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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1934.
SOPHIE KERR'S LATEST SUCCESS IN ROMANTIC PROBLEM FICTION
"STAY OUT OF MY LIFE!"
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CHAPTER XL
was Hatoning. At the doctor's jus. The most encouraging day bay air was soft and warm with a Professor Lowo handed the pack-
last words Amy's eyes darkened when he was so cross and fautt- promise of summer that be was ago to Amy. There are your
The doctor came in and out like with an emotion ho did not under-finding and rafusad his broth, call. willing Howard should go, and oyen knitting things," he weld. "I hope uneasy spirit. The sight of stand. She seemed, he thought, ing it "damned alop." The day then he made a dublous face about they're right.
Amy made him uncomfortable, the angry, hard. If there is anything that stood out mast to Amy was it. The Colonel had arranged a a hotel at the next corner and--alled the place, took no account of and the professor quickly, please and how he got was that my head might be permanently discharged
next content in Intense projection of her spirit more we could get for him. here," when he asked her where he was long leave for his convalescence. and I've seen Jane."
There was a possibility that he The doctor was a consel-get it." Ilo explained briefly Amy atiffened
the to. attention. "What did she say?"
ontisfied realist and did noti
I couldn't get my breath for the Jane had never appeared at the absorbed young woman affected on the whole, entisfactory. She
"There's nothing. But he acter pain in my aide," he said. "1 pull-apartment, although her secretary him ngalist his reason. He had should have been brought here in fed out my wallet to. dealt with me un if I were a-4been, until this time, practically the first place. An hour or so was money. I thought vaguely I might take away various things she acou get some had been there several times to somewhat repugnant stranger. I Was it first, quite at a loss and certain that his patient would die wasted right there." He went back telephone to camp, and that ended. No word had come from her. then, I could only take my cue ticked by and still that rapid hard
during the night, but the minutes to the sickroom,
with Jane Terry's address on I was not until the day they Jeft from her. The upshot was that I breath inboured on, and the pulse thinking, "I will kill Jane Terry." at Christmas when we were afraid by accident, because they were de
"If Howard dies." Amy was remember, I put it down that day that Amy anw her again, and then have sub-let this apartment from bad not wonkened. At about two. In the morning the doctor came she might want to take Naney? layed a day longer than was hor for 05 long as we need it, and o'clock he took the place of one of in again, gray and tired, but tri-was there, and I sort of looked planned in a wait for some papers also arranged to take over her the nurses and watched closely unphant, to say that Howard's around and realized that I was al- from Borvants, and
military authorities. Am to reimburse The nurse, as acute as he, sudden-gain had been hek, that he was, most in front of the place and it Jane had come home expecting to for expenses already incurred; in connection with Howard's by glanced at him, raised an in- surely unmistakably, a little more came to me that she'd know me find the place empty, Instend, she nene. In fact she suggested that quiring eyebrow. There was no relieved.
"But he's got a long, and could telephone the camp, and mot Amy Just lusida the door. I give her a check for them ni minta stire path was long way to ro vot," he warned after that I must have passed out." Howard and the Professor were in onco and I did se. In this way yes, he was sure. He nodded to ous as a snake."
almost imperceptibly, but-them. "Pneumonia's as treacher- From that story Amy's contempt the taxicab below-but Amy had we are quite independent of her, the nurse. There was a gain, a
for Jane Increased. She could come back to fetch a forgotton you see. We are accepting no
It was a long, long way and he hardly wait to Howard out of wrap.
prothe favours. The price she naked very slight gain, and even while made, it seemed to Amy, no more apartment.
The place grew |
it was as if they had exchanged neemed to me grasping, but I pre-right. Doctor Gavin knew the But now and then there were redmore irksome with each day she natures. Amy was the one who
he satisfied himself that he was than infinitesimal progress on it.
stayed in it. It seemed to her as if was hard and cruel and aggressive I certainly prickle of a coming annoyance. If letter days. The day when the Jake was there, a venombus, then now, Jane shrank from the loath-
the fellow'n wife Intimated that oxygen tent was abandoned.
