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ment. Then she went quickly Into the room that had been Dicks and hers. She bathed her eyes. smooth ed her hair, and went downstairs to have her coffee.
 She left her bag. standing open. on one of the twin beds.
 Two hours later when she came upstairs again, the bag was gone. Gloria looked all around the room for h.
 Then she crossed the Thali into the guest-room. There the bag stood. On the floor beside the single bedl Dick must have put 1t there. [.
 "Ail right" Gloria shrugged her shoulders. ''If that's the way he feels about me, should worry!"
 But she did worry! Hurt and hu- initiated. she bolted the door of the room. ,f+
 An hour later. she heard Dick come upstairs. The door on the other side of the hall closed softly.
 
 In the lonely quiet of the room that had been Gloria's and his. Dick Gregory faced hts problem that night. ..... .., ..,
 Above all other living things, he loved the woman who lay asleep in the room across the hall. He want ed 10 take her back, and he was afraid to do 1t,
 He was afraid to trust his happi- ness to Gloria again!
 He had been beside himself for the last week, since the day when he had come home to find her gone. ...
 He had felt sure that she had left him for Stanley Wayburn. Glo- ria's story bore out his fears, In part. He wondered though -- and his nails bit deep into his palms at the thought - if she told him the whole truth.
 Could he believe her? Dick didn't know whether he could or not. Glo- ria had lied to him so many times before
 And suppose she "Eot tired of sticking around the house" again, and ran away? What then? ...
 Dick shook his head. He was in a torment of doubt.
 The door behind him swung slow ly open.
 Before he turned to look, Dick knew that Gloria stood there. His senses knew her.
 She stood there in her white nightgown. Her naked feet, spread to the floor, showed white and slim She was like some lovely lily rising superbly on a slender stem.
 Dick" she gave a little smoth' cred cry. Don't hate me! Don't treat me like this. can'tsstant 1t"
 She rushed to him and lad hei head down on his knees, crying noisily like child. This isn't the way to hold me, she said. drawing long sobb'ni breath. "by keeping yourself ava: from me-, and treating me lik' an outcast!"
 I'm not trying to hold you Glory" Dick said quietly. You cal go tomorrow if you like" Gloria looked up at him. Surpris filled her eyes.
 Don't you love me any more Don't you want me to live with vol 2 any more?" she asked. Dick slowly shook his head. Not unless you're ready to set tie down." he said firmly. If vol stay here, you'll have to stay on m, . terms this time! You'll have to GU out running around with May sey mour on these drinking parties And you'll have to knuckle dow and do your own housework. I can afford help for you. Just look her 7 minute. ."
 . He got up and took thick shea ? of envelopes from the spinet desl that stood between the front win 3 dows.
 ' "All these are bills" Dick said l. Were months behind with them 3 All my savings are gone. The hous 5 is mortgaged right up to the hilt l .. And I wouldn't mind tht' Glory, if you'd been happy spend g ing the money. But you haven 2 peen."
 He flung the bills back on tn
 desk.
 The more money you've spen the more discontented you've been, t Dick went on. Now you're goin [ to try my way of living, for e change! want you to live lik k other poor mems wives -. hei
 me 10 get along. Are you ready { = try it?"
 . Gloria looked up at him wit eyes that shone under the rudd e fun of her hair.
 "Oh, am! I will try to be ret
 hllc lU yOut Itth' SAG SAtSAs <@i h at that moment she meant whs : she said. Besides, she knew, tht if sooner or later. she could coax Die Is into getting Ranghild back again
 work for her. -.
 She put her arms on Dick - shoulders. This time he did not tur '- away. All around him was il e heavy scent of her perfumed hai e Her arms were warm and, soft, an d they chung as fl they never voul r let him so.
 n e Gloria closed her eyes, and Ii ? hold frightened. It was as if Il o wall that Dick had raised again {. her and her beauty. crumpled ar
 fell. He bent down to her lips.
 They parted, suddenly, to spea e those scarlet lips. ." "T forpot to fell you" Elor