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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1934.

Married Flirts

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́married the same day LILA HOTALING

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Tom's Christmse sift. Broughton gives her

CHAPTER XII

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by MABEL

McELLIOTT

"Oh, I suppose you're right, fingerbowl dollies, Gypsy's littlejaons in for dinner would satisfy GYFBY MORELL, and TOM WEAVER are have fair hair and an exquisito It's a duty." Derek shrugged his party had bored her, ahe aald him. He called 30 a small party. afterward: Not that she wasn't Lila was in her element. She and DEREK BL158. Lila expects to live infigure, like a Tanagra figurine, for shoulders. Juxury, while Gypsy intends to go on The bracelet wan

"That's dorling," Lila ap-fond of Gypsy, Sho was. "But called greetings to half a dozen ber job, tomeklog in & avistament school.

of flawless proved him softly, having made we must have them over here," she people in the foyer as she passed After returning from her henryson to workmanship, There were sapher point, "Run along and dress, had decided. "They Just can't do through. Derek felt a nervous Eorope La tavites the Weavers to dinner. Among they raelis wealthy MARKO phires in it and diamonds of the Marko insisted on having dinner any entertaining in that little box twitching in his check. Well, DIQUCJTON, who once asked Gypsy, to first water. On Lila's chalec at a ridiculoits hour-five o'clock of an which the secepts because she is Jealous of Integue lo the charry and waito but I suppose one must do madi apartment. It's absurd tolafter a drink or two he wouldn't f

mind the racket so much. That Tom's lateret in JLDA BLANCHARD,

Derek had opened his mouth to was une comfort. After the party Tom and Gypsy qustrel, Inat0 upstairs lay a supple fur things on Uhristmas day." peace is later restored,

Dersk went upstairs on laggard protest but had stopped, Just in wrap, nother gift from Derek.

His host greeted him." Marko Bhopping for “Christmas, – Orang meets Quecalike, Lila accepted all this as feel. This, he told himself rather time. He was icurning things was in high feather. He was Broughton who offers, ber a job catalomulig bleary, Gypsy haaltates, then

drearily, wasn't Christmas. Why, about Lila. She hated to be dis- bubbling with galety. Had Derek ar, her just due. plannior to taɑ the money thus warned to buy Derok sald, "I wish we could as a kid, back home in Vermont, he agreed with. Not that she hadn't seen the tree? Ah, he hadn't

have dinner here, all by ourselves, had loved all the panoply of the a wonderful disposition, said Derek But he must-at once. Someone an advance payment of 830.

by the fire. I wish we needn't season: the tree, smelling spley loyally, but she was just spirited Lake Mr. Bliss to the dining room. Lfla frankly stared. What? and tantalizing; the carols in the Imperious. Rather nervous, Lila. whispered Marko In the Not go to Marko's?, Ridiculous!" snow; the candle-lighted windows too, these days. Ho rather younger man's ear, had chosen the Lin held her white arm out and "I know." Derek set his faw.everything about it. He had thought she smoked too much, decorations for him. Charming! Derek shipped the bracelet over "Isn't it? But that's what I wish, evon (he smiled to think of it now) though he didn't like to suggest Everyone admired them so. It. He turned her hand upward just the same. Let's call him liked to go to church on Christmas that.

Derek in the wake of a blond and kissed the palm,

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day. The little old meeting house He had worked himself Into a youth he remembered seeing in "It suits you, Loveliness," he She Interruped him, horror had had a special holiday odour, more cheerful frame of mind by Marko's private office the week be told her.

struck. "Derek Bliss, you'll do compounded of fir boughs and the time he'd finished shaving. A fore, found the tree no familiar af Lin smiled. All her life she had nothing of the sort. Offend Mar-resin and goodsmoke. Well, no glance out of the high windows fair of laden fr boughs and tinsel, been smiling sweetly when people ko! He's expecting us. Besides, one he knew nowadays went to assured him of the fact that it was but an artificial one, a modernistic talked to her like that. It was like it'll be fun. I'm looking forward church. On Christmas they be snowing again. Good enough tree in silvor, all angles. Blue the breeze blowing or the sun shin- to it. I got that now cream lace haved much the same as any other That, at any rate, insured the Kris stars appeared at intervals in its ing. She expected it. It was part at Sylvia's just to wear to-day,” day of the year. They had cock-Kringle touch, Derek slipped into travestied branches. Derek star

tails, told the same old jokes. '. bis waistcoat, whistling softly.ed, but there was no admiration in This time next year, maybe, they'd his eyes. Was this Lila's Iden of a "It's a deadly life. I hate It," have a child to celebrate Christmas Christmas tree? Almost he shud- grumbled the young man, to him-with them. Or if not next Christ-dered, but remembered himself in self, shaving before the crystalmas, why the following one, then. time,

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mirror in his modernistle dressing | A pity Lila wasn't more enthuslaa- "Clever, Jant' 1170. room. And yet ho, know, in his tic about kids. But of course she He reculled himself, and nodded heart of hearts, that he would go would be-all that would be to the youth beside him. on with it. There was nothing changed when she'd had one of her else to do. Lila-bless her heart town.

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The evening wore on. Dinner, a many-coursed affair, was served. for an angel, and...a ́ boauty [—was Lila was beautiful, in the soft toyed with, ended. Derek notleed used to this sort of existence. brown fur. What a lucky chop he plate after plate carrlod away un- "I'll bet those Weaver kids ure was to have her! He'd been a fool touched. The glasses were filled having fun," he told himself, with to think he could keep her ail to and emptied. The red roses droop. in gleam of humour. - "I bet they've shimself, this afternoon, She was led in their silver vases. Down the got a toy tree with silver balls and far too lovely to stay hidden. table, Lin gleamed like a pearl all the rest of it." He liked Gypsy.

Derek could hear her laughter. He thought her, "a good sport." The party at Marko's was in fullWell, it was a good thing, he Tom seemed a nice chap, too, swing where they arrived. Marko thought savagely, that one of them What a game they had made of the had the entire top floor of an was enjoying the evening... The Htle supper at their house that exclusive apartment hotel in the wine only deepened his depression. |Sunday night! Họ had thorough-jeast sixties. A man servant with Marko was taking them all to a ly enjoyed himself. Lila badn't, an impassive free let them in. Ho revue, one of the gayest. That though. Funny how women were was a new one. Derek had never Derek and Lila had seen it more about the social racket. Now, ho'd scen him before. The noise struck than once--three times, in fact- been brought up very simply, him like a blow, when the door did not matter. The party fled himself. His father had been the swung inward. Nolse of radio down the aisle after the second act village doctor and there had been music, of heightened human voices, had opened, occasioning much ssh- no frills about his boyhood. Lila of slipping feet.. People were ing and craning, of necks among was different. She wasn't content dancing. Marko had a crowd, as the rest of the audience. unless she had real Ince on the usual. No mere eight or ten per- (Continued on Page 13).

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