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Innocent Cheat

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plained to. Brent, "and he insists

Holes, Pare foch hopelessly in love with that I go."

A

chance meeting with a dring berger, Charles

ber handsome guardian, Leonsid Brent. "Tell him I'm much obliged," Nellin, who tells stration story, ca Brent said pleasantly. "I've missed Brent to change his plane für Helen's fu: you, dear."

in accordance, with a promise · given

her

fure Bhortly afterward he tells Helen that When he saw her she showed evi- parents, he is now in reveal her identity and dence of being under- A severe wix the only grandchild of a millionaire, Cyril K. "Cunningham, Drent takes her to strain.

Cunningham and care a proof

Jocket

containing picture which he had taken

"We will lunch in some quict

from the dring Nelin. Pending Intplace," he told her, "and then I'u' tion. Itelen remains with her grandfather drive you home. It will be good

who gives her a new car, the drives for you to be out of doors."-.. whees until she accidentally-hite Eva Ennis, who has to be taken to the hospital, Heian.

Helen welcomed the suggestion

morela Eva's brother Robert, who falls in lov"But we mustn't be too long at with ber.

Cunningham announces that Helen is bila lunch," she pointed out, "or, I won't i „dend daughter'» chlid, and ħla helrens. Brent finds het tocles which exactly matches the have time to drive up. I promised one he had taken from Nellin. To aruid ds to be back by tea."

covery, he saka Helen not to wear her locket

In public

4:

Her information gave Brent R

A few days later 'Eva and licken overturn chos on the lake and Robert mearues them. While changing clothes, Eva, tell Helen that

low had lost an old-fashioned-locket the night new of her party,

Fearing Lobart's altentions to felén and

annoyed by the demanda res him, for money by Carmel Hearo, firent tries to think of safe plan to secure Fulen and her Inheritance

CHAPTER XXIV.

thought. He began to act on it at lunch by ordering dishes that would require special prepara- tion. Helen protested the delay but Brent assured her he would make up the time on the rond.

"You need to relax and stop wor-" rying," he cautioned her. A mo- It was several days before Brentment later he signalled the head went up to Bramblewood follow-waiter and whispered to him while ing the Sunday afternoon of Bob's Helen snt with her eyes closed, try- rescue of Helen on the Inke. His ing to overcome her weariness. plans had been slow in maturing inasmuch as Helen's actioris had an

Presently a beautiful orchid

important bearing upon them. corsage was brought to her. She On Monday he had telephoned put out her hand across the table to ask her to come down to New in thanking Brent and for a mo- York and lunch with him, but shement he wondered if he had not about Bob said her grandfather's condition re-been unduly alarmed quired her to be with him.

Ennie.

But on the drive to Yonkers she WAH silent and pensive. Brent

The next day Brent telephoned a second time, only to receive the Hume message. He felt it inwise to be too insistant and on Wednesday hardened his heart to carry out his pin, knowing that defeat for him might well be behind her mood.

he decided to drive up to Yonkers and ace for himself whether it really was the seriousness of her grandfather's illness that kept blewood when that which he had"

He too fell silent and they were only a short distance from Brum-

Helen at Bramblewood or whether planned occurred. Suddenly, and Bob Ennis had anything to do with. It.

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rut and

quickly, that

without apparent reason, the car lurched to one side of the rond. On that day Mr. Cunningham wa Brent had allowed the front wheels better and Brent, was convinced

to strike a

had not at- that he had not been so Illax Helen pretended. "She did not want to tempted to control it. This wave kim an opportunity to drive the wee nie," he conceded.

But his conclusion was a trifle car off the road under pretence of,

getting it righted. puzzling to him, because in man- ner she had not greatly changed) It happened toward him. She did not speak of Helen had no time to realize what Bob and Brent had no desire to Brent had done. She thought that bring up his name.

he had been careless but she did Had he been able to question her not question its being an accident. fully he would have learned that) They came to a stop in a weed- concern for her grandfather had grown depression so deep that

· driven all other thoughts from her Brent was unable to get the cur mind-all thoughts except the be back on the rond under its own that she might need someone

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Quite close to the bed he stopped. and appeared to see the man upon it, for the first time since he had

entered the room.

