THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1934.
SOPHIE KERR'S LATEST SUCCESS IN ROMANTIC PROBLEM FICTION
"STAY OUT OF MY LIFE!"
BEGIN BERK TO-DAY When ROWARD JACKSON, Young wooloer profesor, comes to the email midle-weer Lown of Marbare JANE TERRY, the settlest wiel in town, determines to win his heart.
Hart in attracted by Jane's friend, AMY LOWE, but Jane schooses to keep them apart. almost immediately they fell in. lova, and acestres him of breaking her, heart.
engagement
Wen
the field of education. Why don't
"Don't strike out at mo, my dear, And write to me, even if it's noth-walk, looking into shop windows you know. You seem to me, I because of your own suffering." ing but a card-" said Miss Rosa. "That doesn't
at frat blankly, then with a faint don't know exactly why, but you help. I'm doing all 1 can.”
But Jano had pulled away from interest quickened by the sight of do seem to me to be looking for i
clothes and trinketa superior to Jane went on with cruel Inten- the embrace and was hurrying out anything Marburg could offer. She something quite practical, outside Then une evening, Howard calls on Amy andtion. "You'll be as glad to get to the train. The porter swung began to feel a small importancevou take a course in one of these Latar that night he confronts Howard never been very fond of each other, slammed Into the baggage car three well-dressed, independent young high-grade secretarial schools and
rid of me as I am to go. We've up har bag. Her trunk WAB to see herself as a very he item to enim her ade interprets his wards have wc. Aunt Rosa? You don't [conchics akteud. Miss Rosa watched.woman with any sort of Interesting rot into some business---publishing
more unhappy and perturbed than choose open to Amy what happened when Jane e them meals and making the house look
A day later Howard la trying to explain bridge and having nice fattening he had ever been in her whole fore her.
life. together, the flies into a rage. Howard tells
: went to one and she's done awfully marry her and that it Amy he lures also's. 1. suppose you're too old to Man Roan was miserable with de-in its greenness. The important worked herself onto the staff. I'll Jane he does not, and never dit want to a little better-kept than anybody All the way back to the house and strolled in a little way, to rest the editor of a big magazine and Presently she came to the park well, got a position as secrotary to Jane Keaves. Amy admits her lure fut know how young people feel, real feat. "I shouldn't have let her feeling subsided, leaving a flatness """Maybe I am," said Miss Ross have insisted that she stay here
|Ho," she thought. "I ought to in its pince and great loneliness. give you a couple of addresses." wearily. "Anyway, Jane, I did tho and face It, best I could with my limitations. have done something desperate, elderly men, glanced at her with Jane had found and she probably But she would surely Various other strollers, mostly It was the Art Hino of direction I'm very fond of you, even if you There's a kind of power in Jane. speculative admiration, all of them would not have followed it but one don't belleve It, and it fairly tears She made me let her go off entirely only too ready and willing to start of the schools was near her hotel. me to see you like this—"
"Will you stop nagging me?”
against my better judgment. I conversation. Jane saw that and hugged Jano's stiff, resistant shoul-what a hard time parents must creased dislike of fanctivity.
"Your train's coming in." She of studying anywhere. Oh, Lord, feeling of Importance and an in-there and after a moment's hesita don't suppose she has the least idea it pleased her. It brought back hor She passed it as she went back
dera and kissed her on both checks.have!"
tion returned and entered. It was "Dear child, anything you want of
She must vindicate herself. She a competent place with more than ime, any time, I'm always here.
Toward and actees to marry him.
CHAPTER VII
Bin Roma went with Jane to the late afternoon train and waited with her in the big empty station. "I know I ought to go along with you," she said at last, "just for a few days to get you settled."
"If you went with me I'd get off at the next station and go some where else. I don't want you or anyone else."
This bus sald to be the largest passenger_bus in the world. It carrios 150 passengers and is used on the Boulder Dam project to carry workmen from Boulder City. to the Dam site.
