THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JULY, 7, 1932.
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BEGIN HERE TO-DAY.
1932
prople the moat Foolish little:
Sears Carry, 19 and pretty, works In the phrases take on a new and shining
at rent rats.
Architect. Jackmenning.
Whatever she said to:
Waring, Heath's meelitant, tries to make Bob, or he to her, seemed fresh and |
1 her but is alwunroute), Susan Bves with. Ber aunt, who is unusually strict, Roy Flannery, plyed in the next offer, makes friends with Susant and routiles ber unghitisi
Siuman man, in De – la murry
A rich averely in love with Hub Dunbar, millionaire',
Pisto
curiously their own,
"Look here, won't you- "
JA
What he meant to say she was
at
15'4
be met at business school. She, beats
Mt In
1 Riy tine Ackroyd, not destined to know because debutante. Susan rebus an offer of marriage that instant The rear our
from Ben Lampinen, serious<tmintel young
Coc
micina, AL # week-end prly given by fling open and Mr. Heath hustled Denler Ackmyd, Ben Tul Deli fight verin. Susan's heart sank, The 1- Noona, She runs away and, mefeetion of the moment was gone, | Heath. naka eserta her back to dar Ackmyila, thereby never to return. Issfully uneon- Incurring in wite's staplensure. Inter Heath informs Sunzo his wife intrude to now her Scinus of anying unusual in the
bla [ affections. Waring situation, Heath held out his hand ane war the allunion, by
Larckily for his to Bob Dunbar.
ter lication
mebtes
of a letter taviving Mrs. Heath in an altair
with nother mini Ray La heartbroken, peace of mind he had not recog- willing Suran al " Webb, who
beet showing for attentiums, has barrel.
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CHAPTER XXIX
nized Susan's escort that night in the lane. Bob was merely the son of an old friend.
iss
Heath did not notice that This was the moment Susan had carry was flushed and bright eyed | dreamed of all these weeks, but but Then she was a very pretty girl
that Bob stood before her and that was quite natural, Susasi | Was R curious unreality had to stifle her dissapointment as about it.. Her heart pounded she watched her employer lead Bob painfully. He looked thinner and into his private office. She found in some subtle way okler.
it impossible to keep her mind on
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She managed to say calmly, "Will her work. She could hear the low The boss said to tell you he'd be you sit down? I'll see if Mr. Heath murmur of the two voices and her back at four." is in his office. I'm not quite sure."
whole being lingled with excite- "He's gone?" Susan's voice She knew perfectly well he was ment. What was it. Bob had start-sounded unreal to her. not in but she must do somethinged to say? anything, to delay this man, Wildiy She grayed, "Dear God, give me she sought about in her mind for another chance to talk to him!" a way to keep him talking. Then Her heart pounded. she felt ashamed. Her hands were
It was quite all right, he informed
her. He would give Heath a ring Juter.
When Pierson returned from
ly acid tone.
*
OBITUARY
MR. E. C. EMMETT PASSES AWAY
in
received A telegram was Shanghai last week announcing the death of Mr. Edward Charles Emmet, formerly manager of the insurance department of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., and one of the foremost authorities on insurance in the Far East.
was a member of the Shanghai Club, the Shanghai Race Club and the Shanghai Lawn Bowls Club. He was a keen volunteer in his early days and he was a member of the Maxim Corps, Hongkong, and of the Reserve Co., S.V.C.
In the course of an appreciation, a friend in Shanghai states:
09
It is with deep regret that his many friends will learn of the
Emmett' death of "Father" Hoon after his departure from Shanghai on well-earned retire- ment.
not
of understanding flashed between! dening deliberation he made the en- de chine, Ince and sachet. Mrs. Mr. Emmett, who is survived by contributed his gifts in this
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"Yea. Galloped out with that collar-nd guy just after you left."
The girl's steps went drearily across the room.
"Why? Did you
want to ask iey. She returned to the outer lunch she glanced up, scarcely see him something?" Pierson couldn't office and look straight at Bob. ing him. He spoke to her twice help being inquisitive.
"I'm sorry. He's not there," she before she realized the remarka "No. IL was nothing." Susun told him. He usually is by this were directed to her.
said without hope, "Nothing at all." time but perhaps there is a mes- "I said you'd better go to the
bank right. sage I can take."
away. It's almost She watied for the telephone to The young man stood up. No, three,' Pierson repented in a faint-ring. The first day she was sure Decensed, who was more than 60 Of his carliest days in Hong- Bob would call. It was perfectly years of age, received his early in- kong, Shanghai and Japan, the simple because he knew the num-surance training with Frederick writer is. unfortunately, She glanced at the clock. It ber. She had so much It seemed to Susan that there lacked but 10 minutes of the hour to him that she could hardly wait. Arthur Adems and William Sy- concerning the last 20 or so years, to say Chandler, Haycraft & Gilsillen, qualified to speak and it is only must be something she could do to The voices in the private office still Then s the days passed Susan mondson & Co. detain him. She was starved for] rose and fell. As Susan struggled came at inst to the realization Far East in 1898 and became as that a close association with him'
He came to the out of his 32 spent in the Enat, the very sight of him yet now that int- her cont she added another wasn't going to telephone. She told
sociated with Messrs. Jardine. the opportunity lay before her she prayer to her litany,
can deal. bersul? she was a fool. In her Matheson & Co., Ltd., in Hong- was like one stricken dumb. They lose let him stay until I come saner moments she was firm and Long, after which ho
"Father," from his earliest days, wont to might have been utter strangers. Luck. It's not much to ask."
risk and decided abou. it. Lots
was always a staunch pillar of these two young people.
