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SERIAL STORY-
12,
1935.
The DARK BLOND
& CARLETON KENDRAKE.
CHAPTER XLII Millicent dashed down the stairs fast as her feet could carry her. She crossed the lobby on the run, pushed open the door of the apartment house, yt and sprinted across the strip aldewalk between her, and the taxi- Cab.
"You mean a cop1" "Yes."
Say-that's bad!",
"Well, it couldn't be helped, but under the circumstances I wouldn't want you to take a pop at him. as you express it.'
won't hurt you, That will be enough to give him the information I want him to have and it won't be enough to get you into any trouble if the wrong parties should ask you ques- tions."
"Ma'am," he said, "the wrong parties could question me from now until they made skating rinks in the hat place, and they couldn't get any thing from me."
The enb driver's grateful hand A reminiscent grin came over the closed about the bill Millicent handed man's features. "Well, now. Miss, him. The cab driver saw her comulug. I'm not making any admissons but He jerked open the door of the rab, if, these knuckles of mine smacked shifted rears, raced the motor, and up against the face of a cop, it might held the clutch down with his foot, not be such a surprise to 'em as you'd As Millicent Jumped into the cab think."
He chuckled reminiscently. he stommed the door shut and lut There's one thing, however, that the clutch in, all in one motion.
do," Millicent YOU cnn seemed to
would help me a lot,
It
fairly leapt forend, throwing
that,
ear
back against the cushiona.
The Lires screamed na the driver negotiated the corner and akilded into the side
cab
struct.
Mil-
said.
"Just remember the time
"It
when
I went into that apartment house and how long I was gone,"
"You mean you want me to swear licent felt as helpless as kernel that you wasn't in there very long?
on n in a hopper
hot "That's right. I wouldn't of popcorn
want 55*2LN bounced stove. She
around to Awear to anything that wasn't
you from one aide of the cab to the the truth, but I wasn't in there very yout ather, her gars filled with the noise long and I'd like to have of the racing motor and the sound remember it
just that way." of protesting tires as the cabs whirled around a second corner.
"Ma'am,"
"he said gallantly, "you She saw the broad shoulders of walked into that door, and, so help the cab driver braced back of the me, I don't think it could have been wheel, realised that his foot was
as over 30 seconds inter that you came crewding the throttle,
it pushing out on the ran-well, maybe a minute, down clear to the floor boards, but, but a minute at the outside." us she looked back through the rear
"No."
she told him, smiling. window of The
it seemed cab her that they were barely crawling nlour so great was her pante and no keen her desire to get away from the neighbourhood. Her ears och ied with the sound of that police whistle Now she had definitely burned her bridges. She was a fugitive from justiro,
to "You're just A little bit optimistic. You don't need to go that strong, I think perhaps I was in there three ar four minutes."
"All sorts of visions floated through her tortured mind and she heard, as from a great distance, the voice of the cab driver saying, "Any place in particular, Mя2
It took her several seconds in get sufficient control of herself to trust her voice.
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No." The Fid, "Just
slowed the ear slightly, flashed quick glance over his shoulder and said, "That's the way I figured It, Miss. When you came out of there ou the run I figured you wanted to|i make a quick start, and boy, oh boyf I did I make it!"
She leaned forward, realising that thus enh driver would become, either a dangerons witness against her, orj au invaluable ally.
"As long as that?" he askent in surprise that was either genuine remarkably well simulated.
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"Well," she said slowly, "perhaps half an hour, or
"Make it an hour," he said. "You can't tell what might happen. I'll make it an hour and then before 1 leave I'll go ring the bell on every apartment in the buikling and tell them that I had a customer that went in the building one place and left without paying. And
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engerly. "Could you do that. at once? I mean, right now? Could you get into the building and cover those apa
apartments all of them?
"Sure thing," he told her. "What's ar more, I'll leave my cab right in front of that house so if your friend should At came he'll know I am in looking. to for hi
so. I had to take elevator to the third Hour, go in apartint and then came linck down the stairs, and I was talking with this man I was telling you about for perkups a minute or so,
the outside, !
