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Innocent Cheat
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THIS HAS HAPPENED.
Helena Pare falls in love with her hand meeting with dring beggar. Charles Net causes Brent to change his plans for Helen
sam rains, Leunard Urent. A chance
future. Shortly afterward he tells the girl that in accordance with a promise, given her prunts, he is now to reveal her identity and
the in the only grandchild of a millionaire, Cryil K. Cunningham. Brent takes her
Cunningham and offers as proof a locket puna talaing the dying Nellia. Pending investigation, Helen remains with Cunninghams when wives her a new car. She drives everywhere until
in picture which he had taken from
she nevidentally hits Eva Ennis, who has to
be taken to the hoplu). Helen meets Eya'a brother Robert, who falls in love with her.
Cuangan given a party and, BRADURCES
kita Dewey Groves
questions about what had been done in regard to his car. Marks told him that he had sent the gardener and his son to get it to Bramble
wood.
Brent thanked him and started
was tired."
On. Pausing a few steps away he turned back and said: "I left Mr. Cunningham sleeping; he said he Miss Nellin inquired an- "Matter of fact," Brent said
"You assured him was unhurt?" Marks xiously.
that Helen is his dead daughter's child and lightly, "didn't tell him, there had
hia heiress Brent And a locket which exac
her locket_in' public. A few days later Eva
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1930.
Ashe and the housekeeper as well as Marks-that he would go down and break the sad news to Miss Nellin before she saw her grand- father.
He was descending the stairs when Helen entered the lower hall. She saw at once that something was amiss. "What is it?" she cried in alarm.
MEATLESS · MOSCOW.
PEASANTS SLAUGHTERING
THEIR CATTLE.-
Riga, Nov, 21. The Soviet enforcement of "Communal" agriculture haq re- "Don't come up." Brent said as sulted in the wholesale slaughter sho placed a foot on the first tread; of cattle, sheep and pigs by the peasants. who consume the meat "Ive something to tell you."
Helen waited and Brent came themselves before joining the down and took her by the arm, to "collective farms. lead her to the library.
"My grandfather" she appealed. "Is he worse?"
"Yes, dear; he is worse-or should we say that he is better? For he is beyond further suffering." "Oh," Helen wailed, "he is dead!" Her eyes were pleading with Brent to deny it, but he solemnly nodded his head in affirmation.
districts,
The cattle in some particularly the Lower Volga and Caucasus, have decreased fifty per
The peasants near the Parsian. cent. in the last few months. frontier are disposing of their herds by driving them into Persia.
The slaughter, which is con trary to the Soviet orders, has re- He reached out his arma and sulted in a great shortage of meat ly matches the one he had taken from Nellin. been an accident at all. I merely Helen took refuge in them. Gently in the towns, and considerable To avoid discovery he aka Ticken not to went said that Miss Nellin was detained be enfolded her and held her while discontent at Moscow, owing to and Helen overturn a canoe on the lake and downstairs by some friends who the first shock lasted. Then Helen the authorities' decision to intro- Bubert Pnction them. While changing clothes, came in just as we arrived. I tore herself away from him and duce ten meatless days a month. Eve tells Helen that she had lost an old thought it better to do that as he ran to the stairs. Brent did not Reuter.
protest her going.
He renmined downstairs and him. Marks nodded in approval of his self admitted Dr. Ralston who ar- thoughtfulness and went on uprived a few minutes later stairs.
"We fear that Mr. Cunningham
Brent endeavoured to avoid Eva's Brent took himself to the li- is dead, doctor," he said simply brary and settled down with a when he greeted the medical man. glance but he could feel that her "Come up with me," Dr. Ralston eyes were ecarching his face for an newspaper while he waited for the For a moment after Brent's cry result of Marks' discovery that Mr. said, wishing to question, him. Be answer to his coldness. He felt
fore they reached the death cham-he must give some explanation. of despair there was a ghastly Cunningham was dead. silence in the room. From the lips
ber Brent had told him all that he of the stricken invalid on the bed
had decided to tell anyone, there rame a choking, gasping
fashioned bucket the night of her party.
