The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-07-18
SOPHIE KERRY GREAT NOVEL SHAY OUT OF MY LIFE!" Rv Snnhie Kerr
SYNOPSIS


 her best friend until HOWARD
 JACKSON broke the engagement
 Jane forced on him and married
 Amy. Unable to bear the sight
 0f Amy's happiness, Jane obtains
 q lob in New York real estate
 office,
 Jane fs clever and soon is mak-
 ing an excellent salary. She has
 m affair with ROGER THORPE,
 who is married. Later she tires
 Of him and when he offers to
 bear the expense of their child
 she dismisses him contemptuOus-
 ly.
 In her desperate plight Jane
 turns to Amy for help. Howard
 Is touring Germany and Amy
 comes to New York. She stays
 until the baby is born and then,
 mortified because Jane insists on
 giving her daughter away, agrees
 to take the child with the under-
 standing that Jane never shall
 reclaim her.
 Back in Marburg Amy worries
 over what Howard will think of
 her taking the baby. A month
 passes and then one morning the
 telephone rings and she hears his
 voice.
 CHAPTER XX
 Over the telepohne Howard ex- plained it all to Amy. He and Professor Ellert had suddenly man. aged to get passage on a freighter --slow and small and primitive, without a wireless. They had just landed and he had raced to the nearest telephone. Yes, he had sent her a cable when they left but had KT tN nyrfps 1Ct k@ esky vvNtI 4Anv Probably he'd pocketed the money and thrown the message away. They were both well and he was going to grab old Professor Ellert and dash to the station for the next train.
 But I had to hear your voice, Amy-I couldn't wait. I'll send a wire if there's time but I had to speak to you first" And then again "Darling-darling!"
 After she had put down the tele- phone she remembered that he didn't yet know about the baby. Not that it mattered. He was back, he was safe. In another day he would be with her! Nothing, noth- ing else mattered beyond that blessed knowledge and expectation.
 How she ever got through the
  telephoned and was telephoned to, though she hardly knew what she was saying. She cleaned and pol ished and arranged and re-ar- ranged the house. She crammed her refrigerator and pantry with every eatable for which Howard had ever shown the slightest pref erence. She filled the rooms with flowers. She played loud triumph ant music-the A flat Polonaise, the Rakoczy March and the hilar- ious "Alexander's Ragtime Band" but every moment was an age and she turned constantly to watch the clock. A telegram came, tell ing the train, the hour of his ar- rival, and at last time reluctantly dragged itself to the fulfilment of the promise.
 and hard and strong. His arms were like bands of steel around her. "I worked as an able seaman on that damned boat" he said. "It would have been fun if hadn't been so anxious to get back to you. I'll never let you out of my sight again"
 His clothes were torn, wrinkled and water-soaked. "I had nothing to change into. We lost our bag gaze in Germany, or had 1t pinch ed. Old Ellert mourned his night shirts every hour of the way back! It was whale of an adventure, the whole thing, and I'm glad l saw 1t and glad I'm out of it. I've got a billion things to tell you. But flrst I want to hear what you've been up to-" She bIurted 1t out: "I've adopted V baby. A little girl!"
 He laughed aloud: "Amy - -I8on't believe you!"
 "But I have. It's the truth. Come along and look at her."
 He followed, holding her arm Night, still laughing, but at the sight of the cradle and the sleep ing child he stopped amazed. well I'm a son of a gun! It is the truth. "A little girl? Whats her name?"
 "She hasn't any yet. I waited Tor you to choose one."
 "Good, we'll call her Axelina after the wife of the captain of the ship. She was g. grand old Norwegian dame six feet two, voice like a fog-horn, hard enough to be in the Ellert Museum, bossed the whole works"
 She watched him for some sign of disapproval. You don't mind, Howard? You're sure you don't mind?"
 But he only took her again in his arms. Amy, sweet, anything in this world you want to do IS right with me-"
 Jane read the letter from Miss Rosa with a frown. It was pIaintiye, querulous, quite unlike Miss Rosa's usual robust communi- cations. She didn't feel well. She was tired all the time. She didn't eleep more than two hours a night. This war over in Europe was very upsetting and now 1t looked as though America would have to 1oin in and a fine mess that would be! Her affairs were in bad order, too, and she didn't trust the advice or this new young partner MT Massey and the Trainors were trash through and through. She wished tO goodness Jane would come and help her decide what to do. She didn't want to end her days in the poorhouse, but she felt she was surely headed toward it.
 Jane put the letter down on her Nesk and considered. It was al- most four years since she had been to Marburg. Her last visit there was when she had managed to get her inheritance out of Miss Rosa's and old MT Massey's hands.
 '.The old chap was gaga them, she thought, land if he's taken in in smart young nick there's no tell lng what could happen to Aunt kosa's money. That money ought bo come to me some day. I wish I had some of it now for this Sears isale. It would be handy. I sup bose I'll have to go and look into Her little once was a neat and EDleasant place even on this cloudy March morning. There was mo- fxhang feminine about it except Jane herself, slender and smart in her ,k c TT