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The DARK BLOND

CARLETON KENDRAKE

She hurried to the door, turned the takey and opened it.

BEGIN NEKE TO-DAY GRAVES. MILLICENT

· ̈secreta er GEORGE DRINGOLD, finde her employer bla office dead, in panja obe ruahee -Away and registers at a hotel ander, en ameuzeil TULINE....

in

JARVIB LAPP

titingalabad-looking abranger, recognises Millent and offers to help ber. 11e senda bar to a beauty parlour where the fe transformed Snio a brunet Happ takes her home, introducing her as his sesretary. His son NORMAN HAFP, Warm Millicas Ainas his stepbrother, ROBERT CAIBE, and sell her a masterious word In black semina has pouse power over, his

stebroeiber.

Millenni falls sleep. A noise waicens bet

and she Gade note under her door radio:

"The woman in black ermine in hapo," Milleant dresses, see the woman in black drive away, and follows in Boberi Valse's coupe, but runs out of gas. She wa ki home, been a light in the chauffeurs quare

Alefs-- The

* -chruffeur → Sa..... dead - Millicent frightened, returns to her own roomA, one has taken the suitcase of books wileń- Jarvis Haps wave her to audit, substituting another,svitense...

CHAPTER XV

Millicent tore at the fastenings of the sultense with frenzied fingers. pulled back the lid and found that tho intorior was filled with a miscellaneous Assortment of books which, by no airotch of the Imagination, could possibly have been books of account involving the business dealings Jarvis Happ and Richard Gentry.

of

Jarvis Happ entered the rooni. "I thought, showald, "from the tone of your volco it was urgent, so didn't stop to fix my hair or put any colour on my face."

Thank you," he said, closing the loer, carefully behind him. "It is very urgent, and I didn't wish to be neon standing in the corridor in front of your door. The police will be here in a few minutes."

"The police?" Millicent asked, her eyes growing wide with alarm se abe thought of all that might signify.

"You"

*For mo?"

He shook his head.

She raised her eyebrows,

"Perhaps," he said, "you will under- stand what I mean when I show you, the claw. It was something which I' found in the bathroom."

She said slowly, "You mean In the bathroom of the chauffeur's quarters ?"

"Yes," he said, and suddenly opened his clenched hand.

Crumpled into a ball in the palm of his hand was her handkerchief.. "Have you," he asked, "ever seen that before?"

Sho clenched her hands until they wore tight little fists. Her senses seemed to reel. She was utterly in- capable of speech but, mercifully, sho was spared the necessity, of making i "No," he said, "your secret is sato, an answer, for, at that moment, there It's another matter. My chauffour was the sound of a throbbing siron, was murdered last night-youre-the. noise mindo by tires as a car slid member, the man who drove us out around a corner at rapid speed,

Jarvis Happ closed his fingers over hero in the limousine 7"

news the bit of linen and laco.

She hadn't anticipated the being broken to her in just this way. She stood for a second staring at Happ and

word, "Murdered!"

"Yes," be

the repeated

"Say nothing about this to anyone," he said. "I am going to identify it! positively, and when I identify it, I am going to luke drastle steps."

.

Happ turned, noiselessly opened the door, looked out into the corridor, then nodded reassuringly, to her and slipped out, closing the door behind him

Milliceat stood quivering.

Was it possible that Hupp didn't know that was her handkerchief?

said, "murdered. "Who did it ?". "We don't know.” ** "When was it done?" "Some time this morning," Jarvis It looked very much as though Happ sold, and his voice was filled Monteone had hastily gathered a min- with grim portent. "I'm going to find colinneous assortment of books, such out who did it," he said, "if it'w the an could be picked up at random. last act of my life. And when I find These books had bean, hurriedly out who did it, I am going to be thrust into the suitcase, apparently absolutely and eiterly without mercy, without regard for order, and when regardless of who that person may be. the sullenao had been picked up some Do you 'understand?” of the books had fallen open.

