Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 122, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 October 1929 — Page 12

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OUT OUR WAY

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THIS HAS HAPPENED HELEN PAGE falls in love with her handsome gurd!;n, LEONARD BRENT. A chance mectin'a with a dying beggar. CHARLES NELLIN, causes Brent to change hts plans for Helen's future. Shortly afterward he tells the girl that in accordance with a promise given her parents, he now is to reveal her identity and she is the only grandchild of a millionaire. CYRIL K. CUNNINGHAM. Brent takes her to Cunningham and offers as proof a locket containing a picture which he had taken from the dying Nelltn. Pending Investigation, tfelen remains with Cunningham who gives her a ew car. She drives everywhere until she accidentally hits EVA ENNIS, who has to be taken to the hospital. Helen meets Eva's brother ROBERT, who falls in love with her. Cunningham gives a party and announces that Helen Is his dead daughter's child and his heiress. Brent finds a locket which exactly matches the one he had taken from Nellin. To avoid discovery he asks Helen not to wear her locket in public. A few days later Eva and Helen overturn a carioe on the lake and Robert rescues them. While changing clothes, Eva tells Helen that she had lost an old-fashioned locket the night of her party. Fearing Robert’s attentions to Helen and annoyed by the demands on him for money bv CARMEL SEGRO. Brent plots to "secure the girl and her innerttance for himself. The doctor has sa.d that a shock would kill the old man and so Brent carries out a plan to make Cunningham believe that Helen , has been killed. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXV FOR a moment after Brent’s cry of despair there was a ghastly silence in the room. From the lips of the stricken invalid on the bed there came a choking, gasping j sound. Brent, apparently lost In grief, j heard it and understood its portent, j He turned his head for a view of j the man to whom he had dealt a | death blow, but he did not go to him. His unfortunate victim lay back on his pillow-, staring in a fixed, unseeing way straight ahead. No revulsion of feeling, no mercy, came Ito the watcher as he saw the hand of death laid upon the aged and pallid brow of Cyril Cunningham. It was all over in a few minutes. The dying man moved his eyes toward the end and fastened them upon Brent. The latter could see that he was striving with his last strength to speak. But the words would not come. Then, suddenly, he raised himself In a convulsive, painful manner, flung a hand outward and in an instant sank back inert. Brent waited, made sure that he j was gone, and then calmly put his \ own clothing in order, smoothed his j hair and went, downstairs. He met Marks in the lower hall on his way to Mr. Cunningham's ; room. Brent detained him with j questions about what had been done j in regard to his car. Marks told j him that he had sent the gardener and his son to get it to Bramblewood. Brent thanked him and started cn. Pausing a few steps away he turned back and said: “I left Mr. Cunningham sleeping; he said he ■ wtu. tired.” •‘You assured him Miss Nellin : was unhurt?” Marks inquired anx- ; iously. “Matter of fact.” Brent said lightly. -didn't tell him there had been an accident at all. I merely said | that Miss Nellin was detained down- j stairs by some friends who came in ! just as we arrived. I thought it ; better to do that, as he looked rather bad ” , . . . I Marks nodded in approval of his thoughtfulness and went on upstairs. * ! B B B BRENT took himself to the library and settled down with a newspaper while he waited for the result of Marks’ discovery that Mr. Cunningham was dead. It was not long in coming. Brent could hear him coming down the stairs calling out something that his excitement made almost unintelligible. He got up and went to the door. “Anything wrong. Marks?” he j called in a tone of uneasiness. “Mr. Cunningham is unconscious,” j Marks cried. “I could not rouse hint. He may be dead." • j -No!" Brent exclaimed in wellfeigned horror. -I’ll call Dr. Ralston.” Marks said brokenly, and hurried over to the telephone that stood upon the large table In the center of the town * "Give me the number; I'll attend to it,” Brent told him. “You go back

