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JUNE 5, 1935.

SERIAL STORY-

The DARK BLOND

CHAPTER XXXVI

CARLETON KENDRAKE

there would be but little traffe behind the desk with world-weary through it and fow pedestrians.

bar

the man'a type, him haughtily and seo your register,

you

and cei her elbows on her knees, want ?»ort of a room would you

"I'll tell you when I see what you have vacant."

"By the day, week, or month 7" "That will depend."

ayes

Millicent knew Millicent stared at the man walking

With any sort of russounble luck, widenho

the Bho stared at down the corridor, her eyes

enough for seemed safe with startled comprehension as she moment. It was getting out of the said, "Let me

real plenne." recognised him.

building which presented the

He handed her the book and sho difficulty. Sho

She dared not return to For several secunds she did not the third floor, nor did she dare looked back through the pages un- realise that the unequal illumination

room of the corridor, made it, virtually to descend to the lobby. She was til she found the name under which

trapped between the floors and would she had registered and the impossible for him to see her. Only have to wait there until ome op-number that had been assigned to closed the register when he paused before the doorway portunity for escape presented itself. hor. Then sho of the apartment she had just left

suitcase over on and anld, "What rooms have did Millicent fully appreciate that She turned the

"What Richard Gentry was coming to the its side, used it as a seat, crossed vacant, please!"

tucked her skirt about ankles, apartment upon some errand, in can-

of them, nection with those stolen books account.

After some minutes she heard the Gentry paused at the door, started thud of feet as two men laboriously to fit a key into it, then, apparently climbed the ataira. One of them was

He handed her a chart. Millicent his talking and, while she could not catch changing his mind, he raised right hand, knocked twice, paused, what was sold, she recognised Dick saw that the room she wanted was knocked twice more, repeated these Gentry's voice, and could tell that he vacant, but she pointed to another room and said, "What's the price on two knocks after an interval, and was both angry and frightened.

The pair climbed up the stairs to this by the night?" then gave one last knock.

"A dollar seventy-five." the third Boor. She waited anxious- saw that holy, but did not hear them return. Millicent, watching,

She frowned, slid her finger down did not wait for an answer but, The shadows lengthened, a coolness

knock, following the

Immediately filed the air, Millicent felt cramped until it rested on the room she want- fitted a key to the door and entered and

"This room?" she asked. the apartment.

"That," he said, "will be $4.50." "I'll take it," she told him, opened

bill' across

the purse, olid a her counter, wrote in the register. "Miss "Will you Millicent Jones," and said, please, case?

It was at that moment that Milli- cent suddenly realised her predica- ment. Gentry was undoubtedly go: ing after those books. He would discover that they were missing and it would be but a matter of seconds until he dashed out to the corridor, aware of the theft of the suitcase books. containing those

precious Perhaps he would make for the ele vator hat it was far more likely that, in his haste to descend, he would dash down the corridor toward the sinirs.

and weary.

Had the two men remained in the apartment on the third floor or had they returned by way of the elevator? Sho had no means of knowing, and realised that she never could know without exposing herself to danger.

She picked up the suitcure pushed it through the window to the cor ridor, stood listening for a moment but heard nothing except the distant rumble of traffic and the pounding of her own pulse in ber ears,

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have a boy bring up my suit- MANILA and RETURN ....... He banged the palm of his hand down on a bell and yelled. "Front." A sleepy looking bellboy emerged from an elevator, sized Millicent up with insolent eyes, and picked up her Carrying the suitcase, she descended suitcase and the key which the clerk handed hiin. Millicent pocketed her the stairs. The lobby was deserted.

followed change,

the bellboy to her She crossed to the door, tugged it open and her heart gave n wild leap room, handed him a small tip, cloned as a cruising en driver, seeing her and locked the door and even look the the precaution of drawing the shindos.

"Millicent snatched up the sultenge and such was her excitement that she was entirely unconscious of its weight as she sped down the stairs. She struggling with the done and had started down the last flight lead-heavy suitenze, slid his car to the Then she went to the place where ing to the lower floor when she curb ant flashed her an inquiring she had concealed the notebook In

which she had written Drimgold suddenly realised that she would he glance.

his dictation. The

still notebook wOUS the Inkby, of the At her not he slammes on trapped between apartment house and the sidewalk. brakes, jumped across the intervening there.

