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...MAY
1935.
The DARK BLOND
CHAPTER XXVII
CARLETON KENDRAKE
Millicent recoiled from thone menacing Bingers. The man followed slowly, matching her retreat by nd vancing step for step, his eyes glitter- Ing, his lips twisted back from his teeth.
the
his advance.
"I mean it!" Millicent "I'll shoot!"
guess
His batids were almost touching her. Millicent jabbed the gun toward
#creamed, "Stop 1 Hay! I' Abruptly the closet door opened, Sergeant Mahoney's cheery voice said, "Well, I
that's about all, Buchanan."
The masked man dropped his threatening attitude. Before Mill cent's startled eyes, he raised his hands, removed his mask and showed her Detective Buchanan's rather crest- fallen countenance,
the gamest little troupers I've over encountered. Buchanan made a real istic job of that attack, and it was terrifle shock to you, coming on top of other things you've had to contend with."
She stood up, crossed to the mirror. dabbed powder on her face and touch-
with a comb. her halt wit
to pierce the secret of her past, but sho tried to smile at him bravely and said, "I will give you my word of honour, Sargeant, that I never saw, heard from, or knew finrry Folding until the afternoon of the day prior. to his murder."
"But you went to his room for
Sergeant Mahoney said. something," Se Her lips together and
She
"let me give you my impres- anid, "I'm sorry I made that state. Now then, Sergeant Mahoney sions, Miss Grabes. I'm virtually ment. I had resolved that I wouldn't convinced that you went out in Bob toll you anything, lowever, I wanted Calse's car last night. I think you to save you a lot of work."
"Don't bother about saving me ran out of gas and walked back home.
"I like it." think your clothes got soaked in work," he said.
eyes surveyed her in analytical the rain. I think you found yourself unable
or unwilling to enter the tannis Abruptly he got to house.
Suddenly Millicent's eyes fastenesed on the run which Sergeant Mahoney had handed her and while still lay on the table by her bed. She jumped toward it, grabbed it in her hand and screamed. "Get back or I'll shoot!"
The masked man freze into im
him mobility, staring at the gun.
Millicent held it, not by the butt,
feet. but with her fingers clasped around
"I've got some trumpo ju my hand,” the barrel, but she was careful to
room. Why you went there he told her, "but you've got Just muzzle pointed at the mask. | Anyway, you went back to Harry keop
is something I've got to know. I enough caris of your own so that I ed intruder.
Slowly the masked man continued don't know it yet. You heard what can't take all the tricits if I play mine
flask being smushed. I saw the look out and get some more trumps." screamed. Detective Buchanan said about the now. I'm warning you that I'm going "Go ahead," she told hun, defiantly. on your face when he first mentioned the fingerprints and then again, when Sergeant Mahoney nodded to Dr. he said the flask had been smashed. tective Buchanan. Together, the two I'm. absolutely satisfied those were men started for the door.
With his hand on the door knob. Maloney paused, frowned at Sergeant know it.
and asked quickly. "If you her, and your prints on that flask and that
been I don't think you had
after he had you lowever, anything to do with Harry Felding's went in there
you murdered and weren't a party to the death. There's a possibility that you
She smiled, but said nothing. went to his room after his death. murder,
Sergeant Mahoney jerked the door There's also possibility that you
while you were there before his death and that
I think of the open. The more present someone shot him
wondering if I ani theory. case the more I'm inclined to that Intter
As the door closed behind them, there wasn't something between you and Harry Felding something in Millicent felt almost hysterical. She
account
wished that she had a drink of that your past history that for a relationship between
Ko into his
tho
In which nce," Mahoney told him.
to see him; if, perhaps, youthink Millicent felt her knees growing
some of the brand on a piece of paper and bim when embracing wonk. She sat down on the side of weren't either talking with him or Buchanan had written down the name She perhaps
to Mahoney, the bed, staring dazedly from 5er other woman, actuated by jealousy, panzed it across
remembered Sergeant Mahoney had geant Mahoney to Detective Buchanan, are a shot and killed him.
placed that piece of paper down be kindly put Sergeant Mahoney
"What have you to say to that?" shoulders. His left
She was fast recovering her self-side the gun. She looked across to hand
hind on her
UTH she said, "have the table on which the gun hand took the gun from her
Possession,
posed and saw that the paper was fingers.
