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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1934.

SOPHIE KERR'S LATEST SUCCESS IN ROMANTIC PROBLEM FICTION

STAY OUT OF MY LIFE!"

CHAPTER XL Professor Lowe handed the pack-1 ago to Amy. "There

are you

to attention.

swer hor.

nt the

on the whole, satisfactory, Shem against his reason. Ho hdzhould have been brought here in jed out my side," he said. "I nul-apartment; although her secretary

deal with me as if I were a

certain

the

young woman

until

wns 1stening. At the doctor's up. The most encouraging day | May air was soft and warm with a Inst words Amy's eyes darkened when he was no cross and faut promise of summer that he was The doctor came in and out like with an emotion he did not under-finding and refused his broth, call-willing Howard should go, and oven an uneasy spirit. The sight of stand. She seemed, he thought, ing it "damned slop." The day then he made a dubious face about They're right. I've taken rooms in Amy made him uncomfortable, the angry, hard. "If there is anything that stood out mort to Amy waste. The Colonel is convalescence. a hotel at the next corner und-alled the place, took no account of and the professor quickly, "please and how he got there.

Intense projection of her spirit more we could set for him when he asked where for and I've seen Jane."

Amy

There was a possibility that he stiffened

reality. The doctor was a consel- get it." He explained briefly the "All I recall was that my head might be permanently discharged- "What did she any?"

entious, satisfied realist and did not

did not go away. "It was all very pecullarbut, want his creed shaken. This silent Jangement he had made with was going round like a wheel and if that spot

absorbed

I couldn't get my breath for the affected

Jane had never appeared "There's nothing. But he never pain in

my wallet to get some had been there several times to somewhat repugnant stranger. 1

been, this time, practically the first place. An hour or no was money. I thought vaguely I might taks away various things she need- was at first-quite at

patient would die wasted right there." He went back telephone to camp, and that car it was nut until the day they left that his loss, and

ed. No word had come from her. then, I could only take my cu ticked by and still that rapid hard

during the night, but the minutes to the sickroom.

with Jane Terry's address on it from her. The upshot was that

"If Howard diea," Amy was have sub-let this apartment from had not weakened.

breath laboured on, and the pulse thinking, "I will kill Jane Terrember, I put it down that day that Amy saw her again, and then Christmas when we were afraid by accident, because they were de- At about two her for as long as we need it, and o'clock he took the place of one of in again, gray and tired, but tri-was there, and I sort of looked planned in a wait for some papers In the morning the doctor came she might want to take Nancy? layed a day longer than wan also arranged to tako over her servants, und, I am to reimburse The nurse, as acute as he, sudden-gain had been held, that he was, most in front of the place and it Jane had come home expecting to nursca and watched closely, umphant to say that Howard's around and realizul that I was al- from the military authorities. her for expenses already incurred in connection with Howard's ill- glanced at him, raised an in- surely unmistakably, a little more came to me that she'd know me find the place empty. Instead, she neks. In fact she suggested that mistaking it. The breath

quiring eyebrow. There was no relieved. "But he's got a long, and could telephone the camp, and met Amy just Inside the door. I give her a check for them at

was long way to go yet," he warned after that I must have passed out." Howard and the Professor were in once and I did so. In this way aaler, almost imperceptibly, but them. Pneumonia's a treacher we are quite independent of her the nurse. There was a gain, a

From that story Amy's contempt the taxicab below-but Amy had yes, he was sure. He nodded to ous as a snake,"

for Jane increased. She could come back to fetch п forgotten you нее. We are accepting no

It was a long, long way and he hardly wait to get Howard out of, wrap. favours. The price

very slight gain, and even while made, it seemed to Amy, no more the apartment. The place grow It was as if they had exchanged seemed to me grasping, but I pre- satisfet himself that he was than Infinitesimal progress on it more irkaame with each day ahe natures. Amy was the one who ferred to

right,

Doctor Gavin knew the But now and then there were red-stayed in it. pay it.

I certainly prickic of a coming annoyance. If letter days. The day when the Jane was there, a venomous, threa- now. Jano shrank from the leath

It seemed to her as if was hard and cruel and aggressivo couldn't bargain."

"It's all exactly like Jane. this improvement was due to her day, not so long after, when they any chance to harm her further.

fellow's

wife intimated that oxygen tent was abandoned. The teaing influence, waiting impatient-ing in her eyes. thought Amy, with scorn, Aloud

nid she said: "I'm glad we're under the word paychic) he'd give her of the house. The day when she She

thought you'd gone," (God, how he hated whole oxygen apparatus went out Her nerves

," abo Paychic

were fiddlestrings. stammered. no obligation."

could not control them. the lecture of her life about what was permitted to see him for 10 Mighta't she take Howard back to in order, and nothing missing. Professor Lowe went on:

"You'll find everything clean and "Bit we mustn't let this be known in But he was a conscientious physi-with wonder and rapture at the doctor,

selence alone did in cases like this, minutes, and to hear him exclaim Marburg, soon, she begged the The maids are paid. I mailed the Marburg. Rosa Terry would be cinn as well as a conscientious sight of her. The day when two

rent check to your office-It in- humiliated to the soul to discover realist and when, after an interval of the nurses could go.

jeludes the rest of the week." that her niece had made money to assure himself that the gain was when he had rubbed his unsightly not hurry. There was a bad spot

The day

But the doctor told her she must out of the misfortune of her friends. I myself was ashamed for went in to tell Amy, to his surprise though he wasn't yet able to sit as he liked. It was not until the nctual and kely to be held, helchin and demanded a barber, in one lung which did not clear up Jane. Well there it is! We won't talk about it any

and relief her response was not as Now, my dear, suppone we go to observed, exactly like other people. more he had anticipated. She was, he the hotel, bathe, change our cloth to whom he had been able to bring ing and be back here when the the first hope in a hopeless vigil. doctor comes in again."

expected it. More, she did not seem to have friendly.

So he became more

she

the

Before Amy would go she crept down the hall to the slckroom. One of the nurses came to the door. "He's 220 worse. There's

"It is a very small gain, you un- change," she said, but she would derstand." he said, "but it is there,

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not let Amy look at. Howard again, "Sorry. Not unless the docter's with you. *R мин

and he seems to be holding it. It's the first encouragement we've had.

If he keeps on like this until morn-i the longest night that in, and if he has an easier day Amy had ever known. She to-morrow" he left the promise in the ving-room, her hands busy unfinished.

Bat

with knitting, her thoughts mov- "It's really true, isn't it?" she; ing still more swiftly. Professor asked, "it's not just a little rally, Lowe was on the couch and Ams, before Don't make me expect looking at him from time to time, hini to be better and then tell me could almost have smiled at the something different."

contrast of his austere scholar's "Now that's dealing with head against that exotic back-reallts," thought the doctor with ground. But Amy was thinking of 4pproval. Aloud: "It's exactly. Howard, her thoughts surrounding as I say, and it is encouraging. him, begging him to stay with her. But I'm going to stay here the rest telling him that he must not, must of the night. I wish we had him: not leave her. She believed that in a properly equipped hospital." he would feel her near him, and though unconscious, he would an- The professor had roused and

taunt. That renting of the apart

She could have found no worse mant was the sole piece of malice (Continued on Page 4),

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