The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-06
SYNOPSIS

SYNOPSIS
 JANE TERRY comes to New
 York determined to show her home town, Marburg, and espc-
 cially AMY JACKSON that she can make a success of her life.
 Amy has been her best friend until HOWARD JACKSON broke the engagement Jane had forced upon him and married Amy.
 In New York Jane obtains q position in real estate office and soon is making large in-
 come. She has an affair with ROGER THORPE, married. but tires of him. When he offers to
 bear the expeI:3c of their child she contcmptuously dismisscs him. Amy takes the baby, named NANCY, promising never to re- veal its percentage.
 When America enters the
 World War Howard cnIists in the aviation corps and goes to
 training camp in Texas. His mother comes to stay with Amy and little Nancy. Amy coniidcs to MARY JACKSON that she Is expecting a child of her own.
 
 brief holiday and then returns to camp. Jane Terry visits her aunt i'm Marburg and Towards mother meets her for the first time.
 CHAPTER XXXVI
 Mary Jacksons tone was unbe- lieving. But, Amy" she objected Howard never cared for Jane."
 q know that" Amy agreed, And maybe I'm wrong about Jane. 1 don't seem to understand her very well now. She's changed d lot-but she's always interesting"
 Sos a wildcat" said Mary, "at a safe distance. But it's never a household pet.
 Amy smiled and went off to write her letter to Howard. She did not send him Mary's message. Indeed she forgot it before she took her pen in her hand. They were con- ducting an argument at, the time about aptism-Howard holding that the child should be baptised as soon as born. Amy consenting only if Howard were present. Otherwise not until Howard could be there. There was also a discus sion between them as to whether Amy should havo the doctor come In every day, just for q moment of reassuring inspection. Howard thought this necessary. Amy con- sidered it unnecessary.
 Daily they wrote pages to each other on these subjects, with odd side diversion, such as the when and how of early discipline and much half-serious nonsense about possible inherited traits, tendencies and features. It seemed that there had once been a formidable nose in the Lowe family which Amy dreaded, and Howard owned to a great-aunt with cleft palate!
 Just suppose" wrote Amy. "he should get them both. He'd be like el monstruo in the Spanish novel. The doctor says it's most unlikely and assures me that the old myth of prenatal influence re- garding marks has been absolutely discarded. I hope he's right! But that's not the same as family fea- lures. They do crop out! There's tho Hapsburg chin, for instance
 They wrote these things more for the need for sharing each oth-
 
 of making their future together seems sure and safe than from any belief in the value of their sub jects. It was all part of waiting, waiting for the child, for the wars end, for the coming back to their normal existence.
 In this suspense, in this antici- patton, to Amy there was the quail 1f nfa 0f fo1 and Howard were part of the their parents before them, as would be their children after them. It was so, renewed and strengthened that human life went on. To look at the clothes she had sewed the basket, the crib, the blue blanket and coverlet was thrill of prom ise. Even the demands of her body, thrown out of balance and weight ed by it's burden, brought her a strange and grave elation.
 She had hoped all the time that Howard would net come until after the child was born, for if she should suffer, she did not want him to see or hear it. Yet he had made her promise that he should know the first intimatiop of the hour, so, when this time arrived, Mary sent him wire and he tele- graphed back that he would be there in the morning. But by the time he came tearing up to the house. his face lined and his eyes hollow from an anxious sleepless night, the doctor had gone, his son, oiled, weighed and clothes in his first garments was sleeping peacefully under the blue blankets. Amy, too, was asleep, while Mrs Lowe, Mary Jackson, the nurse