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The DARK BLOND

BEGIN BERE TO-DAY

Carleton Kendrake

MILLICENT GRAVES" employer, GEORGE DRIMUULU, tells her he has a confession to

lictate and warna ber against a woman in binek ermine coat.

Milleen kavey the affice and anem auteḥ, se woman.; Kanter ahn Anda her purse has been take and almites une auletiiutel. In the elerator · ́she meets a distingue-looking

man of middle age,

Returning t ihe office. Mülléent de Deimgold deck. In panic she when away Mick resintern at hotel under an KOTNÍ name. Next day he me the stranger gain, teils her his name is JARVIB HAPP. Haya senda her to a lentity shop where, in spite of her protests, she la tran formed into a brunet,

Happy taken her, home, introduring her as hierotary, ROBERT CARE, Happ's stepson, aceinen Millicent of bise the girl sought in the Drimgold murder,

CHAPTER VIII

Millicent knew there was no una denying Robert Caine's accusation that she was the girl the polleo wore

looking for. In the first place, the

photographic evidence was danning.

In the second place, she realized that

to question the conclusions he had renched, would simply make him more dimcult to handle. So she starej steadilynt him and said, "Well, what are you going to do about it?"

He started to say something, then used as he heard the rath of the door knob.

"Nothing," he said. "Sit fight.”. He turned and was, apparently, just leaving the room as Jarvis Hupp and Dirk Gentry entered.

"Just selling some tuff," he said, keeping his eyes averted from those of Jarvis Hupp. "lope F'n not ig Leading 7"

"Not at all," Jarvis Happ said, but Millicent natleed there was something about his voice that was not entirely evedial--a certain barshly straineil note of suspleton. When she glanced at his face, however, she was able to see nothing in his eyes. His face wJX a perfect mask.

it indiente a small table.

"I think," in sah, "you'd better sit there for the present, Miss Grabes. To-morrow I purchase secretarini

desk and have it sent op here. Theu You can get at things in a businesslike

She senied herself and the two mea It cigars. Jarvis Happ went on talking in his smoothly eloquent voice - volve which seemed so certain of itself, so soothing to tired estdrums, "Dick and "he sull, "ench put in $5,000 as capital and started speculat- ing in stocks, I may as well confess to you that we were selling stocks short. I are nothing whatever wrong with that type of business transnetion, However, of late there has been a certain public sentiment against B.

"When one realizes that commodi- ties are going down, there is no sane reason why he mouldn't capitalize unon that knowledge. Moreover,) were it not for the so called 'short sales, the market would soon pyramid itself up to such a frenzied peak of hysteria that when erash came, as it would be bound to do swner or later, the entire investment structure of the country would be jarred to its foundations.

"However, the fact remains that our speculations were vary prostable. Dick has been handling the business end of the venture. We've taken a great deal of money out, and there's still-a-larga-amount-in-undistributed profits. Some of this we have put iuto a manufacturing business which has been one of the few manufactur- ing businesses to show a profit dur- ing the present period. I telephoned Dick this evening and asked him to bring all of the books and data which he has, and turn them over to you."

Jarvis ilupp nodded towards suit- case in the corner.

"They're all there," Gentry said, smiling.

Millicent met his eyes and realized! something of the man's vital force. obstacles-a man who went after what Here was a man who smashed through he wanted, and was never satisfied realized, watching her strangely. with halfway mensures. He was, she "Just what," she asked, "do you wish me to do?"

"I want you to take all the dato that's in there," Mr. Happ said, "and open a set of books."

"When shall I start?"

"As soon as you conveniently can, he said, "You can open a set of books, all right ?"

"Oh yes." she said, "I'm experi- enced as a bookkeeper. I worked in the office of a certified accountant for more than two years."

Gentry removed the cigar from his Hips, stared thoughtfully at the smoke which curled upward from the end.

"Jarvis," he said slowly, "let's not rush into this thing too hastily: Frankly. I'm not in favour of opening up a set of books on this thing. You've got commitments and so have 1. I'd prefer to keep this as a little informal partnership."

Millicent realized that someone had entered, her room willsout

knocking.

up the snitense and suld, "It would in the swell places of the world, sec hen relief to have something on Monte Carlo, Europe? How would which i could concentrate. Would you you like to jeet your gowns in Paris mind very much if I started looking and your winters in the south things over te-night?"

How would you like to cenlly live in- stend of managing to barely exist?"

"Are you," she asked with a sneer. "proposing marriage to me**

"Not at all," Happ said. "Suit yourself. If you're going to start working you might prefer to late them into your own room."

Gentry's eyes wild over her features as a woman's fingers site over a jmir of silk hose she is contemplating buy-

"I think, we aid, "that I would." "Go ahend," he told her. She started for the floor, but Dicking. Gentry gained her side in two swift strictes,

"Permit the maid, "to carry the suitcase for you. It's heavy."

