THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1934.
SOPHIE KERR'S LATEST SUCCESS IN ROMANTIC PROBLEM FICTION
"STAY OUT OF MY LIFE!"
un-
ed, "Howard never cared for June." "I know that," Amy agreed. "And maybe I'm wrong about Jane: I don't seem to understand her very well now. Sho's changed a lot but she's always Interesting.
"So's a wild-cat!" said Mary, "at a a safe distance. But it's never a household pot.
Was
long can you stay?”
"A whole week, love,” "Oh, wonderfult How did you manage it?"
"I said I had to have it. Be- aldea-""
matter.
CHAPTER XXXVI promise. Even the demands of her Now and, then they talked a little apend most of his day in the big hall and started off on still an
body, thrown out of balance and and no her strength returned she bedroom, altting bosido Mary Jackson's tone waa
Amy, other theme with his hand on the her and their son believing, But, Amy," she object-weighted by its burden, brought began to ask questions. "How watching,
to-doorknob. To keep out thò raw her a strange and
and grave clation.
gether. There was not much to March wind Howard closed the which about the baby. "He's hard door behind them and stood on the She had hoped all the time that Howard would not come until after
Howard, "a funny little pulp. He garrulity was satisfied.
than да ly more
ombryo," sald steps with him until the old man's When, the chlid should suffer, she did not want him was born, for if she
does nothing but eat and sleep, and Howard at last, came in he began ho belongs to you. That's what to sucess and by 10 o'clock his eyes to see or hear it. Yet he had made her promino that he should know
and nose wero watory and felt, he She was looking at his uniform.call a perfect life" the first intimation of the hour, so, Why Howard-what's that? The On the last day of the wook thuy sald, as if they were full of mush, a quick torrifle head cold. Miss when this time arrived, Mary sent insignia's changed. You're not had the christening and Howard Tyler dosed
him Amy smiled and went off to write
massaged his him wire and he telegraphed you are--a captain?"
Jackson, Second, raised a piercing head and face and sent him off to her letter to Howard. She did not back that he would be there in the "Darling, that's me, ok Cap sell when the water touched his bed with a
hend. Professor Ellert was
boiling hot drink. send him Mary's message. Indeed morning. But by the time he cante Jackson ! Is that pretty swall?" aho forgot it before she took her tearing up to the house, his face
"But they haven't ordered you godfather, and the only guest out of it," she said, "but I wish you his "That ought to sweat out the most .Den
in her hand. They were con-lined and his eyes hollow from an overseas
sida of the family excopt Alice didn't have to get on that train in ducting an argument at the time anxious sleepless night, the doctor
"No-they don't care who wins Moreland: There were few guesto the morning. Now, don't kiss your about baptism-Howard holding had gone, his son,olled, welghat
this war!"
but many gifts-three silver cups, wife-colds are contagious.” that the child should be baptised and clothed in his first garments
"But there's something-have a silver plato and porringer and as soon as born, Amy consenting was sleeping peacefully under the they ordered you to Long Island?" silver spoons, gold pins and but- "I'm going to klas him in the only if Howard were present.blue blankets. Amy, too,
It was no use lying, though he tons to be displayed beside the sil morning," said Amy, "no Otherwise not until Howard could aske
asleep, while Mrs. Lowe, Mary would gladly have done it. "Yes, var rattle. Miss Ross sont an en- what you say." be there. There was also a dis-Jackson, the nurse and Mrs. Pearce darling. I'm to go on from here. chanting toy, a music box which cussion between them as to whether were all drinking hot coffee and I'm not going back to Texas." played
(To Be Continued.) "Hail to the Chief," "Keemo Amy should have the doctor come eating hot toast and chattering "But then-oh, Howard, do you "Home Sweet Home." This kid She clutched him, tried to get up. Kimo," "The Bluebird Polka," and in every day, just for a moment of with subdued but gratified hilarity. reassuring Inspection. Howard There was nothing for him to do think-
its wealthy," remarked Miss Tyler, thought this necessary, Amy con but alt down and have coffee and
"I don't know, I can't tell. It nodding her red hond with entis aldered it unneccssary.
toast, too, but he would not have looks as though I'd stay there as faellon. Dally they wrote pages to each it anywhere except in the bedroom an instructor, dear. Don't worry, other on these subjects, with odd where he could look at Amy and don't excite yourself.
