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CHAPTER XL

KENDRAKE

of

ran around the corner and parked at clasped in their hands. She could the curb.

almost hear the sounds of thudding Norman said, "I'm not going to "This okay, Miss ?" asked the blows, of Norman'e futile struggies, expose you to the danger of going to driver. the apartment, Millicent. It makes no difference what you may say, this is once I'm going to keep you out of danger."

"Please," she told him, placing her hand on his arm, "please, Norman Let me go with you. If there's let's face it together." "No," he said. "You've had more than your share.

He signalled a cab and gave address of the apartment house.

Millicent pleaded with him, to

in firm avail. He remained decision.

the

no

his

When they had arrived at the apartment house he gave the cab driver $2, told him to drive Millicent around the corner, park the cab and svaft.

"But, Norman," she said, "please let me go with you. I'll feel ever so much anfer.

"No, you're going to stay here That's' nettled."

Then promise mu you won't take any chances. Don't go in the park ment. Stay in the hallway."

Sho

resolutely determined to banish "I would prefer you to wait at the front of the apartment house," sho such things from her mind. After all, told him.

worrying would not help any, and "But these were my instructions Norman might have been placed in and a driver doosn't argue with in- such a position that he needed time structions that are backed up with to force the truth from this women's

in good hard money."

lips

"Suppose we should run back to He hesitated moment, then pulled down the flag in the muster and said, the apartment house. Mise 1" the 'I'm

going to give your boy friend a cab driver inquired. "I don't like to break. It'd probably be a while bo run up a lot of waiting time if your foro I got another fare anyway, so friend doesn't want the cab him waiting more." to charge not going

10 minutes. time if he isn't over After that I'll have to make a charge." "He won't be over 10 minutes," Millicent asserted. "It shouldn't take him much over five."

She glanced at her wrist watch, and

nny

Millicent looked at her watch. It

had been 22 minutes since Norman had entered the apartment.

"Yes," she said. "Go back to the apartment house."

The cab driver turned the car in visioned Norman's progress in her the infiddle of the block, rounded the corner, and drew her up in front of the apartment house.

mind.

He should now be leaving the eleva tor at the third floor. He would walk down the corridor, knock on the door of Apartment 309. Then what would happen? Would the woman come to the door? Would she talk with him? Would she resent his

"You going in?" be inquired.

"Yes," Millicent said, "I'm going

in."

Sho climbed from the cab and question? pushed her finger against the button would he be able to get any infor- opposite the name of one of the ten-

He laughed reassuringly. "There's Just lone woman there," he pointed ou out, and I want to ask her some mation from her? Would he enter ants, a naine which she had selected questions. She may answer them and the apartment and, if so, would he at random.

Nothing happened, Impatiently sho she may not, but she certainly isn't take precautions to make curtain there going to harm me. She can't slice were no other persons in the apart-jabbed the button below that and, after a moment, the speaking tube at The off my head with a meat cleaver or

enb driver settled down behind her car gave a shrill whistle and n pitch me out of the window or

the wheel, his manner that, of one voice said, "Who is it?" "Please.

Norman!" she protested.

who must, of necessity, spend a great deal of his time waiting. A matter

ment?

Millicent had thought of no answer. She had not anticipated such a situu-

Ho pinched her, arin and said, "Don't be n gnose, Millicent. You've been in 10 times as much danger asof 10 minutes meant virtually noth-tion,

I could possibly encounter in going to ing to him, this apartment."

"But there might be someone cla

But it seemed to Millicent that the minutes were an interminable length She watched the minute of time.

crawling

"Millicent Jones," she said. "Millicent Jones?" the voice usired, "Yes, Millicent,"

"I don't seem to place you." "Oh

open the door," Millicent and impatiently.

There was a moment of silence and

"If there is," he told her, "it will be Bob Caise or Dick Gentry, und if hand of her wrist watch either of those birds tries to get rough slowly around the dial. She then the buzzer on the door unde with me I wouldn't want anything schooled herself to bellove that Nor- betler

thean to give them a punch in man would return within 10 minutes, sharp sound. Millicent pushed tho

and so it gave her a distinct shock when the 10 minutes had passed and Nornian had not returned.

