THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1934.
by MABEL
Married Flirts
came.
she
McELLIOTT
At last they drifted away and the two were left to hang over the ship's edge alone.
"Happy, dearest?"
Just the sume, when the time groaned, shifting from one pre-, Derek Bliss, rather like a faunt They had seen each other rather | dark blue costume which effective- como to pro, the sisters clung to posterously shod fool to the in morning clothes, a well-tailored often, as often as Lila's heavyly showed off her slender, rounded each other. The younger gulped other. Maybe she'd be real latej foun with stormy dark brows and calendar of engagements would figure. She had a knot of green back a dob hardily, ensaying on air Maybe she wouldn't come at all, eyes flashing amber lightninga, permit, that winter. And now orchids, for her allver fox. Her of casualness which didn't quite their salfla said. Sometimes that stood waiting for his brido, Lila was being married on the makeup was a triumph. She took- come off.
happened ...then it was real Derek, who was everything that same day us Gypsy. My dear,ed lawlessly young, sophisticated, Honest, Gyp, we'll miss you. I exciting then a piece got in was eminently correct, from his wasn't that just the most romantic amused. don't know hoy Mums
She lo the papers about it. Sun
college to his clubs, but who thing?
The suite was packed to the winked away a bright drop or two and all, they hoped she would hadn't as much money as the Lila wasn't thinking of Gypsy at brim with roses, with telegrams, and said briskly "Well, for cry-come. Without her, there would Hotaling elan thought Lila might the moment, however. She was exotle fruit in tall baskets, Derek ing out loud, If this isn't a ne be no real drama.
expect. Not that Lila's people way to speed the happy pair! TH Shining car after shining car were rich-far from it but they need with herself, her train, loomed around, hands in pocketa, her bouquet Derek looked rather waiting for the signal which would | be mumbling In my beard, Brat atid up and deposited its well had a tradition of money in their sweet, didn't he? He was rather call the merry-makers ashor. e. thing you know."
dressed and scented wedding house. All the floinling women Ind-a bit of a lamb, that boy. "Bec, Bee, such dreadful alang," guests. Ladies in beige, in blue, had expensive tastes and indulged Yes, it was a pity he hadn't more not all of you..."
"Why not come along? Why Lila was for- mourned Mrs, Morell,
in black, with expensive furs them. Lila's prlmiy
father
had died money, but she, Lila, would soon getting the occasion WB3
her "So out of date, too."
crowed alung over their modish shoulders, three years ago, exhausted from see to it that he got more of honeymoon. She wanted to make Suo, glad of anything to break the
although the day wan warm the strain.
That was a wife's job.
it n wholesale cruise. tension of the moment,
Gentlemen in the uniform of the Gypsy hud Leon Sorry
Her expression was soulful, but There were more embraces, more day, the topper, the striped trou- couldn't go to Lila's wedding.
she was thinking of things mund-- handshakings, a faw tears, and hers, the perfectly cut tail coat. They had met, down on the Cape, une. Hind Uncle Win remembered then the young Weavers got into the shining shoes. The old wo-jevery summer, In the bright and shining little car
childhood, to order the champagne Had loved it all. They wouldn't Gypay's Morell grandmother and Derek really wangled the biggest men which Tip Barrington, Tom's best miss it for anything.
Lila's had been friends. To the suite on the Empiric? She want-
Her voice was decidedly pettish. friend, had tooled around from the At long last, the awalted thrill rambling old houses on thelod
ed it. She meant to travel in stato Nerves crept into it, now the ex garage.
The bride! All brides bleached shore they had
gone. The other two times she had citement had died down and the "So long Toodle-00
should be lovely, and Lila Hotal- summer after summer. Of course, crossed, with Aunt Phoebe, she had audience had disappeared. we'll be seein' you. Don't forget iar lived up to the tradition. their lives, back home, had run had a muggy little cabin on
C deck,
"I'm a wreck. Honestly. What to send a postcard. Goodbye, darl-Gardenia-fair her skin. buttercup along entirely different nes. No more of that, thank you a day!"
yellow her shining hair, a feather] Gypay's lawyer father made justĮ ..I. Lila, take thee. Derek..."
