THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1934.
SOPHIE KERR'S LATEST SUCCESS IN ROMANTIC PROBLEM FICTION
"STAY OUT OF MY LIFE!"
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doesn't seem adulterest-which plaint that it meant one less
heres
.
said Amy.
CHAPTER XXIII
wanted the money?" asked How-jho doesn't sell to me, he will to I'd dinke the whole thing absolute-hind got on her nerves. But I jord.:
someone else,"
ty safe for you,”.
Bottled him, this afternoon, and Amy and Howard, exchanged
"I don't doubt it."
"Opposition always was a tonic Aunt Rosa, parked right up." glances of discomfort, but not of "Oh that!" Jane tossed it off
Thore was an odd allence. Jane for you. Janio," said Amy, smiling. Amy began to laugh. She could Indecision. "We don't mean to lightly. "Nothing creditable, The be cruel," said Howard, "Wo can man's rotten, really. It's for some was puzzled by his unresponsive "but this time you're headed the not help it. "Oh Jane, you're only do what we think is right. Of girl he's interested in. He wants manner. "You don't understand," wrong way. We don't doubt your priceless. I'd have loved to hear course a professor's salary la no to act her up in a dress shop, or she said. "This Sears is simply no truth, nor yet your ability. I'm you dealing with Jimmy Trainer
beauty parlour, before he leaver, good. The family's run out. It perfectly certain that you'll buy he is so fresh and thinks he knows great shakes, but I have a small you see, I don't know the details used to be quite distinguished, Mr. What's-his-name's house and it all!" personal income. We oven
have
Jane laughed, too, and began to some savings, and Nancy jen't of that. They didn't matter. The believe. He's going to keep his sell it at a grand profit. But count
pull on her fur coat. Howard likely to suffer any privations, point was that he could actually sistor from getting that money bo- us out on it. We can't do it."
Jane wondered if perhaps they helped her and she was intensely You gave the child to Amy, Jane. make a legal salo and it's a choice cause he's so fed up with having
She concerned yourself piece of property and after I'd got her try to control him. If I don't actually didn't have any money conscious of his nearness. You'vo not
She saved and didn't want to let her contrived to touch his hand. facts I made up my mind to take this anle, someone elss will. about her since then. And we
It's myself
was coming out on top, just. the can't pass up a good stroke of know. against
really can't let you concern yourself about y
"I'm sorry you feel that way," as she had planned from the first. her now. It would only mean a law for a broker to do that unicas business for myself simply because
the buyer knows. It, but I
if cx- there's bad feeling in the Sears she said aloud, but you change Everything was lighter, pleasan # renewal of-of
all that to Mr. Sears and family."
your mind while I'm here. It won't tor. At the door she paused, "Do No," said Howard, "I suppose be too late. I wish you would tell me how you happened to ame Jane smiled, her sudden winning Po
Sho person to bo let in on the deal, and not. But, frankly, It's just a shade change your mind." preened-hor-Nancy?" brilliant
She saw amile. chance. "You certainly talk like a wherefore just that more too frenie to me to have young a Hitth, coralous of her elegance, ward toward the nursery,
"Howard chose it,' professor, Howard. You make me private. I'm making a very long Nancy profit by a aale which isn't the soft rich red of her dress, the feel as small as Nancy. Now look story, but it comes down to this: fair to somebody else's children." dark luxurious furs, in this plain "it's a name he specially likes."
Sears has algned the contract of "But that'a 80-80 remote!" room. The covers of some of the. Jano glowed with gratification. hore, you don't want any money from me. That's been made clear sale and has accepted a small pay-(She had storied to say "dumb,"chairs were worn, one of the lamp-"I'm so glad," she said to Howard. enough. But would you mind if I met so that binds him. I'm but changed the word with a stam- shades, a cheap paper thing, had "It's a name I specially like, too."