Shanghai. You could not run on La Salle of girls mooned around over a lost |
the Church. The possessor of a Danbar's hand was on the door street. People would look at you love, but not sle.
A man of retiring disposition, pleasing baritone voice, he was In knob. He was thanking her in and think you were mad. But how
much in request The stores began to display re- he possessed an attractive per- niways very for her could one walk sedately and quiet-minders that meaningless phrases
the choir of con- the was at sonality and his advice was
St. John's Christanas trouble. Then suddenly as on that ly with a heart racing like a wild hand. Each time Susan went to stantly sought by his colleagues Cathedral, Hongkong, and in that. far-off summer day in the restau- thing? How slow the clerk was the Aliltons' she found Rose ab-in the insurance business
and of Holy Trinity Cathedral, rant at the Blackstone that spark behind the bars! With what mad-sorbed in mysterious heaps of crepe others.
Shanghai, apart from which he children, direction to the callvenment
convivial many R
gathering amongst his friends.
Besides being an accomplished
The policeman scerned maddeningly said, surprised. Mrs.
Milton's every now and then to break a date.able speaker and his contributions slow. It seemed ages before she laugh was exuberant.
Of course I knew what it was all to the many knotty discussions in "I want to say again that I'm found herself again in the elevator
"Don't believe all you hear," she about but Rose didn't. It would local insurance circles during the sorry for
what happened that of the office building.
advised. Then her tone dropped, take a house to fall on her. I was past two decades were not only night.
There she had not dreamed it! wonki be coming out of Mr. Heath's how it was," she said. "Rose has it blew. My fine young lady restraint to show that he was b
Bob would be there still. He became confidential. "I'll tell you the one," pursued Mrs. Milton with very much to the point liut
Butisfaction, "to tell her which way the same time ovinced sufficient Sho looked up at him, her eyes room as she took off her hot. They been stringing Terry along—you Dashing and darkening with the would have just a moment together know all about that for two years, didn't like the idea of losing Terry. enough to be able to appreciate the emotion that possessed her.
but he would finish what he had She kept talking about careers and She went to a little trouble for n interests of others whose views "It's quite all right. It wasn't started to say. Susun hesitated be; I don't know what all."
change and well, you see what ran in opposition to his own.
In the field of sport, his main your fault,
fore turning the knob. savouring "I still don't see "Suaan began, happened! They'll be married be-
interests during recent years lay The stern lines of his face re-the flavour of anticipation. Then but the other interrupted.
fore Lent." laxed. "I was a bit high, I know, she flung the door open, trying to Mrs. Milton warmed to her story: "You're glad, aren't you?" Susan in bowling and he was a keen member of the Shanghai Lawn naked, but it's no excuse."
remember just how she behaved on "Well, It was all right as long na She wanted to reach out and ordinary days.
Terry played tame duck," she said, "Glad? I should say I am," said Bowls Club. touch the rough fabric of his over- Quickly she went to the closet relishing the words. "They would Mrs. Milton roundly. "I have no cont. What she did was to flick and hung away Fer coat, She would, have their Sunday and Wednesday patience with these old maids who her lashes demurely downward and not look in the direction of Mr. dates as usual and whenever the bang on to their jobs forever, and Heal's private office. It would all poor boy tried to be serious my fine think they can keep a beau dang "You ran away." the boy accused happen easily and naturally. She lady would put him off and talking. Now what I want next to "Is just ber. "Why did you do that?" would be patient. As she crossed about her chances of making a trip hear," she admonished, "I don't know. It seemed a good the room to give Pierson the bank to Paris. Well, that was all right!" such nows about you."" Iden at the time." Susan smiled book she was conscious of the ox- Mrs. Milton paused for dramatic and the old friendliness was re-treme quict of the place. She would effect. established. Strange It was, not ask. Shu would not! thought Susan, that with some Pierson looked at her curiously,|
them. Susan caught her breath. try. Usually Susan smiled at him Milton had confided to Susan in an his widow and several The young man stared at her. She and spoke about the weather. To- unguarded moment that Terry in- was all in brown to-duy, Simple day she did neither.
tended to give Rose a ring for
wool frock cut at the neck to show "Hurry, hurry". Her footsteps Christmas. her ereamy throat. Little, sensible kept time with the words. A traffic "But I thought she didn't want his neighbourhood make a dead set; brown oxfords. She waited for the light delayed her at one corner-to be married for ages?" Susan for Terry? He began to call up/singer, he had the gift of being an
words she fell certain were to fol-
low.
Bay nothing.
Susan shook her head. "I'm never going to marry," she said. "Novor!" "And then what happened?" "Didn't some cutle from over in).
(To. Bo Continued.)
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