The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-12

he was tapping i, up like cat tapping up cream.' Vera Duchene smiled sweetly and said, Thank you, my dear. You haven't seen anything yet" With that she stepped into the corridor, banging the door behind her.
 Millicent stared at the door feeling suddenly as though life had betrayed her into series of cir cumstances with which she was powerless to cope. All of her trou- bles were due to the woman in the black ermine who had tricked her into an appearance of guilt in the Drimgold murder case. However, she resolved that she would go directly to Jarvis Happ and mako q complete statement of her case to him, and then do what ever he suggested.
 Her chin in the air, she left her room, walked down the corridor to the door of Jarvis Happ's study.
 The door was ajar. She knocked at 1t. There was no answer. She pushed the door open.
 There was no one in the room.
 Millicent felt wave of disap- pointment sweep over her. She had been counting more than she herself realized upon the strong personality of the mysterious man who employed her. The more she saw of Happ the more she began to believe 1t was impossible for him to be implicated in the Drimgold murder, and certainly he was her friend. He had information enough about her to put her in the hands of the police at any moment. In- stead. he had befriended her.
 She was turning to go when her eyes fell on the typewriter pago on which she had written for Buchanan. the detective. the words pond, keys" the letters of the alphabet, and other symbols by ascertained that the note, descrlb- ing the location of the keys, had been written upon the same type- writer.
 b Moved by some swift impulse. Millicent picked up this paper, folded 1t, and then left the study. She left the door ajar just us she had found 1t, walked down the cor ridor to her own room and was in time to see Richard Gentry climb the stairs. He advanced toward her. smiling with outstretched hand.
 Well, we'll" he said, There's our new secertary. Tell me, have you opened the books yet?" She thought there was something mocking in his eyes. "No," she said,
 His face showed surprise. "Why not? l thought you were sup posed to do It."
 I'm supposed" she said Ito take my order from MT Happ." Meaning that he told you not to open the set of books?" Meaning that you will have to discuss the matter with MT Happ."
 "Oh we'll" he said breezily, there's no need for us to get at swords points over 1t. I was little bit nervous last night. 1 guess I've been smoking too much or something. and 1 certainly made fool of myself. want to apologize and l hope you'll forget the things I said to you. My accounts are ab- solutely clean and open. There's nothing whatever for me to worry about, as long ns you're square and aboveboard. or course, if you started Juggling records around, l might have some explaining to do, but l think you're going to give me fair deal"
 Whatever made you think I would Juggle records around2" she asked.
 "Oh, don't know" he said. "I guess 1 was nervous and just got suspicious of everyone"
 "Well." she said. you didn't act as though you were nervous last night. You actad more us though you had a guilty coaFcience. He looked ut her meanngly and said, Well. as far as that's con- cerned. guess we all of us have guilty consciences. We're not any