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SERIAL STORY-
The DARK BLOND
CHAPTER XXXIV
CARLETON KEndrake
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"You can't do that," she told him, "until we've got some real evidence
get it." Let's try
Norman
"What's the mattor ?" asked, noticing her sudden silence.
"Nothing," she said.
ho toid hur. "You're nervous," She hung up the fur coat in the! closet. Norman crossed to the door "You ought to get out of here. Let's and stood with his hand on the knob. go. We'll put this note back on the
"Wait a minute," down the curtain
told him. table so that "she "Wo've got to
pull just the way it was. A woman would notice little things like that."
**
Norman Happ stopped forward into the closet and took from one of the hangers a black ermine cont with a high collar. He brought it out into the living room of the apartment, where he regarded it curiously.
"Do you think that's the one?" he asked.
"I'm practically certain of it, Nor man. It's exactly
the cut, shape and style of the one I saw."
Then this Phyllis Faulconer is the of a piece of paper lying on the top going to get in touch with Phyllis woman in the black ermine coat."
of the mahogany table. The paper Faulconer sooner or later. When he "Yes," she said slowly, "but who was all but concenied by an em- does, he'll ask her about the note. If broldered throw which partially cover. it is missing and she knows nothing is Phyllis Faulconor?"
"Some astrological nut who has a ed the varnished surface of the chew about it, he'll suspect great influence over Cynthia. Appar- table. Not more than a fraction of ently Bob is working in cahoots with an inch was visible.
"Wait a minute," she said. "Lot's her in order to get something he
see what this is." wants."
Sho
"Indeed wo won't!" she interrupted. "Woll take this note with us. It's a valuable piece of evidence. Bob Calke She pulled down the shade and will have a hard time explaining this "Bob Caiso in "But," he turned to join Norman at the door, to Sergeant Mahoney," Then she caught sight of the corner
+
Millicent crossed the room to the writing desk, opened it, took out a sheet of note paper and said to Nor Millicent stared at the fur coat, pulled back the edge of the man, "Copy that note. Forgo Bob's looking at it from various angles. throw, disclosing a sheet of note paper handwriting as well as you can, but It because, if the woman becomes sus- "Yes," she said slowly, "this is the on which had been scrawled a hasty don't be too particular about doing one. The woman who were this coat message.
picious and thinks the handwriting isn't Bob's, she'll give Bob a ring and ask him about it and he'll tell her that he wrote the noto and left it there,"
in the liquor. storo
Not eyes sparkled.
girl," he said, and reached for the piece of note paper.
is the one who took my purse in the Norman Happ came to peer over
left me the other one.” tea room and
her
"Bob's hand-writing," shoulder. "And," Norman finished, she must he said.
"You're certain 7" Drimgold's office, un- have gone to
killed
Let's him
"Absolutely. I'd know it anywhere, locked the door and give Sergeant Mahoney a ring and That's what he came in here for-
to leave that note." have him take her into custody."
"No," Millicent said. "I want to
He wrote rapidly, making a credible Millicent picked up the note and job of forging Bob's, handwriting. find out more about her before we make any rash accusations. After all, I didn't see her face clearly en-held it no that they could both read When he had finished, he put the note back on the table and arranged the the hastily scrawled lines.
The note read:
throw so that it concealed the paper. ough to identify her."
"But the man
to ditch the car. Ser-
Milleent gave a last glance about "You've got can identify
geant Mahoney has the license num- the apartment, nodded to Norman and "First," the said, "let's make cer- ber. He's got it twisted, but it won't said, "I think it's all in order. Let's tain this was the woman who pur-be long until he gets the right num-go."
I tried to get a chance to talk! chased the whiskey."
She folded the original note and ber. with you but they were watching me slipped it into the purse she
carrying. too closely and I don't want them to suspect you. So far, you're absolutely As they moved toward the door of above suspicion.
the apartment Norman said thought- fully, "Did you notice what Bob said in that note that he was going to take care of you?"
*Yes* said: "What do you
Rot to be," Norman exclaimed impatiently.
was
"IL'S "I know just how you feel," she told him, "and there's not the alight est doubt in my mind but that It's
"No one suspects anything unless the Bame конди Just the same it's the Murder Girl, I'm gulhg to we've got to proceed cautiously and take care of her. What's more, I'm be certain of our ground before we going to get that notebook-the one call in the police."
that contains Drimgold's confession, suppose he meant by it?", That will clean up the last plece of Illa voice was throaty with emotion evidence. You ditch the car. Leave as he said, "He meant he was going to the girl to me.-Bob."
kill
you, That's the only explanation. "Good
heavens!" Millicent ex-lle's desperate and he's probably claimer gold murder. What a mess at
"then he was mixed up in armed. Ile's the type who would stop
at nothing-even it all
"What are we going to do to be come certain?" Norman asked. "We can't do anything staying here and talking."
the
Millicent thought for a moment, then moved back toward the closet "One of the first things to do is to "He may not have been mixed up
stopped abruptly,
put this coat back where it wne and in the murder," Norman Happ saided out and
There
n detaining
of someone
Millicent's arm. get out of here without letting anyone slowly, "but he certainly has cut in
was the corridor. Slowly.] know we picked the lock on the door on the deal so that ho's going to moving about in the and found this Then we've got capitalize on which side of the bread
it. You can leave it to the knob of the door turned. cont.