and see if there isn’t something you can do for him.” “I’m afraid it’s too late,’ Marks despaired. “I’ve done all I can. If I’d been there when the attack came on. ...” His voice trailed away as he ran back up the stairs, hoping in spite of his knowledge th't he might somehow revive the dead man. Brent went up a few minutes later and managed to appear greatly shocked. He was standing near the window when he heard his car driven up to the house. He remarked to the others in the room—Ashe and the housekeeper as well as Marks—that he would go down and break the sad news to Miss Nellin before she saw her grandfather. He was descending the stairs when Helen entered the lower hall. She saw at once that something was amiss. “What is it?” she cried in alarm. “Don’t come up,” Brent said as she placed a foot on the first tread; “I’ve somthing to tell you.” Helen waited and Brent came down and took her by the arm, to ieaa her to the library. “My grandfather?” she appealed. “Is he worse?” -Yes, dear; he is worse—or should we say that he is better? For he is beyond further suffering.” “Oh,’’ Helen wailed, “he is dead!” Her eyes were pleading with Brent to deny it, but he solemnly nodded his head in affirmation. He reached out his arms and Helen took refuge in them. Gently he enfolded her and held her while the first shock lasted. Then Helen tore herself away from him and ran to the stairs. Brent did not protest her going. He remained downstairs and himself admitted Dr. Ralston, who arrived a few minutes later. “We fear that Mr. Cunningham is dead, doctor,” he said simply when he greeted the medical man. “Come up with me.” Dr. Ralston said, wishing to question him. Before they reached the death chamber Brent had told him all that he had decided to tell any one. 808 THEY found Helen weeping over her grandfather's body and Brent helped the doctor loosen her hands and get her cut of the room. The housekeeper went with them and persuaded Helen to go to her own room, where later the doctor came in to see her and talk to her in a kindly way that eased her sorrow a great deal. Brent had planned tc stay at Bramblewood that night, but when he learned that the housekeeper had sent for Eva Ennis, thinking Helen would want her closest friend with her, he decided otherwise. He could not go before she came, however. Marks and Ashe, and even Dr. Ralston, turned to him as the one who naturally would take charge of all arrangements for the funeral. Knowing that Eva was expected, he was eager to get away, but one detail following another kept him there. Dr. Ralston, he learned, had been told by Mr. Cunningham that Helen had been his ward for years and Brent did not wish to shift any of his newly acquired responsibility. He met Eva at the late dinner that was served for them alone. Dr. Ralston had gone and Helen had been put to bed. Brent endeavored to avoid Eva’s glance, but he could feel that her eyes were searching his face for an answer to his coldness. He felt he must give some explanation. “Helen’s affair's have required a lot of looking after lately." he said more or less casually, “and now that Mr. Cunningham is dead I shall not have any time for myself at all.” Eva drew in her breath, hesitated and then said with a courage that surprised herself: “You mean for me?” Brent shrugged, attempted to smile apologetically and rather dismally failed. “It is the same ming,” lie said. Eva smiled back at him. but in her heart there was an icy chill. His words had not rung true. “And I’ve been apartment hunting,” Brent went on, as though Eva were demanding a fuller explana-

—By Williaim

, tion. He spoke impatiently, anI noyed at the position he was in j with this childishly direct young I girl. Eva said nothing. “I had intended to occupy it alone,” Brent continued, “but now I suppose I shall become Helen's guardian again. She won’t want to live here at Bramblewood lam sure.” “She has said she would like to travel,” Eva ventured. “Yes?” “She has offered,” Eva told him, “to finance my studies abroad.” 808 BRENT frowned. “Helen is very generous,” he said, “and perhaps a bit impulsive.” “As her guardian, should you object?” Eva asked ’ n. Brent was quick with his denial. “Not at all,” he assured her, “but you forget that I may not want Helen to live abroad. That is what you meant, isn’t it; with you?” “We talked about it,” Eva admitted. “It won’t do,” Brent declared emphatically. “Os course, I would not attempt to stand in the way of your career. Eva. That is too important, and it may be necessary for me to part with you for the sake of your future. But there is no reason why Helen should elect to live in a foreign country. Ehe i sat a marriageable abe and I think it best for her to be where the men she is most likely to meet are men of her own country— Americans.” Eva sighed. “It was just a dream,” she said. “But there isn’t any reason why Helen shouldn’t be your patron.” Brent went on, regretting that in his first reaction he had let Eva see that he was averse to the plan. “She will be very wealthy and I’m sure nothing would make her happier than to foster a great talent. “I was thinking, when you mentioned going abroad, only of her future. You see, I have done that for so many years it is a habit with me.” Eva put down the bit of roll she was lifting to her lips. “And I,” she said softly. “I . . . does it not matter . . . the kind of men I meet?” Brent instantly decided to punish her for even approaching the issue. “I'm sorry, dear,” he said stiffly, “but don’t you think it is ... er . . . a bit out of place for us to discuss ourselves at this time?” Eva shrank back from the rebuke and her pale face plainly revealed, by the quick flush that covered it, how keenly her sensitive soul had felt the man's words. The rest of the dinner, until the dessert was brought, was eaten in silence.

(To Be Continued)

THE RETURN OF TARZAN

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—By Martin

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—By Edgar Rice Burroughs

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