Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 27, 1916, Page 7

— ' | FOURTEENTY INSTALLMENT, Symopsia. Little Helen Holmes, daughter of G eral Holmes, raliroad man, is r ued from imminent danger on a scenic rafl road by Géorge Storm to youns womanhood, Helen saves Storm now a fireman, her father his friends, Amos Rhinelander, fina and Robert SBeagrie, promotor om a t 1 ened collision. Safebreakers em Seagrue steal Genera), Holmes' suricy plans of the cut off Itie for the Tide- water, fatally wound the general and es a newsboy. Grown cape. ' Her father's estate badly in ed s death, Helen goes to work on the water. Helen recovers the survey plans from Seagrue, and though they are taken from her, finds an accidentall made proof of the survey blueprint Storm is, employed by Rhinelander Spike, befMended by Heien. in his turn aves her 4nd the right-of-way contracts when Seagrue kidnaps her. Helen and Storm win for Rhinelander a race against Seagrue for right-of-way. Helen, Storn and Rhinelander rescue Spike from Sea grue's men. Spike steals records to pro teet Rhinelander, and Storm d Hele save Spike from death he burning court house. Vein in Superstition mine pinches out.” Saagrue salts it and sells it o Rhinelander. The mine in reiocated Rhinelander gives Helen and George eac cne-third of the Superstition mine stoc Seagrue's scheme to provent payment for | he mine is spofled | Helen's Rece Agalnst Time A fortnight spent ot the Hotel Holly- wood went very rapldly for Helen Holmes The princely munificence of her foster | incle; Amos Rhinelander, in making her again through his gift of a substantial erest in the Superstition mine, a young woman of large means, had restored her to secial responsibilities. Th were hers by right of birth and inheritance hut she had been deprived of them by the untimely death of her father. Nor was her benefactor a man to do things by halves. During the time that Helen was his guest in the city he seemed an unusvally busy man. Always fully occupied, his time now was hardly his own, so frequent wnd out of town and e were his dashes in many we crigagements. And during thia time something of an air of mystery sur- rounded his movements despite all he| could do to make them appear as of or- dinary routine imposed on him by his| railroad fnterests. To Helen's frequent queries as to what he was doing day atter day, Rhinelander returned answers | which no doubt seemed to him to satisfy her. But Helen percelved these were | mere evasions calculated to put her off | and keep her in ignerance of what he | really was doing What ostensibly was most on his mind | was that Helen should make all prepara- tion for resuming a soclal state of life to | which she had been for some strenuous time a stranger. Rhinelander, always the finlshed man of the world. whether he was straiteged or.prosperous, ployed his matural aptitude for 'l‘g‘ of dictator by suggesting, commi and directing Helen to make herself | ready as soon as possible to take her place again in the soclety in which she had, as General Holmes' daughter, natu rally moved, | em« role atng He was Insistent, for examole' tha' she | zive unremitting attention to asscmbling A new wardrobe with all .accessories per- taining to 6. And found time, even in the midat of his many activities to act as counselor and adviser while the num crous tradespeople, engased in fitting Helen newly out, kept her occupied in selections and fittings. Rhinelander de cided on hats, inspected gowns, enlisted | the interest of experts in Helcn 18 he Would have enlisted engineers in run- Wing new lines of raflroad. And all th while after the work of a har! day, h seemed refreshed and sustained by som secret which he kept religourly to h'm celf until one morning when he asked her to take & ride with him into the | country. He had already restored to her servive, | after diligent inquiry, the faithful maid | with whom Helen had parted when she left her father's house. The meeting he tween the two women, mistress and sor vant, was affecting. A bond of affection had always existed between them the tragedy that came into Helen's had only increased the devotion rervitor, On the morning that Helen walked wi her maid out of the hotel and stepped into Rhnelander's car, the sun was shin- ng in & clear sky. Helon was driven from the city rapidly north along th Santa Parbara boulevard until the party cntered the country famillar to her for many years—the canyons and foot hills | of the San Pablo valley. Nature was in | its lovellest mood, and as the car glided along the broad roadway, Helen, whom Rhinelander seemed to have engaged as much as he could In engrossing conver sation, began, in spite of his efforts, to wander a Mttle in thought as landmarks Jong unfamiliar unfolded to fler vision ““Why, Uncle Ames,” she said suddenly. ‘where are you taking me”' We getting close to Stgnal.”’ “We are going to Signal and life of her themselves he replicd | quietly, “What, pray, are you going to do at Slgnal?" demanded Helen. “I've a number of things to do there,’ returned Rhinelander unperturbed. “But I can’t do them untll we get there, so why sorry about {t? I've been thinking about that model that we looked at yes terday for your second dinner gown,” he mused. “I'm inclined, Helen, to think It will do very well.” She laughed unblushingly at him. lLean ing forward from her seat, she shook her gloved finger threateningly in his face: “You're thinking nothing of the kind,” she retorted in high spirits. “You know you're not. You think I don't know when you're trying to fool me. You don't glve me credit for anything like sus picion, do you? You're putting something up. Uncle Amos! But you haven't de celved me entirely. “Well, it fsn't your fault you know everything that's golng on tainly give credit,” he rejoined zenly, “with making diligent efforts r two weeks to find out what I've been doing. But—"" he leaned forward in | turn to defy her curiosity—" you haven't found out, have you?" The raillery had no end. Helen taunt ing him with all sorts of plots and he brushing aside her questions as if they were of no more consequence then mos- | Quitoes. But when the repidly moving don't 1 cer sharply g the outskirts ¢ to the lef ighway th village g on the right t the throat with a p instinet to her dreamed, sent rap;y sl beart | great throt she ha Rhire! siler t halt s what it sked straight \rutfled herself, ead silenc was sped guardd & forirer eatate. she asked hereelf, t unwilling to b sward the | the ca tes that the entranc Weuld it t (0 hier fathe in there up n r continue The great lodgekeeper of a b Helen Apparent! had 11 ve nor th road? open and a bay vere wide A himself cf left long in Rhinelande orders for his em but the heavy car n them was not pense iver had or ackening peed a swerv pen gates and the lodge- ifted h's cap as the party Jute awoke swent g in his s 14 b same who had ' she asked herself. t> Rhine father's memoriea—co served That ander, her fath mar \ el looks e ol Keeper He cvenly Why Becanuse Rhinelander, he th The car drew stopred: “What asked Helen in call here? “Yes,” answered Rhinelander preparing to get out while a footman, running down | the stepa, the tonneau door for | hin And adde, I want you to | with Helen's brow s same mar up before the house going undertone, and to do? “make a are you an opend come in me furrowed little in per- plexity “But 1 don't know these people,” she murmured under her breath Rhinelande standing on the' ground while the foc waited at the other side of the n tonneau door for Helen, held out his hand You'll find you're | mistaken,” he said to Helen convincingly. | ‘You almost here. And even from those you don't know, 1 can promise you a genuine welcome. “U'ncle Amos,’ demanded Helen, hurry ing with him up the flight of steps that led to the familiar vestibule, and luwufl; which Rhinelander seemed hastening with | unusua)l energy, ‘what do you mean?’ “I'll tell you what, Helen, the moment you cross the threshold.” | lier maid was at her elbow and in the ‘ excitement of the little Frenchwoman, in | her sparkling eyes and compressed 1ips | ~Helen read more of the great secret. | She drew a deep breath and standing 1) | he big hall, looked around: “Why," she faltered, everything scems just as I left man know everyone RY OF MOUNTAIN RAILROAD LIFE FRANK H.SPEARMAN Storm, Held by Spik sram for Helen. She opened it and rewd “Miss Helen Holmes, edly, “how T've gnal. long, long time. ‘Will be on Local today, I've never felt until now “‘George Storm. Helen's face reflected the pleasure the | news gave her; she handed the dispatch to Spike and asked him to meet Storm at the station. When Srike had gone, Rhinelander, who had been telling Helen of his plans for you. But Mr. felt speaking rapldly and not alwi Rhinelander 1 want connect toward you for @ The trouble has been, in a position to speal | You know I love you; I thinl:| you understand why I've held my peace- | T had nothing, it seemed to me, to offer has put me in a position where I need no longer bs afrald or obliged to keep silence. | to ask you, Helen, to be my wife.” on with Seagrue. Two men watched them walk away with particular interest. | Spike, who seemed deeply concerned with the awkward situation, and George Storm, who now began to feel the full force of Helen's disapprobation