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THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1935.

|SERIAL STORY.

The DARK BLOND

CARLETON KENDRAKE

CHAPTER XXXI Norman Happ emerged from the sixth retail liquor store he had covered. Millleent looked at his face, knew that discovered something. hnd he "You've found it?" she asked when he

had approached the car.

"I think so," he told her. "Thin place in open until 3 o'clock in the morning. A little after two a woman hought a pint bottle of whisky and demanded that particular brand."

"A woman!" Millicent exclaimed. "Yes," he said.

"What did she look like?"

spare tire. I remember the man was steering wheel to grasp hers with a transferring this suitcase from the reassuring clasp.

He pulled the car in close to the inside of the sedan to the baggage compartment while she was getting curb. the whisky."

Would you know this woman if you saw her again?"

"Sure I would. She was pretty." "What kind of hat was she wear ing?"

"Some kind of a small hat that didn't have any brim. The ermina coat had a big collar and she kept the collar turned up. There wasn't any brim on the hat, so the

"Is this where your friend lives?" he asked.

"No," he told her, "I'm going to telephone. I can get the information over the wire, but I didn't want to telephone, from the liquor store."

He parked the car, ran to a drug- store while Millicent sat anxiously waiting, comparing the pulsing of the idling motor to the throbbing of her

to reappear. heart as she watched the door for him out, Suddenly she saw him come

"I want you to come in and talk fitted right up close around her heat, waiking no rapidly that he seemed

with the man," Norman said. "You'd

be more apt to get the stuff we want

in a description-you know, clothes and everything."

monner was

of that

Why what's 50

one thing""

struggling against tense excitement you'd be able

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found out something already."

and Micent anid, "Look here, you've | lekką” of ber."

He

nodded.

"What is it?"

"Just this," he said. "She wore a binck ermine cont."

Millicent scrambled out of the car,

with

woman

nervous

Lension.

Honestly," she asked, "was it the

the black ermine coat?" 121

he enutioned. "Don't get Steady," excited. It was a woman in a black ermine coat."

Millicent felt his hand on her elbow steadying lier as she crossed the side walk and entered the swinging door of the retail liquor store.

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well pust middle age, with a white mustache, surveyed her with

expressionless eyes.

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"But you're sure you saw her face "Sure I did. I lucked right at

about it

"We've got it!" he called when ho mysterlous

was still some 15 feet from the car. HONGKONG TO:--- him, Millicent told but I was wondering if "We've got the name and address of

a pho the woman who owns that cart". recognize

(To Be Continued.) was a good picture 1 think I could. Sometimes you see a woman dressed a certain way and then you get a snapshot picture of her and it doesn't look at all the same, but if this was a good picture I think I could

If all

tight." kpot

"What colour was her hat?"

be sure." "Black I think, but I can't "What colour was her hair?" "It was covered up pretty well by the hat. I don't know whether it She had the kind was black or not.

with a hland--sort of of skin that goes

except for the smooth and white, checks, and her lips were real red."

"I think we'll get a photograph." Millicent told him. "and come back. You can look at that and tell us if We want to talk with you a little it's the same woman."

"I can try, anyway. Come again more about that whisky sale," Nor-

It's a pleasure to anytime, man anid.

help you any way I can." The man surveyed the stacked upon his counter with al Norman Happ piloted Millicent critical eye, picked up one of them, from the store and, as they crossed hell it to the light, dusted it with the sidewalk, said, "That's the reason

I wanted you to talk with him. cloth and nodded,

could see that he fell for a pretty fuce WAR getting and figure, and he

que- my little Burly, about tions-acted as though he thought I was trying to make trouble for the woman in the black ermine cont."

bottles

Norman looked significantly at Millicent, and Millernt said, "You saw her clearly?"

"Oh, yee."

ex-

Millicent's voice betrayed her citement. "I mean you could see her face? She didn't keep her collar turned up so it concealed her face?""

But why alt "No, maʼain.

the excitement? You aren't a detective are you?"

"Mercy, no," she said "Just try ing to get some information."

In nodded, rearranged some of the bottles on the counter, said wearily, "What Information?"

care

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mn'am.

I

She

said excitedly. "Do you know what we've done

"What?" he asked.

"We've uncovered the only per. son who has had a good look at the face of the woman in the black ermine coat-the only one who could! positively identify her

figured on bringing back n

17" he asked.

"Vern

"Whose?"

Raid Millicent

crisply. Duchene's, of course."

"You think slie's the one?" "At any rate we'll show him her photograph," she said.

sun's rays.

Was she young or old?" He looked at her. "Ma'am, d'know. I'm 08 myself and to me wo- three men divide themselves into classes. There's the young ones that

She was about to step into the are full of giggles and awkwardness, Then there's the amooth, pretty ones car when her attention was caught that range anywhere from 20 to 50.

She

paused to stare And then there's the women that don't by Rome object which reflected the A moment gutter. anything about being beautiful, down into the and look about my age. I know some later she gave a startled cry and of them are beautiful when they're 40 lunged forward. Her hand reacheil und some look old when they're 40, but toward a small triangular piece of to a man who's lived as long as I brass-studded leather.

man Hopp naked. yhat is Norman have as long as a woman's smooth

She held it up. "It's a corner," and pretty she's young and I can't tell the age.'

she exclaimed, "that came from the sultense in which the Gentry books of account were kept the suitcase.

my room!" that was stolen

turned it over He took it from her, Lurr

it. in his fingers, studying

"Coine on," he told her, "jump in, We're getting hot on the scent. I "Yes, she knew how to use her know one other clue we're going smile. I remember she hud me grin-have in a few

"But surely you can tell whether a woman is 20 or 35."

"Well, perhaps I could tell that This woman wasn't 20. Probably she was around 30, but I can't tell. She was one of the smooth kind"

"Did she smile?"

it?"

"What is it ?minutes." She "The name

of

to

you got the

ning and cutting capers around the

the person who store, trying to get her service. said she was in a hurry. That brand owns the automobile you saw driving of whisky is a genuine D-year-old, away from the garage. I've got n hottled in bond whisky. We don't sell friend in the traffic department. Ile much of it. I had to go in the back promise to trace the car registration

for me. You're room to get it."

"Did she drive up 7"

frence number

"Yes" she said, "that number is "There was someone waiting for her in a car, She drove up with him." burned in my memory. There's no chance for me to have been mistaken.' "A man?" Milient asked. "Yeah, a man.

"Well," he told her, starting the "What kind of a car, was he driv- car, "we'll know in a little while."

"I'm so afraid," be told him, that can't tell you that wait a it will turn out to have been a stolen

can, too. They car. That

in the black minute, maybe. I transferred a suitcase from the back ermine coat has been such a sinister seat to a baggage compartment in shadow it seems almost impossible to the back, come to think of it. I guess think we could anally clothe her with it was a black sedan. It had a little a real flesh and blood identity.'"

His right hand dropped from thei compartment for baggage back of the

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