, 1935-03-24
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MTLLIcENT GRAVES employer,
GEORGE DRIMGOLD. tells her he
has . confession 10 dictate q
warns her against q woman I'm q
black ermine coat.
MIIIIeent leaves the onics a
sees such q woman. Later shs
nnds her purse has been taken
and q similar one substituted I'm
the elevator h meets . distin-
EuIahed-Iooking man off Middle
age.
Iieent ands DrimgoId deaa. In
panic she ruahes away and reg
isters at . hotel under IN as
numed name. Ven dny n meets
the again. he tells her
his name im JARVIS HAPP. Anpp
sends her GO q beauty shop where.
I'm spite of her protests. che u
transformed tnto a bruneL
Happ takes her home, t~ntrodne-
InE her m his secretary. ROBERT
CAIsE. HapD's stepson, accuses
MIliicens os being the girl souEht
In the Drtmgold murder.
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CHAPTER VIII
INTELLIGENT knew there was no
HA use denying Robert Caise'S no
cusation that she was the girl the
police we're looking for. In the first
place the Photographic evidence
q damning In the second place
she realized that TO question the
conclusions he had reached would
simply make him more difficult TO
handla So she stared steadily at
him and said. well. what are you
going to do about IT."
He started to say something. then
paused az he heard the rattle Of the
door knob
Nothing" he said sit tight
He turned and was. apparently.
Just leaving the room as Jarvis
Happ and Dick Gentry entered
Just getting some stuf." be said.
keeping his eyes averted from those
Of Jarvis Happ. Hope I'm not In.
trudingf"
mot az ALL" Jarvis Happ said.
but Millicent noticed there was
something about his voice that was
not entirely cordial "a certain
harshly strained note OF suspicion
When she glanced Ct his face. how
ever. she was able TO Q nothing
in his eyes. His face was q perfect
mask.
He indicated a small table.
Il think" he said. you'd better
SIT there for the present, Mise
GRADES Tomorrow I'll purchase q
s~ecretarial desk and have IL sent
up here Then you can get az
things in a businessliks way
She seated herself and the two
men liz cigars. Jarvis Happ went
on talking in his smoothly eloquent
voice-a voice which seemed 80 Ger.
tain Of itself. 90 soothing 10 tired
eardrumA
Dick and T." be said. each put
In $4,000 an capital and started
specializing In stocks. ! may az
wen confess to you that We were
selling stocks short I see nothing
whatever wrong with that type OF
business transaction. However. OF
late there has been d certain public
sentiment against #
when one realizes that CON-
rodities are going down. there Ia
no sane reason why be shouldn't
capitalize upon that knowledge
Moreover, were It not for the 90
called short sales. the market
would soon pyramid itself up 70
such O trenEied peak Of hysteria
that when q crash came. rs It would
be- bound TO do sooner or later, the
entire investment structure OF the
country would be Jared 10 its
foundations
However. the fact remains that
our speculations were very profit
abba Dick has been handling the
business end OF the ventura We've
taken q great deal OF money out,
and there's still q large amount
IN u~ndistributed profts Some Of
this We have put into q manufac
turing business which has been one
OF the few manufacturing bust.
nesses to show O profit during the
present period. I telephoned Dick
this evening and asked him 10
bring all of the books and data
which 10 has and turn them over