For an hour she moved among her guests, accompanied a good part of the | tme by Seagrue. To tell the truth, it | was not wholly by her own desire. As her indignation cooled she began to «nnulv!»r‘ it Am-T dreaming?" -She drew her habd | (he future, resumed his subject: “And = She could not speak. It seemed to both|that her lover had some grounds for his | fa'ntly across her eyes. “What does this | elen,” he said, at length, “I'm gong | that though they had long anticipated|ungovernable outbreak and the exploits | mean? These furnishings—everything! | to make a request of you now that may | (he moment, they could mot have antici- |in which Scagrue had figured in the en- | Uncle Amos,” she cried under her breath, | goam very pecullar. You know, as well | Pated the happiness now upon them. He (geavor to do her and her friends all | “who lives here? What is it? What has | a5 1 go, how my nephew, Earl Seagrue, | 4rew her, unresisting, into his arms and | manner of harm recurred to her memory. | happened ! {has treated both you and me. He has | Placed upon her finger his engagement|gne giq feel, however, that Storm should elen.” he t ok her two hands into his | peen about as mean as a man could be, | FiN&. “This fsn't the conventional Way|pave made a further effort to tell her, | own, “thls is now your home just as it |, 4 ite of our efforts to treat him fair. of doing it, Helen, but this ring has been |y yvately he was sorry for having 551 ued to be. And your old friends are|gut the fight is over and we have won. [ WOIUNK for two long weeks for its place | rugely broken in on the festivities of | nearly all hiere to greet you.” | He 1s my only sister's child, She died | °% Your finger the day and since he did not, she was suf A group of servanis, men and women. | when he )‘v,,_,. : mere boy and asked me, | . TheY Wandered some distance from "'"tflclumfv plaued to profess an interest in | tood at the entrance to the dining room. |on her death bed, to look after Fari | N0U¢: But, unfortunately for thelr tete-|gouyru she was far from feoling They were familiar faces to the agitated | 4nq pe to him what she would have be A-tete, the guests were arriving. Rhine-| "y 0 0nniy zames were fintshed and the girl. “Everything here, Helon, has been | noq wne lived. " Tou know whether Ive | lender meeting these as well as he could, | Loty making ready to go. Helen was restoredda: you as closely a8 I could |yried to carry out her fnjunction: you | o compelled to dispatch Spike on &| 4040 to start trom the courts herself restore it " he went on quietly. “T mever | yxnow what ft has cost me In more ways | = gois r”’,‘l “’,I'" ‘ & u .| when Storm, coming up, spoke abruptly told #6u that it was 1 who took all of | han one; you know as well s AnYOne | (e ror aitus “':"“ (” kgl ‘:;"B:""‘t., her. But he was too proud and Helen the Farnishings over myself at the sale. | ¢poy T have been patient With him." | pmons the oake and in spite of Storms| W08 too disdainful. He could not' bring They were taken, at least, for me—and | Helen regarded her friend intently. | qiumusted exorocsion he detivered his fm. | meelt to speak further about the unfor put away for you: now they are restored | .geagrue is golng to pleces,” Rhinelander | M*I““' "“”MM. nd. consclence. | tunate incident and, Incensed by his at- | to you. This csiate stands again in your | yens on, “I cannot tell you all I know: | stricken at having neglected her duties as| titude, Helen, when she extended her | rame: it is my own lttle"gift t0 YOU|pue 1 know enough to distress me very | hostess. Ifclen hurried away. " | hand as he sald good-by, slipped his ring for what you hava done for me.” much. I want to help him for my sister's | Storm, in an exuberancé of happiness, | from her finger and gave it to him in Tears welled into her burning eves a8 | ..io ' to make a man of himself again, | watched her go. But another than Bpike | Shaking hands she looked into the frces smiling around fyo 1 wi be one. And for this reason- | had scen the happy pair from a distance| Flushed with humiliation. he turned | hen and to show his assoclates in his prosper- | and watched with envious eyes some ot [&Way. This was not quite what she had “Annette,* said Rhinelander. briskly.