmed enough to| While we're waiting, T want you to | since distilling was halted under the nutritious and inexpensive food. he itly composed fac n {make her almost faint with hor- | have a lot of water on the ige. | eighteeth amendment to 0.542.071 | very busy, dear, but certainly 'l [ror. The abdomen like ayWait! Tl go down with you— get | gallons. | go—for @ few minutes—if you drum — puffed, rigid. She had hal | things started.” About 1.500.000 gallons are wit wish it aturally it distresses e | acite appendicitis hersclf. “What—things?” Morgan L drawn from this stock cach v to think f her alone over there. There was no time to los'. With wihite, surf lips. and, taking probahle evaporation | crippled Although the child gasped out a| “Emergency operation,” Dr. Black | info consideration, the tot con- | “m not thinking of her* Nan | plea for her to stay, Nan stumiblel answered curtly. “It would be mue- | sidered sufficient to meet 1 re- | int pted coldly I'm thinking [ downstairs 1o chop ice ica | der to y him 1 an ambulance to | quirements for only five years. | of Curtis. I can do nothing. You |bag. snatched from a drawer of the |take him to a hospital. Will have | About 2,000,000 gallons, the com- | must realize how my hands are |hall linen closet, was clutehed (o {to he operated on here—unless, of | Missioner announced, will be pro- tied.” Her voice trembled slightly [her heaving breast course. Dr. Drew disagrees with my | duced next year so thal the require- | Puklishied inithe Interedt of utitianal Eriuk as she made this first reference i “What is it, Miss Nan Tt was dingnosis.” H”leodr four-year aging can be | by the the incredible situation in which | Maude © O'Brien, plunging, hali-| The faint hope which Nan and [complied with “and. allowing for | 5 e = o < Ivis had placed her. Then she went | dvessed out of the kitchen Her husband snatched "t In those | exaporation of 400,00 gallons, pro- | QUALITY BAKERS OF AMERICA r' « ‘M\\:V‘\\ y"‘.h ‘ls‘m' 0 v::‘ 4] e rtis — appendicitis Nan [last words of the doctor's was | ‘”" M?:A,“H vear's supply in storage | A national cooperatice organization of non- ,;;\nx sce his health u,v’;h‘ d ; ‘\» ant | The distilleries will resume opera- competidiceinholesslsibukers Sa Tl el : | tion under government supervision T e poi - e and wil he: allowed fo hraduce 'PARKER-BUCKEY BAKING COMPANY {ofeat. Olherwvice: Tohn- Cutlis| = = about 1,400,000 gallons of Bourbon | Bakers of Kew:Bec Bread, is, by invitation, CIaile Tome i ol and 600,000 gallons of rye whiskey a member of the QUALITY BAKERS OF AMERICA tanpal: sy | next year. It is estimated that e et e e | about one year's supply will be on more haggard than it had been, | ? 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