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"AUGGET keeps the sailor
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of the night.
USED IN THE NAVIES OF THE WORLD
Innocent Cheat
THIS HAS HAPPENED.
er Ruth Dewry Groves -
"You
raise hell with
avery
Helen Ta foela unhappy when her thing," the young man went on, ciemmatre accuse her of bens in love with growing a bit furious. "Hero's her handsome guardian. Leonard Brent.” But ha ripresente all that she know of home Eyn, poor kid, been slaving all her and family, and she adores him blindly, life to be a violinist and now
A chance meeting with a, dying bez
"
war, Charles Owens Nellin, cuirs Brent to now maybe you've crippled changv ail his plans reguedinac, inten's ruher hands !". {turu. Before the man dies, he seesires. faeks and reliance, which he is able to carro- horate to nome, extent by a viɛlt to Yonkers,
"Oh no," Helen cried out.
"Well, it isn't your fault that i you haven't. Her luck held, that was all. But you might have ruined her life. Why?” Just bo-| cause you've 'n' speed mania and money to satisfy it with a fast
On gradusting, Relen reminda Brent of h promise to reveal her parentage vid la amam. and when he informs her that she is heirs of a millonaire, Cyril K. Cunningham, and |that he promised her parents to take hợp to ber grandfurther when, she was 18.The wo to Yonkers and Brent falrodices her to Cunningham his father. He offery
preof the Socket containing a plecar. And nothing to do but tear Kuangalias Cunningham, which he had taken around the country looking... för from the dying Nellin.
Whrills."
Helen remains at Bramblewood whila - tha lawyer Invmtigate the story but the resenta being, under, unapicion,, . Hague to win her
favour, Cunningham presents her with a
tiful ear which she drives everywhere. One day the nocidentally strike a joing moduan who has to be treated as she hospital.
go to the girl's home to bring her mother and brother,
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"Helen was alightly gaping now, but she did notice that he made a remarkably striking, picture in his anger.
She forgot that he was morely scolding a girl for her irresponsi- billty, and that she was that girl. Her mind had become a sensitive. plate upon which his personally was etching itsdf for all time to come. His personality and his ap- pearance,
CHAPTER XVI. Helen felt like a prisoner at the bar. The brother knew, she was certain, that she would not be here unless she had had something to
Commonplace, perhaps, in the to with the accident.
She turned a little cold and her brownness of his hair, the blue- hands trembled in spite of her of-ness of his eyes, but lifted into a fort to remain calm and return his class of exceptional distinction by steady glance unwaveringly. Be the fine cut of his features and cause of this she raised her head the verile quality of his mind that with a touch of defiance.
revealed itself in his flashing ex- shepressions and vibrant voice.
"1 struck her with my car," said teily.
He was still tirading against | modern youth while Helen sat speechless, when someone came in. to tell him he could go to fils sis-
The brother reached out and caught her arm. Helen winced..
"Forgive me", he apologized, re. covering himself instantly. "Evaler's room. ja very dear to me?"
All Helen's hardness vanished. "Need I say I'm sorry?” she asked.
"How badly is she hurt?
"She'll be all right soon," Helen told him. "Ur. Parkley V. nounced her in no danger, but she is in pain.” Her voice broke a trifle and she got out her hand kerchief to wipe her eyes.
Bob forbore to question her further.
Will you drive my car back to the hospital?" Helen asked him.
"I haven't had a great deal of driving experience," he told her..
"It's a standard shift" Helen said. "I wish you would."
"Perhaps Mom would feel safer," he angwered, without
Henning to wound.
Helen flushed. "She doesn't know," he said. "Please, don't fell her until she has seen your elster.".
il
"'ll wait to take your mother back," Helen said to him.
"Don't bother," he replied curt- ly. "We'll take'a'taxi.”.
Helen bit her underlip until it hurt. "But I must see your
mollier again," she protested.
"I don't think she will want to. see you when she knows that it was you who ran Evà down," Bob paused at the door to say.
Nevertheless Helen waited, held by a penitence, that made made her wish to suffer to the fullest for her fault...
