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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, AUGUST

25, 1934.

SOPHIE KERR'S LATEST SUCCESS IN ROMANTIC PROBLEM FICTION

"STAY OUT OF MY LIFE!"

CHAPTER XXXVIII

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"What's ity of letting Amy onter that room rought hore but he can't be ward the kitchen to investigate and He could not take the responsibll-course, he never should have been The doctor went to the telephone,

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the meantime, if we could get at growing tall, taller, standing far modernism, with horizontal striped fore Jane. She stood very still and your field."

Amy did not tremble now as she that consultation, doctor. wave of Teutonic had trembled when she stood be your own specialists. You know above her, tall and sharp like walls, furniture of flat woed and put out one hand, palm up, a very

Choose long shining sword. Involuntarily bent silvered pipes, zebra skia little way, as it she offered him old professor had a smooth way she stepped back, put the desk be-cushions, and on one wall

The Colonch was grateful. This tween them. Then sharp and keen like a aword's edge early abstractions, in which hard-bolled doctor s

Amy's voice, painting in the style of Picasso's tenderness and trust. It gave the And ho, the Colonel, would be re- large her own strength, her own undying with him. He could take charge.. pitiices, despising "If I could kili mandolin, a atepladder, eight apples Ho felt her heart going past him. affair of Jackson's less you, Jane Terry," said this voice, and thros pears and

queer awe. loased to his duty, which this sad "I believe I would. To tell a llo banana, a foot-rule and what was pushing death back from him, de- Particularly was the Colonel glad like that, when he in sick and can't apparently Titan's upper teeth nying it, refusing its terrible Im-at the prospect of no more inter- going to that dying man on the bed, throwing completely out of gear. dofend himself, to any you love were combined, him. haps you did love him, but you Amy, frantically. "Isn't there 100m, Amy said: "I wish he could be back later, he told them,

.. I've always thought por- "But where Is Howard?" naid

views with As they went slowly to the living known what to do with her. An don't. If you loved him, if you nurse, or a servant, or someone be got out of the place."

Jane. He hadn't loved him one feast bit, you I want to see him-".

extraordinarily trying woman, wouldn't try to make him out a cheat, and and unfaithful-and There are two maids, and two knows. A damned shamo. Aloud that. Here's where you can get

"Ah," thought the doctor, "she and I'll be telephoning befor nurses," said the Colenci, "but we he said, "It's impossible: The Colonel and Professor Lowe ought to soe Doctor Gavin first."

me if you want me." or loomed up behind her. this?" asked the Colonel. "What's to see her husband in his present

Professor Lawe disappeared to- the matter?-good morning, Miss state without the doctor's consent. Terry-"

"It must," went on Amy, almost placate the servants and Amy was And

But the arrival of the doctor roas it talking to herself, "be the She was in that state of weariness the strange big room alone. Profesor Lowe-Why, lleved him. How do you do, Jano?" But Jane

greatest inconvenience to Jane- and exhaustion where rest is im- had picked up the bag and vanished

"He is a desperately sick man,"

Not that it matters" from the room by another door, the doctor told Amy. "We've done himself on being incurious on per- which there is no

The doctor had always prided mind into a forment of activity for possible and the nerves whip the without a word, firing from such ly a question of his own strength. failed him, "Do you know Miss baby felt at home, it was fortunate everything we can. It is now sole-sonal matters. Now this pride thought of everything at once: the terror as she had never known be-ife has the most dangerous type Terry?" he could not help asking. now that she hadn't been able to pause. She fore, abject physical torror. She had felt Amy's will to kill her. of She knew that for a moment death coveries. He is very strong. His were children," said Amy. She Jane why had Jane told such lies

I have seen re- pneumonia-but

"I've known her ever since we nurse him; the awful sceno had faced her, Always before art le sound. There is no in- answered the question mechanical-when

with when she had rushed away from ding fat. He has A chance, ly. Her whole being was back in Colonel that the very day Howard

Amy knew from Amy it was from herself that she That's all I can

the had fled, but to-day It was from

"May I see hima

the sickroom, holding fast to How-had been taken brick was the first naked Amy. Amy. She had nothing, no shield, door, though well, I think it's "Maybe I was all wrong about And even if the Colonel had not

You may look at him from the away from her forever.

ard, that he might not give up, slip time he'd been away from the no evasion, nothing at all to meet inadvisable. Don't speak to him, the husband and Terry," thought told her this, Jane might have camp since his arrival from Texas! or turn aside Amy's purpose. She He won't know you anyway. I'll the doctor, but he had one more known that Amy would never. be- went out of the house blindly, not go with you." knowing if she would over. dara return,

