THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.FRIDAY, JUNE 22, '1934.
Married Flirts
CHAPTER XXXI Lila said patiently, "I've told you over and over again. I want to be free."
Darek, tall and handsomo in tweeds, his atormy dark eyes puz- zied, asked, "What's gone wrong?" I alon't know. I've tried. Oh, Sweets, there must be something, we can sto
Lila rose from her place by the fire and stared out of the window at the lights which spangled the eity below her. Keng came noiselessly and carried away the coffee tray. The big room with its rich rugs and dark, subdued furni- ture was very quiet,
"It was a mistake from the start. I think," she said evenly. It was being harder than she had ex- pected and in spite of her outward appearance of calm her heart was beating thickly. If Derek should find out that, after all this, she meant to marry Marko, his little boy attitude of puzzled hurt would bo changed, But he must not find out!
"I'm not your sort," she con- tinued, holding
long. out, her Aupple ringed hands to the blaze. "We don't think the same way. Confess your idea of life in not mine,"
"N-no. Frankly, if len't," Derek aald. "But, after all, marriage: means concessions. I've made same. I supposed you have, although in the main our life has been as you wanted it. But it was for- ever. You and, I both said that we pledged it. not two years
know. I know." She sirred Impatiently. How could she malte, kim Bee?
"It's just that-well, I don't feel
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fils cont. Ils face was a white, maak. The worst had happened. He had been expecting this, dread ing it, for weeks. If you made in fallure of marriage, thought Dorok bleakly, it meant you were a fail- ure in overything else. He did not slurs the light sentiments of most of Lila's crowd, who changed life partners ensually
they changed their clothes.
That there was another man be did not for a moment doubt. But who? He reviewed all the young awarmed to Lila's gallants who cocktail parties. She treated them all very much alike, But hnd something escaped him in her at- titude toward any special one?
Ile groaned. This was all so ugly--so unspeakably sordidi
But she would be more discreet,
by MABEL
McELLIOTT
||right-well born and so forth, but † emeralda, rubles, star sapphires.
Derek had to be hurt by all this.
It was a pity, she reflected, that he'll never get anywhere,"
Marko would have to transfer him
She sipped bor ten with the, to the western office-to San Fran- superior air she reserved for, peo- cisco, perhaps, when everything ple who hadn't much of the world's W8B Battled. Naturally Dorek goods. "Funny-I always thought wouldn't want to stay in New York, Gypsy would do something wonder- to go on working for Marko after ful she went on, wanting to seem she had married the latter. Well, no use worrying about all that now. gracious in her lover's eyes. "Be The French had a good phrase for something. She had talent and come a singer or an actress or "It will arrange looks but marriage simply aqual such problem, itself." Lih never bothered much ched her.".: about life's problems. They had a
"Pretty little thing," Murko way of solving themselves,
She put one lump into Marke's commented. Idly. "Lovely eyes. tsa and poured in just the merest And the most graceful hands in trifle of milk. He had to watch the world.", Lilu didn't his waistline. Now Dereit's waist- line was
but she frowned would have to be taught (later, of
liko this. Marko
There would be narrow braceleta fashioned of atones clearer than clear water..
the
pale leather bag for change. The Meantime ahe fumbled in the taal man thanked her for the tip and she went swiftly into foyer. It would be lonely tonight. Marko dared not call and she had anyone., She shivered at the pre- made no arrangements to dine with spect of a solitary dinner.
She rang up several people she knew, feverishly and in haste. Freddy. Chloe and Dick. Van Neas. One was engaged and the
others were out of town,
Gypsy's number. It would be a On a sudden impulse she dialled
with the Weavers this night-see how the other half lived.
But the bell rang dismally, rang and rang and rang. Gypay's little neat was plainly deserted. There was trouble, real trouble that late April afternoon in the house of Weaver.
(To Be Continued.;
"I'm sorry, Derek," Lila aldagain. remembering. Derek had course) that you didn't say things! Jark, she reflected, to take pot luck prettily, gracefully. Whatever this already moved his things to the like that to one woman about an slim, fair-haired, clear-skinned club; she would not see him again. absent member of the sex. young woman did would always be He was being, really, very decent "Really? Her langder was dis- pretty and graceful. Even when about It all. You could always tinctly forbidding. she was a small girl mothers had trust Derek for that. In a week!
