1934-06-22 — Page 3

Lila

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1934.

Married Flirts

CHAPTER XXXII aald patiently, "I've told you aver and over again. I want to be free." -

Derek, tall and handsome in tweeds, hfs stormy durk eyor puz zied, asked, "What's gone wrong?" I don't End. I've tried. Oh, Sweets, there must be something we enn da...”

Lila rose from her plate by the fire and stared out of the window. at the lights which spangled the city below her. Kong come noiselessly and carried away the coffee tray. The big room with lis rich rugs and dark, subdued furni ture was very quiet,

"It was,

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 be changed. That he must not find pul

"I'm not your sort," she con- tinued, holding out her lobe. supple ringed hands to the blaze.. "We don't think the same way. Confess your idea of life is not

mine."

"N-no. Frankly, it Jan't." Derek naid. "But, after all, marriage menna concessions. I've made some. 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 stirred Impatiently. How coukl she make him see?

"It's just that-well, I don't feel the same any more. I don't don't love you any more."

The man in the deep chair moved na though to ward off a blow. His dark face paled sud- 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 a dear he could never give her what she wanted. Marko could and, besides, Marka was terrifically attractive.

"I didn't understand." His tone was extremely formal. No casual onlooker would have known he had Just received mortal blow.

"Pl 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 it all out." Derek suld with dreadful politeness.

She threw out her hands in a gesture of despair. "You're being so difficult," she told him.

"Sorry." He had his hands plunged deep Into the pockets of

his cont. His face was a white, maak. The worst had happened. ing it, for weeks. If you made a He had been expecting this, dread- failure of marringe, thought Derek bleakly, it maunt you were a fail- ure in everything clue. He did not share the light sentiments of most of Lila's crowd, who changed ife partners 11M casually 10 they changed their clothes.

That there was nother man he did not for a moment doubt. But who?. He tuviewed all the young kallants who swarmed to Llla's] cocktail parties. She treated them all very much alike. But had something escaped him in hor at- titude toward any special one?

He groaned. This was all so ugly-so unspeakably sordid!

I'm sorry, Derek," Lila sald prettily, gracefully. Whatever this alim, fair-haired. clear-skinned young woman did would always be pretty and graceful. Even when she was a small girl mothers had said, "Why aren't you like Lila Hotaling? She has such charming Now that she had got her way, she could afford to be generous with Derek. And, after all, they were civilized people. Why couldn't tiles be friends?

manner.

There wasn't the least reason in the world,

She told Marko about it over a tea table in a shaded corner of a hotel lounge. Liia was all in beige to-day-little close belte hat like

the plumage of a soft-feathered bird, silky helge frick with creamy frills at the throat. There were gloves of the same delicate colour thrown on the couch behind her with full, soft silver fox senrf.

You handled it well-superbly in Thet," Marko approved. He Jeaned over to pat her hand and for the harest Instant Lila winced. Marko's hand was plump, well cushioned; the nails were meticu- lously manleured. It was the sight of it that recalled, by contrast, Derek's slim, long fingers clench- ing and unclenching themselves as they had the night before,

"He'll get over it," Marko pro- phesied. "He'll marry again."

"Do you think so?" Lila was not entirely sure she liked this.

"Certain to," Marko nodried He's attructive."

"Oh, he is that?" Lin almost tossed her head. Of course Derek was attractive. Hadn't she mur ried him?

"It will all have to be done very smonthly, 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 inent 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 Reno courtroom to the minister.

WAN

by MABEL

McELLIOTT

right-weli born and so forth, but emeralds, rubies, star capphires. he'll never get anywhere,"

There would, be marrow bracelets fashioned of stones clearer than clear water..

But she would be more discreet,

It was a pity, she reflected, that Derek had to be hurt by all this. Marko would have to transfer him to the western office-to San Fran- superler air she reserved for peo She sipped her tea with the elaco, perhaps, when everything ple who hadn't much of the world's

Meantime she fumbled in the nditied. Naturally Dorek

pale leather bag for change. The wouldn't want to stay in New York, Foods. "Funny I always thought tax man thanked her for the tip to go on working for Marko after ful," she went on, wanting to scom foyer. It would be lonely tonight. Gypsy would.do sonsething wonder- and she went swiftly into the she had married the latter. Well, gracious in her lover's eyes. "Be Marko dared not call and she had

o use worrying about all that new come a singer or The French had a good phrase for something. She had talent and

an actress or made no arrangements to dine with auch problem, "It will arrange looks but marriage simply squet-spect of a solitary dinner.

anyone. Sho shivered at the pro- itself." Lain never bothered much ched her." about life's problems. They had a way of solving themselves..

"Pretty little thing," Marko Stie put one lump into Marko's commented Idly. "Lovely eyes. tou and poured in just the merest And the most graceful hands in trifle of mlik. He had to watch the world."

iine was

his waistline. Now Derek's waist- La didn't like this. Marko but she frowned would have. to-be taught (later, of again, remembering. Derek had course) that you didn't any things already moved his things to the like that to one woman about an elub; she would not see him again. absent member of the sex, He was boing, really, very decent "Really? Her languer was din about it all. You could always tinctly forbidding. trust Derek for that. In

week!

she would leave for Nevada, would She glanced about her, cautious establish residence. It would be "I'll go on without you, sho whispered. Won't do to be seen tiresome. She was not looking together just before nows of the forward to that part of it but at break leaks out. You never know the end of all this tiresomeness and;

when one of those awful column dullness would be her goal-a

oxury marriage which would put writers

is lurking about. They her forever beyond the pettiness of seem to be everywhere." amall desires,

Lila went through the marbie "Do you ever see Gypsy Moreliand gilt foyer alone, very slim and any more?"

Marka startled her elegant in her pale costume, the by asking, breaking In on her fur making a dark background for her lovely face. Eyes were turned

reverie,

Lila was glad to be distracted, as she passed and admiring glances "No, she's gone completely dones- followed her. She enjoyed every tic," she told the man apposite, bit of it. When she was Mrs. "Gypsy's turned maternal and mid- Marko Broughton she would have more of it. Admiration, adulation She didn't want to sound spite-from all sides, ful; after all, Marko Ind admired¦

dle class and all that.'

She went back to the apartment

Gypsy. So she amended hastily in a taxi, although the long grey- "Such a pity he married that hound car just beyond the awn- young noboily. Of course he's all inged entrance was here for a beck- oning finger. Some day soon that car would be hers and the square- Jawed Finn at the wheel would take her orders.

Three girl friends of the American bandit, Dillingar, after their arrest..

"To Tiffany's," she could imagine herself, speaking through the sit ver tube, command quietly.

She could even see the rings that would be laid out for har choice,

knew, feverishly and in haste. She rang up several people she Freddy. Chice and Dick. Van Ness. One was engaged and the

others were out of town,

On a sudden impulse ale dialled Gypey's number. It would be a lark, she reflected, to take pot luck with the Weavers this night-see how the other half lived.

But the bell rang diemally, rang and rang and rung. Gypsy's little nest was plainly deserted. There April afternoon in the house of was trouble, real trouble that inte Weaver,

(To Be Continued.;

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