The
tening Influence, waiting Impaleonting in her eyes, Jane," this Improvement was due to her day, not so long after, when they any chance to harm her further. "1 thought Aious psychle ald (God, how he bated whole oxygen apparatus went out fer
gone," sho you'd norver were fiddlestrings. stammered. could not control them,
"You'll find everything clean and Professor Lowe went on:
"But
tho lecture of her life about what was permitted to see him for 10 Mightn't she take Howard back to order, and nothing missing. we mustn't let this be known in But he was a conscientious phyal-with wonder
science alone did in cases like this, minutes, and to hear him exclaim Marburg, soon, she begged the The malds are paid. I mafled the Marburg. Rosa Torry would be einu is well a
and rapture at the doctor.
rent check to your office-it, in- a conscientious sight of her. The day when two humiliated to the soul to discover realist and when, after an interval of the murses could go. The day
cludes the rest of the week." - that her niece had made money to assure himself that the gain was when he had rubbed his unsightly not hurry. There wha a bad spot taunt. That renting of the apart
She could have found no worse out of the misfortune of her actual and likely to be held, he chin and demanded friends. I myself was ashamed for went in to tell Amy, to his surprise though he wasn't yet able to ait as he liked. It was not until the
a barber, in one lung which did not clear, upment was the sole piece of malice
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ferred to pay it. couldn't bargain."
"It's all exactly like she said:
thought Amy, with scorn.
no obligation glad we're under the word psychic) he'd give her of the house. The day when she She
Jane.
Well there it is! Weinnd relief her response was not as won't talk about it any more. he had anticipated. She was, he Now, my dear, suppose we go to observed, exactly like other people the hotel, bathe, change aur cloth-to whom he had been able to bring ing and be back here when the the rst hupe in a hopeless vigli. dactor comes in again."
More, she did not seem to have
Before Amy would go she crept expected it. So be became more down the hall to the sickroom. One friendly, of the nurses came to the door, i "He's
worne. no
There's o
"It is a very small gain, you un- derstand," he said, "but it is there.
change," he said, but she wouldand he seems to be holding it. It's not let Amy look at Howard again. "Sorry. Not unless the doctor's the first encouragement we've had. with you."
If he keeps on like this until morn-
It was the longest night that ling, and if he has an easier day Amy had ever known. She sat
1o-morrow" he left the promise
in the Eving-room. her hands huny unfinished.
with knitting. her thoughts mav "I's really true, isn't it?” she ing still more swiftly, Professor asked, "it's not just a little rally. Lowe was on the couch and Amy. before...? Don't make me expecti Inokitig at him from time to time, him to be better and then tell me could almost have smiled at the something different." contrast of his austere scholar's "Now that's dealing with!
head against that exotic back-reality." thought the doctor with ground. But Amy was thinking of approval. Aloud: "It's exactly Howard, her thoughts surrounding as I say, and it is encouraging, him, begging him to stay with her lut I'm going to stay here the rest telling him that he must not, must of the night. I wish we had him | not leave her. She believed that in a properly equipped hospital.” he. would feel her near him, and though unconscious, he would au- The professor had roused and
MIE
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But the doctor told her she must
GRAPHIC SHANGHAI EXPLOSION SCENES
THEY SWEAR OFF DAMES.
AND AT EACH OTHER!
They haven't had enough,
but they've had alt-they con
stand? What they nood is o rest, and they never get it!
EDMUND
VICTOR.
LOWE McLAGLEN
the roughest, toughest mugs that aver swung crowbars at each other in
"NO MORE WOMEN"
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SALLY BLANE - MINNA GOMBELL
Directed by Albert Rogs!!
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Scenes taken at the ruins of the Tai Yih Mai Tain Company still smouldered after « bailer explosion and fire which took a toll of 22 deed and injured workers. Above are shown Bremen of the French Brigade clearing away' the debris in the hunt for bodies. By means of tug line, they are pulling away one of the fallen, beams. Below is shown a woma worker who ran back to the scane Immediately after being treated for head injuries to search for soms dear one, possibly buried in the wreckage.
· The stark ruins of the Tal YI) Mei Tain:Company, Rua Amiral Bayle, are muts testimony to the warit Shanghai industrial maaidont so far this year."Above is an excellent full-view of the three storey plant which was entirely demolished by the explosion and fire that followed. Below French Brigade fireman work buroloally in the mass of bricks, masonry and twisted pipus and machinery to locate the bodles of workers and pedestrians who were killed in the enllapsa. They found four, of which one
"way thought to be the body of Chaung Zing-tao, manager of the costern.
The above photograph, was taken as workmen began to knock down ons of the two walls which has shut Lousa. Police Station off, from Nanklog, Road ever since 1925, when the old entrance was
closed following the rioting in that district." „Whore" the "prasast brickwork is being damolished, i nav gate will' shortly, he tracted The Inner, wall of the compound bas stil to be taken away before. complete entrance'ls given frous Nanking Road to the charge roomu
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