THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1984.
SOPHIE KERR'S LATEST SUCCESS IN ROMANTIC PROBLEM FICTION
"STAY OUT OF MY LIFE!"
DRGIN HERE TO-DAY
ished and arranged and re-arranged whole works." JANE TERRY Comes to New York de the house. She crammed her re-
Sermined
Caporinity ABCY JACKSON that the can make
contemptuously.
to take the child with the understanding that] - Jane never abail recinte bra.
Back In Marburg Amy worries aver what Howard will think of her taking the baby A months gases and then one morning the
telephone rings and the, hrary ħla voire.
CHAPTER XX
She watched him for some sign
with so young a woman,
distance, and this was the first to shower hometown and frigerator and pantry with every of disapproval. "You don't mind,
time Rosa had ever sounded a note After the Thorpe episode was of distress. Knowing her aunt's A success of her life, Amy had been bee besentable for which Howard had evor Howard? You're sure you don't completely over and Amy had taken disposition and mental perturba Friend until HOWARD JACKSON broke the shown the slightest preference, mind?" annement Jane forced on him and married She filled the rooms with flowers.
the child. Jane had started out for tions, Jane know there was some- Amy, Unable to bear the sight of Amy's Aappiness. Janc obtains a Job in New York Sho played loud triumphant music his arms. "Amy, sweet, anything one with only
But he only took her again in herself, a perilous proceeding for thing serious behind the present zeal estate offies,
A Fiat Polonaise, the Rakoczy In this world you want to do is
a small circle of appeal. Miss Rosa was not one. to friends and acquaintances, Jane la elever, und soon to making an
Ainco make fuss about nothing. "She's ch Pacolivoluntary. She has An affair with and the hilarious "Alexan
fright with .....
the real estate
counts so not really old," thought Jane. Latar der's Ragtime Band" but every ROGER THORPE, who, le married.
"She she tires of him and when he offers to her moment was an age and she turned
surely on such contacts. Yet Jane never tells her age, but she can't the expense of their child she demises him constantly to watch the clock. A Rosa with a frown. It was plain- then she acted confidentially
Jano read the letter from Miss had done, fairly well. Now and be more than G1 or 62. So she In her dreperate pliski Jane turna to Amr telegram came, telling the train, tive, querulous, quite unlike Miss Kandels', and Mr. Kandel had Massey partner must have bothered for surely must be sick. And this for help. Howard a touring Germany and the hour of his arrival, and at Inst Rosa's usual Amy comes to New York. She stays until the time reluctantly dragged itself to cations. She didn't feel well. She but she would not do that.
robust communi-urged her to come back to his office, her more than she says. I shall baby is born and then, horrised because Jana
have to look into that." insists on siving her daughter away at the fulfilment of the promise. was tired all the time. She didn't Gradually and persistently sho
(To Be Continued.) He was there, actually, brown sleep more than two hours a night.. had worked up a definite line for and hard and strong. His arms, This war over in Europe was very herself among the small landlorda were like bands of stool around her upsetting and now it looked as and her progress had been steady, OVER ONE A WEEK.
worked as an able seaman on though America would have to join her profits slight, but sure. It had that damned boat" he said. "Itin and a fine mess that would be meant week after week, month would have been fun if I hadn't Her affairs were in bad order, too, after month of hard grind 10, 12, been so anxious to get back to you, and she didn't trust the advice of 14 hours a day. Not that Jane
TRAFFIC FATALITIES IN Over the telephone Howard ex-I'll never let you out of my sight this new young partner Mr. Massey Jected to the grind. She wanted
STREETS OF HONGKONG plained it all to Amy. He and again-"
had taken in, one of the Trainors to be so tired at night that she Professor Ellert had suddenly man- His clothes were torn, wrinkled and the Trainors werd aged to get passage on a freighter and water-soaked.
would neither think nor remember. trash
Traffic accident statisties issued in alow and
"I had nothing through and through. She wished She welcomed an anodyne for re- the Annual Report of the Inspector small and primitive, to change Into. We lost our bag to goodness Jane would come and gret and humillation Regret for General of Police disclose that there without a wireless. They had just gage in Germany, or had it pinched, help her decide what to do, she her foolish surrender to Roger was a substantial cause for the Safe- landed and he had raced to the Old Ellert mourned his night-shirts didn't want to end her days in the Thorpe, humiliation and anger for keng earlier this year.
ty First campaign conducted in Hong- ncarcat telephone. Yes, he had every hour of the way back! It Poorhouse, but she felt she was having, as she saw it, abaced her sent her a cable when they left but was a whale of an adventure, the surely headed toward It.
