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I got to the city. Invariably the an- in love awer had been the same. Mr. Brent
Helen Paxe feala indebted to with her guardian, Leonard Breal, The was out.- latter changes his plans for her future after moeting a dying beggar, Nell, and tells
And she had few opportunities
MONDAY, MARCH 10, 1930.
"I'm going to give Bob a piece of my mind one of these days," Eva threatened.
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"Oh no," Brent hastened to pro- CABLED QUOTATIONS FROM test. "Interference never does any good, Eva."
"Just the same." ,"Careful! Here comes Helen" When Helen joined them, both saw that her limpid brown eyes were rimmed with dark circles.
Then and there Eva made up her mind that she would speak to her brother and make her meaning plain.
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New York, Mar. 8. the girl the le heiress of a millionice named to see him at Bramblewood. Helen Cunningham, Brant.sakem ber to the lonely
Tone of Market-Irregular. cempts, as he had been searching for his Eva did not care to call uninvited Helen? I won't be able to go with American Smelting
Brent said. old man and offers proofs which Cunningham was too unhappy to be sbelable, and at the Garden,"
No. of Shares done.-1,750,000. "Wouldn't you like to use them, Call money 4% dead daughter's childr
Among Helen's new friends are Eva Enal in the evening, Brent seldom came you." He said it to make his failure | Anaconda Copper and her brother, Robert, who falls in love in the afternoon.-
with her. Brent becomes Jealous of Bob and plots to win Halen quickly, especially miter finding another lochet Tike the one he had taken from Nellin to proye Helen the heiress. Bearing that a sudden shock would Cunningham. Brent lyly administers shock, and the aurvants and the old dead in bed. Then, clever, artine
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appeal to her loyalty, Drent wins Helen's
Once they did meet alone there. "Don't be a fool!" Brent ex- claimed when Eva spoke of his ill to learn of this where will your fu- and treatment of her, "If Helen gets true ture be? Remember that she is love for each other and he angry when your patron. You wouldn't get to she tells him she cannot break bar engagei ment even though the loves him. Bob firla first base without her." with Shalimar Morris, not knowing
promise to marry him,
Later, she and Bob discover their
that
dacovering that he continuing one or
"I don't care for my future, for Helen has tried to break with Brent after fame, for anything!" Eva cried, Il numerous affair with other women, and her anguish getting the better of that he has made threats against her hap-her. piness if she throws him over.
CHAPTER XXVII.
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"When is it?" Eva asked. "But I do," Brent protested
"Tonight," Brent told her. "Yes," Eva said to Helen. sharply. "I want to be proud of you, Eva. Think of what I can home. It was late when they re- And that night Eva didn't go "If you should chuck me over say to myself when the world is turned to Yonkers. The chauffeur Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey 82 for Ennis or anyone else I'd be ringing with acclaim for you. She who had accompanied them to town Standard Oil Co. of New York 32 forced to take revenge on you, my la mine. Only her art is for the dear child," Brent said to Helen, public. Her dear self is all for me. because Helen felt she might not Union Carbide & Carbon His voice was smooth as oil and Think of that, Eva. Don't spoil it. Want to drive on the return trip, United States Steel his manner perfectly calm, but can't help it, dear, if I happened his employer was in the Garden
found some congenial friends while Willys Overland there was an underlying threat of not to be in when you called. My and when he showed up, something mennce that Helen did not miss. business is making great demands
"What can you do?" she famed upon my time these days. I'm hav-more than tardy, he called Helen gratitude. Then she said that If he and Shallimar were returning to ing a lot of trouble too. Everything|
She gave him some money and Bramblewood they'd all have sup- "I meant to tell you, when I tele- going wrong. What I need most,
told him to take the train to per.
at him.
sister.
Iphoned last night," Brent replied:/right now is a little sympathy and Yonkers. And when she and Eva in her mind, as well as his, was
"But as I've said. I have changed understanding.”. my mind."
"What is it?" Hèlen "Something to do with ents?"
Eva did not feel very sympathetic implored. but she did ask him what he was
my par-worried about.
