, 1935-03-17
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bE1tN hERE loDAh
MILLICENT GRAVES asks her
employer. GEORGE DRINGOLD.
for n raise and. instead. O. ared.
A moment later he beEs her co
stay. saying he hns something I'm
DOrtant to dIctnte-a confession
that for years he has protected u
murderer.
MiIIicenf goes out 20 dinner.
promising 60 return. DrimEoid
tells her "a watch tor . woman On
n black ermine coat. Miliieent
sees such n woman In the tea
room. Later MiIIicent diacovers
has taken her purse.
substituting one exactly like "a
She starts back Co the teRroom
and I'm the elevator sees n distin-
guished-loOking man Of middle
age.
No one IN the tearoom knows
anything about MIIIicent's purse.
The woman In black ermine In
rome. MilIicent xoes hack 90 Drim.
Colds ofice. finds him dead Her
purse In on the door. tia contents
scattered. she looks ont the win
dow and sees n policeman enter
inG the building.
NOW co on WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER III
INTELLIGENT realized her predica
uA ment The assistant ianitor
must have seen Drimgold's BODY
and notified the police. Within q
few minutes the machinery OF the
law would have started 10 function
Someone had murdered Drim
gold. That someone must have de
~iberately stolen Millicent's purse
leaving a carefully prepared dupli
cate IN order 10 prevent MiIlicenf
from detecting the substitution
That person must have used MILF
cents keys to open the door OF
the Office. Drimgold. In a desperate
struggle for life. must nave
snatched al the purse the murderer
was carrying and dumped its con
tents over the Office.
Blind. u%nreasoning panic seized
the girl as she realized her pre-
dicament She turned away from
the window. rushed past the thing
which lay on the floor. ran 10 the
outer Office and paused IN she
caught sight OF the shorthand note
book which lay on her desk. This
was the notebook IN which she had
taken down in shorthand the first
installment OF Drimgold's COMES
sion. Hardly realizing what she
did. she snatched II up. clamped Il
under her arm and raced for the
corridor.
The elevator bell was ringing
frantically.
There was only one elevator run
ming in the building. Millicent had
taken the elevator TO the upper
floor. She knew that the assistant
ianitor and the police officer were
ringing the bell. trying 70 get the
elevator back down 10 the ground
floor. She entered the cage, closed
the doors. waited.
After a few moments the bell
quit ringing and Millicent felt that
the assistant ianitor and the officer
had either started up the long
climb Of II fights OF stairs or else
had gone to the basement 20 put
another elevator in commission.
CHE pushed the control lever and
the cage slid smoothly down.
ward She tried 10 stop al the
ground floor. but Il was only after
three attempts that she was able
to bring the cage to a position from
which she could open the doors.
She sped across the lobby and out
into the wind swept darkness.
There was a subway entrance M
the corner and she ran toward Il.
the wind whipping her clothes
about her.
II was not until after she had
boarded the subway train that she
suddenly realized her predicanent
She had ned from the scene OF the
murder. She dared not 20 home
She wanted only 10 get away from
everything and everyone. DrimgoId
was dead Her Job had automat.
tcally terminated. She was without
funds. save for the money which
was In the purse that had been sub
stituted for hers.
Millicent left the subway at the
18th street station. A cheap MOTEL
displayed an electric align shs reg