The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-10-25
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She hasn't quite forgiven me fol
losing it. Leonard must have fcunc
it and didn't know whom to return
it to-"
Helen was staring at the pictured
face in the open locket. Charles
Nellin! She recognized him easily
Among Evangeline Cunningham S
possessions she had found a like
ness of him that the clipping girl
had left behind.
She was too confused for a mo-
ment to speak-to question Eva. And
then, while Eva still held the locket
in plain view Leonard Brent opened
the door of his apartment.
He always entered without un-
necessary noise. The two girls did
not hear him even when he came
up behind them. They were alb
sorbed in Eva's find and their own
thoughts concerning it. Eva was
delighted for her mothers sake
and Helen was trying to put her
chaotic impressions in order.
Suddenly, with the ferocity of a
tiger, Brent reached for the locket
But just an instant before he did
so Helen saw him.
Eva screamed and automatically
thrust the locket farther from his
reach. Then, as she recognized him,
she started to relax. In another sec
ond he'd have had the locket in his
possession had Helen not sprung
forward and seized it.
Brent turned upon her with a
snarl, Give that to me-" he rasped
and neither girl had ever seen the
beast on the surface of him before
that moment.
Helen knew instantly that the
locket was of vital Importance to
him. And it concerned the Gun
ningham family. She did not need
time to decide that Brent must not
have 1t.
No thought of herself, Of possible
exposure that might land her in
prison, came to her as she made the
next move in the game. 1t was
enough to Illustrate Brent.
CHE turned and ran toward the
- door. Brent had not expected
her to do that-to be SO quick TO
grasp the fact that the locket was
evidence he wished to conceal at any
cost.
Helen gained the foyer before he
came after her. She reached the
door. jerked it open and flew out
into the hall just few steps ahead
of him. She was fast, but a short
distance from the elevator Brent
had almost caught up with her.
Helen heard him calling viciously
to her to stop and her heart sank.
She dared not call for help, and I'M
less there was an elevator on the
floor she never could escape with
the locket
Oh, thank God there was one
descending. The operator was even
then closing the door Helen cried
out to him to wait. but he had his
car in motion and her wild manner
confused him. He fumbled with
the controls, trying at the same time
to hold the door open. Helen rushed
into the elevator as it teetered Up
and down, thrust herself periously
through the narrow opening. The
operator did not see Brent behind
her.
He started his car down and gave
the door a strong push to clang it
| to.
Helen whirled about. Then she
screamed and turned her face away,
When they carried her out of the
car after the operator had overcome
his own horror sufficiently to sum-
mon help, she was in dead faint
They took her back into Brent:
apartment, where the Japanese
servant was doing his best to quie
Eva. The girl had followed Bren
to the door.
Mercifully, she did not witness
the accident. Bewilderment and tht
shock of Helen's scream minglinE
with Brent's one cry of morta
agony held her rooted where sh
stood. swaying dizzily and fast sue
cumbing to the hysteria that wa
sweeping over her.
The japanese helped her bacl
into the living room. Her erie
were the first sounds that came +
Helen's ears when consciousness re
turned.
For q few seconds Helen did no
understand-then her hands fieV
to her face and she sobbed alou
while memory repainted the indie
| scribable scene she had witnessed.
A physician was sent to tn