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THURSDAY, MAY

1935.

SERIAL STORY-

The DARK BLOND

BEGIN HERE TO-DAT

MILLICENT CHAVES, recyther GEORGE DRIмGOLD, Bed, her employer In his uifies dead. In pante the mushra Sway

hanse..

And registers at hotel under natume

CARLETON KENDRAKE

pursued or not, the driver of the cab-the driveway of Jarvis Happ's house. Millicent forgot that she was tired. triolet did not deviate from his course.

Whoover had followed the woman in Suddenly Millicent caught hor the ermine coat had returned, and she. She peeded breath with a gasp of apprehension. wanted to talk with him.

The moter coughed, sputtered, died, up her steps. coughed to life again, ran smoothly, the missed and stopped.

JARVIS HAPY. diellogskuled locking Alfanger, Ferognize Millieens and offer helps her. It sends her to a beauty parlous where the la transformed into Haph takes her home. introducing her as 24 accrete sin, NORMAN HAP

brunet

Warna Milleent against stepbrother, HUBERT CAIRE, and tells her myeterious woman in black ermine, has some power over Lis stepmother.......

her and she nde nule cinder her door reading, The woman in black here," Millicent dresses, sees the women in black drive away in de

Milcent, in the garage, bears a noise and the eletrie lights Ösh on.

CHAPTER XIII

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2.

She was still in the driveway when ebe heard the sliding doors of the She depressed the throttle and got garage roll shut. After that there to results. She pulled out the choke was no sound save that of her own and, for a moment, the car responded. feet on the wet driveway. She reach Then once more it died. Her eyes ed 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 brilliance of the Went falls asleep. A noise waken empty,

The car was barely moving now, hall windows in which the night lights mine is and Millicent kicked out the clutch were still burning.

It was then that Millicent realized and piloted the car loto the curb. Tho, big nedan and the speeding cab- the full extent of her predicament. She was locked out. It would be riolet had swept on out of sight

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. She tried the garage door onte idea of leaving a car in a karage Millicent. holding herself fat with an empty gasoline tank-of all more, then walked wearily around person to the House, wet feet squishing moisture against the floor board of the auto- the fool things for moblie, trying to make herself us do. She supposed that would at every step. She tried a side door. nearly invisibile as possible, held her be Robert Caine, brilliant, irrespon- It, too, was locked. She tried the breath an listened.

sible, flighty. She looked at the re-front door with no more success.

A wicker chair offered her aching gistration certicate and found her She heard 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 hits throbbing life. Then a Chise.

darkness of the porch, Istening to the Car swept out in a streak of inst Millicent found herself thinking steady drip, drip of the rain as it motion. She heard the clash of gears that Norman Happ never would have dropped down from the caves of the na someone shifted hurriedly from done anything like that. Norman porch. She reverse to low, then the rear of the Happ had a sense of responsibility. minutes and then realized that she motor, and the ear swept on down the His car would have been filled with was taking cold. Somehow she must, driveway.

gas, oil and water. The tires would effect an entrance to the house.

perfect condition--but

She had circled around one side of! have been the ignition key wouldn't have been in the lock. The very break that gave the house. She wondered whether, her an opportunity to use the car in perhaps, there might be a door un the the first place was in one way directly other side: She was cold and cramped connected with her inability to recom-; Row, and fully appreciated the extent walked plish anything with it after she had of hor predicantent. She

around the house. There was one borrowed it.

Millicent switched off the lights, door and she tried it, but it, too, was hesitated a moment, then locked the locked. She came to the back of the ear and slipped the key container into house and suddenly caught her breath with a throbbing intake of quick the porket of her fur cont

tape.

Lights were still on in the garage, but Millicent took a chance on dis covery to find out who had taken out

that ear.

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

A cabriolet, very racs ant stylish, which had been in the garage ami which she had intuitively placed as belonging to Norman Happ, was glid- ing smoothly down the driveway, Ax It was a leather key container and it turned into the street Millicent there were seven or eight keys on noticed that it was running without it. lights.

Evidently someone else had decided to follow the womat In the black ermine coat.

"Well," she said to herself, "I pre- sume I've got to get back, nud - guess there's no way for me to ge except to walk."

snt there for several

There was a separate building at the back, the lower door of which was used as a storage place for the gardener's tools. The upper floor was occupied, and the remembered hearing someone say it was where the chauffeur had his quarters.

Millicent ran to the two remaining There were no cabs cruising along

Lights glowed from the windows cars big sedan and a coupe. these streets and, even had she en

upper room, and Millicent There were ignition keys in the coupe, countered one, she had no mony with of this

suddenly remembered Norman had and she jumped behind the wheel, which to pay for it. turned the switch, nad pressed the With dogged determination she told her Jarvis Happ had commis- starter. The motor throbbed to life, started waiking back down the desert- sioned his chauffour to shadow the So nervous with excitement that ed avenue, her little heels click-clack-woman in the black ermine ceal when her hands were trembling, Millicent ing spiritedly upon the echoing next she came to the house.

Ilarry Felding, then, must have backed the car out of the garage, put cement. it in gear and raced out of the drive- Wuy.

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

Rain fell intermittently-at times been the one who drove that cabriolet. In lasing torrents, at times in a cold fle had shadowed the woman in the drizzle. Millicent's skirt, ankles and black ermine coat, and doubtless knew shoes were soaking wet. Her Cur where she lived. Perhaps Felding would give her the information. cont glistened with moisture,

At length, wenry, tired and chilled,! Perhaps he could let her into the he snw the big house tooming before With the headlights she was able her. It was now only aboul 75 yards to pick up the speeding cabriolet. away and so tired was she that she Occasionally the tail light reflected a was counting the steps, red gleam, or her headlights glittered. back in dazzling brilliance from the windshield. Once

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house or find some place where she could spend the night-some place where she could divest herself of her wet garments.

She crossed the strip of yard, Automobile headlights danced along climbed the stairs which led to the i twice she the wet pavement, sending reflections upper room. Her knuckles knocked glimpsed the big sedan ahead, which shivering against the alles of. the gently against the door. When there the enbriolet was undoubtedly follow building. Instinctively the stepped to was no answer she, knocked more ing.

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

response, she twisted the knob of the speed and Milleent was forced to use Thi-machine,-a-cabriolet,passed dear all of her skill as a driver to keep in her, this time running with lights.) 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 cullar of his over- way into the room. she was following him, wondered if coat was turned up around his neck that driver were, perhaps, Norman and a soft felt hat pulled low on his Happ. With the thought she felt forchend.

The door was unlocked. She opened

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

A startled scream was wrunge from |

the sight which met her pallid lips

(To Be Continued).

unce more that strange pounding of She heard tho hlas of the tiren on the pulse in her temple, a sudden the wet pavement, then saw the red Kurge of emotion which seemed to lights on the rear glare into brilliance ehoke up her bloed stream,

Rs the driver applied brakes. The car her eyes. Whether he knew he was being swung wide for a turn and entered!

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