The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-18

Marks came in.
Miss Brent's car is at the door
sir" he said crisply. The man
who brought it is waiting down.
stairs"
Send him up Mr.. Cunningham
directed, and turned to Helen. She
was back at the window, looking
down and gasping with delight.
Presently she turned back to him
and he saw that she was flushed
and happy.
mo deep trouble there he re-
1ected with great relief.
How kind of you'll" Helen cried,
coming to throw her arms about
his neck and hug him joyously.
"Tush. tush, my dear. Be care
full. Someone Is coming. You
mustn't compromise an old man, y
he chuckled. Remember that no
one knows you are not Miss Brent.
How many names 1 seem to
have" Helen murmured. Il Won
der what it will be finally?"
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MIR. CUNNINGHAM did not an
4VI Swer, for the agency man was
admitted just then. Mr.. Cunning
ham thanked him for bringing the
car and asked him if he cosld take
Helen out in it at once.
"She says she can drive" he
leased. but I'm afraid she might
mistake the clouds for a hill top"
The young man grinned. THAT
car ought to go to any ones head
Mr.. Cunningham" he answered
proudly.
We'll, see that she keeps it on
the road" the older man directed
And do return soon," he added to
Helen.
She kissed him again, with graft
tude and some real affection, then
hurried away to get a hat, although
what she wanted with it the young
man wondered, because she didn't
put it on her head and some time
during the drive it got lost.
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Helen. She drove it early and late
finding new roads, expending herself
in swift action, flying away from her
thoughts.
When, now, she thought of Brent
and his charming women friends
she stepped on the gas and flew over
the road like mad. 1t gave her
wild, eerie satisfaction.
But one day it brought trouble
She was near home. going along at
moderate pace down winding
hill when the thought that she was
burning up her emotions like SC
much waste came to her with q
clarity that made her resentful.
She had closed her eyes for an
instant. The car Rugged the road,
but Helen had forgotten that she
was descending a hill. Her foot
pressed the accelerator and the car
shot forward like a startled deer.
Even then, but for the fact that
these things happen, no harm would
have been done. for she had the
car under control. But girl chose
that instant to step from path
along the road directly in front of
the car.
Her scream and Helen's we're
simultaneous. Helen's strong young
hands cemented themselves to the
wheel in a quick, firm grip. The
athletically trained muscles of her
forearms stood up like boys under
her soft skin.
The car whipped aside like a
drunken rowdy, climbed bank and
tore through a wire fence before it
came to stop. For an instant
Helen was seized with vertigo that
made her feel faint and ill.
Had there been no one else to
consider she would probably have
lost consciousness. but her mind re-
tanned the fieeting vision Of a body
being hurled aside from impact with
her cars fender and this vision sent
her rumbling back to the scene.
white and shaking with dread.
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THE girl she had struck lay mo-
i tionless at the side of the road.
The pitiful sight, tore at Helen's
heart. She gathered the crIlmpled
young body into her arms, sobbing
out her horror.
The girl stirred and Helen
grssped at the hope that she was
not dead. She put her down again
very gently out of the way of any
car that might pass and ran up to
her own car.
A prayer of thankfulness escaped
her lips when she got the motor
started and managed to back down
on the road. 1t required the utmost
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