THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1934.
SOPHIE KERR'S LATEST SUCCESS IN ROMANTIC PROBLEM FICTION TE,
STAY OUT OF MY LIFE!"
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who is married, Later alie tires of bi
and when he offere to bear the expense of
their child she dismisses him conteinpituunt.
In her deeperste slabs Jane turns to Amy Spanish. You don't like this?"
CHAPTER XVI
Aray's voice was reproachful. "But n helpless child, Jane, who didn't ask to be born-"
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the only miracle wo over know, relentless sort of courage that if you want to, though I don't lived quiet and withdrawn in the JANY TERRY com
New York Nothing elas explains It." Sho never gives in.. I don't see why know to what lengths Jane's hos sem-twilight of the apartment, determined to show her home town and stopped, embarrassed by speaking she hasn't gono raving mad. sp., Ally ANY JACKSON that the can make
Ipitality will run. Remember me to with nothing to do except try to success of her life, Amy had been her out secret thought. They don't believe it seems real to her, her. I know you are glad to be keep cool. Because Amy insisted, beat, friend until JOWARD JACKSON broke mustn't talk like this. She looked any more than it does to me." the_angarament, Jane forced on him and
with her again."
Jano bought a few infants' clothes married Any. Unable to bear the sight of about the apartment. "This is a Amy happiness, Jane obtains a job in a very queer place, Jane," she con- what sort of a man he might be, read. "Your mother's a grand per- knew of no one in particular, sa She wondered about Thorpe, Amy handed the letter to Jane to and also consulted n doctor. She Jane & clever and soon te making antinued. "I thought you told me and she thought, with humility and son," said Jane. "She never was they chose the nearest, a man with ROGER THOTE A bustoris Acquaintance on the walls."
bas an affair with last year that you had grass cloth thankfulness of her own marriage, one of the Marburg whispering galan office at the corner. He seemed Lat oven she wouldn't be so sensible and capable, but very de and of Howard, and their happi- lery. "Oh,
I took that off when I wentness, their content together. She willing to have you stay if she tached and professional, his inter-
remembered what she had said to know about me. She never liked est for the case, not the human be for help. Bioward in touring Germany with; "I'm not sure. another professor and Ainy comes to New i
I never saw any Jane"I only wish this was my me much."
Ing. Jane's unmarried state did York. She le borrided when Jane tells her thing like it before."
child!" "I know." said Jane, rallying. thing that could add to her and to every minute," said Amy, "but she and she would not go to a hos
A child was the only
"Wo don't need to play truth did raise his voice in protest when the plans to give, her child away.
not seem to surprise him, but he "you don't think any place can be Howard's life. lived in if there's no plano. ' "Innst persuade Jane not to minding you, Mise Jane, that you between Doctor Lacey and Jane go on with it to the extent of, repital. Amy listened to the dispute one for you while you're gond hers away to be adopted," she never tried very hard to make your with mingled anxiety and amuse- "Oh, merey, don't think of it thought. "That would be a lot self liked. You were the one who ment, for each was obstinacy to the "None of us naked to be born."Goodness only knows what it would more wicked than just having it." always does it to annoy because hilt. In the end Jane won out and
She drifted into sleep intent on you know it teance,
"I suppose. I was. It seems a would attend her in her home. Doctor Lacey reluctantly said he Jane's duty to her child.
It was as ensy as Jane had said, long time ago in another world, an- "I'll send you a nurse when it's Aray soon found, to arrange to stay. other age. I feel so old, Amy. Old time for you to have one," he said Mrs. Lowe was willing to look after and hideous under a bad spell.
firmly "Lie down and I'll play to you." Amy's house and promptly sent on a supply of clotchs, with a letter For the plane had come and was a saying, "Stay as long as you like grent resource. Amy played or and have a good time. It will keep practiced when she did not feel you from missing Howard so much like talking. The days were too "No, I don't.. I even loathe "Bragging, you mean,' JaneIndeed. 1 don't Pee why you hot to go out in. Ealma marketed thinking about him."
