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SERIAL STORY-
1935.
The DARK BLOND
CHAPTER XLVII
CARLETON Kendrake
Sergeant Mahoney stopped the car in front of the apartment house. "I have been thinking." he said, "about Gentry. You say that he tried a key to apartment 309 and it wouldn't work
That's right."
Then, until he got to apartment 309 he must have thought the key was
to work."
RON Why?"
"In that event," he said, "he must have used the key to get into the apartment house. In other words, he opened the outer door with
munt that
She stared at him, her forehead showing lines of bewilderment.
"In other words," Minhoney said, "someone gave Gentry a key to apart- ment 309. That someone had an other apartment in the house and must have given Gentry the key to of apartment that apartment, instead 300. Both keys would open the door
until I've got some incriminating ovidence."
She nodded,
"Good luck," he told her, stepped from the elevator and let the door clone.
again. Something struck her in the side with numbing force. She heard terrific roar, felt Fick Gentry grow suddenly imp. Sergeant Mahoney's
sounding
dell&
aminous, said, "Make a move and
Stick Tom upgot the same
Millicent broke free as Dick Gentry As the closing door ninde the elec- dose.
floor. She an trical contact, the elevator lurched up-
Пост. Billicent
saw a deserted cor- Sergeant Mahoney cutting at Nor- ward. It jolted to a stop at the third collapsed to the rider. She screamed, "Norman, Norman's bonds with a clasp knife.. saw mant Where are you?" and ran the the strange man with his hands high
above his head. length of the corridor.
Some man. shouted through a closed door, "Pipe down. I want to sleep."
A door opened. A strange
Into the corridor.
asked.
*
Millicent ran to Nornian, screaming, "Are you hurt?" He grinned at her man and said, "No. Why didn't you run when I warned you! Gentry was He said he'd se you looking for the man who holding a gun on me,
knew what they wanted. They want was hurt in apatment 300" ho shoot If I didn't lie perfectly still. I "Yes," Millicent said, and such wased to get you in here. When I her eagerness to locate Norman that shouted dove forward to dodge the for the moment she entirely forgot ballet. A woman was with him. She
ran. I couldn't see her clearly." she was balt for a death trap.
He straightoned, rubbing his wrists.
shook his head, "I'm sorry, boys,"
had Sergeant Mahoney stepped over
"I found him in the corridor," the
of the apartment house itself. The man said. "He was unconscious. I
peculiar knocks were merely a signal/ took him in here and have been Dick Gentry, slowly, he said.
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the conspirators couldn't be sur prised by anyone with a pass-key.
Millicent recognized the logic of his remarks. "Good heavens, yeat And perhaps that other apartment is where
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ness so I could find out what happened. waiting for him to regain conscious. Lie's not badly hurt."
Millicent ran swiftly to the door of the apartment. The man stood to one Looking past him, Millicent "Exactly," he interupted. "Now side. that apartment must be on the third saw a couch. On the couch, covered from by a blanket, lay Norman Happ. carried floor. Norman apartment 309. He would never have There was a gasli on his forehead on would which dry blood had encrusted. His They left it voluntarily,
have taken him up or down-eyes were closed.
"Norman!" Millicent screamed. Norman shouted, "Run. Call the police!"
Sergeant Mahoney stepped from the car, rang the bell of the apartment marked, "MANAGER" At the third ring a speaking tube whistled. A women's voice said, "If this is a ten- ant who's forgotten a key, I'll open the door. If it's someone who wants an apartment, come back at a decent "It's the police," Sergeant Mahoney Anid. "Open the door and meet us in the corridor with a pan-key."
way
Millie.
an
woman's voice screamed epithet, a gun roared.
Norman Happ had flung himself off the couch as he called his warn- ing, Millicent saw that his hands were tied behind his back as he date head first, to the A bullet ripped the davenport where his head had
to
to do it. Ho'd have got the girl."
Millicent looked up then and saw that grim, silent figurek had filed in- to the room, figures who moved with swift efficiency, Jerking down the hands of the man who had lured her into the apartment, annpping hand- cuifs around his wrists.