When 15 minutes elapsed Millicent The cab felt something akin to panic.

door open, crossed the lobby of the apartment house with quick, nervous steps

"Bui, Norman, they may be armed, If they're mixed in this thing they're desperate, and

"Oh, boshl" he told her. "I can take care of myself. Don't worry driver turned to her, grinned in a about that. What's bathering ine is friendly manner and said, "Well, dow

friend will be out pretty the idea of leaving you here alone. Ruess

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"Yes," she said. "Think he's going to be in a hurry?"

"He may be,"

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She pressed the batton which sum- moned the automatic clevator and waited impatiently while it rattled down the long shaft. She entered it. jabbed the button for the third floor, und, when the cage came to a stop, almost ran down the corridor toward The cab driver turned and regarded)

the door of Apartment 309.

She had no definite plan in find.. them curiously. Norman flashed her

She knew, of course, that if Norman a warning glonce, turned abrupily

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, hnd "Well, I'll have the motor running would doubtless encounter that same

encountered from the cab and walked to the apart

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SCIENTIST, HONGKONG ment house entrance. She watched and be ready to go," the driver told him with eyes that were Alled with her. "I have to start my meter danger, but she had undergone such

Kobe, June 8.

"God the only cause and crea- mental agony waiting in the taxicab anxiety, saw him press several of going on waiting time though."

Mr. Ariyoshi, the Japanese tor" was the subject of the Lesson that no danger could be half as terrify- the buttons opposite different namon, He started the motor and the meter, ing

Ambassador to China' (who Is Sermon in all Churches of Christ, and noted with some measure of re-and Micent, feeling as though she llef that ho had not given Phyllis had lost her last friend, fought chest of the apartment and received no an-fore setting sail for Shanghai) and

She pounded frantically on the door staying here for a brief period be-Scientist yesterday.

The Golden Text was, "Known Faulconer warning of his visit by ring the panic which surged up within her swer. She triest the knob of the door fir. Chiang 180 Pen, Chinose unto Gold are all his works from ing her bell. That would give him Previously she had the advantage of taking her by sur going down the corridor big, depend. is a desperate attempt to secure en-Ambassador to Japan, were among the beginning of the world." (Asta prise, and Millicent was grateful that able, aggressive and formidable. She trance,

To her surprise the door was un-

a large gathering of Japanese 15:18).

Among the citations which com- the leashed, the spring lock being adjusted and Chinese representing the in- of the apartment, She saw him press against the door situation. Now her mind tortured unlatched the door.

two nations hore yesterday. Be the following from the Bible: "O with his right hand, heard a faint her with mental visions of Norman

Without thinking of any possible fore an exchange of views on the the depth of the riches both of the buzz and saw the door open. He in danger, being invited into the turned to give her a reassuring wave apartment by some woman whose danger to herself, she pushed open Sino-Japanese economic co-opera- wisdom and knowledge of God! of his hand and then entered the smiling eyes masked a sinister pur-the door of the room, rushed into the tion issues took place, Mr: how unsearchable are his judg-

Ariyoshi delivered apartment house.

pose, She pictured men concealed unlighted interior of the apartment.

speechments, and his ways past finding The cab slid smoothly into motion,|behind chairs and doors, wosponal (To Be Continued).

emphasising the importance of out! For who hath known the Sino-Japanese co-operation in the mind of the Lord? or who hath economic field in the interest of been his counsellor? For of him, full chorus of beautiful English to making screen history. They in- stabilising peace in the Far East and through him, and to him, are

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In response Mr. Chang Teo Penal thing: to whom be glory for "The Girl from Maxima" is without beauty who scored in "Society Doctor"

ever. Amen." (Rom. 11:33,34,86); doubt another of Alexander Korda's and "Shadow of Doubt"; Robert Tay said that Sino-Japanese rap-

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