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SERIAL STORY-
The DARK BLOND
CARLETON KENDRAKE
A man's voice said. "Just a minute!" and a hand touched Millicent's aboulder.
BEGIN HERE TO-DAY MILLICENT GRAVES ke her employer. GEORGE DRIMCOLD, for me and.
0 TERES
katund, is fired. A moment later he begs her; Us atny, saying he something important flate contencion that for hna prutecled murderer. return. Bringuid tells her to watch for
1Jack ermine cost. Meent WLAN in u
Millicent goes out to dinner, pruming to
wuch a woman in the jentu. Later Milleent sroven and has taken her purer, subalituting one esselly like. She start back to the tentoom Kiel k the dow A distill-looking man of
valor se -mildale are.
CHAPTER IL Millicent realized her predicament. The assistant janitor must have seen Drimgold's body and nutified police. Within a few minutca machinery of the law would have
started to function.
the
the
Someone had murdered Drimgold, That someone must have deliberately stolen Mileont's purse.
enving
carefully prepared duplicato in order to prevent Millicent from detecting the substitution. That person must have used Millicent's keys to open the door of the office, Drimgold, in a desper ate struggle for life, must have anatched at the purse the murderer was carrying and dumped its con tents over the office.
really warned her of the impending innger?
"
This time the clerk's shake of the head was not accompanied by a smile. "I'm sorry," she said, "it's im Millicent left the subway at the 38th street station. A cheap hotel possible. In the first place, our ac displayed an electrle sign. She reg counts are confidential, and, in the The second place, it would entail far too istered under an assumed name. clerk demanded cash in advance.uch work in our bookkeeping depart Millicent hesitated a moment, then ment." took the amount from the coin purse. After all, it would be in the nature of a loan.
Millicent felt strangely balked, help less, She walked over to the tele phone booths and called the tea room Striving to keep any excilement from showing in her voice, she said, where she had dined that night.
I'd like to speak to the gypsy fertube teller, please. Tell her is quite im- {portant."
"Who is this talking?" asked a woman's voice.
"You can tell her that it's just a friend calling," Millicent said."
"What friend?"
"Please," Millicent said Impatiently, "teil her to come to the phone, Teli her it's important"
So the gypsy
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After a night of tortured dreams, interspersed with Atful periods of abou: Müllernt's purur. The woman in back morning newspaper told her all that No he in the tearoom khows anything sleep, she awoke to face the day. A ermine le gone. rent goes lack to Or the police were willing to make public. a damning gold's offer, find him deal. Her purn 1
fbour. contents scattered. She' It was enough to make on the kook out the window, and are policeman euse against her.
Drimgald, it seemed, had telephoned entering the bu
someone whone identity was being kept secret by the police and said that he was dictating a confession to his secretary. The polico know, there- fore, why Millicent had been working overtime. They find traced her moves
The woman's voice said, "She dis- from the time she left the tea room at 6:35, signed the register in the elo-
She left a vator and was taken to the 17th floor, appeared late last night under rather The murder had been committed at peculiar circumstances. between 6:15 and 6:46. The assistant note saying she wouldn't be back. Janitor who discovered the body had Therefore, if you'll please tell me who Millicent sild the receiver back on told the officers he had heard Millicent it is calling, I'l and her employer. quarrolling in the Private office and had heard Dringold the hook, turned and walked rapidly shout, "You're Gred! The police had from the department store,
woman had disap searched for Millicent's shorthand notebook in when they reasoned shopeared. Perhaps, after all, it was the must have written Dringold's con- gypsy woman who had arranged for fession. They bad searched in vain the substitution of the purses. Per- haps it was the gypsy woman who had Blind, unreasoning panic seized the and now they were throwing out
WAR satisfied it couldn't have been. girl as she realized her predicament. dragnet for Millicent, a dragnet which gone to Drimgold's office... no. sho
was combing the city.
The fortune teller might have sub- She turned away from the window, rushed past the thing which lay on
Millicent took stock of the situation, 1stitutri purses-that was all.
Millicent Graves tried to compose the floor, ran to the outer office and
she
caught sight of the She was without funds of her own. desk, This was the notebook in whieb which had been substituted hers.partment store to sidewalk. A sho hnd taken down in shorthand the From thin she had paid the hotel bill, newsboy thrust a paper In front of "Pollee soich for moider girl!" he of Dringold's, con- She determined to use no more of this her. first instalment
She had, she realized, burned fession. Hardly realizing what she money,
Millicent's horrified eyes caught: did, she snatched it up, clamped it her bridges in a moment of blind screamed at her. "Read about it."
raced for the panic. Having once fed from tho under her arm and
ucone of the murder, no story that she sight of her picture emblazoned upon corridor.
