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SERIAL STORY-
11.
1935.
The DARK BLOND
CHAPTER XLI
"Norman!"
Millicent
"Where are you, Norman?"
There was no answer.
CARLETON KENDRAKE.
called.
Millicent groped for a light switch, found it, snapped on the lights.
were
The apartment was in the greatest disorder. Chairs
overturned. The table had been tipped on its aldo, a leg smashed, and Millicent horrified to discover several ugly dark splotches on the carpet, on the furni wall itself. ture, and even on the Evidently there had been a terrific struggle. She flung open the door of the closet and looked inside, hoping yet dreading to discover some trace of the man she loved.
The closet was empty.
Kitchenet and rushed to the here, again, the result was the same.. There was no trace of Norman Happ She stood undecided, wondering what could be done, hardly knowing which way to turn.
Sho
ntill.
I'm coming in.'
"Don't you dare come in here," this talk isn't getting you anywhere. she said.
She tried to staro at him in blazing "Listen, lady, what kind of a party has been going on here? You seem quiet enough now, but you certainly indignation but, know that the fear In her eyes. This man was an officer. made a hell of a commotion a few which gripped her heart was showing minutes ago."
" she told him, "if your He would enter the apartment. Ho "I'm sorry," wife is ill. There won't be any more would see there had been a fight.
would see those tell-tale dark stains. disturbance."
"Everyone gone home?" he in He would insist on calling the police. ent hadn't told him that sho Millicent quired
was Phyllis Faulconer. On the other hand, she hadn't donted her identity. him that She would never be able now to back change her story and tell him up, she had merely come to the apartment to see what had happened to her friend. Even if she told him that much he would insist that she accom pany him to headquarters to make an explanation.
the only one here, and there will be no more disturbance,"
He looked at her suspiciously. "I'm on the force," he said. "It sounded to me as though there was a fight going on up here. Are you hurt?"
""No."
"Anyone hurt?"
"I tell you I am the only one here."
-
*
*
•
"Okay," he said grudgingly. "You
Thene thoughts raced through her don't look as though you'd been beat up, but it certainly sounded to me as mind and she realized that she could though someone had popped you anot extricate herself from the pre- couple on the jaw. You're sure you dicament in to which she had placed
herself. ain't been in a fight?"
Suddenly she decided to try a rose, As she stood there she heard a
"Certainly not." sharp knock at the door.
"Well don't try any more stuff ilke She knew now that Norman was not Millicent
And stood perfectly Then, aure that Norman could not be that because you can't get away with in the apartment, and she wanted
ia sick him. in the apartment, and hoping that it not with me downstairs, you can't. most desperately to be free to
"Oh, well," she said, "come on in, person at the door might provide I'm telling you now my wife
and I
have to come back. I don't want a clue to his whereabouts, she ran to what you do up here isn't any of my if you've got to One of the boy the door and opened it.
busincas
as you're quict about friends got in a fight with a man who as long
calling on me and knocked him A man stood in the doorway- thick-set, beefy individual with a very it, but when you start making a
who gave every evidence of racket like you did 10 minutes ago out."" red incefrossed hastily. His cont was
you're going to have some explaining having
of a to do. Do you understand?"
a suit open, showing the upper part
of part silk pyjamas, The lower
the
the
Millicent pyjam protruded, noticed, beneath the bottom of his trousers. She noticed, too, that ho wore shoes such as she understond policemen usually wore.
here?" he "What's going on up dement said, "Who are you?"
the man who lives in the apartment down underneath you."
"What do you want?"
visit."
to
She flung open the door. The officer entered the room appraised the
"I think," she told him, "1 under-wreckage of the furniture with n stand entirely the purpose of your practiced eye and said. "A sweet little all right. Where's the boy don't "Out in the kitchenet. I
he's un- think he's hurt badly but conscious. I'm afraid to go near rim for fear he might be..
She tried to bang the door shut, but ,he thrust forward the thick sole of his broad shoe and kept her from closing the door.
"Now, wait a minute, sister", ho said. "There's nothing to get in panic about. Why are you so anxious to get rid of me? What have got in that apartment?"
"Nothing
д
you
She let her voice trail away to significant silence.
