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Helen disdained to answer.

Lunch with me-" Brent said,
half commandingly before she had
moved far away. I'VE haven't talked
to the end of this thing and 1 know
you won't be SO unfair as to leave
it in the air, Helen"
What more is there to say?"
Helen protested.
"A great deal" Brent quietly re-
turned. will you lunch with me?"
Not here in your apartment"
Helen declared. thinking of the
lunch Carmel had prepared.
wherever you like" Brent COM
promised.
"Sherry's?"
Brent nodded.
Helen gathered her things together
while Brent got his hat and stick
and they left Immediately.
Ten minutes later at Sherry's they
were seated at the most secluded
tatie available. There were people
within earshot of them, but the
cosmopolitan air of detachment
that pervades New York's eating
places isolated them sufficiently to
permit Brent to plead his s.
But all that he could find to say
left Helen cold. Finally, as she
feared he would, he brought up the
subject of her loyalty to him.
"You couldn't have been too fine
to do that, could your" she said
VIXEN he mentioned the years of
care he had given her. ITO think
of making me pay for something
you did for my father, your friend,
I mean"
you weren't too fine to forget it
for a snowy hero" Brent retorted.
That's not fair" Helen objected.
L came to you only to ask you to
let me go, because I certainly
wouldn't have considered it fine to
keep you in ignorance of of
she stopped, her face suffused
with vivid color
Your i~nfatuation for Ennis"
Brent supplied with a note OF con-
tempt in his voice.
n u .
"CALL it what you will" Helen
~ replied. But listen to me.
I've thought Of all you have done
! for me, and I am grateful. ]
wouldn't have broken our engage
ment without your consent, but
when I saw you kiss that woman
.
Carmel" Brent interjected.
Forget her Helen. She isn't worth
a thought from you"
"Oh. yes, she is" Helen said
! swiftly. II shall never cease being
grateful to her"
Then you really think you can
put me aside for Ennis?" Brent's
voice was crisp as cracking ice.
Helen met his question with a
ready answer. Even if there had
been no one else-for me" she
said, u would not marry you now,
Leonard. I don't think We ever
could understand each other. It's
a mistake for people of such differ
ent ages to marry. I'm sure OF
that.
You see, I don't want to live
with the ashes of your past, or feel
that one-half of you is devoted to
me as to a creature from another
world. while the other half is alb
sorbed with the habit of other
women. I want to grow up with the
man I marry-to be the only femi-
nine habit he has"
She could not help smiling ten
DERBY over her recollection Of Bob'S
way with women. Nothing OF the
weary exhaustion of the world
there.
Even his ruthless epithet-that he
had hurled at her the night before
had lost its sting now that she had
hope of not deserving it in the
slightest degree.
"Bosh." Brent said impatiently.
He realized that he no longer could
WOO Helen. In a way it was a re-
lief to give up trying. There re-
manned pressure and-if necessary
threats. He decided to use pres
sure-and not to be tee gentle
about it.
do you really think there is any
advantage in discovering things for
yourself when there is some n at
hand to give you the right answer?'
he asked.
What do you mean?" Helen
asked in turn.
Il mean that you will eventually
no matter what you do-come
down to earth" Brent explained
There isn't any unalloyed happi-
ness-no ointment without a fly,
Dreams are only dreams, Helen.