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THE HUSBAND

HUNTER

CHAPTER XXVII

Alan's hand shook, as he laid the telegram he had just read' on his desk, and looked up at Phil lips. "I'm afraid I can't go with you," he said simply,

ly.

can't

BY

RUTH DEWEY GROVES

she could have guessed that there was another woman holding him back.

But it amused her that Alan could not guess how far from irrevocably

separated

from Natalie,

he

Was

Phillipa almost lost her role of

Let him claim weariness now, meekness. "Why?" she said fierce and she could offer him a rest- ly, sensing that a third person had

ing place Let him say he need interfered through the telegram.ed more sleep, and she could coax Then, instantly: "Why you?" she added more submissive fairly smother him with atten- him to take a nap. Sho would

tions. Cushions just so, a match "I'm to meet Natalie at the lighted for him whenever he Grand Central at five o'clock."

Phillipa's face went chalk white. and a good reading lamp-even wanted & cigarette, newspapers "You're going to meet her?" she slippers. She made a mental note asked, and the words were more to buy him a pair on her first hissed than spoken.

shopping trip after she found an apartment.

Alan nodded. "Alan!"

She thanked him for the pro- Phillipa walled his name, and mised increase in her salary and sank into a chair, her head on her left. She hadn't dared try to stop arms, her shoulders shaking piti-him from going to meet Natalie. fully!

Her tears had failed. He had

Alan's heart was torn. God, what a mess he was making of things! Here was this girl, who had given him unstintedly of her sympathy and company, and was now about to, be kicked out of her home what kind of beast did she have for a father anyway? Here she was, sobbing her heart out on his account, and he planning to meet Natalie.

But he didn't see how he could help it. Unless, unless he didn't meet Natalic. He glanced down at, Philipa, went to her and put his hands on her shoulders. Phillipa Jeaned against hiru.

He knew he was going to meet Natalie, but he was terribly sorry for Phillipa. Yet, as he told her while she grew calmer, it dawned upon him that she might be suffer- ing from nerves more than any thing else. What had she to cry over in the fact of his meeting Natalie? It was a natural thing for Natalie to wire him.

She wouldn't want to ask a friend to be at the station. So far as he knew, their separation was still a matter of speculation only among their acquaintances.

And Natalie was the kind of woman who would want to do things up decently, once she was out from under the power of her jealousy. She had a fine, orderly

mind.

comforted her, yes-she could still feel his hands upon her shoul- ders-but he had said no one word to indicate that his decision was changed.

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she had controlled herself enough H

While weeping there at his desk,

to know that if he could not be softened by her tears, he would never weaken to stormy pleading, And Phillipa was too aroused to her, she knew it. plead otherwise. Fortunately for

Suppose she made a scene? What good would it do her? It was only when the man loved and the winning tricks. the woman didn't, that she held

Then could threaten to break with him. she But even that could be overdone, Phillipa said to herself, thinking af Natalie's many threats to leave Alan.

One thing was clear to Phillipa if ever Alan got away from her, it would be the end.

She decided to hold him on 3 fexible string. He might even think, at times. that he was en- tirely free. This afternoon, for in- stance, when he met Natalie. What a dinner would they do? Make date?

Well, by that time she would have an apartment. She would take almost anything, come back before Alan left the office, and. nike him promise to go with her that night to look at it. He might dine with Natalie-although she would try to prevent it but he could not remain late with her.

Thinking of Natallie, he forgot be was comforting Phillipa, until lie felt her hand creep into his and snuggle there confidingly. In- stantly the warm glow at his heart faded. No, it probably wouldn't work out, being friends with his Phillipa left the office as soon former wife when the thought as Alan had gone out with his came hesitatingly he was marri- friends, Mr. Royden and Mr. ed to Phillipa.

Adams, to meet Mr. Payne, She was back at four, with a receipt for a deposit on an apartment in Fast Fifty-sixth Street.

She had liked it well enough to

Phillip sensed he was in a mood that she could turn to her account. A bit of guilt, a bit of pity for her, a bit of longing for Natalie, a bit of desire to do the right thing take it without waiting for Alan's for both of them.

