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THE HONGKONG" TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST · 17, 1934,

SOPHIE KERR'S LATEST SUCCESS IN ROMANTIC PROBLEM FICTION

"STAY OUT OF MY LIFE!"

CHAPTER XXXI

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all thun_go out anywhere. Mother joverything else she added the mak hearth fire for tours gone and cently. It was oasier. They could Walking with Alice made Amy spoke of having us there, too, but ing of two now frocks for heravis, Howards books wanted stenity on begin to breathe, to be natural. she said she knew it was only a bat at this her mother took n orm their shelves, his copper smoking

Howard unt on the Bola bo- think of Jane, because she and

Feature"

stand. I'll give them to you for tray was on the table by his canir. tween Mary and Amy, Nancy on Jane had so often taken this same

a Christmas gift," she said, "pro-It was almost as if he wore there. his knees. "Everything looks so path. Watching Alico with Nancy

Mary answered hesitatingly: vided that you don't set a single And then, miracie, ho Wis wonderful!" he kept exclaiming, reminded Amy of Jane, too, and "Amy-how would it be if I went slitch in them yourself. I moun there: Ta nu. Beroun, tokli"Here it

feeling than she had to Rosa's that day and let you it, not one matter was settled, but with a living and hearty cold that

Is just as I dreamed with

kinder

stitch.

from the keen winter outside, but about it! It's all real had in the summer. Now and then and Howard be to yourselves? So that Mary spoke of Jane, reported And I could take Nancy

ist did mean visits to the dress la adn to heat, dropping his cap,Later in the evening people be something Miss Ross had told her,

"Oh, you make his feel a ply maker for fittings.. Both dresses his gloves on the four, smoteering gan to come to see Howard-Pro- something glittering and spectacu Do I seen to be trying to crowd wore blus, one very dark and the her against his greatcoat, holding fessor Ellert first of all, beaming lar. Jone was head of a special you out? Oh no, Mary, please. other the shade of Chincas coolle her,

Buying hor numo--"Amy, at him; lamenting his own ago that committee of business women to You belong here. And I want cotton, bright, yet soit.

Amy Amy Amy 1"

telling her he could not eulist, working out sell Liberty Bonds. Jane was mak you. It would apoll everything

all that she needed to know in that schemes to get Howard another ing speeches on the steps of the if you went out and I wouldn't Her beauty bloomed in expect-jono word,

step. in

- in rank-"It's largely pulling Public Library. Jane's businese like to send Nanes away oltherance. Sometimes Mary Jackson "Oh, but let me look at you!" the right wires, my boyfinger- was growing. She meant to on- Especially to Miss Rosa's, while and her mother spoke of it. There she said, drawing away a little, ing Howard's insignia covetously large her offices. Everything was Jane's there she went on was something beyond reality in but holding him tight." "Why, 1 and unwilling to say a word about to Jane's Importance and success quickly "Jarie doesn't

care it. Her eyes did not see them but do believe you've grown! And college affairs or anything but the Amy listened with an amused much for children, and she rubbed only her great happiness, her what a proud, elegant uniform army and the war. Professor and twinkle. She could perfectly see me the wrong way the only time mouth was curved and red and And the winga! Oh Howard Mrs. Lowe came in and the Dean Jane swanking around, playing her sho

and two or three part with dashing conviction, but of saw Nancy. Very foolish Poft, her skin was translucently you're grand !'

me, I suppose, but she well, fair. She was luminous, radiant, He could say nothing but her faculty with their wives. Amy she felt no tingle of envy. But she said that Nancy wasn't a walling. In the very last days she name, and he had tears in, his noted that the men were obsessed when one day

pretty child and I resented it. not talk very much. was eyes like a child wanting congola-by the war, but that the women Mary said that Jane was coming I keep on resenting it, too, in a with Howard as he took his way then. Finally ho stammered: latened with a sort of futile angry to stay. with her aunt for the small-minded maternal way."

toward her. She knew the hour "It was too long. I felt as if all impatience; Shio was glad when holidays, Amy only commented

"Amy, you're funny!"

when he started, the moment of this and you didn't exist any they were all gone and Mary. absently: That'll pleaso Miss "But Nancy is pretty, even if it each step, Just where his train more. That I'd never see you yawning, had kissed her son and Ross," and thought to more about isn't in the pink-and-white cherub would be every mile of the way,

Again

gone to bed. He would come. In the evening. cant style. And I won't have Jane She made a last turn of the house, came in he found, coherence, but before the fire, her head on his After his mother and Nancy Then Amy and Howard sat down The holiday this year meant Terry criticizing her. You think draw the blinds, lit the lights and all of them were too excited and shoulder, only to Amy that Howard was Nancy's pretty asked you looked about her approvingly over-wrought to do much but be- "While I'm here and when we're their hands clasped. sure of his leave for that time while ago, remember? Of course The room had order and colour in sentences and leave them along," he said, "we're going to No matter how she felt toward Jane, toward anyone, she could pretty on the adjective for her and warmth and comfort. There half spoken, forgetting what they pretend that it's Just as always. include nothing from outside in It's were wreaths in the windows and meant to say in the overwhelming I don't want to talk about airplanes

tinkling sort of word-" that prospect.

Amy, you of all people fessor Ellert had sent her a box calmest of the four, but a little I want Just my wife and my home. garland over the mantel. Pro- joy of reunion. Nancy was the or guns or soldiers with you, Amy. With Howard's coming in view lot a chance remark like that of wine-roses and sho had cut off awed by the Intense feeling of the Let's forget everything else." Amy first went thptious stranger, ankle sol Does it matter what the dead branches of the magnolls grownups. She looked at them in "Tell me on Page 10 Is

a stern and thinke?” and then, with lists beside her, "Oh no, it doesn't of course. tree in the garden to burn in the surprise and question. But pre-

on 10.) began a scrlos of renovations Not really. But if anyone had told which would, Aho determined, you Howard was a plain little boy bring it back to the freshness of would you have been pleased?" their honeymoon daya.

She planned her meals, too, of the dishes Howard liked best "And if she said to Mary, the Food Administration comes along and puts me in jail for it, I'm not going to use a single subst!

it.

"I'd have been as mad us hops." "There you see? And even if it wasn't any question of ex- posing Nancy to Jane's comments,

wouldn't have you go anywhere else for Christmas for the world."

There was such earnestness and tute while Howard's here. But sincerity in her voice that Mary tor, sugar, white flour-all he Jackson smiled with gratification. wants. I'm going to make a co. "It's very sweet to have you say conut cako ng big as a mountain that. But truthfully, it doesn't And pecan caramels. And he's matter so vitally to me to spend

and thousands of raisin cookies.

going

the time with Howard as it does to have popovers And

Ever since he's been grown you. waffles and homemade sausage I've trained myself to be contented cakes, and roast turkey and duck just to know that he's well and and all the fresh vegetables and happy somewhere, even when he's fruit I

can find here or in Hop not with me. It saves auch a lot Bonville."

of emotional wear and tear on both "Go ahead," replied Mary, "I' of บ ald and abot you and go to fall

Amy shook her head doubtfully.

with you if it's necessary." Pres"I don't believe I'll ever feel that ently she added: "Rosa would likeway about my aan," she said, us to come to her for Christinas If she had not had so many dinner, but I told her we wouldn't things to do Amy could hardly think of it."

have existed through the Inst

"I'd rather have no dinner at weeks before Howard came. To

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