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1935.
The DARK BLOND
DEGIN HERE TO-DAY
CARLETON KENDRAKE.
HILLICENT GRAVES,
Fecretary GEORGE BRINCOLI, Anda her employer la his office dead. In panic the rules away and register at a hotel under na Maumel пите,
JARVIS HAPP, distinguished-looking stra ane, recoguilar Millernt and offers to help her. El sende her to a beauty parkur where Kiva is Crformed, Inta runot app (takes her besten Introduces her as hb srerglary. His son, HURMAN HAP3, warns Millicon, uninst his stepbrother, OBERT CAISE, and telle her 's Tngsterious womma In black ermine has B power tour hi stepmother.
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CHAPTER XI
Norman Happ naid, "That's right, Dad. You can't blame her for teel ing peeved, I walked in on her."
"Why 7" asked the okjær man. "Because I wanted to warn her." "About "About Boh "What about Bob?"
may I, ask?"
ing over the books which Mr. Gentry had given her in the suitcase. Hier eyes turned toward the suitcase, It was brown, with brass mountings, There were two straps which entirely surrounded the suitcase. It had bean made to stand hárd auage, and abo noticed casually that one of the cur- "Bob has been trying things with ners had been badly dented so that the her."
edge of the brass reinforcement presented a jagged appearance.
"What sort of things?"
"I don't know. She won't tell me. She frowned as she thought Now But I'm the one that enne to, hereusy it would be to stag a stocking on
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Buddenly there is a knock on the door offroom. I came without knocking. Sha that bit of brus», and determined sho resented my intrusion. We were would have it fixed. Why not nak Lio arguing when you knocked at the chunfear to fix it? That would be door. She was asking me to leave a good way to lay the foundation for --in fact, insisting that I leave." her campaign.
For a moment the stern, searching Norman Happ jumped back and
She left the stool In front of her stared at Millicent Graves apprehenye of Jarvis Happ softened some sively. Millernt moved toward the what, le ginnced at his son, stand-dressing table, took a few steps to
ing erect and dignified. Then he said ward the sultense, then realized the door as though to open it.
Norman caught, her arm with his slowly, "Well, if that's the case, Nor was too tired to bother with books. It ninn, you would present a much more had been a hard day. But he did right hand, at the same time, pressing dignified appearance if you wiped the want to take a look at those books be the forefinger of his left hand against
fore she retired, just to see what they his lip to indicate the necessity for lipstick from your mouth."
With that he turned and stalked | Jonked like and how they had been silence. He leaned closer to her and whispered, "Don't
kept. open that door gravely down the hall,
Norman Happ, his fuce the colour of while I'm here."
She dropped into the over-stuffed She would have said something, mouth with A
a boiled beet, wiped furiously at his chair, placed her finger-tips at the handkerchief Milli- back of her neck and gently kneaded hut he darted away from her on
cent Gaver, forn
between the tout muscles, holding her nock as swiftly silent feet. lic opened the
to a desire dour of her cleset, stepped aide slammed the doar shut and very ing her hund from side to side.
and to laugh, completely relaxed as she could, sway- and pulled the door shut after him.
A deleious sense of languor erept Knuckles sounded on the panels of audibly turned the key in the lock.
Then she walked to a large over over her. She slowly lowered her Millicent Graves started once more stuffed chair, dropped into it and start-hands to her lap. The room toward the door to open it, then in to laugh. The whole situation was 100 ) warm and engy. She yawned, lay her dignation got the better of her. She utterly absurd: Norman Blapp, statul end buck and closed her eyes. raised her voice so it was perfectly there with lipstick smeared on his Audible to the person outside of the unwarranted nature of his intrusion mouth, explaining to his father the per and said, "I don't think I care to and the coal reception which he had receive any more visitors to-night. Norman Happ is here and is Just leav ing."
At the sound of her words Happ emerged from the closet. His face was a dull red,
he
The door,
"What did you do that for?" asked in a mambling, surly voice.
"Because," she told him, "I've done nothing to be ashamed of and I don't intend to be put in an embarrassing position."
de
She turned the knob and opened the dor.
arvis Happ stood on the threshold. Gravely he surveyed the pair.
"May I ask," he inquired, "how long Norman has been here?"
Millicent Graves faced him tantly.
Nor. "You may," she said, "unk man. He is the one to tell you. And now, I wish you both good night."
Jarris Happ's eyes stared at her with thunt peculiar searching gase which we so characteristic of the "I think I told you," he said, "that you were to adopt a hands-off pulley." She said, defiantly. "I am telling you that if the men in this house don't quit invwling my room I'm go. ing to get n watchdog. All thai I ask of you or of your son is a reason alle amount of privacy. Your son came to this rooni univited. 1 think perhaps his intentions were friendly, However, the fact remains that he enne uninvited."
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boy's sweetheart. and Richard "Skeets" Galingher the reporter who sum up the story that turned out to
be too hot even for him.
"AB the King's Horses"
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cry
Abruptly Millicent remembered the things she had learned from Norman Happ and the daughter lled from hor Hips.
There really was some reason hnek of everything Jarvis app had done, Jarvia Happ knew of the woman in
Was
Milcent awoke abrutly, realizing know how long she had slept, but that she lind been asleep. She did not
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She sat perfectly still, her senses alert, waiting, wondering if the avise would he repeated. A moment inter she heard it again, the sound of rusti ing motion in the corridor just outside hier door.
She rementbered locking the door, wondered if someone had tried once the black ermine coat, the mysterious more to enter her room without knock- woman whom George Drimgald had¦ing, described on the night of his death Whoever it was who hail paused
... and Jurvis Happ had instructed outside the door had now started down Harry Felding, the chauffeur. to the corridor. She could hear the shadow this mysterious woman in sound of retreating steps. Then n black. That would mean, then, that door hanged somewhere at the and of Jaevis Happ didn't know the identity the corridor. of the woman. Or if he knew her identity, didn't know where she lived. It also meant that he was interested in finding out more about this woman,
Millicent get to her feet, frowning. Who could have walked down the cor ridar to her door? And who would have paused to listen, or
Micent Graves determined that Her eyes lit on slip of paper she was going to cultivate Harry Fel4. which protruder from beneath the ing. If he discovered anything con- door. cerning this woman who wore a black Evidently, then, someone had called ermine fur eat and who seemed to to leave a note. exert such a powerful influence upon | She got to her feet and realized the lives of those with whom she from the cramped condition of her came in contact, Millicent Graves de-limbs that she must have been sleep, sided that she would be in a positioning for some time, Sheer exhaustion to End gut just what information he had taken its toll. had uncovered.
She slid the paper from beneath the
Slowly she started disrobing and, door. as she slipped off her outer garments It was a paper upon which appeared and stood before her mirror applying typewritten, unsigned message. creams to her face, she ran over theThe imessage was brief and Ainister: events of the day in her mind.
"THE WOMAN IN THE BLACK Suddenly she realized that the inter. | ERMINE COAT IS HERE" Eruptions had prevented her from look-
(To Be Continued).
Sidney's tention that there are the four primarily important love tech. niques, and the only ones-that-register:
the servento matter how well
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