1934-07-25 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 25, 1934.

SOPHIE KERR'S LATEST SUCCESS IN ROMANTIC PROBLEM FICTION

"STAY OUT OF MY LIFE!"

DECIN HERE TODAY'.

saliai Jove

with AMY, LOWE, Janaʼi angered, izim to foros Howard into en

June.

...

he la lonely he Lakes her to luner.

BAW

old friends who wanted to.sep her "I'll have to do that.. It's all with an important job, a big salary deserted off gardens are.

It had been arranged that Army and draw her back into the town's When 10WARD JACKSON, young geology arranged. There's no one to take and what Mies Rosa had vaguely professor, comes to Marburg JANE TERRY my place and the report would be described to Mrs. Lowe as an would stay with her parents until summer diversions.

Howard came back, but every day They all cameEdgar Moreland, the prettiest girl in town, determines that much shy. But it'll only be emancipated life...

March, Hough, Louise hle heart. Howard. how friend, Jane, through July and that will give me

"Just how it was emancipated she went up to the Booth house to Vanny in Marburg to get Mias Rosa didn't say and I didn't superintend the necessary cleaning Henry and Adele Berwyn, BI

and renovating. From garret to Howard-the crowd she had grown CHERKONNAS and. when this fall, Joves FOR BER..

ask," commented Mrs. Lowe. New York, declarina she will never or organized."'-

Amy and Howard plan to be married in "Just lapping up work, aren't! Jane had to drop back in Amy's collar there must be wholesale up with, all making her more than Besides these, there In New York Jane enrolls in secreteriet you? What will your mother say? thoughts for the next few weeks. scrubbing and rubbing. The bath-welcome. school and later becomes private secretary to Have you told her

There was so much to do, the room was a veritable museum plece wore the older people, faculty wives the president at the Kandal Nou) Estate com

"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 considering Howard's Increasedglad to see her as her own ago in pany. She meets ROGER TRG1VF, head, of than cantal Departments One evening when She's talking now of two years in his field trip, boots, flannel shirts, aulary. Amy falt justified in having mates. Amy's father and mother

France,"

blankets, slicker, water bottle,

put complained that they never CHAPTER XI.

"Yes, I know. She said the medicine kit, knapsack. Her ridi torn out and modern baths other day the greatest discovery culous fears for him"you will in. The lights were high and dim their child alone,

and and central in each room. There Miss Rosa Terry came too, and While she waited for Howard of her life was that she hadn't. any lookout for rattlesnakes to come in to luncheon Amy was roots and didn't need any to enjoy grizzly bears and do try not to wore small repairs, too doorknobs found Amy very grimy and hot, to be replaced, squeaky stair treads, ruthlessly pulling out young wis- fall off cliffs or take cold!" playing the Brahms C. Major herself. Call her up and ask

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

because there weights. The old house responded

(Continued on Papo 4). antisfied. It should be lighter, but speculating. "I can get us all Amy expected 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 efthor, but witty and the field."

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

bit of work wiring back and forth to Marburg loneliness and disintegration.

house, and Howard's

While the workmen were busy mother right there, helping and inside Amy did what she could in kind, and all the faculty people the garden-pruning, weeding so surprisingly regretful about cutting out sprouts and suckers; their going!

"Lapping up 11 yourself, aren't you?"

about a

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gone

"It's in the touch," she thought, "and keeping strictly to the best." She started the motronome and "Arm wives and professors' wives begin again, so intent that she can move in their sleep, they say. did not hear Howard enter.

How much are they going to pay They had been married for al-you?"

Three thousand!”

At last everything' was most

a year-months that had passed swiftly and very happily. "Howard Double what you get and the house was empty. Amy Howard's voice aroused Amy from here! We'll be rolling! Oh, that's had anid, she hoped. a suitable ⚫her preoccupation. "Well, it's grand. Let's buy some new China goodbye to everyone and sho was

come!" he said.

and a cheval glass and a really on her way back to Marburg in She swung around on the stool. Inice rug, an Oriental that'll last us delicious state of relaxation after

the rest of our lives."

jeffort and gladness to be going "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 head, but I do all the ring?

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

hove anyone live thore since she ural. D'you want to go back to "Missus, the poet has truly sald|couldn't, but after a while she said: Marburg?"

that beauty unadorned et cetera." she might not mind so much sinca

"I'll love it. Not that I don't The little house was serene in was you. And the money'll be-n like it here. Howard- She cleanliness and order and simplicity, god-acud 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. casemently they sat down together. Seen the smoke-tree!" windows open to the campus green. thus there was a likeness between The Booth house was not on the

them, a likeness not so much of campus avenue but "But can take all this-

on the eroas "And me."

feature but of expression and street below. It was

old and There "And you!" They smiled at quality.

and been no strong, with fanny little Incon- each other with the confidence of violent racking adjustments or venient steps up and down between complete accord,

life fully abusements for either of them in the wide rooms, fireplaces with shared. "And then there'll be marriage. They were friends as high. formal mantels, a shallow father and mother! I'll miss poor well na lovers, sure of each other in turning staircase-a house built old Grandpa-but-there's no use every way.

In ne style and with m plan, yet thinking of that. The main thing It was while Any was washing holding an air of dignity and ease. in-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 what she would have to do before closed in with a brick wall-a gar- they left, that she thought of Jane, den with wistaria and lac, mOAS In the year of her marriage she roses, mock orange and crepe. had heard nothing directly from myrtle, with matted beds of lies her former best friend. The sum-of the valley below and at one side mer before when they had visited the silvery, plumy smoke-tree that her parents even Miss Rosa had all the children In Marburg had been away and all that Amy could delighted in. It was crowded and find out was that Jane was op overgrown and tangled but not parently flying very high Indeed | neglected enough to be sad as many

"I think it's a whale of a step up for me. Amy. I haven't said rich because I hardly believed they'd give it to a man who's only an instructor-1 mean Ellert is so very well known, so important. It's worth 10 years here, no matter what I did."

"What about your field work this summer, though?"

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tying up the riotous vines. It might have been hard work but she was constantly interrupted, by

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