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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1935.

SERIAL STORY

The DARK BLOND

CARLETON KENDRAKE

he

*Wait a minute," Drimgold pleaded. "Let's be Feasonable, You can't leave me now.”

CHAPTER I

Į consideration — your penny-pinching quite the pillar of society think

tactics. It took two girls to do your liked to simulate.

She snuggled into her fur cont, Millicent Graves glanced from her work before I came here. I'm doing

fur coat, which was visible the work of both of those girls at one scooped up the mii, snapped azi through the open door of the coat girl's salary, Even then, I wouldn't elastic bond around the pack of letters, closet, to the clock,

mind the work if you'd be decent took care to throw the spring lock an The clock showed 5.35, and George about it. You treat a girl like a the door into position, nodded to the Drimgold hadn't as yet returned to stave, and I'm not going to be a slave. assistant janitor as she stopped out sign the mail.

I don't care how scarce jobs are.. I'm into the ecrridor.

She went to the elevator, dropped Her capable fingers flew over the going to get a raise or I'm going to |

her letters down the mail chute, pulled keys of the typewriter, finishing the quit."

Sho heard one of the janitora her coat tightly around her figure as Just stereotype "Beg to remain, very, truly yours," of the voluminous cor-moving around in the other office, and she met the cold wind of the street. realised her voico had been high-The tingling air felt good to her sidin respondence.

door opened with ex-pitched with rage. The outer

She fought her way to the ghted After all, it was frightfully. plosive violence. George Drimgold

tearoom. pushed toward his private office.

high priced. However, they did have "Come in,. Miss Graves," he said.

nice food; and there was a woman who told fortunes with the tea leaves, "Bring a notebook." Millicent frowned.

who went from table to table.

"You don't need to quit," Dringold shouted. "You're fired!"

"Very well," she said, and closed her book with a viclous snap.

Her hand was on the knob of the There was a stack of mall that door na Drimgold's voice, strangely Micent Graves suddenly realised would take 10 or 15 minutes to fuld, changed, reached her ears. "Walt that her own future was going to "Let's be cause her some concern Drimgold acal, and stamp, Of late this aver minute,"

her she wRK fred. Quito time work had been getting to be a reasonable. 1 need you. I've got hind told habit with Dringold, and Millicent some most important dictation. You probably he was serious. Graves had made up her mind that can't leave me now. I'm all upset. she'd tell him, in a nice way, that just Please forgive ine."

a little more consideration would give || ber time to freshen up a bit before dinner.

But Millicent, however, was hardly in position to become firm with her employer to-night. She had a favour to asi, So she sighed, picked up her notebook, and followed George Urimer gold into the private office,-

Dringold stared at her with eyen which glittered strangely,

Millicent Graves didn't notice the

signs of inner emotion. A sudden surge of valour possessed her. She acted upon impulse, and, heard her own voice speaking, almost before she realised. what she was doing.

"Mr. Dringold," she said, "I wonder If it would be possible for me to get an advance on next month's salary It happens that I've had some rather heavy expenses this month,

"No," he told her shortly. "I'm sorry, but it's impossible."

"Very well," she said with dignity.

7

"It's after 5 o'clock. Your mail is rendy for signing. Shall I get it?"

"Not yet. I've got something to dictate to you.'

"It's after G."

*

he pleaded.

She pushed the door and entered the welcome warmth of the tearoom.

She hung up the fur coat where she could keep an eye on it, dropped her and purse to a chair beside her, and cou- was salted the menu.

She turned to stare at him, suddenly realised that the man

Sho

She could, she saw, got sono chicken penting the simple truth..

