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SERIAL STORY-

30,

1935.

The DARK BLOND

& CARLETON KENDRAKE

spare tire. I remember the man was steering wheel to grasp hers with a transferring this suitcase from the reassuring clasp. inside of the sedan to the baggage compartment while she was getting cur the whisky."

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

CHAPTER XXXI Norman Happ emerged from the sixth retail liquor store he had covered, Millicent looked at his face, knew that

bad ĪÇ

discovered something. "You've found it?" she asked when he had approached the car.

"I think so," he told her. "This

3 o'clock in the|ing 7" place in open until morning. A little after two woman bought a pint bottle of whisky and demanded that particular brand."

"A woman!" Sillicent exclaimed.

"raid. he

"What did she look like?"

I want you to come in and talk with the min." Norman anid. "You'd be more apt to get the stuff we want

in B

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

small hat that "Some kind of a didn't have any brim. Tho ermine coat had a big collar and she kept the collar turned up. There wasn't any brim on the hat, so the collar fitted right up close around her hend." "But you're sure you anw her face 7 "Sure I did. I looked right at

He pulled the car in close to the

Is this where your friend lives?" she 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."

Ho 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 heart as she watched the duor for him tu reappear,

Suddenly she saw him come out, walking so rapidly that he seemed

IL. alniost to run.

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"We've got it!" he called when he Millicent told him, was still some 16 feet from the car. | HONGKONG TO:—

of was that

one smiling,

I was wondering if "We've got the naine and address of Jin Manaer

you'd t

u'd be able to recognize struggling against tenso excitement and Millicent said, "Look here, you've Lograph of her." found out something alrendy,"

He

nodded.

"What is it?"

"Just this," he said, "She wore a lock ermine

coat. Millicent

acrambled out of the car quivering, she asked, "was it, the with nervous tension Honestly," woman in the black ermine cont "

Stendy

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

Millicent felt his hand on her elbow steadying her as she crossed the side- walk and entered the swinging door

retail liquor store.

of

A man well

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it was n good picture I think I could. Sometimes you see a woman dressed

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 spot it all right."

"What colour was her hat?" "Black I think, but I can't be sure." "What colour was her hair?" "It was covered up pretty well by the hat..

I don't know whether it was black or not. She bad the kind of skin that goes with a blond-sort of smooth and white, except for the cheeks, and her lips were real red.'

"I think we'll get a photograph," Millicent tolt hian and come back. You can look at that and tell us if it's the same woman."

well past middle age, with a white mustache, surveyed her with tired, expressionless eyes.

"We want to talk with you a little more about that whisky sale," Nor- "I can

nan nak. 1117613

man

The

surveyed the bottles counter with a atacked upon his critical eye, picked up one of them, held it to the light, fusted it with n cinth and nodded.

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

"Oh, yea."

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

"No, ma'am. Jut why all the excitement? You aren't a detective. are you

CAD."

can try anyway. Come again It's a pleasure to Anytime, ma'am. help you any way

Norman Happ piloted Millicent from the store and, as they crossed the sidewalk, said, "That's the reason I wanted you to talk with him.

pretty face could see that he fell for

he was getting anet

gure, and

surty about

my ques tions-acted as though he thought I was trying to make trouble for the woman in the black ermine coat.'

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

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"What?" he asked,

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"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 "Mercy, no." she said. "Just try-positively identify her." ing to get some information."

He nodded, rearranged some of the bottles on the counter, said wearily, "What information!"

"Was she young okl?"

"You figured on bringing back n photograph?" he asked,

"Whose 7"

Millicent said crisply. Duchene's, of course,"

the woman who owns that car!"

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

He looked at her. "Ma'am. d'know. I'm 68 myself and to me wo men divide themselves into three! classes. There's the young ones that are full of giggles and awkwardness. She was about to step into the Then there's the umooth, pretty ones car when her attention was caught that range anywhere from 20 to 50. by some object which reflected the And then there's the women that don't sun's rays. She paused to Btarc care anything about being beautiful, down into the gutter. A moment and look about my age. I know

and some

reached

they're 60 of them are beautiful when how one Inter she gave a startled ery and

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forward. Jer hand some look old when they're 40, but toward a small triangular piece of to man who's lived as long as

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"What is it?" long as a woman's smooth and pretty she's young and I can't

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of

"Well, perhaps I could tell that. that was stolen from my room!" This woman wasn't 20. Probably she He took it from her, turned it over was around 30, but I can't tell. She in his fingers, studying it. was one of smouth kind."

"Did she smile?"

"Yes, she knew

of the

knew how

to

lo

Come on," he told her, "jump in, We're getting hot on the scent. I us her know one other clue we're going amile. I remember the had me grin have in a few minutes." ning and cutting capers around the store, trying to get her service. She

said she WAS.

"What is it?"

person The name of the

who

in a hurry, That brand owns the automobile you saw driving nt whink is n genuine D-year-old, away from the garage. I've got s bottled in bond whisky. We don't sell friend in the traille department. He much of it. I had to go in the back promised to trace the car registration

room to get il"

"Did she drive up?"

"There was someone waiting for her in a car. She drove up with him."

"A man?" Millicent asked. "Yeah, a man."

"What kind of a car was he driv

ing

for me. You're sure you got the licence, she said, that number is

number right ?"

There's no turned in my memory. chance for me to have been mistuken."

"Well,"

enr, "we'll know in a little.

he told her, the

entr

so afraid," she told him, "that can't tell you that-walt it will turn out to have been a stolen the black minute, maybe I can, too. They car. That

woman in transferred a suitcase from the back ermine cout has been such a sinister sent to a baggage compartment in shadow it seems almost impossible to the back, come to think of it. I guess think we could finally clothe her with It was a black sedan. It had a little a real stesh and blood identity." compartment for baggage back of the

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