The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-05-10
SYNOPSIS

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 MILLICENT GRAVES, secre- tary to GEORGE DRIMGOLD, finds her employer in his office dead. JARVIS HAPP, astranger, offers to help her. He sends her to Q beauty shop where she is transformed into Q brunei, then takes her home, introducing her as his secretary. She meets MRS HAPP; Happ's son, NORMAN; his stepson, ROBERT CAISE; Happ's partner, DICK GENTRY; VERA DUCHENE, Mrs Happ's maid.
 In Happ's home Millicent sees the mysterious s'woman in black ermine" whom she believes has some connection with Drimgold's death.
 The chauffeur is found dead. Later Hap pis Kidnapped.
 Millicent and Norman learn car driven by the woman in er- mine belong to PHYLLIS FAOL- CONER. They go to her apart ment. Norman enters first. When he does not return Millicent fol- lows. The place is in wild dis order and Norman is not in sight.
 Millicent escapes. She goes to the nearby garage where DE- TECTIVE BUCHANAN accuses her of being Phyllis Faulconer. SERGEANT MAHONEY arrives and takes Millicent away. She tells him all that has happened.
 H<, -s.x Ns fvx Hnv ger, asks If she will help try to save him. Milicent agrees eager ly.
 CHAPTER xLvII
 Sergeant Mahoney stopped the car in front of the apartment house. T have been thinking" he said, about Gentry. You say that he tried a key to apartment 309 and 1t wouldn't work?"
 That's right"
 Then until he got to apart ment 3O9 he must have thought the key was going to work"
 "Yes. Why?"
 Tn that event." he said, The must have used the key to get into the apartment house. In other words, he must have opened the outer door with that key"
 She stared at him, her forehead showing lines of bewilderment.
 Tn other words" Mahoney said, someone gave Gentry a key to apartment 309. That someone had another apartment in the house and must have given Gentry the key to that apartment instead of apartment 309. Both keys would open the door of the apartment house itself. The peculiar knocks were merely a signal so the con- spirator's couldnn't be surprised by anyone with a pass-key.
 of his remarks. Good heavens, yes! And perhaps that other apartment is where ."
 Exactly" he interrupted. ''Now that apartment must be on the third floor. Norman was carried from apartment 309. He would never have left it voluntarily. They would hardly haveN taken him up or downstairs"
 Sergeant Mahoney stepped from the car, rang the bell of the apartment marked, MANAGER At the third ring a speaking tube whistled. A woman's voice said, "If this is a tenant who's for gotten g key. I'll open the door, If its someone who wants an apartment, come back at a decent hour"
 "It's the police" Sergeant Mahoney said. "Open the door and meet us In the corridor with a pass-key."
 4 moment later the door buzzed open. Sergeant Mahoney pushed his way into the apartment house. Millicent saw a big, blond woman with a white, frightened face. hugging a kimona about herself.
 Sergeant Mahoney showed her his badge. "Giye me a pass-key." he said.
 She handed him the pass-key, Sergeant Mahoney escorted Mil licent to the elevator, slid back the door of the cage. pressed the button for the third floor.
 ''When you get to that floor, " he said, "get out and run up and down the corridor screaming, Norman, where are your After that, no matter what happens. act naturally = that 1t. be frightened Don't let on that you know the police have the place surrounded