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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MAY
SERIAL STORY-
1935.
The DARK BLOND
BEGIN HERE TO-DAY
CARLETON KENDRAKE
MILLICENT ORAVES' employer, GEORGE DUMOULD," tells bør he has a contention to strimin and warns her arabs a woman in black ermine cont
..
Hlient leave the office and shey such a woman, Later, she finds her purse, has been taken, and a similar, one subsiltuled. In the alestator she meets a distinguished-looking man ng middle age,
Returning to the office, Milifcent Anda Drime gol dead in panto she sushow away and explsters at a hotel under an aunted "zame. Next day she meets the stranger again.. le alle ter fila name le JARVIS HAPP. H
send her to Seauty shop where, In wolte of bur protealE, to l transformed into brinetto,
Happ rumes for her in his car and Intro- dar his son, NORMAN.
CHAPTER VI
"The big ̈ent parred "smoothlykte motion. The chauffeur guided it with deft skill through the trame,
Jarvis Hopp turned to his son and cald, by way of explanation, "MiBA Grabes is the new secretary I have engaged to take enre of my work at the house."
Millicant noticed the manner In which Jarvis Happ had given her an Alias by simply changing one letter in her name. So she was to be Mr. Hopp'a secretary-or was she? This man was altogether too smooth, too unve to suit her. He scented to have carefully planned a detailed campaign, every step of which had been careful- ly mapped out in advance. This enmpaign had been laid without con- sulting Millicent the person most concerned.
Once more at of her suspicions came to the front. Why was Mr. Happ doing this? What was his Interest in her? What did he want?
She stared stendity whend, saying nothing, but conscious of Norman Happ's approving glance studying her profile.
He stared at Millicent with slow appraisal and slowly nodded.
room, and
blue!
and
Milleent wanted to laugh, then she wanted to cry. Her nerves were almost completely unstrung. Events had been moving with too he wildering rapidity to enable her to keep up with them.
The young man made her strange the best available. I'm going to hallway with the air of a mortician ly nervous. He had all of the give her a thorough trial. We'll offeiuting at a funeral. magnetic attraction of him father, nke her comfortable in the coupled with the appeal of a young ins of her own age, and there was, moreover, a daring, rollicking some- thing in his eyes devil-may-enre: spirit of adventure which made her feel that sooner or later this man was going to keep her very, very much on the defensive.
some
once
The car sped along a boulevard? swung to the right turned more into a private drivewny, Go- TAKE doors al noiselessly onell, manipulated by
mechanical! nieans. The car stopped in front of n portico and the chauffeur jumped down to open the door.
Millicent feit very self-conscious as Jarvis Hopp handed her from the car to the pavement. Norman Happ pushed past them into the house, any ing. " tell Cynthia."
The chauffeur caugh: lapp's so of dismissal; slipped back bebind the wheel and drove the car through the open doors of the garage. Tho dour instantly alid shut.
"Why" asked Millicent breathless ly, "are you doing this? What are you after? What
7"
His voice was vibrant with power.) It cut through her quick questions ns the prow of a steamboat cuts through water, turning it up on either side-in-neat, graceful waves.
The smile faded from Cynthia app's face. There was no frown, expression of Irritation, no slight
She turned toward the mirror and sign of annoyance, but her voice was cold with finality. She said, was staring at the unfamiliar ro- "Not in the blue room, Jarvis, my flection when, without warning. the dear. We'll put her in the rose door of her room jerked open. A ruohu."
young man whom she had nover seen
ut
And Jarvis Happ inade no attempt
argument.
"Yes, my dear," he unft, the rose room, certainty."
Once more the smile flashed back,
before strode abruptly into the room, slammed the door behind lum violent ly, stared at her with slow nppraisal, and slowly nodded.
"WIN you kindly explain," Millicent on Cynthia Happ's face. It was a demanded, trying to muster what smile of greeting, containing just the dignity she could, "exactly what you tude, just the right touch of hos right mingling of patronizing sollei- mean by pitality-the correct groeting
phe
The young man interrupted her.
must be received, in many ways, as give would reserve for a secretary who noise. Give me
"Hooey," he said. "Nix on that the low-down and It to me funt, After you vie of the family.
"Come in, Miss Grabes, Winton you do with the shorthand notebook murdered George Drimgeld what did will show you to your room."
it which you'd written his cantes.
(To Be Continued.)
She took Millicent's arm. The ion clutch: arcmed utterly without warmth, yet seemed, in some strange way, to thrill the girl with a sense of latent power.
Mish CONSIGNEES'
"Winton," she said, "show Grabes to the rose room. And where is your baggage, Miss Grabes?"
