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"THE," HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST

1984.

SOPHIE KERR'S LATEST SUCCESS IN ROMANTIC PROBLEM FICTION

"STAY OUT OF MY LIFE!"

.

CHAPTER XXIII

wanted the money?" asked How he doesn't sell to me, he will to'd make the whole thing absolute- had got on her nerves. Dut Amy. and Howard exchanged ard.

someone else." glances of discomfort, but not of "Oh that!" Jano tossed it off "I don't doubt it."

ly safe for you."

settled him, this afternoon, and "Opposition always was a tonic Aunt Rosa porked right up." indecisión, "We don't moan to lightly. "Nothing creditable. The

There was an odd allence. Jane for you, Janle," sald Amy, smiling, be cruel," said Howard. "We can man's rotten, really. It's for some was puzzled by his unresponsiva "but this time you're headed the not help It. "Oh Jane, you're Amy began to laugh. She could only do what we think is right. Of girl he's Interested in. He wants mannor, "You don't understand,

to set her up in a dress chop, or she said. "This Scars is simply no truth, nor yet your ability. I'm you dealing with Jimmy Trainer

wrong way. We don't doubt your priceless. I'd have loved to hear course a professor's salary is no great shakes, but I have a small beauty parlour, before he leaves, good. The family's run out. It perfectly certain that you'll buy he is so fresh and thinke ho knows personal income. We even

have

you soe. I don't know the detalls used to be doing to keep his sell it at a grand proft. But count

distinguished, Mr. What's-his-name's house and it all!". some savings, and Nancy isn't of that. They didn't matter. The believe. He's likely to suffer any privations. point was that he could actually sister from getting that money be- us out on it. We can't do it." Jane laughed, too, and began to

pull on Jane make a legal sale and it's a cholce cause he's so fed up with having

her June wondered if perhaps they helped her and she was intensoly fur coat. Howard You've not concerned yourself ce

her try to control him. If don't actually didn't have any money conscious of his nearness. She about her since then. And we my facta I

I made up my mind to can't let you concern yourself about buy-it myself. It's against the can't pass up a good stroke of know.

law for a broker to do that unless business for myself simply because her now. It would only mean the buyer knows it

"I'm sorry you feel that way," as she had planned from the first. really was coming out on top, just a renewal of of Interest-which plained all that to Mr. Sears and family."

but I ex there's bad feeling in the Scars she said aloud, "but if you change Everything was lighter, pleann- doesn't seem advisable."

your mir while I'm here, it won't ter Jane smiled, her Budden winning polated out that it meant one less "No," said Howard, "I suppose be too late. I wish you would tell me how you happened to name. At the door she paused, "Do brilliant smile. She saw her person to be let in on the deal, and not. But, frankly, It's just a shade change your mind." chance. "You certainly talk like a was therefore just that more too ironic to me to have young a little, conscious of her elegance, ward toward the nursery.

She preeneil-her-Nancy?" She nodded up- professor, iloward. You make me story, but it comes down to this: fair to somebody else's children." dark luxurious furs, in this plain "It's a name he specially likes."

private, I'm making a very long Nancy profit by a sale which isn't the soft rich red of her dress, the feel as small as Nancy. Now look Senre has signed the contract of

"Howard chos it!! said Amy, here, you don't want any my sale and has accepted a small pay- (She land started to say "dumb," chairs were worn, one of the lamp. "I'm so glad," she said to Howard,

"But that's 80-80 remote!" room. The covers of some of the from me. That's been made clear ment, so that binds him. I'm but changed the word with a stam- shades, a cheap paper thing, had "It's a

Jane glowed with gratification. enough. But would you mind if put you in the way of making some having the regulation title search mer.) The sale will be made any-a scorched place, on Its side. She

name I specially like, too." money yourself, on your own capi-ow, and we'll close in a couple of way, I toll

didn't feel quite so much out of tal I

you "Oh Jane," mean, so that you'd not have

When the door had closed be "And in the meantime I'm ar- let's argue about it. Howard's ca

"broko in Amy, "don't it when she noticed these blemish-hind her flourishing exit, Amy. to pinch or scrimp yourselves for the-the child? It happens that ranging for the money. He wants perfectly right. We don't want and yard, too. They were be- husband. You fraud, you faker

There was a difference in Amy pointed an accusing finger at her I can do It, right away. I'll tell cash if you please, the whole thing money made in a way that's hard ing kinder to her. They weren't she feared. "Suppose I'd have you, it's one of those queer unit.

in his hand, and he's going to get on other people."

so distant. "How long And I know, positively, that the expected things that come along day after I take title I can sell that Nancy and for you, too!". cried

"But I want to do something for ing to be here?" asked are you go told her the truth, that you wanted

Amy, onco in a blue moon. A

to name her Axelina after that old "Not long, only till I get Aunt Norwegian named Scars drifted into my office for three or maybe four Jane, "because you've taken care of Rosa's affairs straight again. It's wouldn't let you, and how you kept

sca-devli, and one day and said he wanted to Holt times what I paid for it. Now, do ker and loved her. And this ignot as bad as sho thought. She was calling her Nancy Ettloot because

you see? If put it ho wanted to do it quietly, no can treble it within six weeks. Filmy way again!"

a few thousand dollars into it, I before a snap like this one comes Trainor in old Mr. Massey'e offe publicity, and if he could ho'd let it trent it as part of the investment,

You gave the child to Amy, Jano. tees of property and after I'd go this kale, someone else will... 1 fonved, and 8ldn't want to let her contrived to touch his hand. Sho

man

weeks.

"We understand about your good

said Howard,

go for about a third of what it not as a lean, and you'll make ex-intentions, Jane," was worth. I saw he'd been drink netly the same proat, proportional-"And give you due credit for the Ing and at first I was just goingly, that I will. It will be absolute- same. But seriously, the biggest to ease him out-and then, I de-ly your own." cided to look into it."""

thing She looked at Howard expectant-leave her alone and not tangle her you can do for Nancy is to

But

They were pushing her out, clos-

She was, she thought, régulning ly. bor rightful importance. Howard

up in any feverish emotional jams. Was

listening absorbedly. She

If she ever finds out that she's got She had enjoyed reciting the two mothers instead of one went on more dramatically: "I dug Sears transaction.

it up the truth a scrap at a time. have loved to go on and tell about It might give a bad twist to her

She

would might be painful and unsettling. It was a spite sale. He and his her business, her profits, her sales, life. We'll bring her up the very sister are the last of a family that peacocking her own ability was once quite solidly rich and cleverness before him.

and best we can, you know that, with- they live in the house. She's a was enough to make him see how

this in our own means." widow with several children and clever she was in business, and she's older than he and has been how

she was to share trying to manage him and keep with her friends, not unkindly exactly, but inexora

a ing themselves away from her, hold of what money and property that's left. He's never done any lythat if this fellow Scars sue- them, they baffled and evaded her. he sald considering-bly. She struggled to understand work. All he wants in life is. ceeds in selling the house and excitement. He's crazy to go over hands over the money to his girl this deal?" she asked, "Or that "Are you afraid I can't swing and get in the war, but his income

everything isn't exactly as I've told is all tied up with his debts and

you. I'll have my secretary send he wants bunch of money for a

on the contract of sale, and pic- special reason before he goes. So won't they?" he made up his mind to sell his

tures of the house and records "Of course. equity in the house before his als-ter's tried, to hold on to the prop that neighbourhood has sold for re- showing what other property in ter could stop him and get away-"erty. But that has nothing to do cently. And I'll put up security

friend, his sister and her children will lose a good bit of what they would naturally have inherited, That's why the sig-

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