Hor face was a white blur in Harvey Morell, long-legged, for two of which escaped from the enough money to feed, clothe and,
dusk. He caught her ww funny, but weddings, the early dark-haired, with quizzical wrink-rare point lace which framed her house his brood,
all exactly alike. She'd hand. were les at the corners of his fine uyes, face. Her frock, of meatieval cut,
been a bridesmaid twice Inst "We're going to make a go of it, took his wife's arm,
was of some soft, dull stuff. She Nothing was left over for ex-senson. You got bored with the aren't we, sweets? Not like some Yell Louise. that's over. wore a string of pearls and you pensive private schools, in Gypsy's ritual. Isn't it a pity there wasn't of these others." If you listened Makes a fellow feet a bit long I knew they were real. She carried childhood, while Lila had of more kick to it? How solemn the closely, you might have caught a the tooth, eh?"
calls illes. Mrs. Marell was frankly wiping,
note of anxiety in his voice. course experienced what is known sounded Lovely, lovely bride!
na "the best” in that quarter.
organist crashed into the was as if he plented for reassur- her eyes. Her daughter was gone How the music pended an she Lila had even and a year in Paris, recessional now. She faced about ance.
of course, she still had Bert came, with cool dignity, into the when she was 19, while Gypsy's triumphantly. She knew she look
What? Oh, yes, of course?" and Bee, but the house wouldn't vestry!. The tall man with her frst college year had been cuted her host. That photographer Lila hardly listened. She had gone be the same without Gypay. her uncle, It was whispered, a short by Mother's operation. had kept her standing for ages. back into the brightly lighted room Gypsy, flying in and out, stamming diplomat of parts, who had crossed Gypsy had come home, just though, the idiot. She was just now, with its tamps and drawn silk doors, running the bath water, the sea to give her away" in the trifle subdued, to keep house and a wee bit tired. She could do with curtains.
A stewardess rustled Gypsy appearing in the doorway quaint old style, marvelled at her manage Clytle, somewhat sketchi.
past her. cocktail this moment, with an armful of blue iris. "Look calm. The bridesmaids ahead-ty, and see that the twins washed]
"Bek pardon, madam! There what I picked up for you at the six of them-in graded nasturtium behind the cars. While Lila hadi Down the aisle they went. 1ila were more telegrams, more roses, ferry to-night, Mums. Only a tists, were more nervous than she, come out in state, had been kept her eyes down. She didn't more boxes. Derel: quarter
One of them, a willowy rudhend, presented at court in a train and believe in this beaming-bride stuff, tiresome, Lila decided, with all his No, it would different. trembled all over with every step three feathers, had learned the Demureness was more her style, solemn talk. She didn't see any Quite
she took, It must be her first language of the smart world. anyhow.
sense to it. wedding. thought Lila's uncle,j It was during Gypsy's year at! No lingering outside here, as at The engines. far below, churned
the settlement house (ahe bad
life: Gypsy's wedding. Lila and Derek inte a striped red and Reeks were craned. there was a mannged a course in kindergarten ran the gauntlet of old ladies and Silently the big boat moved away
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whistle brayed. white camipy nutside St. Barthol- omew's. The red carpet at the polite rustle all over the church.ing in the year following her disappeared in the maw of a shin-from the pigr. Life was beginning edge of the alde-walk was already Seent of lilies, of hothouse roses, mother's convalescence) that the ing long-ilmhed car. The recepfer Lila and Derek. dusty from the geaffling of many of La Vierge Folle, delicate and two girls had renewed their tion was to be at Sherry's. Lob- feet. Indoors a ora! pealed insinuating, sound of music, of acquaintanceship. Lila, beautifulster thermidor. Curved glasses The forry carrying Gypsy and sonorously. Shabby old women.traffe outside in Park Avenue, offin fors, had rushed Into the brimming
golden bubbles, Tom, with
in the shining itle car, who always seem do spring up New York Central trains rumbling shabby brick establishment one lich, nervous laughter. An or slipped through the warm Septem- like mushrooms after rain at a somewhere in the howels of the November afternoon.
chestra thrumming above it all. ber night. big city wedding, brooded murkily earth.
"My dear, I couldn't get away "Come along, sweets, let's get
"Look,
Tom!" Their car had around the doorway, waiting forj "Here comes the
The earlier. Am I late?" The other out of this! That was Derek, been the first one on the boat, sa the big moment. More than once old women outside could hear the Junior Leaguera gabbled fran- frowning, looking at his watch. they had splendid view of the
frock-conteil young man with music. They were humming to tically. Lila had fooked up to see "We're riding a bit close to the harbour. "Look, that must be steek hair came to sinre im-themselves. "They'd wait till she the young secretary. nent and wind." Lila's laughter rose higher yes, it is the Empiric. Lila's boat." patiently through the aperture. came out again. It wasn't every plain in her dark blue frock, star-and higher. They must conie- The majestic ship, a fairy cargo
The bride's late...she's late day you saw such a swell wed-ing at her.
they must all come to see them of twiniling lights, moved on. Its ** The murmur ran from tip ding. Gavi Yo something to My dear, isn't it... it's never off.
way, The ferry rocked a little in to lip. The old ladies aniified and think about.
She vanished; reappearing in a (Continued on Page 5.)
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