The Washington times., 1935-11-20

blame" he demanded bitterly. ''if
didn't like the man?"
"JuSt whatt," inquired Ann frig-
idly, didn't you like about himT"
Practically everything. He's
too old, for one thing"
,"Thirty-two. I don't call that
so old"
"And too smooth-looking. And
he's played around too much. 80"
"I suppose" interrupted Ann
Sweetly, too sweetly, that you also
think he makes too much money"
EYES," said Kipp, II do. To say
nothing about too many women" "
HNw long, he inquired then, had
she known him. and how well2
Ann flung her cigarette away;
she locked her hands together to
keep them from trembling. So
that was what all this was about. {.
that was why Kipp had behaved
so badly at Icons. was behaving
badly now. Lewis had been right.
He was actually jealous of a man
she had stopped seeing months
ago. She said: 1--WE known him
for about a year and a half"
"I suppose" said Kipp evenly,
che was one Of your occasional
high moments'?"
Ann didn't answer him. She was
sitting very still. her eyes fas-
tened on him levelly. They were
a little contemptuouS, a little
mocking. They were saying to
him: What is this, anyway? A
cross-examination Of my former
love-life?"
st suppose" said Kipp, ignoring
her eyes, lighting a cigarette and
flicking the match into the fire
place, that he was pretty crazy
about you?"
AIMS eyes still regarded him
with that clear, slightly mocking
gaze but her voice quivered be-
trayingly. Don't you think you're
being a little childish about ttis?"
she asked, breathing rapidly.
Kipp said maybe. and then
again maybe not. He said: "You
can't expect me to be unduly en-
thusiastic about your lunching in
speakeaSies with men I don't know
and wouldn't like if I did"
Ann stood up abruptly and Kipp
saw to his horror that her eyes
were, stung with tears. She turned
and started blindly for the bed
room. She said: please go ahead
and have dinner. don't want
any," She said, when he started
toward her, his eyes frightened
and contrite: Don't touch me. j..
leave me alone" And when he
got in front Of her and would
have stopped her anyway, she
said: please get out of my way!"
and went past him into the bed
room and closed the door and
turned the key sharply in. the
lock.
Hours afterward, when they
were talking about it, Kipp ad-
mitted that that was what burned
him up the most. her locking
the door. He said: Don't you
know, you don't have to lock doors
against me, ever, Ann? Don't you
know I'll never touch you when
you don't want me to?"
Ann said yes, she knew that.
She said: 'I don't know whatever
made me. but you were being so
utterly unreasonable, darling!"
Kipp said again that he knew
he had been. He had been saying
it off and on now with increasing
emphasis for several hours. He
said he didn't know what had got
into him to make him act like
that.
He said then, that Ann must
understand one thing clearly; she
was perfectly free to see as much
Of Sherman as she wanted to. .
anywhere" he said, "and any
time. He's probably a perfectly
SWeu guy.
He didn't mean it, Of course.
And Ann knew he didn't mean it.
But it didn't matter. At the mo-
ment nothing mattered except
that she be allowed to go to sleep
in Kipp's arms and wake up in
them.
And the net result Of the whole
affair was that she didn't see
Lewis again. He telephoned her
a few times and then he stopped
telephoning and Ann thought,
"Well, thank heaven, that's the
end Of Lewis"
She had no way of knowing, of
course. that 1t wasn't.
(TO Be COntinued)
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