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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY

SERIAL STORY-

APRIL 28

1935.

The DARK BLOND

hsa protected a murderer.

CARLETON KENDRAKE

A man's voice said, "Just a minute!" and a hand touched Milizant's shoulder.

DEGIN HERE TO-DAY

really warned her of the impending | This time the clerk's shake of the head was not accompanied by a smile. danger? MILLACENT GRAVES make her employes;

Milcent left the subway at the "I'm worry," she said, "it's im Tat GEUROB RINGOLD, for Intend, a fived. A moment later he begs her 38th street station, A cheap hotel possible. In the first place, our ac- Lo stay, aying he has something is displayed an electric sign. She rog-counts are confidential, and, in the to dictate conferaton that fue rows histered under an assumed name. The second place, it would entail far too clerk demanded cash in advance, much work in our bookkeeping depart Millicent. hesitated a moment, then ment." Look the amount from the coin purse.

Millicent felt strangely balked, help After all, it would be in the nature of a loan.

less. She walked over to the tela- After a night of tortured dreams, phone booths and called the tea roor interspersed with fitful periods of where she had dined that night.

Striving to keep any excitement sleep, she awoke to face the day. A morning newspaper told her all that from showing in her voice, she said, the police were willing to make public. "I'd like to speak to the gypsy fortung teller, please. Tell her it's quite in- portant."

Millicent goes out to dinner, promising to return. Bringold tells her to watch for a woman in A bisek eralna ront, Millicent Aww such a women in the tearoom. Liter Millierut discovers someone has taken her Shs pureo, mubatilukirst one exactly ke h AIRFIs Back to the tearum and in the elo- TRIOT a distinguished-looking man of middle ART.

No one in the toarem know anything about Milcent's purse. The woman in black ennine is gone. Milleent goes back to Reid's olce, finds him dead. Aler purse in Jooks out the window and does a polleemant entering the building.

on the four its cantonia scattered. She

CHAPTER II

"Who is this talking?" asked a woman's voice.

"You can tell her that It's just a friend calling," Millicent anid,

"What friend?"

It was enough to make a damning caro ngainst her.

Drimgold, it seemed, had telephoned Homcona whose identity was being kept secret by the pollca and said that Millicent realized her predicament.ho was dictating a confession to his The assistant janitor must have seen Becretary. The police know, thero-

"Please," Millicant said impatiently, Dringold's body and notified the fore, why Milleent had been working

few minutes the overtime. They had traced her moves "tell her to come to the phone. Tell police. Within a machinery of the law would have from the time aho left the ten room her it's important."

at 6:36, signed the register in the ele- The woman's voice said, "She dia started to function.

Someone had murdered Drimgold. vator and was taken to the 17th floor appeared. late last night under rather The murder had been committed at peculiar circumstances. Sho left n That someone must have deliberately between 6:15 and 6:45. The assistant note saying she wouldn't be back. stolen Millicent's purse, leaving & Janitor who discovered the body had Therefore, if you'll please tell me whe carefully prepared duplicato in order

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to prevent Millicent from detecting the tok the officers he had heard Millicent it is calling, I'

Millicent slid the receiver back on substitution. That person must have and her employer quarrolling in the used Millicent's keys to open the door Private office and had heard Drimgold the hook, turned and walked rapidly of the office. Dringold, in a desper- shout, "You're fred!" The police had from the department store.

So the gypsy woman had disap ate struggle for life, must have searched for Millicent's shorthand snatched at the purse the murderer notebook in wheih they reasoned she peared. Perhaps, after all, it was the was carrying and uniped its con must have written Drimgold's con- gypsy woman who had arranged for fession. They had searched in vain the substitution of the purses--Per- tents over the office.

Blind, unreasoning panic seized the and now they were throwing out a haps it was the gypsy woman who had girl as she realized her predicament dragnet for Millicent, a dragnet which gene to Drimgold's office... no, sho was satisded it couldn't have been The fortune teller might have sub- She turned away from the window, was combing the elly. rushed past the thing which lay on

Millicent took stock of the situation.stituted purses-that was all. the floor, ran to the auter office and

Millicent Graves tried to compose for Saigon, Manila, Sandakan, Rabaul, Salamaua, paused as she caught sight of the Sho was without funds of her own. shorthand notebook which iny on her Thero was some money in the purse herself as she stepped out of the de desic. This was the notebook in which which had been substituted for hers.partment store to the sidewalk. A aho had taken down in shorthand the From this sho had paid the hotel bill.newsboy thrust a paper in front of "Poller snigh for moider girl!" ho first instalment of Drimgold's con- She determined to use no more of this her. fession. Hardly realizing what she money, She had, she realized, burned did, she snatched it up, clamped it her bridges in a moment of blind screamed at her. "Read about it.",

Millicent's horrified eyes caught under her arm and raced for the pank. Having once fled from the

scene of the murder, no story that she sight of her picture emblazoned upen could now tell the police would carry the front page of the newspaper.

