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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1935.

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{SERIAL "STORY.

The

DARK BLOND

BEOIN MERE TO-DAY

Decre!nty

to

MILLICENT GRAVES GEORGE · DRIK#010, Onds her employer in his offer end. In punte sive rushes away

and regletere at a hotel under, wa assumed

hame.

JARVIS ¡APP, datingukirken looking stranger, recognizes Millleent and offers to belp her. He sende her to a beauty parlour where A la transformed into

brunet

Haps take her home, Introducing her as his peeretary. His son, NORMAN HAPP, warna Millicent mina h stepbrother, ROBERT CAINE, and tell her a mysterious woman in black armilne has some power over

his stepmother.

A

Millierne falls Nalrag

solay her wet whe finds a nole ander HEF HOUT

ben

reading, woman in birck ermine Millicent dresses, sees the woman black drive away in a sedan..

Milcent. In the garner, hears a nose and the recirte tights flech on.

CHAPTER XIII

CARLETON KENDRAKE

pursued or not, the driver of the cab- riolet did not deviate from his course.

the delveway of Jarvis Happ's house. Millicent forgot that she was tired. Whoever had followed the woman in Suflenty Mililcent caught her the ermine cont had returned, and sho breath with a gasp of apprehension, wanted to talk with him. She specided

The motor coughed, sputtered, died, up her steps. coughed to life again, ran smoothly, She was still in the driveway when

she heard the sliding doors of the: then missed and stopped.

She depressed the throttle and gat garage roll shut. After that thoro no results. She pulled out the choke was no sound save that of her own ned, for a moment, the car raspunded, feet on the wet driveway, She reach- Then once more it died. Her ayesed the garage and found the door was rested apprehensively on the gasoline closed and locked. She looked up at gauge. It showed that the tank was the house. It was dark and sombre, except for the dull brillianco of the empty.

hall windows in which the night lights were still burning.

The car was barely moving now, and Millicent kicked out the clutch and piloted the car into the curb.

It was thon that Millicent realized The big sedan and the speeding cab- the full extent of her predicament. riolet had swept on out of sight. She was locked out. It would be Millicent was so mad she could necessary to arouse someone in the have cried with sheer anger. The household in order to enter the house. iden of lenving car in a garage She tried the garage door once Muldeent. holding herself flat with an empty gasoline lank-of all more, then walked wearily around against the floor boards of the auto- the fool things for a person to the house, wet feot squishing moisture mobile, trying to make herself as do

She supposed that wouldnt every step. She tried a side door. nearly invisible as possible, hehi her be Robert Calse, brilliant, irrespon-It, too, was locked. She tried the breath and listened.

sible, flighty. She looked at the re-front door with no more success,, gistration certificate and found her A wicker chair offered her nching She hond someone moving about, surmise had been right. The car was feet some respite, and she dropped heard the sound of a starting motor registered in the name of Robert wearily into it, surveying the gloomy whirring into throbbing life. Then a Calse.

darkness of the porch, listening to the car swept out in a atreak of fast.

Milleen found herself thinking stendy drip, drip of the rain an it mation. She heard the clash of gears that Norman Stapp never would have dropped down from the caves of the a someone shifted hurriedly from done anything like that. Norman porch. She sat there for several reverse to low, then the roar of the Happ had a sense of responsibility. minutes and then realized that she motor and the car swept on-then the la car would have been filled with was taklug cold. Somehow, she must) driveway.

gas, oil and water. The tires would effect an entrance to the house.. have been in perfect condition--but| the Ignition key wouldn't have been

Lights were still on in the garage, but Mllicent took a chance on is covery to find out who had taken out that car.

•

She jumped to the cement floor of the garage, ran to the door and looked down the driveway.

She had circled around one side of

wondered whether,

in the lock. The very break that gave the house. She

her an opportunity to use the car in perhaps, there might be a ver on the the first pince was in one way directly other side. She was cold and cramped connected with her inability to acconi- now, and fully appreciated the extent plish anything with it after she had of her predicament. She walked harrorce it

around the house. There was one duor and she tried it, but it, too, was locked. She came to the back of the house and suddenly caught her breath with A throbbing intakte of qulek hope!

