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THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, JULY 28, 1984.

SOPHIE KERR'S LATEST SUCCESS IN ROMANTIC PROBLEM FICTION

"STAY OUT OF MY LIFE!"

BEGAN DISH TO ĐÁI

AMY JACKSON that she enis make a susZERE

of her life Amy had been her best friend BRU HOWARD JACKSON broke the enza

mens fane forent on him and married Amg. Unable to bear the sight of Amy's happiness, Jase obtaine, a Job in a New York resi minta office,

Jane is clever and soon I making an excellent salary. She has an affair with ROUER TIKRI blog acquaintance whe le marriedalerie spans of theis

tires of him, and

child she damlaren him contemptuously.

CHAPTER XIV

It was!"

It. She felt no guilt-In tricking

turn

+

un-

{"'He's weak. ́· He's not honest about | had held them together for this jon the row. She said she never he was driven away, JANE TERRY corsei to New York Beter anything. What made me do it long two years. They had worked had thought it sporting of him to And now aho had driven him mined to show her home town and expesisir What made mel I know exactly together there so easily. She had use her place in Mr. Kandel's con- away. And the long hard wave of

the sort he was all the time, ex-absorbed his methods, profited byfidence to better himself, and that disgust for him and for herself- copt maybo right at first."

his experience, and fù return she sho was pretty sure he cared for though this she would never have had kept him informed about mat-her only to use her in this way. admitted to him-which had car- She put her hoad down on harters which came from other de-

ried her through this last scene, She also pointed out he wasn't had subsided and she was

spent honds and let the scenes of her partments direct to Kandel. Sho relationship with Thorpe drift had learned of Kandel's Chelsen supporting her, that he never had and done. She remembered the slowly up from her memory. His project at its very beginning and done so and that such prosents a way she had thrown herself on her first kindness, when she was find. Thorpe had seen the way to buy bracelet of sapphires and pearl. Jackson and Amy, but to-day she he had given her that brooch and bed and sobbed about Howard ing the office stole, and difficult; in ahead of his employer and make and then, his personal interest, and a creamy profit for himself. Jane the crystal fruit dish, for her din was past tears. Then she had still her response, flattered and conf- had put the money wrung from ing table, the gold cigarette, case had her beautiful, strong, "I'm going," Reger Thorpe said. dent. "Aunt Rosa would have said Miss Rosa's stewardship into the and so forth, she would gladly re-touched body, but now that had "But Jane-if you need me, If you it was my vanity ngain, and maybe scheme and the gain had doubled that she was 15 years younger than ward and weak and lif. She was him. She reminded him failed her. She was ugly and awk- to

want me "

"I'll never need you, I'll never

She had felt so sophisticated, so Kandel. She had seen his own ho, had never had a lover, that he alone,

There was no one in the world, want you. Her voice, for all its free-she had belleved so certainly ruthless, unscrupulous schemes win was married, established, and knew lovel quality, was like a whip Insh. that the marriage ceremony was no out time after time. It seemed no perfectly well what he was doing. on whom she could roky for the "We're through--I don't ever want more than mumbo-jumbo, meaning more than fair that for once he With these and similar thrusts she grace and solace of companionship, you to speak to me if you see me on less to honest minds, worthless to shouldn't get all the best of it. She made him feel cheap and dirty and and she wanted companionship. She needed someone to whom she the street. And stay away from honest lovers, just a lot of words had helped Thorpe work out the de-dishonest.

"Though he knew it was the truth, could talk and ease the burden of here. That reminds me give me that tie up people into an incon-tails, and the quick turn to her ad- your key. Very thoughtful of youvenient, stifling Intimacy. She had vantage gave her a cheering sense he know nise that it was qualified secrecy, for that had become al-

and explained by much other truth most intolerable. For not minded in the least that Thorpe of power. to ring this morning."

"I always ring when Kitty's she told him, above the pettinces of ed the high point of her affairing back at her. The necessary shared this strange, dark, pitiless himself was married. She was, That profitable transnetion mark-loss advantageous to Jane's case for she almost regretted letting Thorpe

herself, but which he could not go. At least he knew.

They wanting legal possession of his with Thorpe. For a while she restraint did not endear her to him. mystery into which she had gone "As if Kitty didn't know. Don't name. And to tell the truth, her was happier with him than she had Still his sense of responsibility so carelessly and unknowingly. be slily."

views along that line had not al-ever been. She Imagined them as

(To Be Continued.) Thero was a pause and Thorpe, tered at all. She was honestly partners, doing great things to would not let him leave her until sighing, rose to leave. "Jane," he glad she hadn't married him. Hogether, a free man, a free woman, asked, hesitatingly, "How are you had lost his interest for her and swinging far beyond commonplace the glamour of her imagined cour-humdrum humanity-but abè ex- age and even more imaginary pected the same humanity to ad- superiority to lesa daring women mire and to envy-and I was at had worn threadbare. She wanted this time that she discovered she to be rid of him. He had become was going to have a child, and wel- a wearying mulance.

comed the discovery as the final sign of her emancipation from the rules that limit and pingue lesser spirits,

here."

off for money?",

"I am all right, and it doesn't concern you anyway."

