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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

MONDAY, JULY 23, 1934.

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SOPHIE KERR'S LATEST SUCCESS IN ROMANTIC PROBLEM FICTION

"STAY OUT OF MY LIFE!"

DEOİN JERK TO-DAY

del's sido. "Go ahead.” she said.

They went ahead. With various interruptions of telephones and visitors from within and without

| cause it's h job. . My bellef and ex-up, her dashing good looks. flying sion of your own hands and brain."the notebooks and pencils wore When HOWARD JACKSON, YOUDS veskowy perience have always been that you banners, struck his fancy instantly, she concluded triumphantly, with concealed, looked at the pencil'a profesane, eames to the small middle western can't be successful unless you love His last accretary had been faded out the leant, recollection that she point and came over to Mr. Kan- town of Marburg JANE TERRY, the pretti

twin town. determine, in win hk your work and go to it every day and acquiescent, afraid of her had stolen that speech entirely Howard & stirected by Jane's friend, Amygind that it's the thing you've got shadow. However, she had also from Bliss Jardine. LOWE, but Jane schemes to keep them soart to do. You have a little money of been competent. Mr. Kandel was Then one wegpiher Howard call of Amy and your own, and there's no one, de- not so taken with Jane's air that Later that night Jane confronts foward pendent on you, you tell me, so you ho lost sight of the need of com and scross him of breaking her heart. needn't stick to anything that petence. When he tries to calm her she interpreta h doesn't suit you. I want you to words a declaration of love and remember every word I'm saying

and

simet Immediately they fail in love.

their engagement.

"Well, by god!" bxclaimed Mr. Kandel. "You've got the idea, You're hired."

"Oh no, I'm not,nald Jano.. མ་ don't know yet what the salary is." "Thirty dollars to start. fore that hands and brain stuff."

the offlce, they did 80 letters, complicated. Jane enjoyed the test, mostly quite short, a fow long and enjoyed the side glances from the

to Amy what happened when Jane sers them and act on it." Miss Jardine made offhand. Yes, she could type. Yes, in a year if you hake good on men who came in, enjoyed taking

A day Isler Howard le trying, to explain Kogether. She files into Take want tell Juno he does not and never did want to marry her and that it is Amy hero and leaves. Amy Rdmits her love for. Howard and agrees to marry him.

Jane goes to New York and role in a secretarial school. Meanwhile iloward and

"Mina Jardine, do you honestly Amy act the date for their wedding in June. believe I can get this job and do things-In business-like a man?" "I honestly believe that you can and that you will-unices

*Unless what?"

CHAPTER IX

"01

"Unless you get yourself mixed up in some sentimental mess, That's where the average business woman loses out"

"What do

you mean, exactly?"

Mr. Kandel whistled. "What do you want?" he asked.

raise at the end of a your if I'm "Forty dollars to start and a $10 worth it."

up the phone and saying, gently and charmingly, "Mr. Kandel's sec retary speaking.. Who Is it, please? Just a moment, I'll see if Mr. Kan- del's in." It Kandel nodded no, her tone was Impersonally regret ful. . "I'm sorry, ho fan't here just now. May I take a message?”

a tall young man stuck his head in When they were nearly through

ened out." at the door and said: "We've got the Three Sixteen mattèr straight-

and Jano answered them almost He asked the usual questions

her speech of counsel with an au- she could take letters at any speed. thority which impressed Jane. Sho| Cortainly sho could write them "No, that's not enough for me. naked what was, for hor, a very without dictations given the gist. "But you don't know anything humblo question.

She could file, she could-anddenly about the real estate business. That she came alive to the situation, woman over at the school told me grasped the force and intensity of no. You've got a lot to learn at my the man before hor even as he rec-expense." ognized in her some of his own Then you'd better make it worth characteristics. Now she knew she my while to learn ft.” "It's a great opportunity," said

wanted to work for him, that he Miss Jardine, "even if it' isn't

could command her loyally and aid exactly what you want, I'm more

and her blind ambition. "All of Battered than I can say that they've

those things you've asked me," she naked me to send someone. In

said, Interrupting him, ""they're the those big organizations there'a usu-

usual secretary's stuff. Anyone can

As he entered Kandel Jocosely In- Mr. Kandel sottled himself for ally someone right in line to be

do them. You certainly require the pleasure of a dicker, with the troduced him: "This is Mr. Thorpe, moved up when a vacancy like this

"I mean unless you have a love much more than that."

double purpose finding out head of Rental and Management. occurs." She looked at Jane

affair that distracts you from thoughtfully, and

"As for instance?" asked Mr. whether the girl knew how to bar-If you ever want to rent an apart went on:

your work and makes you unre Kandet, still more interested. gain, and of saving himself third ment, apply to him. This is Miss course, you may not get it. My liable and trifling, and inefficient. "You want

secretary, Roger, Bomicone who can of the salary he had paid her Terry, my new sending you won't guarantee that. If I were going to advise you about handle people whom you don't want predecessor. By dickering and by and a live wire, bellove me. Sit They may have a dozen other girls that, I'd say--and this may seem to see, but also don't want to an-saving Mr. Kandil had largely still, Miss Terry.I want to go on," Applying: Then there's the draw and cynical, but it's sound tagonize. You want someone to made his great financial success, for June had started back to the culty that you haven't quite fin-If you do fall in love, either marry supplement your memory, to save But Jane, in his own phrase, sat secretary's desk. ished here"

the man and quit business alto-you time and effort and labour, re-up to him.. He was to her no more

