THE HUSBAND
HUNTER
CHAPTER XXXV,
Phillipa left Alan to his thoughts, while she prepared dinner." She knew well enough that they were bitter thoughts, of the kind she wished him to have.
BY
AUTH DEWEY GROVES
She doubted it would endure as he seemed to believe it would. But it might if it could be fed.
But
She started to say something to hall him, hoping to make him feel ridiculous if he were intending, for Now and then she glanced ap-any reason, to call Natalie. praisingly at him, as she hurried he spoke before she did. And the back and forth between her tiny number he asked for was not that kitchenette and the combination of his home. Philips remembered dining and living room. His air of it: knew it was the hotel where utter dejection pleased her. He had he had stayed while Natalie was said enough in the taxicab on the away. She sighed thankfully. way up to convince her he was deeply disappointed In Natalic.
She surmised his bitterness was growing moment by moment, but she could not delay dinner indef- nitely. Besides, she was hungry, So finally she went over to him with a tray and put it down on a tabouret beside the deep chair she had chosen especially for him.
Alan asked to have a room re- zerved. Phillipa then let him go without further delay. He was restless notion his desire to sink into meditation gone. She wished she might go with him somewhere, but he plainly wanted to be away, and by himself.
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The next morning she went to the office early, nervously anxious She spoke to him and Alan ab-to see Alan and find out what a sent-mindedly reached out a hand night of sleeping on his anger had for a glass of tomato cocktail. He done to it. shivered slightly, for she had Alan came in a little after nine, opened the windows to free the looking hollow-eyed. and weary.
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Dinner is ready," she said mata desire for her sympathy, but he affairs conference at Nanking, ter-of-factly.
seemed rather to wish to avoid her. originally arranged for the be Alan got up and as he stood there Her pa tightened ominously neginning of July, has been post- Phillipa resisted an impulse to slip she walked cut of his office and poned to September.-Reuter, under the arm he raised to press seated herself at her deck. She
Phillipa had hoped he would show
palm to his brow. It was a ges-expected to have a bad day with ture of complete weariness, but it the girls on the office force. She Natalie. It would be a fine chance did not invite sympathy. His own knew their skill with innuendo opinion, his own conclusions, were when they dared not skirmish in what he wanted, Phillipa told her the open. This did not serve to self. She was convinced he would sweeten her temper. talk and act best when he was ready.
It came rather suddenly, his burst of words.
She
to incite her to greater jealousy. She could tell her about the visits Alan had paid to the Lamont home while she, Natalie, was away. She was still further upset when could tell of the many presents he Alan came out and asked her about had bought for Bobby, of his fond- his engagements for the day. Heness for the little boy. And all in had read the early mail and de- the guise of praising Alan for his
"Phillipa, I'm through," he ex-sided suddenly that he could not kind-heartedness and generosity.
claimed, putting down a fork that held the mushroom he had been about to cat.
Phillipa started nervously. For a wild instant it seemed to her he meant he was through with her. But he was going on, excitedly pouring out his indignation in words; and it was not directed at
her.
"I can't see any use, trying to go on with it," he declared with a vehemence that warmed Phillipa's heart, "I thought Natalie had changed, but she hasn't."
Phillipa uttered a little sound of pity, but she refrained from say- ing: "I told you so."..
"It's no use," Alan ended weightily.
stay in the office and work.
It would be no use, he thought.
heart had beri ser n rece ciliation with Natalie; he knew it now. He could think of nothing but his great disappointment. All the bittterness was gone. He felt, simply, that both he and Natalie were helpless against her obsessing passion of jealousy.
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But it was too late now. Even if Natalie should listen to her, she couldn't appear disinterested in
TWO COACHES BURIED IN mentioning Bernadine after her re-
A LANDSLIDE. cent rudeness. She knew Natalie was not stupid;" certainly she
Berlin, June 28.
Tokyo, June 28. couldn't mistake the fact that her There are approximately 1,600,- Fifteen persons are believed to husband's secretary was moved to 000 unemployed persons in Ger- have perished in a landslide which net Es she did because of the scene many, according to Herr Bruening, buried two coaches of a train, 50 she'd witnessed the day before, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, miles north-east of Shimonoseki.
