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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1934.
SOPHIE KERR'S LATEST SUCCESS IN ROMANTIC
PROBLEM FICTION
STAY OUT OF MY LIFE!
DEGIN HERE TO-DAT
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"Oh, be careful," called Amy, Hastily she got ready to go for first. That's her system. Any ously as they arrived, trying to When HOWARD JACKSON comes to the the music, caught the half-past thing she wants she anatches for be very smiling and welcoming. They're so hight="
By this time he had scrambled. enali middle western town at Marburg JANE 10 Interurban and discovered, to on the assumption that, it ought but her effort was unneeded for TERILY, the prettiest girl in town, determines her relief, that, there was mo one to be hers merely because she does Jane and Howard did not come through and dropped to the Roor. tu win heart
The day was want it. Sho's a poor sport. I nor did Miss Rosa. It became a "What made you lock the door?" Howard, young geology instructor, she know in the car. Jane sebrune to keep the two from becoming very hot and the town, a county never could see why you like her. Sunday evening like many other he asked. "Did you think I'd sitracted by Janda friend, AMY LOWE, but better acquaisted. Howard bears Amy playseat and smail Industrial contre Nobody else in the crowd over did." Sunday evenings, and somehow come?"
Amy dragged him away from that fact struck a new desolation "Yes. And I didn't want to see Ing on The chapel olgen one day, call on her that evening and almost immediately was dingy and noisy and crowded
by Saturday market wagons and the, subject. She hated her small into Amy's thoughts. She would fali in kave.
"Come down," he begged. “I'm On the way home he la ponfronted by Jent their crowding, customers. Amy uncontrollable gratification when go on for years and years and heart. When he tries to calm her fans did not mind for they gave her he said sharp things about Jane. years, playing hymns. for Sundas going to tell you the truth no mat- who hysterically secured him of breaking her
she needed. Interprets bla word as a declaration of love the privacy
Sho She hated not wantng to defend evenings. She would grow tired
(erward. That's one thing I'm go Next morning the tekphones. Amy, "tower bought the music and ate lunch Jane even though she did defend and old and it would not matter ter what you think about me aft
And abe didn't want to hear to anyone. As she skilfully owing to do. I've thought of it all In a cool little green tea.room. CHAPTER IV
"I haven't lost my appetite en-Howard Jackson's name. Edgar ered "Jerusalem the Golden" to a
And are engage),"
Amy put down the receiver as
think.
than
ber.
arms and
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you."
Amy came downstairs slowly, hor
"I ought to behave as if this meant heart knocking. She was thinking, nothing. I ought to say that I con- gratulate him
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Amy. The
tirely," she reminded herself with was willing to talk of other things. more singable compass she could through this miserable business."
wry smile. She looked in shop He was a bit ashamed of attacking have flung up her one puts down something tainted windows and sat for a while in Jane so violently and because he screamed with horrer at the bical She couldn't say she was glad that the park behind the old brick was in love with Amy he was sen- and endless future. Jane was happy. She wasn't able courthouse, so that, she could gositive to her moods and could feel
In the morning she escaped from to answer. She wasn't able to home late. Her father and mother something secret and sore behind
und grandfather were on the porch her words, But he did not sus- the house as soon as she could,
He met her at the foot of the It must be true that Jane was when she came up the street at pect anything more than that Jane taking the music she had bought engaged to Howard even though twilight-Professor Lowo with the had been irritating about her en- in Hopsonville and started up to stairs and stood there, not touching was more than the chapel. That would prevent her but close before her like a Jane wasn't exact about truth
evening mall in his hands, Grand-gagement Ho when shading it favoured her own father smoking and Mrs, Lowe put-ready to forego the dance with the hearing Jane if she telephoned. wall. "Now disten caso. But Amy knew that Jane's ting away her lace pillow with its characteristic comment that if they "But this afternoon I've either got father night, Friday, when I was half-truths were less by intention dangling bright bobbins. It was didn't go his white pants would do to call her up or go there," Amy at your house Jane was waiting thought sternly. "It's going to be far me outside, down the street by self-deception. Jane reassuring to be with them. She for another day.
