THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.... TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1934.
SOPHIE KERR'S LATEST SUCCESS IN ROMANTIC PROBLEM FICTION
STAY OUT OF MY LIFE!"
HKUIN HERE, TO-DAT,
angered, tries to foren Howard Intu p♫ ODENEDİ
•York, declaring she will never return,
En In June,
CHAPTER X
week."
[outsmarted him on salary. Likely, Kandel had forgotten his intention how have been entirely omitted the rest of politle office behaviour. When, HOWARD JACKSON, young aralogy too, Mrs. Kandel wouldn't the prettiert eri in town, determine to pleased when she saw Jano. While had proved her value to him, her almost doubted her ability to ever ceive her prlenmir, zume to Marburg JANE TERRY,
be to ense Jane out. Three things from her vision. At times she But it was too aaporficial to de- six brart Howard, however, falls in love Jane typed on swiftly, Mr. Kandel capacity for work, her deliberate know it all, but these doubts were left her alone unless they had fellow-workers. They with ANY LOWE, Jane's best frioni!. Jane, made up his mind, that at the first and delicate brow-beating of a con-not serious. She studied much business in her province. Even ment and, when the fatis, leaves for New reasonable excusu he'd case her out, tractor who had come to the Kandel harder than she had studied at the Allen Calvert, who looked after the At tinand set the date of the did like the way she took hold; the head of the firm (Mr. Kandel thing-how and where to look for jects, and who was large, loud and but even so he admitted that he office intent on having a row with school, and learned one invaluable Kandel special development pro- in New York Jano corolla in a business without any funs selwel and later beconies weretary to the "She acts like business, but she sanctum)
or afectation. had listened to this from his secret information when she needed it. happy with a laugh and a jollying resident of the Kandel Real Estate company,
and finally, but Ah meets HOGER THOR', head of there doesn't look it," he thought. least important, the verdict of Mrs, that she couldn't possibly know many a bad spot with the Board not This nequired, she began to realize joking way which got him out of rental departam
"Oh, well, we'll nee. I'll know a lot Kandel, who one day clanked her overything about the busincas by of Estimate and Bureau of In- more about her at the end of a diamond bracelets into the place, study alone. She would need spection, even "Allen was cautious At the end of the week Mr. feet, talked with hor a few minutes even then there might be a few Roger Thorpe, whom she hand met looked Jane, over from head to time and much experience, and when he approached Jane. Only and told her husband later, "That items left to be attained. The on her first day with Kandel, tried girl's all right. She's got class long sustained effort began to to keep little warmer current go- wear down her vitality. It was ing between them, because in the Jane had not the slightest idea spring and she was tired and rest-realm of office intrigue it would be that she was under observation, or less. She wanted a change but to his advantage to have Kandel'a that there was any question of her couldn't define the kind, hadn't the secretary on his side, permanence. The place suited her energy to seek it.
There was a pretty deßnilte, and that had settled it in her own In the Kandel offices it was though concealed rivalry between, mind. It was all the better to conceded from her first appear himself and Calvert, which Kandel have no much to learn. She once that the boan's new secretary used calculatingly, keeping both couldn't agonize over Amy and was a peach for looks but a leron men uncertain na to which he Howard Jackson, when the mys for disposition and there was no favoured, and therefore always terles of contracts, leases and use trying to get next to her or extra active to please him. Roger mortgages, plot-books and apprais put anything over on hor. Also Thorpe was calculating, too. Jane jals and building code were waiting that she wan't even ordinarily could if she would, give him news to be absorbed. She was secretly friendly. This was not quite fair. of Kandel's moves and changes aurprised by her ignorance, it Jane had taken to heart Miss Jar available through no other channel. seemed odd that such a large field dino's precepts and tried hard to But Jane had not bothered to of important subjects should some-be co-operative and polite and all (Continued on Page 11.)
"Now there's a smart chap," wild Kandel after Roger Thorpe, had left them. "You heard him) --something queer comes up and ho goes right out and takes hold himself, doesn't leave it to his ns-) sistants. He might have sent one; of the boys who'd have balled it sil up and got an a lot of bad publicity."
Jane nodded gravely. This place aulted her canetly. As acon.
Mr. Kandel had finished the grist of letters she went to her desk and looked it through, Good supplies, plenty of them, an almost new machine, a comfortable chair, the desk itself large and expensive --not of course to be compared to Mr. Kandel's magnificent walnut and plate glass bulwark, but a sort of young brother to it.
There was grass cloth on the walls very much finer than that in Mian Jardine's, apartment and the rugs were thick and colourful. Easy chairs, presumably for wealthy clients, were upholstered! in dull
leather. Framed photographs and. architects' draw- Inges of
Kandel properties were hung here and there, and over the Greplace. "Imagine a ren fire- place!" thought Jane, "with a real conl' fire!" There was a group of prints of old New York. Drak curtains of raw silk dyed red to match the chuir helghtened the Warrath of the place.
Jane's dark slimness, her black! frock and red beads were quite in the picture, and she knew it!
a eat knows its beauty against
a satin cushion. But she wasted no time on effect. She was too intent on getting the letters typed and making them look smart. When she had done a couple she brought them to Mr. Kandel. "Do, you #ke that style?" she asked. Would you prefer less margin, or double врасе throughout?" They look all right to me." said Mr. Kandel, Jane Was disap- pointed. She had hoped for more approval. The truth was that Mr. Kandel had begun to re-value his precipitancy. The girl might be efflelent, but she was much too young and too pretty, and she hut
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