| oy, qays that his own relatives are not | their exchanges of affection—thix was|eXpected; but it was too late now to re to the maid, “Miss Helmes wishes to K0 | going to turn him down—I want you, | Seagrue call her precipitateness, and, pretending to her room.” Te looked at his watch. | yen. your friends whom 1 have invited | Smoking a cigarette, he walked delib-|not to carc—although she d'd care a great | She will tel speaking to her you, Priggs”’ he added, father's old butler. who n luncheon is to be from this moment she gives this household. But," he added, with decisive emphasis, * am | still, Briggs, at liberty to say to you that I am damnably hungry and if you wish retain my complete respect you will ree we not kept waiting after Miss Holmes is reads to sit down." Like one dazed, Helen turned toward the foot of the rs, but she did not go up. Instead, ran impulsively to Rhinelander, threw arms about his neck and kissed him. The two stood for a moment in silence, nefther of them equal to speaking, then Helen turned to Annette, who waited, and Rhinelander. blowing his nose vigorously, walked into the stood at hand, served, since the orders to to are out garden hours later wi Some he £ Helen were hurryi and ke came in his arms for you,” he on the lawn n carrying dogs. “They're tered, gruffly, to Helen when she asked about them. “I knew what Mr. Rhine lander was doing all this time,” he said. relaxing into & grin, ‘and I couldn't up with his pace in making presents 1 wanted to bring you something ‘Why, these little dears are a gift," insisted Helen. “Spike, you ought never to have done such a thing. They're beauties!"” Oh, no," demurred Spike But they are,” declared Rhinelander Where did you get them, Spike?" Spike made light of the matter. “They alan't cost mueh,” he said, modestly. ‘1 traded an old kit of burglar tools for pair o' them. 1 thought,” he added ply, “I might never need the tools again they were mostly ol models—and you might need the dogs. That's no joke. he insisted, when he saw how Helen and Rhinelander were laughing. ‘These doge better than all kinds of burglar alarms. And,” he nodded slightly toward Rhinelander, “as I've been given the job of watchman on these grounds, I'm think- ing about myself, too. They'd be a big help to me, as well as a guard for Miss | Holmes." “But Spike,” objected Rhinelander, “a | ditficulty oceurs to me. The fellow you traded the tools to may be your first caller!™ Spike shook his head: “If that guy calls on me, he'll lose his dogs and tools ) the Mttle drive two mut but roya the sim are both,” he predicted grimly Everything that day seemed to come just right. While the three were together & messenger boy appeared with a tele are here today, to invite also.” He saw the grave look on Helen's face. him to come, | crately after his departi where Storm ng flancee stood gazing The young | aiirond man was aware of the sneer on | train deal—she staried for the station with grue to sce her guests safely ¢n the train Sen “I xnow that you don't like to do it. It's | Scagrue’s face, the moment the latter| At Signal Station Perkins, the agent, almost an imposition to ask you to do it; | kreeted him: “You appear to be becom- | was taking en order from the dispatcher but for my sake, Helen, T wish you| Ing very friendly with Miss Holmes,” he| Train No. 5 will wa Feely Junction would.” He said no more, but left her | remarked with a touch of Insolence. for Extra 2603 until 1:10 p. m alone. It certainly was rather a bitter rm fired instantly. “Why shouldn't | Helen's guests were arriving thing for her. But she knew she owed !?" he demanded with equal assurance local. The agent tossed the 1 more than that to her benefactor. Rather ambitious,” sneered Beagrue, | one side and resumed h work S Eave Rhinelander was quite right ATy ¢ discharged locomotive engineer of pretty girls appeared at his v v had been rapldly going to ple He was grue,” exclaimed Storm, hi One of them tapped ot \ ) conferring that day with Ward and with | *Vell In-ang it you knew wh. asked what time it was. Perkins, aiway Adams, his servant, concerning their un thought of you, you'd be glad to b gallant, told them and wal out on the successful attempt to obtain possession of | discharged locomotive engineer. So you're'| plagtorm to answer further questions the Superstition mine. The slightest #4100 you? Well, Helen Holmes 18 | "o 1ocal that day carred haif a dozn mishap to SBeagrue's plans served now to | 50INS to be my wife, and if you say an- | oy cary, with two coaches hooked on infuriate him to & degree of anger before | °ther “:"" about her or about me, RInd end for the Biznal passenzer han which he had never previously given way. | £! ‘ - “‘I“"\"“"’K“""““'j":"{‘,f r'“' the train pulled in, Storm, with Spike an He upbraided both the men roundly and |\ * “r e d your Infernal |,, . tennis guests, bomded it “agigleay dlsmissed Ward with abuse. Hardly a g i pt St S Moogion . i g 'm”:‘nm n man appearod at |, Seagrue strode toward him in a tury :v“\:‘v"* '“’ o sy . . hor today to my friend There will youreelf