"I'm sorry,"
"he anid, "that we had nothing to say to anything."
"Silence will be taken as an ad- still there. She picked it up, unfolded to make such a test, but I felt certain mission of guilt," Buchanan said and it and observed that Buchanan bad to say more, but Sergeant done just as he had been ordered.
"I felt certain she didn't know how to use a gun when I handed her this
one,
geant Mahoney Enid,
Buchanan remarked.
wero
alarm Why didn't you give, the
"Come on, Buchanan," he said.
"Not with that expression on her wondering if you didn't you. I am whiskYang of the whisky made hor]
cold
room
of
manner
TC-
A knock at the door startled her. She opened drawer in the table, She dropped the folded paper into it and called, "Who is it?
You didn't know how to use a RO GIATO whirled on him, "Keep out He had written only the name of the The person who killed Harry Felding Mahoney was an expert pistol shot. There
seldom
interrupt another man's were no powder marks on the body, of this if you will, please, Detective, brand of whisky. Indicating that the person must have questioning and I don't like another been some little distance away, yet man to interrupt mine." the single shot aped true and straight. a little "I handed you this gun while ago and the way you started it convinced me you to reach for
about didn't know anything at all shooting"
"I d--d-don't," Millicent
"I never had thy
Ha turned once more to stare steadily at Millicent.
"I'm going to you something,"
he
to tell
There was no answer other than
a twisting of the door knob. Tho said ominously. "I'm going to door opened and Bob Caise stood on etoned the up on your past record. I'm the threshold. His face was grim and check
at her, and said going to dig into it and find out where purposeful. Gently he
you were and what you were doing door, stared steadily on handa
every minute of the time during the demanded. "Where's that shorthand X-R-K-gun,"
"That's all right, sister," he told past five years. I'm going to find notebook in which you took Drim-
out where you worked, where you gold's confession?"
"I don't know what you're talking her, patting her back. "Go ahead lived, who your friends were, who and cry if you feel ilke it. It was wrote to you, and to whom you wrote. about," Millicent managed to say.
The hell don't he remarked
you
watch from his a menn thing for me to do, but I'm going to put your life under a warned you my methods are uncon-microscope and, when I do that, I grimly. ventional. I don't pay much attention is going to uncover something pocket. Either I get that potebook to the clows that other detectives that will point to an affair of some or I call Sergeant Mahoney in here pour rely on. My methods are my own sort between you and the dead chauf- and tell him just who you are. You' e Sometimes they're rather drastic."
feur. Does that mean anything to got 30 seconds to make, up
mind." you?"
Millicent felt like a trapped animal. Millicent liked the feel of his arm
Millicent felt as though her heart She looked hurriedly about the room.
run, wanted about her shoulders.
For a moment or two she gave had become a chunk of lead. She Sho wanted to
detective method of escape. very capable
But Bob Calso stood Letween her, way to tears. Then, as the tension knew this was relieved, she straightened, dabbed | wouldn't be fooled by any casu and the door, his legs widesprend, his at her eyes with her handkerchief, falsehoods which Mr. Happ arranged her hair with the tips of her thing up in order to give her shoulders, squared, his jaw thrust fictitious background to account for belligerently forward. In his hand he laughed nervously. Angers, and
"What a baby you must think her past history. She knew this de- held a watch.
tective would make a microscopic in- ami" abe said.
do not," Sergeant restipation and that, within a day or "Indeed we
two, at the most, he would be able Mahoney told her. "You're one
CINEMA NEWS
NOTES FROM THE THEATRES
romance
of
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sonic
Millicent could hear the ticking of
(To Be Continued.) the fateful seconds.
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Barbier, Nat!
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Alan Dino-
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two 4th July..."CONTE ROSSO" 12th July.ment of her officer lover.
"West Point of the Air years. Lloyd appears
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Miss O'Sullivan, daughter of the recently. The Ist Aug... "CONTE VERDE”" ..9th Aug,
Janet Gaynor and Henry Garat are firet in "The Cat's Paw" as the son of
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