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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1934.

SOPHIE KERR'S LATEST SUCCESS

IN ROMANTIC PROBLEM FICTION

STAY OUT OF MY LIFE!"

DAGIN HERE TO-DAY

When IOWA JACKSON comes to the amail 184-menetern towa of Marbore JANE TERRY, the prettiest girl in town, deter salnes to win his beeIL

and 1 are enrKETU,"

Amy, thoroughly, unhappy, la practising in the chapel next day, when the Hansar

a window and to explain "angsze mtal." They so load pounding on the door, Amy opens it and faces Jane who is very

angry.

CHAPTER V

which to meet pain, neither pa- tience, nor control, nor dignity.

"Jano," said Amy before. Howard could reply, "I told you this was nonsense and it is. Don't make a funs about nothing"

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June? You've just making_overy-her necusing. They were all silent, or later that I didn't care about body upset and unhappy. There's in the bright slanted sunshine of her. And you and I certainly no reason why we should take our the chapel door, three figures wouldn't have been happy. There's feelings out and wave them around caught in a golden spell of revelano reason for all three of us to suffer by being tied up in a falso

· Howard, '« YOUNG reology Instructor,

like flags. I hate It," said Amy, tion.

It was Jane who broke through. aftuntion. I don't want to adding slowly, "and I won't do it miltucted by Jane's friend, AMY LOWE, bui Abe scheuses to keep the two from becoming Relier acquainted. Howard boara Amy play- At this Jane sonred highor: "We're all overexcited, and we're all "Oh-oh!" she cried, "I'll never mean things about Jane, but she forgive you, Amy, never, nover only seemed to me to want to own Ing on the chapel organ one day, call on her that evening and about Immediately file Bnt engaged to you, Howard," she a little-ridiculous." In lave.

"No, Amy, that won't do," said Take him, then, I don't want him, me and parade me around as her said loftily, "You owe me an ex- home be le confronted by aplanation. I insist that you make Howard. "Jane wants you to say I never did want him, but he hung possession."

"There was more it than that. who hysterically accuse him of breaking her

you don't care anything about me, around and begged me and begged beart. When he sees to calm her dang inter-lit, at once." preis hworte, mea denization of love. Amy out her hand in appeal and I want to know, more than me she put her hands over her She loves you."

"But I don't love her. I love Next morning the telephonen heny, "Howatil to Howard. "Don't, don't," ale anything In the world, what you're face and started down the path.

I must know, stumbling, looking very small and you. I thought maybe you loved begged, but he would not listen. going to answer. He spoke quickly, with relief. "For I love you. That's what I forlorn. Amy took a stop after me a little too, or would love me after a while, unless this mean came here to tell Amy that I love climbed into the window to tell her, but Howard stopped her.

"Don't" he said. "It won't help hasn't made you hate the sight her and that I had intended to ask you, and since we're caught in this

I wouldn't blame you. But her to

altuation, and Jane wants a show-to go on with it. Everything's set me. marry me until

tled now."

Amy, it lan't true that I asked her "No," cried Amy, "he doesn't down, she may as well have it."

to marry me, and I didn't tell her "You're an unspeakable cad," mean it

He led her into the chapel and that I loved her, not once. "I do mean it," said Howard. "I shricked Jane. "You planned this should have said so at once, Jane, to humiliate me! You and Amy they sat down on one of the ben-dragged me into this thing, and I

jmeant to get out of it in

her face before but you misunderstood so terribly Amy's always been Jealous of me ches, near the door.

"Dear giri," he went on, "I'm that would save the other night, and then after and everything I did, she's taken

ashamed that you had to go her friends, I'd simply have left. Miss Rosa was told." (he did not you away from me deliberately.

through this. It's my fault. town and let her tell everybody say "after you told Miss Rosa") hate you, I despise you-" "and--and other people-but it

ought to have told her right at that she'd thrown me over, but I couldn't go on~~"

first, that night, but she got me so couldn't go until I'd been you. Do mixed up, and then, I'm not used you understand, Amy darling? It to girls who-well, never mind was my whole life, If you loved that. It couldn't have gone on,me",

Amy sat thinking. Yes, it was And it Amy. You know it couldn't have

I'd have had to tell her, his whole life, and hera. one on. even if there hadn't been you. was strange to know this: In the Don't look so stricken. What is it, past few weeks, in this last quar what's the matter?"

tor of an hour, she and Howard "It's Jane. She's no miserable." and Jane had altered their whole "But what do you want. Amy? lives, turned them to a future they could not foretell in any way. A If Jane and I had kept on for There was no use in telling June while with that tromped-up en-month ago, thought Amy, she had to stick to the truth, she couldn't,gagement she wouldn't have been not wished, she had not faintly she must always imagine menn mo-

"I climbed in the window be cause the door was locked," said Howard. "I wanted to speak to Amy and I didn't suppose she'd let me in if she know who it was."

"And why not, for heaven's sake? What did you want to say to her?"

"It was nothing important," said Amy, angrily, "This is noasovno. Stop acting. like idiots, both of

YOIL

But Jane was in full swing so a suspicious and injured heroine.

"I'm not so sure it's nonsense.

I don't like it. And you'll please not try to Kawer for Howard, Amy. The thing I want to know in, what did he want to tell you that was so urgent he had to climb into a window to tell it. I have

a right to know."

In spite of her distress Amy had

- an instant's temptation to laughter

"What are you going to say, Amy?" asked Howard Jackson steadily. "Do you care anything about me or not?"

"You and you loved me," de clared Jane In A high voice, bat with panic in her eyes. "You "Don't mind me. Amy," taunted asked me to marry you. There was Jane. "You've been running after nothing to misunderstand."

bim behind my back, asking him Howard turned round to Amy, to see you last Friday night and asked telling him to pretend he was go "Do you believe her?"

luptly.

ing to see Professor Ellert. It's only my dearest friend who'd think of a thing like that."

he

Amy could not stand any more, "It doesn't matter what I think or believe," she said. "This le all horrible. I won't be mixed up in it. I'm going."

•

tives, and having Imagined them, happy, she'd have realized sooner Jane caught her arm. "No. believe them. "And she knows ak Jane's grandiloquence, but you're not. It's all your doing she's lost him," thought Amy. Howard Jackson's shocked set face anyway. You've been trying your "She's being tortured. Oh, poor stopped that. Не was suffering. best to get him away from me!" Jane, poor Jane!" Her gaze went And June, Jane would suffer, too, "That's vulgat and rotten. And past Jane to Howard, and her eyes If she knew the truth. For once not true."

Jane's suffering would be real. "Then tell him you don't care With sure fore-knowledge Amy felt anything Jane's suffering and could not en-that."

about him. Tell him

dure . for Jane had nothing with "But what's the use of all this,

Bald what she was too pitying to put into words. Before that look of trust and affection Jana stood silent, it barred her away from them, munde them untouchable to

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