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The DARK BLOND
CARLETON KENDRAKE
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"Wait a minute," Drimgold pleaded. "Let's be reasonable. You can't leave me now."
CHAPTER I
consideration your penny-pinching quite the pillar of society that he Millicent Graves glanced from her tactics. It took two girls to do your liked to simulate.
wark before I came here. I'm doing She snuggled into her for cont, new fur cost which was visible the work of both of those girls at one scooped up the mail, snupped an through the open door of the coat girl's salary. Even then, I wouldn't elastle band around the pack of lettors, closet, to the clack.
mind the work if you'd be decent took care to throw the spring lock on The clock showed 5.35, and George about it. You treat a girl like a the door into position, nodded to the Drimgold hadn't as yet returned to slave, and I'm not going to be a slave. assistant janitar as she stepped out sign the mail.
Iston't care how scarce Jubs are. I'm into the corridor, Her capable fingers flow over the going to get a raise or I'm going to keys of the typewriter, finishing the quit."
last stereotyped "Heg to remain, very She heard one' of the Janitors her coat tightly around her figure as truly yours," of the voluminous cor-moving around in the other office, and respondence.
realiset her voice had been high- expltched with rage,
She went to the elevator, dropped her letters down the mail chute, pulled she met the cold wind of the street. The tingling air felt good to her skin. The outer door opened with
She fought her way to the lighted plosive violence, George Drimgold i
"You don't need to quit," Drimgold tearoom. After all, it was frightfully pushed toward his private office. shouted, "You're Bred!"
high priced. However, they dis have "Come in, Miss Graves," he said.
"Very well." she said, and closed nice food; and there was a woman "Bring a notebook."
her book with a vicious sann.
who told fortuner with the tea leaves, Millicent frowned.
fee and was on the knob of the who went from table to table, There was
Millicent Graves suddenly realised a stack of mail that door as Drimgold's valce, strangely would take 10 or 15 minutes to fuld changed, reached her ears. "Wait a that her own future was going to seal, and stamp, Of late this aver minute. be pleated. "Let's because her some concern. Drimgold time work had been getting to be a reasonable. I need you. I've got had told her she was habit with Drimgold, and Millicent some most important dietation. You probably he was serious. Graves had made up her mind that can't leave me now. I'm all upset. She pushed the door and entered the she'd tell him, in a nice way, that Just Please forgive me.”
welconie warmth of the tearoom. a little more consideration would give
She hung up the fur coat where she could keep an eye na it, dropped her her time freshen up it before
She turned to sture at him, and purse to a chair beside her, and con- dinner.
But Millicent, however, was hardly suddenly realised that the man was suited the menu. in a position to become from with her speaking employer to-night. She had a favour hesitated for a moment, then came eroquettes and tea and still leave a to ask. So she sighed, picked up her back to the dictating table, spread out notebook, and followed George Drim-her notebook, and said frostily. gold into the private office.
Dritugok staret-at-her-with- eyes which glittered strangely.
the simple truth. She
fred. Quite
She could, she saw, get some chicken
10-cunt tip for the waitress out of the 50 cents Drimgald had given her.
"Very well. What is it, a letter?" The croquettes, she knew, were small "No" said Dringold slowly, 'it's and entirely unsatisfying as fuel to confession."
fortify herself against the cold ride Despite herself, she felt quick home. However, if she had the small
She on his face,
ins no tip for the girl, and the
. Millicent Graves didn't notice the f
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signs of inner emotion. A sudden sympathy as she saw the expression steak at 50 cesta, it would mean there for Saigon, Manila, Sandakan, Rabaul, Salamaua,
realised wint she was doing.
"Mr. Dringold," she said, "I wonder
surge of valour possessed her.
"I'm going to dictale this confes-waitress louked tired. Probably she, acted upon pulse, and beard her own voice speaking, almost before shesion," he said. "You're going to write too, was overworked and underpaid."
il out. Then I'm going to sign it, Millicent decided on the croquettes, take and gave her order. She took a and you'll witness it. Please
her purse and was this down, Miss Graves. To whom it cigarette from may concern: This is to certify that holding a match to it when her eyes I. George Drimgold, of the age of suddenly snapped to quick attention. 18 years, president of the Dringold A woman, with a cont of binck ermine
If I would be possible for me to get
an advance on next month's salary?