Norman pushed Millicent back of
The knob was released. It sprung
to make arrangements with the man Bob to know which always looking blu, stood with his fets doubled. who runs the liquor store to take a has the butter. look at Phyllis Fauleoner and identify out for himself."
her as being the one who bought the "But the woman must have had back into position. Knuckles started whiskey."
some man with whom she was work to pound on the pancis of the door ing." Millicent "How's he going to do that?"
pointed out. "She two sharp rape, a pause, two sharp "There are lots of ways," she said would hardly have committed the taps, a pause, two more raps, a pause
and a single rap. `- "If necessary he could come here to murder by herself. She.. #
Millicent felt her heart in her throat. the apartment, knock on the door and Millicent ceased speaking abruptly pretend to be nelling something." as she realized the import of what She wanted to cling to Norman for
she's not here?"
she had said. There had, indeed, been support, but she knew Norman needed ho can come back. Probsome man in the building at the time to be unhampered. Unarmed, he was ably the girl's working somewhere of the murder, and that man had been facing an unknown danger.
Hardly daring to breath, she waited, the man who had
appeared,
during the daytime and she is only none other than Jarvis ten-wordering what would happen next. here at Added slowly. "Yes," he sibly, as a benefactor but who had.
Norman said, "I guess you're right, although in reality, placed her in such a poal-
She had not long to walt,
There was the’sound of a key being
I'd like to get some real action and tion that she had been exposed to fur-fitted into the lock. bring this thing to a head."
ther danger.
CINEMA NEWS
NOTES FROM THE THEATRES
(To Be Continued),
ed. But now they have made every-others of note. Battles in the Ever- thing in keeping with Shirleyglades, capture of a ship by pirates, Temple's youthful years and again
the great New Orleans "Marriage success has crowned their efforts. It Auction" and other thrilling and spectacular episodes lead a new im- is in this cottage that Shirley rests portance to the Victor Herbert music. between scenes on the motion picture Hundreds of gorgeously costumed act. She eats her noonday meal here players are seen in the larger sequen- and studies her lines. The teacher ces of the romantic drama of Now comes in each day and goes over the Orleans, Murder mysteries are always ex-daily lessons, keeping pace with the pected to hold an audience spell-bound, other children in the Los Angeles takes her and one of the finest murder my public schools. Shirley steries to come out of Hollywood is afternoon nap here.
to be seen shortly at the Queen's
"Sorrell and Son"
"Roberta"
The year's gayest and most colour- ful musical romance comes to the screen with Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in RKO-Radio's of the Broadway hit, in versioni "Roberta" showing at the King's Theatre. Featuring the ringing of the dancing and singing Dunne, and of Astaire and Miss Rogers, and a
of beautiful
manne
Theatre where the. Metro-Goldwyn- "Sorrell and Son", a talkie version Mayer production "The Casino Mur of Warwick Deeping's famous novel, der Case" will be screened. This new is the main attraction at the King's Miss
next week. British mystery proves conclusively that the Theatre
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numbers and coveries as the basis of his murder exception of "Say It With Music", Melody and dance plot. The picture brings a new Philo which was a novelty picture) has lavish fashion displays all are weven demonstrated that he is second to
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Jerome Kern, king of musical comedy Russell, who makes her debut as a claims, are almost overwhelming composers, wrote the music for the
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their sustained wit with such restraint centres around the eccentric Llewellyn touch sentimentality. Hugh Williams Gets in Your Eyes," from the singe Llewellyn by Jack: Raymond that they never screen production. In addition to the original songs, among them "Smoke family, consisting of Alitor Skip should be watched in this picture. He
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by Bernard Newman, Internationally more vividly justify the Hollywood w seen in the role of her brother, Lesile
known
Selter couturier, William contract which he has Fenton as her daughter's fiance and subject itself is "different" for itcludes in its cast such well, known
directed the production, which has accepted. The Louise Fazenda as the family maid-rests almost entirely on the under favourites as Helen Westley, Victor all of whom, at one time or another standing and sympathy between a
Varconi, Claire Dodd, Ferdinand are murder suspects. Others in the father and son, and is a change from Munier and Adrian Rosley. cast are Ted Healy as Sergeant the more conventional type of screen Heath, Purnell Pratt as the District/ fare, Donald also pro- and Winifred Attorney and Eric Blore as Philo Shotter and Margot Grahame have Vance's Man Friday. Edwin Marin important parts, an interesting hae directed a mystery picture here is that "Sorrell and Son" completes the D. and D. trio of romance, comedy that moves along with the rapidity: and sparkle suggestive of "The Thin and drama, following consecutively upon "Bitter Swoot" and "That's a Good Girl."
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minent as Dr.
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"Naughty Marietta" It isn't often that a group of de
Directed by W. S. Van Dyke, Victor | signers are called upon to reduce
Herbert's great musical masterpiece elaboration to utter simplicity, but "Naughty Mariotta with Jeannette this is what happened recently at the MacDonald and Nelson Eddy in the Fox Film studios when they fitted up leading roles is playing at the Queen's a bungalow cottage for Shirley Theatre. The new Metro-Goldwyn-
picture
is a gripping drama of Temple, whose latest flu, "Bright Eyes" is now showing at the Star the old Creole days with glamorous romaneo running through it. The Theatre. The cozy and comfortable. Vietor Herbert music is preserved in- little motion picture home of the tiny tact, incluster of 110 mm in Love
"I'm Fox, starlet was formerly the ger Sweet Mystery, The Italian Street geously furnished cottage of none with Someone", other than Lilian Hurvoy, exotic cons Song" and others. An elaborate cant includes Frank Morgan, Elsa Lan- tinental star. The decorators at chester, Walter Kingsford, Douglas tompted to catch the vivacious per- Dumbrille, Edward Brophy, Joseph sonality of Lilian Harvey and succeed. Cawthorne, Cocilia Parker and many
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