THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1984.
SOPHIE KERR'S LATEST SUCCÉSS IN ROMANTIC PROBLEM FICTION "STAY OUT OF MY LIFE!"
The bezement Jane forend on him and:
New York trei estais ofN,
and when he offers to bear the expense of their child she demisses him contemptuously.
In her desperate plight Zane turns to Amy for heig, toward la touring Germany with another professor and Any comes to New York. Bhe a horrified when Jan tell her she plans to give her chilk away.
who te married. Later she firee of bia on the wall you had grass cloth thankfulness of her own marriagʊ, Jone of the Marburg whispering gaf.jan office at the corner. He seemed
"Oh, I took that off when I went Spanish. You don't like this?"
"I'm not sure. I never saw any thing like it before."
"I know, Hafd Jane, rallying, "you don't think any place can be lived in if there's no plano. I' ront one for you while you're "Oh, mercy, don't think of it.
CHAPTER XVI
Amy's voice was reproachful here." "But a helpless child, Jano, who didn't nak to be born"
DEGIN, HERR TO-DAT
the only miracle we ever know. relentless sort of courage that if you want to, though I don't lived quiet and withdrawn in the JANE TERRY compi [ determined to show her home town and stopped, embarrassed by speaking she hasn't
New York Nothing else explains it." She never gives in. I don't see why know to what lengths Jane's hos semi-twilight of the apartment, especially AMY, JACKSON that she can make
gone raving mad. Ipitality will run. Remember me to with nothing to do except try to success of her fra Amy bed bwn rout secret thought. Beat felend unt!! HOWARD SACREON broke mustn't talk like this. She looked any more than it does to me."
They don't bellore it scems real to her, her. I know you are glad to be keep cool. Because Amy insisted,
with her again." marries Amy. Unable to hear the right of about the apartment. "This is o
Jano bought a few infants' clothes Amy's happiness, Jane obtains job in 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, so She wondered about Thorpo, Amy handed the letter to Jane to and also consulted a doctor. She June is clever and soon te making antinued. "I thought you told me and she thought, with humility and son," said Jane. She never was they close the nearest, a man with encollent salary, Bho had an stal with last year ROGER THORPZ, a builkess Requintatze
and of Howard, and their happi- lory. But even she wouldn't be an sensible and capable, but very de- ness, their content together. She willing to have you stay if she tached and professional, his later- remembered what she had said to knew about me. She never Ukedest for the case, not the human be. Jane-I only wish this was my me much."
Ing. Jane's unmarried state did child!"
A chlid was the only thing that could add to her and to every minute," said Amy, "but I'll
"We don't need to play truth, not seem to surprise him, but he
did Howard's fife.
raise his volca in protest when go on with it to the extent of re-she said she would not go to a hos "I must persuade Jane not to minding you, Miss Jane, that you pitul. Amy listened to the dispute sand hers away to be adopted," she never tried very hard to make your-with mingled anxiety and amuse- between Doctor Lacey and Jane thought. "That would be a lot self liked. You wore the one who with
mont, for each was obstinacy to the She drifted into sleep intent on you know it tenses. Jane answered. "I wish to heaven.
"I suppose I was. It seems a would attend her in her home. Doctor Lacey reluctantly sold he "I can afford it," said Jane cock. Jane's duty to her child, I'd never been. I wish I were dead. y. "I've made heaps of money.
It was as easy as Jane had said, long time ago in another world, nn-"I'll send you a murse when it's I've wished it a thousand times invested the money my father Amy soon found, to arrange to stay.other age.
I feel so old, Amy. Old time for you to have one," he said ever since"
"But Jane, this man. Hasn't he than doubled it."
left in Aunt Rosa's trust and more Mrs. Lowe was willing to look after and hideous under a hnd spell."
{firmly. "Lie down and I play to you." muy decent feeling? He ought to
Amy's house and promptly sent on be looking out for you. Doesn't he entered the house Amy laughed, saying, "Stay as long as you like great resource. Amy played or For the first time since she had a supply of cistehe, with a letter For the piano had come and was a care? Don't you care anythingThat sounds like the old Jane, in-and have a good time. It will keep practiced when she did not feel "You're running a serious risk."
deed it doen."
you from missing Howard so much like talking. The days were too be warned her. "Bragging, you meau." JuneIndeed, I don't see why you hot to go out in. Emma marketed "It's my risk," she said. Amy knew Jane was speaking it's truc. I have made a lot of
Iaughed a little, too, "But Amy, shouldn't stay until he comes back and cooked and Amy and Jane
(To Be Continued.J the truth. "But you must have money and I'll make loved him," she persisted. "After once I get out of this mess.
fot more all, you couldn't have lived with know I was always clever about You him without earing something money. I telephone for a plano. about him, at first, anyway." They can bring it in the morning
"None of us asked to be born."Goodness only knows what it would more wicked than just having it." always does it to antioy because hilt. In the end Jane won out and
about him?"
"No, I don't. I even lónthe thinking about him."
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"I loved Howard," said Jane and then you can play as much as dully. "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. Oh, you can look
"It was not until late that night.
at me, Amy, and be horrified, but after Amy had gone to bed on the
don't see why women shoulda't Spanish couch and was lying there have affairs like men, and think no kept awake by the unaccustomed more about H. There's no reason place and noise, that it occurred to why not Is there, honestly 7" her that Jane hnd never once asked "I don't know that there in, only her to keep her secret. This con- I can't think no. It's one of thefidence touched Amy profoundly. things that sound all right, but "She knows I'd never tell," she
ever work out."
thought. "But I'm awfully gind
But
"I can see that fast pretty plain she didn't ask me not to. It makes myself, now. But I did love low-everything better between us.” ard, Amy, and after I knew he It was good to the with Jane didn't love me can't you under again, the grudge wiped out. Atand, this other man going solJune! To have done this mad, this crazy about me made me feel better, awful
thi! "She's made me like myself again when thought Any.
brave, "She's got a fierce I'd been hating 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 sorry,
"There's no use being sorry. We 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 Httle while, Amy, even if It's only 11 few days. I'll die if you leave me?"
"Yes," said Amy, "I'm going to stay, I'll send Mother a telegram. I 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- 1ọn 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- j rections, addressen, then rang for the muid and started her off. Emma, Kitty's successor, was un- other West Indian, quiet and in- telligent.
Amy took off her hat, washed her face and hands and tried to compass the utter strangeness of the situation. This was so filthcult that she retreated to trivialities. She found herself telling Jane 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 bout, Edgar Moreland's effrage- ment to a girl who had visited the Pattersons.
"That's funny," said Jane, who had been listening with scunt in- terest. "I never thought Edgar would care about any girl but you. The boys all liked you, Amy. You were für and away the most popu- lar girl in town.
It
"Whatever that may mean, Ed- gar wasn't serious about me. was just that we'd known 'cach ather all our lives."
"I don't believe anybody really loves more than once," went on Jane. "Do you?"
"I don't kne what I believe about love-except-except that it's
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And Just as firmly Jane replied: for one, and not before." "You can send a nurse when I ask
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