"Whe

approval. But she did not mean re shall I look for auto tell him that she had paid a apartment?" she stammered, as deposit. though speaking were difficult for

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She found him seated before his NEW LINERS FOR. O.S.K.

was littered with

her. She knew that Alan would- desk, which

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She looked at him for the scars better, it being the instinct of all of battle. Evidently everything gallant men to pay when they had gone off satisfactorily at the always endeavouring to make every make a woman suffer.

"I've looked at ads," Phillip appeared excited, but

conference and luncheon. He possible improvement to their various confided. "The nice places all appointed.

not dis- services operating in all parts of the world with a view to meeting the seem to be dreadfully high." "Yes, yes, I expect so,"

She sank wearily into her ac-satisfaction and confidence of both Alan customed seat, the chair by his exporters and importers.. agreed impatiently. He had been desk. She had removed the rouge thicking in very large sums

Six motorships have been under in from her cheeks, and left only construction for the company to be deed when she entered the room; enough on her lips to give them placed on the New York run and the it irritated him to have to bother character. She locked. wan, and first of these, the Kinsi Maru, is with the small detail of apart-tired. As she was, for this fight to keep Alan was an earnest one Phillipa secretly gloated ever with her. She had worried over his evident impatience. "But, it all the night before.. Alan, I can't afford anything

"Any luck?" Alan asked sympa- more than fifty dollars a month. I still have to give

thetically. mother money."

ment rental,

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She nodded. "I think so," she As she expected, he argued that in East Fifty-sixth Street. I said said doubtfully. "There's a place she would have to let him in- we would be back tonight to look crease her salary. She would have much preferred to have him

at it again." agree to pay the rent outright. It Alan frowned sharply. "But," I would have made it so much clear- he began, and then clamped his

Phillipa was going on in a tone-Kwanto

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M weery fashion. "It's nice, really. Tokai Maru, Sanyo Maru and Kwan-

But at least she had gained her I hope you'll like it Alan. Apart- chief point. She would be liviagment hunting is terribly tiring." alone, away from her parents. Their eyes met, and she smiled The inference would be-to wanly, as though she knew he un- jealous wife's mind-that Alaa derstood what it was that really had wanted it so.

tired her. It was a good imitation of a brave little girl trying cour- ageously to hide her wounds.

And with a place where she could entertain Alun, she would have greater power over him. Having thought it all out before she came in, she realized that seeing his discomfiture-and got Alan 'might, if he wished to, use up.

Lai Meru.

"Oh, Alan," Phillip's voice was loaded with reproach. It got to Alan like an arrow. "It was such a terrible row I had with father. He wouldn't want me at the table.

It made Alan feel like a brute. And mother's worried nearly to Phillipa grasped her opportunity teath, as it is. If she thought that that. "her voice

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broke, and she turned away with PRINTING PRESS

the fact that they always had to "I'll rush through my work and a despairing sob, half choked back go somewhere to be together as leave early, if you don't mind," by a handkerchief hastily applied an excuse to stay away from her she said. "I'd like to get a hot to her lips. That is if he wanted to be with bath before dinner. And Alan, I

Natalie." "And Phillipa

foresaw wonder if you'd mind calling for Alan felt as though he had he might want to be with his wife, me tonight? I'm sorry but I had alapped a lost child, or kicked a

It might be merely expediency no sleep last night-I'd like to go hungry dog. that would bring them together at to some quiet place near home, or first; but Phillips

"I'm sorry," he said quickly. certain in the Village." that Alan cared too much for Alan fidgeted. He hadn't thought trouble at home, Phillipa. Of "I'm afraid I forgot about your Natalie to keep away from her. of dining with Phillipa that night. If not, then why wasn't he more

courge, I'll call for you, but," he "Perhaps it would be better for paused and avoided looking at her, affectionate with her? No, even you to stay home and go to bed, "I may be late."

was

if she hadn't known about Natalie, early," he suggested hopefully.

(To Be Continued.)

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