Amy knew Jane was speaking it's true, I have made a lot of
laughed a little, too. "But Amy, shouldn't stay until he comes back and cooked and Amy and Jane the truth. "But you must have money and I'll make a lot more loved him." she persisted. "After once I get out of this mess. You all, you couldn't have lived with know I wna always clever about Rim without caring something money. I'll telephone for a plann about him, at first, anyway."
They enn bring, it in the morning
Jane answered. "I wish to heaven
Coat"
"I can afford it," said Jane cock- I'd never been. I wish I were dead. Ity. "Pye made heaps of money. I'ye wished it a thousand times invested the money my father ever sincem''
left in Aunt Rosa's trust and more "But Jane, this man. Hasn't he than doubled it." any decent feeling? He ought to For the first time since she had be looking out for you. Doesn't he entered the house Amy laughed, care? Don't you care anything"That sounds like the oki fane, in- about him?"
{deed it does."
"I loved Howard," said face and then you enn play as much as fully. This man was exciting, and you want. There's nothing else to he flattered me and made love to do while we're waiting." me, and I met him half-way, if you want to know. Ok, you can look It was not until late that night. as me, Amy, and be horrified, but after Amy had gone to bed on the don't ace why women shouldn't, Spanish conch and was lying there have affairs ke men, and think nojkept awake by the unaccustomed more about it. There's no reagan place and noise, that it occurred to why not. Ta there, honestly?" her that Jane had never once asked. "I don't know that there Is, only her to keep her secret. This con- I can't think so. B's one of the idence touched Amy profoundly. things that sound all right. but "She knows I'd never tell." she wever work out."
thought. "But I'm awfully ind
"I can see that last pretty plain she didn't ask me not to: makes myself, now. But i did love How-everything better between_1"," ard. Amy, and after I knew he was good to be with Jane didn't love me-can't you under ngala, the grudge wiped out. But stand, this other man going si Jane! To have done this mad, this ernzy about me made me feel better, awful thing! "She's brave," "She's a forev
made, me like myself again when thought Amy.
I'd been bling myself. I was.
awful to you about Howard, Amy. |
But you knew it was because it hit me so hard..
"Yes, I did know. Jane I'm so
Morry.
We
"There's no was being sorry. won't drag that stuff out again. You're going to stay with me. aren't you, Amy? If you only knew how glad I am to see you. and to have somebody I can talk to and be natural with. Stay a Ette while, Amy, even if it's only a few days. I die if you leave me."
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"Yes," said Amy, "I'm going to stay. I'll send Mother a telegram. I'll have to get my bag. It's -checked at the station. And I
ought to cancel my Pullman."
"And have your ticket extended. I'll send the maid. She's smart----- too smart sometimes.. You don't want to go out in this heat again." Jane had become normal, practical. She sat down at her desk, wrote di- . rections, addresses, then rang for i the maid and started her off. Emma, Kitty's successor, Was an other West Indian, quiet and in- telligent.
Amy took of her but, washed her face and hands and tried to compass the utter strangeness of The situation. This was no dificult that she retreated to trivinities. She found herself telling Jane j scraps of Marburg news, Vanny Hough's new car, Louise March's marriage to a man from Chicago. Henry Berwyn's accident in his i boat.
Edgar Moreland's engage ment to girl who had visited the Pattersous,
"That's funny," said June, who had been listening with seant in- terest, "I never thought Edgar would care about any girl but you. The boys all liked you, Amy. You were far and away the most popu lar girl in town."
"Whatever that may mean.
Ed-!
gar wasn't serious about me. It was just that we'd known each other all our lives."
"I don't believe anybody really loves more than once,"
Jane. "Do you?"
went on
"don't know what
1 belleve about love-except-pxeept that it's i
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Bertrand, Ruell (bottom); British writer famed as an ex- pert on love and marriage, in Saving his own domestic troubles. Mr. Russell (top) is suing for divorce. She is his third wife, and they were married in 1921.
"You can send a nurse when I ask And just as firmly Jane replied: for one, and not before."
he warned her."
"You're running i serious risk."
"It's my risk," she said.
(To Be Continued.!.
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