Frae An . Watas e ¥ be tennis and tea. HELEN HOLMES Storm’s arm shot out. The next moment | form He studied the note in some surprise. the two men were engaged in a pitched The moment reached } It certainly was mot overcordial, yet, it battle ke, at a distznce, saw the mix- |his eyes rested on the fiin he had might mean an opening in a direction in | 'P. ran to Helen to warn her of the dis- | forgotten to gl the meetis rde which he would &lad to gain advan- ! bance and hastened away to separate | No, § He das ou f »or I tin tage and he decided at once that he would | the pair vainly after the ay ring troin 1 accept. He gave orders for the trip to| Jelen, in her excitement, started after | grue atopped hi Vhat's the matter Bignal, resolving to drive out, and told ke. Rhluelander and othera followed. | Perkins was hardly able to spe Adams he was to accompany him. They |8torm and Scagrue were at it hammer | overlooked an order. [nlcas W op left the room together a little later and, | 2n¢ ton The men tore them apart. | jocal, she will crash into N it th getting into & mew roadsicr, started for | Storm. furious at his enemy but he 14 | junction Signal ha h Spike and Rhinclander, launched Helen, who u ratood th emerger station and was talking to the ament | oo p Fooe WOrd . way | Panion's ar o must catch tha when the local passenger pulled fn and! '™ 0 G v g Nns | trels she cried ther be a terr Storm got off. aw Splke and the tw i . ¢ rest Ags o, e v ble accident left for the b inex able, that ghe upbrajded Storm se What ¢ 8 ht » 1t was a delightful moment when Storm | yo o1 o0 L Ti e orate langunge manded engr I'm no sprinter greeted Helen and Rhinelunder under t S e R e with - hib In th hine—t ' ne, cr old oaks. The ug rallroed wan seemed o b imselt under | Heler Don't | tant. We m bubbling over wit ppine AP e sortunity to | be 00 late Rhinelander, perceivin his great anx- ., . advanta netural but Seagrue, whose mind did not work a fety to segregate Helen fc Mttle talk, | oxirome Ngnat " ade the | Guickly, lost a p us moment in aski summoned Spike and left t i ggn i s - 4 Then agreeing what she themaelves Badas ad ai rponc "t lared mw be ¢ the two t Storm led Helen Lo the ade of one | s had g gt e house, boarded agTUE and of the big trees ! was coming up to Storm him a n by 8 e arte rapidl wn the highway after day, anyway, Helen e began, “even If |, tied to muke his apologies to Helen. | the local I had not got your note. You know what t it was too late. Helen would n £ ¢ I have been doing for two weeks—abol After er ® r v five men's work ten to him, and, turning awa with nge of Bl L4 y arallels th I know." returned H happily, “but | her muests, loft Btorm with nobody ¢ t d rhe local the best of it Is, you are equal to it ympathize with him but Spike ng.nemsn tow n " ) “I'm not so sure of that. But I do Reaching the te cou n y ) : know that it has been the hardest two the gu # Look up the pla while ot r ood speed, when ) w I Y weeks' work I have ever done in my life | looking back toward the geene of ex the oth Is o keep away from you." He looked at|ment, saw Helen coming . nd \ her evenly. Her eyes fell under his gaze. | grue and Rhinelander. the | motor car or ed 1 ar I think you realise, Helen,” he went on, | courts, Helen, instead of . nd dri r along t nd, W avertaking the engine. mised they were giving the train & race— not an unusual frantically at him. Jestin, ‘The fireman sur- ththg along that par- But these racers waved Thinking they were the fireman wavad back in turn. “We never can stop them!” cried Helen. “That man thinks we're fooling. You must run ahead of the train, and get ticular tangent. {over on the other side where we can reach the engineer.'” With a terrific burst of speed, the motor | ear pulled ahead of the fast moving en- gine, and taking the track like a hurdle, crossed to the right side of the engine. For one moment the llves in the motor car hung narrowly in the balance; the hind wheels missed the pilot by only the fraction of a second. Helen tried to cry out her warning to the engineer. But he, mistaking her intent as the fireman had done, grew angry at what appeared to him a crazy joy ride. He refused to listen or look any longer toward the motorists, but he waved them contemptu- ously off, calling them roundly for tuelr \diocy and sitting down agaln to his throttle. Half o mile beyond where Helen and were now speeding, the rallroad and the highway part company abruptly and all hope of making the engineer stop Seagrue came to an end. As the train pulled away from the road, the motor car was halted and Seagrue and Helen got out Helen felt keenly distressed, but of a sudden