Millicent switched off the lights, hesitated a moment, then locked the car and slipped the key container into the pocket of her fur cont.

A cabriolet, very racy and stylish, which had been in the garage and which she had intuitively pinced us belonging to Norman Happ, was glid- ing smoothly down the driveway. Ая It was a leather key container and it turned into the street Millicent there were seven or eight keys o There was a separate building at noticed that it was running without lights.

""Well," she said to herself, “I pre- i was used as a storage pince for the rune I've got to get back; and I guess gardener's tools. The upper floor there's no way for me to gu except was occupied, and she remembered To walk."

henring someone way it was where tho chauffeur had his quarters.

Evidently someone else had decided to follow the woman in the black

it.

the back, the lower floor of 'which

Lights glowed from the windowa of this upper room, and Millicent suddenly remembered Norinan had

erniine coat.

Millicent run to the two remuthing

There were no cabs cruising along big sedan and n coupe. these streets and, even had she or ears-n There were ignition keys in the coupe, countered one, she had no money with and she jumped behind the wheel, which to pay for it. turned the switch and pressed the With dogged determination she told her Jarvis Happ had commils. The motor throbbed to life. started walking back down the desert-sioned his chauffeur to shadow the. So nervous with excitement that ed avenue, her little heels click-clack woman in the black ermine cont when her hands were trembling, Millicent ing spiritedly upon the echoing next she came to the house. backed the car out of the garage, put it in gear and raced out of the drive- way,

starter.

After she hit the street she ran for several blocks without lights, trying to keep the cabriolet ahead of her in view, but she was unable to do an and finally switched on the lights.

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cement.

Harry Felding, then, must have

Rain fell intermittently--at times been the one who drove that cabriolet. in hissing torrents, at times, in a cold He had shadowed the woman in the drizzle. Millicent'e skirt, ankles and black ermine coat, and doubtless know shoes were soaking wet. Her fur where she lived. Perhaps Felding coat glistened with moisture,

would give her the information. Perhaps he could let her to the house or find some place where she could spend the night-some place where she could divest herself of her wet garments.

At length, weary, tired and chilled, she saw the big house looming before With the headlights she was ablo her. It was now only about 75 yards to plck up the speeding enbriolet. away and so tired was the that she Occasionally the tall light reflected was counting the steps.

She crossel the strip of yard, red gleam, or her headlights glittered buck in dazzling brilliance from the Automobile headlights danced along climbed the stairs which lod to the windshield. Once

twice she the wet pavement, sending reflections upper room. Her knuckles knocked glimpsed the big sedan ahead, which shivering against the sides of the gently against the door. When there the cabriolet was undoubtedly follow-building. Instinctively she stepped to was no answer she knocked moro ing.

one side, flattening herself against aloudly, and then, still receiving no The cars were travelling at high wrought-iron fence.

response, she twisted the knob of the spood and Millicent was forced to use The machine, a cabriolet, passed door. all of her skill as a driver to keep in her, this time running with lights. The door was unlocked. She opened the procession. She wondered if the She could see the form of the driver, it and took a step through the door- driver-of-the-cabriolet suspected that noticed that the collng_of_hia over way into the room, she was following him, wandered If cont was turned up around his neck that driver were, perhaps, Norman and a soft felt hat pulled low on his Happ. With the thought slo folt forehead. once more that strange pounding of She heard the hiss of the tires on the pulse in her temple, a sudden the wet pavement, then saw the red surge of emotion which seemed to lights on the rear glare into brillance her pallid lips at the sight which met choke up her binod stream,

as the driver applied brakes. The car her eyes. Whether he knew he was being awung wide for a turn and entered {

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The Ught streamed upon her a moment her eyes features. For were dazzled by the brilliance, Then they came to focus upon the room.

A startled scream was wrung from

(To Be Continued)..

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