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A FINDLATER
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Innocent Cheat
THIS HAS HAPPENED.
& Ruth Dessy Groves
thoughts that were hard to bear in
Helen Paze feels indebted tu past in Jore connexion with possible harm to
with her guardian, Leonard Brent. The istler changes his plans for her future after mesting a dying besar, Nellin, and tells the girl she is heiress of a millionaire named
Eva.
They burried into the house---- Cunningham, Brent takes her to the lonely Bob had his key ready for the lock old man, and offers proofs which GunalogiamA
accepts withost question, as he had been the instant they reached the door- searching for his dead daughter's child for and were greeted at once by a cali
from upstairs.
лала
Among Heleu's new friends are Eva Eanis end her brother Robert Brent fears clea may fall in love with Bob and plots to win
"Is that you Bob? . Oh, hurry!
her quickly, especially after finding another hurry!".. lockel like the one he had taken from Neilla
to prove Halen the heiress. Hearing that. It was his mother, frantic and
sudden shock woult kill Cunninghani, Breat
-slyly kérninisters it, and the servants find the for some reason unable to come
bist man dead in bed. Then, by clever acting down to them. and appeal to her loyalty. Brent wins Helen's
promise to marry him,
Later she and Boh discover their love for
Bob took the stairs three at a;
rach other, but she tells him she is engaged. time, forgetful of Helen. She stood
Helen tries to break with Brent, but he re-
fuses to reimuse her and makes dire threat for a while with her fingertips If she dares to marry Bob, Era resenta pressed tightly to her lips,.then, un- Halen's treatment of Bob, which has able to bear longer the strain of un- Chimie flirting with Shallimar Morris. She
weulda him, and be laugh at bering certainty,' followed him..
Helan engaged to rent. Eva collapeck
and admits that Brent has been making losei
to her, Bob goes to tell Helen the kind of
He was at Eva's door, plending
cad she is engaged in, and while he is them with her to open it. His mother
an urgent call comes from his mother.
CHAPTER XL.
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was on her knees, her face in her apron, sobbing brokenly.
Helen went to her, knelt beside her and drew her close,
Helen ran to the telephone. Mrs. Ennis would
Bob put his shoulder to the pine. not call her on panels. "For God's sake, unlock trivial matter, she knew. It must the door, Eva," he implored. "I'm concern Eva.
going to break it open."
"This is Miss Nellin-Heien," she cried when she picked up the ceiver. What is it, Mrs. Ennis 7"
The voice that came back to her in answer was fraught with fear. "Is Bob there?" it asked.
"Yes, yes," Helen said. "Do you want to talk with him?"
"Please." The voice was growing
fainter.
room, and
There was no answer. Bob drew off and rammed with the full force of his strength. There was a crack- ing sound, a slight yielding of the flimay lock.
Again he made the door the butt of a powerful attack, and this time the panel gave away. Through the splintered opening he thrust an
arm and turned the key in the lock on the inside.
"It is your mother." Helen look-
had followed! ed up at Bob, who
His mother, whom Helen had close upon her exit from the break-pulled to her feet, pushed in behind him. There had not been a sound fast
her expression frightened him.
from Eva until then. They saw her-sitting drawn up in a heap on "What is it?" he asked hoarsely her bed, her hair disordered and her Helen did not answer and he re-eyes staring at them in fixed terror. peated the question over the wire. One arm was flung up against her "What's wrong, mother?"
forehead and in her hand was a small bottle.
J
"Oh, come home son, at once," she entreated him. "I don't know what's the matter with Eva. is...she is..
She shrieked as they ran toward Sheher, and attempted to put the bot-
tle to her lipa.
"I'll be there right away." Bob) Bob leaped the few remaining jumped up, not stopping even to steps and snatched it away from put the receiver back on the hook her. Her mother sank down upon "We'll take my car: it's faster," the side of the bed moaning: "Eva, Helen said, hastening along beside Eva."
him.
"Mine's at the door," reminded her.
