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The DARK BLOND

Á CARLETON Kendrake

CHAPTER XLVI Detective Buchanan asked, "Is this

the Janot".

Johansen's eyos, which had riveted themselves on Millicent, said, "You bet that's the Jane. She ran like a deer when I fell for the lino ahe handed me. You sure showed 'brains

Faulconer 7"

surprise.

•

Lones,

There was that, in his voice which brooked no argument. Buchanan un- locked the handcuffs.

"Come with me," Sergeant Mahoney said to Millicent.

1985.

From the beginning?" she in- quired.

Sergeant Mahoney read the note "you're entitled to have a lawyer res anything. Perhaps allence would be through. His face showed distinct present you. You don't need to any best for you, but I'd like to have you "Good heavens)" he exclaimed. Bachanan smirked. "So you see, tell me about,"

I know what I'm doing." Sergeant,

From the beginning," he told her. Sergeant Mahoney said, in crisp,

do it?" "Very

you want Rood, "Do you

Sho faced him unflinchingly. in putting the bracelets on her. She's authoritative got the smoothest line of any erook Buchanan. You're to be commended

upor your zeal. Take off the hand-"Sergeant," she said, "I'm going to

tell you everything." I've tackled in a year."

His hand reached out and closed that

Phyllia

cuffs." Buchanan naked.

upon the back of hers. "Good girl," he said. I can give you a break "You bet that's Phyllis Faulconer,

I'll do it." She was in the apartment and she

She started talking in a low 89110- admitted to me she was there when the fighting was going on. I telo The garage attendant appeared in tone, told him everything, sparing no phoned headquarters when she made the doorway. "Was you interested in detail, beginning with the time Drim-

the own

owner of that sedan, or just in gold had told her he was going to a break."

"Yes," Buchanan said. "I tele-

of Detective first meeting with the woman in the he asked in and they told me you'd the person that was coming to look dictate a confession, including her

it over?" phoned

black ermine cont, about the murder, She even told and her sudden reported trouble in that apartment Buchanan,

panic. "Never figured you'd better come around

you mind what I'm Inter-

about encountering Jarvis C. exted in," Buchanan asserted bel-him to make positive identification."

"You keep your place flapp in the building. ligerently "She was handing you. n line?

Sergeant Mahoney waited, until she Buchanan asked.

and do what you're told."

"Okay," the attendant said in a had finished. Then he asked a few hored voice.

"I just thought I'd let questions, bringing out parts of her Millicent eat sporchlers. There was you know that while you was sitting story which he desired to have made

more clear. nathing she could say. She was trapped in the web of her own in-up here smoking the Faulconer wo-

man came in and got her car."

Buchanan exclaimed, "What!" prirpinating statements to Johansen, iter equally incriminating fight.

Jumping to his feet. "What the devil do you mean by not letting me know?"

"I say she was handing me a

liac"

A siren sounded outside the door. "Well," Buchanan remarked, shak- ing ashes from his cigar, "that will wagon from headquarters. be the Come on, sister. Here we go."

louder. Tires The siren

Krew screamed on the turn and then red rondster skidded into the garage and aid to a stop.

Sergeant Mahoney jumped from the car, banged open the door of the office, Looked at Buchanan, then at Milli-

Cent.

Unsnap there handcuffs," he said. Buchanan's face turned a dull red.

"I didn't know it myself," the at- tendant said, "until I saw her going She must have worked out the door,

the the elevator herself. It was Faulconer sedan all right"

Sergeant Maloney looked necusing-I ly at Buchanan. "Why sil in the sinoke, Detective?" he office and asked.

"I wanted to be near the tele-i phone."

"So I see."

"Norman went to tirat apartment?" Sergeant Mahoney asked."

"Yes,"

"Do you love him very much, Mil-

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cent

"I love him more than I love life." "Suppose I should tell you that he in in great danger? Would you be willing to do anything you could to

Anything," she said.

"I want to bait a trap," he told

low can I help you

"Will you help me?".

7"

His eyes stared steadily into hers. "You," he said, "are to be the bait. I want you to go to that apartment house. I want you

to knock on the various apartments and start asking questions,"

"But," she pointed out, "the, apart- No one is there they won't come back after the

have been there."

"Listen, Sergeant, she's a killer and Buchanan advanced threateningly dours of the vari she's desperate. She's Phyllis Foul-toward the garage man. "I've a

i trapped her when notion to run you h," he said, "forment is vacant now. all right. concr she

came to the car." "Unsnap the handcuffs," Sergeant Mahoney said.

in the secon."

Phyllis

not. letting me know."

"Baloney," the man said. "I did'

it.

"I don't like to ree want you told me to. You didn't can "But," he told her, "Norman didn't

You wanted mus to her handcuffed in the first pince, and fide in me none.

place I don't think she's

keep my place and I'm keeping in leave tant apartment house, They could hardly have carried him out woman all "She's the Faulconer

Sergeant Mahoney said to Buchanand he wouldn't have left voluntarily sen said. “I came on an, “Get on right." Johansen said.

her tral Telephone without having joined you in the enb." "Then you think he's somewhere headquarters. Have all ratio ents

որոrtinent her in the apartment.

House 7 Sergeant Mahoney Bashed Millicent notified to be on the watch. We went in quick questioning glance,

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her

that women."

To allieent he said, “Come with me."

