1934-08-22 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1934.

SOPHIE KERR'S LATEST SUCCESS IN ROMANTIC PROBLEM FICTION

"STAY OUT OF MY LIFE!"

CHAPTER XXXV

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"Yes, I'm scared to pleces. But

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"But you've only junt "come!"¡"You were a very good girl at this, to know. “Mother wants to takeį "But Naney's fine with Father. "There's nothing I can de haut explained Miss Rosa, dlamaydd.

Why don't you sell this house?" party baby. Love your mother?" her when the new baby comes He says she's a much brighter "Yuy my mother, yuv my along." Amy said to Mary. "It's child than I was! Even olu 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 Lilian likea her and that's a tri- tried to bo facetious with her. prehistorie junk you call furniture yuy granmommies, yuy my moth house until the fana la over and bute, bolleve me. She's such Facetiousness is always dangerous, and travel about and enjoy your ori" murmured Nancy climbing we get into order again. Don't crank. She'll be better off over but, she was giving herself such self for a while? Then take Into bed, "Yuv ovvything."

you think so?". alre, and pretending to pity me smart modern apartment in New

thero. If I had much pain-und Amy leaned to tuck her in and The two women were picking up she heard ine, well, I don't think If she'd really pitied me I wouldn't York near me and go about to the kiss her, "Goodnight, lamb!" she rocks and day clothes, straighten- a baby like Nancy ought to be let have cared, but she only wanted to theatres and opern

sald "You're going over and visit Ing the room. "I can manage, if in for anything like that." make me uncomfortable and en- "But I couldn't travel, even if granmommy and granpoppy for you'd rather she'd stay.

Tour

"Are you afraid of the pain?" vious, watching her spread her I wanted to, with this war going while, before long. Won't that be mother will want to be over here asked Mary. feathers. Maybe I ought to have on. I certainly don't want to go fun?". just been thankful she didn't want to China. I don't like travelling.

trost of the time, I Imagine," said; Nancy, and treated her nicely, ng Uncomfortable, exchauating, costs

Nancy was too far gose in alcep| Mary. matter how she carried on. But like fury, too. You don't under- for her to begin angin about How stand, Jane-I don't want to ard-and to fly off the handle and change. Things are changing too scream at me! Oh, it's no use fast for me anyway. When I come all that was kind and dear and into my house and sea the chairs friendly between us is gone. It and tables and pictures that be wont when I took Nancy. Some longed to my grandfaher and great. thing happened to both of us then grandfather I thank the Lord that can't bo patched up. There's there's still one place time hasn't no uso our oven going through the altered. My friends are hero. My motions of our old friendship."

WAY of life is settled in a deep groove, and I enjoy it that way."

But na she walked slowly along she began to forget Jane's spinam "Well, it would kill me if I had of anger, to forget Jane herself to look at the same old furniture The charmed circle of her world and the same old faces all the time. drew in about her. She was safe I'm going to do my apartment ever thero with Howard, and their son. in this new Viennese style before. But it was otherwise with Jane, fong, and I change servants every As the stormed away from Any month or two just to see new her anger blew higher. Sk knew

people."

she had made a show of herself That," said Miss Rosa with and that she'd been sot down and dignity, "Is your affair. You're Inughed at. There was the worst young and restless. I am old. afing, that she hadn't Impressed And fat. I like my case. I'd a Amy or shaken her polse,

darned sight rather be happy men She simply has no sense Jane tally than uncomfortable physical- allently screamed. "To try to prey. In other words, I'm an old tend she's happy and contented snail in a shell that fits me. But" under such conditions! She has ingratiatingly--"T do admire nothing-nothing! That grubby your spirit and energy, Jane, and old house. And the most awful success. And I still wish, you'd clothes! And not even a maid 1 spare me an extra day or two, If Hor hands were a sight-I don't you can manage it and don't find it see how she can touch the piano." too much of a bore," She was almost home, when caution stopped her. "I can't go in and talk to Aunt Rosa yot-sho'd know I didn't go very far. What a dump this town is! I believe I'll 9 down to the telegraph office and wire Andrews to send for me to come back to-morrow."*

As she went on she brought her angor under control, but she could net lose or reduce it. Rather it mounted, became more vindictive.

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say this for you, Aunt Rosa, The compliments pleased Jane, you're one of the Marburg who has any idea of what few people la I've done." Then she remembered Amy, and frowned. "But I don't for another day if I'm not ment belleve I can stay, though I might for." She thought: "Andrews' have my wire in the morning and

understand."

If it had occurred to her then that In her office her confidence' in Amy was afraid she might claim herself would be restored. There Nancy she would have done it, re-she was supreme. No one around gardices of consequences. But she her who would not obey, submit, was so far from thinking of the ncquiesce, admire. Her approval child, or wanting her, that she of Miss Roen showed itself in ni didn't avon see her as a weapon to unusual attention: "Shall, I take strike Amy vitally, Instead she you out to the movies to-night, or folt she was defenceless against shall we have a game of rummy?" Amy, and all of the grudges she lie asked agreeably.

had more or less forgotten came Her aunt beamed: "Listen, Jane, back to her with overwhelming there's a two-handed bridge that newer. Amy had stolen her lover was described in the paper the and for some unfathomable reason other day and I've been crazy to had kept his love. Amy had try it. Let's see how it goes, and achieved nothing, had amounted to if we don't like it we can have some 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 blilty and talent, and yet Amy those silly movies. The way they Fould be happy and unenvious and kias turns my stomach upside treat Jane's superiority with mock-down" ary. It all made. Jane want, quite Frankly, to reduce. Amy to dust and antrition and apology, to see peace nd serenity beaten from her face, eaten out of her life.

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Nevertheless she managed to sit almly before Miss Rosa's sharp yes, which watched her as they alked across Mina Rosa's Invish dinner table, though there was a alice in her comments-hadn't Mrs. Lowe aged frightfully--and vasn't Mra, Jackson a funny old hing, trying no hard to be spright-

and that Jitulo Moreland reature certainly WAS BA ocki hought!--and as for poor Amy, ho was really pathetic Jane did jot mention Nancy, nor did' Mies Rosa. And presently Jane dis- issed them all with. "It's all ather saddening to come back and so how people have changed and of little they have!"

"Well, Marburg's a small place. out can't expect it to be like n etropolis," said Misa Rosa, taking nother hot, cream bikeult. "Lifo différent here. It runs more lowly."

It doesn't run, it creeps-that when it moves at all!" Jane na tired to talking about these. ople. “And I do hope that slow. ke, Trainor, will be rondy” with

8 accounts to-morrow morning..

I ought to get back as soon as

con,"

Over in the old Booth honse Amy was putting Nancy to bed, with Mary helping. The little girl, bathed and brushed and sleepy, was pulling on her nightgown. "Mother," she said, dreamily, "I yuv parties. Let's have a party evvy day."

"We'll have as many as we can." promised Amy, hugging 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 swerve to avold a cyclist.

The above group photograph was taken in Shanghel after the wedding of Miss Gorda Fühlsing, of

Cologas, and Mỹ. Friedrich Lohrer, of Messrs. Slement China, Shanghai,

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