THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1934.
SOPHIE KERR'S LATEST SUCCESS IN ROMANTIC PROBLEM FICTION
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CHAPTER XLII
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timo. I cold! Amusing, lan's It?" She why I'm gind. I shouldn't like to a reproachfal Nancy, "What on wouldn't really care to go so soon shrugged her shoulders, Nancy was sitting very straight again."
"But so suddenly, Jane! What her
"You seo, Jane-Nancy makes did you expect her to do?" on the sofa, her eyes wary, expression defiant. Before her, in her own decisions," said Amy. "If anyone had come along and Miss Rosa's most comfortable she's sho's, like her mother in joffered me the same thing when I -chair, was Jane, so light and girl that."
was her ago I'd have had my trunks Ish in her valvet pajamas, with her
packed by this time! Oh well,
dark hair curled up in a mop at the fancy was restless and uneasy: What's that! And how about you, leaned forward and patted Jane's her, and I didn't even know, who
I am," she said, "and so, back, that for a moment Amy had though it was very sweet of you Amy-I needn't ask, I suppose, the Illusion of the Jane she used to think of it, I really can't do it. How do you keep your complexion! to know.
Mother, we ought to bo
Ross tells me that besides being a you're Marburg's "I haven't been up to see Mins. faculty lady didn't know you were here. When
Rosn yet," -did you come?"
Bald Amy. "You can musical leador, that you manage run on ahead, If you want, and get what not. Apparently you thrive concerts and run choruses and things ready."
"All right," said Nancy." "I'll do on it, too. I should think you'd be that. Goodbye, Miss Terry de bored to tears!" appreciate your asking me." She
"But you must remember I'm un shook hands with Jane and went nccustomed to anything clac." out quickly, patently glad to get said Amy. "I'm not at all bored.
In fact I quite enjoy it."
"Oh, hello, June." said Amy, "homo. It's nearly time for it's really marvellous, And Aunti
Last night, quite unexpectedly," said Jane sweetly. "How are you, dear-how well you look!"
The tone made Amy understand that her dress was old and out of fashion, her hat even more so, and her hair straggling, and she could scarcely keep from smlling.
You
away.
"Why did you do it, Jane ?! asked Amy, "Do you really want her?"
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an
"You look pretty well yourself,
"I believe you do. It all seems and as decorative us ever," she re-
to me, such a stupid life-so par plied cheerfully. "Mies Roan must
frown liralted! You might have have been awfully glad to see you.
done something big with your It's been so very long since you've Jane lit a cigarette. "Oh, I don't muale!. Do you remember, I used
viall. Weren't know, It was a hunch, paid Marburg
that?" im-ta toll surprised to find Nancy grown pulse. I'm lonely sometimes, I'vo!
Bald Amy, very nolemn- up? I don't believe you could have made heaps of money, Amy I got ly. "if you are born with a small- recognized her. She was about out of the market at the right time town nature you never changel four when you saw her Inst." and I've watched my properties That's what ails me, I imagine. Nancy could keep still no longer. and my investments. I've pro-And now, I must go along here. I "Mother
Misa Terry's been making bably lost na little na anybody in won't have time to see Miss Rosa me to visit her in New York. Amerien during this depression, to-day but I'll be in soon again. She'd like me to come and stay as hardly enough to 'notice it. And How long are you staying? long na I want."
when Nancy came in here to-day, "Only a day or two. Probably What a nice invitation to come so alive, and so awfuly pretty (and I'll go to-morrow." right out of the blue!" said Amy. after all she is my child. Amy), I And I was saying," went on thought suddenly that I'd like to Nancy quickly, that I was sorry, give her a chance." but I couldn't ponsibly de
so much bore mean, there's
"Oh, I see. A chance for what exactly??
