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THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1932.
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MAN HUNTER
BY MABEL McELLIOTT
NEGAN HERE TO-DAY.
01932
people the most foolish little
Susan Carry, 19 and pretty, works in the phrases take on a new and shining alice of Kromt Hent, architect Juck meaning. Whatever she said Waring. Sleath's assistant, tries to take lase
tol
In her but in consaged. Hun with Bob, or he to her, seemed fresh and
her aunt. who
In
munity strict. Ras curiously their own,,
d'inners, employed in the next office, innker "Look here, won't Cou
friends with Sun Nud ennåden bet ambitan
in ti to marry a rich man. Sukaity
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secretly in love with Binh Duntas, millionaires What he meant to say she was
suh she met al bundus sell. She heur
he Блю to marry Thelan, Ackroyd, not destined to know because at
infinite. Husnu refures nu offer of marrings! that instant the rear tione
from En Lampman, worinus-minded
YOUNK
Sheen away mad, meeting Ernest
was
At a week-end party given lo flung open and Mr. Heath bustled Den Ackroyd. Ben and Bob Hght verin. Suzan's heart sank, The per- protection. Ha fection of the moment was gone. escort her inck to the Ackroyds, thereby incurring his wife's displeasure. Later Heather to return. Blissfully uncon- Infurias Sumaze s selfe intends to Ruw her seious of anging unusual in the
Jenik, naku bln fur
for allation
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Bilections, Waring situation, Henth held out his hund
manage to say the altuation.
of a letter involving Mirs, Heath in um ninie with nnutter Sub Runy Beartbrokun, 1HUM telling Husk that "Sky" Webb, who Estwing her attention, has murret.
CHAPTER XXIX
to Rob Dunbar. Luckily for his pence of mind he had not recog nized Susan's escort that night in the lane. Rob was merely the son of an old friend.
Heath did not notice that tiss This was the moment Susan hud Carey was flushed and bright eyed dreamed of all these weeks, but but then she wens a very pretty girl | How that Bob stood before her and that was quite natural. Susan there
curious unreality had to stifle her dissapointment as about it.. Her heart pounded he watched her employer lead Bob painfully. He looked thinner and into his private office. She found in some subtle way older.
it impossible to keep her mind on
iL Way
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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 bej 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 tingled with excite- "Ile'a gone?" Susan's volco
She know perfectly well he was ment. What was it Bob'had start-sounded unreal to her. not in but she must do something,ed to say?
anything, to delay this man. Wildly She prayed, "Dear God, give me
she sought about in her mind for another chance to talk to him!"
a way to keep him talking. Then Iler heart pounded.
she felt ashamed. Her hands were When Pierson returned from
She returned
"Yes. Galloped out with that collar-ad guy just after you left."
The girl's steps went drearily across the room.
"Why? Did you want to ask
OBITUARY.
MR. E. C. EMMETT PASSES AWAY
in
was a member of the Shanghai Club, the Shanghai Race Club and the Shanghai Lawn Bowls Club. He was a keen volunteer in hin 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,
to the outer luneb she glanced up, scarcely see him something?" Pierson couldn't the death of Mr. Edward Charles a friend in Shanghai states:
ing him.
•
The young man stood up. No, three,' Pierson repeated in a faint-ring. The first day she was sure it was quite all right, he informedĮly acid tone. her. He would give Heath a ring later.
received A telegram was Shanghai Just week announcing
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.
went to
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It is with deep regret that his the many friends will learn of death of "Father" Emmett
from soon after his departure Shanghai on well-earned retire- ment.
not
icy. office and look straight at Bob.
He spoke to her twice help being inquisitive. "I'm sorry. He's not there," she before she realized the remarks
"No. It was nothing," Susan told him. "He usually is by this were directed to her.
said without hope. "Nothing at all." time but perhaps there is a mea- "I said you'd better go to the sage I can take.'
bank right away. It's almost
She watied for the telephone to
Deceased, who was more than 60
Of his earliest 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 She glanced at the clock. It ber. She had
ia, unfortunately, writer sa much
to say Chandler, Haycraft & Gilsillen, qualified to speak and it is only It seemed to Susan that there tacked but 10 minutes of the hour. must be something she could do to The voices in the private affice still Then as the days passed Sunnmondson & Co. He came to the out of his 32 spent in the East, to him that she could hardly wait.
