With
a leap Kent gained her side and his hand sought her pulse.
"Ring for brandy and water," he directed as Barbara came to his aid.
"Helen has fainted."
Twenty minutes later Kent hastened out of the McIntyre house and,
turning into Connecticut Avenue, boarded a street car headed south.
After carrying Helen to the twins' sitting room he had assisted
Barbara in reviving her. He had wondered at the time why Barbara
had not summoned the servants, then concluded that neither sister
wished a scene. That Helen was worse than she would admit he
appreciated, and advised Barbara to send for Dr. Stone. The
well-meant suggestion had apparently fallen on deaf ears, for no
physician had appeared during the time he was in the house, nor had
Barbara used the telephone, almost at her elbow as she sat by her
sister's couch, to summon Dr. Stone. Kent had only waited long
enough to convince himself that Helen was out of danger, and then
had departed.
It was nearly one o'clock when he finally stepped inside his office,
and he found his clerk and a dressy female bending eagerly over a
newspaper.
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