Last year there was an increase of self to Amy, permitted Amy to in- 408 traille accidents as compared with had had to ontrust it to a stupid whole thing, and I'm glad I saw Jane put the letter down on her sult her. chap. Probably he'd pocketed the it and glad I'm out of it. I've got desk and considered. It was al- Amy had told her to stay out of of accidents in 1933 being 1,772.
the figure for 1932, the total number money and thrown the message a billion things to tell you. But to Marburg. Her hat visit there child. Jane hated the recollection person was killed in the streets of
most four years since she had been her life, never to try to take the Away. They were both woll and Arst I want to hear what you've was when she had managed to get of it, the submission to Amy. She Hongkong through trafle accidents, Each week last year Over оле he was going to grab old Professor been up to." Ellert und dnah to the station for She blurted it out: "I've adopted her inheritance out of Miss Rosa's should have been as bitter with the total number of deaths being 00. the next train.
ja baby. A little girl!"
and okt Mr. Massey's hands. "But I had to hear your voice,
Amy as Amy had been with her. Amy I couldn't wait. I'll send a don't bellove you!"
laughed aloud: "Amy-I} The old chap was gaga then," As for staying out of Amy's life 6,576 trafle offences, and 6,417 con- wire if there's time but I had to "But I have. It's the
she thought, "and if he's taken in why, it was Any who had better vletions, with fines totally $42,050, speak to you first." And then Come along and look at her."
truth. a amart young hick there's no toll-stay out of hers, Jane's-hadn't se again "Darling darling "?
ing what could happen to Aunt begun by taking Howard Jackson laughter was instituted in connection Only one prosecution for mans- He followed, holding her arm-Rosa's money. That money ought away from her? And now, her with traffic fatalities, and this was After she had put down the tele-tight, still laughing, but at the to come to me some day. I wish child? phone she remembered that he sight of the cradle and the sleeping had some of it now for this Sears
withdrawn. didn't yet know about the baby. child he stopped amazed. "Well, sale. It would be handy. I sup-
One hundred and three drivers had Not that it mattered. He was I'm a son of a gun! It is the truth. Pose Fil have to go and look into these resentments, pushed them in 1992. The total number of Time had blurred and faded their, Ileences suspended, as against back, he was safe. In another day A little girl7 What's her name?" it." he would be with her! Nothing.
into the background. Jane's assur-motor driver'k licenten cancelled "She hasn't any yet. nothing else mattered beyond that for you to choose one."
I waited Hor little ofee was a neat and once had returned with her estal against ten in 1032.
успт during the
was twelve, blessed knowledge and expectation.
pleasant place even on this cloudy lished business, her growing bank "Good, we'll call her Axelina March morning. There was noth-account and her own private dla How she ever got through the after the wife of the captain of the Ing feminine about it except Jano cretion. She had taken another
Driver's Licences. interval she could not tell. She ship. She was a grand old Nor- herself, siender and snart in her apartment-with elevators and an examined as Motor Drivers during
The total telephoned and was telephoned to,wegian dame six feet two, voice dress of fine dark, serge with thin alert hall force. She asked some of the year was 1,031 as against 1,445 number of persons though she hardly knew what she like a fog-horn, hard enough to be while ruffles across the neck and was saying.
her best clients to dinner now and in the year 1932. The total number She cleaned and pol- in the Ellert Museum, bossed the around her wrists. The clear con- then and was asked by them in reef persons passed us Motor Drivers
trast suited her. Her sense
conturn.
She went to the theatre and during the year was 1,310 as against clothes and good grooming. was the successfut young business
Jardine perhaps, or some other woman, setting and costume com-chosen for politie reasons, but her lete. But the plain polished walwork was her first interest and nut, the casement cloth curtains, nothing pushed it aside. the dark rugs, the call-button, Sometimes all that Kelephone, letter baskets these about Roger Thorpe, and the child, seven hundred and sixty as against might just as well have belonged and even Amy, took on a quality six hundred and seventeen Lo successful young business of unreality. Such things surely year 1032. man. I was perhaps an uncon- could never have happened to this The total timber of Commercial scious tribute to the rebeliton of brisk resourceful creature whe Motor Vehicles examined and passed Ann Veronica against a man-made lived so sensibly, so openly, with for commercial use during the world though Jane did not read no hint of romantic adventures
year was 6,261 s against 4,005 in Ann Veronica now-which kept
Nevertheless, June had not gone Commercial Motor Vehicles examined the year 1032. The total number of Jane's office like a man's. Also it back to Marburg. There was no and found unfit for commercial use made her ellente a little more easy reason why she should. Miss Rosa during the year was 1,183 as against in their minds about doing business and she were better friends at a1,188 in the year 1932.
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