It happens that I've had some rather heavy expenses this month, and.
"No," he told her shortly. "I'm Realty Revaluation Company, am wrapped around her, had entered the guilty of being an accessory to a tearoom. She walked with quick, sorry, but it's impassible."
nervous steps. Millicent couldn't nee "Very well," she said with dignity.murder. "It's after 6 o'clock. Your mail is ready for signing, Shall I get it?"
"Not yet. I've got something to dietate to you."
"It's after 6."
to
He said irritably, "I don't care what time it is. I told you I've got some dictution. You're going to have work to-night. You'll have downtown. There's a tearoom in the block."
to cat
Sho could feel the pulse pounding in her throat. She realised now that Drimgold was in a most irritable mood. Yet, having started to assert her rights, she didn't intend to aton.
What I am about to dictate, Bliss Graves," Driingold said, "is of the utmost importance. I don't want to be interrupted...”
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"I am not guilty of that murder, her face, but she could glimpso a cold-
I do, however, know the guilty party. Hly baieful eye.
For years I have protected this party
Then the woman in the ermine coat
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and have myself shared in the benefits swept past her and took the table Just | CONSIGNEES'
which neerued from that murder,
back of the one where Millicent
"In order to minke this confession ant. intelligible at this late date. It is necessary for me to set forth certain facts. These facts can best bo explained by certain documentary sequence, certain newspaper clippings which I will quote herein at length.
Drimgold paused in his dictation, turned to the wall safe above his desk. Ifix fingers touched the knob of the combination; then he turned to Mull
cent Graves.
"I've got to get some documenta," he said. "Go ahead and get that mail. I'll sign it. Then you can get
it in the mail chute.".
She went to the outer office, return- "Before we start in on that dicta- tion," Millicent Graves said firmly, ed with the stack of mall, placed. It "thero's the question of finances and on the desk in front of him. He overtime. I know that jobs are signed the letters with a firm, steady
hand, Sho
folded the mail, placed it takea scarce. Mr. Drimgold, but it virtually every cent that make in the envelopes. Dringold took some In the envelopes, scaled and stamped order to live."
"I noticed you Aashed out with a papers from the wall safe, started now fur coat," he retorted sarcastical-pawing through them, arranging them
In some sort of a sequence.
ly.
"Yes, I did," she said, "and I needed
"Go get yourself something to cat," it. It was a bargain. I couldn't pass he said, without looking up. "Lock up. I paid for it out of my own the door as you go out. I don't want money. You don't have to give me an to be disturbed. Be sure the door's On the locked. If you see a woman in a black advance if you don't want to.
other hand, I certainly don't have, to ermine cont, with a big collar.. up work overtime for you. As it hap- Pround her face, don't let her in under pens, I can't do it to-night. I haven't any circumstances. If she's in the. enough money to even pay for any corridor when you come back from dinner, don't unlock the office door. dinner."
Drimgold frowned, thrust a hand Go some place and telephone me. I'l into his trousers pocket, pulled out answer the telephone. And don't be roll of bills. He hesitated a moment, long,"
"Very well, Mr. Drimgold," Millicent then replaced the bills, From his other pocket he took some sliver and said, with mechanical obedience, but alid a 60-cent plece across the desk to she was thinking that the dianer she could buy at the tea room for 50 cents wouldn't unreasonably detain ker.
hor
You can got enough to eat," he said, "for half a dollar. I'll pay for the meal. I won't pay for overtime.
She stood in front of the mirror, If you don't want this position, I can giving flashing touches to her face, get others who do."
and thiruding of Driwgold's strange. Millicent Graves, pushed back her confession. She might have known it chair. Despite herself, her voice rose was something like that. No man "That's the thing that I hate about who was guilty of the petty, chiseling you!" sho acroamed. "You lack of tactics George Drimgold used could be
(To Be Continued.)
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