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Innocent Cheat
THIS HAS HAPPENED.
*Ruth Dewey GrovER
Helen Page thinks she is in love with, her guardian. Leonant Brent, who changer his plans for her suture after meeting man named Nettin. Brent prevents the girl to a milionaire, Cyril Cunningham.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1930.
He always entered without un- necessary noise. The two girls did not hear him even when he came up behind them. They were nb in, sorbed in Eva's and and their own thoughts concerning it. Eva was Among Helen's new friends are Ev Ennis delighted for her mother's sake, and her brother Hubert. Brest Baile another and Helen was trying to put her locket like the ong he had taken from Nelliy
helrosa and offers stof which the luisly
ma courts without much question,
to prove Leien as the heiress and petchnotic impressions in order.
vet Cunningman out of the way qulekty.
liter a shock which provos, fatal And the servants find the bld man dead in bed. Then Brent wins Helen's promue, marry him. Later she and kl reaine they
love each other but she tells him he is engaged. She tries to get rrni to Play her but he refuses and makes dire threat if Eva k Bob why he newestin Helen and Hirting with Shalimar Morte. When he tells her that Helens engaged to rent whe
she dares to marry anyone else.
ellapecker admitting that he had been making love to her, in a fit of hysteria he tries to take poison but they prevent it and
try to tell her what a and he is,
Suddenly, with the ferocity of a tiger, Brent reached for the locket. But just an instant before he did)
Helen saw him.
*Eva Fereamed and automatically thrust the Beket farther from his
she recognized reach. Then, as
him, she started to relax. In another second he'd have had the locket in his possession had Helen not sprung forward and seized it.
Helen denounces Brent and he anceringly Brent turned upon her with a
tril her she a at this mercy for who utari. "Give thal to me," he the remi Gunningban relress but the daughter
of one of his crooks, pois and if she retai
to marry him and keep the mungy he will
nut
mtur.
RAJOWO
Toriured with Kiel refuae food aret warzy, ti
wandera around mine. 1 tries to see her but wIEL
rasped, and neither girl had ever
seen the beast on the surface of him before that moment.
Helen knew instantly that the
daris not tace him yet. She decida locket was of vital importance to
Brent and demand as proof, and whưng tho arrives she fuch Kva la han sparzuent.
"Eva!
nition.
here?"
CHAPTER XLVI.
"What
him. And it concerned the Cun- ningham family. She did not need time to decide that Brent must not have it.
No thought of herself, of pos- "Eva" Helen repeated, her voicesible exposure that might land her a mixture of surprise and constein prison, came to her as she made
are you
doing the next move in the game. It was Eva removed the handkerchief cough to frustrate Brent. she had pressed rainst her lips and answered, with a note of de- fance, that Helen vertangy cuan guess that she had come to Brent.
She turned and ran toward the duor. Brent had not expected see her to do that--to be so quick to,
grasp the fact that the locket was "you wouldn't come to the tele-evidence he wished to conceal at phone this morning," Evu charged; any cost.
and i had to do something," Helen gained the foyer befure he "I'm sorry," Helen apologized. "I came after her. She reached the told Mrs. Wethering would not door, jerked it open and flew out talk to anyone. But Eva dear, you into the hall just a few steps ahead musn't stay. I want to see Leonard. of him. She was fast, but a shut Won't you please go? My car is distance from the elevator Brent downstairs, Wad in it, prase had almost caught up with her Helen heard him calling viciously please."
to her to stop and her heart sank. She dared not call for help, and unless there was an elevator on the floor she never could escape, with
"No." Eva stubbornly shook her
head.
"Ob, but you must," Helen in
sisted.
"Why?" Eva asked piteously. "the locket.
Oh, thank God there have something to say to Leonard,
was one too, Helen. I don't know why you descending. The operator was even want to see him, but... Bob toki then closing the door. Helen cried an about last night. 1 got it out to him to wait, but be had his out of him, and Mrs. Wethering car in motion and her wild man surd, you weren't really ill....¡ ner confused him. He fumbled Oh, Helen, you aren't going to with the control, trying at the marry Leonard, are you? You can't! same time to hold the door open. After all those things you said: Helen rushed into the elevator as it teetered up and down, thrust- ing herself perilously through the narrow opening. The operator did not see Brent behind her.
"Stop, please stop." Hefen begged, "But why did you refuse to see Bob? He was almost insanely happy over your promise to marry him and then... then... Helen, tell me, tell me."
of
He started his car down and gave the door a strong push to clang it
Then she
"I can't tell you anything-until Helen whirled about. I've seen Leonard," Helen said screamed and turned her face miserably. "Do this for me. Eva; away.
go now."
