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Innocent Cheat

CHAPTER XLIV.

Helen, waited in an

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to tell you, really, at the last min-

agony of ute."

suspense to hear what more

"I'm sorry," Helen said wearily,

her tormentor had to say. He kept "but there isn't anything I can talk her waiting while he lighted one of about, Shallimar."

his fat Turkish cigarettes.

Shalimar bit her lip in vexn- tion. "Something to do with Bob Ennis?" she insisted.

When its tip was glowing bright-| ly he took more time to look about for an ash tray. Helen pointed fin- any to one near at hand which he

"Oh, please," Helen begged. had purposely overlooked. He was "Very well," Shallintar agreed; enjoying her suffering, paying her "ut if it did concern him I could off for her previous acorn of him.herp, possibly. You see, it's be

Moving the tray an inch or two,enuse he and I have played to the & quite unnecessary act, he laid the end of our string that I'm going." cigarette upon it and turned to face "You mean?" Helen looked at her her again.

with an utter lack of comprchen- "What is it?" Helen pleaded. sion. Her mind was fou over- "Nothing alarming." he said, whelmed with sense of disaster with an unexpected soothing qual to take on added trouble. She did ity in his voice. "Just a thought not conclude that Shalimar wanted that I dare say hasn't occurred to to insinuate something unpleasant you, at least not since our interview-that she was giving Bob up began."

jagainst his will, for instance, or "What is it? Oh please, let us that their little affair had been a have this over with."

serious one.

"I merely want to remind you "I mean that our playing around that Cyril Cunningham wished you together never meant anything," to inherit his money," Brent ex-|Shallimar explained. “I'm sure he's plained. "He was very fond of in love with you, Helen, and I'm you, Helen; you know that. Andelearing out before the poor bean I've sometimes wondered if he gets any chivalrous ideas about me wouldn't have left it to you even turning cartwheels in his head. He had he known that you were not his doesn't owe me a thing in the na- grand-daughter."

ture of an offer but he's so darned

me restrict he might think he's been

wasting my time **

"That wouldn't justify keeping it," Helen answered.

"Of course it dors; it gives you)

a moral right."

She laughed and held the cologne bottle to her own strils, sniffing Helen rose from her chair with daintily. Then she glanced at un air of determination. "I wish her wrist watch. "Ashe gave me a you would go now," she said firm-|timetable," she remarked, "There's ly. "I must see about getting a train ja 20 minutes. You don't Shallimar off."

look fit to drive me to the station, "Sending her home, are you?" Helen. I'll say au revoir to you Brent queried sneeringly. "I should here, dear." she moved think you would like company here touch a maid's bell-"if you think in this ghostly-" He broke off sud-you won't need me." denly and Helen saw that he look- Helen shook her head. ed startled at his own words. He "Ashe will get someone to drive glanced nervously over his shoulder you to the station," she said. "I'm and it was Several seconds before sorry you won't stay, Shallimar." he completely regained his com- "My dear, I mustn't. My work is

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MARCH 18, 1930.

Mr. Wethering came to ask her; where she would have her luncheon served, as it was Helen's habit to take it in any place that suited her mood.

But

She was denied entrance. over to

Helen was fast becoming an enigma to her, beginning with Helen's association with Eva Ennis, so she asked her question through the} door and went away without pro-) test when Helen answered that she did not want any lunch.

posure and ended his remark with out in the world. making men a semblance of calm. "This ghost-suffer." ly house," he said. "Or are you afraid of her?"

"Afraid?" Helen repeated, an- noyed by the challenge in words.

his

"Yes," he replied: "afraid she will interest Ennis again. Not very constant, Ennis, is he?"

"We won't discuss him," Helen said.

