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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JULY-13,

SOPHIE KERR'S LATEST SUCCESS IN ROMANTIC PROBLEM FICTION

"STAY OUT OF MY LIFE!"

•

mind,

that's

"What did he look like?"

handsome. Not so handsome an I "He was tall and fair and very

CHAPTER I (Continued). she let her game go down and Jane father would call you down." She the Reeder?" said Jano In an odd been along, but not with Janie.

beamed with triumph. When they was still watching the young man stilled way.

The last time I got roped inton "It's so dull in this town, Jane had played three sets it was she who stood hesitating at the corner "He might havo called in some doubles with her was the last time. complained, "the same old people

of Jane's street. Amy followed her where. Let's acc, The Dowlings, What I moan is it was the last year after year and everybody who suggested that they stop,

"Let's sit down and cool off," she glance. "Let's go along and take the Gates, the Purdys, the More time! Nover again." knowing everything about every- body else."

She thought of Ann Bald. "I want to ix my hair, too. looic at the handsome stranger, lande well, there's no sign of him

"You mean, it was the last Voronica. "I wish I Hved. In Lon- " tell you what's the matter she said. "Maybe he's pug-nosed and we can't very well do a house- don. I'd work at something or in- with your game, Amy," began Jane, and cross-eyed close to, and that'll to-house search. He is lost and time?" she mocked him. vent something—”

readjusting hairpins. "You don't resign us to not meeting him." gone forever, Clementine, Jane, "Don't be picky." Though she They had reached the courts, study the placing of the ball. You As she spoke she knew that she do you think Misa Rosa would lo "You might invent a way to teach just try to get. It over the net any was voicing the wish in Jane's me have her 'Songs of Three Con was tall, Edgar was tail enough to turies'? There's a poem in it grin down at her. "Lord, but you look lovely to-day. There's some- me your underhand serve," said old way."

"Very well, if you want to," said about -dancing asaraband and I'd thing about you, woman, for Amy. This was too much Amy. She dropped her racket, tightened the net, get the balls out Sho flung back her head and began Janc. assuming Indifference but like to compare the meter with an unique and priceless. And yet be

old dance I dug out from Mother's kind that peerless countenance of the bag while Jane looked on. to laugh. She simply couldn't help rising instantly.

music. It would be fun if the there lurka no modicum of common That whs Jane's way. When it. Jane stared at her. "What's

They were equally tail, slender poom and the dance were the same sense. Otherwise you wouldn't be everything was ready she took the the matter? I didn't say anything

and straight but Amy, though a rhythm-")

so thick with Jane Terry. And, slindy side of the court and the funny."

"I'll asle her when she comes speaking of Jane, who's the now "No, I just happened to think of year younger, had the more mature, game began.

something. She must divert Jane more quiet bearing, Jane was home," said Jane, hurrying on.

young man who's calling on her?" "Maybe she's home now. I'll Jane was by fur the better quickly. "I wonder who that man restless, self-conscious, always ad-

"I don't know. Calling on her player, but if she missed a stroke is coming out of the Museum. Justing her bett, her hair, bolding just stop and see."

her hands and elbows stiff, watch- "She couldn't be home yet.

She when?" It fussed her and made her miss Look-In the brown sult."

see if she was They both looked. The man was ing to

observed was going calling after the tea.

"Right now. I came home just the next. Amy played stendly,

tall, quare-shouldered. Amy was thinking of Jane's man- I'll call you up this evening or I'll when he went up the steps and it evenly, and as if she enjoyed it. young. AR BOOK

wasn't Ave minutes later when I as the score mounted Even from a distance he suggested ner as they walked along, wishing bring the book over."

good tailoring and competent per-that she wouldn't take games ab It was, a dismissal. For some saw you going down the street and against Jano she

hard and be so tense and so unreason Amy could not fathom Jane 1 galloped out after you." was frantic, mashed her serves, -tried to ki sonality.

