"Innocent Cheat
THE HONGKONG' TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27,
THIS HAS HAPPENED.
The next morning the girl was Halen Page feels hopelessly la Jove with pale and. worn, with shadowed eyes her guardian, Leonard Brent. A chance in which there was
an unhealed meeting with a dying beggar, Charles Nellin, Causes Brent to change his for Helen's, wound, future, Boon after he tells the girl that wha the only grandchild of a millionaire, Cyril K. Cunningha
Mrs. Wethering was very gentle and remained with Helen while she breakfasted, or rather while she went through the motions of par- taking of her fruit and coffee. She Eve hoped Helen would confide in hor
Brent Cakes her to Cunningham and offer proofs which the lonely old man recepts, ffoping to make up for the injustice doue ber mother, Cunningham showers the girl with
affection and gitte.
aro
Among Hakan's new Ennie and her brother lubert, who falls in love with hot. Brent finds another locket and went so far as to mention hav-
like the one he had taken from Nellie to ing witnessed Mr. Ennis' hasty de- eames Jealous of Bob and plots to secure the parture the night before.
ablish Kelan as the beires. He also be
girl for himself quickly.
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Still Helen said nothing, but Hearing the doctor say that a sudden; shock would kill the old man, Brent eta the there was on her face a set cold servants out of the way and rushes into the expression that warned Mrs. Weth- Fick rooar shouting witdly that Helenering that the incident, whatever
Then it was, had a serious aspect.
been killed. File pian works and when the attendant lursa, Cunningham is dead.
Breat appears as friend and former guar- dian of Folen and takes ebarge of arrange- ments.
Brent had amused himself by making love to Eva and now he tries to break off the affair without
Helen making
suspicious.
Mrs. Wethering sighed over her Inability to administer comfort Meanwhile, Hob is too proud to speak his and suggested that Helen ought to love until a chance meeting brenke his reserve
the open. "You and they both acknowledge their love. But get out into
Halen tells him it in hopeless, as she is pro-haven't driven your car very much
mised to another,
CHAPTER XXVIII.
"I can't break my engagement," Helen said stiffy. I can only ask to be released."
Bob drew back from her, white to the lips. Her attitude was in- comprehensible to him except from one angle she did not truly love him.
lately," she said. "Why don't you let me fix you a picnic lunch and you can telephone for someone to go for a long drive with you? The weather is lovely."
"I'm going to New York,' Helen answered quietly.
Mrs. Wethering was greatly dis- turbed but she did not dare offer There was about any opposition. Helen an air of determination that Argument, his naturally logical plainly indicated she was set upon brain lold him, would be useless.a course from which she could not What could it mean to a girl who be swerved. either was not very deeply in love or who was caught up in fallacies, to be told that only a fool would keep to a mere engagement when disaster threatened the outcome?
Bob wondered that Helen could on a morning train. think of it.. Wondered- that she In Helen's mind, too, was fear of could not see, as he did, that the driving her car. She knew that sha course she was taking was sordid
rather than idealistic.
"Are you taking an early train?" Mrs. Wethering asked, hoping the girl did not intend to drive her car to the city. She was much relieved when Helen told her she was going
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Comedy is supposed to be closely lakin to tragedy. The greatest comedians and crities say the best was likely to become forgetful of comedy is that which is mingled danger on the road and she did not
Gorilla"
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A moment of anger flared up in want to risk injury to another per-with pathos, and if this is true, his heart against her--the resent-son.
then Charlie Murray, who is fea- ment of clean youth for evil com- Mrs. Wethering found an excusotured in "The Corilla," has all thei promise. It wiped from his mind to ge in her room with her when
"The the question he wanted to ask her. Helen went up to get her hat and laughs coming to him.
the hilarious and The name of the man she was going | wrap,
"There's just a little tang in the hysterical mystery comedy which to marry.
going to marry," The air: won't you wear a fur?" the
will be shown at words echoed in Bob's mind as a housekeeper urged. sentence to lifelong unhappiness. Helen accepted a silver fox and Theatre, Kowloon, to-day, in which
Rot! A threw it carelessly about her shoul-Charlie Murray and No man would let her go.
Fred Kelsey! decent man..... but not while ders. It made her costume perfect
form a new screen and Mrs. Wethering wondered if combine to she had selected the black and team. white tweed ensemble, with its mart black and white silk blouse, with any particular care.
"What could be the object of her What appeared to be uncertainty on her part drove him to cruelty. visit to the city? It worried the He would not recognize quixotism alder woman almost to the point as her prumpter, he was too modern of causing her to attempt to break for that, and he knew nothing of down Helen's reserve. her sense of obligation. To him she But that reserve had acted as a was unsure of her heart, and he shield upon many occasions and it had no tolerance for her.
remained effective now. Helen was "Then," he said quietly, coldly, permitted to leave without reveal- "you're a bit of a rotter."
ing her destination.
he thought she might love him.
Bob felt himself slipping into a maze of doubt and fears. But he could not argue, could not plead his own case further.