Jane, by now some 60 miles must do something quickly to show suggestion of swagger. At once away, was for the moment unaware her superiority to Amy and all the Jane feit herself at eano. She was of her advantages. The energy meagre, stupid life of Marburg, understood. She caught their pos- that had started her on this de- and to take Howard Jackson realize sibilities. She liked the very emart termined flight hand gone. She sat what he had lost. A vague, bril-frock and make-up, the detached crumpled in the scat, seeing noth-dazzle and to condescend rose in capability of the director, Miss linnt viston of herselt returning to ing but Howard Jackson looking at Amy, hearing nothing but his her mind, but she could not evolvo Jardine.. In no time at all she was voice saying to Amy, "I love you." any definite guide toward its reall-enrolled for as much work as she zation. There must be something could induce them to heap upon Never afterward in her life was she could study with immediate re-her. "You simply can't sha able to recall any detail of sults and she would find out at
do all that journey, how she reached the once.
these things at once," Miss Jardino hotel nor how she spent the first) few days of her stay, for she was
told her, breaking through her cool Auspended in pain and unreality.
elegance for n human moment The truth was that she stayed in Columbia
But the registrar's office of the
summer school
"Oh, yes I can. her room meat of the time, lying baffled by Jane and bewildered by replied and was gratified by the
was
I must." Jane in bed or sitting by the window, her. No, she didn't want a course impression she was making. while the management, only partly of Chaucer or any other carly Eng. reassured by messages from Miss lish literature. No more did she That night she wrote two letters. Rosa, kept an uneasy watch on her, want Romance languages. rending in maida on unnecessary Greek history. Or renaissance art. to the letters and telegrams which Or One was to her aunt, an answer errands, while the housekeeper Or pedagogy of any variety. lingered nervously in the hall for One of the secretaries, more abon her ever since her arrival and poor Miss Rosa had been heaping their reports. Jane did not know servant than the others, had seen t. But she did know that after the tight nerves, the despairing which Jane, so far, had not no- a while she began, to come alive eagerness behind Jane's apparent ticed. "You needn't worry about and to feel that she must do some- aimlessness and took her aside. me," wrote Jane. "I am perfectly thing.
"Look here," she said kindly, “why all right. I've settled everything. Accordingly she went out for a thing? It's mostly for teachers, they were a lot of old dedos and do you bother with this sort of went up to the University but
As jolly as the jallfaat tars in Uncle Sam's navy were President Rovervalt and the two other "ble guns" of the great review of the floot in New York harbour when this striking photo was taken aboard the Indianapolis during manoeuvres. Pictured with the president, contrs, who himself was assistant secretary. of the navy, are Claude Swanson, left, praannt aperatury of the navy, and Josephus Daniels, right, former secretary of the nav y and now ambassador to Mexico.
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all they could offer were deadly dull courses, mostly a sort of re. hash of the Venerable Bede and the Doomsday Book and other antiquat- ed out-of-date stuff, nothing that Interested me at all. So I deter mined to take a course in one of the modern secretarial schools and I am starting to-morrow. Don't get the idea that it's nothing but short hand and typewriting. It's quite different-the sort of work that i icads at once to positions in pub- Habing houses or big advertising agoncios.--I-wish-you'd-sond-me- everything of mine that I didn't
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She had written that last to make clear to her aunt-and to herself that she was done with Marburg and was never golug back Ito it..
But over the second letter sha hesitated. Ever since that morn-: ing in the chapel she had been; beset with the wish to revenge her- self on Amy, spoil her happiness if she could. The latter, ready at last, after many crossinga out and changes, was far from consistent | but Jane could do no more with It. She copied it in a spontaneous, {dashing hand.
"My dear Amy: I've been sur- prised not to hear from you since) I left. It seemed to me that the least you owed me was an explana tion. If you didn't feel qui
quite up to an apology. But I can see how dif- ficult it would be for you to offor either. Really, Amy, I have been your friend so long and thought I knew you so well, but I never in the world could have suspected you
of doing what you have done to me.
"I
Want
to tell you again that in spite of everything he may say, Howard Jackson literally pursued me with his attentions and made love to me ardently. Also he cer tainly did ask me to marry him. I cared for him deeply. I believed In his honour and sincerity and I know him so well that I still be- lleve in them and am still abso- lutely certain that ho cares for mo and you have delfborately stepped in to drive us apart. Well, you have succeeded. You have taken away from me the only man I could over care for-a man who really loved me until you came between Us. Fortunately I am strong enough to go on without you, withi out, either of you. But the sear of this wound you have inflicted fwill always remain,"
To Miss Rosa Jane's lettur Indi-] cated that Jane was herself again, and not utterly broken under the Basco of her engro
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For Amy here was no such com fort When he saw Jane's letter ahe, did not want to open it and the actua
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