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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1934.

SOPHIE KERR'S LATEST SUCCESS IN ROMANTIC PROBLEM FICTION

"STAY OUT OF MY LIFE!"

and he collapsed before it. The Idolirium, without sensa. or inten- (two women, panic-stricken, tried tion.

"Got everything you need. The money doesn't matter," broke in

to lift him into a chair, but he was How he had found her she did Jane. too far gone. They managed to not know or care. Sho had him! "but even then-I don't be straighten him, but he Iny In- now and in the short ambulance love ho's got a chance-hot if it's senatble on the floor.

rido aho had time to man her Number Threo. You'd batter "He's burning up with fever!" course. How lavishly, how ten-notify his superior officers right sald Mrs. Andrews. "It must be derly she would take care of him,

away"

CHAPTER XXXVII

He looked at her with a little more humunity. "He cannot live Howard felt better next morn

more than three or four days; ing though he was still smiling

unless by some miracle I'm mis and shivery and exasperated by it.

taken and it's not Number Three." "Such a dumb thing to happen-

"But it's not true--you must didn't realize how chilly it was

make him live!' she cried. "I outside yesterday. I buy me a

won't have it, I tell you, it can't dozen extra handkerchiefa:before I

or pneumonia. I'd better nurse him back to health and Hia brutal frankness made it be, that he should die-like that-" got on the train and throw then notify the military authorities, or strength. And he would" be so plain that he knew, by some alxth "You won't 'help him by making awa do take care of yourself, pital.

the police they'll get him to a hos- grateful they would begin all sense, that June was not Howard's a scene," he repised roughly. "Bo

over again. He would come back wife, nor bolongod to him. It quiet. We've got to work." Howard." begged Amy. "When Jane was on the floor beside to her she built it up into stung hor pride. "He's n 'dletant As she stared, still combative, you got to this new camp don't try him, holding his head. "You or a satisfactory drama, herself the relation. I hadn't seen him for the understanding of what she had to do too much until you're over der a private ambulance," she gracious, radiant heroine.

monthe

when ho staggered thto my done rushed over her. She lung this. Stay in your quarters and anid violently. "I'll take him to He did not return to conscious-

she said, defensively.

and in "one short sentence un- the best thing to do. And don't there." Thon, as she met Mrs. apartment, undressed him and got "Hum-yes?" Bald the doctor, wittingly expressed hor complete write me any latter saying you're Andrews blank astonishment, she him into her own bed, and she be "Where's your telephone? He character.

over it unless you'

added: "The hospitals aro such gan to be more and more alarmed ought to be sent to a hospital, "Oh, my God!" she cried. "What Mary Jackson, too, urged him: death-traps-and he's a relation about him. It was hard to find I'll do what I can. He nuisance have I wished on my-. "Don't run any risks, Heward. A distant cousin,"

doctors, but at last one came, a got his number and went off into self!" cold is as bad as a bad airplane

dour man who at Arst examined in string of orders, rush commands worse than she could ever have It was, Jane soon discovered, far for tricks. Since this awful flu in the ambulance she held him with horror, but also with authori epidemic in the camps-stop look-again. Once he opened his eyes ty. This man's got pneumonia, As she listened to him hér apan-imagined. The ploture of herself ing at me like that! You know and, seeing her, tried to explain, one of the worst types. I should gled drama of rescue and recna a ministering angel faded in the I'm not a fuss,

muttering, drawing his breath say. He's pretty far gone, too, oncillation crashed in pable. As smell of disinfectants, the dismal "I throw this right off-the hard. "Phone the camp-please-I'll order oxygen, and try to find the doctor hung up the phone she paraphernalia of a hospital room day on the train will be good for don't let Amy know I'm so sick-you a good nurse, but they're scarce clutched his arm. "Do you really superimposed on a decorative liv- mo. And don't you think I'll not that cold-hung on-and hung as sin. You ought to have two mean-that he's going to to die ing place, nurses who used her as take care of myself, even with on-" and then his words became or three-"

that he hasn't a chanco?”.

(Continued on Page 10.) nothing more than a cold. I've got too much at stake to be reckless."

He telegraphed when he reached the camp that his cold was better. that he had mountains of work. that there wa no likelihood of Overseas orders immediately. And his letters repeated this, adding, “I still need extra handkerchiefs, but I'm too jammed most of the time! to remember them." For the rest he wrote only how much he liked the camp and the field and that hig colonel was an old friend, and then he. filled the pages with talk about Amy and the boy. "Tell me every thing," he wrote, "every least lit-. tle thing. And get some snapshota for me na soon as you can.”.

keep warm. Miss Tyler says that's my apartment and calin doctor ness while they took him into her co this morning in this condl up her arms in a frantic gesture

Miss Tyler had packed her uni- forms and departed. Amy was al- most at her full strength. Nancy was home again. Howard Second was a pound and a half heavier, and the early April sunshine was bringing a thin promise of spring In Marburg. In New York Jane Torry was sitting in her. office, frowning over a bill of costs for repairs in a building under her management, when Mrs. Andrewa came in agitatedly to say that there was an aviation officer outside who "acems to be sick or something- ho's acting vory strangely." Be- hind her, flushed and staring, | Howard Jackson staggered and al- most fell on the threshold.

"Jane," he stammered, "I'm very very sick. My side, it struck-mo like a knife-In the atreet And

my hond---" be caught at her deak

for support, but his hands slipped

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