Fearing Habert's stientious to Helen and Attnoyed by the demands on him for money by Carmel Sexru. Brunt plots tu soeurs the sirl and her inheritance for himself, The doctor has said that a shock would kill the old man and trent carries out a plan to make Cunningham Detleve that Helon Sua been killed
sound.
CHAPTER XXV.
i
looked rather bad."
·
Dr. Ralston had gone and Helen had been put to bed.
"Helen's affairs have required a lot of looking after Intely," he said more or less casually, and now that Mr. Cunningham is dead I shall not have any time for myself at all."
It was not long in coming. Brent could hear him coming down the stairs calling out something that his excitement made almost unin- They found Helen weeping over Brem. apparently lost in grief, telligible. He got up and went to her grandfather's body and Brent heard it and understood its portent. the door.
Eva drew in her breath, besi- helped the doctor loosen her hands He turned his head for a view of "Anything wrong, Marks?" he and get her out of the room. The tated and then said with a courage the man to whom he had dealt afcalled in a tone of uneasiness, - housekeeper went with them and that surprised herself: "You mean death below, but he did not go to "Mr. Cunningham is uncon- persuaded Helen to go to her for me?". hám.
scious," Marks cried. "I could not own room where later the doctor Brent shrugged, attempted to His unfortunate victim lay back rouse him. He may be dead." came in to see her and talk to her smile apologetically and rather dis- on his pillow, staring in a fixed, "No!" Brent exclaimed in well-in a kindly way that eased her sor-mally failed. "It is the same unseeing way straight ahead. · No feigned horror,
row a great deal.
thing," he said. revulsion of feeling, 110 mercy, "I'll call Dr. Ralston," Marks:
Brent had planned to stay at Eva smiled back at him but in came to the watcher as he saw the said brokenly, and hurried over to Bramblewood that night but when her heart there was
an icy chill, hand of death laid upon the aged the telephone that stood upon the he learned that the housekeeper His words had not rung true, and pallid brow of Cyril Cunning-large table in the centre of the had sent for Eva Ennis, thinking "And I've been apartment hunt- ham.
Helen would want her closesting." Brent went on, as though Eva friend with her, he decided other-were demanding a fuller explana- wise.
tion. He spoke impatiently, an
|
roam,
"Give me the number; I'll attend to it," Brent told him. "You go back and see if there isn't some- thing you can do for him."
.
It was all over in a few minutes. The dying man moved his eyes to ward the end · and fastened them
He could not go before she came, noyed at the position he was in upon Brent. The latter could see
however. Marks and Ashe, and with this childishly direct young that he was striving with his last "Ini afraid it's too late," Marks even Dr. Ralston, turned to him as | girl. strength to speak. But the words de-puired. "I've done all I can. the one who would naturally take Eva said nothing. would not come.
If I'd been there when the attack charge of all arrangements for the "I had intended to occupy Then, suddenly, he raised him-came on.
His voice trailed funeral. Knowing that Eva was ex-alone," Brent continued, "but now. self in a convulsive, painful map away as he ran back up the stairs, pected, he was anxious to get away I suppose I shall become Helen's ner, flung a hand outward and in an hoping in spite of his knowledge hut one detail following another guardian again. She won't want to instant sunk back inert.
I he might somehow revive the kept him there.
live here at Bramblewood I am dead man.
sure."
Brent, waited, made sure that he was gone, and then calmly put his rent went up a few minutes own clothing in order, smoothed later and managed - appear great his hair and went downstairs. ly shocked. He was standing near He met Marks in the lower hall] the window when he heard his tur
He on his way to Mr. Cunningham's driven up to the house.
room.
Dr. Ralston, he learned, had been told by Mr. Cunningham that Helen had been his ward for years and Brent did not wish to shift any of his newly-acquired responsibility. re- He met Eva at the late dinner Brent detained him with marked to the others in the room-that was served for them alone."
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"She has said she would like to travel," Eva ventured.
"Yes?"
"She has offered," Eva told him, "to-finance my studies abroad."
(To Be Continued)"
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