THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 1a.
1934.
SOPHIE KERR'S LATEST SUCCESS IN ROMANTIC PROBLEM FICTION
"STAY OUT OF MY
"But, Amy," went on Howard; still patting the child's hand, "I' be getting pay, you know, more than I'll need. I'll be able to send you something.". -
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CHAPTER XXVIII ¡dozen or so pupils a week I'd make "Ellert thinks if I pass the tests the same he's an old darling, Ho'sing into an adventure of life and enough for the running expenses of there'll be no doubt that I'll get a written to your mother. Did you death. I have a right to my own "Ellert was very kind," said the house, except the rent. If your commission. I'll be interested to know that? I had a letter from her life and death adventure. That's Howard. "My place will be saved mother would come, she could be take them. It ought to tell me a while you were gone. And sho's not sentimental tosh olther. It is for me. They won't take on any with Nancy while I'm out. If she lot about my eyes and my sense of coming to stay, provided sho can true."" ono else. At least not for another doesn't come there's always Mrs. balance and so on."
pay part of the living expenada. "Yes," he said at last. "It lo year,"
Pearce, and Nancy's so good-" "Why are you, so set on avis She says if the plane bothers her true He had come back from his talk
tlon?" naked Amy, thinking fear- she'll put cotton in her ears and with the senior professor just be
They were very pitiful, those two, The little girl looked up. "Nancy fully of spinning, crashing, burning make motions. Your mother's the foro lunch and Amy was busy put good girl," she said mischievously planes, but determined to show no best sportot until the time was They were atolenlly calm. They in- In the last hours of Howard's stay. ting the meal on the table. She She spoke distinctly, with no slur-fear. paused with the teapot in her handring, but her voice was still sweetly "Oh, it's the now big thing and actually set for Howard's leaving vented small busy duties about the to laten.
babylah.
I've got a regular kid hankering to that Amy spoke agala of wanting house and when Amy packed his Ho went on. "I'm glad that So you are a good girl," and drive a plane. Besides," he finished a child. "Don't you goo?" she said, bag she sent him down in the gar- much is settled. The old chap Howard, patting her hand. The bitterly. If I've got to kill other "It's our love for each other. It's don with Nancy, but that was a mis- offered to continue my salary out beat little girl I know. Good little men, I'd prefer to do it at as far a you and me, living together in one take, for she could hear their voices of his own pocket."
Nancy."
distance as possible. Let's not go body, Howard. I'd be so infinitely and the tears she had dreaded "But you couldn't take that," said "Good little Nancy, de-ar little into that."
happier if I knew I was going to could not be hold back. She had to Amy
There
everything's rendy. Nancy," she said, beaming at him
have a child. It would be easier stop again and again and wipe antnak. Wait a second till I pin Nancy's with a sudden radiant smile.
Amy did not ask anything more, to stand your being away.. I know them away to see her painful bib." The little girl was in her
They both tried, as they had tried it would interfere with my giving But at the end of it sho washed her high chair, between them.
from the first decision, to be com-music lessons and playing the face and went down amiling. Ho "No, I couldn't take it, but I
monplace and practical, but the church organ, but with your mother was to leave on the train that his wanted to. He eats he had no near
days went by in a strange hurried helping out I don't need to earn mother would arrive on, for Mrs. kin, that he wanted to make it pos-
choon, where there seemed to be no anything. And money's not the Jackson had been afraid of her own sible for me to go without feeling "Then we'll save something." sane adjustment. When Howard question I'd rather be poor as courage and had so arranged things worried about you."
By great effort they were talking passed the first physical test he dirt. I'd rather work my hands that she would see him for that one "Father and Mother would like as if it meant nothing special, but would be sent to Texas for train off of course, that's just talk for moment only. She had boon gen- me to come and live with them, but they did not look at each other, ex-ing, but beyond that he couldn't Father and Mother, and your erous, too, in giving his time to And Professor and Mrs. I'm not going to do it. This is our cept with quick, almost furtive plot his future. Nor did he try mother wouldn't let me but if I Amy. home,
and I'm going to stay in it glances. Neither of them could eat, The dean, the president and Pro- didn't have them-if I did have to Lowe left them alone until the tima till you come back. This war won't but they both made pretence. Amy fessor Ellert wire-pulled and manip starve and slave can't tell you, came to go to the station. Other Inat long,
sipping tes, Howard crumbling hisulated such influences as they I can't tell you what our own child faculty members and some of their "But darling Amy, if you were roll healde hia plate. Even Nancy could devise to get him a commis would mean to me."
friends were waiting for them with them there'd be somebody to felt the tension. When Amy lifted slon, and he had to go to Washingbro got to think about hand, "I may be seeing you before "But, Amy, suppose I don't come there. Edgar Moreland wrung his look after you."
her down and unpinned her. bib, ton twice to see about it.
long." he said. "I'm going in." "No, I won't go, Howard. I don't the child turned her face, to bo Professor Eilert went with him that, too." # need anyone to look after me. But klased. I love you, muvver,” she on one of these trips and came back
As a small anxiety takes the I did think maybe your mother (sald_fondly,
snorting with rage. "These small-
"No, I won't think about that, sharp edge off a large one, so the would like to come here. She can't "Go and kiss Daddy, too," said minded jacks-in-office dressed in a won't think of it for one second. necessity of making sure that Mrs. go abroad again now and she hasn't Amy. Nancy came around the little brief authority!" raved the want another reason to make you Jackson didn't miss Howard re any fixed place to live. I don't table. In a rush of affection; old man "Lice feeding on the look out for yourself. If we had a loved the party. Amy stood by know, though. If I should give love you Daddy"
country's clean blood! I thought child you'd not tako so many risks. Howard a pet told this had. touching arm, "She can play in the sandpile un-that President Wilson, who la
You'd not do extra foolhardy but she did not til time for her nap," said Amy, as scholar and a gentleman, would things--"
held it, she would have clutched If this wasn't part of every clear live cleaned them out."
"A war isn't exactly the place to and dragged him back with all her "I'm not going to sit around and day's programnic. But she had to Howard grinned when he told be cautious."
strength. She knew it. They had do nothing but wait, I'd go crazy. Any something, she was so close to this to Amy. "He had to wait
"A war is exactly the place to be said their goodbye at home, alone. I'll give lessons and get the Con- crying."
three hours to see somebody in the cautious. A dend soldier's no use At the car steps they kissed once, grogutional church organ to play; Howard carried Nancy outside War Department and he's carried to his country. Those young Brit- and then she stood back, beside his It's not much pay, but it's not much and when he came back Amy's on like mad ever since, regular ish officers who lead their men over mother. The two women watched work either. And with half a throat- had stopped choking. orations! Mixing his metaphors the top with a swagger stick the train pull out, looking at him and grinding his teeth! Says he's Magnificent la one way, but a fear- us he leaned from the window un- going to vote Republican the next ful waste of good material if they til, so very quickly, he was gone. | election."
want to win. You'll never be a Then they faced each other with Amy was glad to find something coward, not for yourself, but you're bleak composure, fearful of speech. to laugh at without effort. "But all being a coward for me.
You're go-
(To Be Continued.)
her." Ong, that might bother
you give music lessons?"
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