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27, 1935.
The DARK BLOND
CHAPTER XXVII
CARLETON KENDRAKE
Hle and nothing.
ha Pete
she was going to do when she got there, but she wanted to ho freo of those stiding walls.
"I told you they weren't inc!" Millicent stared steadily nt Bob he half-screamed. "I told you I
She almost ran down the corridor, Calso and said, "You and might as didn't know anything about Felding's
murder. But you wouldn't believe and was half way down the staire well have a showdown on this."
He up from the watch in his me; you thought I was stridging you when she sensed an obstruction ahead
looked hand. "You're dawn right," he told along. You thought those were my of her. She looked up and saw Nor- her. "You've played a run-around fingerprints on that whisky finsk, and man Ilapp's broad shoulders. Itis
incom-
knew, even
spli game with me, long enough. I want that at the watch, then pushed it whisky flank. Why, you her finger- fraction of a second, that she could that notebook." He glanced once you busted in there and smashed the arms swung wide.
the one who had have checked her momentum had it his pocket "Tine's up." into
prints. She was
With that evidence been Bob Caiss on the stairs. in there. snių.
"You insist," she said, in n voleengainst her, we'd have been out in she didn't want to check herself. she thought might have a sufficient the elent. It wouldn't have been let herself go forward and Norman
But Happ's arma enveloped hor.
Whoa!" he said. "What is this nmount of disdain it to convine necessary to do a single thing.
jumped at the conclusion that I him, "in thinking that I am a girl
you police are referring to as the Murder had been lying to you when I told runaway?" Girl. I really would like to know on you I hadn't been there. You've des- what you base. your assumptions."
"Forget it!" he told her. I was troyed the only real evidence there
I know now. guessing before.
was against her."
For a moment Bob Calso was jarred. "And even if I were the Murder He stared at Vera Duchene with crest- Girl," she said, "I can't understand fallen countenance. Then slowly the what you would want with my short-stubborn light welled up in his eyes once more and he whirled to face hand notebook."
understanding Millicent. "Never mind much," he told her. "You and I are wont that a showdown, I
"None of your business." "And what do you propose to do if you don't get it?"
She was growing deflant now, feci- ing that she could at least stand up for her rights with this man and call hia bluff. For some reason she felt that it was a bluff.
'm going to tell Sergeant Ma- you're the girl the police are looking for."
think he'll believe you?" "Do you "He'll believe me to the extent that he'll start giving you a third degree, and it won't be long before he finds cut the right answers," "Arkl then what?"
"Nover mind," he said to Vera Duchene over his shoulder, "I've got all I want on this girl."
"What do you mean?"
Dut Sho
She lay limp for as long as sho of his arms around her. dared, feeling the protecting circle
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When Sergeant Mahoney had placed friendly arm about her shoulders she had felt strangely relaxed. She had felt like an almost exhausted swimmer who finds something
tomper elt this ho can eling for which But with Norman Hopp she
Sho Rensation greatly intensified.
his
arma, limp and wanted to lie in "I mean that she's going to do relaxed, feeling that he would stand Then, what
I tell her to, and I'm telling her between her and the world.
na she felt the warmth of his person- right now,"
Vora
spoke Duchene
hastily.ality surrounding her, there was an- "Listen," she said, "that Sergeant other feeling a strange pulse-pound- ing sensation which glowed within Mahoney is after me. He's going to drag me over the coals. I don't care her. what else you're working for, this comes first. You know what's going to happen if he starts getting in- to short-cut We've quisitive. that some way. I want you to make her swear I was with her last night." Caine said to Millicent, "She was with you. Do you understand that?" uwlerstand nothing of the sort. was not with me." "Okay," he anid. "I'm tired of be- ing strung along. You're all finished, my."
She w Jaughed sneeringly. "Being he said, mixed up in one murder, "it won't take the police long to figure that you're connected with the other
one."
"There is absolutely no evidence," she said, "to connect me with Mr. Drimgold's murder except certain clrcumstantial evidence that readily explained."
give me a run-around. book, and I want it
-
Not
He turned an his heel and started! for the door.
·
•
But it was Millicent who pushed back, laughing slightly.
"I'm afraid," she said, "I wasn't looking where I was going."
"You were in a hurry," he said, keeping his hamsis on her arms, then slowly letting them slide down until he held both of her hands.
She tingled at his touch, tried to nvald his eyes.
"lee said. at me;" "Look at Somewhere on the lower finor telephone hell tang repeatedly.
Millicent raised her eyes to his.
asked. "What's the matter?" he
Vera Duchene dragged Tim back the
JA
you running away from some. She shook her head.
"No, not she said. "We've got tu
"Has Bob Caise been bothering you can be make her throw in with us. She's
again?" in a key position."
Millicent knew she should Bob Caise. He's a joke."
"She fnughed lightly and said, "Oh, "Sure," he told her, "and there's no evidence to connect you with Felding quiet, knew it even while she was
"Sergeant Mahoney heen giving you murder except me circumstantini
this woman which irritated her third degree?" evidence that can be explained. But, speaking, but there was something
"Sergeant
Mahoney," she tak blm, sister, you just try explaining away beyond endurance. She said, very two sets of circumstantial evidence distinctly, "It happens that it's too "is very lee."