She was prepared, when Mrs. Ennis returned, to face a second tirade, or at least a 'harah attitude.. Instead Eva's mother came to her and tried to thank her for her kindness.
Bob stood by, scowling darkly. "I know you couldn't help it,” Mrs, Ennis said chokingly,
!
Helen's own eyes filled suddenly with tears. "I want to do every- Mrs. Ennis cafe in just the thing I can for her," she said feel- And Bob nodded in silent answeringly "It was my fault and I'm to Helen's request.
diadfully sorry. She isn't wùf-
Without comment.
other than :
"Shall I drive for you?" he took fering so much now, is she?" the wheel when they got to heroon be able to take her home."
"No, she's quiet. And we will
car.
Mrs. Ennis remembered then to Introduce them. "Miss Brent, this is my son, Robert."
They smiled at each other faint ly and Helen looked away.
4
"
The mother gave Helen's hand a friendly pressure and the girl repaid her with a swift embrace. It was the firat she'd ever given to a mother, and though the impulse On the way to the hospital Mrs. years of reserve it was not robbed had torn through the effect of Ennis pressed her for informa- of its simple pleasure. tion about the accident and at "You will let me drive you last Helen sent an appealing home?" Helen plended. glance to Bob.
"Of course we will," Mrs. Ennis He wasn't looking at her and answered hastily, "But you need Helen could not tell what moved a bit of looking after yourself. I him to help her. "You will get think perhaps Bob had better drive yourself exelted, mother," he said.] you home." "Wait until you've seen Eva and Helen carefully avoided looking then Miss Brent will tell us allist Bob. "I'm cured of reckless about it."
driving," she said soberly. Mrs. Ennis choked back her She rather fancied she beard a questions. "I guess I'd better faint "Humph" from Bob but still keep calm for Eva's sake," she she did not look at him,” said. "My poor girl, my poor "Let's go ́then," Mrs. Ennis sug- little girl!"
gested. "Bob must have, his sup "Now, now, mother," Bob sooth-per and father will be wondering ed her; "they won't let you near what's become of us. We should her if you can't control yourself." have left a message."
Helen found herself Hatening to "I've telephoned," Bob told her, him as though his words were in-and Helen remarked to her tended for her. There was in his that he had an extremely cool head voice a magic quality, the strength for one who could become so that commands and the tenderness heated while ludicting another that protects. It stirred a res person,
Bob did not offer to take the ponse in her that was vaguely wheel on the return - drive and troubling.
Helen felt that he was testing her Mrs, Ennis subsided and the drive was continued in silence.
nerve. For the first time få her. At the hospital the mother went that is derived from pride:
life the called upon the strength alone to her daughter's room. The set her handa firmly on the She
brother would be admitted later. the nurse in charge told them. Bob Polished wood and willed her waited downstairs with Helen.
trembling to cease..
It didn't cease but she drove
It was a wretched period for her. creditably, and though whits-hot
1930.
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"But you will go to ̈ace Eva 72 she urged. She wants to thank
temptuous sound from Bob. Her Loo Ustor Bank of Baginad. LAL. you for your kindness."
Again Helen heard a faintly con-other parts of the world.
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how the accident happened But when she slid the car to” à except that she could not explain stop before the Ennis home the what mental disturbancq had af. Etrain of relief. rose from the fected her driving.
bottom of her heart. She barely
As her answers came, drawn managed to suppress it. from her almost against her,will; } You will stay for a cup of tea she began to see herself through Mrs. Ennis invited as Bob got out her Inquisitor's eyes.
* of the car and turned to assist her.
Rockless driving! He did not Helen shook her head. "My gra say it, but the charge was in theby family is waiting for me at
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Arn. Ennis did not repeat the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha,
gestures, in his manner.
And Helen could not deny, even did not belong to the modest social
invitation. She knew that Helen
to herself, that she was guilty
world in which she and her chil-
"You devil-may-care girls are adren moved. Helen's lavish pro- menace?" Bob broke out at last.
Helen gasped.
vision for Eva's comfort was suffi cient proof to her that Helen be
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