The suitcase was indeed heavy, and she surrendered it to him with a smile, lending the way down the corridor to her room. She opened the door, Gentry stepped in swiftly after her, dropped the witcase on the for, and kicked the door shut,

"Listen," he said, "how did Jarvis happen to pick you un?"

"I might," he said, “at that. It's an idea."

"Are you "razy," she asked, "ur drunk, or both?"

He looked down at the suitense und laughed:

"You didn't have me bothered at all," he said, "until you told me that yuu'd worked for certified public acroualant. Now I know what's go ing to happen, and we may as well have an understanding now as later. "Which is ?" she asked, making an other ineffectual attempt to free her- She faced him debantly.

self from his arms which circled her "Mr. Happ," she said, "employest waist in a tight grip, holding her hips -me-after having made an investiga="" pressed "closely affulist his, although" tion of my references, if that's what he made no effort to pull her face you mean. I assure you there was closer to his, but seemed content, to nothing of the pick-up' about it." look down at her in contemplative

"I didn't mean that," he said. "I uppraisal." wanted to know how he happened to get in touch with you."

"Don't you think," she asked, "that it would be better to ask Mr. Happ about that?"

"No, I'm asking you."

"Oh damn it!" he said. "You're going to find it out within another 21 hours, and I don't want you to run and blab to Jarvis Happ. You won't be looking at those books very long before you'll realize that you cou make me de anything you want. You

"Very well, Mr. Gentry. Under thor circumstanere I will spenk to see. I'm Mr. Happ and ask him to answer your question.

He was interrupted by a knock at

the door.

door and Gentry grabbed her shoulder, bint, furned and twisted the knob of She moved he though to open the Abruptly be pushed her away from pushed her back from the door, then the door, suddenly shot an Am about her waist, held her close to him,

She pushed at his chest with her hands,

"Now wait a minute, sister," he said, "don't get excited. I'm not trying to pull anything funny,"

Jarvis Happ was, standing on the threshold. His eyes were cold,

"was just wondering," he guld, with unvé urbanity, "if you hud found the room ali right?"

"Oh yes, I found it all right," Gentry said, "and was just giving

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She realized that she was helpless, and simply qui; struggling, storing VP at him with her face a cold mark He turned and flung a meaning "When you have quite Anished," shelance over his shoulder as he stepped sakt, "with your caveman tactics, perut into the corridor. "Remember," haps you'll

he and, "what I told you. Think it Forget It," he told her roughly, over carefully when you start to open "That's not what I'm after. Use the set of books,” your head, you little fool"

The door closed. Millicent Graves jumped toward the suitcase, curiosity filling her mind,

Miss Grubes some instructions in re SAGE. card to opening the books."

She saw that his eyes drifted un- easily toward the door.

"Listen," he said, "there's no rea-determined that she would find out son why you can't be sitting pretty in just what Dlek Gentry had meant.

a thing. Do you understand7" "What do you mean?"

Was it possible that..t

Her thoughts were interrunted by "You're not a fool," he said, "and the click of the door catch. She if you're a girl who's had a bit of realized that someone had enterod her

xperience working for a Hving you room without knocking. understand that it's a life that doesn't

(To Be Continued.) Jarvis Happ shook his head and living, I grant you that, but that's all. get you any place. You can make a Kid, "The deal's too big. Dick. You'il put in all of your youth slaving

The Rev. N. V. Halward, Priest-in- We're going to get in trouble with the over a typewriter somewhere, and an charge of the Income tax people and you know it."

Kowloon Tong BOOB as your youth has gone you'll Angilean Church, In proceeding Home Gentry sighod, "If it wasn't for find that you're crowded into the back on leave on Friday, May 10. During the damned income tax," he said, ground by a crop of younger girls his absence, the Rev. L. L. Nash, "We'd be sitting pretty on this thing." with more pop, more beauty, and more Chaplain of the Dioccann

Boys' Happ'a gesture with his cigar was vitality, who can stand the gaft und School, and Mr. George She will look one of Impatient dismissal.

keep smiling. You'll get shoved back after the welfare of the congregation "But," he said, "there is an income into a corner some where, get a lot in connection with Church matters. tax, so why sit hero and waste time of gray hairs, and wind up talking about what we would do it being there wasn't an income tax?”

Gentry' nodded slowly.

"When can you start on the books?" asked Jarvis Happ.

"Right now," Millicent said, and. pushing back her chair, moved over toward the auitcase,

Gentry made a quick motion as though to stop her, then sat back and Jaughed.

by

"Wind up by being a woman who has lived her own life and been true. to herself," she interrupted him. "I you don't like the way I'm llving my He, you can kindly let me and ..

go

"You still don't get me," ho said. "You're young, you're beautiful. How would you like "Well," he said, "that's commend got the beauty to attract ment travel while you've able zeni."

How'd you like to take long ocean "No," Hopp said, "not to-night, tripe where you were thrown toto.com Miss Grabes. You've had a strenu-taet with men of money, and influence, Bus day."

where they would have to notice your Millicent shook her hand, picked beauty? How would you like to take

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