The enle put you in the way of making some having the regulation title search mer.)
feel quite so much out of When the door had closed be money yourself, on your own cant-now and we'll close in a couple of way, I tell you will be made any-discorched-place on its side: Sho
"Oh Jane," broke in Amy, "don't it when she noticed these blemish-hind her flourishing exit," Amy tal I moan, so that you'd not have "And in the meantime I'm ar-lot's argue about It. Howard's es. There was a difference in Amy pointed an acensing Angor at her to pinch or scrimp yourselves for
ranging for the money. He wants perfectly right. We don't want and Howard, too. They were be husband. "You fraud, you fakor," thetho chlid? It happens that cash, if you please, the whole thing money made in a way that's hard ing kinder to her. They weren't she feared. "Supposo I'd have I can do it, right away. I tell in his hand, and he's going to get on other propt to do something for ing to be here?" asked Amy.
Ro distant. How long are you go told her the truth, that you wanted you, it's one of those queer un- It. And I know, positively, that the "But I want to
to name her Axelina after that old "Not long only till I get Aunt | Norwegian along day after I take title I can sell that Nancy and for you, too!" cried
and expected things that come
Bea-devil, once in # blue moon. A man equity for three, or maybe four Jano, "because you've taken care of Rosa's affairs straight again, It's wouldn't let you, and how you kopt named Scars drifted into my office times what I paid for it. Now, do her and loved her. And this, is not as bad as she thought. She was calling her Nancy Etticot because one day and said he wanted to gell
sick and, blue—that lad jaho had a red,noso? ··It wasn't red' a house, a big-uptown house, and you see? If you want to put even such a good chance, it may be years only
few thousand dollars into it, I before a like this one comes Trainor in old-Mr. Massey's office (Continued on Page 10.) he wanted to do it quietly, no sea treble it within six wols. 11 my way again!""" publicity, and if he could he'd let it treat it as part of the investment, "We understand about your good
for 10 about a third of what it not as a loan, and you'll make ex-intentions,
Jane.
Howard, was worth. I saw he'd been drink-actly the same profit, proportional- "And give you due credit for the ing and at first I was just goingly, that I will. It will be absolute-same. But seriously, the biggest" to case him out and then, I de-ly your own."
thing you can do for Nancy is to
weeks.
cided to look into it."
She was, she thought, regnining |ly. her rightful importance. Howard
Baid
She looked at Howard expectant- | leave her alone and not tangle her
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up in any feverish emotional jams.
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If she ever finds out that she's got
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was listening absorbedly. Sha She had enjoyed reciting the two mothers instead of one it went on more dramatically: 1 dug Sears transaction. She would might be painful and unsettling. up the truth a scrap at a time, have loved to go on and tell about It might give a bad twist to her a site sale, Ile and his her business, her profits, her sales, life. We'll bring her up the very sister are the last of a family that peacocking her own ability and beat we can, you know that, with- was once quite solidly rich and cleverness before him. But this in our own means.” they live in the house, She's a was enough to make him ace how |- widow with several children and clover she was in business, and They were pushing her out, cloe- she's older than lie and has been how wiling she was to share 11 ing themselves away from her, trying to manage him and keep great opportunity with her friends. not unkindly exactly, but inexora- hold of what money and property 1 suppose," he said considering- bly. She struggled to understand that's left. He's never done any ly,"that, if this fellow Sears suc- them, they baffled and evaded her. work. All he wants in life is coeds in selling, the house
und
"Are you afraid I can't swing excitement. He's crazy to go over hands over the money to his girl-this deal?" she asked. "Or that and get in the war, but his income friend, his sister and her children everything isn't exactly as I've told is all tied up with his debts and will lose a good bit of what they you. I'll have my secretary sand he wants a bunch of money for a would naturally have inherited, on the contract of sale, and pic- special reason before he goes. So won't they?"
tures of the house and recorda
he made up his mind to sell his "Of course. That's why the els-showing what other property in equity in the house before his ais- iter's tried to hold on to the prop that neighbourhood has sold for re- ter could stop him and get away"erty. But that has nothing to do cently, And I'll put up security "What was the special reason he with it. He's bound to sell, and if for whatever money you'd invest.
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