Bob
"So is mine. I was going to drive over and find out why Eva went home so early this morning."
Eva'saw the bottle fly from Bob's hand and attempted to spring off the bed and reach for it. He him like a wild animal a bay. grabbed her and she turned upon
She seemed possessed of seven True, the car was at the door. devils, fighting, shrieking, even They lost not an unnecessary second scratching and biting. in getting it started and headed toward the highway. Helen haded up the bottle. Eva had not Helen slipped forward and pick- taken the wheel because she felt noticed her until then. Helen rush- Bob might think too much of her ed out of the room to empty the safety to drive as fast as he'd have contents of the bottle in the bath- dared alone.
1'oom.
Knowing every foot of the road
As Eva 93w лег disappear gave Helen supreme confidence.through the doorway she became - Where the traffic lights were sta limp in Bob's arms. Her breath tioned she slowed up just enough to escaped in a long, convulsive sigh. see if the road was clear, then she She lay still like a broken toy- shot across, red or green.
In her mind and in Bob's was the
same thought. Eva was desperate.
a doll with the sawdust poured out.
Bob wagshaking like a leaf as he
let her down upon her pillows.
No one could tell what she would "She's fainted," mom," he said
do. Her quiet, sweet exterior cov-|
ered. both knew, a temperamental pitifully,
fire.
It was revealed in her music, Mrs. Ennis 'roused herself to meet
in all that she did and said that the emergency, forcing aside the was of herself and did not touch weakness of fright that had over intimately upon the rest of the come her. world.
Suddenly, a few blocks away from the house, Helen brought the car to a full stop. She was white and shaking.
"I can't drive the rest of the way," she said. "It... it's too ter- rible."
Helen had presence of mind enough to fetch a glass of water ¦ back with her. With this they loved Eva's marble-white face and cold wrists: T
"We must have a doctor," Bob cried frantically as she failed to respond to their treatment.
"Oh try a little harder," Helen She did not say all that was in begged. She couldn't bear any her mind; did not tell the dis- more interference. Here, put the traught rather how ghastly it pillow under her feet. There, let seemed to her that they should her head down flat, Rub her have mended their brokea love hands, hard”. affair as a result ́of Eva's - dísil--- lusionment.
Bob raised himself while Helen slid over into his seat. He had no time to get out and go around the car, As he slipped under the wheel | Helen put her hands to her face and held them there until his home was reached.
...
As she spoke she was working 'tike mad over the unconscious girl, pushing Bob aside and taking cow- mand in consequence of being the coolest of the three.
Presently, when even she was, about to despair of bringing Eva to her senses, she heard a flutter- eyelids flicker and her lips move. ing breath pass her lips, saw bar
She could not bear the thought that she had been partly to blame. for whatever had happened. She "Eva, Eva dear," she cried, but wanted to shut out the vision of before Eva opened her eyes she Brent's evilly handsome face.. Why stopped away and let Eva's glance hadn't she broken with him alto-fall upon her mother. gether when she discovered what a For a moment Eva lay in tor promiscutatis sort he was? His life tured sitefice, her eyes moving had been filled with women. She
searchingly questioningly, over had known it, and yet believed that he could remain true in love,
her mother's worn countenance. But that day in his apartment-last, reaching up her arms to be
"Oh, mama, mama,” she cried at! when she had seen for herself how taken to her mother's bosom he behaved when he thought him-When she lay enfolded there she self engaged to her--that day she was too exhausted, too beaten, to should have cut with him finally weep.
It might have brought matters to a
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crisis earlier he might have done Her eyelids drooped as do those something that would have caused of a' tired child. She whimpered her to speak of him to Eva, to re and her mother laid a cheek to her veil him to the girl in his true light lips. before this. So ran her thoughts
What is it, baby?" she said
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Helen and Bob stole quietly out of the room.
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"Forgive me, mama darling," Eva whispered, louder now. couldn't stand it'... I loved him with all my heart."
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(To be Continued.)
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