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CHAPTER XLII
CARLETON KENDRAKE
"You mean a cop?"
"Yes.
won't hurt you. That will be enough to give him the information I want him to have and it won't be enough the "Well, it couldn't be helped, but to get you into any trouble under the circumstances I wouldn't wrong, parties' should ask you ques want you to take a pop at him, as tions."
The cab driver's grateful hand you express it."
Millicent dashed down the stairs as "gay-that's bad!” fast as her feet could carry her. She crossed the lobly on the run, pushed open the door of the apartment house, and sprinted across the strip sidewalk between her and the taxi- cab.
of
A reminiscent, grin came over the closed about the bill Millicent handed I'm not making any
admissons but
man's features. "Well, now, Miss.Main," he said, "the
wrong
if these knuckles of mine smacked parties could question me from now up against the face of a cop, it might until they made skating rinks in the not be such a surprise to 'em as you'd hot place, and they couldn't get any-
thing from me." think." He chuckied reminiscently.
"There's one thing, however, that you can do" Millicent said. "It would help me
"You don't understand," she said. Sudden comprehension filled his countenance,
The cab driver saw her coming. Ile jerked open the door of the cab, alified gears, raced the motor, and held the clutch down with his feat. As Millicent jumped into the CA he slammed the door shut and let the clutch in, all in one motion. It car seemed to Millicent that the fairly leapt forward, throwing her
"What is it, Minn
when "Just remember the time back against the cus
cushions. the cusm The tiren
as the Herenmed
cab I went inte that apartment house and driver negotiated the corner
and how long
I was gone." skidded into the alde street. Mil-
mean you want me to swent Beent felt as helpless пя п kernel that you wasn't in there very long?" want of popcorn
in a happer on a hot "That's Tiklat. I wouldn't
bounced
around you to swear to anything that wasn't store. She from one
side of the cab to the the truth, but I wasn't in there very half an hour, or other, her ears illed with the noise long and I'd like to of the racing motor and the sound remember it funt that way." of protesting tires as the cab whirled around a second corner.
nho
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"Oh, I see. You mean the cops.
There, there, Miss. I shouldn't HONGKONG TO:- have said that. I guess I was just a little dumb. Don't worry. You're KOBE and RETURN playing safe when you play with me.
via Shanghai How long do you want me to wait there?"
"Well," she said slowly, "perhaps| YOKOHAMA and RETURN
Millicent
"Make it an hour," he said. "You can't tell what might happen. I'l "Ma'am," he said. gallantly, you make it an hour and then before I She saw the broad shoulders of walked into that door, and, so help leave I'll go ring the bell on every the cab driver braced back of the me, I don't think it could have been apartment in the building and tell
realised wheck the
that his foot "VAS over 30 seconds later that you came them that I had a customer that went throttle, pushing tout on the runwell, maybe a minute, in the building some place and left down clear to the floor boards, but, but a minute at the outside," without paying. And as she looked back through the rear
"No,
amiling. told him.
"Oh, could you do that?"" Window of
the cab, it seemed
to "You're just a
Ittle bit optimistic.asked eagerly. "Could you do that her that they were barely crawling you don't need to go that strong, at once? 1 mean, right now? along, se great was her pale and think perhaps I was in there three you get into the building and rover
those apartments-all of them?'' an keen her desire to get away from or four minutes."
Her ears ech d' the neighbourhood. with the sound of that police whistle. Now she had definitely burned her
a fugitive bridges. She was justice,
from
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, Miss 7
It
Could
"Sure thing," bo told her. "What's "As long as that?" he asked in surprise that was either genuine or more, I'll leave my cab right in front of that house so if your friend should remarkably well simulated.
"I think 90. I had to take an come out he'll know I am in looklug
the third floor, o to for him." an apartment and then come back "Oh. that would be just wonder. down the stairs, and I was talkingful," Millicent said, "Only be careful. with this man I was telling you about Be very, very careful." for perhaps a minute or so,”
"How careful?" he asked,
elevator to
as you say," he said, i
friend seems to have
cook her several seconds to get."Well, just so I fiess it was disappeared somewhere fa that build- probably three minutes. You mighting."
sufflelent control of herself to trust
her voice.