Arthur Adams and William Sy concerning the last 20 or so years, detain him. She was starved for rose and fell. As Susan struggled enme at last to the realization he Far East in 1898 and became as- that a close association with him the very sight of him yet now that int- her coat she added another wasn't going to telephone. She told sociated with Messrs. Jardine. the opportunity lay before her she prayer to her litany,
herself she was a fool. In her Matheson & Co., Ltd., in Hong-
can deal, was like one stricken dumb. Ther "Please let him stay until I come saner moments she was firm and
"Father," from his earliest days, might have been utter strängers. fack. it's not much to ask."
brisk and decided about it. Lots kong, after which he
was always a staunch pillar of these two young people.
You could not run on La Salle of girls mooned around over a lost
Shanghai.
the Church. The possessor of a Dunbar's hand was on the door street. People would look at you love, but not she.
A man of retiring disposition, pleasing baritone voice, he was knob. He was thanking her in and think you were mad. But how The stores began to display re- he possessed an attractive per- always very much in request in runningless phrases
her could one walk sedately and quiet minders that for
was at sonality and his advice was con- the choir Christmus
of the St. John's trouble. Then suddenly as on that fly with a heart meing like a wild hand. Each time Susan went to stantly sought by his colleagues Cathedral, Hongkong, and in that Tar-off summer day in the restau-thing? How slow the clerk was the Miltons' 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 of understanding flashed between dening deliberation he made the en- de chine. Ince and sachet. Mra.
his gifts in this them. Susan caught her breath. try. Usually Susan smiled at him Milton had confided to Susan in an his widow and several children, direction
Mr. Emmett, who is survived by contributed
to the enlivenment at The young man stared at her. She and spoke about the weather. To- unguarded moment that Terry in-
many A convivial gathering was all in brown to-day. Simple day she did neither.
tended to give Rose a ring for
amongst his friends. wool frock cut at the neck to show "Hurry, hurry!" Her footsteps Christmus,
Besides being an accomplished her creamy 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 felt certain were to fol- The policeman seemed maddeningly said, surprised. Mrs.
Milton's every now and then to break a date, ablo apeaker and his contributions slow. It seemed ages before she laugh was exuberant.
Of course I know what it was all to the many knotty discussions In found herself again in the elevator
It would local insurance circles during the "Don't believe all you hear," she about but Rose didn't. that of the office building.
advised. Then her tous dropped, take a house to fall on her. I was past two decades. were not only Bob would be there still. He became confidential. "I'll tell you the one," pursued Mrs. Milton with very much to the point but There she had not dreamed it]} would be coming out of Mr. Heath's how it was," she said. "Rose has satisfaction, "to tell her which way the same time evinced sufficient Sho looked up at him, her eyes room as she took off her hat. They been stringing. Terry along-you the wind blow. My find young lady restraint to show that he was "big"
"It's quite all right. It wasn't started to any. Susan hesitated be- I don't know what all."
but he would finish what he had She kept talking about careers and She went to a little trouble for a your fault."
fore turning the knob, savouring The stern lines of his face re-the flavour of anticipation. Then but the other interrupted.
"I still don't sce-" Susan began, inxed. "I was a bit high, I know, she flung the door open, trying to Mrs. Milton warmed to her story. but it's no excuse."
remember just how she behaved on "Well, it was all right as long as naked. ordinary days.
Terry played tame duck," she said, "Glad? I should say I am," said Bowls Club. Qulekly she went to the closet relishing the words. They would Mr. Milton roundly. "I have no and bung away or cont. She would, have their Sunday and Wednesday patience with these old maids who not look in the direction of Mr. dates, as usual and whenever the hang on to their jobs forever and Heath'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 her. "Why did you do that?" would be patient. As she crossed about her chances of making a trip hear," she admonished, "is just
"I don't know. It seemed a good the room to give Pierson the bank to Paris. Well, that was all right!" duch nows about you." Idea at the time." Susan smiled book she was conscious of the ex- Mra, Milton paused for dramatie
low.
"I want to say again that I'm
what happened sorry for night.
emotion that possessed her.
She wanted to reach out and touch the rough fabric of his over- cont. What she did was to flick her lashes demurely downward and any nothing.
and the old friendliness was re-trema quiet of the place. She would effect. ostablished. Strange It thought Susan, that with
was, not ask. She would noti somo Plarson looked at her curiously.}
"And then what happened?" "Didn't some cutle from over in
change and woll, you see what happened! They'll be married be- fore Lont."
"You're glad, aren't you?" Susan
Suean shook her head. "I'm never going to marry," she said. "Never!"
(To Be Confinued)
at
to be able to appreciate the interests of others whose viewn ran in opposition to his own.
In the field of sport, his main interests during recont years lay in bowling and he was a keen member of the Shanghai Lawn
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