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MILLIGENT GRAVES.

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CARLETCH KENDRAKE

to

GEORGE, DILINGOLD, And, her employer in his offer dewch billigeni- Yas a notebook Fa which Drimgold had begun to dictate & Come Casion.

In panfo she rahon away, regler at hotel under mes kansamed name.

JARVIS KART, a stranger, offers to help her. De sends her to a beauty parlour where she la transformed into a brunet, then takes her home and introdures her an ha accretary, She meets Happy son, NORMAN; his stepson, ROBERT CAISE, and MRS. BAPP.

Milcent fade wileep and wake to find a note under her door ronding, "Tho woman in black rotina to have." Millicent dinsara, Been the worn in black drive away and follows in oberi Cuise's car, but runs out of a liberoes to the chauffeur's quarters and finde him deed.

Next morning Killern meet VERA DUCHENK, Mes. Happ's maid. Meeni go to Vera's room and seen her with some thing that looks like a black ermine coal,

CHAPTER XIX

Vera Duchene whiriod, regarding Millicent with eyes that were suddenly cold, hard and viciously vengeful. ·

"What are you doing, nooping | around here?" she asked..

Millicent said. "I wasn't snooping. I came to warn you of something."

"Well, what was it?"

"This isn't going to be an ordinary investigation," Millicent said. "There are elements involved which are going to causa trouble. If you didn't get in unill A late hour this morning, as you started to say, you'd better tell the police so now, because otherwise they i check up on you."

"And what makes you think I didn't got in until this morning?'

"Because you started to say an down there at the table."

"And you came all the way up bere just to tell me that?"

"Yes,"

"Entonoy!"

"All right. Why did come up here?" Millicent demanded angrily. "You came up here to snoop because Jarvis Happ has been suspicious of mo ever since I started to work for his wife. Go back and tell him that his spying didn't work."

"Don't be too certain it didn't work," Millicent said. "I saw what you threw: in the closet."

And with that, she turned ground and bagged the door angrily bekúnd her.

Own

Foom,

She ran down the corridor and sought her

trying

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emations. her conflicting Hnd she really gone to the room to spy on Vera Duchene?

Suddenly she realized that she had. She was suspicious Vera Duchene, had been front the moment she had seen her. There was about Vern Duchene n suggestion of that power that some women wield over men, applied selfishly and consciously to advance their own emis,

Vera Duchene had been out the night before. She had returned early in the morning, She, then, must have hean the tente who had driven the sedan Millicent had encountered when leav- ing Felding's room. Had she als been the one who led Harry Felding on the chase which ended in his death? Was Vera Duchene the woman in the black ermine cont?

*

Millicent could not, of course, be certain, but she did know that the form and figure of Vera Duchene were similar to the form and figure of the woman who had worn the black ermine, and the single swift glimpse Millicent had had of the woman in the ten room bud shown her a cold, gray gy-asheming, hard, wary sad watch-

ful.

Vera Duchene's eye could well have lakon un such an expression. MINI- rent, herself, had seen those eyes

change. They had been filled with alluring invitation when they rested upon the officer. Then, later, when Millernt had entered her room and; And glimpsed what apparently was a black ermine cout Vera Duchêne was aging in the closet, the eyes had be come cold, hurd, glittering and venge. ful,

And where would Vera Duchene, #lady's maid, have accured the wherewithal get an ermine coat? Or, rather, having Interested someone Bulelently to secure an erminé coat, why would she continue to work an u

(maid?

Millicent determined that she would keep Vera Duchene in mind. and would pay closer attention to her conings and goings.

There was a discreet knock at the door.

"Who is it?" Millicent asked.

Winton, the butler," said a mourn- ful voice.

She opened the door,

The butler stood in wooden-faced ; dignity upon the threshold.

The master would like to have you report to him in his study," he said. "And did you hear about the murder 1")

She smiled up into his profession- ally lugubrious countenance and said.. "I understand that the chausseur was killed by bandits."

"He might have been killed by bandits," the butler said, "and then again he might not. You see, hỏ hiust have borrowed Master Robert's cur, run out of gasoline and walked kome, but the police can't find the keys Lo the car.