"No." she said. "Just away."
Ife slowed the ear slightly dashed her a quick glance over his aboulder and said, "That's the way I figured
even make
The cats driver opened a pocket
It four at the outside in the side of the door. pulled out
at that's stretching it to the "you are."
she said, "something a big wrench and slipped it up his happened in there that I wouldn't sleeve.. want to be connected with. It hap-| "Ma'am," he said, "if they bop me with this one before I bent en to wrench they're goñan be good.“
She fumbled with the door calch and the driver reached out and opened the door,
came out."
it, Miss. When you came out of therepened just about 10 minutes before on the run I figured you wanted to make a quick start, and hay, oh bag! did make i
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She leaned forward, realising that this cab driver would become either a dangerous witnes against her, or an invaluable ally,
""'ll say you did," she said. "You certainly made a fine job of it.
Pull
i
in to the curb here for montent, I want to talk with you."
Where ?***
"Right in to the curb. Right here
"There's a garage there, ma'am. I'd butter, swing around the corner."
"""That's all right.",
Ilis face showed relief,
"Oh, sharks," he sentit. "I won't have to stretch it at all because you
in there Any 10) really weren't minutes."
"1
FU
That's what I want you to re- member."
"That's swell," he said. member that, easy,"
"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."
"You're gonna get out here?" he ked.
I don't want to
back und I want you to get started".
Ir
her a saile, tipped hi cap and slid the enb into motion. "Un my way," he called.
kave
She watched the tall fight of the cab, her lips upturned in a half smile. She liked this man and sensed that Sudden- she could depend upon him.
ly she snapped her eyes into focus Millicent took n bill from her upon a couple who had rounded the purse.
"I'd like to have you drop corner and started walking toward He swung around the corner, ran me off here, turn around and go back her.
A moment she stared with wide, for a half black, bruked the car to to that apartment house. Wait in
front of the door. If you see my incredulous eyes. Then, with an ex-
stop but left the motor idling. Ho turned around
friendly grin.
to face ber with a friend come out, tell him that his clamation of quick dismay, she drew
party is waiting for him at the hotel in n deep breath, preparatory where he met her carlier.".
**Trouble?" he asked.
said. "My "I don't know," she friend wasn't where he was supposed to be and someone became very offen- Kive."
"Pt go back there and take a pop at hini," the cab driver offered.
"No. You coulda't do that because] he's on the force."
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"Just that?" "That's all."
"If you want to trust me with the name of the hotel, ma'am,' I wouldn't
to
but tail
to the cab driver screaming
too late. The realised it was light all around the corner even as she watched.
A dark doorway was at her elbow. Millicent jumped Into that doorway, She shook her head and said, her hand at her throat, the pulses "It isn't that, but this is one of those pounding by her ears, cases where what
you don't know
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H.K. Banks, (Lon, Reg.), £1242
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Chartered Bank, £143⁄4 n. Mercantile Bank, A. and B.
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Canton Ins., $203 n. Union Ins., $345 sa.
China Underwriters, Go els, n. China Fire, $382 n. H.K. Fire Ins., $200 n. Internat'l Assce., Sh. $4 n.
Shipping.
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Antamoks, 71 cts. b. Balatoes, $34. Bagulo Gold, 21 cts. n. Benguet Consolidated $10 n. Benguet Exp., 10 eta. n. Benguet Goldfield, 10 cts, n. Big Wedge, 8 cts. n.. Gold Creek, 80 cts. ù. Gold River 7 cts, n. Ipo Mining, 90 ctạ, b. ILogons, 31 cts. b. Salacot, 12 cts. n.
Kallan, 16/6 n.
Langkats (Single), $14 n. Shal Explorations, Sh. $41⁄4 n. S'hai Loans, Sh. $5:n.
Raubs, $54 n.
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