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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.' WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1934.

SOPHIE KERR'S LATEST SUCCESS IN ROMANTIC PROBLEM FICTION

STAY OUT OF MY LIFE!"

In New York Jase enroite in meterial asboul and later becomes private secretary to the president of the Kandel Heal Estate com pany. Ebe meets RUGER THORPE, head of thr

rental department,

she la lonely he takes her to dinner.

CHAPTER- XI

get

"Just lapping up work, aren't you? What will your mother say? Have you told her?"

HEIN HERE TO-DAY,

-“I'll have to đỏ' that. It's all with an important job, 'n big salary deserted old gardens are.

old friends who wanted to soa. her It had been arranged that Army and draw her back into the town'n When HOWARD JACKSON, young restorx jarranged. There's no one to take and what Mies Rosa had vaguely

an would stay with her parents until summer divorsions.“ proteseof, comes to Marburg JANE TERRY my place and the raport would be described to. Mrs. Lowe as

Howard came back, but every day They all came-Edgar Moreland, the prettiest girl in towo, determines to win his Swart Howard, however, falls in love that much shy. But it'll only be emancipated Hfe, with ANY LOWE. Jass's best friend. Jane, through July and that will give mo "Just how it was emancipated she went up to tho Booth house to Vanny Hough, Louise March, angered, tries to force toward into an

Miss Rosa didn't any and I didn't superintend the necessary cleaning Henry and Adele Berwyn, Bill engagement and, when this fails, leaves for Bix weeks in Marburg to

and renovating. From garret to Howard-the crowd she had grown New York, declaring she will never rear. Organized."

ask," commented Mrs. Lowe. Amy and Howard plan to be zerried In

Jane had to drop back in Amy's ocllar there must be wholesale up with, all making her more than June.

Besides theso, there thoughts for the next few weeks. scrubbing and rubbing. The bath welcome. There was so much to do, the room was a veritable museum plece were the older people, faculty wives "Not yet. She won't mind. whirl of starting off Howard for in point of age and oddity and, and towns-people, who seemed as She's talking now of two years in hla field trip, boots, flannel shirts, considering. Howard's Increased glad to see her as her own nge In- Franco.

blankets, slicker, water bottle, salary, Amy felt justified in having timates. Amy's father and mother "Yes, I know, She said the medicine kit, knapsack. Her ridi torn out and modern batha put complained that they never BW other day the greatest discovery culous fears for him you will in. The lights wore high and dim their child alone..

Miss Roan Torry came too, and While she waited for Howard of her life was that she hadn't any look out for rattlesnakes and and central la cach room. There to come in to luncheon Amy was rools and didn't need any to enjoy grizzly bears and do try not to were small repairs, too doorknobs found. Amy very grimy and hot, playing the Brahme

C. Major herself. Call her up and ask her fall off cliffs or take cold!”

to be replaced, squeaky stair treads, ruthlessly pulling out young wis- Intermezzo and listening to her to dinner, and we'll tell her then.” Then the wrench of their first more shelves to be built, hinges tarias which had sprung up by dozen. "I'm disgusting to own music critically. She was dis- Amy looked about the room again, parting, which wasn't so bad as wanting oll, windows needing now the

expected satisfied. It should be lighter, but speculating. "I can get us all Amy

(Continued on Page 4). there wolghts. The old house responded not humoristic nor clownish. Not moved and settled while you're in wasn't a minute to think about gracefully and proudly to too fragile either, but witty and the fleld."

it with all the packing and the juvenation, glad to be saved from preciso and crisp.

loneliness and disintegration. "Lapping up bit of work wiring back and forth to Marburg yourself, aren't you?"

about a house, and Howard's

While the workmen wero busy mother right there, helping and inside Amy did what she could in "Arm wives and professors' wives kind, and all the faculty people the garden-pruning, weeding, began again, so intent that she can move in their sleep, they say, so surprisingly regretful about cutting out sprouts and suckers,

How much are they going to pay their going! They had been married for al-you?" most a year-months that had "Three thousand [" passed swiftly and very happlly. "Howard Double what you got Howard's volco aroused Amy from here We'll be rolling! Oh, that's her preoccupation. "Well, It's grand. Let's buy some new China come!" he said.

and a choval gisss and a really nice rug, an Oriental that'll last un ¡the rest of our lives."

"It's in the touch," she thought, "and keeping strictly to the beat." She started the metronome, and

did not hear Howard enter.

Д

because

At last everything was gone. and the house was empty. Amy had said, she hoped, a suitable goodbye to everyone and she was on her way back to Marburg in a delicious state of relaxation after jeffort and gladness" to be goi,

She swung around on the stool. "They've really made an offer?"

"Yes, and a very decent one. "I'd rather you bought things home. Old Ellert must be sicker than for yourself than for the house. "I've got the Booth house for we heard. Of course he'll be the Wouldn't you like a necklace or a you," was her mother's triumph .ostensible bead, but I'll do all the ring?"

ant greeting. "It was a battle, work and have a full professor- "Mister, my character is so but I won. Old Miss Rachel Booth ship. They don't like to lose the noble I'd rather buy forniture insisted that she couldn't bear to value of his name, which la nat-than clothes or jewelry,"

{have' anyone live there since she ural. D'you want to go back to "Missus, the pect has truly said couldn't," but after a while she, said Marburg?"

that beauty unadorned et cetera." she might not mind so much since "I'll love it. Not that I don't The Httle house was serene in It was you. And the money'll be a like it here, Howard- She cleanliness and order and simplicity, god-send for her." looked about the pleasant room While Amy made hot toast and "Oh. Mother I'd rather have with its dark oak furnishings, mixed the salad dressing Howard it than any house in Marburg. lively blue and yellow cretonnes, telephoned to his mother. Present-Think of that walled garden with ceiling-high bookshelves, casement ly they sat down together. Seeu the smoke-tree!". windows open to the campus green, thus there was a likeness between The Booth house was not on the "But I can take all this"

them, a likeness not so much of campus avenue but on the cross "'Ând me.”

feature but of expression and street below, It WAS old and you!**

There at quality.

had been no strong, with funny Rttle Incan- onch other with the confidence of violent racking adjustments or venient, steps up and down between complete accord, life fully abasements for elther of them in the wide

roots. fireplaces with shared. "And then there'll be marriage. They were friends high, formal mantels, a shallow father and mother! I'll miss poor well as lovers, sure of each other in turning staircase a house built old Grandpa-but-there's no nejevery way,

in no style and with no plan, yet thinking of that. The main thing It was while Amy was washing holding an air of digefty and ease. is--are you satisfied? It's a much dishes and still hurrying on to There were trees, between it and smaller place, in a way,"

Marburg in her mind, counting the street and behind it a garden "I think it's a whale of a step what she would have to do before clused in with a brick wall-a gar- up for me. Amy. I haven't said they left, that she thought of June. den with wisteria and illac, inoss much because I hardly believed In the year of her marriage she roses, mock orange and crept they'd give it to a man who's only had heard nothing directly from myrtle, with matted beds of Illies an instructor--I mean Ellert is so her former best friend. The sum of the valloy below and at one side. very well known, so important, mer before when they had visited the allvery, plumy amoke-tree that It's worth 10 years here, no matter her parents even Miss Rosa had all the children in Marburg had what I did."

been away and all thut,Amy could delighted in. It was crowded and "What about your field work find out was that Jane was ap- overgrown and tangled but not this summer, though?"

parently dying very high Indeed neglected enough to be sad as many

"And

They smiled.

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