All that he knew of needless, On the train she consulted a card even criminal, self-sacrifice; a3 that to make certain that she had the
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"The Gorilla" is an adaption
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of Ralph Spence's stage play of the same name and combines all the elements of fun and thrills
he knew of lives wasted for false correct address. Two or three that made the legitimate version so precepts of honour; all that he times she said it over lo memorize popular in Broadway. The situa- realized of right and wrong was be- the street and number, then put it tions in the motion picture have hind his words. What seemed her away, The name that was en-been enlarged over those in the stupidity, that denied her brain, gravéd upon it Was a silent re- her apparent lack of courago to preach.
change her course when, to anyone How often had she fancied it as
stage play. It is reported to be a combination of the weirdest. spookiest mystery and the greatest
hut a fool, the danger signads all her own! Mrs. Leonard Brent.Comedy imaginable.
remark.
Murray and Kelsey have the
the
were act against it--these too hud And now-now she dared not think helped to call forth his scathing beyond the hour that was to come roles of the two dumo detectives when she would beg to be re- Mulligan and Garrity, whose leased from her mad promise.] greatest problem is to keep He had thought of her as brave Surely, surely he would not hold
together. The remainder of and fearless-never a juggler with her to it! the tender passion Love, he had But the voice of fear deep in her cast includes Alice Day, Tully Claude Gillingwater, believed, would come to her as true heart answered that he would. She Walter Pidgeon. Gaston Glass, and untrampled as it had come to realized that, aside frim the keep-Aggie Herring, and Syd Crossly. him. How it could involve two men ing of his promise to her father.
at the same time was an impene-Leonard Brent had nothing out- trable mystery to him.
standingly creditable to
his ac-
Marshall.
For Bob had never known puppy count. On the contrary there were SHIP CREW RESCUED. love. Helen's passing from live of many things against him. His Jove to love itself was beyond his past; so many women; his strange, understanding.
SUNKEN VESSEL.
undeniably selfish desire to shape BATTLESHIPS AID MEN FROM His youthful hardness, steeled a young life her life-to please by the thought that she would go himself. through with a toveless match, was
London, Feb. 26.
phase of maseulinity that Helen Helen could see now that
her The British battleship Nelson, had never encountered before. |school friend, Shallimar, had while proceeding to Malta yester- Brent had been cruel on occasion, been right in much she had said day, rescued the master and all the try, but his was the suave cruelty about Leonard.
crew of the s.s. Fofo, which sank
The master and crew of the Fofo are being taken to Algiers in the battleship Rodney.--British Wireless..
of a hidden menace-the sheathed "I should always have been my- claw, that cat lightly on the sur-self." Helen mourned. Then this after an explosion in its holds. face but bit deep into the heart, could
not have happened. Leno The frankness of Bob's genera- wouldn't have cured for me if I had tion was unknown to her.
been more independent." She did not flinch before the She was wrong. of course, for blow. Perhaps she was too shocked youth will frequently have its hour to show by so much as a flicker of of aberration in regard to love—-
with terrific force.
her eyelids that it had struck her when it turns to worship of an un- "Mr. Brent's apartment?" she in-
natural object.
quired when he again opened, the Without another word Bob But Helen felt that she was the door for her. He too flashed her a turned and strode out of the room, only foolish girl in the world-the queer glance when she
named Mrs. Wethering, uneasily waiting only one who had been fascinated Brent, But his voice was correctly. in the library, saw him fling him- by an older man, and she was modulated when he gave the direc- self out of the house, leaving the drinking deep of regret.
tions she asked for. front door open behind him. #13 The distance to New York from | "To your right, Miss, the third though he were pursued by a Yonkers seemed interminable--and doar beyond the turn." demon.
yet she arrived there too soon, for "Thank you." Helen replied and She hurried to the kitchen but the Interview ahead of her prom-walked rapidly down the hall, Helen had fled, up the rear stairs toised to be extremely painful
quite unaware that her pale face her room.
She had not telephoned to say and feverish eyes, her compressed Mrs. Wethering gathered up the that she was coming, feeling cer- lips and the hint of tragedy that things that were to have gone into tain to find Brent in. The thought hung about her was like a stand- the prepiration of their midnight of talking with him by wire had ard that she might have carried; supper and put them away. Later been impossible. She wanted to see and that the building attaches had she went to Helen's door and shim now, tell him, and have an end read it to menn trouble. Particu tened. She thought she detected to her suspense.
larly as they knew that a visitor had arrived ahead of her; a tall, elim, elegant visitor in fashionable attire and the unmistakable atmos- phere of being at home in her gur- roundings.
the sound of mulled sobs but when At Brent's apartment house she she tried the door and found it gave her name at the desk and was locked she hesitated to demand ad- told to come up. The girl who an mittance.
nounced her turned a curious look The Bounds gradually grew upon her, but Helen missed it. fainter and finally the housekeeper She stopped hurriedly into the decided that it would be better for elevator and gave her floor to the
Telen if she left her alond
operator.
Helen hurried on, expecting to find only Brent.
(To Be Continued)
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