"What happened, Norman?" she
Sergeant Mahoney sat down beside Norman Inpp. "It's important," ho said, "for us to get everything you know and get it fast. Give us the buro facts and give them
quickly." "I went to 300," Norman Happ said. "I knocked. No one
answered. I started toward the elevator. This men," nodding his head toward the handcuffed
prisoner, #stepped into the hallway. He asked me if I was
friend of Phyllis Faulconer. said she had instructed him to let bullet been. Another
tore her friend into the apartment. It through the upholstering, ripping was a trap. I fell for it and said, apartment, cloth, sending up a shower of dust 'Yes.' He let me into the
struck at me with a blackjack. I was
tackle him. and exposing wire aprings.
The strange man who had stood stunned but mannged to house.
in the doorway struck at Millicent's
all over the apartment but they got head with a blackjack. Somehaw- sho did not know how-sho nvolded mo finally. They dragged me down that blow and sped toward Norman to this place and have held me
That's all I know."
A moment later the door buzzed open. Sergeant Mahoney pushed his
into
apartment the Millicent saw a big, bland woman with a white, frightened face, hugging a kimona about herself.
Sergeant Mahoney showed her his badge. "Give to a pask-key," Baid.
"Dick Gentry came in. We fought
be app:ch on open door which led tooner. I think this man is a hired
the kitchenet she saw Dick Gentry, "And, by God!" raid the handcuffed- She handed him the pass-key, an automatic in his hand, his lips man, "that's all you'll ever find out. Sergeant Mahoney escorted Millicent twisted into an evil leer, taking deli-You've killed Gentry, You've got na to the elevator, sild brek the door of berate aim at Nornman Happ's struggl thing on me. I thought the man was
A a burglar." figure. Millicent screamed, lunged forward. the enge, pressed the button for the ing
Sergeant Mahoney turned to him third floor.
"When you got to that floor," he The gun roared. She heard the Im- purposefully. "You," he said, “know sali "get out and run up and down pet of a bullet striking something who Phyllis Faulconer is. You know
Norman, solid ns, with a savagery which sur- where the corridor screaming,.
After that, no mat-prised her, she lung herself upon where are you?' ter what happens, act naturally--that blek Contry and realized she was is, be frightened. Don't let on that holding his wrist, struggling with him you know the police have the place for the automatic. surrounded. For your information, I have men placed where they can come to your rescue whenever I give the signal, but I don't want to do that
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"You little she-devil!" he exclaimed, as her teeth sank into his hand, "Take that!"
He kicked at her. The gun roared
Jarvis app is. You either talk or we'll take you to head- quarters, and when we get done with you you'll be damn gind to talk.
The man snarled defiance, "Try and make me talk," he said.
"By God," Sergeant Mahoney said, grimly, "I will."
(To Do Concluded)
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Defense Resta" its sense of hu-story, which is based on the most the leading character of the Columbia quality ix greatest
Queen's
The Theatre. mour. That, of course, stenis direct amazing case of a great manhunter
who misuse of his ability. Judith Wood playing at the ly from its author, the man wrote "The Private Life of Helen of and William Frawley have important new film in from an original story and and who roles. Kruger plays the crime in-screen play by Jo Swerling and was directed by Lambert Hillyer. Sup- Tros" and "Galahad,"
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111- campus sweethearts who
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A new and dazzling Jean Muir en-Hatton. The story is a patioun Adult way and not by shouting
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performance--her
price. His publicity-seek- opposite Walthall since their supreme yesterday. This rising new star was criminal lawyer who will defend any
ess in "Birth of a Nation" 20 given the finest opportunity of her one-at
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Yorkers are also present in the film, the district attorney, the direct and compus is peopled by such engaging was written especially for her by the he cynically and which the bar/ Barnum amazed contemporary New day, listens to the case presented by association can't bar." But a comely which Walter Lang directed from across examination of witnesses, and
the per Melton. No wonder life moves quick of a young and uneophisticated girl/ little law school graduate into his story by Gene Fowler and Bess finally, the presentation of her own to allow ly at this film university. An then, who has been secluded from childhood son of Jean Arther
Janet major part of the defence not to top the laughs, Stepin Fetchit in a boarding school by her brilliant life at the height of his career. Her Meredyth for release through United defence by her lawyer. She never appears as a slow-motion bellhop in actress mother who fears that public enthusiasm and idealism concerning Artists. Adolpho Menjou, Virginia takes the stand, however it being a
knowledge that she has a grown the profession provide a sharp con- Bruce, Rochelle Hudson and
trast to
Holt's cynical materialism. Beecher are also prominently cast in his client to utter a word in her own behalf. The murder trial, one of the a fraternity house.
