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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1934.

SOPHIE KERR'S LATEST SUCCESS IN ROMANTIC PROBLEM FICTION

RE

STAY OUT OF MY LIFE!"

DIN HERE TO-DAY

but to keep thera

Later that night confronts

engagement

Jana leaves. Amy admis her love for Howard and' agrees to marry hilm.

CHAPTER VII

Don't strike out at me, my dear. And write to me, even if it's nothwalk, looking Into shop windows you know. You seem to mo, I When HOWAND JACKSON, young urology because of your own suffering," ing but, a card—”

at first blankly, then with a faint don't know exactly why, but you' professor, comes to the small middle western said Miss Rosa. "That doesn't sown of Marbury JANE TERRY, the prettion

But Jano had pulled away from interest quickened by the sight of do seem to me to be looking for girl in town, delarminos in win his heart help. I'm doing all I can."

clothes and trinkets superior to Howard le attracted by Jane's friend, AMY dane went on with cruel inten- the embrace and was hurrying out anything Marburg could offer. She something quite practical, outside Then one evening Howard sale on any and tion. "You'll be as glad to got to the train. The porter swung began to feel a small importance, the field of education. Why don't almost immediately they fail in love. rid of me as I am to go, We've up her bag. Her trunk was to see herself as a very attractive, you take a course in one of these and socuses him of breaking berbeurt. When never boen vory fond of each other, slammed into the baggage car three well-dressed, Independent young high-grade secretarial schools and he tries to calos her, the interprete his words have we, Aunt Roan? You don't coaches ahead, Miss Roan watched, woman with any sort of interesting get into some business--publishing sta declaration of love and announces thair care about anything but playing more unhappy and perturbed than

Aday later Howard le trying to explain bridge and having nice fattening aka had ever been. In her whole or she might choose open be- or advertising, maybe? My sister

fore her. to Amy what happened when Jane aree the menis and making the house look fe.

went to one and she's done awfully together, fibe fies latas a rage, Howard tellu Jane he does not and never did want to a little better-kept than anybody- marry her and that it is Amy be foves, else's. I suppose you're too old to Miss Rosa was miserable with de in its greenness. The important worked herself onto the staff. I'll All the way back to the house and strolled in a little way to rest the editor of a big magazine and Presently she came to the park well, got a position as secretary to know how young people feel, real feat. "I shouldn't have let her feeling subsided, leaving a flatness Ly

go," she thought. "I ought to in its place and great loneliness, give you a couple of addresses" Maybe I am," said Miss Rosa have insisted that she stay here wentily, "Anyway, Jane, I did the and face it. But she would surely Various other strollers, mostly It was the first line of direction Miss Rosa went with Jane to best I could with my limitations. have done something desperate elderly men, glanced at her with June had found and she probably the late afternoon train and waited I'm very fond of you, even if you There's a kind of power in Jane. speculative adrairation, all of them would not have followed it but one with her in the big empty station: don't believe it, and it fairly tears Sho made me let her go off entirely only too ready and willing to start of the schools was near her hotel. "I know I ought to go along with me to soo you like this- you,” she said at last, "just" for "Will you stop nagging met" against my better judgment. conversation. Jano saw that and a fow daye to got you setikd.”

don't suppose she has the least idea it pleased her. It brought back her She passed it as she went back "If you went with me I'd get off hugged Jane's stiff, resistant shoul-what a hard, time parents must crenset dislike of functivity.

