1934-08-18

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1934.

SOPHIE KERR'S LATEST SUCCESS IN ROMANTIC PROBLEM. FICTION

"STAY OUT OF MY LIFE!"

CHAPTER XXXII

Nancy puts her toys away,”

Nancy cocked her head hope fully at this. I won't put a thing way if you don't want me to he offered.

the hour when she was accustomed to take her twilight walk. Now he They talked, Mary Jackson de

walked with her slowly. clared, every minute but never

Sho seemed to be tired. If Amy was in

held his arm. They wrapt them- selves in isolation. Sometimen the kitchen, Howard was there, too. In the nearest chair, watch-

This nonsense banter went on they forgot even to speak to people ing or when he was not allowed to long there was anybody they know who paased on the help, and this Inst did not happen within earshot, Alone they wore but no one was offended. path. often. He was no house-husband, serious enough, and silent, too, at them excused them. As the ent skilful with dish-mop and egg. hekling to each other as if to fend of Howard's leave drew near they boater. Cup-handles came uff when off the coming separation, When stopped discussing the remote re- he touched them. If he moved they did talk it was often about the gion of after the war, becante he elbowe the nearest dish magical-child that was coming, his future practical. Any promised to give ly alld off the table to the floor, and the one phrase on which the fu- and Ebeira, always leaving unsaid he opened the oven door he was; curtain to be burnt.

ture hung: When the war's

"I don't know why you should be trusted with an airplane," sald

over

to take what sho called absurd care up her muste classes, to rest more, of herself even while sho consented to it. "And don't try to save and scrimp too hard on money," Ho- They did not have a great deal ward ordered. "There's enough, Amy. "I always understood they of time alone for from that first even if we're not millionaires. were fragile. You're the perfect night on every soul in Marburg And there's" he stopped. geologist with his hammer when

seemed to want to see Howard, you get into the kitchen."

"There's what?"

expecially the college students and "There's no need of you plnell- "It's your distrust in my ability the younger men of the town. Alling pennies. It worries me," he that crampa my style. You think the faculty wanted him for dinners ended famely. He had meant to I'm going to break something, soor luncheons. He was their only say, "There's my Insurance," but of course I do, Power of Bug-air officer and that was a powerful stopped in time. Kestion."

"And you promise me to take

"Not at all. It's sheer brute

Appeal to

the imagination. The

"Ab, yes the greater intellect local papers begged him to "tell us care of yourself-teaching all thosa controls the lesser."

eamothing about the Aviation crazy youngsters to fly. Any one The various clubs and of them might put you in frightful Small boys haunted the house to

needn't be. Believe me, i

force acting on extreme señal corpses implored him to speak. danger. "It's always in my min

tivity."

remembered Jane

.too

Lyle Talbot and Joan Blondell in "Hawaua Widowa," which opens at the Alhambra Theatre to-morrow (Sunday),

He would follow her, laughing, catch glimpses of him. He was watch them. Oh Lord, if only. through the rest of the house, in-lionized and feted as much as he hadn't to be away from you now. slating that the dust could wait, would permit; far more than he But I've decided something, Amy that books needn't be put back on enjoyed.

I'm coming homo-at the time, if. the shelves, that neatness was a But he refused every invitation It's only for a day. I've got to vice of deadly grip and fatal re-possible for him to refuse and be with you then. A woman gars sults. Mary Jackson, buay, too, when he had to accept he would through too much" lintoned and smiled and sometimes como rushing home to Amy, angry

Nancy's age. And she couldn't do stop in on our way. She's been. Joined in the argument, always, at the wasted time, They were She

it without giving a reason. when

She'd raging at me for not making a complained Howard, taking Amy's sure of only one hour together Nancy was born. "It's not know it would make people aus speech before her little band of part... This houseful of tidy wo- each day, and that they kept much. It's a normal happening, pect that she's Nancy's real moth-hopeful knitters or bandage rokers men!" he lamented, "what can one fealously, no matter how much he you know. We all arrive by the er and she'd avoid that at any or whatnot, and I'll say I come to poor man do against them! Even was pressed to give it elsewhere, same route. And afterward, it's cost. She certainly hasn't shown smooth her down. I want this

ao krana!"

any affection for Nancy, nor any thing settled." "But you want

interest either, since that first "You needn't be so me to come, time. How did you get such

deflant. I don't you?"!

wouldn't give Nancy up to Jane "Of course I do, more than any- notion?"

unless I was sure that Jane would thing in the world. It makes the clal reason for It. I've been hop-

"I don't know. There's no spe- love her, really love her time nearer when I see you again-ing that she'd come on to see Miss

FOOLIN

'OOLIN' WITH THE

OTHER WOMAN'S MAN

was her song

But she sang it once too often when she sang it to Murray Golden, New York's biggest of smart money men!

SPENCER TRACY

"WHILE

NEW YORK

SLEEPS"

A FOX Ficure with

HELEN TWELVETREES ALICE FAYE

HELD SHEEHAN

EDWIN BURKE

TO-MORROW KING'S

AT THE

only till March."

Jane never loved anyone but her- "Then Nancy's OUTA forever. self and never will. "Jane loved you,"

sprang Into

(Ta Be Continued.)

"It seems as if I'd been here Ron before you left, and maybe hardly a minute! Oh Amy, I'm

we'd be able to find out, together, If she should take it into her head Amy's thoughts, but she did not no real soldier. A real soldfer neither thinks nor feels. Some of

to de

do anything. She was to come after it. the men love it. They eat up the time during the holidays, but drill and discipline. It's a wel-

she's not arrived so far or Mary come escape for them from their would have spoken about it. Mary civilian life. They talk of want-two, for meetings and things, and goes to Miss Rosa's every day or ing to go into the regular army they're friendly, you know." when the war's over, and I listen to them and can't understand it. Maybe they'll change their minds when they get into actual fighting, but i don't know."

more, darling. We'll ask Mother "Well, don't worry about it any

Jane's coming, and if she is I'll deal with Miss Jane if she we'll see her and get a line on her. starts any funny business."

She pressed close to him. Shu "did"

not want to talk about those uther men. "I love you so, How- jurd," she said. "You're not sorry "It makes me more easy just to we're to have this child, now, are have talked about it. Honestly you?"

don't know why I thought about "Oh, no, no! It makes me it at all, except that somehow n happy beyond anything I ever child really your own imagined. If I could only be with vitally important, terribly you and watch out for you! You cious. And whenever I look at will be very careful, wont' you, Nancy I begin wondering, again f love? Have all the doctors and Jane could do without her, or nurses-and-everything. It makes whether she mightht ink this me feel helpless to be so far away.was a good time to get her back,

worry so much about you," that we would't protest."

"I worry about you, too-bul

pre-

that can't be helped. But there's "But you wouldn't give Nancy one thing that troubles me, How-back to her, would you?" ard-about Nancy. I don't know

-it acens very unlikely, but-mother, and if I believed she "I don't know. She is Nancy's what if Jane should want to take could feel about Nancy ns I do to- her again, when she knows weward our son--no, I don't know." have a child of our own?"

What made you think of that? Why should she want Naney mort than she did before?"

"It would be a pretty pour lookout for Nancy to be handed over to that neurotic egotist. I'd "Jane has queer idens, aho's not never consent to it, I can tell you like anyone else."

that. Throwing her to the wolves, it seems to me." He was thor-

"I don't believe she's. queeroughly roused. "I'm going to enough to want to take on the telephone Miss Row to-night responsibility of youngster soon as we get home-no,

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