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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH FRIDAY AUGUST

SOPHIE KERR'S LATEST SUCCESS IN ROMANTIC PROBLEM FICTION

"STAY OUT OF MY LIFE!"

CHAPTER XXV

a spilled mayonnaise 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 Commencement it, it would rock of benzine. lie took his cocktail and sipped it, the dean's wife telephoned, ina"With quick resolution she went watching Amy appreciatively, flurry. “Amy, Rufus la terribly to the closet and took down hor. sick, eye of those awful stomach wedding dress, unwrapped it from And now. Jane and Miss Rosa upsets he has when he gets too its enfolding tissue paper and mus-wore coming In Miss Rosa tralling, tired, and I'm in such a fix-we in. It was not in style, but its hor best black chiffon and glitter wore to have two of the trustees

quality simplicity, the

of ite Ivory ing with her entire set of old pink for dinner to-night, you know, Wit satin made it dateless, classic. She topaz, necklace, brooch, bracelets, bur Barney, and Louis Prentice, a stood with it in her hands, think earrings, and behind her, with the cor old tycoons as over were!!

Ing of her over the whole dinner, all cooked, again in that dress. My dear self to a small town diversion with kindly patronage, came Jane. Jabe

1934

wille, but I love the colour. And ting their eminence. Edgar Ind wasn't it clever of Allee to wear a teased Miss Rose into a fif of buck- dress that matches them exactly?es. Alice was pinker and rounder- eyed than over from, excitement and

It was even cleverer, thought Mr. Jane was retelling dramatically the Barney, that she had passed him final scene of the Soars purchase over so neatly to the girl in pink to Howard and Prontice, for the must tell Lowe, if I see him had discovered at once that she apt command Howard's undi. again, that his daughter's a won could der. By George, she'd stand out vided attention. His glance kept anywhere. Beautiful and gracious straying downt the table to. Amy you take them? I'll soodard, Heding day, of How expression of one, who lends her- Knows what to do: This dinner early that it was Amy to whom

excellent. She's had the sense to Amy, thero's plenty for a dozen, so happiness, And nothing, nothing back golden frock, pointed up withalvis for effect or putting of She drew them without effort and and a mald to serve it. And listen, loyol You and I have had so much at her most sophisticated in a bare Acep everything within her. limita,jeveryone, was.involuntarily.turning..

to

As the dinner want on Jane kaw

.it be inscrutable. It made Jane

cocktails and some really good old that happiness as if it was with Her, knowing that this was "getting the credit for the dean I can't understand it. I simply

I wonder where she got the there was a sort of wistful seeking ask some mora peopk if you feel can take that away from us."

Bike D in thefr The Jade cigarette holder, and do Burgundy It tastes

gaze; as if they felt a which held something rare equal to treat rocks, ating of tears came up behind her enormous jade clasp on her girdle, tomance Coati, be hanged if it beau and three reast ducks, and I'll send eyes, but she shook it away. She Jane expected no competition in doesn't

not, she must not begin to that costume. She had brought T Amy did not know that she was angry, What is it?" she thought, Burgundy Rufus has, been saving and, oh, Amy, do give them real already ended.

Commencement Week and hoping cellar and the dean's cook. But can't. There she sits in that old time. They've both been so_gon- When. Howard came in, late and against hope for one chance to abo did know that the dinner was white dress and she isn't exerting crous with the Endowment Fund hurrying, she was already dressed how it off in Marburg where low. going, as Edgar had predicted, with herself, but they're all centred on and we want them now to do some and the shining satin was covered ard might see her in it. She had a bang. The two eminent trustees her. Even this ape: Prentice who thing about the scholarships you by an engulfing apron, the skirt not anticipated the luck to wear were mellow to the point of forget- (Continued on Pada 10.). 200 how it is! I do wish you could 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 maid appeared at an or two, but I suppose that's in-kitchen.. That was why he did not the door. Dinner is served, Mrs.

might Marburg

bo possible.

see her until he ran downstairs, just Jackson," she murmured. Sabara no far as extra women are as the first guests rang the bell. concerned, but of course they'll He stopped and exclaimed: "Why, onjoy you, dear. They haven't got Amy darling! You look like an their wives with them, thank angel--that lovely drom=" heaven!"

"Do you remember it?” ...}

Amy led them out, seated them Howard at the head, Miss Ros at his right: Yes, and she would put Jane at his left, Mr. Barney at the foot, Alice at his left and Prentice It WILS a nuisance, thought Amy,

"Do. 1 What do you take me between Alice and Jane, leaving but she could not refuse. She know for?" He could not go on, for Mr. Edgar and herself to fill 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 pully and obviously disgruntled at self between these two attractive. said, tycoons, and rather formid being switched from the dean to young women. Miss Rasa always able Lycoons, too. Greedy, and an obscure and young member of got along well with Howard, and autocratic. Now who on earth 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 beside her was at this late hour-not her father in the background. Perhaps it clamouring for her attention. She and mother, for they had „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 and Alice, his wife pink have her beside him or If Amy had unattached Instructor, cheeks and curly hair and ruffled arranged, IL. At any rate, there Edgar Moreland and his pretty pink organdy-and at the sight of she was and she would make the young wife. Yes, thoy might another pretty woman Mr. Prentice most of it. "I must finish my come. Sho telephoned at once and began definitely to brighten. Bar-story about Mr. Sears," she said, they accepted. Then she remeni ney was next, tall and gray and eagerly. "You remember, the man bered Miss Rosa 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?” self. She ought to get along with less assertive of himself and his At the same time Mr. Barney then,

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

and surer of himself and having Pink Dally roses in your centre the advantage of height. He piece? I haven't acen 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 whey grow in my garden," said

was a little chap." means, but that his hostees was an extraordinary creature. Realty he Amy. They only last a little

even

Blan Rosa's voice, over the wire sounded very sprightly. "Why I'd love it, Amy, only-Jane's here again for a day or so, came to finish up some of my business. But daresay she won't mind-"

"Oh, bring Jano along no, it will even up the table instead of throwing it out. Half past seven re then." She realized as she put dlowy the phone how completely Jano had faded out of her thoughts, and that she didn't matter any longer. The stress of worrying about Howard had finished Jane with Amy..

There was plenty to do to get- ready for the dinner. The dining- Toon required--extra-cleaning. Leaves must be put into the table, glass and china and silver arranged. for a strange maid's serving, Mrs. Pearce, ever available, would help. Sho had been on hand every day during Commencement Week, be enuse 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 gucats and later help behind the scenes. Amy wondered what to wear. She had only two evening dresses, and one had been torn to raga at the Senior dance. The ather and older was very tired and shabby and Just now spotted. from

The up-to-date farmer, who enjoys mule over the radio, while he ploughs

the soil.

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