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SOPHIE KERR'S LATEST SUCCESS IN ROMANTIC PROBLEM FICTION
they
"STAY OUT OF MY LIFE!"
apoenlata
Jane Laplly Inventa an excuse to leave her friend. A 1tle inter Amy learns from 200AN MORELAND that the young men she
and Jane say is calling at the Terry home. Anty, knows thia la the reason for Jane" hurrlest departure
"I'm
Hall."
Miss Rosa camo back, cluckingt "It wasn't Mrs. Hobart, It was Amy Lowe. She wants to borrow you'd bring it around later, June. one of my books and I told her You can take Howard with you.
Jane turned sick. Trust Aunt Roea to ruin things!
"Did you tell Amy we'd bring the book?" asked Jane, before Howard could speak.
"I'd just asked-Jane-If sho'd like to go a motion picture," added Howard, hesitating over the use of Jane's first náme.
"You could lehve it as you go
stodgy life," she explained. Sha thought they'd better stop talking about Amy." "I do hope you'ro not going to spend all your time working while you're here." that moment a cautious thought came to her. Perhaps Howard Jackson was married! Capes was married, that was what made his love for Ann Voronien at once glorious and frightening. And at ret Ann Veronica hadn't known. hadn't even suspected, but Jane did not intend to copy her heroine so far. "By the way, she asked, "are you going to bring your wifd
"My wife! I'm not married. What made you think so?"
DEGIN HERE TODAY
possible. But sho came down the campus. They would wonder said Jane. "There's one in Rivers" į ne hor no sort of marked out for
can Bure we When JANE TERRY and AMY. LOWE slightly, leisurely, one hand on the who he was. an atracties young man, a stranger, in Mar Lanistor, made an effective en-find something for you." she said, burg. the mall middle-western town where
glowingly. The summer wasn't who trance as the perfect ingenuo. abouti (hay 11
"But young. Jane, = feat be. Both si
"I hope she keeps that, up," going to be dull after all. brante. Is less popular thân Amy June, who is an orphan. with her aunt thought Miss Rosa, watching them you mustn't work all the time. MINH RORA TEJULY. Any father walk off together. Then her mind and we go there to swim, and there Thero's a good beach at the lako went back to the dinner.
Meanwhile Jane was asking are lots of parties-there was one Howard Jackson friendly, girlish this afternoon,, but I didn't go." little questfiens. It was something Howard Jackson was thinking of a shock when she discovered that he was lucky to find Mas CHAPTER II
that he wasn't anything very Rosa and her niece so pleasant. grand, a mero instructor in geol. He had gone to the Terrys only Jane had known the stranger ogy in a western university, for because his mother had insisted on was like Capes, oven at a distance. she didn't know that the univer-it, but he had liked Mias Rosa at and it gave her the feeling of long city had a renowned School of once and the girl was stunning. acquaintance with him. She al-Mines and that goology was dis- He was a little shy with girls, he most called him Mr. Capes, though tinguished there: Nor did How-nover quite understood them-this Miss Itoan had Introduced him as ard Jackson mention that fact. girl, for instance, with her rave Howard Jackson, son of a distant Presently, however, he said that about the elm trees when she didn't and practically forgotten relative. he was going to study all summor tem at all the nature-loving sort. relation, nothing more with Professor Ellert for a thesis But there was no use hoping that "Kurdly than a connection," added Miss he had to do.
girls should be consistent and. it Rom, who liked exactness. Misa Jane pounced on
thia. That's occurred to him, looking apprecia- Rosa had been home from the wonderfull Have you met him tively at Jane, that if they were
didn't Marchs tea for a quarter of an yet? You'll love him!"
pretty it She very
consistent or hour before Mr. Jackson appeared. paused and laid an arresting fin- whether they were
"You must stay and have din-ger on Howard Jackson's arm: not ner with us this evening," Miss "Look at our, elma I always stop At dinner Jane ant latening, to Ross said, cordially, "You're not here to see them. They stand Howard confer with Miss Rosa on going out anywhere, are you, Jane? there so grandly and their shade's apartments, with a nice deferencement stone and he santched her Neither am I It won't be a bit too light and free, instead of solid to her aunt and a charming wistful of trouble."
like the maples'. They're like smile for Howard when she looked "I should like to very much,"
muale, Romehow.
Schu at him. It was very family and said Howard Jackson, "if it really mann's 'Papillons.' "'-
friendly in the big dining room. isn't a bother to you."
Howard looked at her in sur-Miss Rosa had put pink roses on the "It isn't bother to Aunt Rosa," prise which was a touch ironic table and brought out her pink silk said Jane, prettily, "She foves "Are you as fond of trees as all candleshades, and filed a pair of silver shells with the pink mints left over from her last card club
occasion frank the
adequately.
having guests.”
that?"
Like
matter
with
by then," said Mies Rosa, "but I think you might enjoy stopping thero for a little while anyway.”
Jane's thoughts had been racing and her first dismay had gone. It might be fun to take Howard in to Amy's and show him off.
