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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, APRIL 29, 1935.

SERIAL STORY-

The DARK BLOND

CARLETON KENDRAKE

"Go back!" Millicent cried to the cab driver. "Go back at once!"

BOT

BEGIN HERE TO-DAY MILLICENT GRAVES' employer, GEORGE DILIMGOLD, teffe her he want to dictate a confession that for ream he fine boun pro

murrer. Millicent roes it to dinner. Returning, the Jucovers line taken her perse, substituting one exact like it. She goes back to the terroot, of the way meeting itulahed-looking man but maklikle age.

No one in the textom knows anything lout Mililcent's purse. She goes back the office, Ande Dringut dead. In panie ala rushes from the building, egiters at Jute unter the tears pulls are searching for her. Avain whe see the distinguish looking man she met the night before, the tella her his nurse, is JARVIS JA1 and that he wants to help her. lapp puts cent into a cal, rives the driver and

and then damppoutu.

Mice, frightened, orders the driver to stop.

CHAPTER IV

The cab driver looked back Mulicent.

"Bog pardon, Miss," he said, "but the gentleman and not to go back under any circumstances, and

"Go buck!" she screamed. "Go back at once! Do you hear me?!!

The driver made a shrugging motion with his shoulders, as though dis- claiming all responsibility, ran to the corner and turned.

"Right back," she said, "to the -place-where you let him cff."

"The bill," he said, "is all paid, and 50's the tip."

Millicent looked up and saw a dlo- play window setting forth yarious transformations. Across the window, In gilt lettering, appeared the words,

Acme Beauty Parlour.

Millicent said, "exactly why it is that you

"Do you," Miss Hanson interrupted, "think that looks all right?"

"Yes," Milileent anid.

"Your skin," Miss Hanson remarked, speaking as impersonally as though Tho cab driver jumped back to his he had been surveying an inanimate position behind the wheel, slammed figure, is too light to go with that the cab into low gear, drove hurriedly hair. The newspapers have described away. Something in the very nature you as a golden blonds with light skin of his laste mnde Millicent feel that and deep blue eyes. We've got to te was going upon some very definite give that skin a stain-one that will

take several weeks to wear off." errand.

Her knees fell weak as she realized

"Can you do that?" Millicent asked, "Yes," she said, "but it may be pain- that there was, the possibility he was returning to report to the officers in ful. You'll have a desire to rub at that police car, or it might be that he your face. If you rub the skin the was acting under instructions to re-alain won't be uniform. It will be join Mr. Happ at some rendezvous | necesary for me to clamp your hands which had been arranged in their to the chair. I can ARBUTO you it whispered conversation.

won't be painful. It will be done in just this manner."

Millicent suddenly realized just how she looked, clutching a roll of cur- rency in her hand. There was leather goods store three doors down the street. Millicent went to it, pur- chased a cheap purse, and then wont directly to the beauty parlour.

"Miss Hanson," she told a blond woman with searching eyes who greeted her.

"You have an appointment?" sho asked.

"Yes," Millicent said.. The young woman reached tanguilly

leather-backed note-book. "What was the name?" she asked.

for

She could find no fault with the speed with which the cab driver aant the car back on its course. It seemed.. that within' less than a minule of the time her mysterious escort had opened the door and vanished, the cab had once more pulled up to the curb on the opposite side of the street.

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She smoothed Millicent's dress.back from the wrist, placed her arms parallel along the arm of the chair.

"Sec," she anid, "you'll have to hold

them this way,"

She pressed a button. There was a click of a spring, steel bands shot out from the underside of the arm, circled Millicent's wrist.

ful

"Now," she said, "it won't be pain-

Panic Alled Millicent Grave's eyes. She tried to speak calmly, authorita- tively.

"Thank you," she said, "I don't think I care for the treatment. Please liberate my wrists."

Miss Tianson didn't answer In- mediately. She was standing with her face turned away from the chair, tonking toward a door at the other side of the room. There was some- thing expectant in her gaze,

Milcent's eyes followed those of the tall brunette. Suddenly she saw a door open. A white-robed figura entered the room.

Miss Hanson spoke calmly, almost casually. "Everything is in read- ness," she said. "You may administer the anesthetic."

Curtains at the rear of the room parted. A small, slender brunette, with something regal in her bearing, stepped into the room.

"Never mind, Evelyn," she said, "He got out right over there, Misa,"! the driver said. "I stopped on this "I'm expecting this young woman. side of the street because I thought Won't you step this way?"

She smiled reassuringly. Millicent! you were in a hurry."