She shook her head, turned hurried- conviction. There was only one thing she could do-find the woman in blackly away, snuggled down into the collar of her coat, fealing suddenly very who had substituted purses.

that every

corridor.

The elevator bell was ringing frantically.

There was only one elevator run- ning in the building. Millicent had taken the elevator to the upper floor. Sho left the hotel, chin up, despite conspicuous and very, very helpless. Sho know that the sasistant Janitor the wankness of her knees, deter- Would she be recognized from the newspaper photograph? It seemed and the police officer were ringing the mined to fight the thing through. bell, trying to get the elevator back As she pushed her way through the inevitable. It seemed down to the ground floor. She en-swinging door, a broad-shouldered passerby must recognize hor. She tered the cage,

closed the doora man entered through the other side of wanted to scream, "Here I am!" Sho Sho wanted to hide. the door and went directly to the wanted to run. walted.

After a few moments. the bell quit desk. Millicent remembered, as she She wanted to do everything at once. She started walking with swiftly ringing and Millicent felt that the reached the sidewalk, she had forgot. asaistant Janitor, and the officer had ten to leave hor key at the desk. She nervous steps, and suddenly became 17 flights of stairs. or else had gone to timidly up behind the broad-shoulder" | long-paced, masculino stepa, the stops | either started up the long climb of once more, entered the hotel, stopped Conscious of steps that were approach- ing from behind her. They were

the basement to put another elevator cd man and heard him say, " In commission.

looking for a broad who may have of a man who is in a hurry.

Millicent checked an Impulsa to registered under the name of Millicent look back aver her shoulder, checkod She pushed the control lever and the Graves... cage Bild smoothly downward. Sho She turned, and, controlling her an impulse to run. She moved closer tried to stop at the ground floor, but stops by an effort, slipped unobtru- to the display windows of the depart- it was only after three attempts that sively through the exit to the street. ment store, hoping to reach the she was able to bring the cage to # It took all of her self-reliance to go corner where she could turn and bo

lost in the crowd. position from which could open without coffee, but she decided to do the doors, She sped across the lobby 80, despite the dull ache which com and out into the wind-swept darkness, menced to form back of her eyes. There was a subway entrance at the Bho went first to the department corner and she ran toward it, the wind ators whore she had purchased the whipping her clothes about her. As purse.

who entered the subway, above the "I am wondering," she told the! wall of the wind she heard the scream clerk, "if you can trace for me the of a siren.

purses which you have sold and which It was not until after she had board-were.luitialed 'M. G. There can't bel ed the subway train that she suddenly a great number of them, andy, M

I'm sorry," she said, but those realized her predicament. She had flod from the scene of the murder, monograms aro cut on a stonelling Bho dared not go home. She wanted machine of our own which can be only to get away from everything and controlled by a dla!, so as to give everyone, Drimgold was dead. Her any particular combination of let Job had automatically terminated; ters, overlapping in the form of u She was without funds, and for the scroll. Wo ascertain the initials that money which was in the purso that a parchaser' wants' and, while the pur chanor is waiting, the initials are cut had been substituted for hers...

She thought of that sinister fortune by, the machine and attached to the which had been read in the tea lenyos leather, by a special process. We by the gypsy fortune teller. She re- don't keep any record of the latters, membered the words, "The Murder any more than we would of initials Girl," and sickening horror gripped placed in the bands of hats sold from her, (a horror which was shortly re- our hat department. placed by suspicion. Was it possiblo Millicent frowned thoughtfully, the gypay fortune teller had been the then said, "I think the party that one to substitute the parses? Had I am inquiring about would probably the no-called fortune teller been mere- have a charge acebunt here. Would it ly Instrumental in the murder and be possible for me to see the chie taking the first steps. In a carefully accounts of persons whose initials are lald campaign to frighten Millicent M. G. and see whether a bag had been into flight, or had some psychic senso purchased?"!

The steps followed behind her. Millicent quickened her stops. A man's voice said, "Just a minute,

the shoulder. please," and a hard touched her on (To Be Continued.)

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