"I'm virtunily certain of it

And you believe my story?" He nodded solemnly. "Yes."

he

snid, "I'm not Phyllis "No," she was looking for Phyllis Faulconer. I was Faulconer. Norman Happ went to He took her from the cflice, escorted said. "I'm going to have my men ga Bit disappeared her to his car, turned around in the around to the hotel and pick up the apartment

the street, suitense and your notebook with Brins- There had been a fight and I tried garage, drove out to to trail him. This man pounded on swung around the corner, pulled the gal's confession as he had dictated The door of the apartment and com- ear in to the curb, situt off the motor, plained of the wolse. I didn't know turned to her with a peculiar expres who he was. I wanted to get away. sign on his face. I didn't tell him I was Phyllis Faul coner, but he assumed I was the one who rented the apartment. I just tried to stall him niong, and, when I found out he was an officer and was going to investigate, I ran away."

Buchanan thrust the note he had taken from Millicent's purse into Ser- geant Mahoney's hand.

"Rend that," he said.

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"So," he said slowly, "you're the Murder Girl."

She know she could not deceive him further. "Yes," she said, "I'm the Murder Cirl."

"And Bob Caise knows it?" "YER"

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"What are you going to do?" "Well," he said, "I'm going to be in charge of the squad of men who will surround that apartment house. I'm going to send you in there-per- haps to your death. At any rate, into great danger, but it's the only so way to save. Norman."

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(To Be Continued).

Hopton, Joan Wheeler and Pauline stery drama in "The Case of True. Archie Mayo directed.

the

has been

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played the elegant gently criminal lawyer and

the

Howling Dog." It is not the usual The Mighty Barnum" murder story-where murderer... nuti The wreeking of Barum's American Durderers are tracked down by the Musem during the lining of Darryl police or some super-detective. The Zanuck's 20th Century production savings are unique et.ough. In fact, unusual and complicated of "The Mighty Barnum held no ter they are so

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it presented a pros

of slaying her husband, who comedy to heavy tragedy on the stage, King's Theatre,

in pic- "type" but who has become

nightmarish pest fraught with tures through his very sal van ach

im- bilities. Por

For Berry has been through had eloped with another woman, that numerous free-for-alls in the course he crime is solved by the famous personation of "Little

first setin-comedy star of his screen curves. But Menjau has criminal lawyer who is defending the

woman. Warren

William' does ers in his

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Director she portrays the charneter with exhibits. the every character actor. Robinson Jose nuong

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the over-bearing and Jean Arthur, Arthur Hohl, John and satisfactory 'opera scenes in Mitchell *

the films than those presented in 'vindictive district attorney are both

His Excellency and Lady Southorn, Wray, Ettienne Girardot and others Paramount's deft comedy-drama, "En-xcellent in their rules. Oihers in the around the fringes of the law in par- delin Ford directed from a serven pluyter Madame," which opened at the least who de unusually fine work in Jean Arthur, in the role of his private drove in Fanling Lodge where they suing his questionable practices, necompanied by the personal staff, hy do Swerling and Robert-skin.

night. Without for the interpretation of their characters secretary, berates him for his defence will spend the week-and. Stor Theatre inst

Tyler. of "Desirable"

seemingly guilty criminals. George Brent, who plays the rule of a moment impeding the speed and are Helen Lowell, her ch

evidence of a pare of the delightful picture, or de- Arthur Aylesworth, Russell Hicks, Secretly she digs up which comes to the Alhambra Theatre moments, Faramay inspired comic Frank Reicher and Addison Richards. I kidnapper, only to find that love pre-

tracting from its man-about-town of "Desirable,"

vents her from raising a hand toward reform of the brilliant attorney. It's the Miss Arthur's finest dramatic role

since she quit the Broadway stage. for Hollywood.

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In the Columbia production having its |

"The Great, Hotel Murder' the Brent pursestrings and sees that fact, "Enter Madame" is two shows, every penny goes where it is likely to an opern concert within a superb Drake, Patricia Caron and Geneva

dyl Queen's Theatre, n comedyl

are Allyn They

When Edmund Lowe started his du the most good. George hasn't ever

ever Bisa Landi and Cary Grant are been the spendthrift that every actor in the Tending roles, but the flim has Mitchell, all new contract players who latest pleture, "The Great Hotel Mur is supposed to be, but he has been wondering where his money has hon such a wealth of delightful characteri- | are acen as, outer office employees in der," which comes. next Thursday to going these many years. Now he'll zation that only bare mention can be the law office of "Matt Mitchell", sen- tlie King's Theatre, he celebrated his given to other members of the cast sationally successful criminal lawyer, eleventh year with Fox Filme. Oddly same technical crow, know the answers. The Brent income

lovely Jean Arthur, flott's leading wo- which includes the cameraman, assist is turned over directly to the bual who help to make it complete and played by Jack Holt. There's also he has h

тал: Shirley Grey, Arthur Hohl, ant director, grip and property men, ness manager who disburses it in distinctive entertainment.

"The Case of the Howling Dog" the

Sarak Padden, Nat Pendleton: Donald he had in his first Fox picture faithful allotments through various channels provided in the. bud- Spectators at the Alhambra Then- Meok and Ward Bond to

drams-popular belief. bo and Victor Me but he is kept within bounds on he penso as thrill piled on thrill in the tie portrayals he has ever given. Englen, who is also co-featured with personal expenditures. "Desirable" is Warner Bros. pleture "The Case of the Briefly the story of "The Defense him in "The Great Hotel Murder" a dynamle drama by Mary McCall, Jr. Howling Dog, which was shown on Rests" concerns Matt Mitchell who is have only appeared in eight pictures was "What Jean Muir heads the all-star cast the screen for the first time locally a ruthless defender of any who have together. Their first which includes Verrae Teasdalo, John yesterday. Warner Bros. have given the necessary large foes. He is Price Glory" which catablished them Halliday, Charlos Starrett, Russell the screen an entirely different my-publicity-scoking and cloverly skips as a screen team,

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