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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1934.

SOPHIE KERR'S LATEST SUCCESS IN ROMANTIC PROBLEM FICTION

"STAY OUT OF MY LIFE!”

CHAPTER XXV

a spilled mayonnaiso at a reception, had not expected Lowe's little girl Even if she could find time to clean to grow up to such distinction. The last day of Commonoment it, it would reok of benzine, He took his cocktail and sipped it, the dean's wife telephoned, muu With quicit resolution she went watching Amy appreciatively,

fixwo

The a

while, but I love the colour. And, ting their eminence. Edgar had wasn't it clever of Alice to wear a tensed Eliss Rose into a fit of chuck- dress that matches them exactly "les. Allee was pinker and rounder- eyed than ever from excitement and

It was even cloveror, thought Mr. Jane was retelling dramatically the Barney, that she had passed him final scene of the Seara purchase over so neatly to the girl in pink. to Howard and Prentice, for she "I must tell Lowe, If I see him had discovered it once that she again, that his daughter's a won could not command Howard's undi- der. By George, she'd stand out vided attention. His glance kept anywhere. Beautiful and gracious straying down the table to Amy.

As the dinner went on Jone saw excellent: She's had the sense to clearly that it was Amy to whom keep everything within her limits, everyone was involuntarily turning. no trying for effect or putting on She drew them without effort and style. I wonder where she got the there was a sort of wistful seeking

like It tastes

ain their gaze, as if they felt a Burgundy.

which hold something rare

equal to it. There's gallons of soupsting of cars came up behind her enormous Jade clasp or hver girdi. Fainee-Contly be hanged if it beau what %. It made Jane

álek, one of those awful stoc wedding ing flurry. "Amy Rufus fe terribly to the closet and took down her

unwrapped it from And now Jano and Bliss Rosa upsets he has when ho gets too t ding tirgus paper, and mus-wo coming in. Dilsa Roan trailing tired, and I'm in such a

It Iin. was not in style, but its her best, binck chiffon and glitter wore to have two of the trusters simplicity, the quality of its Ivory ing with her entire set of old pink for dinner to-night, you know, satin made it dateless, classic. She topaz, necklace, brooch, bracelets, couple of old tycoons as over werotlood with It in her hands, think earrings, and behind her, with the nows what to do. This dianor's bur Barney and Louis Frentice, a

ing, of fier wedding day, of How-expression of one who lends her- Could you take them? I'll send and. He would like to see hier self to a small town diversion with over the whole dinner, all cooked, again in that dress. My dear kindly patronage, came Jane. Jane a mold to serve it. And listen, love! You and I have had as much at her most sophisticated in a bare- Amy, there's plenty for a dozen, so happiness, And nothing, nothing back golden frock, pointed up with ask some more people if you feel can take that away from us."

Jade cigarette holder and an

cocktails and some really good old raust not, she must not begin to that costume. She had brought it

Rufus has been saving, Burgundy mu do give them a real speak of that happiness as if it was with her, knowing that this was

already ended.

When Howard came in, late and Commencement Week and hoping chance to time. They've both been so gen-

against hope for one erous with the Endowment Fund hurrying, she was already dressed show it off in Marburg where How and we want them now to do some and the shining satin was covered ard might see her in it. She had thing about the scholarships-you DOG how it is! I de wish you could en engulfing apron, the skirt not anticipated the luck to wear

tucked up, while she finished the it in his own house, dig up an entertaining pretty wom-last things in dining room and The borrowed mald appeared at an or two, but I suppose that's kitchen. That was why he did not the possible.

Marburg might

see her until he ran downstairs just Sahara so far as extra women areas the firet guests rang the bell. concerned, but of course they'll He stopped and exclaimed: "Why enjoy yes, dear. They haven't got Amy darling! You look like an their wives with them, thank angel-that lovely drea heaven!"

"Do you remember it?"