"It will be here to-morrow," Jarvis anid:
"There's time for that now,"
"Not even a suitense for to-night?") he said. "Remember, you have given his wife inquired. me your references, and I have hired
This 1e Jarvis you. Be careful to keep things he turned to face her. "I've taken the was firm. He tween us on a strictly business basis. liberty," he said, "of having clothes Norman is interested in you. Stay for Miss Grabes sent out from, uite away from him, Keep away from of the departinent stores. You will Robert if you want to hold your job. fad the packages in care of the Use your eyes.”
huusekeeper, Winton, and you will see that they are pinced in Miss Grabes
"Who'n Kobert 7" she asked, "Cynthin's non."
"Who's Cynthin?" "My wife."
"Then you've . . .” "Yes," he interrupted, "I've been married twice. Cynthia is my second wife. Norman's mother died when hef was 10.
room.
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All claims must be sent in to me on
He turned to Millicent and said, "I'm very sorry
your trunk you will find a complete outfit in the unavoidably intaplaced, but I think things which I have ordered for you,"
She would have suid somelling, Gonds remained unclaimed after the but the expression on his face caused 4th May, 1995, will be subject to
her to remain silent.
will not be recognized.
storage charges.
"But what am I supposed to do? Why did you do this? Why?" He took u step forward, stood Damaged Packages will be examined "You're supposed to do secretarial politely to one side, waiting for by the Company's Surveyor Mesars:- work, and you'll work hard at his wife and Millicent to precede Goddard and Douglas in the presence I did it because I wanted to. Now him. A wonden-faced butler managed, the Consignees at 10.00 a.m. on tell me, have you any baggage any without changing his expression in the signees must have a Revenue Officer
Friday, 3rd
1935. May, where? Have you left any anywhere least, to make Millicent Graves feel at nil7"
like something the cat had dragged in dutiable goods are examined by the in attendance when any damaged from a garbage pail.
Company's Surveyors.
"Only the trunk and clothes in my boarding house."
Those," he said, "are out of the question. Say nothing about them. I'll have some baggage sent out to morrow. You can go on a shopping expedition. And now here's Cynthia," The door opened. Norman Iapp, standing slightly to one side, indi- cated Millleent with a bow.
With ponderous steps he led the "This way, please," he said. way up a wide fight of stairs, down a corridor. He opened a door, seemed to audibly aniff as he said, "The rose
room, M
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Con.
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R. OHL
Agent. Hongkong. 29th April, 1935.
WHEN AT HOME
of
"Miss Grabes," Happ said. "Miss Grabes, this is my wife."
Milleent bowed, muttered her plea- sure, and felt strangely ill at enso,
"Begging your pardon, Mas," said Cynthia Happ stood perfectly still, deur look of one who has by surpriso the butler, this face keeping the surveying her as one might look at bit into a lemon. "If you're going n picture hung on the wall, then she to be working here, just a word of nodded slowly. Suddenly a smile advice. The young men twisted her lips. She extended her rivalry. Norman won't notice you. have a hand,
Master Robert will snubs you when his "My dear girl," she said, "como mother's around and try to make love right in and make yourself at home, to you when she isn't. The master I've been trying to get Jarvis to get will stick up for you if things go secretary for his home work for a too strongly against you. As far a long while, I'm glad he's finally the madam is concerned, don't offend found one that sulted him."
her, and don't let her know that Robert ever speaks to you."
Millicent Graves stepped into A "Dad's new secretary," he said. led bath was
sumptuously appointed Bedroom. A Crathis app stepped through the Wide windows
visible at onc side. furnished plenty, door and stood, as coldly polished as ventilation. She wanted to exclaim the facets of a diamond, staring at with plengure but, under the cynical Millicent Graves with expressionless eye of the batler, she stepped through appraisal.
Lutler followed her, closed the door, the doorway and into the room. The stood atimy at attention.
She turned to her husband. "It was rather sudden, wasn't it, Jarvis? I mean, finding one who happened to suit you,"
Milllcent, to her surprise, heard an entirely different tono af voice issuing from the lips of the man who had figured so prominently in her life xluring the past 24 hours.
"I'm not certain," he said casually, "that she'll do."
glance. The man's expression did not Millicent flashed him a surprised change.
cd, Miias?" he asked.
"And was there anything you want- "No," she said, "and thanks. But why did you 7 his hand on the knob of the door,
"Very good," ho sald, and placed "The madam," he said, "at times,
He turned and eyed her, much as is a liell cat.".
if he had boon looking over a horse
ho contemplated" buying.
And, with that, he opened the door with ponderous dignity and
"At any rate," he said, "aho's took his. liveried back out into the
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