"Somebody to see the eminent happy and yet, with it all, some trying to get rid of her. Amy every return, declared balls out Ellerts gold bricks, I suppose, superior. She know that it was was used to Jake's odd ways but that were in and turned the game said Jane. She watched the young these traits that made Jane this was too much. "I'll call up into a fight. Her voice went high man na he walked slowly down the popular with their own crowd and this evening and ask Miss Rosa and her cheeks scarlet. It made streel, looking about him as if to she had a shrewd notion that if myself." she said. "And the next Amy ashamed for her. "It's allocate himself. There was some-Jane were more popular she would time you don't want me to come in ways like this," thought Amy, in thing familiar about him. She felt be much happler. None of the with you just say so, and don't tressfully. "I have to let her she must know him, at least have other girls would bother with make excuses that a child could see what to calm her down."

Been him before. Then aho re- Henry Berwyn and, though June through. I'd much rather you'd be So she began to slam her own membered Ann Veronien and her might say it was because he sup rude than tricky serves into the net, to mine the lover. Why, this

like plied her with cigarettes, 'Amy felt man whя

Jane was just starting to dagh, canlest returns. After two love Capes, the tail, blond, ruddy Capes. tha: It was more probably an effort into the house but she stopped, games June's mood was normal, "He's awfully good-looking." she on Jane's purt to have as much at-startled by Amy's sharpness, even superior. "You must be get-said.

tention as anyone else.

Then she flung her arma around ting tired," she said amiably. "He is rather nice," agreed Amy. "And yet she's so beautiful,"

her friend and gave her a hard, Oh, no. Just a streak of bad "Now there it is," grumbled thought Amy. "When she's hay excited hug. "Don't be cross.",

"I don't know who he is," said inck. I might get you yet," said Jane. "If an interesting man does ing a good time she's so beautiful she said breathlessly." I'll call you Amy, "I saw him coming out of Amy. "Jane's 90 Billy"

ahe come to town he calls on old Ellert she puts out the rest of us.

up this evening. I must find out the Museum and walking toward thought. "She never will play for and goes through the Museum and she dances well, and she's clever. It's so queer and she ran up the the Terrys'. It must be the same the fun of playing. It spoils then he leaps right off again. No-But I'm the only one who really is steps before Amy could answer.

man. So that's where he went." things so to get mad it you fese." body meets him.".

fond of her. I suppose it all comes

Jane, of course, had seen him That was why she had wanted to "The next time we have Pro-down to her being an orphan."

Amy went on, swinging her enter. "That was why, she hurried go for a walk instead of playing fensor Ellert to dimmer I might tell She thought of her own easy, racket, and smiling in spite of her so and wouldn't let me come in," tennis. It was casier to be with him not to be so stingy with his close-bound family with

a warm feelings. No

use being offended thought Amy. It was typically Jane when they were not doing visitors, but to remember that this tingle of appreciation. Yet hones with Jane's childish mysteries and Jancish, anything competitive.. For her town is full of beautiful, bared by reminded her that it was most changeablences and jumping about, secret satisfaction she allowed her young women thirsting for

"That's where he went, and little new unlikely, even if Jane had a mother. Besides, if she hurried she would do I think of his taste. But may- self one good rally, but this time experiences. I wonder what he'd and father, that she'd be much Jane became so hostile that Amy sny?"

more attached to them than there able to practice a little while bebe he was calling on Miss Roga fore dinner. She turned her racket and, if so, okay," said Edgar. was sorry she'd done it. Again | "He'd go pop-csed. And your was to Miss Roan.

and strummed it like banjo, hum-Listen, am I coming to see you "Where'd he go?" Amy asked ming under her breath. Presently to-night or la Vanny or Bill Hobart aloud. She had been thinking so somo one came running after her or who? hard that she had forgotten to and she glanced around to see

"I'll think it over and send out watch the stranger, "Why, ho | Edgar Moreland. vanished aWBY

boojum. like a

"What's the rush? Who've you lato her own home. That silly ja bulletin," said Amy and went on Isn't that queer?”

been tennising with?" "He must have gone down

June! The man was porbably n Audubon street. That would be

book agent, toward the hotel if he's staying at

And

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11. Edgar shrugged. I was just going to pay that I'd like to have

am, of course—~”

"Did he have on a brown suit?” "He did. And a straw hat. I can offer you no data on his shirt, socks, or tic, as I was not close en- ough to get the details."

It all clicked together, the man, the time, the place.

(To Be Continued.)

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