"Master Robert is ĉareless about his keys at times. He loft all of his keya in the ear not only the keys to the car, but the keys he carries to the house and the garage.”

"Woll?" naked Millicent

"If Harry Folding had left the car and locked it, where the police found it, he'd naturally have left the keys in his pocket."

"Perhaps he put them some place. when he got to his room," Millicant

best your pardon, but that's impossible," the butler sald

with mournful cadence. "He' was killed Just as he entered the room. Somo one alther had been lying in wait for him or had been robbing the place and was surprised."

"Why should anyone try to rob a chauffeur?" Millicent asked.

"That's the queation-why should they? That's what the police want to know,"

"Well," Mificent said, "you'll have to excuse me. It's nothing I can speculate about. It Mr. Happ wants ino, I must go at once."

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Reluctantly the butler turned away. After he had gone a few stops, he paused and said, "Did the police ques- tion you 7"*

"They wanted to know where I was last night," she said.

He nodded,

Moved by some sudden inspiration, Millicent went on rapidly, "Were thura visitors in the house last night, Win- ton2"

"Visitors?"

"Yes, you know anyone other than the family and the servants?"

Ite hesitated a moment, then stopped nearer, lowered his voice, and almost whispered, "Mrs. Happ had a woman visitor last night”

"Did you see how she was dressed 7" "I'm sure I couldn't tell you that. She wore a black fur cont. That was all I saw."

"An ermine coat?"

"I don't know just what you'd call It happened to be passing, Mrs. Happ's suite and I heard voicen. thought she'd called to me, so I knock- ed on the door and opened it a crack. A woman was standing there, wearing a black cont. The collar was turned up about her ears. I didn't see any more. Mrs. Hupp called to me in a sharp voice to close the door and get away from there."

"Does Mrs. Happ have a block fur coat 7"

"No, ma'am. Her fur coat is n brown, mink I believe. And then she has a white fur coat-it's Russian ermine I think.

Millicent made a mental note that the butler knew more about this woman in the black ermine cost than he had told her. Undoubtedly he knew that the wontan had called upon Mrs. Happ before, but Millicent had to time to follow up the subject.

She walked rapidly down the hall to Mr. Happ's study, knocked at the duer and, in response to his "Come In," opened the dour and entered the room.

Jarvis Happ, looking very grave, was seated at his desk. Ile nodded and said, "Sit down. Millleent. I'want to ask you some questions."

She dropped into the chair, suddenly feeling that peculiar psychic comme tion which Jarvis Hopp's magnetic personality and keen, "peering eyes always caused,

"Dirk Gentry was in your room last night," he said

She flushed and started to make an indignant denial.

"No, no." he said, “don't misunder- stand me. I mean he accompanied you to your door, with the aulicase.

"Oh, yes."

"What did he say at that time 2" "How do you mean?"

"You know what I mean," he told ber, with gentle but Arm insistence. "He told you something he didn't want me to hear."

"What makes you think that?" "Because of the look on his face

when he left this room. Because of the look on his face when he emergod from your room."

nachts," she said, "it was con-

"You shouldn't keep secrets from your

employer,"

"Perhaps it was one of these pro- positions a man sometimes makes to a woman, a proposition he doesn't mean exactly, but which he holds out ar a glittering promise for the pur- pose of securing some temporary advantage."

"Such an!" Happ naked, "Need you ask?" "Yes,"

he said, "because I think this was an advantage that had some- thing to do with me personally."

"I gathered," she said slowly, "that there wa Bomething in the books he was afraid of. After all, Mṛ, Happ, I'm working for you and I should be loyal to you. I didn't want to make the accusation directly, but since you've asked me I've told you."

He got to his feet, nodded, and said, "Come on, we're going down and take a look at those books" right now, They're in your room?"

Fortunately sho did not have to answer the question. Happ acted on the assumption that they were. He led the way down the corridor.

She opened the door of her room, "In the closet?" he asked her. She nodded dumbly.

Happ opened the door of the closet, stond there looking about him in frowning concentration.

"I don't see any suitcase here," he ald.

She peered over his shoulder. The dummy suitcase had disap- peared.

(To Be Continued.)

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