"Oh. that would be just wonder- fut," Millicent said, "Only be careful. Be very, very careful."
"How careful?" he asked, "My friend seems to have
"Well, just as you say, he enlil. "Ir you did all that, I guess it was disappeared somewhere in that build- probably three minutes, You might|ing" even make It four
The cab driver opened a packet but that's stretching it to the limit." in the side of the door, pulled out
"You
she said, "something big wrench and silpped it up his happened in there that, I wouldn't sleeve, want to be commerted with. It hap-
"Ma'am," he said, "if they buy me pered just shout 10 minutes before one before I beat 'em to it with this
opine out.".
wrench they're gonna be good.”
His face showed relief."
"Oh, shucks," he said, "I won't have to stretch it at all heenuse you
there
10 really weren't minutes."
any
She fumbled with the door raich and the driver reached out and opened the dour. "Yoti
're gonna get out here?" he asked.
"Yes. I don't want to go back
I want you to get started". He gave her a smile, tipped his cop and slid the cab Inte motion. "On my way," he called,
TIN
and
That's what I want you to !member "You "That's swill," he said. "I 7-
member that, easy,"
"I'll say you did," she said. pertainly inde a fine jobs of it. Pull in to the curb here for a moment.; I want to talk with you."
"Where "
"Right in to Lhe curb. Right |
hero".
"There's a garage there, ma'am, I'd better swing around the corner,"
That's all right."
He swung around the corner, rán for n half block, braked the car to n stop but left the motor idling. Ha turned around to face her with a friendly grin.
"Trouble?” he asked.
"I don't know," she said. "My friend wasn't where he was supposed to be and someone became very offen- Bive."
#I go linek there and take a ̈póp| at him," the cab driver affered.
"No. You couldn't do that because he's on the force."
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"Now," she said, "I'd like to have you do something else for me,"
"What is it?"
"You remember the man who went
in there
"Sure."
She watched the tail light of the Lent, her lips upturned in a half smile, She liked this man and sensed that she could depend upon him, Sudden- ly she supped her eyes into forus her upon a couple who had rounded the purse. "I'd like to have you drop corner and started walking toward ine off here, turn around and go back her moment she stared with wide, to that apartment Louse. Wait in
Millicent took 'n bill from
A
fo
bul
front of the door. If you see my incredulous eyes. Then," with an ex- friend come out, tell him that his clamation of quick dismay, she drew party is waiting for him at the hotel in a deep breath, preparatory where he met her emler."
screaming to the cab driver realised it was
too inte, The Inil Hight slid around the corner even she watched.
"Just that?" "That's all."
"If you want to trust me with the name of the hotel, ma'am, I wouldn't
가
She shook her head and said,
A dark doorway was at her elbow. Millicent jumped into that doorway: her hand at her throat, the pulses
"It isn't that, but this is one of these pounding in her bars. cases where whol you don't know
(To Be Continued).
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Mack who scored a recent success ant dramatle roles in the sercen story daughter and his wife havo hard a star. In "Helldorado", he plays la
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Leo Tracy creates one of Damon e Miss Mack plays with charm and fire the girl who influenclong to Me": terminated his Para Runyon's best likel for release through United Artists whon Larry "Buster Crabbe, the mount contrast after 11 years with Paramount's "The Lemon Drop Kid." cast are William Frawley, as the pro- charactors In distinction. Others included in the The only other important exhibit the banker's son, falls in love with Joan. that company. Playing opposite him which opens today at the Alhambra fessor, a high sounding faker who producers of this Joseph M. Schanck Dut hilo his family is meeting the in "Helldorado" je Madge Evans, and Theatre. As the "Kid" of the title knows how to impress gullible people; presentation found it necessary to poor family, Floids comes in with in supporting roles are Ralph Bel- Tracy's Import, according to Ebele, was, the his tipay pals and ruins everything, lamy, Henry B. Walthall, James style fits in perfectly with Runyon's Henry B. Walthall.
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"The Lemon Drop Kid"
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