She shook her head, turned hurried- The elevator bell was ringing could now tell the police would carry the front page of the newspaper. conviction. There was only one thing frantically,
of her coat, feeling suddenly very There was only one elevator run- she could do-find the woman in black fly away, snuggled down into the collar She left the hotel, chin up, despite conspicuous and very, very helpless. taken the elevator to the upper floor.
Howspaper photograph? It seemed ning in the building. Millicent had who had substituted purses.
that every She knew that the assistant janitor the weakness of her knees, deter- Would he be recognized from the and the police officer were ringing the mined to fight the thing through.
As she pushed her way through the inevliable. It seemed
broad-shouldered passerby must recognize her. She bell, trying to get the elevator back down to the ground floor. She en- swinging door,
wanted to run. She wanted to hide man entered through the other side of wanted to scream, "Here I am!" Sho cloacd the doors the cage. tered
the door and went directly to the waited.
She started walking with swiftly After a few moments the bell quit desk. Millicent remembered, an sho She wanted to do everything at once. ringing and Millicent felt that the reached the sidewalk, she had forgot assistant Janitor and the officer had ten to leave her key at the desk. She nervous steps; and suddenly became either started up the long climb of once more entered the hotel, steppot conscious of steps that were approach long-paced, masculine steps, the steps 17 flights of stairs or akse had gone to timidly up behind the broad-shouldering from behind her. They wore the basement to put another elevator ed man and heard him say,
looking for a broad who may have of a man who is in a hurry.
Millicent checked an impulse to in commission.
registered under the name of Millicent look back over her shoulder, checked She pushed the control lever and the Graves.
She turned, and, controlling her an impulse to run. She moved closer to the display windows of the depart- cage slid smoothly downward. Sho tried to atop at the ground floor, but steps by an effort, slipped unobtrument store, hoping to reach the it was only after three attempts that sively through the exit to the street corner where she could turn and be
It took all of her self-reliance to go lost in the crowd. she was able to bring the cage to a position from which she could open without coffee, but she decided to do the doors. She sped'across the lobby so, despite the dull ache which com-
A man's voice sahi, "Just a minute, and out into the wind-swept darkness. menced to form back of her oyes.
She wont Arst to the departmentalcare, and a hand touched her on There was a subway entrance at the carner and she ran toward it, the wind store where she had purchased the the shoulder. whipping her clothes about her. As purse.
"I am wondering," she told the sho entered the subway, above the wall of the wind she heard the scream clerk, "if you can trace for me the 1 purses which you have sold and which
of a siren.
It was not until after she had board- were initialed M. G." There can't be ed the subway train that she suddenly a great number of thom, and..."
"I'm sorry," she said, "but those realized her predicament. She had fled from the scene of the murder. monograms are cut on a stenciling She dared not go home. She wanted machino of our, own which can be a dial so as to give only to get away from everything and controlled everyone. Drimgold was dead. Her any particular combination of lot terminated. tera, overlapping in the form of a job bad automatically She was, without funds, save for the scroll. We ascertain the initials that money which was in the purse that a purchasar wanis and, while the pur- chaser is waiting, the initials are cut had been substituted for hers.
Bhe thought of that sinister fortune by the machina and attached to the which had been read in the tea leaves leather by a special process. We by the gypsy fortune teller. She re- don't keep any record of the letters, membered the words, "The Murder any, more than we would of initials Girl," and alckoning horror gripped placed in the bands of hats sold from her, (a horror, which was shortly re- our hat department."
Millicent frowned placed by suspicion. Was it possible the gypsy fortune teller had been the then sold, "I think the party that Had I am inquiring about would probably one to subatitate the purses?
thoughtfully,
the so-called fortune telfer been mero have a charge account here. Would it ly instrumental in the murder and be possible for me to see the charge taking the first steps in a carefully accounts of persons whose initials are fald campaign to frighten Millicent M. G. and see whether a bag had boen. into flight, or had soms psychic sonse purchased?”
The steps followed behind her. Millicent quickened her stops.
(To Be Continued.)
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