Caughter will dim her own popularity.
most elaborate that has been staged "The Great Hotel Murder"
Thrust suddenly into the giddy whirl They share arguments with romance, The Mighty Barnum."
The Case of the Howling Dog" for a motion pleture during recent Screen players are much younger of New York's social elite, she sends and pave the way for a thrilling
years, was reproduced virtually in ita In 'there all talking pictures, no entirety. and better looking to-day than they an electrical shock up and down the denonement.
"The Mighty Barnum"
"Now and Forever" were ten years ago. Many of the
"The Mighty Barnum,", which 20th important player in a production takes people whose voices are admired for Pines of custom bound conventional people by her outspoken truths and
A new starring romantic team la their clearness and diction to-day naturalness. George Brent gives the Century brings to the King's Theatre, part in a scene without having some. would have failed to pass the first most convincing performance as the is in the nature of a Centennial Cole thing to say before the scene is over. test a few years ago. This is the man-about-town, anes in love with the bration offering. For it was exactly Mary Astor, however, has the distinc-presented to film audiences in Pars- opinion of Ernest Palmer, A.S.C.. one mother, but who turns to the daughter one hundred years ago that P. T. tion of being a completely allent mount's "Now and Forever," coming
ono week during the
the Gary Cooper and Carole Lombard, and of Fox Film's ace camera menar because of hor simple charm, and Barnum, played by Wallace Beery, participant in every scene that was to-day to the Star Theatre. Palmier photographed The Great lack of affectation. Brent stems more jeft his grocery store on New York
Howling
these two popular players have ap Hotel Murder, Fox Film's new spontaneous, more magnetic and City's Bowery, And launched his production of the Warner Bros. pro- the picture marks the first time
which comes on compelling. He seems to have over-career as the world's greatest show-duction "The Case of the mystory comedy
an Dog" which is showing for the last peared together as loads. In addition, Wednesday to the King's Theatre. como
torsiona emingly ruded self repres, men by exhibiting Joice Hot,
every scene,
plays She was on the sat
seen in Low I co-featured with Victor sion and gives his real self to
in "Little Miss Marker," old and to have nursed George Parrot it the screen vorsion of character role. Verree Teasdale aged norers chimed to be 160 years times to-day at the Alhambra Theatre. [#ve-year-old Shirlov Temple, who was
all the popular Red Book mystery quite as dazaling as Miss Muir an the Washington in his infancy. Whether prominent figure in the foreground of starring role. Together, these throe on, yet for compose one of the most perfect com- action They actress mother, temperamental, jeal Joice was actually &
her binations seen in films. The charac "Recipe For Murder."
opened two rival clouths in this John ous of her own daughter to the extent not was never determined, but the seven days explanation is a simple tere they play aro
mouth. Stone production the supporting further
which Eugene of being willing to ruin her life to newspapers of the day
devoted a
ono. Miss Astor plave the role of and entirely bellavabla
a story that OW!1 career. Miss Battering amount of editorial space to cast are Rosemary Ames, Mary | Teasdalo gives a fiery portrayal of the the question of her authenticft and the central figure he is defendant in enact wart-tura and toarn along Carliate, Ifanry O'NII, CHenryi maddened actress who thrusts a knife oven the ddrgy found her worthy of the murder trial which forms the lart loads of Gordon, play, Wilson, John Wray, and others, Muir rises to the highly emotional and world's amallegt man, the Cardiff Accused of murdoring her husband, Standing, Charlotte Granville, Gilbert
"Crime Doctor"
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