So she waited and flatened, 'and "I've practically finished," June gether, or take him for a lover in lleve you of detail. You want-than Mrs. Berwyn trying to buy as she listened she looked at Roger reminded her, "and I've done the exactly the same way that the aver you want another pair of hands and for half-prico the left-overs of the Thorne, who was quite worth her whole course in a little fear than lage man takes a mistress. I mean another brain that will be, us for china booth of the annual Marburg Le an apartment house which had attention. Three-Sixteen seemed to by that let him care more for you as it's humanly possible, an exten. Hospital bazaar.

At the end of an been having a series than you do for him, so when it

exhilarating 20 minutes they came troubles. Thorpe had at last traced mysterious comes time to quit you'll get out

to an agreement, somewhat above these to the superintendent, of it without a broken heart and a

his intention. Mr Kandel was to jet of hateful memories."

"The man's insane, a sort of re- pay $37.50 a week for six months. iigious mania," said Thorpe. "He's Then If satisfactory Jane would re- been working up a grudge against ocive $40 and a $0 raise each six the families that dance and play months after that until she had cards and entertain and lead what reached a maximum of $10.

he calls ainful lives, d'you see? That explains why the heat failed In some of them, and the queer Miss Baratell's pantry and nolecs on the roof, and the rats in the plumbing trouble in the fifth and aixth floors,"

eight months."

"Oh, you've worked marvellously They said there was no use sending anyone who wasn't exceptional. Kandel's is the livest real estate firm in the city, even if it isn't the biggest but you don't even know the real estate vocabulary,"

"There's no danger of me falling in love, or marrying. I'm through with that sort of thing.

ali

"It ought to be easy enough to forover." learn." Miss Jardine's reluctance!

Miss Jardiné smlled. "At your whetted Jane's desire, as Missage that statement's a joke. How- Jardine intended it to do.

Jever, it's better than longing for "I suppose there'd be no harm in romance and I'll do you the credit letting them look you over," mused of believing that you aren't look- Miss Jardine. "If you don't agreeing for a job merely as u raft to -well, I could send either Laura bat yau into matrimony. Now Cates or Peggy Meredith."

you dash along over to the Kandel Building and let the know what happens. She called after Jane: 1 be a nice Christmas present ito yourself to land this job-or did you intend to go home for Christ- mas?**

"If they don't take me they're not likely to want either of them. I believe I can get it. When am I to go over there ?"

"Whether I land it or not, I'm not going home".

Now that Jane was eager for the job Miss Jardine became a little serious. "I want to talk to you firat: You're young. You're only starting. If you get it, this will be your first job and a first job often sets the trend of one's whole busi June

Go home! Something of her first rebellion and fury came back to as she thought of that.

ness existence. You must look it Whether she got the job or not, over carefully, from every possi-if she were starving. if she wore ble angle, and make up your mind dying and could only live by going whether or not it's the right line home, she wouldn't go. She came for you. Don't be one of these into the Kandel offices with her women who simply work for the colour staming, her eyes defiant, and week's salary and never look bespoke to the important youth in yond their noses. Now, after you're the reception room so peremptorily there a while and know the ropes that he leaped to announce ker. maybe you'll discover that you And she entered Mr. Ovid Kandel's haven't any flair for real estate. presence far more like Queen Vash- Maybe you won't like it. Maybe ti at her height than an anxious you'll be dumb about it, though applicant for a plum of a job. Mr. don't think that. But if it doesn't Kindel was unaccustomed to such salt you, if it doesn't work out so an approach and it interested him. that you like it, and want to go Course und cold, greedy and pow- on with it, you must drop it, cutjerful, concentrated rione too scrupu- it off clean and dry and try some-lously on success, he could appre thing else now while you're young, clate the same qualities in others Don't drift along on a job just be-and Jane, coming in with her head

The "jitney" stage of aviation history wa recalled 'at tha American Air Races at Floyd Bennett hald when Clarence Mc-

aloft Arthur took

pusher biplane of the 1910 The quaint craft is shown roaring through space at the thrilling speed of 40 miles an hour.

"And by that time," said Mr. Kandel, "you'll probably own this business and I'll be out on the street panhandling for a cup of coffee. When can you start?" "Now, if you want me." "There's your desk. Hunt up a notebook and pencil and we'll get going."

Jane put her coat and hat on the chair nearest the desk, opened by instinct the exact drawer where

that himself, said he couldn't un

"Good Lord, Johnson reported all

{derstand it"

was here he said something about "Yes, but the other day when he

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