THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
FRIDAY, JULY. 13, 1934.
SOPHIE KERR'S LATEST SUCCESS IN ROMANTIC PROBLEM FICTION
STAY OUT OF MY LIFE!"
CHAPTER I (Continties).
overy
mind.
They both looked. The man wasjing to
so thick with Jane Terry. And, speaking of Jane, who's the new young man who's calling on her?" "I don't know. Calling on her when?"
"Right now. 1 came home- just when he went up the steps and it wasn't five minutes later when I saw you going down the street and
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She the Reeder," said Jane in an odd, been along, but not with Janie. sho let her game go down anil June father would call you down."
The last time I got roped into a beamed with triumph. When they was still watching the young man stiflód way.
"He might have called in some-doubles with her was the Inst time. "It's so dull in this town," Jane had played three sets it was she who stood hesitating at the corner complained, "the same old people who suggested that they stop.
of Jano's street. Amy followed her where. Let's ecc. The Dowlings, What I mean is it was the last year after year and everybody knowing everything about every-
"Let's sit down and cool off," she glance. "Lol's go along and take the Gates, the Purdys, the More time! Never again.”
"You mean, it was the last body else." She thought of Ann said. "I want to fix my hair, too." a look at the handsome stranger," landswell, thoro's no sign of him Veronica. "I wish I lived in Lon-|
"Til tell you what's the mattor she said. "Maybe he's pug-nosed and we can't very well do a house don. I'd work at something or in-with your game, Amy," bogan Jane, and cross-eyed close to, and that'll to-house search. He is lost and time?" she mocked him.
"Don't be picky." Though sho gone forever, Clementine. Jane, vent something!
readjusting hairpins. "You don't resign us to not meeting him." They had reached the courts, study the placing of the bull. You As she spoke she knew that she do you think Miss Roan would let was tall, Edgar was tall enough to turica'? There's a poem in it look lovely to-day. There's some
that's "You might invent a way to teach Just try to get it over the not any was volcing the wish in Jane's me have her Songs of Three Con- grin down at her.. "Lord, but you
"Very well, if you want to," said about dancing a sarchand and I'd thing about you, woman, me your underhand serve," said old way."
This was too much for Amy. Amy She dropped her racket,
old dance I dug out from Mother's hind that: peerless countenance tightened the net, got the balls out She flung back her head and began Jane, assuming Indifference but like to compare the motor with an unique and priceless. And yet be music. It would be fun If the thore lurks no modicum of common of the bag while Jane looked on. to laugh. Sho simply couldn't help rising, instantly, That was ·June's" way.
When it Jane stared at her. "What's
They were equally tall, slender poem and the dance were the same sense. Otherwise you wouldn't be everything was ready she took the the matter? I didn't say anything and straight but Amy, though a rhythm
"I ask her when she comes shady aide of the court and the funny."
"No, I just happened to think of year younger, had the more mature,
Was home," said Jane, hurrying on. game began,
something." She must divert Jane more quiet bearing. Jane
"Maybe she's homo now. I' her belt, her hair, holding just stop and sce." Jane was by far the better quickly. wonder who that man restless, self-conscious, always ad-
her hands and elbowa stiff, watch- "She couldn't be home yet. She player, but if she missed a stroke is coming out of the Muscum.
see if she was observed. was going calling after the tea. it fussed her and made her miss Look-in the brown suit." the next Amy played stendily,
tall, square-shouldered. Amy was thinking of Jane's man-I'll call you up this evening or I'll evenly, and as if she enjoyed it. Fung
It was a dismissal. For some As soon as the score mounted Even from a distance he suggested ner as they walked along, wishing bring the book over."
frantie, good tailoring and competent per that she wouldn't take games so
hard and be so tense and no unreason Amy could not fathom Jane I galloped out after you." against Jane she W18
sonality,
"What did he look like?" smashed her serves, tried to kill "Somebody to see the eminent happy and yet, with it all, so was trying to get rid of her. Amy return, declared balls out Ellerts gold bricks, I suppose," superior. She knew that it was was used to Jane's odd ways but un this was too much. "I'll call up
"He was tall and fair and very that were in and turned the game said Janc. She watched the young these traits that made Jane into a light. Her voice went high man as he walked slowly down the popular with their own crowd and this evening and ask Miss Roan handsome. Not so handsome as I
myself," she said. "And the next
am, of course-" and her checks scarlot. It made street, looking about him as if to aho had a shrewd notion that Amy ashamed for her. "It's allocate himself. There was some-Jane were more popular she would time you don't want me to came in ways like this," thought Amy, dis- thing familiar about him. She felt bo much happler. None of the with you just say so, and don't tressfully. "I'll have to let her she must know him, at least have other girls would bother with make excuses that a child could see win to calm her down."
