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7. Rutia Dewsy Groves
Help Pare focis Indebted to and is love with her guardian. Leonard Brent who changes, bà plans for, ber future after meeting 'a dying man nämed. Mellin, At 15,
he presents the girl to millionaire. Cyril Cunningham, as his heiress and offers proof
which the lonely old man accepts without question, as he has been searching for kla danddaizghter's child for years.
Among Helen's new friends are Eva En
and her brother Robert Brent finds – mát,
other locker like the are he had taken from to get Cunningham out of the way quick He slyly administere a shock which proves fatal and the servantu fim the old man dead in bed, Then he wins Helen's prome lọ marry him. Later, she and Bob realize |
Wellin to prove Helen the heirew and plots.
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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1930.
"There is a great deal, and it will take some time," he differed.." "It | won't be pleasant either-for you. You'd better sit down, my dear."
Helen glanced at her wrist- watch. "I am taking Miss Morris to the station in a few minutes," she told him. "Please say what you (have to say as quickly as possible."
"I'd advise you to make other) arrangements for her. "My word. you are jealous, there," Breat remarked. "You do getting ber aren't you?"
you will not be in a mood to drive "I thought you at least too in-not take me seriously, I see, but you will shortly, and I predict that. out when this interview is over."
"Because of Eva?" Brent taunted
telligent to be facetious at a time like this," Helen promptly returned.
Why at a time like this?" he inquired blandly,
Helen came close to losing her temper completely. "Don't you know that you've simply broken Eva's heart?" she cried.
"Nonsense."
"Some day I'm certain she will they love each other, but she tells him she think so too," Helen agreed; "but lease her, but he refuses and makes dire for the present she imagines her- threats If, she dares to marry Bib.
sa engaged. She tries to get Brent to
Eresente Helen's treatment of
TC-
herself in love with you. She wants to brother, which has driven him to fieting with see you. That is why I have sent
Shalimar Morris. She colds Bob and be for you..." tella her Helen in engaged to Brent She collapses after admitting that Brest has been "She isn't here?" Brent asked,
making love to her. Bob goes to
expose with a touch of consternation.
Brent to Melea, and while they are talking en argent call comes from his mother. They rush over Just in time to prevent Era frums laking polsen innt of hysteria. Helen tricw to tail her what a cad Brent is, but she insists that she must see him. Jelen decided to see him first and phones for him
to come up.
CHAPTER XLII.
Brent dressed leisurely and
Helen refused to be frightened. "Very well," Brent began as she stood waiting. His practice of politeness compelled him to rise and stand also. "You may as well have it straight from the shoulder. Here it is: You will never marry Ennis!"
Helen smiled disdainfully.
"You won't have the nerve to tell him that you're a criminal," Brent went on; "and if you marry him without telling him I'll expose you."
Helen's eyes
were wide with mixed emotions, chiefly astonish- "No, she isn't," Helen relievedment and disbelief, but there was him. "She doesn't know how fear lurking in them as well. Fear; futile it would be to make an ap-that Brent was evil enough to have peal to you for any kind of decent found some way to wreck her hap- treatment—but I know, and I wish piness, however innocent of any to spare her further disillusion-wrong she herself might be.
ment."
"Yes?" Brent smiled over her pinion of him, thinking of what she was yet to learn. "How do you propose to do that?"
She made a wordless sound of protest and shrank back from his closer, threatening approach.
"What have you to say to that?" he demanded.
Helen rallied her courage. "Only that you are a contemptible cow- ard," she cried, "and utterly in
sane."
lingered over his breakfast, taking a third cup of the crystal-clear coffee his man had prepared for
* want your promise never to him-adding a tiny pinch of salt see her again. No fate could be in place of sugar or cream. Its steaming fragrance, mingled with worse for her than 12 go on with the smoke from his Turkish cigar." ette, filled him with a sense of well "Thanks," he answered dryly.
"Am I?" Brent mocked her. "Pos- "En. willing to make that promise,sibly, but not being that brought the lenk of a
too insane to have The kid's a damned nuisance, but put you in the Nellin girl's place don't think you're dictating to me to have won an immense fortune my dear. I simply find
it con- for you-and to have you just where venient to comply with your wishes I want you." in the matter."
"But
iately fed jungle beast into his eyes. His satanic smile played over his lips now and then as certain pleas- ing thoughts came to him.
