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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1934.

SOPHIE KERR'S LATEST SUCCESS IN ROMANTIC PROBLEM FICTION

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CHAPTER XXXV

"But you've only just come!" "You were a very good giri at this to know. "Mother wants to take "There's nothing I can do about explained Miss Rosa, dismayed.

party, baby. Love your mother?" her when the new baby comes. He says she's

"But Nancy's fine with Father. "Why don't you sell this house?! It," thought Amy. "I needn't have asked Jane. "Get rid of all this mother, uv parties, yuv cookies, better for her to be out of the Lillan likes her and that's a tri-

Try uv my mother, yuv my long." Amy and to Mary. "It's child than I

amuel brighter tried to bo facellous witir her. prehistoric junk you call furniture you granmommies, yuv my moth house until the fuss is over and bute, belleve me. Sho's such

wal Even old Facetiousmoon is always dangerous and travel about and enjoy your or!" murmured Nancy climbing we get into order again. Don't crank. She'll be better off over but she was giving herself such If sho'd pretending to pity mask for a while? Then take a into bed, "Y afra, and

really pitied me I wouldn't art modern apartment in New

ovrything." cared, but she only wanted to York near me and go about to the kiss her, "Goodnight, Inmb!" she socks and day clothes, straighten- baby Hike Nancy ought to be let

Amy leaned to tuck her in and

You think so?“.

there. If I had much pain-and have

The two women were picking up she heard me, well, I don't think make me uncomfortable and en-hentres and opera

said "You're going over and visiting the room. "I can manage, if in for anything like that." vious, watching her spread her'

"But I couldn't travel, even if granmommy and granpoppy for a you'd rather sho'd stay. feathers. Maybe I ought to have wanted to, with the war going while before long. Won't that be mother will want to be over here asket Mary.

"Are you afraid of the pain?" just been thankful she didn't want on. I certainly don't want to go Nancy, and treated her nicely, Uncomfortable, exchausting, conta to China. don't like travelling.

most of the time, I Imagine," Nancy was too far gone in sleep! Mary. matter how she carried on. But for her to begin aagin about How like fury, too. You don't under ard-and to fly off the

Low stand, Jano-I don't handle-and

want ta scream at me! Oh, it's no une change. Things are changing too all that was kind and dear and into my house and see the chairs fast for me anyway. When I coma friendly between us la gone. It went when I took Nancy. Some-longed to my grandfather and great- and tables and pictures that be thing happened to both of us the grandfather I thank the Lord that can't be patched up. There's there's still one place time haan't no usa our even going through the altered. My friends are here. My motions of our old friendship."

But on the walked slowly along way of life is settled in a deep she began to forget Jane's spaamove, and I enjoy it that way." of anger, to forget Jane herself to look at the same old furniture "Well, it would kill me if I had The charmed circle of her world and the same old faces all the time. drow in about her. She was safe I'm going to do.my apartment over there with Howard, and their son in this now Viennese style before But it was otherwise with Jane. long, and 1 change servants every As she stormed away from Amy month or two just to see new her anger blow higher. She knew

she had made a show of herself. people."

"That," said Miss Ross with

and that she'd been set down and dignity, "is your affair. You're laughed at. There was the worst young and restless. I am old. ating. that she hadn't impressed And fat. I like my case..

darned sight rather be happy men-

or shaken her polse.

F'd n

She simply has no sense!" Jane tally than uncomfortable physical- allently acreamed. "To try to pre-

In other words, I'm n old

But" admire

tend she's happy and contented anall in a shell that fita mo. under such conditional She has Ingratintingly-"I do nothing nothing! That

grubby old house. And the most awful your spirit and energy, Jane, and clothes! And not even amaldies. And I still wish you'd

sight-4] don't

spare me an extra day or two,

f you can manage it and don't find it

Her hands wore nee how she can touch the piano."too much of a bore." She was almost home when caution stapped her. "I can't go in and

The compliments pleased Jane.

talk to Aunt Rosa yet-she'd know any this for you, Aunt Rosa, I didn't go very far. What a dump you're one of the few people in this town isi 1. belleve I'll go Marburg who has any idea of what lown to the telegraph office and I've done." Then she remembered wire Andrews to send for me to Amy, and frowned. "But I don't come back to-morrow.

believe I can stay. though I might

As she went on she brought her for another day if I'm not ment anger under control, but she could for." She thought: "Andrews T not lose or reduce it. Rather it mounted, became more vindletive.ave my wire in the morning and If It had occurred to her then that

Will understand,"

Amy was afraid she might claim herself would be restored. There In her offee her confidence in Nancy she would have done it, re she was supreme. No one around gardless of consequencer. was so far from thinking of the her who would not obey, submit. equlesce, admire. Her Approval

child, or wanting her, that she of Miss Rosa showed itself in un didn't even see her as a weapon to unusual attention: Shall I take strike Amy vitnily. Instead felt she was defenceless against shall we have a game of rummy

Aho you out to the movies to-night, or Amy, and all of the grudges

The had more or less forgotten came

asked agreeably. back to

her with overwhelming power. Amy had stolen

hor lover and for some unfathomable reason had kept his love, Amy kad

Her aunt beamed: "Listen, Jane, there's

A two-handed bridge that other day and I've been crazy to was described in the paper the achieved nothing, hnd amounted to if we don't like it we can have some try it. Let's see how it goes, and nothing, while she, Jane, had won rummy. I'd rather feel cards in money and distinction by her own my hand any time than look at ability and talent, and yet Amy those silly movies. The way they could be happy and unenvious and kiss turns my treat Jane's superiority with mock-down

stomach upside ery. It all made Jane want, quite frankly, to reduce Amy to dust and contrition and apology, to see peace and serenity beaten from her face. beateri out of her life.

was putting Nancy to bed, with Over in the old Booth house Amy Mary helping. The little girl, bathed and brushed and sleepy, was pulling on her nightgown. Nevertheless she managed to alt yuv parties. Let's have a party Mother," she said, dreamly, " calmly before Miss Rosa's sharp eyes, which watched her as they evvy day."

talked across Miss Rosa's Invishi "We'll have as many as we can,"

dinner table, though there was B promised Amy, hugging

malice in her comments-hadn't

Mrs. Lowe aged frightfully--and wasn't Mrs. Jackson a funny old thing, trying an hard to be apright- ly!-and that little Moreland creature certainly was nn

odd

thought!--and as for poor A she was really pathetic! Jane not mention Nancy, nor did Miss Rosa, And prosently

Jane dis.

missed them all with, "It's all rather saddening to come back and see how people have changed and how little they have!"

"Well, Marburg's a small place. You can't expect it to be like a metropoils," said Miss Rosa, taking. another hot cream biscuit. "Life is different here. It runs slowly,

moro

"It doesn't run, it creops-that in, when It moves at all." Jane was tired to talking about these people. "And I do hope that slow- poke, Trainor, will be ready with his accounts to-morrow morning, for I ought to get back as soon as

I can."

her.

Fortunately no-one was injured in this accident which occurred in Shanghai on Nanking Road.. The motor involved in the mishap belongs to Dr. A. Renner, who collided with a tram going in the same direction as the result of a sharp sworys to avoid a cyclist.

The above group photograph was taken in Shanghai after the wedding of Miss Garda Fabling, of

Cologne, and Mr. Feledrich Lehrer, of Mosers. Siemans China, Shanghai.

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