seen him before. Then she re- Henry Berwyn and, though Jane through. I'd much rather you'd be So she began to stam her own membered Ann Veronica and her might say it was because he sup-rude than tricky."
like plied her with cigarettes, Amy felt
Jane was just starting to dash serves into the net, to miss the lover. Why, this ansiest returna. After two love Capes, the tall, blond, ruddy Capes. that it was more probably an effort into the house but she stopped, sharpness. by Amy's games Jane's mood was normal."He's awfully good-looking," she on Jane's part to have as much at- startled
tention as anyone else. even superior. "You must be get-nald.
"And yet she's so beautiful/Then she lung her arms around the time, the place.
her friend and gave her a hard;" ting tired," she said amiably. "He is rather nice." agreed Amy,
"Oh, no. Just a streak of bad "Now there it is, grumbled thought Amy. "When she's hav excited hug, "Don't be crosa," "I don't know who he is," said luck. I might get you yet," said Jone. "If an interesting man does ing a good time she's so beautiful she said breathlessly. Pil call you Amy. "I saw him coming out of Imust find out-the Museum and walking toward Amy. "Jane's 80 alily,"
ahe come to town he calls on old Ellert she puts out the rest of us. And up this evening.
man. So that's where he went." thought. "She nover will play for and goes through the Museum and she dances well, and she's clever. it's so queer and she ran up the the Terrys'. It must be the same the fun of playing. It spoils then he leaps right off again. No-But I'm the only one who really is steps before Amy could answer.
fond of her. I suppose it all comes
Jane, of course, had seen him things so to get mad if you lose." body meets him."
"The next time we have Pro down to her being an orphan."
Amy went on, swinging her enter. "That was why she hurried That was why she had wanted to
She thought of her own easy, go for a walk instead of playing fessor Ellert to dinner I might tell
feelings., No use being offended thought Amy. It was typically tennis. It was easier to be with him not to be so stingy with his close-bound family with a warm racket and smiling in spite of her so and wouldn't let me come in," Jane when they were not doing visitors, but to remember that this tingle of appreciation. Yet honcs with Jane's childish mysteries and Janelsh.
That's where he went, and little anything compétitivo. For her town in full of beautiful, bored ty reminded her that it was most changeableness and jumping about. secret satisfaction she allowed her young women thirsting for new unlikely, even if Jane had a mother Besides, if she hurried she would do I think of his taste. But may- that she'd be much be able to practice a little while bebe he was calling on Miss Rosa self one good rally, but this time experiences. I wonder what he'd innd father,
more attached to them than she fore dinner. She turned her racket and, if so, okay," said Edgar. Jane became so hostile that Amy say?"
and atrummed it like a banjo, huma-"Listen, am I. coming to see you was sorry she'd done it. Again "He'd go popesed.' And your was to. Miss Rosa,
"Where'd he go?" Amy asked ming Tinder her breath. Presently to-night or is Vanny or Bill Hobart aloud. She had been thinking.so some one came running after her or who? hard that she had forgotten to and she glanced around to see watch the stranger. "Why, he Edgar Moreland. vanished away like a boojum. Isn't that queer?"
man was
"He must have gone
down Audubon street. That would br toward the hotel if he's staying at
"What's the rush? Who've you been tennising with 7"
"Jan."
Edgar shrugged. "I was júst going to say that I'd like to havr
"Dld he have on a brown suit?" "Ho diu. And a straw hat. I' can offer you no data on his shirt, socks, or tie, na I was not close en- ough to get the details."
It all clicked together, the man,
**I think ll over and send out ja bulletin," said Amy and went on into her own home. That silly Jane! The man was porbably n book agent.
(To Be Continued.)
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