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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY, JULY 17, 1934.

SOPHIE KERR'S LATEST SUCCESS IN ROMANTIC PROBLEM FICTION

TAY OUT OF MY

MY LIFE!

BEGIN HERE TO-DAY

When BOWARD JACKSON comes to the wall middle weatern Lown of Marburg JANE TERRY, the pretest girl in town, daarin to win bla ber

Howard, a young geology Instructor, la

Hastily she got ready to go for first. That's her system, Any-ously as they arrived, trying to Oh, be careful, called Amy. the music, caught the half-past thing she wante she snatches for be very smiling and welcoming, "They're so high-” 10 interurban and discovered, to on the assumption that it ought but her effort was unneeded for her relief, that there was no one to be hers merely because she doca Jane and Howard did not come, through and dropped to the floor. By this time he had scrambled ailracted by Jane's Izlend, AMY LOWE, but Bite knew in the car. The day was want it. She's a poor apart. Inor did Miss Rosa. It became a "hat made you lock the door?" Jane schemes So keep the iwn from becoming very hot and the town, a county never could see why you like her. Sunday evening like many other he asked. "Dil you better acquainted, Howart hears Amy plar sent and small industrial centre Nobody else in the crowd ever did." Sunday evenings, and somehow come

Amy dragged him away from that fact struck a now desolation was dingy and nolsy and crowded

In on the chapel organ one day, call on her that evening and alt immediately Fall in love.

On the way home he le confronted by Jane

CHAPTER IV

think I'd

YOUR LAST CHANCE

16

HOURS

LEFT

Amy came downstairs slowly, her heart knocking. She was thinking, "I ought to behave as if this meant no, ning. I ought gratuinte him to say that I con.

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"Yes. And I didn't want to ace by Saturday market wagons and the subject. She hated her small into Amy's thoughts. She would set fiyaterialy presies hire of breaking her their crowding customers. Amy uncontrollable gratification when go on for years and years and you."

"Come down," he begged. "I'm heart. When he tries in exin her Jane ak not mind for they gave hor he maki sharp, things about Jane, years, playing hymns for Sunday, (going to tell you the truth no mat- interpreta fise words as a declaration of the privacy she

needed.

She Sho hated not wanting to defend eveninga. She would grow tired Next morning abe teleplation Amy, "Huward

bought the moste and ate lunch fane even though she did defend and old and it would not matterter what you think about me aft and 1 are engaged.

in a cool little green tea-room. her. And she didn't want to hear to anyone. As she skilfully lowerward. That's one thing I'm go

haven't lost my appetite en-Howard Jackson's name. Edgar ored "Jerusalem the Golden toning to do. I've thought of it all tirely." she reminded herself with was willing to talk of other things, more singable compass she could through this miserable business," Amy put down the receiver, as a wry amile. She looked in shop He was a bit ashamed of attacking have flung up her. armяincl one puts down something tainted windows and and for a while in Jane so violently and because he screamed with horror at the bleak She couldn't say she was glad that the park behind the old brick was in love with Amy he was sen- and endless future. Jane was happy. She wasn't able courthouse, so that, she could go stive to her moods and could feel to answer. She wasn't able to home Inte.. Her father and mother something secret and sore behind

In the morning sho' cocaped from think.

and grandfather were on the porch her words, But he did not sus the house as soon as she could, It must be true that June was when she came up the street at pect anything more than that Jane taking the music she had bought He met her at the foot of the engaged to Howard even though twilight-Professor Lowe with the had been irritating about her en in Hepsonville and started up to stairs and atood there, not touching Jane wasn't exact about truth evening mail in his hands, Grand-gagement. He more than the chapel. That would prevent her but close bofore her life a when shading it favoured her own father smoking and Mrs. Lowe put ready to forego the dance with the hearing Jane if she telephoned. wall, "Now listen, Amy. The case. But Amy knew that Jane's ting away her lace pillow with its characteristic comment that if they "But this afternoon I've either got other night, Friday, when I was half-truths were less by intention dangling bright bobbins. It was didn't go his white pants would do to call her up or go there," Amy at your house Jane was waiting than by solf-deception, Jane reassuring to be with them. She for another day,

thought sternly, "It's

going to be for me outside, down the street wanted much and such things to entered the haven of their unde