"It's enough to put her on her who declared in the Reichstag to- According to the railway authori would happen, he did not know. guard," Phillipa concluded, and day that new taxes were urgently ties 36 persons were aboard the He recognized only an airge to get gave up the idea of saying, anything needed to cover the cost of the buried coaches. Twenty-one Calcutta Ka away for a while-a day at least-more to Natalie.
burden; and also to cover the managed to dig themselves out. and try to adjust himself to these She worried greatly for fear Alan Budget deficit. ·
Five hundred coolies were rushed new conditions.
would come in and be, in
Frostin to the scene and recovered three degree, placated by the open over- The new taxes will include a tax ture Natalie had made in coming on bachelors and spinsters, yield bodies. The slide was due to the
heavy rains-Reuter. to his office.
ing 111,000,000 marks;” á five per And then, with Natalie waiting cent. surtax on incomes of over there, and Phillipa tensely dreading £400 per annum, yielding 68,000,000 marks. Various cuts in the his arrival. Alan telephoned the 000 marks, and a non-recurring estimates of the different Minis- office.
emergency tax on the salaries of tries, it is estimated, will save officials, which will yield 135,000,-100,000,000 marks-Reuter,
He did not tell Phillipa that he was going to be gone for the day. He guessed she might try to force her company upon him, and in any case she would ask questions which he did not care to answer.
While he had talked, lost in his Own interests. Phillipa had So he said he would be back been doing a little thinking of her shortly, and left her to her stormy Own. "So," she caustically com- suspicions. They were stormy, for mented to herself; "he really was she understood his morning mood going to throw me over and go better than he himself understood back to his wife--just going to it. She knew that his temper had let me fade out gracefully, licked subsided, that he was leas deter- by discouragement." She smiled mined-if determined at all-to secretly. "Well, my dear Alan, have a definite break with Natalie. that wouldn't have been so easy, but..."
"Coffee?" she asked as Alan placed his knife and fork on his plate.
"Black, please," he answered. She brought the dessert, baker's charlotte russe, without asking if
She had worked her suspicions up to the point of believing that he was even now on his way to meet Natalie, perhaps to make up- their quarrel, when Natalie walked into the office.
Natalie was us white-faced, as
he cared for it, and was rather exhausted looking, as Alan had thankful he left it untouched. She been. Plainly sleep had not paid knew Natalie had spoiled him with her a visit that night. delicious cookery and she did not She asked for Alan, and Phillipa want any comparison that might regarded her seruthinizingly. Nata- reficct to her disadvantage made lie felt her gaze uncomfortably, between them at this time. The "He isn't here" Phillipa said stenk, overdone, had been bad shortly, and Natalie supposed she enough as it was,
treated her so because of sympathy "I must learn to cook," Phillipa (for Alan. said le herself, as she had said She been afraid all night that many times. She had expected to she had betrayed her jealousy of encounter no difficulty with the art Bernadine Lamont to Alan's secre- had indeed looked forward withtary. Now she was certain of it. eager anticipation to the opportu-| A dull red flush stained her cheeks nity for vying with Natalie. But, and hope withdrew a little farther surprising to her, many of her from her. Her voice was uneven practice meals had been sadly dis-when she asked if he had been - appointing.
in that morning.
Her coffee wasn't so bad, though, "Oh, yea, he was here. Phillipa the congratulted herself as she answered coldly. She knew she watched Alan drink cup after cup was being reckless, but she did not of it.
care, or rather her irritation was routing her better judgment.
He appeared to be in no hurry to go. She made him comfortable and sat close by, quiet, abstractedly cracking nuts. But her mind was
"Did he say when he would re- turn?" Natalie hated to have to ask these questions. She knew they not so quiet as her daintily groomed humbled her in Miss West's eyes, body. She surreptitiously glanced but she was sternly disciplining at her watch now and then, as the her pride at the moment. minutes crept on, and Alin stirred "No, he didn't," Phillipa curtly only to light a fresh cigarette or replied.
"
flick the ashes from an old one. Natalie glanced toward Alan's Several of them burned up to his door. "I think I'll wait in his pri- -fingers, forgotten, before he flungvate office a while," she said, and
the fags away,
[half-excused Phillipa's abruptness. Phillipa was figuratively holding With a flare of resentment, Phil- her breath against time. Where lipa watched her close the door. would Alan spend the night? At She knew that in future Natalic his hotel, or would he go home? would always be distant with her. He might be done with Natalie "If she ever comes again," she mut as he had said, but if he went "tered, but with small belief in the home. Phillipa fiercely hoped doubt. he would stay away.
At last, when Alan was ready to go, and had not mentioned his destination, she delayed him with
What Natalie did in Alan's of- fice, Phillipa did not know, but the grew more convinced as the time passed that she had acted foolish-
one pretext or another. She did ly toward Natalie. Suppose the not want to ask him directly where quarrel should blow over,
and
he was going, but she was about things were to go on-as they were
to do so, when he turned abruptly now? She would have no influence to the telephone.
Phillipa waited, tense and fear- ful. She realized
whatsoever with Natalie, no oppor
tunity to stir her up against Ber- nadine Lamont,
clearly his She was bitterly regretful. If anger with Natalie was too sudden she had been agreeable she could and too passionate to be trusted. go in now and have a talk with
(To Be Continued).
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