Milleent took the notebook, dropped held back by the weight of the suit-stretch of sidewalk, picked up the

and said, "Where to Miss?" it into the suitense and faced herself suitense,

She had no particalarko Jarvis of valuable evidence in the case in

destination in the

the mirror. She now had every bit She dared

Pack ༢༠ She remembered the her possession. She had the short- lapp's busy hotel where she had notebook which had caused Bob

ense.

"It would be impassible for her to walk as much as a block with that heavy weight. There was, of course,

if he didn't entch her in the lobby.

#

not

in

handwriting which

a chance that some cruising cab would name of the cheap stop by and pick her up as soon 18 bad spent the night which followed Caise so much concern, the books of the account which had been stolen, the She gained the sidewalk, but there | Dringold's murder. She gave was a far greater chance that Richard cubby the name of the hotel, and note in Bob Calse's Gentry would overtake her at the curb added, "I'm in a hurry. Please make definitely linked him with the wanan

In the black ermine coat. R "fagt,

can." you

"What a

I would be," she prize The cab lurched into motion and

"Anyone who captured me There was no time to balance the Millicent, flashing a glaree back utmuttered.

world have every shred of probabilities. She had to think and the apartment house, saw a cabriolet now act fast. A window opened onto the swing around the corner and glide to evidence in the case."

Ber meditations were interrupted

of the telephone." fire escape and she lung the suitcase a stop at the curb.

She saw Bob Caise jump from by the ringing

Millicent stared at it with a feeling over the sill down to the steel-barred pintferm and follo sed i, almost the car clmost before it had come to

uf panic. The steady, insistent ring- to Ja stop, before the suitcase hod thudded

back settled Millicent

theing of that telephone bell seemed to grating

She had barely gained the platform cushions, too frightened to look back indicate that she had been discovered. Slowly she crossed to it and took And adjusted her skirts about her again, fearful that Bob Caise would

in pursuit.

the receiver from the hook. ankles when she heard the sound of see her and start

The voice which came over the wire staircase. The cab swung into a main artery feet thudding down the

said, "there's She turned toward the corridor and of traffic and Millicent, suddenly was that of the clerk at the desk. saw Richard Gentry dashing past, realising that she was a fugitive from "Miss Jones," he

leaned back in the corner of gentleman here to see you." justice, rapidly.

"I don't want to see him. I know running

in He shot past the window and she the cab so that her face would be in-

the city. There's curious no one otacers or traffic Lo heard the bang of his feel on the visible

mistaka lower stairway as he ran down toward pedestrians.

The cab rounded a corner to the "The gentleman," the clerk said, the lobby.

pulled

to the In close

curb,

"gave the bellboy a tip and is on his Millicent looked below her and saw left."

open, way up. I'm just letting you know." an alleyway, shaded and gloomy, piled The driver jerked the door

to the garbage cans, boxes, barrels, with packing cuses, and other bits carried her suitcase into the hotel receiver. Wondering what to do u rubbish. She felt certain that, She rewarded him with a generous she wondered, imperative knuckles

from while perhaps as occasional truck tip and met the cynical appraisal of pounded against the door.

(To Be Continued). might rumble through the alley-way, the clerk who stared at her

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famous inns in England. Originally screen. Supporting Miss Dove is one of the most brilliant enst: ever re-known as the White Hart, it goes vealed in n picture. It includes luck to the sixteenth century. Edward Everett Horton, Lois WBson,

"Mills of the Gods" Mary Duncan and Charles Starrett, Three supreme figures of screen, who plays opposite Miss Dove. Hor- "Mills of the Gods", the Columbia stage and vaudeville pre brought to ton is at his best, Miss Wilson and production having its final screen- gether in Fox Film's "The Little Miss Duncan have never given betterings to-day at the Queen's Theatre,

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and Starrett, a com performances,

TH a vivid, powerful unforgettable Theatre on Friday. They are Shirley parative newcomer, elevates himself drama of a oner great family shackled

Bill to the front rank of lending men by Temple, Lionel Harrymore, and Bill

own greed, arrogance and their pleasure-seeking enreers forced Robinson. Shirley Temple, the fore his work in this picture. be counted

fight to preserve their industrial em- Betress, can

"Casino Murder Case" most child

pire from the ravages of the depres among the miracles of movie history.

poignant Wit

Within six months, she bus scaled to

Allson Skipworth, whose interpreta-ion. It is the stardom and now tuaka among talent bos-offer stars. She is the tions of humerous and eccentric old errant heirs played by Fay Wray and women have added spice to many plc-James Blakely who each follows his

nud her own path to fame or dis first child actress to attain this hua- our, Tu-day this prodigy counts her tores, began her forty-fifth year as fans by the millions, Co-starting a stage and screen actress with just honour and are redeemed from their such a tolp in the new Metro-Goldwyn luxurious idleness by the determined with Shirley

Barrymore Mayer detective mystery, is Lionel

The Casino spirit of the woman who brought them

The President: The complaints have been brought to the notion of the actor, one whose presence lends dis-

Bill Robinson at the Queen's Theatre. In the new convincingly filled by that veteran

Honourable tho Director of Pubile May Robson of tinction to any role.