When they carried her out of the "If I thought that it would help car after the operator harl over-. Bob, I'd go," Eva answered. "come his own horror sufficiently to know I owe you more than I ever summon help, she was in a deut can repay, Helen, but this is some-faint.
thing... I only want to ask Leon- They took her back into Brent's ard if he is going to marry you apartment, where the Japanese You see what it means to me. But servant was doing his best to quiet I'd wait for Bob's sake."
Eva. The girl had followed Brent Then do go, do hurry,” Belento the door. Mercifully, she did pleaded. It may meu a great not witness the accident. Bewilder- Heal to Bob."
ment and the shock of Helen's Eva reluctantly gathered up her scream mingling with Brent's ne hat and cont As she put them onery of mortal agony held her rooted her eyes fell upon Brent's desk. It where she stood, waying dizzily was upen--the desk he kept locked. and fast succumbing to the hys- She saw a pile of notepaper care-feria that was sweeping over her. lessly stacked at one side and il The Japanese helped her back gave her the idea of leaving a note into the living om. fer cries for him.
wer the first sounds that came to She walked over to the desk, de Roden's ears when consciousness ve liberately avoiding a rioting with.
Helen's glance, and sat down bes For a few seconds Helen did not fore it. When she had written the derstand-then her hands dews note she looked for a bitter but to her face and she sobbed aloud there was none in sight. She pulled while memory repainted the inde- out a drawer and closed it again scribable scene she had witnessed. to try another.
A physician was sent to the With the second drawer she wasrtment as soon as he pronounced more successful. She took out the himself unable to aid the man who bjulter, used it and started to put lay on the floor of the closed cle- it back again when she saw what vator. He found Helen quieter, had been lying under it. -
With avery she reached for the dully gleaming object and drew
it out.
"It's a locket, like mine!"
Helen rushed to her side,
She
trying to overcome her own emo- tion to help Eva, who still re- mained hysterical, though less vio- lently as
"Have you been with... is he
"Helen faltered brokenly. The doctor nodded.
Eva caught the significance of saw in a glance that the locket Eva the motion. "Oh no, no!" ahe was holding up to view was iden-screamed.
tical with the one Brent had given "Don't dear. don't," Helen her from her father from the man pleaded.
he had said was her father, she "Please, let me attend her," the remembered.
doctor said. Helen stepped aside.
"It's" but she got no further in saying she thought the locket was hers.
Eva had opened it. "It's mine!"
The superintendent of the build-
came
in after dispersing
the girl exclaimed excitedly. "Oh, the crowd of curious tenants that Helen, I'm so glad for mother's had gathered outside the door. sake. You've no Iden how
abe Helun answered his questions as
prized It! She hasn't quite for-best she could.
given me for losing it.
Leonard
Then others came. Men acting must have found it and didn't know in official capacity. She was obliged whom to return it to."
to go over the story of the fatal Helen was staring at the pictured accident many times, until at last face In the open locket. Charles the doctor put an end to her ordeal Nellin! She recognized him easily. by ordering her to take Eva home. Among Evangeline Cunningham's Helen declared herself unable to possessions she had found a like-drive her car. It was Eva who ness of him that the eluping girl offered a sensible solution. had left behind.
"Telephone for Bob," she said: She was too confused for a mo- weakly, ment to speak to question Eva.
He was located at his work and And then, while Eva still held the came as quickly as a taxicab could locket in plain view Leonard Brent get him to them with a driver- opened the door of his apartment. bribed to make all possible speed.
LATE LORD BALFOUR.
The late Earl Balfour, former Canzovalive Premier, whose death occurred yesterday.
While they waited for him Helen While Helen fung pillows off the hat time to collect her thoughts-divan to search there he moved to face her new situation.
tealthily toward a bit of gleaming gold that lay an the floor, near the door.
Brent was dead.
All that his death meant to her did not come to Helen in a flash. it dawned upon her slowly that it had freed her.
Suddenly she remembered the focket.. Where was it? She jumped up from the bed where she sat be side Eva, who had been ordered by the doctar to rest there, and flew out into the living-room.
She'd had the locket when when... when it happened
She recoiled with horror from the thought that it might now in the elevator.
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The only answer she received straightening up the place, which was a sudden impulse to go to Mrs. had become disordered during the Ennis and put the questions to her recent commotion.
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