The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-11-07
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CHAPTER III.
In the Car
May 30th. Midnight.

CHAPTER Ill.,
In the Car
May 30th. Midnight.
~ OMETHING has happened.
Tonight Helene Gardo was
10 have sung Carmen for the
first timo I'm England Lady Mel.
don had a box lent by friend
She had promised to dine with us
before receiving the box. When Il
came. she telephoned asking us
all three To so to hear Carmen with
her
The Arrangement stood like this.
until yesterday when word came
she was down with bad cold
The box remained ours Aunt Dora
asked the two Jewett BOYS. Ameri.
cans. TO help fill e. and told them
TO bring an English friend OF theirs.
Lord Hurno. From the anecdotes
I'd heard them tell of him.
thought he must be a person not NJ
all Lady Meldnns sort. so Il hardly
seemed fair 10 plant him In n box
lent by her said this TO Aunt
Dora. and shc was angry.
II ended In my deciding or Aunt
Dora deciding that | shouldn't go
to tho opera with them.
This morning ! called 10 ask how
Lady Mcldon was She was well
enough 10 SEQ me. tho not 10 leave
the house II came out In CONVEX.
sation that ! was not TO be OF the
party at Coyent Garden. and Lady
Meldnn asked me 10 dine quietly
with her. or course. | said yes. II
had gone to the opera | should
not have known What know now
what would give a great deal not
20 know.
Just as We were finishing dinner
message came up that Sir Miles
Culver had called. Would she see
aim q moment
How very odd" she exclaimed
to nae.
I saw by Sir Miles face. when
he came In. that he was disappointed
not 10 find Lady Meldon alone,
Helene has been suddenly taken
H." he explained. and her under.
study IL singing Tier maid tele-
! phoned and went at once % the
house. tho tho message said the
|, Illness was not serious only a
slight chill. affecting the throat. but
Helene couldn't receive me"
Il was not ten O'Clock when Sir
Miles left. and Lady Mcldon kept
mo TN nearly eleven. knowing that
Aunt Dora and Marguerite would
not be back TIT late
when | started away. Il waH Just
at the quiet time before people
leave their dinner parties and he
fore theatres close There we're
few automobiles or carriages. bat
the moonlight was - lovely ! told
the chauffeur TO drive slowly
4 car passed close 20 mine. 70
Ing the other way j, was a llmnu.
sine. but both windows we're open.
and al that instant a light from
some street lamp shone full into u
saw Laurie Culver with Helene
GRrdc. She vas In his arms. her
head on his shoulder. and he was
kissing her.
The moro think Of q. the more
certain ] am that couldn't have
been mistaken. The car waa 20
near.
Could there b any possible cI-
PLANTATION. I wonder. which would
make Il right for them TO kiss each
other ike that. without treachery
10 Sir Miles,
June 9Th.
Every morning have been half
expecting and dreadluE 10 see an
announcement In the Post saying
hat the marriage arranged be.
tween sir Miles Culver and Com.
Jesse Helene Garde will not take
place" Hut there has been no such
announcement and Yesterday
heard from Lady Moidon that Sir
Miles had persuaded Helene TO be
married July 6th-a month from
tomorrow.
Il seems that the 9Th % July Is
his birthday. She viii have fin.
ished her enlargement AZ Coven,
Garden by july lst She Is singing
again now The papers say she IS
tho most perfect Carmen OF the
generation
I have met Sir Miles twice at
Lady Meldon'a since | last wrote
He came without Helene. who IL
supposed 10 be saving herself up"
now for her work.
How thankful am that Lady
Mellon Is The sweet. loyal woman
she Is | know she would never
even hint 10 Sir Miles about my
foOlishnesE tho ! feel that she has
guessed a. And who knows what
Mrs. Lane wrote her about me and
my Ideal
June 10Th.
Dead Helene Carde dead,
Almost. ! could wish Laurie Cul.
yer had been killed. too, rather
than manned for life. why wasn't
Il he, instead OF the chauffeur
And yet. for sir Miles sake. II
may be well that the poor chauf-
feur is silent forever. II the chauf.
feur had lived. and Laurie Culver
had been killed with Helene Garde.
the man might have told where the
car was going. | believe Laurie
will spare his brother tho added
grief OF knowing what betrayal had
been planned.
OF course. do not know for
certain that Helene and Laurie
were running away together. But,
putting what | saw the other night
together with tho fact that the &C.
cident happened close 10 Dover, an
hour before the boat was due 10
leave for Calais. | guess what secret
plans they may have been trying
TO carry out.