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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST | 17, 1934.
SOPHIE KERR'S LATEST SUCCESS IN ROMANTIC PROBLEM FICTION
"STAY OUT OF MY LIFE!"
sell Liberty Bonds. Jane was male-You belong here. And I want cotton, bright, yet soft.
you. It would spoil everything
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CHAPTER XXXI
all than go out anywhere. Mother everything else she added the mak- hearth fire for their good mall.cently it was easier. They could Apoke of having us there, too, but ing of two new frocks for herself. Howard's books waited ataidly on begin to breathe, to be natural.
Howard sat on the sofa be-' Walking with Alice made Amy she said she knew it was only abut at this her mother took a firm their shelves, his copper moking
stand. "I'll give them to you for tray was on the table by his chair. tween Mary and Amy, Nancy on think of Jane, because she and
gesture,"
Christmas gift," she said, "pro-It was almost as if lie were there. his knees. Everything looks so Jano had so often taken this same
And then, miracle, he
wonderful!" he kept exclaiming. Mary answered hesitatingly: vided that you don't set a single path. Watching Alice with Nancy
strong, cold "Here it is, just as I dreamed reminded Amy of Jane, too, and "Amy-how would it be if I went stitch In thom yourself. I mean thore! Talk and
stitch."
from the keen winter outside, but about it! It's all rent!" with a kinder feeling than she had to Rosa's that day and let you it, not ono
So that matter was settled, but with a living and hearty cold that had in the summer. Now and then and Howard be to yourselves?
CBD, it did mean visits to the dress is akin to heat, dropping his Later in the evening people_be- | of Jane, reported And I could take Nancy-" Mary apoke Bias Rosa had told her,
Oh, you make me feel a pig: maker for fittings, Both dresses his gloves on the floor, smothering gan to come to see Howard-Pro- Jane was hand of a special Do I seem to be trying to crowd i were blue, ono very dark and the her against his greatcoat, holding fossor Ellert first of all, beaming
and spectacu glittering
Amy AmyAmy 1" telling her he could not enlist, working out. committee of business women to you out? Oh no, Mary, please ether the side of Chinese coolle her, saying her name "Amy, at him, lamenting his own age that all that she needed to know in that schemes to get Howard another expect one
step in rankIt's largely pulling word. ing speeches on the steps
If you went out and I wouldn't Her beauty bloomed in
"Oh, but let mo look at you!" the right wires, my boy,ngor- Public Library Jane's business like to send Nancy away either. ance. Sometimes Mary Jackwin was growing. She moant to en- Especially to Miss Rosa's, while and her mother spoke of it. There she said, drawing away a little, ing Howard's insignin covetously
offices. Everything was Jane's there--"
en was something beyond reality in but holding him. tight. "Why, and unwilling to say a word about she went
And college affairs or any legsor and but the to Jane's importance and success quickly-"Jano
care it. Her eyes did not see them but do believe you've grown!
her a proud, elegant uniform army and the war. Amy listened with an amused much for children, and she rubber only her great happiness and what the wings! Oh Howard Mrs. L4we came in and the Dean
curved and red twinkle. She could perfectly 600 me the wrong way the only time mouth was
and two or three more of the Jane swanking around, playing her she ever saw Nancy, Very foolish soft, her skin was translucently you're grand "
fair. She was luminous, radiant, He could. say Nothing but her faculty with their wives, Amy part with daghing conviction, but of me, I suppose, but she-well, waiting. In the very last days she name, and he had tears in his noted that the men were obsessed she felt no tingla ef. envy. But aho sald that Nancy wasn't a when one day late in November, pretty child and I resented it. did not talk very much. She was eyes like a child wanting consola- by the war, but that the women with Howard as he took his waytion. Finally ho stammered: stoned with a sort of futile anges Mary said that Jane was coming 1 keep on resenting it, too, in a
toward her. She knew the hour "It was too long. I felt as if all impatience. She was glad when: to stay, with her aunt for the small-minded maternal way."
when he started. the moment of this and you didn't exist any they were all gone and Mary, holidays, Amy only commented "Amy, you're funny!"
train more. That I'd never see you yawning, had kissed her son and absently: "That'll please. Misa "But Nancy is pretty, even if it ench stop, just where his
gone to bed, again. Roan, and thought no more about isn't in the pink-and-white cherub would be every mile of the way.
He would come in the evening. After his mother and Nancy. Then Amy and Howard sat down it.
style. And I won't have Jane she made a last turn of the house, came in he found coherence, but before the fire, her head on his The holiday this year meant Terry criticizing her. You think
their hands clasped. only to Amy that Howard was Nancy's pretty--I asked you drow, the blinds, lit the lights and all of them were too excited and shoulder,
looked about her approvingly. over-wrought to do much but beWhile I'm here and when we're sure of his leave for that time while ago, remember? Of course The room had order and colour gin sentences and leave them along," he said, "we're going to No matter how she felt toward Jane, toward anyone, she could Pretty isn't the adjective for her and warmth and comfort. There half spoken, forgetting what they pretend that it's just as 'always.
It's too obvious and limited. It's
were wreaths in the windows and meant to say in the overwhelming I don't want to talk about airplanes" include nothing from outside in
a tukling sort of word-"
a garland over the mantel. Pro- joy of reunion. Nancy was the or guns or soldiers with you, Amy, that proward's coming in view let
"Why Amy, you of all people fessor Ellert had sent her a box calmest of the four, but a little I want just my wife and my home. With
П chanco remark like that! Amy first went through her house rankle sol Does it matter what of wine-roses and aho had cut off awed by the intense feeling of the Let's forget everything else."
the dead branches of the magnolia grownups. She looked at them in like a stern and captious stranger, Jane thinks?"
tree in the garden to burn in the surprise and question. But pre- and then, with lists beside her,
"Oh no, it doesn't of courso. begon a series of renovations
Not really. But if anyone had told which would, abc determined.
you Howard was a plain little boy bring it back to the freshness of would you have been pleased?"
their honeymoon days.
"I'd have been as mad as hops." "Thore-you see? And even if it wasn't any question of ex posing Nancy to Jane's comments,
wouldn't have you go anywhere else for Christmas for the world."
Sho planned her meals, too, of the diches Howard liked best And if," she said to Mary, the Food Administration comes along and puta me in jail for it, I'm not going to use a single substi
There was such earnestness and tuto while Howard's here. But sincerity in her voice that Mary ter, sugar, white flour-all he Jackson smiled with gratification. wante,
I'm going to make a co-"It's very sweet to have you say conut cake as big as a mountain that. But truthfully, it doesn't and thousands of raisin cookles, matter so vitally to ma to spend And pecan
caramels. And he's the time with Howard as it does going
have
popovers #nd you. Ever since he's been grown waffics and homemade sausage I've trained myself to be contented cakes, and roast turkey and duck just to know that he's well and and all the fresh vegetables and happy somewhere, aven when huk fruit I can find here or in Hop-
me. It saves auch a lot senville."
to
"Go ahead," replied Mary, "r of emotional wear and tear on both ald and abet you and go to jatt of us,"
Amy shook her head doubtfully.
way about my son," she said.
with you if it's necessary." Pres- "I don't believe I'll ever feel that ently she added: "Rosa would like us to come to her for Christmas dinner, but I told her we wouldn't think of it."
If she had not had so many things to do Amy could hardly have existed through the last
"I'd rather have no dinner at weeks before. Howard came. To
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