The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-01
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SYNOPSIS
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||M NW HINffkAnEl OItlmANOIlUs
 Ends her employer in his office
 Ucnd. In panic she rusbes away
 1ilQ registers at z hotel under am
 anNnmled name.
 JARVIS HAPP, distinguished
 Hooking stranger, recognizes Mil-
 ficent and offers to help her. He
 sends her Co Q beauty parlOr
 where she is transformed into .
 brunei. Happ fakes her home,
 Introducing her as his secretary.
 Ilie son, NORMAN HAPP, warns
 NltiliccDt against his stepbrOther
 kOBkelsT CAIS1c, and tells her a
 mysterious woman in black ere
 luilic' las some power over his
 9tepnsOtiacP.
 MfiIIlccnt falls asleep. A noise
 Wmlkems Der. and she finds a note
 aimfIer her door reading, ''I'lle
 seOnlnn in black erSnInc is herc,"
 1gfIIicenf dresses, secs the wO-
 rlinti inb lack drive away i'm see
 dan.
 MIIIIccnt. the garage, hears
 a noise and the electric lights
 Hash on.
 CHAPTER XIII
 MIllicent, holding herself fiat against the floor board of the auto sD0bile, trying to make herself ai nearly invisible as possible, held her breath and listened.
 4 She heard someone moving about. heard the sound of start ing motor whirring into throbbinR life. Then q car swept out in a streak of fast motion. She heard the clash of gears as someone shifted hurriediy from reverse to low, then the roar of the motor and the car swept on down the driveway.
 Lights were still on in the ga- rage, but Milliccnt took chance on discovery to find out who had taken out that car.
 She jumped to the cement floor or the garage, ran to the door and looked down the driveway.
 A cabriolet, very racy and stylish, which had been in the ga- xage and which she had intuitively placed as belonging to Norman Happ, was gliding smoothly down the driveway. As 1t turned into the street MilIicent noticed that 1t was running without lights.
 Evidently someone else had de- hided to follow the woman in the black ermine coat.
 Millicent ran to the two remain sng cars q big sedan and a coupe, There were ignition keys in the coupe, and she jumped be- hind the wheel, turned the switch and pressed the starter. The mo- tor throbbed to life.
 So nervous with excitemen that her hands were. trembling, Miliicent backed the car out of the garage, put it in gear and raced out of the driveway.
 After she hit the street she ran for several blocks without lights, trying to keep the cabriolet ahead of her in view, but she was unable to do so and finally switched on the lights.
 With the headlights she was able to pick up the speeding cab- .riolet. Occasionally the tail light refiected red gleam, or her head lights glittered back in dazzling briiliance from the windshield. Once or twice she glimpsed the big sedan ahead, which the cab xioiet was undoubtedly following.
 The cars were travelling at high speed and Mfllicent was forced to aise all of her skill as driver to keep in the procession. She won- dered if the driver of the cabriolet suspected that she was following him, wondered if that driver were, perhaps, Norman Happ. With the Thought she felt once more that Strange pounding of the pulse in her temple, a sudden surge of emotion which seemed to choke ap her blood stream.
 Whether he knew he was being bursued or not, the driver of the eabriolet did not deyiate from his eourse.
 Suddenly Miilicent caught her breath with a gasp of apprehen- sion,
 flied, coughed to life again. ran smoothly. then missed and
 She depressed the throttle and got no results. She pulled out the choke and, for a moment, the car responded. Then once more 1t flied. Her eyes rested apprehen- SiVAly on the gasoline gauge. It bI1owed that the tank was empty. The car was barely moving now, and Millicent kicked out the clutch and piloted the car into the curb. The big sedan and the epeeding cabriolet had swept on put of sight. Millicent was so mad she could have cried with sheer anger. The adea of leaving a car in a garage with an empty gasoline tank-of Ill the fool things for a person 70 do .! She supposed that would be Robert Caise, brilliant, Irresponsible, fiighty. She looked mt the registration certificate and Hound her surmise had been right. nhe car was registered in the name of Robert Caise.
 MiIlicent found herself thinking that Norman Happ never would have done anything like that. Nor- man Happ had a sense of respon- nlbility. His car would have been klled with gas, oil and water. The tires would have been in perfect condition but the ignition key wouldn't have been in the lock. The very break that gave her an opportunity to use the car in the connected with her inability to Accomplish anything with it after She had borrowed it.
 Millicent switched off the lights, hesitated a moment, then locked the car and slipped the key con- kainer into the pocket of her fur coat.
 It was q leather key container and there were seven or eight keys on it.
 well" she said to herself, "I bresume I've got to get back, and T guess there's no way for me to fEl ADDER FANNY SAWS.