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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST 3, 1934.

SOPHIE KERR'S LATEST SUCCESS IN ROMANTIC PROBLEM FICTION

"STAY OUT OF MY LIFE!"

ace of her ilta, Amy had been her

New York real estate, užfire;

the expense of their she himi contemptuously

an old-

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¡ly, happy young thing, and ye! to- Kitten,” she told her, but the baby no real misgivings ne to Howard's | "It's a very old-fashioned cradle," JANK TERRY comes to Haw York day I realized-the first real touch was too intent on eating to notice willingness to Have the child in and Mrs. Lowe, "but it's in good determined to show her home town and of age. It wasn't the fatigue of the threat. When she was satisfied their home. Howard would say, condition and the sides are high capecially AMY JACKSON that the Tan make the trip, nor the worry about How she dropped off into, instant, easy that she had done the only possible enough for safety. You could take bast friend unui HOWARD JACKSON broke trd. She's been through something sleep. Amy held the empty bottle thing. She could depend on How the rockers off, I suppose. I bc- the engagement Jane forted on Red

difficult experience and watched her for a few min ard, and as she thought of him she love It's not considered the thing marries Amy, Unable to bear the sight of more, somo Amy's happiness, Jane obtains a job in that's changed her and matured utes. "She's certainly getting less caught a new sense of her own nowadays to rock babies to sleep.

"This baby is going to be rocked arellent boslary. She has an air with it hurt me in a queer helpless way, most like a real baby now. I do love a man like Howard, and to to sleep," said Amy, firmly. “And Jane is clever and sous is making an. And I can tell you, my dear, rod and more pick. She looks al- great good fortune and riches. To ROGER THORPE, who is married. Latar That was why I talked so much hope she'll be pretty. And I do have bia love, with honour and maybe if the sleeps. In she tires of him and when he offers to be nonsense about the infant's name." hope she won't look like Jane-or understanding and accord-she had fashioned cradle she'll grow up to

"I know, I felt exactly what you be like Jane. I must stop thinking nothing more tu wish for, except | be a nice old-fashioned girl.” mean. But it can't be done. We about Jane, I must forget her en-that they should have children of "It doesn't exactly follow. But fathers and mothers can't shelter tirely. It's heavenly to be home, their own. our children forever. If we did if only Howard were here it would they'd only become cases of ar- be perfect." rested development. Whatever Amy's been through ia concerned with that baby, I'm sure of that." "Yes, it must have been a struggle to decide to adopt a child without consulting Howard or any of her friends except that flyaway Jane."

in her desperate ullgță Jane turns to Amy for hein. Howard a louelea Germany and Amy renee to New York, dhe elaya untli the baby is born and then, horrified because Jane Inclats on giving her daughter aw agrees to take the child with the understand. Iox that Jupe paver shall reclaim her.

When Amy returns to Marburg with the baby the worries over what toward, still Europe, will think of what she has dope.

CHAPTER XIX

Professor Lowo looked down at the tiny baby. "Amy, you must zumne her," he said. "This con- tinual use of the feminine pronoun annoys me."

"Then you suggest something." Amy prompted. "All fancy and historical names barred."

Mrs. Lowe looked sharply at her husband, wondering if he was as unsuspicious as he sounded. If he was she had better keep her own siapiclons under cover, for he was "Too bad I was just going to quite absent-minded enough to suggest Boadicen or Xenobla or blurt them out at the time and Cleopatra! But there's still Mar-place they would be most awkward. garet of Navarre and Elizabeth and She herself was absolutely sure Mary or good Queen Anne, Helen about the baby, and her old dislike of Troy, Calphurnin-"

"For heaven's sake, who she?

and resentment of Jano's influence was over Amy quickened into life. Ad- miration and pride, too, for her "Amy, I'm ashamed of you. Cal-lown daughter who must have vol- phurnia was Julius Caesar's wife."unteered to take the child,

"Name her Catherine and call her She recalled that in her letter tell- Kitty for short," said Mrs. Lowe.ing of the adoption Amy had said "She's more like a kitten with its that it was a child whose mother eyes not open than anything I ever did not want it, would not keep it.

nw."

"Amy will never tell me anything more," she thought. For her own self-respect she added: "And I shall never ask her."

Behind them Amy was hurrying about her house, her fatigue, hor strain vanishing under the delight of being with her own again. The

They had reached the door. it seemed to Amy, entering, that there had never been any place so beautiful, no welcoming as that, okl house. The windows were open, The green garden beyond looked in at them. A lazy south breeze stirred the white curtains and baby cried with hunger. She must brought the honeysuckle. "OhP" she exclaimed, “I didn't know how sweet it was, or how much I missed it. And you've put flowers around --it makes me want to cry. I'm so glad to be home agalu.

leave her and go into her homely neat kitchen to prepare fresh food. Everything seemed to welcome her. Everything was in place, responded to her hand. She did not need to fumble or hunt for anything. The They left her taking off her hat,' walls of the baby went on steadily opening her bags. As they drove while Amy poured and measured away Profcneor Lowe said to his and tested, and when she ran back wife haltingly: "It has to come to upstairs with the bottle and tucked all parents, I suppose, but I didn't the nipple into the mouth of the know how much it was going to wriggling yelling mite, her gurgle hurt, the moment when their child of surprise and her gready sucking is definitely done with youth. I al-made Amy laugh aloud. ways think of Amy as such a love-

"I'll call you Piggen instead of

Downstairs Mrs. Love was rap ping at the door. "I've got the cradle. Como and look, Amy. Where do you want it?"

Her thoughts marched on, min- gling Howard and the baby. One It soomed the best plan to Amy thing she meant to do, tell Howard to have the baby in her own bed the whole story of the child, hold-room until she was a little older, ing back nothing. Then theyThere was an unfurnished room would put the accret away, never beside her own that would do for to allude to it, bury it. She had a nursery later.

[NEX

don't let's start the argument of heredity versus environment. Por- sonally I've always bet on heredity." "Oh Mother, have you! But you can't be sure?”

There was such dismay in 'Amy's voice that Mrs. Lowe's suspicions became a certainty. This was it, it must be, Jane Terry's childi "No, silly, of course I'm not sure. (Continued on Page 10.)

While ■ rescue ship stands by at the left, the liner Dresden, carrying nearly 1,900 pløssure-bont Ger- man excursionists, is here shown slowly sinking after striking a rock near Haugesund, Norway. Four

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