THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1934,
SOPHIE KERR'S LATEST SUCCESS IN ROMANTIC PROBLEM FICTION
"STAY OUT OF MY LIFE!"
CHAPTER XLI
"If I live to be ten thousand, or
"You crazy young one. Serve (you" right if you did lose out Shall I ask any more questions?"
And Victor Gates, too, the one the ings, but Allco's nose for news green hat cocked over one ear,jand Bill? Is that what you want boya call. Veo Gates: .Dut I was sometimos a bit too sharp eyes very bright, check very me to ask??. thought, the other night at the Amy awaited her next remark pink. "Oh, there you are, Mother. "Well, darling, It's like this. I n hundred thousaud or a million,"
Berwyns' party.
that Nancy with special attention, but it was What is it, gingerbread? Let me think maybe another boy friend sald Alice. Moreland, "I'll never favoured the Instructor."
not needed.. Alice had skittered do it and you go change for the will ask me, and of course he may forget the day you and floward "I don't know, Alice. They on to another subject.
brats' glee club, tra-lee, tra-la not, and then, you observo, I'll lose came home after he'd boon, sick come and go too fast for me to "Everybody expects Howard "What have you been up to? out entirely. And it's no exciting with pneumonia, and you'd just got keep their ratings straight. Yes will be the new donn," she said, You look go monkeyshinish? to wait and wonder and to put him to bed, when 1 came dashing terday Naney was making Howard "when the trustees meet. Do you Hand me the raisins." over to tell you that Edgar'd been for his volume of Kents. That want him to be, Amy? Won't it
everybody else off." Nancy giggled. "You're look And looks like Richard Carver. Then be pretty much of a captured by the Germans
chore for ing at Marburg's most popular gal, was so happy because he wouldn't Victor telephoned and he's coming you?"
my lamb. So far four lads have have to fight any more and I could up to try some new rhumba stops "I shan't count my chores be-tried to date me for the first dance "Maybe better not; but you can sand him proper food and things.to-night when the Cubans are on fore I know I've got to do them out at the Lake Club, Veo Gates, do a lot of silent guesswork if We stood there bugging each other the radio. So there you are."
settled-eo I can't any frat, Bill Dowling second, Red you're so minded. and laughing with joy, because "And the French professor lost
Purdy, third, and who d'you think. "I must go and dress," said your husband was threatened with
I know, but with all was the fourth. No less than the Amy. "Watch the gingerbread. It tuberculosis and mine was a prio
"Poor Blanchard-ho did
did have you do anyway-choral class and distinguished bachelor, Mr. James burns so easily. Can you come oner of warl My dear, weren't it bad! I was glad that he didn't glee club coaching and the wom-Trainor, lawyer, banker, man along with me and take some wo funny!"..
come back this year,”
Jon's choir and the concert series about town-and; so far as I'm music down to the church? I pro "And that." said Amy, "was 15 "Nancy's just like you, Amy, and private pupils, and there's concerned, just a sprig of poison mised I'd leave it there yesterday."
Edgar always' says you had all the such a lot on required entertain- ivy, or a human hangnail. Here,
Why years ago."
not?" said Nancy. As she "I don't realize it until I look beaux in Marburg When you were ing in the dean's house.
course put that m
that in the oven and watch went upstairs Amy heard, **I've it."
Got the World on a at the children Nancy, a young girl. She must have inherited Howard would be perfectly splen-
String" blithely Indy, with suitors simply standing it."
"I take it
e not going with whistled in the kitchen. It. Me, I'd like to see him prest- Jimmy, then?
"It must be Dick Carver" dent of the college-I just thought "Not even if all the other men thought Amy. "Another profes it would ba load for you. I've in town had broken legs!, Nor am aor's wife in the family! But he'll
Year
In line, and Howard Second na Amy looked at her visitor. oddly, tall as his father, and my Virginia "You forget," she said "Nancy'a almost 14 and pouting because not my own daughter."
Vir
did, and everyone hopes he'll get
!
won't let her carry a vanity case, "I always forget it! She accma jalways noticed that it's the faculty going with Bill, nor yet with Vee, get along, he's got just the right and young Ned entering grammar like your own. Well, her mother women who get the mean part of And so what? Come along, ask blend of push and politics with
t me must have been school next fall. They make
heart-breaker, a big job-I've said to Edgar me. Mother, you're giving me a real ability to back it up. And feel old as the hills."
too."
hundreds of times that I'm glad very strange look. What's the he's as sweet-tempered and gen- "You don't look old, Alice. You
ho's a coal dealer. But now, with matter?
erous as Howard." don't look much older than With a flash of memory Amy business so bad, well, the college "Nothing, I was thinking of "The gingerbread's done, and if recalled that none of the Marburg professore do got fixed salaries.” something else. Now what is It I do say it myself, I baked it in ginia."
"If I could only thin down a young men had ever liked Jane. "I wish they were a little more about the Lake Club dance, and truly masterly fashion. I am a tile! The styles are all so They didn't go to see her nor take fixed. They've been sliding back-why are stou turning down Vee (Continued on. Pago 6). slimmy-not that I can afford any her about. But she could not tell ward for two years now. But I now clothes. I'm going to sew that to Allee for Alice did not needn't complain. We do vory ruffles on all my
last summer know whose child Nancy was well even if we don't dresses and wear them again. The secrot had been well kept.
sables and lol) in limousine in I've got to. I told Edgar 'If ho Nancy herself had asked, once, Nancy says." She glanced at the said one more word about busin-and Amy had said. that all she clock. You come along out in ness being bad I'd go out and buy could tell her was that her real the kitchen with me while I mix me a whole new outfit, and he mother was a beautiful and clever up some quick gingerbread," she said, all right, It look swell in woman, whose circumstances said. "I have to go to the gice wouldn't permit her to keep her club rehearsal and I'll just have the proud. "The fncuity's child. Amy had wondered since if time to bake it."
Amy about due for another cut, so I Nancy thought about it, or brooded won't be getting anything new over it privately, but she could either. I'll have to fix up some-never see a sign of it. There was thing for the Commencement par- nothing brooding or morbid about ties, though, but think I can find the spirited, active Nancy.
na
"I'd better get along home and make some myself. Do you use the soda and sour cream recipe?” "I haven't any sour cream to- day, so I'li jazz it up with a cup
a piece of lace or chiffon over In For a moment Amy wished that of raisins, Young Howard loves it Hopsonville, and use my old blue she had not brought up the sub-that way."
satin for a slip. Nancy must Jeet with Alice.. She was very As soon as Alice was out of the have a couple of frocks, too." fond of Alice and their neighbourly | door, Amy hurried to the Kitchen
"That young English instructor intimacy had always gone on with and her mixing bowl. -what's his name Carver-la out any hitches or breaks, hurt giving Nancy a big rush, fen't he? feelings or alight misunderstand
Naney opened the door, little
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