Jackson,

and

"Dinner is purved, Mrs. she murmured. Amy led them out, seated them Howard at the hend, Miss Rosa at his right. Yes, and she would put Jano at his left, Mr. Barney at the foot, Alice at his left and Prentice It was a nuisance, thought Amy,

"Do I 'What do you take me between Alice and Jane, leaving but she could not refuse. She knew for?" He could not go on, for Mr. Edgar and barself to all the other both Mr. Prentice and Mr. Barney: Prentice was entering, red and side. Prentice beamed to find him- They were, as the dean's wife had puify and obviously disgruntled at self between these two attractive said, tycoons, and rather formid- being switched from the dean to young women. Miss Rosa always able tycoons, too. Greedy and

en obscure and young member of got along well with Howard On earth autocratic. Now who

the faculty. But he unbent at Edgar Jane alone was discontent- could she rake up as extra guests sight of Amy with the cocktail trayed, that fat little pig beelde her was at thin late hour-not her father in the background. Perhaps it clamouring for her attention. She and mother, for they had a party would not be too bad, after all, wanted to talk only to Howard. of their own. Indeed no one in the

And now Edgar Moreland was She wondered if he had asked to faculty circle was available. not coming und Alice, his wife-pink have her beside him or if Amy had en unattached instructor. checks and curly hair and ruffled arranged it. At any rate, there Edgar Moreland and his pretty pink organdy-and at the sight of she was and ale would make the

wife. Yes, they might another pretty woman Mr. Prentice most. of It must finish come. She telephoned at once and began definitely to brighten. Dar story about Mr. Sears" she said, they accepted. Then she remem-

memey was next, tall and gray and eagerly. "You remember, the man bered Miss Ross Terry. "Miss sceptical, but he also liked pretty whose house you wouldn't help me Rosa's a good bit of a tycoon her women and cocktails and was much buy the same time Mr. Barney self. She ought to get along with less assertive of himself and his

oven

young

7

my

them." "she reflected. She'd been money and opinions and prejudices opened with an cosy gambit to neglecting Misa Rosa Intely. This than Prentice, being better bred Amy: "Aren't those old-fashioned would make up.

Afias ROBA's voice, over the wire, and surer of himself and having Pink Dally roses in your centre- the advantage of height. He piece? I haven't seen any for gazed about him critically, observed years. They used to grow in my that the room showed the usual grandmother's garden in Maryland professorial good taste and lack of when I was a little chop." means, but that his hostess was an "They grow in my garden," said extraordinary creature. Really he Amy. "They only last a little

sounded very sprightly, "Why, I'd love it, Amy, only-Jane's here agnin for a day or so, came to finish up some of my mind

business. But darcsay she won't

It

"Oh, bring, Jane along-no, will oven up the table Instead of throwing it out. Half past seven. then." She realized ne she put down the phone how completely Jane had faded out of her thoughts, and that she didn't matter any longer. The stress of worrying about Howard had labed June with Amy.

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There was plenty to do to get ready for the dinner. The dining- room, required extra eleaning. Leaves must be put into the table, glass and china and silver arranged for a strange maid's serving. Mrs. Pearce, over available, would help. Sho had been on hand every day during Commencement Week, be cause Amy had to be out so much. She could give Nancy her supper: and put her to bed and still be ready to open the door for the guests and later help. behind the scenes. Amy wondered what to wear,

She had only two evening | dreeses and one had been rage at the Senior dance. The other and older was very tired and shabby and just now spotted from

to

The up-to-date farmer, who enjoys muile over the radio while he ploughs' the soil.

angry.

t is It?" she thought,

Amy did not know that she was getting the credit for the dean's "I can't understand it. I simply collar and the dean's cook. But can't: There she sits in that old she did know that the dinner was white dress and she isn't exerting going, as Edgar had predicted, with herself, but they're all centred on a bang. The two eminent trustees her. Even this apo Prentice who were mellow to the point of forget- (Continued on Page 10.).

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