f
Innocent Cheat
CHAPTER XXV. (Cont.)
Brent, frowned. "Helen is very generous," he said, "and perhaps u "bit impulsive."
Ruth Downey GroVES
Jand join Brent: Sho went to the head of the stairs again und stood there undecided.
Before she could conquer her re- Huctance to risk being accorded a "As her guardian, should you ob-cold welcome in the garden, she ject?" Evu asked him.
Brent was quick with his denial.saw Brent open the front door and
"Not at all," he assured her, "but you forget that I may not want Helen to live abroad. That is what you meant, isn't it; with you?"
"We talked about it." Eva ad-
mitted..
re-enter the house,
There was something hurrled and furtive about his movements. He glanced up the stairs and saw Eva standing there, dimly white in the faint light of the upper hall.
Eva saw him thrust up a hand
"It won't do," Brent declared em-and heard him utter a startled ex- phatically. "Of course, I would not clamation. attempt to stand in the way of
your career, important
"I was coming down to you," she
Eva. That is too said, even a touch of guile being
it may beforeign to her.
and
"She's sleeping."
necessary for me to part with you "Why aren't you with Helen?" But Brent retorted, his voice harsh and for the sake of your future. there is no reason why Helen should quick, elect to live in a foreign country. She is at a marriageable age and think it best for her to be where the men she is most likely to meet Are men of her Americans."
own
Well, you might stay with her. she'll wake. I'll be in the library if you want me.”
country--| Eva turned without a word and went back to Helen's rooni. As she opened the dour Helen stirred. her eyelids fluttered open called out: "Eva."
Eva sighed. "It was just dream," she said.
"But there isn't any reason why Helen shouldn't be your patron," Brent went un, regretting that in his first reaction he had, let Eva see to the plan. that he was averse "She will be very wealthy and I'm sure nothing would make her hap pier than to foster a great talent. I was thinking, when
and
she
Eva went to her and took her in her arms. Helen began to sob and Eva held her claser.
"I had such a horrible dream," Helen said at last. "I was under the canse again and it wasn't Bob who came to rescue me. It was you men-Leonard, only he didn't try to help
t ned going abroad, only of her me. The earl kat tighter and future. You see, I have done that tighter around my neck and I was for so many years it is a habit choking."
with me."
"Don't cry," Eva begged, "Don't
Eva put down the bit of roll shey. I'll open the windows wider. was lifting to her pa. "And 1," It's turned very warm.
does it not dis bed by the heat."
she said softly. matter. the kind of men I
meet?"
Brent instantly decided to punish her for even approaching the issue. "I'm sorry, dear," he said stilly. "but d.n't you think it is. er ...a bit out of place for us to dis- cuss ourselves at this time?"
Eva shrank back from the rebuke and her pale face plainly revealed. by the quick lush that covered it. how keenly her sensitive soul had felt the man's words.
The rest of the dinner, until the dessert was brought, was eaten in silence.
*
You were
She released Helen and let her sink back upon the heap of lacy pillows. Helen watched her at the windows, opening them to the sum a night.
Suddenly she said utterly with-
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out premeditation: "Eva, I haven't MYSTERIOUS LETTER. seen Bob since that day on the lake."
Eva turned and looked at her ex- pectantly. She half suspected that her brother was in love with Helen and had secretly hoped that Helen would show some signs of interest in Bob.
"What is he doing?" Helen went Brent felt it just as well to let Eva suffer, He had a definite plan on. "Why doesn't he came in when or calls for for breaking off with her. He he brings you here meant to wound her upon every you?" occasion, and yet never let her sus- Eva eume back and sat on the peet that it was a part of a de-edge of the bed. "Something has liberate campaign. That she was happened to Bob," she said seri- not genuinely humble he was cer-ously. "He's plunged into tain. From this knowledge of her studies so deep
we
his
are worried
BOTTLE FOUND WITH AN UNIDENTIFIED MISSIVE.
Jins
Havre, Feb. 23. A bottle containing an undated
signed letter
"Koutepoff" been fished up from the sea near here, intimating that the kidnapped White Russian general was a pri suner aboard the Soviet steamer
known Spartak, which have been in Antwerp about the time he was kidnapped.
was
SMART SILK COATS
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he reasoned that she would not en-about him. He isn't himself at all." dure abuse; neither did he expect "He does want to succeed, doesn't--Reuter, her to create scenes or fight for he?" Helen said dreamily and Eva that which without effort she could sensed that her momentary inter-
est in Bob had abated. not control. . Love must Eva Ennis as her own, Brent knew, and not as anything she must win.
།
come to
She felt like saying that it was more than his studies that ab- sorbed him but her good sense re- strained her. Bob must speak for
It ought, he told himself, to be himself-if ever Helen gave him an fairly easy to end his stupid' af-opportunity. fair with her, provided he used a| Eva had enough faith in the modicum of sense to keep from good fortune of love to believe that driving her to the point where she such an opportunity would come. felt she must have a confidant: in But she decided to take some pains which case, undoubtedly, she would to help along. choose Helen.
After the quiet funeral a few As they left the table he asked days later and the following period her if she was going up to Helen, during which Helen saw no one but He put the question to point his remark about the occasion being ane on which they should think,
not of themselves, but of others.
Eva. nodded and did not answer She felt the implication behind his words--knew that he was telling her where her duty lay.
Brent and herself, aside from Mr. Greaves and others whom circum- stances compelled her to receive, Eva begged Bob to accompany her to Bramblewood and call on Helen. Bob had acquired a cheap little second-hand car to take Eva to
Not the First Bottle.-
Paris, Feb, 23. The message in a bottle, men. tioned earlier, purports to be a last farewell. Koutepoff's friends say it would require a miracle to de- liver him. This is not the first A bottle bottle story in the case. was earlier reported to have been discovered in the River Loire, near 3 message, Nevers, containing "Prisoner Soviets, unknown des-1 tination, Koutepoff."
Statements by several persons a motor-car, in that they saw which Koutepoff was supposedly kidnapped, speeding on the Deau- ville road, led to serious police investigations in Normandy,
Colour is lent to the theory that Koutepoff left for Russia in a Helen's and bring her back again. Soviet ship, by the fact that the "I'm going out for a few min- "The bus is too inconvenient for Soviet vessel Spartak left Havre ales," Brent said when they you," he said, quite unaware that on January 25 and called at reached the hall. "This house he was rationalizing his desire to Antwerp, en route to Leningrad.
bring himself as near Helen as his | Reuter."
stilles me,"
As Eva made her way up the gride would peymit. stairs she thought with longing off At first he was inclined to refuse the beautiful night outside and Eva's request. She promptly ap Brent walking alone in the garden. pealed to their mother. "He must She tried to tell herself that she go, mums," she declared. "After was selfish to want to be with him all Helen's kindness to me it is but the excuse that seemed to come positively imorish of him to remain to her with every pang of con-away." science since she had met him sprang to her lips.
"Yes, I think you should 3, Bob," his mother agreed and Bob
MARCH ON BERLIN.
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Berlin, Feb. 22. The documents seized at Com-
"But love him," she half-gave in. sobbed under her breath "I lovel But when they arrived at Bram-munist headquarters in the raid him."
blewood and turned into the drive-made the 18th. revenl plana for
And when she found Helen sleep-way, he saw something that caused a converging_march on Berlin' from ing and nothing for her to do, she him to change his mind. was tempted to retrace her steps
ART EXHIBITION.
ITALIAN MASTERPIECES
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(To Be Continued)
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