She felt the colour changing in her Millicent stared at the open suit-¦ face. case, Evidently the substitution had "Why," she said, "do you say that Leen arranged so that she would not to me notice what had happened until she "Because," he said grimly, "I want started work on the books. The two it definitely understood that I don't vuitcases soomed to be approximately care who the person may be am the same size and of the same general going to be absolutely without mercy." appearance. And the plan would

Happ moved away from the door. have worked had she not happened to ¡Iis manner became more at case. police would undoubtedly question notice the straps which were on the

"I wanted to tell you," he said, everyone. They would question her! original suitcase.

"that the police were going to be The police, would also want to here, I didn't want you to get in know something of her past history. a panic when you heard them drive What could up."

At first Millicent thought she would communicate with Jarvis Happ at once. Then she decided that sho would keep her own counsel. She was already mixed up in so many strange situations that she dared not make complète explanations.

"How long ago was....was discovered?"

"Just a few. minules_ngo." "How did it happen?'

it

Showing her the handkerchief was either a gesture of confidence on his part or else it was an attempt to shake her composure so that sho would make a confession, but, if that had been his purpose, it had succeeded su admirably that he certainly would have followed up his advantage. it was, he seemed to pay no attention whatever to her reactions. The police were coming! That realisation struck fear vory soul. Millicent Graves

As

into The

she tell them? How could she account for her whereabouts during the past few months without letting it appear that she was the secretary who had been working for George Brimgold 7 The secretary who "We all of us slept lato this had been dubbed "The Murder Girl" morning," he said. "It had been by the newspapers and for whom the police were now carrying en an inten- rather n' trying day yesterday. could well appreciato how utterly sive search. exhausted you were, and I, myself, had been under something of a strain."

She was so utterly fatigued that her brain seemed numbed. She closed the suitcase, staggered wearily to bed, and this time found drowal- ness almost instantly overtaking her She had so many, problems, so much to occupy her mlad that there was litorally nothing to worry about... rather, there was so much that she

She nodded, pleased that his under- could not concentrate on any ono standing had saved her from the "próbiens"

-noconsity of making excuser or ex-

She dropped off into dreamless planations. slumber.

Millicent was awakened by knuckles pounding upon the puncla of the door, She opened her eyes to find that the clouds had disappeared. The sun was streaming in through the windows and the angle of the sunlight showed her that she had slept very late indeed.

She bounded from bed, reaching for a robe,

"Who is it?" she asked.

*

Suddenly Millicent realised some- thing else. Her clothes would un doubtedly show the wetting they had received the night before. The police would examine those clothes and would ask her where he had been

She scooped up the clothes, ran "However," Happ said, "I wanted with them to the closet, rumpled to go to town. I pressed the buzzor them and thruat them into a corner which summons my chauffeur. As of the closet. The fur coat, she you may have found out, larry linedly knew what to do with. Final Felding was my own personal chaufly, however, she decided that sho fer. He enjoyed my unlimited con- dared to nothing, but left it on a

dence and served no one but me. hanger in the closet.

"Usually it is but a few minutes Suddenly a disquieting thought as- after press tho buzzer before ho sailed her.

is at the door with the ear. This She thrust her hand slown into the. Lime, after Rome 16 minutes, I pocket of the fur cont.

pressed the buzzer again, thinking) The leather key container, with its The voice which answered was un-ihat perhaps he hnd overslept.keys suspended in neat assortment mistakably that of Jarvis Happ. When he didn't answer, I started an from the swivelled hooks, was in the

"Please open the door," he said in investigation. The housekeeper told pocket of the fur coat. guarded tones..

Millicent gathered the robe around so I went to his room. He sleeps th She pulled out the key container. her, took a swift look at herself in a room over a shed in the back. a intent upon hiding it. She had just the mirror, and could hardly refrain room which in isolated from the rest withdrawn her hand from the pocket

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from giving an exclamation of sur of the house. He was dead. He had of the fur coat when she heard motion for prise at the strange features which been shot, and died almost instantly." behind her. stared back at her." She remembered! She nodded her head mechanically. The first glance from the corner then, with food of conflicting emo- "There was," he said, "just one of her eye chilled her blood with tions, the events of the last few days thing which may be considered as n fear. --the beauty shop where she had been slow, a clew so intimate In its kature Robert Caino stood in the door of transformed from a Liond Into that I didn't want to trust it to the the closet, leering at her! brunet.

hande of the polles."

(To Be Continued)

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