She said it lightly but there was

Late in the afternoon Helen went out. Mrs. Wethering saw her walk- ing toward the lake. When the in her eyes the shadow of pain. time grew past the dinner hour and The maid came and carried down she had not returned the house- the lighter pieces of her luggage. keeper became alarmed and went "Send Ashe up for these im-into conference with Ashe about it. mediately." Helen directed. point-

"I'm afraid," she said. "that ing

something has happened to Miss Nellin."

(To Be Continued.)

to the others.

When he came she told him to have her ear and someone to drive it at the door without delay.

She

"Oh don't be stagy." Brent re- was forcing herself. by sheer will torted,

power, to keep her mind on Shalli- "You will have to excuSE memar's departure and speed her Helen returned coldly and moved properly." toward the wide doors that led into the hall. She did not give him a now backward glance CLX ste passed geat relief 10 ku w there was

She was sorry to lose her friend, when it would have been a

New Orthophande

Victor

through them and disappeared in sonu ne in the house besides the ecords

the direction of the breakfast rom. servants and Mrs. Wethering. But;

[]

Brent scowled, hesitated a mo- ment in indecision, and followed her. They met in the hall. In that

Shalimar did not want to say: she could ser that--it would be selfish to urge her.

"You must watch yourself, dear," Shallimar said in parting. "Don't a glance Helen had seen Shalimar was not a breakfast.et your heart break if you can help

it. She was going upstairs to seek her. If you want a man get him. It

Brent stood in her way

and isn't always possible but you stopped her before she reached the. You see, I think your illness is of the heart, no matter what you stairs.

sniday"

"A week, remember," he tensely; "and don't make any mis- take about it. It's life or death for you."

Helen passed on without a word

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Helen did not need to deny it. Shallimar Was obliged to with not a moment to spare.

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in reply. She felt cold, as though waved back from the door, a gay a breath from an icy chamber had farewell, but there was pity in her been breathed upon her. She put heart for the girl who could not a hand on the balustrade for suprun away from her trouble. port; it was so numb she scarcely Helen sat very quiet for a mo- sensed the wood.

ment, glad to be alone, but despair- ingly aware that the only person) who might have been sympathetic [ without questioning her too closely way me. She could have talked to Shalimar--at least she could have. confided that she was faced with a heart-breaking alternative.

She went directly to Shallimar's room, where she found her guest engaged in packing a small travel ing bag.

Shalimar looked up casually as Helen entered the room, but instantly she cried: "Have you seen a ghost?"

· “I‚ ‚ ‚I feel ill," Helen faltered, And Shalimar was gone. A faint, and collapsed into a conveniently exotic. perfume fingered in the placed boudoir chuir. She was as room as a reminder of her colourful white as the handkerchief she lift-personality. Suddenly Helen want ed to her trembling lips.

Jed to get away from it. Shallimar rushed to her with a

She slipped out of the room like bottle of cologne which she hastily a wraith and found her way blindly dug out of her bag, and held it to to her own, cushion-covered chaise Helen's nose.

Helen did not faint, but she did too crushed to think constructively. longue. She lay there a long time,

wish that she had gone to her own

A well of black despair had on- room instead of coming in here gulfed her. She could not marry Overestimating her endurance was Brent--glie could not. a silly thing to do, she told her self. But it had seemed better to speed Shallimar on her way is de cently as she could and then face her problem.

But the problem had not waited. It had filled her mind with panic. She should have known she must succumb to it. Her sense of guilt over disturbing her guest brought a halting apology to her lips.

Shallimar brushed it aside with a command to tell her what was really the trouble.

there seemed to be a force which And yet she could not defy that pressed the words, "You will, you will, you will," upon her brain like brands of

fire.

She was helpless against the pic- tures that rose in her mind. Prison confinement within a narrow cell she who loved the stars over her head and grass under her feet- eyes to spy upon her, perhaps, when she lay asleep-horrible!

A shudder ran like lightning over Helen maintained that she was her slender frame. physically ill, nothing more.

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"You refused to do that before," import of what had befallen her *Helen reminded her.

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