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lean upon when death Anally claimed the frail old man who had "I'll have to go for help," he said to Helen when finally he appeared become no dear to her.

Instinctively

to accept the inevitable, "For

Bramble- Brent when she thought of beingtunately we are near left entirely alone in the world, wood. They ought to be able to But it was not the turning of one pull us ont with the service car." blindly in love and 'Brent sensed Helen started to climb to the difference, although he did not ground. "I'll walk with you," she?" he attempted to say, but there the second general election since correctly analyze it.'

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Mr. Cunningham's, face was UN white as his pillow and his eyes were horribly distended. "What is

was nothing more than a croak to "If you don't mind," Brent otisen from his blue lips.

"Oh my God!" Breat cried, as "You mustn't exhaunt yourself jected quickly, "I'd rather you so," he said to her while she stayed here! I've some things in though the words had been wrung

"Helen was pouring ten for him. "I never the car that I shouldn't like to from him in agony. How your bands shake like that be- leave unguarded, Beshles, you are Helen! She has been killed.".

(To Be Continued.) probably pretty badly shaken up. Į fore.. Don't you go out at all?**

"I haven't been out since Sun-Belter wait here, dear." day.".

Helen sunk back in the heat. She "Don't you think you could leave was a bit unnerved and very tired. your grandfather tomorrow and The walk held no particular appeal come down to New York? We will

for her.

go to a mathiee and I'll have you ed and started off.

"I won't be long." Brent prom-

back here early,"

"I'd like to." Helen udmitted.

"He is much better today; perhaps

When he reached Bramblewood

he will be able to sit up tomorrow, he asked for

Marks, and told

that

Time passes much faster for him Ashe not to say in Mr. Cunning- when he is at the window."

ham's presence who it was

"What does the doctor any about wanted to see his attendant. him?"

"Miss Nellín und I have met with

"He says he is getting stronger. a slight accident. he explained, 1 mean stronger than he has been "and I wish to inquire if Mr. Cun-1 since Sunday but that he will singham's condition will permit never be well again.”

us to tell him of it."

"He might live for years."

"

"He" is not very good,'Sir,” Ashe

"No, not for years, but the doctor volunteered. said he might linger for months-

"Too bud," Brent said feelingly.

evon year. But any sudden shock "Try not to disturb him when you will kill him.”

send Marks down."

Her words, serious as they were

When Marks came a few min-

to Helen, were of greater signifi-utes later Brent told him that his cance to Brent. Even a few months car was ditched and asked him to he told himself, might be sufficient send someone to get it to Bramble, time for Helen to realize that being wood.

in love and being in love with love “I'll go up and reassure Mr. Cun- are two different things.

ningham," he said, moving toward

At that moment, in Leonard the door. Brent's mind, the seal was finally)

"Please be careful Mr. Brunt,"

Het upon Mr. Cunningham's fate.. Marks replied uneasily. "He has "Will you telephone me in the been fretting about Miss Nellin's morning?" he asked Helen, "to let absence. If he thought anything me know if you will lunch with had happened to her..." me?"

"I understand," Brent said. "I Helen promised, and shortly won't excite him.". afterward Brent took his depar But when he reached the sick ture. He did not go up to take man'a room he was, even without leave of Mr. Cunningham,

words, a startling visitor.. Ha had He spent a restless night-not left his hat downstairs and his because he was troubled by his greying hair was now wildly dis- conscience but because the daring ordered.

of his plan was perfectly apparent With a jok he had loosened his- to him. If anything went wrong he tie. His coat was pulled of one would be unable to explain the act shoulder and one cuff of his shirt that he now depended upon to clear was hanging below his tugged-up his path.

contsleeve. "But the odds are with me," he Altogether he was as dishevelled encouraged himself. "I've got to as he could make himself. He gamble."

burst into Mr. Cunningham's room Helen called him at 10 o'clock with the abruptness of a man who to say she would meet him for had lost all his self control.

lunch, but that she could not stay The Invalid, watching the door. by attend a matinee. Hon grand-for Helen's coming, sat up with a father's condition was slightly start.

worse,

.:

Brent came on, staggering alight-

"But I told him last night that 1ly, and clutching at his throat with! might go down today." shp ex- one hand while the other groped

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