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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1935.

SERIAL STORY-

The DARK BLOND

CARLETON KENDRAKE

DEGIN WERE TO-DAY MILLICENT GRAVES' emplyer, GEOLOY DRMGULU tell her think for yenry' be. ħtu Been streelecting a murderer. Millicent Kwa out to inter and returning to the offer, discovers somente ha taken her purse, süle stituting see exactly like It. In the elevator she meets a diinguished-looking man of mlege.

When she reaches

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Oringoll dend., ka panie abe rushes, BWAY, registering at a hotel under an smumed name. Next morning, she meets the diiliguished- Joching stranger again. He tells her hữ name 14 JANVIS HAPP and promises to help her. 10 wenda Milcent to, a beauty abop, Here, Djuple of her protesta, ale la strapped Inte chair and wa meneethellë in administered,

CHAPTER V

Bome

Millicent Graves heard words that were merely meaningless sounds, yet which gradually

conveyed meaning to her drugged brain. She realized that she had been talking. and, even as the realization flooded her consciousness, she could hear words coming from her mouth,

don't care what the janitor sald. Of course I had a fight, with him. I hated him. I'm glad he's Brnd. No, I don't mean that. I'm What if I did not glad, I'm sorry. fight with him? That doesn't mean 1 killed him. There was a woman in black ermine that he was afraid of. I saw her. She had cold eyes, that's all I know about her. I didn't notice her particularly. I had troubles of my own. You can't do this to me, You've got to let me go. Let me go. 1 клу

The voler that had dinned words into her brain beat upon her con. sciousness with steady insistence.

"What did he dictate to you in his Millicent took the mirror and gazed at her reflection with startled confession? What was it about?"

and

"Murder," her voice answered,

lng, however, to move the cooling cloth. Delightful drawsiness atole over her, and she realized that she had been given a hypodermic.

***, -

"So you knew about this murder, Consciousness seemed to returni to her in pulsing waves, each sitcceed ing wave clarifying her mind.

She awoke in 1 ittle eurtained "If you want to know who mur

foom. She was lying on '21 couch. dered him," she interrupted, it's an electric fan kept the air la cir

man named Happ-Jarvis C. Happ. He's somewhere between to culation, without putting her in and man with keen, gray eyes and thick, brownish skin--the kid that wrinkles early in life. He's tail,

tall

thin, and

"We're not interested in him," the voice interrupted. "We want to know what you know about the murder."

"I've told you all I know."

She exhaled deeply, oponed her gyen, saw people grouped about the chair. Miss Hanson pushed the white- robed figure aside." "That will do," she said, "I'm in charge naw."

She smiled at Millicent Graves, "Breath out," she said, "breath out as deeply as you can. I was sorry! we, had to give you an anesthetic,

time to

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Millicent exhaled, opened her lunge pure air, exhaled again, felt nausea gripping her, and retched.

Her wrists were still bound to the arms of the chair.

A white-robed nurse held bowl to her lips.

"I'm going to release your hands." Miss Hanson said, "but I want you to-promise me that you won't raise them to your face. Don't touch your skin. Tell me, does your face hurt?"

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There were no windows in the room. Lighting fixtures, set in the wall back of imitation windows, gave a cheery glow.

Miss Hanson's voice said, "How do you feel now?"

"Better," Millicent said..

"You may sit up if you wish,** Millicent sat up, and looked about her.

"And now," Miss Hanson suid, "Take a tunic,"

might not have meant a great deal to n man, but, to a woman, the shade of powder used, the type of lipstick, the brand of perfume meant a great deal. | Millicent determined that this man would not again get out of her sight until she knew more about him.

"Certainly," she said, "I feel quito. well."

Happ smiled his thanks at Miss Hanson, took Millicent's arm. She felt a slight heaviness to her head. Occasionally her feet seemed to float free of the floor, but, aside from that, her mind was perfectly clear.

An attendant slipped her fur coat about her, gavo her the parso she had purchased in the leather goods store, escorted her to the doar and held it open.

She held out a mirror. Millicent. II." monogramed on the door, A huge lanousine, with the initials took it and gazed at the reflection stood at the curb. A liverled chauf- with startled eyes.

four sat behind the wheel, his collar turned up about his cars, a cap pulled The young woman who looked back down over his eyes. At the sound at Milcent from the mirror eenied of the slamming door, he snapped to to have no resemblance whatever to attention, jumped from. behind the the reflection which Millicent custom-wheel, stood smartly erect, holding arily saw when she consulted her the door in the rear of the ear open. mirror. There was a mass of black Jarvis Happ handed Millicent into. hair cut in a windblown bob. Her the machine. She wank into the. skin, was no longer the fair skin of a luxury of the deep cushions, blond, hut was almost a light olive, Her cyra alone seemed natural. Her Bose, in some way, seemed changed. Her lips_outlined in perfect rosebud. mouth, a mouth which was definitely different in its brunet setting.