So Saturday was got through awful to see them together, look somewhere. I don't know exactly wanted such and such things to entered the haven of their unde- be true. Therefore they must bemanding tenderness thankfully and safely, but as Sunday evening aping at each other, sure of each where. Hiding behind. a tree, I true. By long acquaintance Amy the weight on her heart, lessened.proached Amy began to wonder other. But I must do it. Maybe suppose. And when I came out she could usually tell the pince where When her mother said, "Missif Jane and Howard would appear after a good hard practice I'll be met me and had hysterica. She I think I'll go and said I'd deceived her, that I'd reality ended with Jane and imag-Rosa called up a little while ago for the evening sing which was able to do it. ination began. This time there to tell me that Jane and her young an Institution in the Lowe house get it over with. After that pro tricked her, that sheoh, God, I was no imagination. June and man have got engaged,"
It was very simple. The ably she'll be no taken up with him thought I could tell you this but it Amy hald. Howard Jackson were certainly neither winced nor evaded. "Yea, nolghbours came in and sit about I won't have to be with her much, sounits worse than I thought, I put my arms around her. I begged informally for
two Oh, I hope so!" engaged and yet, only last night I knew before I left this mor and sang in chorus such hymns
an hour or
She turned the key in the chapel (her to be quiet. I told.her, I didn't Amy put her head down and I meant to leave a note to tell you closed her eyes to keep back tears but I had to rush for the trolley," and songs as they cared to select, door and opened a couple of win mean to hurt her, that I'd done of helpless pain. Why had he she replied, adding, "Jane sald she was neither a faculty nor adows to abate the stuffy heat. nothing to hurt her and--and she town affair. There were no invi-Among the new music were two took that for a-a declaration and come? Why had he been 80-80 was awfully happy."
itations and no refreshments be-intricate pedal exercises and she she said she loved me, that she'd -near, 80 dear with her if all the time he was thinking of Jane, Later there was Edgar. He, and lemonade or ginger ale and concentrated on these, working un-loved me all the time and and she loving Jane? That was what she too, had heard the news. "Jane's cookies and a pitcher of cold but-til she had to pause for weariness. twisted it somehow so that that heard when we got home she said we couldn't grasp. She hadn't asked grabbed that unfortunate Jackson,"termilk for two or three of Pro-While she rested she
Lowe's cronies who com-scratching. scraping, breathless were engaged. She dashed in and him. She hadn't tried to take him he said. "It's all over town and for
this delicacy was sound and she looked down to see told Miss Rosa then and there. away from Jane. He had wanted people are sending him wrenths of plained that
Sho-she-and I was such 4 sympathy. I could weep for him never supplied them in their own leward Jackson climbing-with
great deal of difficulty-through damned fool I didn't have the guts She shook herself out of it myself."
(Continued on Page 11.) Amy watched the guests nerv-jone of the narrow windows. straightened her shoulders. "Ite "Like the walrus for the oys- never said a word that wasn't tera," returned Amy. "That'll be exactly like any of the other boys, your grief.”
to come.
not as much na Edgar says every "No, but really I am sorry for day of the world. He liked hear him. Jane's got no feelinga. She'a ing me play that was all. And all impulses and attitudes. I've! I'm nothing but a little fool. Iknown Jane longer than you have, just imagined”
Aray. Our house is right across Her thoughts ran ahead. wow the street. We played together a dering how she could plan her day lot when we were kids and we'd to keep out of sight and sound of get along fine at first. Then some. | fane. She must have time to her thing would go against June's will self to put this all straight. She and whang, fireworks! She hit would go over to Hopsonville for me once with my own baseball but to-day, on the pretext of getting because I wouldn't let her have il new music. Then she would tell for a tent pole and laid me out Edgar she didn't want to get cold. And she told Miss Rosa and the dance tonight,
my mother that I'd struck her
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