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The DARK BLOND

by Carleton Kendrake

DEGIN HERE, TO-DAY

MILLICENT GRAVES, ` necmiary OEORGE DRIMGOLD, fade her employer in his office dead, Is panic she rushes away and registers at a hotel under an særïmed} name.,

cent Graves flung off her dressing, Millicent's own idontity beyond doubt. Kown and started dressing hastily. No, there was only one thing for her coat, to do. That was to shadow this wo- Millicent, donning hor fur alipped out into the hallway,

man and And out where she lived, The heat in the house was low, and then see to learn something of her JARVIS KAPP, languished looking the corridors felt chill and gloomy, connection with the murder. Perhaps, stranger, nes Milikcent and offers to A night light burned at one end of having found out where the woman help her. He slide her to a beauty parlour the corridor, giving sufficient illumina-llyed, who could trade information whore she is transformed Inte brunet. Haption to enable her to see objects, al with Jarvis Happ. inkam her home. introducing her.

Millicent waited until the woman

Mulleent falls sleep. A sobe awakens her and she find a role under her door radios,

secretary, a son, NORMAN HAPT, warn though not as distinctly as would Millicent against ble stepbrother, ODEET have been tho ense: had there been had rounded a corner in the corridor. GAIBE, and well har a mysterious woman in more illumination.

Then she sped swiftly and silently black ermine búa souw power over his steps) Now that she was in the corridor, down the thick carpet, passing at the mother.

the realized the immensity of the corner to peer out into the other house, realised something of the corridor. nature of the task with which she was confronted.. It was going to be neces sary for her to And a mysterious woman in a black ermine cont who was somewhere in the house.

"The woman in black armina la here."

CHAPTER XH

Millicent stood ataring at that fato ful typewritten note. She had no means of knowing who had sent it, nor could she tell whether the stops sho, had heard in the corridor were

Where?

* •

She heard a door slam- door, apparently, located about half Wey down the long corridor, but there was no one in sight.

Fighting back her disappointmont, Millicent ran along the corridor, try- ing to locate the door that had slam- med. She came on a back staircase which she had almost forgotten, a

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She remembered Mra. Happ had proudly exhibited the suite which she occupied, and Milleent felt certain the woman she sought would be some those of a man or a woman.

She wondered if Norman had sent where within that solte of room. staircase which sho remembered ran her this message: Surely he was the Norman Happ had mentioned a maid. to the kitchen and then to the garage: YOKOHAMA and RETURN enly one who knew of her interest in but for Millicent had met to maid. She leaned over the banister and the woman in the black ermino coat. When Norman had told her of the looked down. But how about Jarvis Happ? Jarvis mald, Millicent had concluded that the

She caught a glimpse of a black via Shanghai-Koba-Nagoya-Shimidzu was very, very shrewd, and it was woman must be absent, perhaps on fur cont. apparent that he know more about leave. Had she returned?

Running down the stairs, Millicent heard a door slide back, heard the what was going on in the house than he Jet on. Moreover, he, above all:

Throwing her shoulders back, giving purr of a motor. others, knew of her connection with her chin a determined It, Millicent

She threw cantion to the winde, 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 Calsef Henff bravely down the corridor. She pull out from the garage, a black too, had surmised hor accrot. He, too, turned to the left, followed the cor- sedan, with the curtains in the rear must know something of the woman ridor toward

so that it was the place where she tightly dmwa, in black.

knew Mrs. Hopp's rooms were situat possible to see anything of the person Millicent shrugged ber unclad ed.

for persons who occupied it. the gesture, shoulders and, with

She was still some distance from realised that she was chilled. She the door of the suite when she heard rau to the clonet, found a robe and the sound of voices. Abruptly a door fung it about her. She went to the opened. Millicent attened herself rushing out to try and climb to władow and looked out.

against the wall, gave a little gasp the spare tire, holding to the trunk It was, she raw, commencing tons she saw a woman clad in binck rack, but she realised the futility of Drops were beating against the ermine step into the corridor. For a doing this and swung her eyes to the window and, as she looked, she anwmoment Millicent thought the woman license 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

a shrug of the shoulders, a last mur-

The figures seared themselves into ber driving it in torrents.

memory-9.3110. muring comment to the person on the

She looked She turned once, more to study the other side of the door, the woman in around her in the garage, wondering note. Why had she been informed of black turned away from Millicent. if she could and ear in which she the

the of presenco

mysterious

Millicent heard Mrs. Happ's voice could follow. woman? What was she supposed to saying, "Please be very careful. do? Was it Jarvis Happ who had left think ho's employed the message and who had expected sho shadow you." would perhaps hunt up the woman in the hack ermkie coat, necure her irectly of complicity in Dringold's

rain.

murder?

•

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someone

to

The woman in black gave a throaty laugh. A door closed. The woman in the black ermine ceat walk ed rapidly down the carridor, away from Milleen.

Micent knew only one thing. No

Millicent hesitated a moment. Dars matter who had sent the note or what she

run and accost. the woman? was expreted of her, she was deter-Could be accuse her of being im mined to try to find out something plicated in Drimgold's murder? Such about that woman in black.

an accusation would, of course; alarm Having reached this decision, MI-1 the household. It would also establish|

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She could almost have touched the car as it alld out into the darkness and, for one wild moment, she thought

bert

She saw the big imousino in which Jarvis Happ had brought her to the house. She wondered it, by any chance, keys were in the Ignition.

She flung open the door of the car, reached inside and groped with frantle jingers,

There

were no keys in the car. Disappointed, she did back toward the door, only to freeze suddenly Inte Instant Immobility,

Someone clicked a light switch, and

the garage blazed into brilliance,

(To Be Continued.)

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