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1935.

The DARK BLOND

'DEGIN DEZE TO-DAY-

OKORGE DRIMGOLD, fḥdi her employer in

CARLETON KENDRAKE

Cont Graves flung off her dressing, Millicent's own identity beyond doubt, No, there was only one thing for her MILLICENT DRAVES, secretary. to own and started dressing hastily.

Millicent, donning her fur cont, to do. That was to shadow this wo- his after dead. In panid she rushes swslipped out into the hallway, |man and find out whero shellyed, and regters at a hotel under an amumod The heat in the house was low, and then seek to learn something of her Perhaps, JARVIS HAPP,

ellatinguished - looking the corridors felt chill and gloomy, connection with the murder. stringer, recognise Millicent and offers to A night light burned at one end of having found out where the woman belp her. lie sende ber to a beauty parlour the corridor, giving sufficient (lumina-lived, she could trade Information where the le transformed into a branes. Hepption to enable her to see objects, al-with Jarvis Happ

Millicent walled until the woman

El he has, introducing her ni

Mislient falta mater. A nules awakera bar and she finds note under her door reading,

The worsan in black arming is here,"

CHAPTER XII

Micent stood staring at that fate ful typewritten note. She had no menna of knowing who had sent it; nor could she tell whether the steps she had heard in the corridor werd those of a man or a woman.

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Then she sped swiftly and silently black ermine hea sumos power_over lila alege Now that she was in the corridor, down the thick carpet, pausing at the mother,

out into the other ahe realised the immensity of the corner to peer house, realised something of the corridor." nature of the inak with which she wha confronted. It was going to be neces She heard a door slain door, sary for her to find a mysterious apparently, located about half way woman in a black ermine coat who down the long corridor, but there was was somewhere in the house.

no one in sight, g Where?

Fighting back her disappointment, She remembered Mrs. Happ had Millicent ran along the corridor, try- proudly exhibited the suite which shoing to locate the door that had slam occupied, and Millleent felt certain med. She came on a back staircase had almost forgotten, a the woman the sought would be seme- which sho where within that suite of room, staircase which she remembered rall her this message. Surely he was the Norman Happ had mentional a maid to the kitchen and then to the garage: YOKOHAMA and RETURN only one who knew of her interest in but so far allicent had met no mald. She leaned over the banister the woman in the black ermine coat. When Norman had told her of the looked down, But how about Jarvis Happ? Jaryls mald, Millicent had concluded that the

Sho caught a glimpse of a block was very, very shrewd, and it was woman must be absent, perhaps on fur cont. apparent that he knew more about leave. Had she returned?

Running down the stairs. Millicent what was going on in the house than

card a door slide back, heard the he let on. Moreover, he, above all

Throwing her shoulders buck, giving Durr of a motor. others, knew het connection with her chin a determined tilt, Millicent

She threw caution to the winds, ran George Drimgold's murder.

locked the door of her room and set rapidly, and was in time to see a car But how about Robert Chise? He, off bravely down the corridor. Shu pull out from the garage, a black too, had surinised her secret. Jie, tuu, turned to the left, followed the car-sedan, with the curtains in the rear must know something of the woman rider toward the place where sheghtly drawn, so that it was im- in black.

karw Mrs. Happ's rooms were situatsible to see anything of the person Millicent shrugged

uncladed.. her

or persons who occupied it. shoulders

She could almost have touched the gestüre. and, with the

She was still some distance from realized that she was chilled. She the door of the suite when she heard car, as it adopt into the darkness ran to the closet, found a robe and the sound of vatees. Abruptly a door and, for one wild moment, she thought flong it about her. She went to the opened. Millicent flattened herself of rushing out to try and climb to the spare tire, holding the trunk against the wall, gave a little gasp It was, she saw, commencing Lo rain Drops were beating against the saw a woman clad in black rack, but she realised the futility of rmine step into the rorridor. For a

doing this and swung her eyes to the window and, as she looked, she saw moment Millicent thought the woman leense number, determined to remem- the rain grow in Intensity until, with was coming toward her. Then, with in a few minutes, a rising wind was is abrug of the shoulders, a lust mur- driving it torrenis.

muring comment to the person on their memory-973410. other side of the door, the woman in black turned away from Millicent

Millicent heard Mrs. Happ's voice saying, "Please be very careful. I She saw the big Huotesine in which think he's employed someone

Jarvis app had brought her to the | shadow you."

house. She wondered if by any The woman in black gave low chance, keys were in the ignition, throaty laugh. A door closed. The Steung open the door of the car, woman in the black ermine ceat walkacked inside and graped with frantic

Angers. od rapidly down the corridor, away from Millicent.

window and looked out.

She turned ones more to study the pote. Why bad she been informed of the

of the mysterious presence woman? What was she supposed to do? Was it Jarvis Happ who had left the uựsange and who had expected she Would perhaps hunt up the woman ja the black erinine cont, accuse directly of complicity in Drimgold's

murder?

.

her

No

Millicent know only one thing. matter who had sent the note or what was expected of her, she was deter mined to try to find out something about that woman in black.

Having reached this decigian. Mi-

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Millicent hesitated a moment. Dare; she run and necost the woman Could she accuse her of being in- plicated in Dringold's murder? Such an accusation would, of course, alarm the household. It would also establishi

The #gures seared themselves into She looked around her in the garnge, wondering If he could find a car in which she could follow.

There were ne keys in the car. Disappointed, she did back toward he don, only to freeze suddenly into instant Imnobility.

Someone clicked a light switch, and the garage blazed into brillance."

(To Be Continued.)

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