"Well, ifelen, for one thing," he "It is enough to wreck your hap-answered cunningly. "Tell me, piness," Brent assured her; "but I Evn, is this girl Shallimar serious do not choose to tell you any more with your brother?" about it at the present time. I
Eva hesitated to answer. shall never tell you unless you "Because I think their flirtation, make it necessary. Give up this or whatever it is, is making Helen Ennis-give him up to your friend unhappy." Brent continued, hoping Shalimar if she wants him and to draw Eva into a tirade against ar life will run along happily Shallimar and thus learn what he enough, Helen, to satisfy any nor-wanted to know. mal girl."
set in stubborn
Helen's mouth silence.
"Let me caution you once more against losing your head," Brent went on.
means
a
"I don't think Bob thing," Eva declared. separable, aren't they?"
"But they are pretty nearly in- Brent pressed.
were just about a mile from Bramblewood they got a flat tyre. the, memory of another invitation "Let's wait for someone to help to get into her car, while Bob stood 0 supper. Helen turned quickly "," Eva suggested, thinking of posin the road, asking himself if she'd sible harm to her second best evever cared for him. ning dress. Helen was not con- cerned with any such worry.
He wanted to tell her he wouldn't A few minutes later, while she eat a bite of her food if it choked and Eva was helping as best she 3hallimar sang out that they'd be was struggling with the heavy tyre, him, but he said nothing and could, a them in the glare of its headlights,
car approached, caught along in a minute. wed up and stopped.
"Why did you do that?". Eva "Hello," a familiar voice called, broke out, unable to restrain her- "Want help?"
self.
"It will be--fun,". Helen an- swered, but Eva saw when they passed beneath a light that she had
But it was not from the owner of the voice that help came.
"Here, give me that," someone else said gruffly, and Helen turned to find Beb beside her. Shalimar caught her underlip hard between "Well, they do spend a lot of his remained in his cat.
her teeth. threw her de-free time together." Suddenly Helen fiance at him. "I do not believe
Without a word she stepped aside Brent could barely conceal his and relinquished the task to him, the gateway at Bramblewood Helen Suddenly, as they drove through you," she cried.
satisfaction. "That's too bad," he When it was finished she thanked said: "Eva, stay with me tonight." said commiseratingly, "Poor him with a quiet dignity that held I've got to talk to somebody,"
Just enough and not 100 much of
(To be Continued.):
"No matter," Brent said shortly. "I imagine you have lost him any way to Miss Morris, but remember that you promised not to do any thing final without first letting me: know. You can't afford to gamble with your entire life's happiness, Helen."
"It would be worse than gambling with it to marry you,” she retorted. | "I should be the most miserable person on earth:"
"For that I really should show you no consideration whatsoever," Brent retorted, thinking it would] be a pleasure to lay her spirit low) by telling her the truth about the Cunningham inheritance.
His better judgment held him back. He knew full well that she would not consent to carry on the fraud, and while there was hope. that he might win her he did not want to jeopardize his chance at the money Cyril Cunningham had left)
her.
4
"I want no consideration from you," Helen said. "I wish you would leave me alone."
"Won't you drive back to the city with me?" Brent coaxed. "Your friend won't miss you-that is if Ennis is available for the day. We'll lunch in the Oval Room at the Ritz and do a matinee. Come on. Helen. Don't be a fool and mope around here because of * young ass who's an even worse chaser than the much abused 'average man.''
"Please go," Helen begged, and) turned to walk back to the house. Brent followed in silence. And soon afterward took his departure. But Helen was not to be rid of him. He telephoned twice a day,] sent many gifts and called three or four times a week.
occasions, discover
She knew, on these that he was seeking to just how far Shallimar had got with Bob Ennis,
Helen herself did not. know. Shallimar had ceased to confide in her at the end of the first week. Shallimar thought Helen was en- couraging Brent, so she turned to helping Bob forget her with a will, Not that he was succeeding-not at all. He knew now that any at- tempt to do so was only a farce, But Helen did not know this. She drew away from Shallimar as much as possible, and never mentioned Bob when she could avoid doing so..
Eva Ennis was furious. But Helen would not let her talk about Shallimar. She simply shut herself behind a barrier, of aloofness that Eva could not penetrate.
At best Eva's efforts had not been whole-hearted. For she was concerned with a cross of her own. She had been forced to accept the fact that Brent was avoiding her. A few times, on her visits to New York, she had stayed away from
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