10.No.Business.Of.Mine.1947 by Chase James Hadley

Author:Chase, James Hadley [Chase, James Hadley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0100-12-31T22:00:00+00:00

I pulled her down, pushed her head back on my shoulder. “He

thinks I’m too inquisitive,” I said. “I don’t care, so why should you?”

“I don’t know if I want to go to the club again, if he’s going to

treat you like that,” she said crossly. “Only I don’t know what else I

could do. You wouldn’t think of keeping me, would you? I’ve always

wanted to be a kept woman.”

“I don’t believe in keeping women. I think they should keep me.”

“Oh, you’re kidding again,” she said, thumped my knee. “But

seriously, wouldn’t you like to keep me? “

“I’d hate it,” I said gravely. “It’s as much as I can do to keep

myself.”

She sighed. “Well, all right. I never seem to have any luck. I don’t

think I’ll go to the club to-night. I have a chicken in the refrigerator.

Let’s have that and spend the evening together.”

“That sounds swell.”

She got up. “You sit there and look decorative. I’ll fix supper.”

That suited me. I was good at looking decorative. I filled my glass,

lit a cigarette, relaxed. It was nice to watch her moving about the

room. I decided suddenly that it mightn’t be a bad idea to keep her at

that.

“Tell me, sugar,” I said, “have you been keeping your eyes and

ears open at the club?”

“Oh, yes. The trouble is I don’t know what to listen for. I’ll tell you

something though.” She paused in laying the table, turned to look at

me. “I was at the club this afternoon and an odd sort of man came in

asking for Bradley. He reminded me a little of the man I saw with

Netta — the one I was telling you about with the Bentley.”

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