She went with Amy to the door and in the brighter light thoy! looked at one another with apprais- ing interest. Amy saw an elegant
Jane broke in with a compostere "A chance to get out of this slow and exqufale woman whose beauty eo porfect that no one might guess little city and right into the mid-ad been cherished and cared for rancour beneath. "I wish you'd let die of things. A chance for lax in every possible way.
her come, Amy-you must think ury, travel, lovely clothes, meeting Jane also saw a beautiful wo- it odd, my speaking to her about people whose names Are in the man, but, one who was neither it without talking it over with you papers all the time, theatres, music, elegant nor exquisite, rather dis- first, but well-my old friend's art, all that sort of thing. I hevelled and, if not actually dowdy, daughter and all that--and I thought of what a deadly time she at least two years behind the cur could give her a very good time. must hava hero, the kind of time rent mede. I've a wonderful penthouse apart-I had when I was a girl, and glad I saw you. I'm very glad. "Goodbye, Jane," said Amy, "I'm mont and my own car and chauf-almost before I knew what I was You know, I thought I hated you. feur-I motored here, by the way saying, I asked if she wouldn't like I did hate you for a while. There -and I I was thinking of Europe to visit me. I thought I'd like to this summer, and what fun it show her things, and for the first were two years after that paeu- would be to have someone young time I was actually curious about monia of Howard's when it was and fresh and gay-and so very her, about her tastes and her touch and go with his lungs, and I pretty to go with me."
brains and her ideas, whether she certainly hated you then, for 1 "Mother and Father and young had any head for business.
blamed you for it. But I must If sho Howard and I were in Europe last has I could do almost anything for have forgotten about hating you summer," sald Nancy. "We had her. But she turned me down after he got better..
and that's
think I could have lived as happily earth kept you so long? I've boon, as I've lived all this time and lept dying to see you and tell you all! hating anyone. I'm glad of That woman: The great big nervo your success; it's the kind you alsof her! Patronizing me and tell- ways wanted. I hope you'll always ing me that Marburg is a dump! have it, and enjoy it, and I believe I thought she was crazy, asking mo you will. You're that sort." She if I wouldn't like to come and visit
"aid s arm. "Goodbye," #bo
she was when I wont in to Mias "I'm glad I told her
Rosa's!"
My heavens, don't bowl around. thought Amy, as she went home. "It was very strange to roach Into so! She meant to be kind, you She didn't need a lot of my feelings for that old hate nad know! And it gone And I told her to preliminaries to invite the child of surface, she stay out of my life and, on the one of her oldest friends to see her. certainly stayed. And she could have given you a But in reality sho's been a constant
vory good time." part of it for she gave me one of
"So she informed me, down her ny greatest joys, Nancy. I lave nose! Well, I just stared at hor Niner so nearly as much as I do trying so hard to be youthful, and young Howard that I'd be puzzled you know, Mother, when you think to tell the difference. And that's about a woman bow young she good thing, too. Love shouldn't looks it's a sure sign that her real be measured-hate shouldn't be youngness is gone. And acting as treasured. And that about washosif Marburg was totally inhabited us up. Jane and mo!"
by a moron peasantry! I wouldn't have gone if she had offered mo a (Continued on Page 4).
At her own door 'she was mot by!
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Here is the scene at Portland, Oregon just before guns of police aboard this list car wounded four strikers during an attempt to run a train into a beleaguered municipal terminal. Strikere hidden in the brush and tall grass stong the tracks showered the train with bricks before police fired with shotgens.
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Here is the officer personnal to pilot and handia the navy's 12-plane fight from San Diego, Cal to Dutch Harbour, Alaska; and return, a Oight of 7,700 milos. Left to right, back row: Chief Radio Electrician C. G. Alexander, Chlef Boatswain E. E. Raber, Lieuté, O. L. Hall, C. L. Miller, J. 9. Hatch,. C. G. Mead, C, H. Duerawlot, J. H. Datrons. Front row: Lieuts: A. Ni Perkins, F. J. Bridgett, C. J. Cont sworth Jr.; Llout Commander H. T. Stanley, aquadron commander: Lieut. Commander J. M. Shoemaker, wing commander: Lieut. Commander R. Irving, #qasdron commanders Liauts. J. A. Pennington, J. B. Voit, J. E. Baker, W. T. Rasseur, '
Condemned to die in Arizona's new lolhal gas chamber for the morder of a Tucson automobile dealer, George J. Shaughnessy, 19, bids his foster mother, Mrs. Stella, Shaughnessy, a kaorful (ar
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