She nodded, and, pressing her face followed her through the curtains into to the glass window, earveyed the passageway which was lined with booths. Her guide walked the length opposite side of the street.

She found no trace of the man who of this corridor, turned the knob of had given the name of Jarvis C. Happ. a door at the end, and stood to one But, with a swiftly frightened intake side.

Millicent Graves walked through the of breath, she recognized a police car parked at the opposite curb. It was door and into a room which was lined one of the ears of a type equipped with white tile, the very floor being with radio, carrying two plain-clothes spotlessly white. An operating table detectives. There was no distinguish-occupied the centre of the room; a ing mark on the car, save the police chair of the type used by barbers was emblem which appeared on the license, at one side..

Misa Hanson closed the door. A

Miss Hanson's hands held Milli- and the airen which was mounted on the front of the car. But Millicent spring lock clicked into position.

Millicent said rapidly, "I don't rent's head. She struggled franti- Graves had noticed these cars before. Now she observed both the licence want any treatment, Miss Hanson. rally, kicked and tried to neream once plate and the siren. She knew also I came here because I want you to more. Her lunges, filled with the that the cars customarily carried tell me where I can find the man who enesthetic.

To Be Continued.) two men. Now only one of the men nade the appointment with you for sat behind the steering wheel in the any work. I think you must know Car, and he was taking notes of some- who he is. I've got to find him at thing which was coming in over the once." radio.

The large, dark eyes of the brunette Millicent tapped on the glass par- woman surveyed Millicent Graves in

calm appraisal. tition in something of a panic.

"All right," she said, "drive on."

To Mills street?" the driver asked. she said, "the Acme beauty

The driver nodded and grinned.

Your

"Yes," she said slowly, "I can trans- form your appearance so that own mother wouldn't know you,'

"But that isn't what I want," Milli- cent said. "I want to get in touch

The white-robed figure produced a paper cone lined with cotton. The odour of ether became apparent.

Millicent opened her mouth to scream, and the cone was clamped over her mouth and nostrils as she sucked in her breath.

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She thought for a moment that he with the man who made the appoint-The Steamship, leered suggestively across the street, ment. I must see him at once, at the police car.

"In a hurry" he asked. "Yes," she said, and, despite her self, bor voice once more was thin with fright.

"SUWA MARU,"

The wide, dark eyes didn't change expression by so much as a flicker. having arrived from the above ports, "I think," she said, that you're not Consignees of Cargo are hereby the best judge of oxactly what it is informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the you do want, Alias Graves."

Millicent started as she heard the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and woman so casually uso her correct Godown Company's Godowns at Kow- toon, whence delivery may be obtained/ name,

Goods not cleared by the 4th May, 1935, will be subject to rent..

Damaged packages must be left in

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"You know who I am then?" she

The cab shot forward, slid smoothly through the gears, and turned at the corner. Millicent strained her eyes through the back window of the car, asked. looking to see if she was followed.

"Yes," anid Miss Hanson. "Picasa

She know now how a hunted thing be seated."

She indicated the chair, and Milli- feels,

Too late sho realized that the cab cont dropped into it, realizing that the Gelowns for examination by the driver was fully aware of her anxious she had indeed burnt her bridges; that Consigneo's and the Co.'s representa storage scrutiny. His eyes wore reflected in these people held her completely in tives on any Tuesdays and Fridays at For the examination of the rear view mirror as he watched their power; that any story she might 230 p.m. within the free

be able to tell the police would sound period,

the con- her with cynical appraisal.

Millicent whirled about and hud- so wildly incredulous that it would damaged dutiable goods,

signees must arunge for a Revenue Officer to be present died herself in the sout, her eyes fixed not be worthy of bellef. rigidly straight ahead. She thought

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Miss Hanson's unruffled

manner All claims must be presented with- of the money her strange friend had givon her. She was holding it clench radiated completo composure. Shein ten days of the steamer's arrival ed tightly in her hand. She asked smoothed back hillcent's hair, studied here, after which date they cannot bo at it in surprise as she saw that the the contour of her faco, then brought recognized.

outer bill was a $100 bill,

Slowly she counted the money. There was $675 in bills of varying denominations...

The cab driver awong the car out of traffic, slowed cautiously and cropt in clasa to the curb.

out a brunette transformation which

"No claims will be admitted, after she carefully fitted to the girl's head, pulled down a "U" arrangement of the goods have left the Godowns, mirrors which she adjusted about Millicent's head.

"How," she asked, "does that look " "I'm more Interested in knowing,"

No fire Insurance has been effected.

NIPPON YUBEN KAISHA. Hongkong, 27th April, 1935.

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