"That's what I want to do—get away from here; and that was all I meant when I said to punish Gordon."
The Senator patted her cheek tenderly and drew a deep breath of relief.
"By the way, father," Helen said casually, when she started back to her room, a little later, "I saw Miss Purnell on the street yesterday. You know, she was out when Gordon took me to see her."
"Well, is she dangerous?"
Helen looked at him in amusement, and shrugged her shoulders.
CHAPTER XI
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Relieved though Helen was to some extent, by her father's assurances and by the explanation which he had given, she was far from being in a tranquil frame of mind.