THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1934.
SOPHIE KERR'S LATEST SUCCESS IN ROMANTIC PROBLEM FICTION
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STAY OUT OF MY LIFE!"
CHAPTER XXXVII
did hot return to conscious" she said, defensively,
He looked at her with a little more humanity. "He cannot live more than three or four days, unless by some miracle I'm mis- taken and it's not Number Three."
"But it's not true-you must make him live!" she cried.
置
won't have it, I tell you, it can't be, that he should die-like that--"
"You'won't a scene, "on help him by making
replied roughly. quiet. We've got to work."
and he collapsed before it. The delirium, without sense or intenė į "Got everything you need. The two women, panic-stricken, trladtion.
money doesn't matter," broke in Howard felt better next morn-to lift him into a chair, but he was How he had found her she did Jane. ing though he was still anting too far gone. Thoy managed to not know or care. She had him **--but even thon-I don't be and shivery and exasperated by it straighten him, but he lay in now and in the short ambulance love he's got a chance not if it's "Such a dumb thing to happen-I
ride she had time to
her Number may
Three. You'd better didn't realize how chilly it was ensible on the floor,
"He's burning up with fover!" course. How lavishly, how ton-notify his superior officers right outside yesterday. I'll buy me said Mrs. Andrews. "It must be derly she would take care of him, away" dozen extra handkerchiefs before I
flu or proumonia. I'd better nurse him back to health and His brutal frankness made it got on the train and throw then notify the military authorities, or strength. And he would be so plain that he know, by some sixth away."
the police they'll get him to hos-grateful "And do take care of yourself, pital."
they would begin all sense, that Jane was not Howard's over again. He would come back wife, nor belonged to him. It Howard." bogged Amy. "When
Jane was on the floor beside to "her she built it up inte stung her pride. "Ho's a dietant As she stared, still combative, you get to this new camp don't try him, holding his head. You or satisfactory drama, herself the relation. I hadn't seen him for the understanding of what he had to do too muchy our quarters and der a private ambulance, the racious, radiant her to
months when he staggered into my done rushed over her. She flang this. Stay in your quarters and said violently. "'ll take him to
this morning in this condi- up her arma in a frantic gestur keep warm. Miss Tyler anya that's
apartment and call a doctor ness while they took him into her my
and in one short, sentenco un- the best thing to do. And don't there." Then, as she met Mrs. apartment, undressed him and got **"Hum—yes?" anld the doctor, wittingly expressed her complete write me any lotters saying you're | Andrews' blank astonishment, she him into her own bed, and she be "Where's your telephone? He character. all over it unless you are!"
Indded: "The hospitals are suck gan to be more and more alarmed ought to be sent to a hospital. "Oh, my God!" she cried. "What Mary Jackson, too, urged him: death-traps and he's a relation about him. It was hard to find I'll do what I can.... He hulance have I wished on my- "Don't run any risks, Howard. A distant cousin.
doctors, but at last one came, a got his number and went off into self!" cold is as bad as a bad airplane
dour man who at first examined a string of ontera, rush commands. for tricks. Since this awful fu In the ambulanco she held him with horror, but also with authorl- apidemle in the camps-stop look-again. Once he opened his eyes ty. "This man's got pneumonio, As she listened to him her span ing at me like that!
You know and, seeing her, tried to explain, one of the worst types, I should gled drama of Тевеце and rec- I'm not a
A fun."
muttering, drawing his breath Bay, He's pretty far gone, too, onciliation crashed. In panie. As ***I'll throw this right off the hard. "Phone the camp-plenae I'll order oxygen and try to find the doctor hung up the phone she day on the train will be good for don't let Amy know I'm so sick-you a good nurse, but they're scarce clutched his arm. Do you really And don't you think I'll not that cold-hung on and hung as sin. You ought to have two mean that he's going to-to die
that he hasn't a chance?” take care of myself, even with nothing more than a cold. I've got and then his words became or three too much at stake to be reckkas." He telegraphed when he reached the camp that his cold was better. that he had mountains of work. that there was no likelihood of overseus ordern immediately. And lils letters repeated this, adding, "I atil neet extra handkerchiefs, but I'm too jammed most of the time to remember them." For the rest he wrote only how much he liked the camp and the field and that his colonel was an old friend, and then he filled the pages with talk about Amy and the boy. "Tell me every- he wrote, "every least lit-
me,
thing tle thing. And get some snapshots for me as soon as you can."
Miss Tyler had packed her un!-| forma and departed. Amy was ni- most at her full strength, Nancy was home again. Howard Second was a pound and a half heavler, and the early April sunshine was bringing a thin promise of springe in Marburg. In New York dane Terry was sitting in her office, frowning over a bill of coats for repairs in a building under her: management, when Mrs. Andrewa came in agitatedly to say that there was an aviation officer outside who "spems to be sick or something he's acting very strangely. Be-: hind her. Aushed and staring. Howard Jackson staggered and al- most fell or the threshold.
"Jane," ho atammered, "I'm very
---very sick. My side, It struck me like # knife in the street, And my head he caught at her desk for support, but his hands slipped
It was, Jane soon discovered, far worse than she could ever have imagined. The picture of herself as a ministering angel faded in the smell of disinfectants, the dismal paraphernalia of a hospital room superimposed on a decorative liv ing place, nurses who used her as (Continued on Page 10.)
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