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SERIAL STORY-

The DARK BLOND

CARLETON KENDRAKE

DECIN DERE TO-DAY

NILLICENT GRAVES' employer, GEUNGE DRIMGOLD, telle her he has a cuntelun to dietate, and warns her against a woman in A black minn comi

Millicent Ave the office and sees such a woman. Later she and her pene has been taken at a almiar one aulistituted. In the Elevator she meets stinking man of kilo age,

Ancla

Returning t the offer. Millernt Drigold dead. In panles she unben away end registers at helel under and heme. Next day she meets the stranger wintails her his name is JARVIS HAPP, Happ sende her to a beauty shop where, in spite, of her protesta, she in trans formed into brunst.....

....

1app takes her home, introducing her as his secretary. ile gires her a suitenno filed with accounts and asks her to open ant ut Looks. DICK GENTRY, Happ's partner, hist some of the dealign have been shady.

Meen, alone in her bedroom. reallasn pomezia has entered the room without knock- Log.

CHAPTER IX

Millicent whirled about Indignantly, to And herself staring into the calm, steady, gray eyes of Norman Happ.

"You!" she exclaimed in quick Murprise.

He said nothing, but took a couple of steps toward hor.

She thrust her hand out in front of her.

"I suppose," she said scornfully, "Just because I'm working for your father you feel free to walk into my room without knocking. I suppose it's part of the duties of my employ- ment..

thni Uon.

Ile Interrupted her with a voice cmp. was choked with some

daro

"Forget it," he said. "J. dkln't to knock. I had to sneak in hero."

"What do you mean?"

Norman's hands dropped. "Please," he said, "remember that he's

not to be trusted."

other, yet you serin to have a feel- very alert and intelligent." "I UNRT WORt anyone to know "Oh, I'll grant you be's intelligenting of mutual distrust and suspl- have and clever all right," "Nerman said,cion, that I was here. It would

"There are some things," he said, heen bad for both of us. If I'd his lips unsmiling, his eyes sombre,

Virtual- "which go on here that you won't knocked at the door someone would "But what does that mean?

understand until you've been here for have heard the knock and seen no ly nothing." talking with you."

a while."

"But why must you talk with mot" she asked, her curiosity getting the better of her, and supplementing the rather alarming.discovery that in the presence of this young man her pulse became more rapid, her self-assurance seemed to melt away like lee under n hot sun.

"I don't know why," ho said: "Perhaps you could tell me."

"But how should I know what you're referring to?"

"What," he asked, "has Dob Calse| kat on you?"

"Why, what are you talking about? What makes you think he has any thing on me? I don't know what you're referring to."

as a cat

"ife has something on you right enough," Norman Happ said. "I know him, and I know the way be works. I've seen that self-satisfled amile on face before. He'a play's playing with you with a mouse. You can't trust that chap.

"But can't, a "It was the way he smiled. I know that expression."

out

·

man smile with

"But," she sale, trying to preserve stately dignity, "it's just possible that he has something, as you like to term it, ou someone cise." "No," he said soberly,

I saw him

come out of your room,"

"You saw him leave my room?" ***ca."

She was silent for several seconds. Then she said slowly, "And so you decided to come in and try to brow. lent me. Is that it 7"

"No. You know better than that."

"What do you mean 7" "You know

Why did you came here,"

"I came to help you."

think

of

"On the contrary; I means a good deal. I detest medi- ocrity."

"You like the kind of brainx that Bob Chise has ?"

"I'm sure I can't answer that. question," she said, "because I haven't seen enough of him."

"You'll see more of him all right. What's he got on you?"

"Such as what?" she asked. "Oh," he said, "the various people, The influences that they have on each: other."

Mrs.

"I think," she said, "that Happ'exercises a very complete con- trol over the household, doesn't she?"

"At tinies," Norman Happ admit- ted, without enthusiasm, his tone She had regained much of her self-seeming almost surly. control.

C

"I'm sorry," " who said, "but you "And yet," Millicent mused, "your

of very strong

can't come in here and talk to me father is a man like that. No man has anything character: Ile is very much of an Tell me, what does on me. I am free to do as I please. enigma to me. I come as I please and I go as I plense. I ask permission from по one, and I make explanations to to ono."

"And what I'm asking for is explanation?" he asked,

It amounts to that."

"And you won't make it?" "No."

he do?"

"You mean for a living?" "Yes,"

"He makes investments." "What sort of investments?" "Almost any sort."

"One could make that definition In clude gambling," she said.

She took the ating from the remark

"Will you admit that he has some- by giving a quick little laugh. thing on you?"

"No."

"Will you say that he has not?" "Wan't say anything one way or the other."

"Will you remember what I told you about him?" he pleaded, as he spoke, he took a step

and,

for-

Norman spp did not laugh.

"One could," he said.

"And you and Robert. Caise don't

seem to get along."

He said nothing.

"Then there la Mrs. Eaton, a mont peculiar woman."

As Norman Happ remained silent, Millicent decided to press him for ward.

She felt that in She, was quick to retreat, and, at more information.

her retreat, Nornun caught him some way he would talk to her, felt

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"In what way ?!!-

There was something in the very "It's simply a feeling of complete made bewilderment. I've never received words that simplicity of his her thrill with Rome paychie pleasure quite such baffing treatment It was as though she had been some I've received since I came into this animal, and some gentle, thrilling house."

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"In many ways."

"Has anyone been insulting?" he

"No, not that. But it's such a re-

"What can't you understand?"

"I can't understand the relation-

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Norman Happ said in a dogged menotone, "I presume you think ships. I can't figure you all out. I'm just a cad, but I can't stand by You all seem and see him get anything on you. You can't. trust that man. I tell you, you can't trust him an

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