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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!"

In on the chapel organ one day, walls on

Next morning the telephones Amy, "Howard And I are engaged."

anxty.

CHAPTER V

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

DEQIN TIERE TO-DAY-'

which to meet pain, neither pa- Jane? You're just making overy-ther accusing. 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 When BOWARD, JACKSON, nomen to the tience, nor control, nor diguity.

false "Jane," said Amy before Howard no reason why we should take our the chapel door, three figures wouldn't have been happy. There's ama!! middle wastern town of Marburg JANE

suffer by being tied up in deter TERRY, the prettiest girl in town.

could reply," told you this was feelings out and wave them around caught in a golden spell of rovela-(no reason for all three of us to mine to win his heart-

It was Jane who broke through. aftuntion. I don't want to any Howard, young Foology Instructor, inonsense and it is. Don't make nike fage, hate it," said Amy, tion

adding slowly, "and I won't do it attracted by Jane's friend, AMY LOWE, dại Jane schemes to keep the two from becoming fuss about nothing—”

At this Jane soared higher. "We're all overexcited, and we're all "Oh-oh!" she cried, "I'll never mean things about Jano, but slie forgive you, Amy, never, never only seemed to me to want to own balter equainted. Howard beare Amy play=" her that evening and almost immediately falam engaged to you, Howard," she a little-ridiculous."

"No, Amy, that won't do," said Take him, then, I don't want him, me and parade, me around as her "There was more to it than that, in love. who hysterically ateuare ble of breaking har planation. I insist that you make Howard, Jane wants you to say I never did want him, but he hung possession."

On the way home he is confronted by said loftily, "You owe me an ex-

you don't care anything about mo, around and begged me and begged

"But I don't love hor. I love heart. When he trim to calm her Jane inter-it, at once." prele his woede aan ghreleration of love. Amy put out her hand in uppeal and I want to know, more than me she put her hands over her She loves you."

to lloward. "Don't, don't."

must know, stumbling, looking very small and you. I thought maybe you loved going to answer.

after a while, unless this mess the chapel next day, when, ifowani climbs in

Althoughly unhappy is practhing in begged, but he would not listen anything in the world, what you're face and started down the path. window and starts to explain the " He spoke quickly, with relief. "For I love you. That's what I forlorn. Amy took a step after me a little too, or would love me "Don't" he said. "It won't help hasn't made you hate the sight of ment There be luid pounding on the door came here to tell Amy that I love climbed into the window to tell her, but Howard stopped her.

had intended to ask you, and since we're caught in this Amy opens it and faces Jane who very her and that

eiluation, and Jane wants a show-to go on with it. Everything's act me. I wouldn't blame you. But Amy, it isn't true that I asked her her to marry me until "

tled now."

to marry me, and I didn't tell her She doesn't down, she may as well have it." "No cried Amy, "he

"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 Iloward, "shricked Jane. "You planned this

meant to get out of it in a way should have said so at onco, Jane, to humiliate mo! You and Amy they sat down on one of the ben- dragged me into this thing, and I that would save her face before "Dear girl," he wont on, "I'm but you misunderstood so terribly Amy's always been jealous of me ches, near the door.

had to go her friends, I'd simply have left the other night, and then after and everything I did, she's taken Miss Roan was told," (he did not you away from me deliberately. I ashamed that you

through this. It's my fault. Itown and let her tell everybody say "after you told Miss Rosa) hate you, I despise you—"

"What are you going to say, ought to Have told her right at that sho'd thrown me over, but 1 "and-and other people-but it

Amy?" asked Howard Jackson first, that night, but she got me so couldn't go until I'd seen you. Do couldn't go on-"

"You said you loved me," de steadily. "Do you care anything 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 a high voice, about me or not?" clared Jane in

Amy sat thinking. Yes, It was “Don't mind-me, Amy," taunted that. It couldn't have gone on, me". but with panic in her eyes. "You asked me to marry you. There was Jane. "You've been running after Amy. You know it couldn't have nothing to misunderstand."

him behind my back, asking him gone on. I'd have had to tell her, his whole life, and here. And it "I'm not so sure it's nonsense. Howard turned round to Amy, to see you last Friday night and even if there hadn't been you. was strange to know this. In the ter of an hour, she and Howard naked telling him to pretend he was go-Don't look so stricken. What is it, past few weeks, in this last quar-

what's the matter? I don't like it. And you'll please "Do you believe her?" he

It's ing to see Professor Ellert.

"It's Jane. She's so miserable." and Jano had altered their whole not try to answer for Howard, bluntly.

Amy could not stand any more. only my dearest friend who'd think

"But what do you want, Amy 7 lives, turned them to a future they Amy. The thing I want to know le, what did he want to tell you "It doesn't matter what I think of a thing like that."

There was no use in telling Jane If Jane and I had kept on for a could not foretell in any way. A that was so urgent he had to climb or bellove," she said, "This is all into a window to tell it. I have horrible. I won't be mixed up in to stick to the truth, she couldn't, while with that trumped-up en-month ago, thought Amy, she had

(Continued on Pass 7.) it. I'm going.

she must always imagine mean mo gugement she wouldn't have been not wished, she had not faintly happy, sho'd have realized sooner n right to know."

tives, and having Imagined them, In spite of her distress Amy had

Jane caught her arms. "No, believe them. "And she knows an Instant's temptation to laughter

but you're not. It's all your doing she's lost him," thought Amy. Jane's grandiloquence, Howard Jackson's shocked set face anyway. You've been trying your "She's being tortured. Oh, poor stopped that. He was suffering best to get him away from meJane, poor Jane!" Her gaze went

"That's vulgar and rotten. And Jane, Jane would suffer, too,

"Then tell him you don't

"And why not, for heaven's sake? What did you want to say to her?" "It was nothing important." said Amy, angrily, "This is nonsense. Stop acting like idiots, both of you."

But June was in full swing oa a suspicious and injured heroine.

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if she knew the truth. For once not true."

*

And past June to Howard, and her eyes sald what she was too pitying to care put into words. Before that look

Jane's suffering would be real. With sure fore-knowledge Amy felt anything about him. Tell him for trust and affection Jane stood silent, it barred her away from Jane's suffering aud could not en-that." dure it, for Jane had nothing with "But what's the use of all this, them, made them untouchable to

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