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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY,

SERIÁL STORY.

APRIL

30, 1935.

The DARK BLOND

DEGIN BERE TO-DAT

CARLETON KENDRAKE

MILLICENT GRAVES' employer, GEORGE DRMGOLD tells her that five years he hae be protecting a murderer. Müllent gues out to dinner and, returning to the offer, discovers someone has taken her parse, gubi attuting one exactly like it. In the okrstoe she meets distinguished-looking man of wilde are.

When she reaches the office she finds Drimasid end. In panto she rushen AWAY, registering at a hujeljunder an kaumed name, Next morning she meets Abdalingslabed- Jooking #tranger again. He leik her his nam

JARVIS APP and promises to help her. Hapenda Milffernt to beauty shop. Here, in sple of her prolata, she is strapped Into a chair and as percsibetič, zu mejeribitæred,,

CHAPTER V

some

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

said.

of course I had a fight with him. I hate him. I'm glad he's dead. No, I don't mean that. I'm not glad, I'm sorry. What if I diti fight with him? That docan't mean I killed him. There was a woman in black ermine that he was afrold of. I saw her. She had cold eyes, that's all I know about her. I didn't notice her particularly, 1 had troubles of my own. You can't do this to me. You've got to let me go. Let me go, I say!"

The voice that had dinned words into her brain beat upon her con-

riousness with steady insistence.

"What did he dictate to you in his confession? What was it about?" "Murder," her voice answered, "So you know about this murder. Consciousness seained to

and

return

Millicent took the mirror and gazed at her reflection with startled

eyes:

ing, however, to move the cooling cloth. Delightful drowsiness stole to her in pulsing waves, each succeed over her, and she realized that she

had been given a hypodermic. ing wave clarifying her tuind.

"If you want to know who mur-room. She was lying on

She awoke in a little curtained # couch, dered him," she interrupted, "It's An electric fun kept the air in cir tall man named Happ-Jarvis culation, without putting her in n Happ. He's somewhere between 40 and 66 man with keen, gray eyes and thick, brownish skin-the kind that wrinkles early in life. He's tall, Thin, and

"We're not

hot Interested in him," tho voice interrupted. "We want to know what you know about the murder."

"I've told you all I know."

She exhaled deeply, opened her eyes, saw people grouped about the chair. Misa Hanson pushed the white- robed figuro aside. That will do," she said, "I'm in charge now."

She smiled at Millicent Graves. "Breath out," she said, breath out ns derply as you can. I was perry we had to give you an aenosihotle, when't time lo waste in orga REPAL IS

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

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

draft.

There were no windows in the room. Lighting Axtures, set in the wall back of imitation windows, gave

cheery glow.

Miss Hansen's voice raid, "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 said,

"

"take a look."

She held out mirror. Millicent took it and gazed at the reflection with startled eyes.

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

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

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

An ailendant slipped her fur coat about her, gave her the purse she had purchased in the leather goods store, escorted her to the door and hold it open.

A huge limousine, with the initials "J. C. " monogramed the door, stood at the curb. A liveriod chauf feur ant behind the wheel, his collar; turned up about his ears, a cap pulled The young woman who looked back down over his eyes. At the Bound at Millicent from the mirror seemed of the slamming door, he snapped to to have no resemblance whatever to attention, jumped from behind the the reflection which Millicent custour-wheel, stood smartly erect, holding arily saw when she consulted her the door in the rear of the car open. mirrar. There was a mass of black Jarvis Happ handed Millicent inte hair cut in a windblows, bob. Her the machine, She sank Inte the A white-robed nurse held a bowl to skin was no longer the fair skin of a luxury of the deep cushions.

blond, but was almost a light olive. Jarvis Happ said to the chauffeur, her lips.

"I'm going to release your hands," Her eyes alone seemed natural. Har "Where's Norman, Harry?"

chauffeur touched his cap. Miss Hanson said, "but I want you nose, in acque way, scened changed, to promise me that you won't raise Her lips outlined a perfect, rosebud "Just stepped into the store, sir. them to your face. Don't touch your mouth, a mouth which-was-definitely-Iloro he comes now, sir." skin. Tell me, does your face hurt?" diferent in lis brunet setting.

