THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
Married Flirts
CHAPTER XXIV
....
WEDNESDAY, · · JUNE
18, 1934.
by MABEL
McELLIOTT
solid way of living," Derek said his chin. He must shave and dim drawing room and lighted her need was deeper and more funda- Derek naid, "We haven't had a stubbornly. "I'd like.kids.. Wouldnt' change and, oh, God, he was so cigarette. Rain was falling over the mental than that. It had some- tired! Wint wouldn't he give for city now, splashing against tnu thing to do with homo... with quiet evening at home for weeks," you
Lila threw out her hands, "Of a bite by his own fire, a woman windows in black rivulets. He the old fashioned interpretation He wild. "I'm tired of this over euurse, darling," she agreed, all opposite him with a quiet voice, in shivered. The cold which had of the word. Insting merry-go-round. Let's eat weet reasonablancas. "Of course, a dark gown? Lila scarcely over seized him earlier in the day took a "Home is where the heart. la) some of it."
now. We're wore dark things except for street firmer grip upon him. He felt Derek murmured, staring at his Lila frowned, the expressionHut later. Not
for youur! We must amuse ourselves, wear. In the evening she was n}- | ill . miserable. cleasing ber smooth white
cordial glass, tipping it until he in five years
Lila turned on the radio and the could ace the poisonous green lights in ten. verways slim, supple and perfumed, hend into unbecoming ridges. And
her hat exquisitely coffed, her music sickened him. He must be flash in its depth: "Home," he told hap she did so hate to frown! But
ile set his jaw stubbornly. Lakin gleaning. She wore aliver definitely ill, he told himself as wife gravely, "is where you Derek was being tiresome, What else was there to do besides what Lin had seen him in this mood once tissue and gilt, creamy luce. Suftagely, to be in such a ghastly frame hang your hat."
for twice before. Io was not to be fabrics rustled deliciously at her of mind. He tried to pull himself they already did?
She flashed him a puzzled, an approach and soft scents lingered together, to be chatty and casual annoyed glanco. Derek, I do ho "Don't be stupid," she said air. budged.
""I'm not going to-night, any-on the air.
but he felt his effort to be, a delieve you're tight." ity. She was sitting at her dream-
Almost like a man in a daze, hecided failure, ing table, a sheer lace and satin way," he said. "I've got a beastly
"Sorry, darling." He bowed to incket thrown on over her fitted cold. Been feeling retten all day, dressed for dinner. The incal was, creamy slip. Her stockings were And I have a heavy morning with as always, perfectly served; the notice and he was grateful. There her. Kote slipped by to answer sheer; her sandals were fashioned client to-morrow."
food piquant, delicious. But some was something to be said about Marko's ring. A moment later thing war missing. Derek found Lila's determined effort to live on Broughton was in the room, big, "Better a dish of herbs where love that people who insisted on the who was all loyalty to his employer. himself muttering under his breath, the surface of life. People like masculine, smiling, exuding the familiar sense of power. Derek, is
But he couldn't remen gracious, the luxurious, in every felt an emotion almost of dislike
thing-were rather easy to live "What did you say, darling?" with If all you wanted was creature for Marko at the moment. Lila locked at him oddly.
"Derek's rocky," Lila explained comfort, to thought. But, with his "Nothing. Nothing." He pull whole soul he found himself longing further. "Touch of flu, I think." for something beyond and apart She went to get her wrap and to from all these soft cushions, shaded add the little touches her makeup pulled lights and clinking glosses. He required at the last moment. She waited hoped he wasn't whining about was beautiful to-night. Both men into the being "misunderstood," No, hla
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She stared at him, суев was smooth as satin except where rowed. "Oh, very well, then!" it prang, just below the temple,She turned back to her dreselax Into two devp, adroit waves. table. "Don't be Idiotic, darling," she said,
Derek's Cyca lighted with arching her neck to enjoy the lovely line in the mirror. "Anyone'd triumph. It wasn't often Lila was eo amenable. She was sweet, real-
"
ber the rest.
think you were 50 and goutish, ly. He wanted to put his armas ed himself up with a start. It's a lovely party to-night around her, to bury his face in the
"It's always a lovely party'." softness of her hair, to tell her all Later he punctiliously Derek told her. looking more an- noyed than ever. "And what hap- the pretty things ahe used to like out her chair for her, pens? We dine, dance with the to hear but was busy to listen to while she preceded him
nowadays. same people, see the same plays. laugh at the same deadily okes.she reached for the white and gilt But before he could any a word love, sometimes I feel as if I were telephone on the low table beside on one of those Coney Island for her. She gave a number. Derek, Fix wheels and couldn't getfrowning. walted.
.IT
up.
Yes. Llia.
"That you, Marko? Well, that's perfectly silly of Derek's feeling seedy. You're go- you, and I don't know what you're ing to the Martins to-night aren't talking about." Usually when she you? Well, be a lamb and drop by talked like this Lila disposed of for me. Thanks so much. About her husband'a ' "mulish" mooda. 10." Tu-night he was different. He was not to be won back to tractability by smiles and scoldings. He per- sisted in his attitude of discontent "It's this beastly way of lying." he complained. "In a rabbit war ren, with all the rest of the anf-way-that is, partly, and yet he inals. Now if we had a house in wasn't satisfied. Of course It was the country and a couple of chil-perfectly all right for Lila to go to couple! I like that!" Lila, the Martin party with Marko. Why
dren.
"A offenled by the thought of even one baby, allowed her tinkling laugh
to fund at this preposterous no- tion
She ling said gaily. "I wouldn't miss those "That's that." she Russian lancers for worlds. Run along, darling. I told Koto dinner at eight and it's almost that now." Derek stood up. He had got his
not? That he had so hoped she'd· give the affair up for him. It was such a little thing to do.
Still nursing that sense of baffle- ment, of defeat, Derek went to his
"I'd like a house, a more simple, own room. He ran his hand over
For her part, Lila acemed not to
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