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THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY,

SERIAL STORY-

MAY 10, 1935.

The DARK BLOND

CARLETON KENDRAKE

to

DECIN HERE.TO-DAY

GRAVES, MILLICENT

secretary GEORGE DRIHOOLD, find her employer in his office dead. in panle she rose away and registers at hotel under med

YLKIT.

JARVIH NAPI, distinguished-looking stran ger, recognise Micent and offer to help! her, le sands her lo a beauty parlour where who is transformed Into a brunet app takes.

opened it, and her eyes encountered a, of the car had discovered her and was deliberately torturing her as a cat flank of whisky.

mouse. By an effort, Her hand shook no she splashed tortures B whisky into the tumbler and choked Milcent held herself motionless..... Inter she hard the down a stiff drink, but, as the fery. A moment liquid htarted coursing through her sound of the garage door sliding back, veins, it gave her new strength, a Then, after, a moment, the merciless while glare of the headlights was re- new feeling of confidence.

She wiped her lips with her hand-moved from her face, and she heard her home, introducing her as.he secretary kerchief and returned it to the pocket the car move into the garage. Then 31 on NORMAN HAPP, warns Millicent of her fur coat. As she pushed the the door once more slammed shut. against his stepbrother, ROBERT CAISE, and bit of linen and lace into the pocket,

Lafie her systertian women in black erminer Angers encountered a hard, bulky too fool. Find the driver of the car

Millicent was trembling from head

like some power over he stepmother.

her. Reen her? Had the headlights been Milcent fall asleep. A notes wakens her object which seemed strange anil the fins a nute under her door reading. She frowned, explured the object with left fastened upon her purposely Bo Or had "The woman In-black-ermine le here the tips. of her fingers and then sud- that she might realize her hiding

place had been discovered? Millicent dresses, see the woman in black denly remembered what I was. drive away In sedan. Milleent follow in

At the same moment a quick flash it been merely one of those coinci Hobert Calse's coupe, but run out of ga. the walks homme, sees light is the chauffeurs of inspirations awept over her and she dences which happen so frequently in quarters, enleta and acteqms,

pulled the object from her pocket. It every-day life? She knew that the was the key container that had been driver of the car had of necessity, left the car in order to unlock the in the car she had borrowed.

There were seven or eight keys on door of the garage. It was, of course, that key container. Surely one of possible that the ear hnd necidentally them must 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 edge: Helf into the house and go to hor room at the exact spot where Millicent had without anyone knowing that she had chosen to hide. Even so, there was strong possibility that the driver of been out.

the automobile had seen her crouch- ing there,

CHAPTER XIV

involuntary After thin t single scream had been wrung from her lips, Millicent realized the necessity ler

kilence.

She could hear the pounding of her own heart, the steady dripping of the rain from the eaves, the rustle of the leaves of a shade tree which grew against the side of the building,

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

Apparently it had not. There was no sound save the noises of the night. Millicent stepped into the room and closed the door.

She felt the bathroom, stood in the square room once more with its win- dows on three sides, a room in which a man had recently met his death.

oner more пр

•

Millicent waited about 15 minutes Suddenly, her brain clarified alightly 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 clouds know something of what had hap- were drifting rapidly across the sky, penel. IInd the man been atabbed or twisting and writhing on the wings shot? Had he been killed by someone of a wind which was momentarily in- She steeled herself to approach the who lay in wait for him or had somo-creasing in violence in the higher still blew only Bgure which sprawled, face down-ore opened the door and struck him regions, although

in gusts on the ground. ward, in the centre of the room. It down?

Millicent tip-toed up the stairs to was the figuru of a man, eind in an Fearfully, she overcoat with the collar turned up. Al pronched the corpse and stood over it. the porch, took out the key container felt hat had fallen from his heat and She could see no hole in the back and fitted keys one after another to lay two or three feet to one alde. of the overcoat, nor was there any the front door. The fourth key slid

Millicent could not see the man's stain on the back of the coat to in the bolt back smoothly.

