Title: The vanished Helga..
Description: Corbett (1887-1981) lived with her family at the Northwestern Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers in Milwaukee for 25 years (near present-day Miller Park), where her father worked as an administrator. She continued to live in Milwaukee for several years afterward, before moving to New York. Corbett graduated from UW-Milwaukee in 1910, quickly becoming a novelist and short story writer. In addition to many other works, in 1941 she published Out at the Soldiers’ Home, an autobiographical account of her years there.

Jim Whittaker meets Zoe Lenox at the home of his friends, the Evingtons. She is a very
beautiful and a very proud and cold young woman of unlimited wealth. Her one passion is the sea. Shortly after, she asks Whittaker to cruise with her and the Evingtons on her yacht, the Helga. Jim goes on board at the appointed time and does not learn till the boat is under way that the other guests have been detained and that he is sailing alone with the goddess. Her caprice takes them into the Antarctic where they are all but wrecked by the floating ice, drifting about for days with little hope of rescue. It is at this time that the girl’s proud poise breaks down and she gives herself up to her awakened love for Whittaker. Once returned to land however, her old manner is resumed, and the latter half of the story has to do with the stormy years that follow before her stubborn determination is finally softened.
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