To walk with him down the dark streets and through the squares of light at the crossings was intimato, familiar. She caught her heel in a cracked pave back from falling, his hand on her
o
bare cool arm, their bodies touch ing for an Instant, his face against her hair. They were both breath- leas from the sudden contact and
they went on Jane was glad ehe had dabbed a drop of jasmine be hind each ear. She wanted to say something startling "I didn't do that on purpose," she brought out nt last.
"You're a funny girl," he re
on purpose?"
"I'm not quite ao open-hearted as that," said Miss Rosa. "but So Jane knew it hadn't come off, lunch, Evily had also risen to when I do give an Invitation. It's She healtated between а genuine. I'd like to have you statement that she didn't care a pink icing on the hastily made cupplied. "Why should you do i slay"
whoop about trees-her contradic enkes and sprigs of lemon verbenn Thon I will and thank you tions might interest him-oran in the finger bowls. They had very much." He had an engaging unobtrusive retreat, and at last reached coffee in the Meissen frank smile, and Miss Rosu warm tried the latter. "Oh, they give cups when the telephone rang: ed to it,
me ideas, now and then." she Jane started to go, but Misa Roa said, waving a nonchalant hand, stopped her.
Jane couldn't think of any amart answer and anyway they had reached the Lowes house, one of half a dozen set back from the stroot on 1 garden
wait" Bald Howard Jackson, "Someone's playing Debussy awfully well, too." He stopped, in tent."
crescent.
"You go change your dreas, June," she said, "and take Howard "Do you play tennis? You'll have "It's Mrs. Hobart," she said, "I -I can't call you Mister, you are the privilege of the college courts." left a message for her to call me." really too young-for B walk Yes, he played tennis, but his Jane smiled over at Howard around the campus before dinner. concern of the moment Was not again, sharing the seerst of youth's It looks its best along about sun-sports for the sunumer, but some-indulgence to fussy middle age.
"It's Amy Lowe, where we're sot."
where to live. "Perhaps you or "Could we go somewhere to-night going." Jane
the bell. rang Jane flew to obey, thinking your aunt would make some sug--a motion picture, maybe," "We'll say hello and leave the book she ran upstairs: "I put on my gestion, I'd like a
He had intended to go back to small apart.
and run along." new black and red. No, that ment. If possible, not a boarding the hotel as soon us he decently
Vanny Edgar Moreland and won't do for him. My while swiss house or a hotel"
could leave after dinner and getHough were both there, listening. with the orange sash, my white She wished It was not so late. the rest he had lost on the sleep-Jane made her introductions very coral benda She dropped her More people would see them walker the night before. But somehow tennis things anywhere, left the ing together the tall handsome :: this girl's eyes and the way. shower dripping, dressed in a new man and the slim white-she smiled shorter time than she had believed i frocked girl in the green dusk of!
Oh, I'd love a motion picture,"
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casually, but she felt important and triumphant when she saw Amy's face of surprise."And here's the book you wanted-we can't stay." Bald Jane. We
must stay to hear the end of that Tebtiasy thing," sald Howard.
Jane didn't mind showing off Howard a little longer. He made Edgat and Vanny look simple kids, he was so much older, better dressed. And Amy's akimpy old blue voile didn't compare with Jane's orange und white effect. The fragile music filed the room with-ila-fridescent-poetry-while) Jane made her complacent com- parisons and at its last note sho promptly rose and took Howard away with her.
"Well, well." Enid Edgar as Jane and Howard disappeared. "Our Janle was certainly the grand Inds condescending to the riff-raff to- night. Just a slumming parts, my denr.".
On their way to the movies Howard WAR saying: "Your friend plays remarkably well-is she going to be a professional?"
'Amy'd never think of such a thing, she's perfectly contented in her own commonplace aphere you can imagine, the good daugh- ter, the nice popular small town girl with several beaux, and you [saw what they were like! Pres- Jently she'll marry one of them and settle down to be a good wife and mother"
"You don't approve?"
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"Why, I understood, when you were talking to Aunt Rosa about the apartment special reason why, you shouldn't be married, you know. It's not a crime."
"No, not exactly. But I don't happen to be--I'm not even gagod--and you made me jump when you asked like that."
Jane laughed at this: "1 was sure you said something to Aunt Rosa-
"Please tell her I didn't when you get home." He felt her small deceit, he was stiff and annoyed.. Suddenly, overwhelmingly. It was urgent, it was necessary to Jane
that he like her, ilke her very much, more than anyone in the world, And now he didn't like her. Her lip trombled, her eyes Alled with Lears. "I'm so sorry." she said,
He gave her arms a little impa- tient gentle shake. "That's enough of that," he ordered. And their understanding was back again.
They didn't speak of it until they were at her door, saying good night.
I've had such a lovely evening," said June. "You do forgive me about thinking you were married?" She was not acting, nhe was sincere and simple, and the night gave a shadow of mystery and enchant- mont to her face, her slim white- Howard Jackson spoke be- fore he thought: "You're like the music we heard this evening-
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Only as he walked down to his hotel did it occur to him that the munic had been played by another i girl, more lovely than Jane, and, he surmised, much less exacting, It was Amy" he thought about as he went on.
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