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DRUIN HENK TO-DAY

CARLETON KENDRAKE

GRAVES, secretary MILLICENT GEORGE DRINGOLD, Anda her employer in Nie offion dead. In panic she rushes away and retter at a bolel onder in acumed

ποπτεί

JARVIS HAPP, linguafred-haking stran. gre, recruited Milffrent and offers to help her, le, samiz her to a beauty parlour where she is transformed into a brunel Ilapp take her bone, introducing har as he secretary: 1 NORMAN HAPPware masinat his stepbrother, PUJIENT CAISE, and tells her mysterious woman in black ermise has some power over his stepmother.

Millicent falls asleep. A role wakens her and she finds a nete under her dour reading. "The woman in black ermior Su Here 2ficent dream, see the women in black sodan Milewat follows in Bubert Calic's coupe, Lat runs out of em The walks homa; ser light in the chauffeurs ameters, enters and sereka.

CHAPTER XIV ·

Involuntary After that single scream had been wrung from her Hps, Millicent realized the necessity for silence.

tree

She could hear the pounding of her own heart, the steady dripping of the rain from the caves, the rustle of the loaves of a shade

which grow against the side of the hullding.

She stood there, listening, waiting to hear if her scream had attracted at- tuntion.

Apparently it had not. There was ne sound wave the noises of the night. Millicent stepped into the room and closed the door.

She ateeled herself to approach the figure which sprawled, face down

It ward; in the centre of the room. was the gure of a man, clad in an Overcoat with the collar turned up. A felt hat had fallen from his head and iny two or three feet to one side.

Millicent could not see the man's features, but she could see the dark, welling pool which seeped from be neath the figure and stained the rather thin, sunbleached carpet of the room. By exercising every bit of will power at her command, she leaned forward and placed her fingers on the pau's wrist, trying to and if there was any pulse.

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opened it, and her eyes encountered u, of the car had discovered her and was flank of whisky.

deliberately torturing her as a cat Rer hand shook as she splashed tortures mouse. By an effort,

'the' whisky into the tumbler and choked Millicent held herself motionissa. *

A moment later alto hard down a stiff drink, but, an the flory liquid started courning through her sound of the garage door allding back. veins, it gave her new strength, a Then, after a moment, the merciless white glare of the headlights was re new feeling of confidence.

She wiped her lips with her hand-moved from her face, and she heard kerchief and returned it to the pocket the car move into the garage. Then of her fur cont. As she pushed the the door once more slammed shut.

Millicent was trembling from head bit of linen and lace into the pocket,

her angers encountered hard, bulky too foot. Had the driver of the car ohjeet which seemed strange to her.seen her? Hnd the headlights been She frowned, explored the object with left fastened upon her purposely no the tip of her fingers and then aud- that she might realize her hiding denly remembered what it was. place had been discovered? Or had At the same moment a quick flash been merely one of those coinci of inspiration swept over her and shedences which happen so frequently in pulled the object from her pocket. It every-day life? She knew that the was the key container that had been driver of the cur hnd, of necessity. fa the car she had borrower,

left the car in, order to unlock the There were seven or eight keya ondnor of the garage. It was, of course, that key cantainer. Surely one of possible that the car had accidentally them minst be a key to the house. been left in such a position that the With It she would be able to let her headlights were boring into the hedge self into the house and go to her room at the exact spot where Millicent had without anyone knowing that she had chosen to hide. Even so, there was a strong possibility that the driver of been out.

She felt the hatliroom, stood in the the automobile had seen her crouch- square room once more with its wining there. down on three sides, a room In which a man had recently mat his death.

Millicent waited about 15 minutes Suddenly, her brain clarified slightly minutes before she dared to approach by the stimulant she had taken, the front door of the house. The rain Millicent realized she would have to had ceased now, but low, black cloudin know something of what had hap-were drifting rapidly across the sky, pened. find the man been stabbed or twisting and writhing on the wings shot? Had he been killed by nomeone of a wind which was momentarily in- who iny in wait for him or had somu-creasing in

more ONCE

violence in the higher

one opened the door and struck him regions, although it blew only

in gusts on the ground. down?

ap- Fearfully, she

Millicent tip-toed up the stairs to pronched the corpse and stood over it. the porch, took out the key container She could age nu hole in the back and fitted keys one after another to The fourth key slid of the overcoat, nor was there any the front door. stain on the back of the coat to in dicate that a bullet had gone through the man's body,

the bolt back smoothly.

Millicent gave II sigh of relief, slipped into the corridor, closed the She leaned over to ono side, looking door behind her, took off her shoes and to see if she could find any sign of a ran swiftly and silently up the stairs Sho to her room. She took the key ta knife, and could find none. noticed that the man had fallen for- her room from her pocket, opened the ward away from the door. The door, slipped inside, but did not switch wound was in the front. His assall-on the lights. She closed and locked ant must, therefore, have been in the the door, then stood listening, trying It needed only the touch of the flesh room at the time he had opened the to hear any sounds which might in-

Was door.

dicate her nocturnal excursion had to convince her that the man

attract attention. dead.

Sheard nothing.

She straightened, knowing that she She went to the door, listened fur;

Th was the first gray touch of must get a kok at his face. Some-oment, then slipped out into the

daw, 18 the air, and Millicent, silding how, she had convinced herself that it wet night.

wet clothes, was, perhaps, Norman Happ who had As Millicent tip-toed down the wearily out of her followed the

mysterious womas in stairs from the chauffeur's bedroom bothered only to hang up her fur cont

<!#mul Lis black ermine. If

man she heard the sound of a motor car, Her other garments she let lie neroOSS should prove to be Norman Happ...and a moment later lights flashed the back of a chair. Then the crawled

She moved slowly around to the along the driveway, showing that a into bed. side, so that she could stare down into fear had turned in toward the garage. the gray, distorted features.

Physical fatigue wrestled with the For a second or two she stood there, nervousness which caused her to turn The dend man was. Harry Felding, wondering if she dared risk discovery. over and over in her mind the events the chauffeur, and his face was not nThen she ran down the stairs and con- of the past two days.

cealed herself behind, an ornamental pleannat thing to see.

berige.

Millicent feit nuusa gripping her. She pulled a handkerchief from the

She had no souner dropped from pocket of her fur coat, pressed sight than the henlights of the unto against her lips, stood for a moment mobile sent twin pencils of white swaying on the borderland between brilliance against the hedge. They consciousness and fainting. Then she swung pant Millicent, then swept back gradually regained control of herself, and came to a stop.

Millleent had already undergone al The wanted most desperately to get a drink of water, or perhaps theretterrile ordest. Now, crouching there might be a bottle of brandy some-with the white lights buring into the hedge and blinding her vision, she felt where in the racin

that she had endured more than was She looked about her and saw a humanly possible. She wanted to rise door which led to a bathroom. She jup from behind the hedge, thrown up entered the bathroom and saw that her hands and scream, "All right, here contained a wash stand, over which was a drifking glass. There was a cupboard above the wash stund. Shef

am Go ahead-and-convict me of murder if you want to!"

It seemed inevitable that the driver

Soddenly she thought of the suit- case of books on which she was in She decided that she would work. put them in the closet and lock the closet door.

Milleent jumped from bed, crossed the room, turned on the Hghts and bent over the suitcase.

Abruptly she stiffened into rígil im. at the sult. mobility staring down lense with incredulous eyes.

She remembered the appearance of that suitcase-rememberçil particular- ly the straps which had held it shut.

This muilense had no straps! Someone had removed the sultense and substituted another during her absence from the room.

(To Be Continued.)

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