"Your train's coming in." She of studying anywhere. Oh, Lord, feeling of importance and an in-there and after a moment'a hesita- at the next station and go some-ders and kissed her on both cheeks. have !".

tion returned and entered. It was where else. I don't want you or "Dear child, anything you want of

She must vindicato herself. She la compotent place with more than anyone clae."

me, any time, I'm always hero. Jane, by now somo 60 miles must do something quickly to show a suggestion of swagger. At once away, was for the moment unaware her superiority to Amy and all the Jano felt herself at ease. She was of her advantages. The energy mengro, stupid life of Marburg, understood. She caught their pos- that had started her on this de- and to take Howard Jackson realize sibilities. She liked the very smart termined flight Had gone, She sat what he had lost. A vague, bril- crumpled in the seat, seeing noth-llant vision of herself returning to

frock and make-up, the detached Ing but Howard Jackson looking dazzio and to condescend rose in capability of the director, Miss at Amy, hearing nothing but his her mind, but she could not evolve Jardine. In no time at all she was voice saying to "I love you." any definite guide toward its reall-enrolled for as much work as she

Amy

zation. There must be something could induce them to heap upon

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Never afterward in her life was she could study with immediate re- she able to recall any detail of Bulls and she would find out at her. "You simply can't do all that journey, how she reached the once. hotel nor how she spent the first! few days of her stay, for she was auspended in pain and unreality. The truth was that she stayed in her room meat of the time, lying in bed or, altting by the window, while the management, only partly reassured by messages from Miss Rosu, kept an uncasy watch on her, Bonding in maids on unnecessary orrands, while the housekeeper lingered nervously in the hall for their reports. Jane did not know it. But she did know that after a while she began to come alive and to feel that she must do some thing.

these things at once," Miss Jardine told her, breaking through her cool elegance for a human moment.

"Oh, yes I can. WAS

I must," Jano replied and was gratified by the impression she was making.

Columbia summer school

But the registrar's office of the baffled by Jane and bewildered by her. No, she didn't want a course of Chaucer of any other early Eng- lish literature. No more did sho That night she wrote two letters. want Romance languages, Or One was to her..aunt, an answer Greek history: Or renalasance art. to the letters and telegrams which Or pedagogy of any variety..

Accordingly she went out for a

One of the secretaries, more ob poor. Miss Rosa had been heaping servant than the others, had seen. on her ever since hor arrival and the tight nerves, the despairing which Jane, so far, had not no- ougerness behind Jano's apparent ticed. "You needn't worry about aimlessness and took her aside.me," wrote Jane. "I am perfectly "Look here," she said kindly, "why all right. I've settled everything. do you bother with this sort of

thing? It's mostly for teachers, I went up to the. University but they were a lot of old dodos and all they could offer were deadly dull courses, mostly a sort of re- hash of the Venerable Bode and the Doomsday Book and other antiquat- Jed out-of-date stuff, nothing that interested me at all. So I deter- mined to take a course in one of the modern secretarial schools and I am starting to-morrow. Don't set- the idea that it's nothing but short Thand and typewriting. It's quite different-the sort of work that lends at once to positions in pub- ishing houses or big advertising agencies.. I wish you'd send me everything of mine that I didn't

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She had written that last make clear to her aunt--and to herself that she was done with Marburg and was never going back to it.

But, over the second letter she hesitated. Ever since that morn- ng in the chapel she had beca besat with the wish to revenge her. self on Amy, spoll her happinco If she could. The letter, ready at last, after many crossings out and changes, was far from consistent but Jane could do no more with It. She copied it in a spontaneous, | dashing hand.

"My dear Amy: I've been sur prised not to hear from you aluco I left. It seemed to me that the least you owed me was an explana- tion If you didn't feel quite up to an apology But I can see how dif ficult it would be for you to offer either. Really, Amy, I have been your friend so long and thought I know you so well, but I never in the world could have suspected you of doing what you have done to me. "I want to tell you again that spite of everything he may say, Howard Jackson literally pursued me with his attentions and made love to me ardently, Also he cer tainly did ask me to marry him, I cared for him deeply. I believed in his honour and sincerity and I knew him so well that I still be ilove in them and am still abso- lutely certain that he cares for me and you have deliberately stopped in to drive us apart. Well, you have succeeded. You have taken away from me the only man I could ever care dor--a man who really loved me until you came between us. Fortunately I am strong enough to go on without you, with- out, either of you. But the scar of this wound you have inßleted will always remain."

To Miss Rosa, Jano's lotter Indi- cated that Jane was herself again and not utterly broken under the flasco of her engagomant,

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