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"Like that, ch7" her visitor re-
guy marked. "Where's popped him
the
that
4
at t
"What did he hit him with, his fist ?" career
BENEFIT OF DOUBT
"I want to know what's happen- ing up here. There's been a hell of
You can't put on n commotion. party like that in a respectable apart- ment house. My wife is sick and was taking a bath. I had to get out of my bath, throw on the first clothes | bird have him taken in. But apartment," she said.
here."
"Don't tell me that; you're frigh- tened. As soon as I said I was on the force all the colour went out of
Millicent, having embarked upan a
of fabrication, decided your face. You're so nervous you're hivering like a leaf. Now you ain't got anything to be afraid of. If some make her story sound plausible.
"He hit him with everything in the rough with you I'll telephone
that came to hand and came up "Have long ago was it you this noise? Millicent nsked;"
"You ought to know," he "You live here, don't you?"
•
heard
said.
Millicent hesitated for a noment and then, deciding not to admit or deny anything, said, "Will you kindly tell me what right you have to ask
questions ?" "Don't
get high hat with me, sister. I won't work. It
You know what's been going on here."
He tried to push the door open and; enter the apartment, but Millicent held it firmly, so that he could not see into the place.
Why, what do you rican--a mur- der committed! The very idea!"
"Yet." he said, "why not? But you're not fooling me any, and all of
m"
to
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dia- has gone home. I'm coming in.
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landed at their risk into the hazardous "Indeed you are not. You can'tment and pushed open the door to the and he
charged. Defendant appeared on and/or extra hazardous Godowns of war kitchenet. enter this apartment without a
Millicent dashed through the open
a charge of baving stolen a silver The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf rant"
"Sister wouldn't I look cheap if it duer into the corridor. She ran for
obtained. should turn out there'd been a mur- the stairs and was half way down the chain from the neck of a three-and Godown Co., Ltd., whence and/or der committed here and I came up first flight when she heard a man's year-old boy, Tin Kwai, on Satur- from the wharves delivery may be
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alleged by all Goods remaining undelivered after going back and letting you make a here! You can't pull that stuff with get-away 7"
Millicent continued her mind descent, ing, stated it was
Fung, stone- the 14th Juno, will be subject to rent. All claims against the steamer must Suddenly the corridor echoed to the complainant, Tin
breaker, the father of the boy,
be that he saw defendant lift the shrill binats of a police whistle.
the 28th June, or they will (To Be Continued.)
chain over the head of the child, or before the to the Undersigned on
Hot be recognized. who was being carried on the back To comply with
with the General Bonded
watching a
vacant must have a Revenue Officer in atten- of his elder son. The boys were Warehouse Regulations consignees
examined; piece of ground at To-Kwa-Wan dance when damaged dutinble goods broken, chafod, and damaged. when the incident is alleged to aro have taken place. When defen-
arrested he made a Goods are to be left in the communes. dant Was statement in consequence of which where they will be examined on the he was taken to a nearby house. 13th June, at 10 a.m., by Mesare. and On the way he escaped and was Goddard and Douglas, A fast paced, well-directed of the
she has been launched at the hund expertly acted drama, which has for arrested only after considerable
the east of "Mystery Woman," its heroine a sort of Indy "Ruffes," difculty.
for herself.
CINEMA NEWS
NOTES FROM THE THEATRES
and
after Fox Film had changed all her with pheasant feathers. All of her are blue. This is, an plans by giving her a term contract.accessories The dark-haired, green-eyed actress ensemble which, we feel, will be easy was on her way from Australia toto copy and widely worn for it in England and the day after the film not only practical but vastly attrac cunipany's agents saw her she was live.
