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THE HONGKONG › TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1934.

SOPHIE KERR'S LATEST SUCCESS IN ROMANTIC PROBLEM FICTION

"STAY OUT OF MY LIFE!”

CHAPTER 1

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Don't think that 1 mind if you talk about her whole life,

eatch her.

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the of

"I know I could," Jane sighed. "Aunt Rosa culled me down about. the beach plento."

"Did Momma March tell her?

Was

to

my

"All right,” said Amy, resigned-, in: all sincerity. "No, I'm not going with you and and a half steadily, though it must sent, just

to Henry Berwyn' for two hours! Marburg wasn't even a county ly. "I'll come by for you as soon

a nice old sprawling as I change my shoes," you know you don't mind”,

Ja have been a chore. He's auch a college town with a few factories vory slim and pink and defiant, dumb boy. I know perfectly well at the west end to give a faint hung over the banister at the top you wouldn't have done it except flavour of commerco.

They would play on the college of the stairs and threw the words you thought it would shock, and burg College was just a nice old to the townspeople during vacation. You might have known she would.

And Marcourts, though these were not open down at her waiting aunt.

hether the chaperons. You're too sprawling college with only one Amy's father was professor of They invited you and you smart to enjoy being with Henry claim to distinction, that great geo-history, and faculty families, were so that's why you didn't yo cepted. What will I say? Miss but you're not smart enough to ste logist Professor Benjamin Ellert, privileged to use court, trary the tea. What did Miss Rosa Ross Terry offered this question what a losing game it is to do whose name and work were known and the enclosed gardens

cay" J mildly, meanwhile fitting now white something you don't enjoy for the wherever civilized man considered | administration building. By the -"She said I was too smart real- gloves on her plump white banda.

sake of appearing odd and different the earth's bones. The Ellert time Jane had put on her ownly to enjoy talking to Henry but "Say I've got lots of pleasanter and making people netice you and Geological Museum was small but tennis shoes and taken her racket not smart enough to see what a things to do than go to their old disapprove of you. It's just a form authentic and complete and scholars from its caso Amy had arrived.fool I am to do something I don't of vanity, my dear." With the from all over the world came to "Why didn't you go to the enjoy, for the sake of shocking "What, for instanco 7′′

laat word Miss ROBA opened the see it.

Marcha party

asked Jane

it as people. She said Tell Mrs. March that I'm right front door and was on the other

they started.

vanity." In the middle of 'Ann Veronica'

Two Baca of thought went on "Mother wanted to

TI KO NO and can't bear to stop. She won'tside of it before an answer could

jaide by side in Jane's head as she stayed with Grandpa; he isn't so "There's one nie thing about let Louise read it."

read, both slight but distinct. The well to-day. I did nearly an hour's your Aunt Rosa," said Amy, con- "I'm to tell Mrs. March that al- Jane came dashing furiously firat was regret that she couldn't extra practice. Lucky thing aldering this. "She always talks though you said you'd come to her downstairs but Miss Rosa had do something exciting, and the tea you are reading a book she dis-walked fast and as she reached the second that there was no man sh/Grandpa liken it. poor old lambi like a human being. She doesn't Father camo In just when you lay down the law, but sort of pats approves of and couldn't bear to pavement she was fortunate enough had ever met

at all like Ann'phonod..

That's why I could the subject before you and you're stop." The gloves were on now and to meet two Indies whom she knew, Veronica's ruddy blond

Capes.leave."

free to use your own judgment.” Miss Rosa was turning in front of also dressed up and on their way Presently Jane dropped her book | What d'your think you'll ever do "You ought to be her

#leoo the long hall mirror. Sho Was to the March ten, so she proceeded and hunted in the bottom bureau with your music. You elave away instead of me!" Jane began to elegant in dark violet taffeta and on with them triumphantly, having drawer for the pack of cigarettes at it and you play, people's accom-look dark and tragic. a violet toque with a white dotted managed to read Jane a lecture on she had hidden there. At least she paniments and now and then you Amy quickly changed the sub- voll. Her purple and white striped the beach affair and cacupe without could smoko and Aunt Rean display the organ in church, but 1ject. "I'm thankful that com- parasol with an ivory handle wait-a scene. hilas Rosa Terry detest-approved of girls smoking. So don't see what it gets you!" mencement's over and all the boya ed on the table with her shiny darked scenes, just as she detested adid everyone else in Marburg. "I love doing it. I enjoy it.jgone. Father's Sunday night purple leather handbag. She - hard bed, a badly cooked dinner. Even Jane didn't have the daring What more could it get me than student suppors bored me terribly noyed Jane. She was so comfort-poor partner at whist, and to buy cigarettes for herself in the that?"