So Saturday was got through awful to see them together, look somewhere. I don't know exactly be true. Therefore they must bemanding tenderness thankfully and safely, but as Sunday evening ap-ing at each other, eure of each where. Hiding behind a tree, I true. By long acquaintance Amy the weight on her heart, lessened.

proached Amy began to wonder other. But I must do it. Maybe suppose. And when I epme out she could usually tell the place where When her mother said, "Miss Jane and Howard would appear after a good hard practice I'll be met me and had hysterics, She reality ended with Jane and imag- Rosa entled up a little while ago for the evening sing which was able to do it. I think I'll go and said I'd deceived her. that I'd ination begun. This time there to tell me that Jane and her young an institution in the Lowe house get it over with. After that prob tricked her, that she-oh, God. I no imagination. June and man have got engaged," Amy hold. It was very simple. The ably she'll be so taken up with him thought I could tell you this but it Howard Jackson were certainly neither winced nor evaded. "Yes, neighbours came in and eat about I won't have to be with her much.sounds worse than I thought. I engaged and yet, only last night I knew before I left this morning. informally for an hour or two

Oh, I hope so!"

put my arms around her. I begged Amy put her head down and meant to leave a note to tell you and sang in chorus such hymns She turned the key in the chapel her to be quiet. I told her I didn't closed her eyes to keep back tears but I had to rush for the trolley," and songs us they cared to select. door and opened a couple of win mean to hurt her, that I'd done of helpless pain. Why had hehe replied, adding, “Jano said she It was neither a faculty nor Among the new music were two took that for a declaration and i dows to abate the stuffy heat. nothing to hurt her and-and she come? Why had he been sowas awfully happy."

town affair. There were no invi- -near, so dear with her if all

tations and no refreshments be- intricate pedal exercises and she she said she loved me, that she'd the time he was thinking of Jane, Later there was Edgar. He,yond lemonade or ginger ale and concentrated on theac, working un-loved me all the time and--and she loving Jane? That was what she too, had heard the new. Jane's cookies and a pitcher of cold but-til she had to pause for weariness, twisted it somehow so that that couldn't grasp. She hadn't naked grabbed that unfortunate Jackson, termilk for two or three of Pra- While she rested she heard when we got home she said t him. She hadn't tried to take him he said. "It's all over town and fessor Lowe's cronies who com-scratching, scraping, breathless were engaged. She dashed in and Away from June. He had wanted people are sending him wreaths of plained that this deliency was sound and she looked down to are told Miss Ross then and there.

She-she-and I She shook herself out of it. sympathy. I could weep for him neser supplied them in their own Howard Jackson climbing-with t

Wan, such f homes.

great deal of difficulty-through dumned fool I didn't have the guts straightened her shoulders. "He) "Like the wairus for the oys- Amy watched the guests nery-Jone of the narrow windows.

(Continued on Page 11.) never said a word that wasn'ters, returned Amy. "That'll be exnetly like any of the ather boys, your grief."

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to come.

I'm

myself."

•

not as much as Edgar says overy "No, but really I am sorry for day of the world. He liked hear him. Jane's got no feelings. She's Ing me play that was al. And all impulses and attitudes. I've nothing but a little foot. known Jane longer than you have, just imagined"

Amy. Our house is right across Her thoughts ran ahead. wonthe street. We played together a dering how she could plan her day lot when we were kids and we'd to keep out of sight and sound of get along fire at first. Then some-i Jane, She must have time to her thing would go against June's will: self to put this alt straight. She and whang, fireworks! She hit would go over to. Hopsonville forme once with my own baseball bat to-day, on the pretext of getting because I wouldn't let her have it new musle. Then she would tell for a bent pale and laid me out Edgar she didn't want to go to cold. And she told Miss Rosa and the dance tonight.

my mother that I'd struck her

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