She glanced about her cautious said, "Why aren't you like Lin she would leave for Nevada, would Hotaling? She has such charming establish residence. It would be "I'll go on without you," she manier... "Now that she had
was not locking whispered.. "Won't do to be seen tiresome. She forward to that part of it but at together just before news of the got her way, she could afford to be
You never know generous with Derek. And, after the end of all this tiresomeness and, break leaks out. all, they were civilized people. dullness would be her goal-awhen one of those awful column Why couldn't they be friends? luxury marriage which would put writers is lurking about. They There wasn't the least renson In her forever beyond the pettiness, ofseem to be everywhere," the work),
small desires,
1 went through the marble "Do you ever see Gypsy Morell and gilt foyer alone, very slim and Any more?" Marko startled her elegant in her pale costume, the on her fur making a dark background for by asking. breaking in
her lovely face. Eyes were turned reverie.
Lila was glad to be distracted, as she passed and admiring glances "No, she's gone completely domes-followed her. She enjoyed every tic." she told the man opposite. bit of it. When she was Mrs. "Gypsy's turned maternal and mid- Marko Broughton she would have dle class and all that."
more of it. Admiration, aduintion She didn't want to sound spite-from all sides, ful; after all, Marko had admired She went back to the apartment
pity she married that young nobody. Of course he's all
She told Marko about it over a ten table in a shinded corner of a hotel lounge. Liia was all in belge to-day-little close belge hat like the pfimage of a soft-feathered bird, silky beige frock with creamy Frills at the throat. There were gloves of the same delicato colour thrown on the couch behind her with full, soft silver fox searf.
"You handled it
approved. He
the name any more, I don't-- in fact," Marko well-superbly Gypay. So she amended hastly,jin a taxi, «lthough the long grey-
don't love you any more."
The man in the deep chair moved as though to ward off a blow. His dark face paled mul- denly.
"I'm sorry." Lila said quickly. "I didn't mean to hurt you. But you just wouldn't see
Derek. rose. How tall he was, she thought idly. How goodlook ing, too..in an unconventional way. But although he was dear he could never give her what she wanted. Marko could and, besides, Marko was terrifically attractive.
"I didn't understand." Illa tone was extremely formai. No casual onlooker would have known he had just received a mortal blow.
"I'll go to Reno, of course," Lila said quickly. "It will be easy. There needn't be any publicity un- til it's all over."
"Oh, you have planned 11 all out, Derek said with dreadful politeness,
She threw out her hands in a gesture of despair. "You're being sp difficult," she told him,
"Sorry." He had his hands plunged deep into the pockets of
Jeaned over to pat her hand and for the barest Instant Llla winced. Marko's hand was plump, well cushioned; the natls were meticu- lously manicured. It was the sight of it that recalled, by contrast. Derek's slim, long fingers clencll- ing and unclenching themselves as they had the night before.
"lle'll get ever It," Marko pro-f phesied. "He'll marry again."
"Do you think so?" Lin was not entirely sure she liked this.
"Certain to," Marko nodded. "He's attractive."
"Oh, he is that!" Lila almost tossed her head. Of course Derck was attractive. Hadn't she mor- ried him?
"It will all have to be done very kmoothly, very quietly, of course," Marko murmured. Lila nodded her agreement. They had been all over this ground before. A year must elapse before their engage- ment was announced. No one would suspect then that Lila had meant to marry Marko all the time. A year was such a decent interval. Why, pouted Lila prettily, most people rushed straight from the Rens courtroom to the minister.
"Such "
Three girl friends of the American bandit, Dillinger, after, their 'arrest.
hound car just beyond the awn- inged entrance was here for a beek- oning finger, Some day soon that car would be hers and the square- jawed Finn at the wheel would take her orders.
"To Tiffany's," she could imagine herwell, speaking through the all- ver tube, command quietly,
She could even see the rings that! would be laid out for her cholco
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