The telephone continued to sing. And nee what happens. You've been inte for me even to entertain such a mixed up to 100 many murders to
want that proposition. Sergeant Mahoney knows The monotony of it gut on Millicent's "Isn't renicons supposed to you are holding my muddy clothes, nerves, fie sensed that you were helding them answer that telephone?" she asked.
The words were no more than out for a purpose, and he figured out of her mouth before she heard the
I think The door burst open. Vera Duchene, just what that purpose was, her eyes glittering, pushed her way he knows exactly where you were into the room. She paid no attention last night and exactly what you were whatever to Millleent, but turned daing."
Had she suddenly exploded a bomb savagely to Bob Calse,
"You poor deluded dama fool!" she in front of them their faces could not said. "I suppose you thought you have shown greater consternation was interrupted by a terrified scream Vera Duchene gasped, then glanced were doing something smart!"
"What's that?" apprehensively at Hob. Caise took a from the lower floor. step toward Millicent as though he asked intended to
sharply. her, but Vern to strike Duchene grabbed his arm.
"Quick!" she said. "We've got to fix up our alihi from the other end you beefing For nement Bob Caine stared at her stupidly. Then he nodded and turned toward the dear.
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She Inughed bitterly and said. "A She sweet thae to have a showdown. holds all the trump cards."
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"You," she said, "went in and Hmashed that whisky ask. I suppose) you thought you were being a bright ittle boy, didn't you?"
"What if I did? The thing fingerprints on it."
"And
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Without a word to Millicent, they left the room.
smoothly pollsled tones of Mrs. Happ saying, "Tiello."
Norman Hopp ruiled at her and said, "No sooner do you express a wish than it's gratified"
She started to say something, but
Nurmian
Happ
Once more the scream was rencated.
Millicent heard the telephone crash the floor. Then she heard run- ning steps.
Sho and Norman faced the foot of the stairs.
Cynthia Happ's fuce, distorted with notion, stared up at them. She saw Millicent waited only a moment. them, tried to speak and couldn't. Then she opened the door and stepped Lastear, she flung her arms above her into
She the corridor,
to head, screamed once more, and pitched wantexi She didn't face forward to the stairs. were get out of that room.
(To Be Continued). know where she was going or what;
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NOTES FROM THE THEATRES
"My First Love to Last" are two suicide. The character is the most songs sung in the picture that are remarkable yet portrayed by Mr. said to present truly haunting and Robinson. Alfred E. Green directed. beautiful tunes. "Adorable", directed
by Wilhelin Dieterte, is now at the King's Theatro.
"The Silver Streak"
For the flest time American wives, sisters and mothers recently caught "Shadow of Boubt"
a glimpse of the place in which their Romance set in 'n tenar detective men relatives have been working for Carol Lombard, blonde Paramount
new and intriguing the past three years. The great con- hold star, who was recently nominated by mystery, and a
of Travis Banton for the title of the native character to light crete barrier that will eventually
fans mork the production of "Shadow back 180 miles lake, deep enough to for best-dressed screen actress wents of Doubt". Arthur Sommers Roche's float many ocean liners, comes nine of Banton's newest and most amazing mystery produced by Metro-dramatic purposes to the screen for modish creations in Paramount's Goldwyn-Mayer and due shortly at the first time in. RKO-Radio's "The dents Silver Streak" оп Wodnesday at the at the Alhambra the Queen's Theatre. The story "Rumba," now
with a screen
star and her lover, King's Theatre. Another interesting trange feature of the picture is the Inst, new, Theatre. Miss Lombard is agnin co-wit
menaced by auspicion in starred with George Baft, her cane murder case, and wealthy woman streamline train of the Burlington ing partner of "Bolero." The most recluse who emerges from her hiding Railroad which makes it picture Ap- important of Miss Lambani's gowns place of years, turns detcetive, and debut in "The Silver Streak"
solves the puzzle. The author of pearing in the picture are Sally Blane, utilizes black souffle over a black satin "penthouse has provided one of the Charles Starrett, Hardle Albright, slip to achieve one of the most roman-ent
day in the Willians Farnum. Irving Pichel, literary sensations. of
a
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ing appeared with Baxter in The Cisco seen recently in Important adjunct of the picture. the suspense and bringlor out the Russell Hardie," The music written by Warner Richard romance, the glimpses of night life; "Purated" and "As the Earth Turna, Heymann is specially adapted to the the musical interludes In the spectacu- on Important Juvenile rolo. tor: his son, Robert Young, a young thinking differently, intensify the con- romantic rhythm of the story, and is lar night club, and other engaging | Othor members of the cast are Herbert Heutenant come to the field for his fiet, in the heart of Robert Young
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Mundin, Aruly Devine, Ralph Morgan, air training, and two women in love when, under the stress of flying ho
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Vinco Harnett, William Stelling, with the bog Maureen O'Sullivan and suddenly goes "yellow" and la, 80
Rosalind Russell. The thrills
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Preparing off-
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the "young eagles of the air" are aut.
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song hits by Richard A. Whiting and Theatre on Wednesday, as the star off provide the human laterest of Wallace story. It is not a conflict between decision between the two girls i