"What have you done to me?" she

Millicent had to concentrate for naked.

"Nothing," said Aliss Hanson, several seconds in order to realize where she was and why. Then shemiting, "which will not wear off in few weeks. In the said slowly, "There's a burning sen- the course of a sation-sort of na itching."-

meantime, we stained the skin of "In just a few moments, Miss ffon-your hands and face so that it with son sakt, I can put something cool tatch your hair." ing on, but you mustn't rub. No mut- "You've dyed my hair," Millicent ter what happens, promise me you accused, won't rub."

"I promise," Millicent said.

"No," Miss Hanson said, "that's a transformation. You must remember Misa Hanson pressed a button on to wear it always. It would be fatal the under side of the chair. The steel to let anyone know you were dia- bands clicked back, and Millicent'e've been very nien to me,"

Millicent said.

hands were free.

"What was the ides," Millicent naked, "of questioning me?"

She stared into "Miss Hanson's serene, untroubled eyes.

Miss Hanson let her face register surprise.

Her mind groped back over the events of the day. She remembered the questioning but was not sure whether she actually recalled being questioned or if she had merely had a "bad dream,

"Questioning you?" she asked. don't understand. I had to ask you about how you felt.

"Question me about the murder," Milcent salt.

Miss Hanson shook her head and smiled.

"I don't understand," she said. "You don't have to." Miss Hanson smile. "You've had answered, with

a refreshing sleep now, and

There was

knock at the door,, Miss Hanson stepped to the door Try not to talk," she said. "Noland opened it.

one has questioned you about a mur. Millicent Graves stared incredi der, my child. You talked incoherent-lously into the smiling countenance of

ly for a little while when you were Jarvis C. Hoff he said, "thero cer.

coming out of the aenonthotic, but

that's

"Well, well,"

∙ono

nothing, because nearly tainly has been a complete trans- everyone does when they're formation. Our blonde has become a just coming out of an acnesthetic, brunette. Congratulations to all com Really, we didn't pay

nny at- cerned. I assure you that no tention to what you said. You see,would over recognize you now." I'm a licensed plastic surgeon. The Millicent ewong her feet to the nurses who waited on you and the floor. doctor who gave the nenesthetic. are accustomed to sick rooms. They know what takes place, and they don't even listen to a patient's conversation. It's not considered ethical."

"Someone was questioning me," Millicent fusisted,

"What did you do," she asked, “with the purse I gave you?"

"Why" he said, "I still have it, of course.

"Why did you leave in such 1 hurry 7"

Happ glanced significantly toward

Miss Hanson's hand gripped her Miss Hanson, wrist in a firmly, professional man- nor, taking her pulse.

Jarvis Happ said to the chauffeur, "Where's Norman, Harry?"

The chauffeur touched his cap. "Just stepped into the store, sir. Here he comes now, sir."

A young man with broad shouldern, and stim waist came swinging out of n doorway, buttoning a aport overcoat about his flat stomach.

Millicent had a swift impression of laughing eyes, of a face that was much like the face of the older man, nud yet infinitely more youthful, a face that seemed to contain a hint of an impulsive emotional nature, a full-lipped, shapely mouth that was listed into a smile.

"Hello, Dad," he said, and then his eyes enught hers.

Sho realized, with that thrill which comes to every woman under the

stimulus of the realisation that some

personable male has been overwhelm ed with émotion at the mere sight of her, that the younger man could hardly tear hla eyes from hers,

Jarvis Happ's suave voico anid, "Miss Graves, may I present my san,. Norman.

And as Norman Happ groped for his hat, his eyes staring at her in fascination, the father added to the chauffeur and aald, "We're going lieme, Harry,"

(To Be Continued),

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Matory to making some swift statement, Hanson issued orders with low-voiced but received a warning glance from solicitude. Millicent was lifted' from Mr. Happ. the chair to the operating table. Her face was burning now. A nurse handed Miss Hanson a towel, sopping (ok.

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wet with ice water. Miss Hanson Millicent struggled to her foot. splashed the towel over the girl's This mea had the only bit of evidence burning skin.

'which who had been able to salvage, A delightfully cool sensation of from the whole ghastly occurrence restful case gripped Millicent. She the purse.which had been substituted, folt a quick Job of pain in her left a purse which contained much of the forearm, then a stinging semention, personal property of the one who had and she stirred uneasily,-not-wish- made the substitution. The things

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