"I couldn't go without asking you. If you should happen to need any. just call me up."

pre-

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LATE MRS. J. GOULD.

moment

LEOPOLD'S POWERS.

FUNERAL AT HAPPY VALLEY TOOLS TO FORGE Chain of

YESTERDAY AFTERNOON

BELGIAN RECOVERY

The funeral of the late Mrs.

Brussels, July 27, Blanche Gould, wife of Mr. Joseph Gould, was held at the Colonial 89 to 60 passed a Bill giving King The Belgian Senate by a vote of Cemetery yesterday afternoon. Leopold special powers with The Rev. E. G. Powell officiated.

Although, by request, no flowers financial and economic recovery view to achieving the rapid were sent, a very large number of of the nation and the reduction of friends were present to pay their the public charges.

unemployed.

"Where? At your house?”

At first, she admitted, It had all Thorpe sighed again. "You're a seemed wonderful. The apartment queer girl. There's only one thing and furnishing it, getting used to more I can say, that I'm sorry from living in it and ordering Kitty It did not have the same effect the bottom of my heart. I'm sorry about had been gorgeous fun. on Thorpe. He was frightened and and ashamed. I feel so rotten, Thorpe came and went discreetly. Jane's grandiloquent ideas fright- getting out and leaving you alone." He didn't embarrass her. He was ened him still more. Also they "You may feel rotten, but you're importantly romantic, ardent shocked him. Jane ought to have relloved, too. If only I'll hold my enough to make her more than aure [been terrified. She ought to have last respects, tongue, if only I'll not bother you; that men, grown-up men of the cried and she ought to have clung There were present in addition The mensure also empowers the that's all you hope. You'll wake world, found in her no lack of at- to him and implored him to help to the bereaved widower, Messrs. King to protect the credit and up at night and go cold all over traction, even if the boys she had her. But she did none of these J. II. Taggart, M. J. Patoll, T. M. trade of Belgium and take what- wondering what would happen if known in Marburg had fought shy things. She laughed at his flust-Gregory, Shi Yu-man, Ho Wing, R. ever stops are necessary to reduce I came along again and wasn't in-of her,

ered reasonings and arguments. Pestonice, W. Goldenberg, F. Athe number of clined to be discreet. This will be Then there was the amusement She assured him that the things Joseph, W. A. Zimmern, Lo Yuk-Reuter Special. a good lesson to you not to make of the intrigue at the office, of he said didn't apply to her; tong, W. H. Choy, D. Ellin, A. K. love to

more girls in the of meeting formally there and

His resistance strengthened her Dimond, C. Basto, A. Nissim, E. M. flee, Ruger

tending to be unaware of each obstinacy. He couldn't make her Raymond, H. Odell, M. Politi, H. A. Thorpe winced, turned resentful. other, though they had established see what an utter little fool she Lammert, W. G. Perie, A. H. "Since we're giving advice. I'll simple set of signs-if Jane sent was and presently reached the Carroll, G. A. Harriman, Choa Po- give some to you. Don't take another Thorpe an office memorandum on stage of reproof and command. min. Maurice Weill, Live Well, M. lover unless you really love him. blue paper it meant "Are you com And, then the last remnant of Cario. J. Poon, J. Kotwall, D. H. Remember that. It makes a differing to-night?" and the blue paper glamour was off Thorpe for Jane. Cooper, A. J. Edgar, J. J. Edgar, erica. And goodbye, Jane." for his reply meant yes, white

D. P. J. Lopes, F. Ellis, A. M. LA At the closing of the door June paper, no.

One lengthy reid quarrel sue-Soares, J. Holcroft, J. Alves, F. sat down, limp and blank. Well,

ceeded another. Jane pointed out Austin, R. Abraham, Harold Seth, to him that in brains and busi-J. H. Seth, V. Benjamin, S. Salmon, Three members of the Chester- ness ability she was quite his equal.P. M. N. da Silva, A. H. Madar, field Rescue Brigade who if not his superior, and that she E. Ezra, Ezra Abraham, J. Judah, burned and gassed at Bilsthorpo had been able to catch and stop Dr. F. Kew, Dr. H. el Arculli, Mr. Collieries, Mansfield. rescuing various bad holes in the scheme by and Mrs. S. Dunn, Mrs. H. M. miners injured in explosions late which they had profited at Kandel's | Gregory, Mrs. D. S. Gubbay, Miss inst night, are to-day in a critical expense. There was sufficient truth Judah, Miss L, Ellis, Miss M. condition. Five doctors are at in this to lick Thorpe's self-esteem Manuk, nnd others.

tending them in relays.--British

she was rid of him. And glad of Jane wondered now if it was not it. "He's a coward," she thought.. the office and its business that

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