The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-14
SYNOPSIS

her best friend until HOWARD
 JACKSON broke the engagement
 Ja1lc forced on him and married
 Amy. Unable to bear the sight
 of Amy's happiness, Jane obtains
 a job in New York real estate
 office.
 Jane Is clever and soon is
 making an excellent salary. She
 has an affair with ROGER
 THORPE, . business acquaint.
 aSice who Is married. Later she
 tires of him and when he offers
 t0 bear the expense of their child
 she dismisscs him contemptu.
 In her desperate plight Jane
 turns to Amy for heIp. Howard
 is touring Germany with another
 professor and Amy comes to New
 York. She agrees to stay until
 the baby is born but Is mortified
 when Jane says she plans to give
 her child away.
 CHAPTER XVII
 You're foolish, Jane," Amy said after the doctor had gone. "Of course I'm here, but a nurse could do lot more to make your com fortable."
 S1S V0AAC WOAlQ hOl II.
 A cable had come from How. ard and been sent on from Mar burg. He and Professor ElIert had landed safely after a smooth crossing. They were going to Berlin first and then start their expedition. There was a mention of unsettled conditions which might change their plans. Amy had neglected the newspapers but now she looked at them for an explanation. To her amazemeht and dismay they were full of war rumors, with Germany truculent and menacing.
 Jane laughed at her fears. My dear." she said, "even if they do have 9 war it won't bother the Americans who are over there, all they'll have to do is turn around and come home. I don't believe they'll have a, war. It's just that crazy old Kaiser wav- ing himself around and showing off,"
 q know, Jane, but Professor set him dreadfully." She was really thinking of Howard and the trouble it would be for him to take care of the frail, exact ing old man, but neither she nor Jane had the least idea of what difficulties would and did happen to Americans who were so un. lucky as to be travelling in the embroiled countries at the begin ming of hostilities.
 Amy merely imagined that Howard and Professor Ellert might have to come back without accomplishing their pilgrimage, and 1t would be pity. That pros- pect did not disturb her nearly so much as Jane's unchanging resolve to give her child for adoption as soon as it should be born. No mat ter what she said, she could not move Jane one inch. They argued about it until both were sharp and exhausted.
 You're not logical" cried Jane. You don't believe a child is bet tre of with people who'll love it than with someone who never it! Why, on that score alone I'm doing the right thing. You want to sentimcntalize over it.. You don't understand that ma ternity can be nothing but a physical thing. l never did like children particularly, and I'll hate this one.'
 Maternity can't be only physi- cal. Ard anyway, you're shirking, Jane. You thought you'd make a grand free noble gesture, and you haven't the nerve to see 1t through. You ought to be ashamed to say you'll hate this child. You can't hate it. It's part of your body and your soul. You might as we'll say you hate yourself"
 T might say that, too"
 well, you wouldn't mean it. You think very we'll of yourself. You always have. But you'd really hate yourself, loathe your to anybody who's willing to take it. You'll never know what be- comes of it."
 "I don't want to know"
 Why, you wouldn't do that to a puppy or a kitten! You'd not give one of them away without being sure it had 8 good home and wouldn't be abused or ill- treated. Oh, Jane. it would be unforgiveable."
 'It's no use. I'm going to do it. You simply don't understand ,' They went over 1t again and again. But Jane continued to search after channels of adoption which would give the protection of secrecy to the mother in spite of all Amy could say, and at last refused to answer, put her hands over her ears and kept them there whenever Amy protested. "Leav me alon, cant you? l feel so wretched already" she said. At last Amy felt it was better to say nothing more, because she saw how i'll Jane was and how near her time. but she thought, "As soon as the child is born she'll feel differently. She's bound to-" Letters written on shipboard and soon after landing had come from Howard, the latter telling of Germany's preparations for war. and how he was trying to persuade Professor Ellert to go down to Italy until they knew what was going to happen! But the old man didn't want to do 1t.
 "It's all terrihcally exciting,' Howard wrote, land 1t may be nothing more than a mere saber- rattling, but 1t looks real. Your father ought to be gratified. He's been prophesying another Euro pean war - he said the whole trend of modern history made il l inevitable. If Professor Ellert wasn't so pathetically anxious to ] retrace his student days, I'd get right out this minute, for this . will be no place for aliens once tEr ADDER FANNY SAYS.