Cane croquettes and ten and still leave hesitated for a moment, then back to the dictating table, spread out 10-cent tip for the wallress out of the notebook, and end frostly 60 cents Drimgold had given "Very well. What is it, a letter?" The croquettes, she knew, were small "No," anid Dringold slowly. "I's and entirely unsatisfying ns-fuel-19 confession."

fortify herself against the cold ride Despite herself, she felt quick home. However, if she had the small

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sympathy na she saw the expression steak at 50 cents. It would mean there for Saigon, Manila, Sandakan, Rabaul, Salamaua, on his face.

was

the

no tip for the girl, and "I'm going to dictate this confes- waitress looked tired. Probably she, slon," he said. "You're going to write too, was overworked and underpaid. I out. Then I'm going to sign it, Millicent deelded on the croquettes, and you'll witness it. Please take and gave her order. She took n this down. Mias Graves. To whom it cigarette from her purse and wha may concern: This is to certify that helling a match to it when her eyes I George Frigold, of the age of suddenly snapped to quick attention. 19 years, president of the Dringold A woman, with a cost of black erming Really Revaluation Company, am wrapped around her, had entered the guilty of being an accessory murder.

walked with quick, toateurooni. She

hervous steps. Millicent couldn't see "I am not guilty of that murder. her face, but she could glimpse a cold. 1 do, however, know the guilty harty. ly baleful eye.

Then the woman in the ermine coat) Fer years I have protected this party

of the

one where Millicent

(To Be Continued.)

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and have myself shared in the benefits Awent past her and took the table just CONSIGNEES' which accrued from that murder, back "In order to make this confession at. intelligible at this late date, it is! He said irritably, "I don't care what necessary for me to set forth certain best bo time it is. I told you I've got some facts. These facts can dictation. You're going, to have to explained by certain documentary work

to-night. You'll have to eat sequence, certala newspaper clippings! downtown. Thero's a tearoom in the which I will quote herein at longth." block."

Drimgold paused in his dictation, She could feel the pulse pounding turned to the wall safe above his desk. in her throat. She realized now that is fingers touched the knob of the Drimgeld was in a most irritable combination; then he turned to Milli nood. Yet, having started to assert eent Gravos,

her rights, she didn't inter lo stop. "I've got to get some documents," that "What I am about to dictate, Miss he said. "Go ahead and get

Then you can get Graves," Drimgold said, "is of the mall. I'll sign it. utmost importance. I don't want to be fit in the mall chuto," Interrupted

She went to the outer office, return. Before e start in on that dictaed with the stack of mail, placed it tion," Millicent Graves suld firmly on the desk in front of him. the "there's the question of finances and aigned the letters with a firm, steady I overtime. I know that Jobs are hand. She folded the mail, placed it scarce, Mr. Dringold, but it takes in the envelopes, sealed and stamped virtually every cent that I makco in the envelopes. Dringold took some papers from the wall safe, started order to live.""

#noticed you flashed out with a pawing through them, arranging them now fur coat," he retorted sarcastical: in some sort of a sequence. ly.

"Go get yourself something to eat," "Yes, I did," she said, "and I needed he said, without looking up. "Lock it. It was a bargain I couldn't pass the door as you go out. I don't want up. I paid for it out of my own to be disturbed. Be sure the door's money. You don't have to give me a locked. If you see a woman in a black

On the advance if you don't want to. other hand, I certainly don't have to ermine coat with a big collar up As it hap around her face, don't let her in under work overtime for you. pens, I can't do it to-night. I haven't any circumstances. If she's in the corridor when you come back from enough money to even pay for any dinner, don't unlock the office door. Drimgald frowned, thrust a hand Go some place and telephone me. I'll answer the telephone. And don't bo into his trousers pocket, pulled out along Toll of bills: Ho fesitated a moment,

"Very well, Mr. Drimgold," Milllcent then replaced the hills. From his other pocket he took some silver and saki, with mechanical obedience, but slid a 50-cent piece across the desk to she was thinking that the dimor aho could buy at the tea room for 50 cents her you can, got enough to eat," he wouldn't unreasonably detain har, aald, "for half dollar. I'll pay for

Sho stood in front of the mirror, the meal. I won't pay for overtime. If you don't want this position, I can giving finishing touches to her face, and thinking of Drimgold's strange get others who do

Millicent Graves pushed back her confession. She might have known It chair Despite herself, her voice rose, was something like that. No man That's the thing that I hate about who was guilty of the petty, chiseling you!" she screamed. "You lack of tactics George Drimgold used could be

dinhor."

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