she remembered Burnet Brid She whirled on Seagrue: “We can beat them to Burnet bridge, this side of the Junetion!” Come on, eried Seagrue. “If we're to do that, there's no time to wasle. Into thk car! He sprang In after hev and away they went on the new hope. Abourd the train, no one had any idea of the excitement outside. Storm, upset by the outcome of the day, was talking with others in the couch and was so ab- sorbed that he caught no sight of Helen on the vanishing highway. But by press ing thelr car to the utmost speed, she and Seagrue reached Burnet bridge ahead of the train. From where they stoppec the could see the smoke of the jocal \ fast approaching Seagrue asked Helen what she meant to ). She had decided and told him her plan. He protested, saying she must not uttempt what she proposed You will nly get killed,”” he insisted, “and do no- No she replied I can do it and I'm going to. I know that train can be wved and 1'in going to save It It all right to try anything you'd have any chance of succeeding in, but v'd only be going to your death, I tell you he persisted Unwillin, to waste more time, Helen tried to open the car door to get out en eaught her arm You shan't ¥ he declared I will go,” she cried fore he could restrain her, she jumped out of the car and running swiftly to the Ige of the bridge caught hold of it. The next moment the local das 4 through elow and Helen jumped to the top of the box car underfoot Serambling up from the deck she ran to the nd, hurried down the side lad 1 getting between the two cars, ahe cut off the air and pulled the pin The train, torn abruptly in two, sepa rated, the head end jerking on toward the J tion rossing, just ahead, while the hind end slowed dowp. No, § had already histled for the Junction and as the front end of the parted local dashed over the fr the heavy passenger train wept swiftly across almost at right g to It ¥ as It went, its observa- fon r barely cleared the hind end of he | al as this followed ov the cross ing In pursult of its severed head The local engineer, looking back, saw what had happened and applied the air As he slowed down, the passengers, Now a ke to what had happened, turned out of hes and ran forward. Helen fell fainting from the side ladder; s fay unec s on the ground as t . u toward Helen, bhut s ¥ i an srm shot out befors ! v barr e Storm whirled AUTHOR. OF “WHISPERING SMITH,” “THE"MOUNTAIN DIVIDE” “STRATEGY OF GREAT RAILROADS, 'ETC. him half way around and himself, ing, lifted Helen trom the ground knen - Dazed by her fall and opening he . slowly on her surroundings, Helen—while Storm anxtously naked her if she was hurt and reproached her for leaving hi= gradually pulled her senses together. “Take mured, What At Storm's elbow, whilo he tendery cared for and redoubled his efforts revive Helen, stood Spike, like a wa dog. He kept the circle of passenzers trom crowding in, and when Seagrus agaln attempted to interfere, Hpike es- corted him over to his machine and in- vited him in such unmistakable terms to continue his journey *hat Seagrue thoutht best not to rouse Spike's anger further. me away, faintly., “Who are these peo | has happened?” George,” shie to Returning hurriedly to the foeus of in- terest about Helen, Spike continued (o push the passengers back. When Helen spoke to Btorm again, as she soon did she wan able to rise to her feet and thare passengers who refused to leave tho young couple to themselves were hustiod away by Spike to give privacy to the | tle scene being enacted between Helon and Storm in the foreground. “I am desperately scrry, Helen, I for- got mysel? this morning,” George was saying to his offended sweetheart. I know I ought not to have given way, but when that fellow spoke to me as he Ald—after all his meanness—I felt as I nothing but a good beating-up would do him justice. 1 forgot you in it, Helen that's all. Can you forgive me?" Bhe looked up into his eyes. Whether he found forgivemess there or not, he could detect nothing of anger. ‘‘Take me home, George,” she sald, sorrowfully “I'm awtully bruised vp. “You've mnothing on me at that'” laughed Storm. He slipped his hand into the pocket of his waiscoat and drew out their ring. ‘‘Before we start, Helen, I'd better put this back where it belongs.' Taking her unresisting finger into his own, he slipped the engagement ringover it again. To Be Continued.) o Fashion’s Spring Sign A delightful novelty is the skirt of ruf- fled tulle, worn with a bodice of satin. Flowered taffeta and lace are com- bined In quaint and becoming frooks. Spring frocks show many adaptations of the old-fashioned basque. 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