Helen must be stewing over his delay. Let her. The more upset she was the better for him.
Helen was now completely con- should you change your mind," Helen began warningly, "letHe saw that she would not know fused, quite unable to follow him. Carmel had promised to be good,me tell you that her brother will where to begin to ask the questions being clever enough to know the thrash you within an inch of you that were seething in her mind and life and maybe he won't SEOD No trouble there."
"An inch to live," Brent LX-
limit of all things.
Eva was a mouse. there.
decided to tell her everything of her story from the start. That giri Sbullimar-well, if she claimed. "Sounds like a popular Helen listened helplessly. It was hadn't landed Bob Ennis it didn't questionnaire." "What would you so appalling, so shocking, to hear: matter. She'd soon be sent packing do if you had but an inch to live?" "the dead parents she had reverenced
he'd see to that.
"Jest, if you Not have her
like Helen told revealed as crooks, to learn that hanging around to give Ennis an him; "but you can't go forever Brent himself was even worse than excuse to call. The young puppy trampling on other people without the had thought him-she could do might have the nerve even with the some day being trampled on in nothing but stare glassily at him door closed in his face at Helen's turn."
while her world fell about heri orders.
Brent smiled broadly, "What a head. But what did it matter? What deur little lecturer you are." he He told her the whole truth-how did anything matter? Brent drank said enthusiastically. "You ought deep from the cup, drew in a long always to be in a temper, Helen. breath of smoke and steeped him- You literally blaze." self in his satisfaction.
"I mean what I say," Helen enu- Helen was his. He could take Boned him. her when he willed. She was utter. Brent sobered. "Where does
young Ennis come in?" he shot al. ly helpless.
her suddenly.
Finally he glanced at a small clock on his desk, arose, stretched Helen's head reared haughtily himself agreeably and went to am going to marry him," she change his dressing gown for his stated. street coat.
With her words a grim distortion replaced Brent's sarcastic smile
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he had stumblix upon the facts of the Cunningham case-how he bad conceived the idea of imposing her upon the aged man as his grand- daughter-and what it meant him.
"And now you know why you can't refuse to marry me." ended.
Helen's lips opened stiffly-her: words came with great difficulty. "But you. you are the crim
nal." she cried hoarsely.
Brent's tenseness slackened, his tigerishness left him, and he be- The garage was just around the Heien answered rather quietly, came on the instant his old suave, corner, a convenience for which considering how his words fired her unperturbed self. He had been those who hired space in it were anger.
ferocious in his attack, brutal, de-. required to pay heavily. The car "I promised to tell you when lighting in it. But he knew that was brought to the door of Brent's made a decision like this," she said, his moves must now be cautious, apartment house within 10 minutes "Well, you may persist in taking a more carefully planned. and he went down to take the wheel, ridiculous attitude if you choose, "Unfortunately, for you," he thoroughly convinced that the ulti- but I am going to marry Robert said quietly, "you cannot prove mate success of his scheming was Ennis."
your innocence." at hand.
His Japanese, ever watchful, came in to help him. Brent told him to telephone for his car.
"You are going to marry me," be; retorted snarlingly.
They had been standing. Brent Fears he had entertained former- now waved toward a chair.
"Sit
ly that Helen would refuse the new down," he said and seated himself role he would offer her had sub-on another.
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1. he admitted, but the publicity?
Could she stand up to all that ex- posture would mean to her? He thought not.
Not caring for slow driving, he made good time to Yonkers.
Helen was watching for him. She ran to open the door herself, having lost much of her self control while waiting for him in nerveus anxiety.
ile attempted to take her hand: for a kiss in greeting but she drew it angrily away from him and turned to lead the way to the living room.
Brent followed without a word. She must be the first to speak-it suited his purpose to have it so.
In the privacy of the vast room she whirled upon him and her words came like the lash of a whip. "I've heard about you and Eva," she said..
Brent stiffened slightly, the only outward sign that she had disturbed his poise. One eyebrow went up inquiringly, but he remained silent.
"Well, what do you mean to dop about it?" Helen pursued.
"Do?" Brent repeated blankly. "Are you thinking of marrying her?" Helen asked tensely.
"My dear girl!"
Brent was amused.
"I see," Helen anid icily. "I am glad to know that you have no such Impossible intention," she went on, her eyes fairly burning with scorn for him.
"You need not have worried," Brent said hastily. "I shall marryj no one but you; Helen."
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