She walked down the hall with she was a relation of yours or didn't know how Jane had got hold question. "Miss Terry said that lieve Howard unfaithful! She the doctor's hand under bor arm, was it of your husband?" Istendying her. The doctor wOB

of Howard. It was, she supposed. even speak mildly. "She didn't watching her. She was, ho

just one of the impossible chances very different type from Mias ly: "Yes. They're distant cousins that Howard had been too sick to "She's a very odd person, this Terry and he wondered cynically connections, at least"

Again Amy replied mechanical-that sometimes fall. She was aure Mias Terry," sald the Colonch why a man with a wife like this volce changed to intense and here, and she wished, with a sicken- "Sit down. Mrs. Jackson. We should mix himself in an intrigue anxious demand: "When will you ing rage, that she had actually Her protest when Jane brought him must see one of the nurses

"Isn't there any way," asked it is," he thought. "Ho's in the aure about his condition? Could mouth.

with the other woman. "But there know about Howard? Are Amy, paying no attention to the army and on the loose, and awe have more doctors, & consulta- she thought, "never, never!

you struck Jane Colonel's suggestion, that we can thirsty man'll drink dirty water-tion? Would it help?"

across her lying get Howard out of here? Is ho if he's thirsty enough and there's

"nover forgive hor." too sick to be moved? He mustn't no clean at hand."

She is vile, she is poisonous." By this time they were back with stay here. He mustn't."

The Colonel was struck with dis-head that Jane's story of Howard Professor Lowe

It had never entered the doctor's who heard what Amy had said.; Colonel and Professor Lowe, |

(To Be Continued.) may. Was Jackson's wife, who un-as a relation was true. He was "You must forgive my daughter's til this moment had seemed to him surprised that the Colonel had been bluntness. She is in great dis came forward: senalble and quite beautiful-allow-tactless enough to bring the wife tress." ing of course for fatigue from her to what the doctor trip and her natural anxiety was woman's apartment." The Colonel best men in the city and arrange a

called "the other she going odd on him tool. The himself had had his doubts. He consultation with any of them you

"I'll give you the names of the OFFICIALS DISCHARGED Terry woman had worn out his pa- had long-distanced Marburg with choose, immediately. I appreciate tience in these three days! And many misgivings. Luckily Mary Mrs. Jackson's feeling."

FOR HINDRANCE- If this

was still another unrea- Jackson had answered and the situ

Berlin, Aug 24, sonable, tiresome, unpleasant-but (ation had at. once been cleared, from here," cried Amy. "I can't German Nazi Party is widening, he looked at Amy and porceived but he had not remembered to tell stay here and I must.

"If we could only get him away the Right and Loft groups of the Reports that the breach between

St. Paul, Minn. Aug. 24. that she was extremely moved, the doctor this.

Homer Van Meter, member of ahaken with some wild and ferr

the late John Dillinger's gang. I won't are borne out by recent develop streets of St. Paul to-day, when fr purpose he did not understand. held her arm, while for an instant father, "Jane wouldn't want you to So the doctor watched Amy, and

leave him,"

was riddled with bullets in the So ho answered carefully: "she looked through the isluglass

he attempted to resist a police or- think it's extremely doubtful, but window of the oxygen tent and saw Jane. we'll nok the doctor. Ho ought to Howard, blue-parched and gaunt, a her,

Friction between the two groupa HO. I wonder, where is in evident in the announcement

der to surrender. be along any moment.”-

If we could talk to that Dr. Brucker, Chief of

Van Meter was challenged by stubby growth of beard giving his "Botter sit down, my dear," face a strange neglected-nspect, his Amy. She put her hand over her other high officials have been do-

detectives at a the "Jane won't come

Insurance urged professor Lowe "Let nieps drawn back, his eyes half eyes, spoke in a low voice as if to prived of their posts

Department of the Ignoring their summons-to-stop, street corner. back," said German Labour. Front, and two take your

Here, this closed, while all the room sounded herself. "But we must staywe

he whipped a revolver from his seems come things. about him and shook his head. breath. Two white-masked, white-

He glanced with the suffering labour of his must stay." "Jane certainly hasn't arranged gowned nurses tended the oxygen "that I speak to the maids. And trade unions to thwart Nazi efforts The grounds for the officials' her home in her Aunt Rosa's tradi-pump-they and the strange appa-I'll see Jane. I'll arrange things. to build up the Labour Front- "Suppose," said Professor Lowe, former leading members of the old dismissal are that they helped tion."

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