creen tested and signed. In ten months she played six supporting roles. Returning to her own studio,
on
express
"Mystery
•
"The Notacious Sophie Lang"
with an exciting
at
show on a
defendant
Damon Runyon, author successful hits "Lady for a Day" and "Little Miss Marker," has written a new story The Lemon Drop Kid," a story prepared in screenplay form is Paramount's "The Notorious Sophie Evidence was given by com-
Lang," now showing at the Alhambra to the Alhambra which comes
Helen
will arrive at the Star with Gertrude Michael and Paul plainant, after which
leads was discharged. Wednesday with Lee Tracy Mack beading the east. One of the Theatre ta-day. Other stories have Cavanaugh in the romantic
heen purchased for her meanwhile popolar of present day sereen
plot opens sriters, Damon Runyon has built his and Fox Films executives feel it hending its distinguished cast. The success on his ability to create colour within a short time Mona Barrie will rather ingenious jewel robbery in a
pended have been established as one of the New York store. Recognising the THE POLICE RESERVE Kul characters who can be depended
handiwork of Sophie
by upon to do things in a slightly differ-screen's outstanding stars,
The Last Roum Up" ent way. In The Lemon Drop Kid"
played
Byron, determines to catch her by character, his central
by Tee race-track enthusiast, who
With America's most popular hallad the ingenious expedient of xetting her trail. Tracy, is a ride then the induces the embraced in its sixty minutes of fast- another jewel thief on
trouble
he selecth to bet on the wrong horse moving adventure, leve and thrills of And for this
played by Paul lionaire In his efforts to make a get-away, the dangerous 70s, Puramount's "The Macizillian Bernard, play
showing at the Cavanaugh. When the two
two fugitiver the "Kill" hides out in a small town Last Round Up"
thrilling and amusing three. where there are no horses to distract Oriental Theatre on Wednesday and from justice become aware of Farr's Inspector General of Police: his sind. But just when the "Kis" Thursday. The sensational picturisa- plot,
on horseback, prey cornered battle of wits ensues, which
Parr of the police, plan tha
decides that he cannot stand the quietion of anush adventurers of has its climax when the two criminals :
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Hongkong, 8th June, 1986.. lively and
the! of the part blonde, plays
"Many Hollywood styles are ori-playing at the Queen's Theatre and Ritchir. Only those
(S.) D. L. KING. "Shrimp," a nickname given to one ginal insufar as anyone can claim is a fast-moving story of New York attend.
nt Maxim's, the famous originality in gowning, says William night life. With hor of the girls
featured cast that includes Robert
D. S. P. (R). Paris rendezvous. She meets Petypon Lambert, Fox Film costume designer Taylor, the young man who scored in "Society Leslie Itenson) while he is an a visit In the Jesse f. Lasky production a hit and rocketed to fame
coming on Wednesday to Puris and seriously upsets his life "Helldurado,"
Evana Doctor": Pinky Tomlin, the SCABR- of hilariou! through a series
com to the King's Theatre, Mudge plications. This is France Day's first will give the girla and women an tional newcomer to the screen as a big film and she proved a real sensa- opportunity to see the newest thing crooner. He sings "The Object of my made up a list of the ten tion. Her singing and dancing pro-in winter ensembles and coat sults. Affection" and "What's the Reason Interesting persons he had ever work- vide added charms to this delightful Among the clothes designed for
ture and won fame after he wrote Little Colonel," now thrilling audi-
appears A
Hongkong, Monday, June 10, 1935.
mont
film. Miss Day hus played in several Evans for her wear in "Helldorado'm not Pleasing You in the piced with. They are co-starred in "The
to be alive!
"Mystery Woman"
stage productions including "Out of is an ensemble of imported. Radler these two song hits. Others in the ences at the King's Theatre, Robin the Bottle," "Cold Blood" and "How rabbit wool in pigment red with a nolabile cast are Helen Twelvetrees, sen has an important part in this D'you Do." She's just the sort of plak embracing navy blue, pigment Isabel Jowell, Henry Kolker, Jack
tion Days. He gives a new version Day that makes you feel it's great red and oyster white. The plaid is LaRue, Raymond Hatton and many dyllic story of the South's Construc used for a tunic over a skirt of the more. Times Square Lady" which of his suave stair dance act, alone plain red wool. Both tunle and skirt was produced by Lucien Hubbard and with the work's youngest star. are split about eight inches at their brings many world-famous locations The other eight are Will Rogers, Robert Hilliard, Sarah Bernhardt, Eddle Leonard, Florence Milla, Bert Conquering Hollywood in a year's hem lines, "The cost is of the red
"The Little Colonel"
Williams, Eddie Contor and Theodore time in fast work. Just ask anybody wool and the exact length of the
Shirley Temple and Lionel Barry- Roberts. Shirley he describes as "the who's tried it. So credit belongs to tunic. A neck band with the tie end Mona Barrie, young, beautifer and and a-belt of the red wool add in-
filmerest to the tunic. With this Miss more were selected by Bill Robinson, sweetest little poach-blown lady in all talented, who arrived in the capital just before Christmas, 1933, Evans wears a navy blue Alpine hatace of tap dancers, when recently he the world."
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