1934-07-30 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH: MONDAY, JULY 30, 1934.

SOPHIE KERR'S LATEST SUCCESS IN ROMANTIC PROBLEM FICTION

EE

STAY OUT OF MY LIFE!"

BEGIN DERE TO-DAY

especially AMY JACKSON that she can maka a murtein of her life. -Amy had been her

beat friend until HOWARD JACKSON brok

bergement Jana forced an. lln and married Amy. Unable to bear the sight of Amy's happiness, Jane obtains a job in a

efli ha dimisero him contemptuously

CHAPTER XV

ativist of wry humour: "I look like the wages of sin, don't I! Oh, and I meant to be so free, so glorious. I ought to be shot for a fool,”

"Don't! Jane dear, don't! I only wish it was my child."

"I'll give it to you, if you like. I'm going to send it away to be adopted as soon as It's born. I'm not going to keep it."

log I'd have to aloud, and least apologetically to Amy-but hep "Is Miss Torry" began Amy. JANE TERRY Domie Ly New York why she'd carry on! Aunt Rosa's did want powerfully to go and to And Jane's voice, shelli, tren- determined to show her home Lown and out, once and for all."

have his young alde with him. bling: "Amy-Ampt" Thinking of Aunt Rosn brought|It was impossible to refuse the okl Then Amy know why she had back Marburg. Its quiet streets and man.

sent for her. She was so struck They rushed their preparations with horror and amazement that quiet blinded houses. And then, suddenly her dream come back, and sailed on the sixteenth of July, she could not speak, but she hold New York real state view.

two girls walking under the elm and Amy came to New York to out her hands and the two women Jane le clover and cour to making an excellent salary. Bha hai an affair with trees as in a high green tunnel, sea them off. It was a fiery steam clung together in silence, which BOER WHOLE ales intance two girls in light dresses, laugh- ing day, and when the ship had presently broke into a chaotic mur- who is married fater she tires of him ring together-why, of

course pulled away from the pier Amy muring half-speech, half-Incolor-

that. when he offers to bear the exponan if theirt Amy would stand by, Amy did not wait to watch it down the ent wordless exciamation,

"Jano, you don't mean That's the wickedest thing I over would hold her tongue.

river, She was tired from the "I knew I know you'd come. heard of. You wanted to have this She could trust and depend on stifling heat, and distressed at There was nobody but you." child and now you're not going to No, Jane reassured herself, she world. There was relief in the though she was used to his field

Amy

an on no other person in the this parting from Howard, for "Jano-oh poor Jane!"

take care of it That's horrible, "Amy-Amy! I'm so afraid--you mustn't even think of such didn't regret Thorpe. " can get through by myself better than very thought of her. Jane's quick trips, this was different. He was it's all so dreadful

a horrible thing." "But Jane toll re-” having him whining about," she weight of Amy's promise Amy sides, they had been planning to

advantage-seoking mind added tho so much farther away, and be

Jane's great mournful eyes And Jang told. Not very much, gazed at her friend in utter dis- thought angrily, "Afraid that he'll be found out and disgraced had said that she was always her go abroad together in another not very clearly, but enough for illusion. "Amy," she said, "s friend, that she would do anything, year. It was all disappointing and Amy to tnderstand the folly, the you really think I'd make a good She tried to think of someone anything! Jane brushed aside to stupid and nothing to be done danger, the pity of what she had mother? Wouldn't any child be she could tell. There was Miss

about it. And now aho must done. Amy understood something better off with someone who wants to bear Mias Jardine's questions They had no bar to her appeal. she had said and written to Amy.

her mysterious, disturbing, acting, not shamming. For once ought nover. to know who its and her possible satisfaction that They would be no bar to Amy in unhappy letters meant.

Jane wna honest with herself and mother is." Jane was in such distress. Miss answering her appeal. Amy, did Amy hailed a taxi and gavoj her audience.

(To Be Continued.) Jardino had disapproved of Jane's nature old grudges. Amy al Jane's address and tried to wrench "If you'll only stay with me, apartment. She had, Jane was ways kept her word. She would her thoughts from her own fool- Amy. That's what I mind, being sure, been a thought envious write to Amy today, this very Inga and get them into a proper so utterly alone. If I only felt CHARGES of Jane's quick success. As an ald in trouble Miss Jardine would

state to meet Jane and whatever well I'd get through it by myself, her difficulty might be, but it was but I feel so strange. Sometimes not do.

almost impossible.

I think I might die here without

Jardine, but she wouldn't be able nothing the cruel atabbing thing" 20 Roe Jane and find out more-that for once Jane was not? This child, if it lives-ti

And there were no girls or wom- en In the Kandel organization to whom Jane could turn. They' talk. They'd be sure to find out about Thorpe and the scandal would go through the office like rot in wood.

minute,

-

manage

it.

OF THEFT.

EUROPEAN VICTIMISED BY CHINESE COOK

Arrested cutaldo the Yuu Sau Pawnshop in Yaumati with

trousers In pair of his possession, Sin Shing, 40, a coak employed by Mr. N. W. Hill of No. 43 Nathan Road, was found to have stolen a quantity of his master's clothing between May 31 and July 26.

