1934-06-13 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1934.

by MABEL

McELLIOTT

Married Flirts

CHAPTER XXIV

some of it."

censing her smooth

What

bupa

He set his

solid way of living." Derek sald his chin. Ile muat shave and dim drawing room and lighted harjuced was deeper and more funda- stubbornly. “I'd like kids. Wouldnt" change and, uli, God, he was so cigarette. Rain was falling over the mental than that. It had sore- Derek said, "We haven't had

tired! What wouldn't he give for city now, splashing against the thing to do with home with quiet evening at home for weeks."you"

Lila threw out her hands. “Ot a bite by his own fire, a woman windows in black rivulots. He the old fashional interpretation He said. "I'm tired of this ever- fasting merry-go-round. Lot's ont course, darling," she agreed, all opposite him with a quiet voice, in shivered. The cokl, which had of the word.

sweet rensonableness. "Of course, a dark gown! Lila scarcely over solzed him carller in the day took a "Home is where the heart is," But later. Not now. We're wore dark things except for street firmer grip upon him. He felt Derek murmured, staring at his Lila frowned. the expression!

white for young! We must amuse ourselves wear. In the evening she was all miserable.

cordial glass, tipping it until he in ten, ver-ways slim, supple and perfumed, Lila turned on the radio and the could see the poisonous green lights head into unbecoming ridges. And in five years,

her hale exquisitely coiffed, her musle sickened him. He must be flash in its depth. "Home," he told she hate to frown! But

jaw stubborny, skin gleaming. She wore silver definitely ill, be told himself say his wlie gravely, "la where you Darek was being Liresame. else was there to do besides what i had seen him in this mood once tissue und gilt, creamy lace. Soft agely, to be in such a ghastly frame hang your hat."

for twice before. He was not to be fabrics rustled deliciously at her of mind. He tried to pull himself She flushed him a puzzled, an they already did?

budged.

approach and soft sconta lingered together, to be chatty and canual. "Don't be stupid," she said air-

I'm not going to-night, any-on the air.

but he felt his effort to be a deneyed glance. "Dorek, I do he ily. She was sitting at her dress-way," he said. "I've got a beastly

love you're tight." ing table, a sheer lace and satin cold. Been feeling rotten all day. dressed for dinner. The meal was,

Almost like a man in a daze, ha elded failero,

"Sorry, darling." He bowed to For her part, Llia scemed not to

answer jacket thrown on over hur fitted And I have a heavy morning with a as always, perfectly served; the notice and he was grateful. There her. Kota slipped by to Creamy slip. Her stockings were cilent to-morrow."

food piquant, delicious. But same was something to be sold about Broughton was in the room, big, Marko's ring. A moment later sheer; her sandals were fashioned

thing was missing. Derek found Lila's determined effort to live on of glided straps. Her vellow hair

She stared at him, eyes nar himself muttering under his breath, the surface of life. People like masculine, smiling, exuding the was smooth as satin oxcept where | rowed.

familiar "Oh, very well, then?" "Better a dish of herbs where love that-people who insisted on the

senne of power. Derek, sprang, just below the temple,She turned back to her dressing in

But he couldn't remem-gracious, the luxurious, in every-felt an emotion almost of dislike who was all loyalty to his employer. into two sleep, adroit waves.

table.

thing-were rather easy to live "Don't be idiotic, darling," she said, Derek'a eyes lighted with arching her neck to enjoy the lovely triamph. It wasn't often Lila was in looked at him oddly.

"What did you say. darling 7" with if all you wanted was creature for Marko at the moment.

comfort, he thought. But with bla further, "Touch of flu, I think." "Derek'a rocky," Lila explained line in the mirror. "Anyone'd so amenable. She was sweet, real-

"Nothing. Nothing." He pull-whole soul he found himself longing She went to get her wrap and to think you were band routishly. He wanted to put his arma ed himself up with a start. for something beyond and apart It's a lovely party to-night

from all these soft cushions, shaded add the iftile touches her makeup "It's always a lovely party around her, to bury his face in the softness of her hair, to tell her all

Later he punctiliously pulled lights and dinking glasses. He required at the last moment. She Derek told her, Jocking more an- the pretty things she used to liko out her chair for her, waited hoped he wasn't whining about was beautiful to-night. Both men noyed than ever. "And what hap-to hear but was busy to listen to while she preceded him into the being "misunderstood." No, his (Continued on Page 5). pens? We dine, dance with the nowadaya.

same people, see the same plays, But before he could say a word. laugh at the same deadily jokes, she reached for the white and gilt Jove, sometimes I feel as if I were telephone on the low table beside an one of those Coney Island er her. She gave a number. Dorek. ris wheels and couldn't get frowning, waited.

"That you, Marko? Yea. Lin. "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 te-night aren't talking about." Usually when she you? Well, be a lamb and drop by talked like this la disposed of for me. Thanks so much. About her husband's "mullah" mooda. 10."

Te-night he was different, He was She nung up. "That's that,” she not to be won back to tractability sald gaily. "I wouldn't miss those by smiles and scoldings. He per- Russian dancers for works. Run sisted in his attitude of discontent.along, darling. I told Koto dinner "It's this benatly way of living." at eight and it's almost that now." he complained. In rabbit war- Derek stood up. He had got bla een, with all the rest of the and-way-that is, partly, and yet he mais. 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 the Martin party with Marko. Why not? But he had so hoped she'd give the affair up for hirit. It was such a little thing to do,

diren

"A Couple I like that!" Lils. offentled by the thought of even one baby, allowed her tinkling langh to sound at this preposterous no- tion.

Still nursing that sense of baffle- ment, of defeat, Derek went to his

"I'd like a house, a more simple. Jown room. He ran his hand over

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