Professor Ellert lingered to talk, side diversions, such as the when be certain that all was well with please, sweet-I'm here with you, hung back on his way through the and how of early discipline and her. The nurse crisp, red-hend we have our long elegant week. much half-serious nonsense about ed Miss Tyler told blm sternly Nothing's happened, except I'm possible inherited araits, tendencies that he ought not to be in there, stepped up a grade and consequent and features. It seemed that there but she could not keep him out, ly drawing more pay." He tried had once been a formidable nose In the Lowe family which Amy
He was finishing the last of the to divert her fears. "You didn't coffee when Amy woke and saw know it, but I've brought you a dreaded, and Howard owned to aim. "For heaven's sake," he present, nothing much, but it's like great-aunt with a cleft palate!
you. I want to show it to you." "Just suppose," wrote Amy, "he claimed wenkly, "when did you get He brought it out, a necklace of. should get them both! He'd be here? Did you see young Howard? Indian work, graduated rondels of There is a young Howard, isn'turquoise, a silver amulet in the like el monstruo in the Spanish there-I didn't dream it?" novel. The doctor says it's most
centre, a silver hooked clasp, crude unlikely and assures me that the
So the great emotional moment but well-proportioned, genuine in old myth of pre-natal Influence reside her and told her there unla a charm. It brings you health, faded into laughter, as he knelt be-feeling. That thing in the middle garding marks has been absolutely discarded, I hope he's right! But doubtedly was young Howard, wealth, good that's not the same as family fen- weight seven and a half pounds, tures. They do crop out! There's properly formed and featured, but the Hapsburg chin, for instance." looking rather as if he had Juet
They wrote these things more been pealed.
for the need of sharing each other's "That doesn't sound like a proud least thoughts and feelings and of father!"
Please,
good weather, keeps tooth ache away, puts a curl in your hair anything you like. Put it on."
For the baby he had brought a sliver rattle with turquoise in the handle, too heavy for a child less than a year old to handle, but at- tractive in itself, Amy fingered and admired. She did not speak again of Howard'e leaving the "Since you can stay
making their future together seem "Give me a little time." He held sure and safe than from any betierer hunds, and kissed them. "Amy, in the value of their subjects. It darling-you are all right, they was all part of waiting, waiting told me so but I want to hear you Texas canip. for the child, for the war's end, for say it."
so long, we'll have the christen "Me-why, I'm simply grand. It Ing," she said, "the day before you
the coming back to their normal wasn't so bad but her eyelids leave. I'll be able to sit up by Ruttered down once more in ex-then. Mary and Mother'll arrange
existence.
In this suspenso, in this anticl-hausted slumber. When the nurse it. I don't want you to do a thing pation, to Amy there was the quality of eternity, of immortality, como, in a few minutes later she but stay here with me." She and Howard were part of the found Howard asleep, too, on his hadn't the least idea of do- world's continuity, as had knees, his head on the bed beside ing anything else."
Amy's right hand. With some dif
to
their parents before them, as would fculty, she roused him enough
It was moving day for this San. be their children after them.
But of course he could not du
Edward D. Vandalour, president of was ao, renewed and strengthened get him over to the couch; he quite that. Professor Ellert was who was chairman of the General
the San Francisco Labour Council, Franelacan-and because of the Gen- that human life went on. To look dropped there and was off again, clamouring to see him and he had Strike Committee, handling the Gen., aral strike he had to play olaphant {
It
nt the clothes she had sewed, the Neither of them woke until early basket, the crib, the blue blanket and coverlet
was
to call on the president, and dean
of the college. But for the must part people were kind and did not He would not stir from the room. uncroach on his time. He could!
afternoon.
thrill of &
aral strike that hit San Francisco.
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