Philo Vance story from

of screen trouper pen of

fame. She is scen

Works. of course has a niche for himself as

Air Bellamy: Thank you. the originator of the iniritable stair S. S. Van Dine, Mies Sorth nort-"Lady for a Day"

of a in the greatest characterisation of her QUESTIONS BY MR. BELLAMY

a glorious career. Directed by Roy W.

AT SANITARY BOARD involved

Burial Request dance, which in the lant word in tap rays the eccentric

on which he family that

became

The Neill, Mills of the Gods" is a strange

The Board next dealt with an ap dancing. The stairs

in buffing poison death mystery. The Neil in

Questions relating used to dance on the stage were consequential beside the two elabor-perplexing series of erines are un tale of destinies and tender romanes

asked by Mr. L. C. F. body of Tsong Ho-shi in a place ate flights of fifteen and ten steps, ravelled by Paul Lukas in the role and included in its east are such not-melis at the western end of Repulse plication for permission to bury the

Bellamy the fortnightly meeting other than an authorised cemetery.

The President said the Board had on which he dances alone, and with of Philo Vance, with the assistance able players as Victor Jury and Ray-ne at t

om of Rosalind Russell, who as Doris mond Walburn, The picture is the from

moat dramatic entertain-of the Sanitary Board yesterday.

agreed to recommend to His Excel Sir. Bellamy, pursuant to notice, lency the Omeer Administering the

Government

b that permission Will the President please inform

Those present rie Department regarding offensivo Hon. Mr. R.

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Others in the cast of this under the direction of Edwin Mario. CHINESE ENTERPRISES the Board whether any complaints/Kranted for this of the voting, the

De Sylva production are Evelyn Ven-

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"Age for Love"

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The story of "Sorrell and Son" was

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WHEN AT HOME

smells at the western end of Repulse President), the Hop. Mr. N. L. Smith Bay, particularly during low water? Dr.

(Medical Officer o W. Pope If so, can the President state whether Health), Mr. L. 0, F. Bellamy, Dr C. J. Ros (Secre background of the English country BUDGET FOR CONSTRUCTION the cause of the nuisance has been Li Shu-fan, Mr. side. When Herbert Brenor made the

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Tho smoils omenato! replied: Yes. Jon trip the motion picture publie In "The there was a fortnight's location.

The total estimates for finan- from the septic tank,

Mr. Bellary: On whom does Age for Love," which opened at the to England, and shooting was carried!

the cing various economic enterprises Star Theatre yesterday. After more on at Midhurst and Marlow. For the

talklo, which is now

have liability for abatement of the nuisanco now showing at prepara- than a year of vacation and

and talented Miss King's Theatre, director Jack Ray-in ita next Onancial car tion, the charming Dove has been brought back to the moad selected a location in Worcester-been fixed by the Chinese Nationni rent?

with by the Public Works Do- sercon by Howard Hughes, the youthshire, the little old English village Economic Council at $6,000,000, The President: The matter in one The of Broadway. Set in the heart of the which reprosents only half of the partment, and the Honourable the of "Hell's Angels;" ful produce and other superior pic Cotswold Hills, Broadway in typical total amount appropriated during Front Page

the English hamlet at its most the previous year. which at

of brilliant vehicl tures, in a

picturesque, much of it dating back

The reason given is that all the last justifice her great beauty and ability. Hailed heretofore as "the to the fourteenth contury "Shoot- most beautiful woman on the screen," Ing" proceeded in the High Street, major economic enterprises, which IRK-Dove, in "The Age for Love," down which, in the days of Charles were started in this financial a United Artists release, proves sho Dickens, stage coaches used to rumble year, would require less for their is a great actress as well. She is on their way from Landen to Worces-maintenance and development, positiva revelation, and by her per-ter, Half-way down the High Street Central News Agency.

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