this year." ably stout, so inexorably serene, scratches on her furniture; but in local tobacco shops. Henry Rerwyn Jane frowned. **That's very "The boys like them, though. I don't care what you tell Mrathe 15 years since she had taken had given her these and that was philosophic, I suppose. Oh, I do Everybody shys your father's the March, Jane sald angrily. "She's her brother's orphaned daughter to Henry's greatest attraction, though wish there was something I liked most popular professor in college." an old ent, and I won't go there to live with her--Jane was then a he didn't know it.

doing, something I could devote (Jane spoke absently. She had no be looked at the way she looks at lovely, dimpled, wilful five-year-old Jane smoked gloomily and choked myself to, something big and grand interest in any topic but herself. me and then picked over afterward she had never, not once, tried to when she tried to inhale. If there and thrilling This town's ብጹ Who is ale to make the rules for correct or admonish Jane without wore only something exciting to dend CABL ditchwater. There's The tennis courts were at the the young people of this town any-dramu. To-day Miss Rosa smiled do! She stared around the room, nothing here."

back of the gymnasium and as the way? If she'd keep better tabs on to herself at her success in dodging hating the dark, tall dresser, the "Well, you're awfully clever, two girls turned to the patch across her angel darling Louise, she'd all but the prelude. They had not massive high bed, the large roses Jane. Anything you wanted to do the campus Amy stopped. "Wait have plenty to do instead of watch-reached the big act where, Jane on carpet and wallpaper, the knotted you'd make go.' Amy offered this (Continued on Page 10.) ing the rest of us".

always threw up her hands and spread, the pair of alabaster vases "You're peavish because she told stormed and sobbed that she was o the mantel. "Looks OR me you went off with Henry Berwys the most unhappy girl in the work, at that last beach plenic and stayed that no one cared what she did of from nine to eleven-thirty and wore how she felt.

If

General Grant chose it," she nn- nounced aloud, "with his whiskers (" Aunt Ross might be liberal-minded on the subject of Henry, Berwyn, but when it came to changes in her. house she was rock. The room had the solidity of her will.

When the cigarette was at list finished, somewhat to Jave's relief, happy". She had expected that she wrapped the ashes and butt in her aunt would urge her to go to a wad of erumpled paper, put the ten and really she wanted to into the wastebasket and went

port to the chaperons when they Through the old-fashioned ruby spoke to you about it. It was finas side panel of the door June silly. You know perfectly well watched Miss Rosa out of sight you'd be talked about."

angrily. "Old people are horrible," "I don't care if I am. I don't she thought confusedly. "They care what anybody says about me don't want anybody young to be In this dump."

Mi Rosa picked up her bag and parasol, gave herself one last approving glance.

go and show off her new organdy, down to telephone to her dearest "If you don't care what people a startling black and scarlet which friend. Amy Lowe had probably

you, Janie, you can be she'd, insisted on say about

having though gone to the Marchs', but she'd be very sure that people won't care Miss Rona and the dressmaker had sure. what they any. And in a little city begged her to choose either pale No," Amy was at home. "What like Marburg where social circles yellow or Nile green. Of course, are you doing?" asked Jane. "Let's are small and intimate everybody's she could skip into the dress and have

some tenals. The courts always unden observation It can't appear late at the Marchs but ought to be dry enough by now." be helped. The only places where then Aunt Rosa would say, "Oh, I Amy hesitated, "Why don't we you can do conspicuous things and knew you'd come," and that would just go for a walk"?

not be conspicuous are desert bo unbearable. She picked up her Immediately Jane was bent on islands or big cosmopolitan cities." book and read on with a sense of tennis. "I want to do something

"You've said that before!" being tantalized and cheated, not with some action to it. "I'll probably say it again. only about the March ten but bores me to death."

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