Millicent gave a sigh of relief, features, but she could reo the dark,dicate that a bullet had gone through

slipped into the corridor, closed the welling pool which seeped from be the man's body. neath the figure and stained the rather She leaned over to one side, looking door behind her, took off her shoes and thin, aunbleached carpet of the room. to see if she could find any sign of a ran wiftly and allently up the staira By exercising every bit of will knife, and could find none. She to her room. She took the key to power at her command, she leaned noticed that the man had fallen for her room from her pocket, opened the the door. The door, slipped inside, but did not switch forward and placed her fingers on the ward away from man's wrist, trying to find if there wound was in the front. His assail-on the lights. She closed and locked ant must, therefore, have been in the the door, then stood listening, trying was any pulse.

it needed only the touch of the flesh room at the time he had opened the to hear any xounds which might in-

man was door. to convince her that the dend,

She straightened, knowing that she must get a look at iris face. Some how, she had convinced herself that it

As Millicent tip-toel down the was, perhaps, Norman Happ who had followed the mysterious wOMAN in aluirs fran. the chauffeur's bedroom bothered only to hang up her fur coat. black ermine. If this dead man she heard the sound of a mater car, Her other garments she let lie across should prove to be Norman Happ and a moment later lights Bashed the back of a chair. Then che crawled

She moved slowly around to the along the driveway, showing that a lato bed. nide, as that she could stare down into, the gray, distorted features.

The slead mun was Harry Felding, the chauffeur, and his face was not a pleasant thing to see.

•

She went to the door, listened for a moment, then slipped out into the wet night.

dicate her nocturnal excursion had altracted attention.

She heard nothing.

There was the first gray touch of dawn in the air, and Millicent, aliing Wel clothes, wearily out of her

Physical fatigue wrestled with the car had turned in toward the garage.

For a second or two she stood there,, nervousness which caused her to turn wondering if she dared risk discovery, over and over in her mind the events Then she ran down the stairs and con- of the past two days, cealed herself behind an ornamental hedge.

Millicent felt nausen gripping her. She pulled a handkerchief from the She had two sooner dropped from pocket of her fur coat, pressed sight than the headlights of the auto- 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 past Millicent, then went back gradually regained control of herself and came to a stop. She wanted most desperately to get a drink of water, or perhaps there, might be a battle of brandy some where in the room.

Mitleent had already undergone a terrifle ordeni. Now, crouching there with the white lights boring into the hedge and blinding her vision, she felt that she had endured more than was

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

Millicent Jumped from bed, crossed the room, turned on the lights and bent over the suitcase..

Abruptly she stiffened into rigħ im- nobility staring down at the suit- case with incredulous eyes.

She remembered the appearance of that suitcase-remembered particular.

This suitcase hnd no strapal Someone-had-remored-the-suitcase

She looked about her and saw a humanly possible. She wanted to risely the straps which had held it shut. door which-led-to-n-bathroom. She up from behind the hedge, thrown up entered the bathroom and saw that it her hands and scream, "All right, here contained a wash stand, over which I am. Go ahead and convict me of was a drinking glass.. There was a murder if you want to!"

It seemed inevitable that the driver cupboard above the wash stund. She

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Indutrials.

and substituted another during her absence from the room.

(To Be Continued.)

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70/6

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21/0

21/0

21/0

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.9/10% 0/0

11/0

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11/0

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$1.35 n.

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.. £101 67% Hontan Hiy... £ 31 1.5% Hukuang Rly.

1011

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92% n.

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84.

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b.

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ств

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119/4.120- 83/0 85/-

17/-- 17/ 6218

52/8

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Estates...

Spaarwater Goki

Mining Boring Mines Sub-Nigel

Rhokana Corp.

9/99

7/17/-

49/41⁄2 49/4% 285/- 28370 89/9 88/9

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Trad. (Bearer).

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68/8 57/0

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From LEITH, MIDDLESBRO',

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and STRAITS.

The Steamship,

"BENREOCH"

Consignees of Cargo are hereby Informed that all Goods are being. landed at their risk into the hazardous ami/or extra hazarilmas fiodowns of The Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf And Godown Co., Ltd., whence and/or from the wharves delivery may be obtained.

No claims will be admitted aftar the Goods have left the Godowns; and all Goods remaining undelivered after the 11th May, 1955, will be subject to rent.

All claims against the steamer must 1 bo presented to the Undersigned on or before the 25th May, 1935,*: or they will not be recognized.

To comply with the General Bonded Warehouso Regulations consignees must have a Revenue Offloor in attendance when damaged dutlable goods are examined.

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowns where they will be examined on the 10th May, 1935, at 10 am,“ by Messrs. Goddard and Douglas R

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