"What have you done to me?" she Millicent and to concentrate for naked.

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

meantime, we stained the skin of sation-sort of an itching."

"In Just a few moments," Miss Han. your hands and face so that it will son said, "I can put something cool-watch your hair."

"You've dyed my hair," Millicent ing on, but you mustn't rub. No mat

ter what happens, promise me you accused won't rub

"I promise," Millicent said. Miss Hanson pressed a button on the under side of the chair. The steal bands clicked back, and Millicent's hands were free.

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

She stared into Bia Hanson's serene, untroubled eyes.

Miss Hanson let her face register

surprise.

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

"Question mo

about the murder," Millicent sald.

Miss Hanson shook her bead and smiled,

"Try not to talk," she said. "No

one has questioned you about a mur-

"No," Miss Hanson said, "that's a transformation. You must remember to wear it always. I would be fatal were dis. to let anyone know guised."

"You've been very nice to me," Millicent said.

you

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

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"I don't understand," she said." "You don't have to," Miss Hauson answered, with a smile. "You've had a refreshing sleep now, and

There was a knock at the door.. Miss Hanson stepped to the door and opened it.

Millicent Graves stared incredu

Tho

•

A young man with broad shoulders and slim walat came swinging out of 4 doorway, buttoning a sport overcoat about his fiat stomach.

Millicent had a swift Impression of laughing eyes, of a face that was much like the face of the older man, and yet infinitely more youthful, a face that seemed to contain

hint

of an impulsive emotional nature, a full-lipped, shapely mouth that was twisted into a smile.

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

Sho realized, with that thrill which! comes to every woman onder tho stimulus of the realisation that some personable male has been overwhelm- ad with emotion at the mere sight of could her, that the younger man hardly tear his eyes from hers.

Jarvis Happ'a suave voice anld, "Miss Graves, may I present my son. Norman.

And as Norman Happ groped for his hat, his eyes staring at her in fascination, the father nodded to the chauffour and said, "We're going home, Harry."

(To Be Continued).

dor, my child. You talked incoherent-lously into the aniling countenance of CONSIGNEES' NOTICE. ly for a little while when you were Jarvis C. Happ. coming out of the acnesthetic, but that's nothing, because

everyone dock

when

"Well, woll," he said, "there cer

trans- nearly tainly has been a complete they'roformation. Our blonde has become a Just coming out of an menesthetic. brunette. Congratulations to all can- ono Really,

we didn't

any atcerned, I assure you that no pay tention to what you said. You see, would ever recognize you now."

10 the

Millicent awong her feet The I'm a licensed plastic surgeon. nurses who wasted on you and the floor.

doctor who gave the nonosthetic are "What did you do," she asked, "with accustomed to alck rooms. They the purse I gave you?" know what takes place, and they don't "Why," he said, "I still have it, of oven listen to a patient's conversation. course,” "Why

did you

leave in such a Happ glanced significantly toward

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"Someone was questioning me," hurry? Millicent insisted.

Miss Hanson's hand gripped her Miss Tanzon. wriat in a firmly professional man- "Just a business appointment," he nor, taking her pulao.

said. "It was something urgent that Thore, there," she said soothing couldn't wait.. If you're feeling fully Iy. "It's just the delusion of aenes-recovered wo'li start."

"Start where?" she asked. thesia. Pay no attention to it. It's merely a dream that acema vivid His face showed surprise. "Why," enough now, but will seem vague and he said, "start home, of course."

"Where?" she said, unreal to you within a few minutes."

"Home"

The atmosphere was that of a sick

room in a hospital. White-robed She sucked in her breath, prepara. nurses moved efficiently about. Misstory to making some swift statement, Hanson issued orders with low-voiced but received a warming glance from solicitude. Millicent was lifted from Mr. Happ.

the chair the operating table.. Her "You feel all right?" he asked.. face was burning now. "Anureo

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