It was more difficult than Jane had foreseen to make contact with "If she's simply acting and work-n soul around. You will stay with her friend. Amy could not come ing herself Into one of her states me, won't you? You won't leave to her at once, as Jane demanded: na sho used to do," Amy sald to me?" She couldn't it seemed at fret herself firmly, "I'd walk out on her, come to her at all. Jane realized fat. I don't want t to hear any non-

"But how can I atay. June? the justics of this. She knew sense from Jane."

only came on to see the boat sail. that Amy couldn't dash off alone

I didn't even close the house The only person In the office who to New York at a moment's notice All the same, it was exciting to make any arrangements. 1 h or acemed at all possible was Kandel without giving

an think of seeing Jane again, of see even any clothes with me except Marburg himself. Jane know

that he, adequate reason, and Jane had no ing where and how she lived, and what need for these two days." rough, bullying. powerful, would intention that Marburg gossip perhaps being friends once more. But already ahe

was planning. understand. She could be blunt should iny hold of her name. Maybe Jane had repented the way! Her mother would take care of and straight with him, and he

But presently the opportunity she had behaved about Howard the house, send her something to Mr. Wynne-Jones at the Kowloon Sin Shing was brought before with her. But there again, if she came in an easy way. Old Pro- and her wild accusations against wear. And Howard was gone, Magistracy on Saturday morning talked to Kandel. Thorpe would be fessor Ellert was suddenly seized both him and Amy, but that would be gone for weeks. Sho implicated. And whatever hap with a longing for one last visit seemed unlike Jane, Maybe she might, somehow,

and pleaded guilty to charges of Jane felt her weakening, "You theft. poned Jane meant to keep silence to the scenes of his student days simply wanted to show off to Amy, about Thorpe. It was not so much in Germany, one last pilgrimage fund maybe-Amy sat back in the to protect him as to protect herself to the Kaiserstuhl, the Hohentwell enb and mopped her face and Tor the future. She had learned and the Eifel crater lakes, Esch-stoppad guessing. the hard lesson that every personbach and Deningen, all the spots She wished the interview over. see nothing odd in that. let into a secret increases. Its where he had so happlly collected The real reason for it she never will think anything odd of what-Station. Sergeant Davis inter- sharers by ten.

his first geological specimens, and once suspected. With her eyes ever you do anyway, Amy. Oh, viewed Mr. Hill, who said he had Of course, there was Aunt Rosa. It was obvious even to himself still dazed from the outside glare stay with me! It's only another not lost anything. A search of "But I walk straight into Hades that he could not xo alone, she walked hesitantly into the month. You couldn't go away and the defendant's belongings reveal- before I tell her," dane said aloud. Naturally he turned to Howard shadowy salon of Jane's apart-leave me now you've seen me. jed five pawn, tickets which related "She'd go off her head and she'd He would pay all expenses. Hement, and a shadowy, misshappen The two girls looked at one an-to property owned by Mr. Hill. It drive me crazy, too. The preach-would make the trip short-this figure came hesitantly to meet her. other. Amy lovely as she had alwas then discovered by Mr. Hili ways been in her fall serenity, her that he had lost a woollen fair life: Jane tumbled and swol-pullover, two pairs of flannel ion and hollow-eyed, aged and Ill. trousers and, two woollen over. It hurt Amy unbearably to see her coats, altogether worth about $150. so. And Jane, half glancing to- Sentence of 12 weeks was ward the nearest mirror anid, with passed,

can telegraph that you've decided Detective Sergoant Davis told

to make me a little visit. Then the Court that defendant was you can write. They'll cortainly arrested by an Indian sergeant,

Nu one

who took him to the Water Police

"

SOFT COLLARS TO MATCH THIS NEW DRESS SHIRT!

*

Here is a sensible Summit' shirt for summer evening wear. It has a soft piqué front, soft double cuffs ond -here is the great point

two soft pique polo shape collars to match,

As it is sponsored in Londoir by Austin Reed's you may be

on

sure that it is correct for the

less formal occasions

which one wears cither dinner Jackel or mess jackor..

MACKINTOSHS TD

MEN'S WEAR SPECIALISTS

The Sovereign Spirit in Quality as well as Name

With a body, indicated by arrow, lying in the sirent and citizens stampeding for safety, this was the striking scene in Havana as machine gunuara'viding in a car, shot 12 marchers in a parade of the ABC revolutionary organization. The gunmen later were caught.

Swept by heavy rains and high winds for five days, the little republie of El Salvador was delivered a staggering blow, when 'a' battering hurricane followed, killing more than 1,000, rendering hundreds homela and causing property damage of millions of dollars. The storm also struck Honduras with great damage. Huro Is a view, of the wrackage of a home lu San Salvador, capital of El Salvador.

a parkagent til departe sågt merkta a vela da ponos jelkam dasdelenor NIKE TEAMS antal met

27. Manistee ofmerykanie ngarkot pra

King George IV

WHISKY

Sole Agents:

GANDE, PRICE & CO., LTD.

Tel. 20135.

THE

HONGKONG,

HONG KONG

PENINSULA HOTEL:

HONGKONG HOTEL; REPULSE DAY HOTEL; PEAK HOTEL

Sweeping in from the Gulf of Mexico with blinding fury, a 70. mile hurricano devastated farge arena in Louisiana and Mississippi, causing seran deaths and property damage to the extent of millions of dollars. In Morgan City, La. Where the storm luft scarcely a building undamaged, here's what the high winds dki ta `n garage. (top) and an automobile. (below), smashed by a falling cement block.

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL,

HOTELS

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Peking

Penang

The Scenic Gem of Malaya

NEW

Runnymede Hotel

Malaya's Premier Hotel

also under the same management,

THE CRAG HOTEL Penang Hill

(A health station).

CABLES "RUNNYMEDE!” RUNNY DE HOTEL, LTD.

+