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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MAY 17, 1934.
Married Flirts
you.
came.
go
she
by MABEL
McELLIOTT
M
It a wholesale cruise.
Lila was for-
the two were left to hang over the At last they drifted away and ship' edge alone.
"Happy, dearest?”
a day!"
-(CHAPTER I (Continued) groaned, shifting from one pro- 'Derek Bliss, rather like a faun They had seen each other rather dark blue costume which effective Just the same, when the time posterously shod foot to the in morning clothes, a well-tailored often, as often as Lila's heavy ly showed off her slender, rounded came to go, the sistors clung to other. Maybe sho'd be real lato. faun with stormy dark brows and calendar of engagements would figure. She had a knot of groen each other. The younger gulped Maybe she wouldn't come at all, eyes flashing amber lightninge, permit, that wintor. And now orchfits for her silver fox. Her back a sob hardlly, essaying an air their sniffs said. Sometimes that stood waiting for his bride. Lila was being married on the makeup was a triumph. She look- of casuniness which didn't quite happened then it was real Derek, who was everything that same day as Gypay. My dear, ed flawlessly young, sophisticated, come off,
exciting ... Honest, Gyp, we'll miss you. I to the papers about it.
then a ploce got in- was eminently correct, from his wasn't that just the most romantic amused.
Still college to his clubs, but who thing? don't know how Mums
The suite was packed to the She and all, they hoped sho would hadn't as much money an the Lin wasn't thinking of Gypsy ut brim with roses, with telegrams, winked away a bright drop or two come. Without her, there would Hotaling elan thought Lila might the moment. however. She was exotic fruit in tall baskets. Derek and said briskly: "Well, for cry-be no real drama.
expect. Not that Lila's people occupied with herself, her train. gloomed around, hands in pockets, ing out loud, if this isn't a ne Shining car after shining car were rich-far from it but they her bouquet. Derak looked rather waiting for the signal which would way to speed the happy pairi I'll alld up and deposited its well had tradition of money in their aweet, didn't he? He was rather call the merry-makers asher, o be mumbling in my beard, first! dressed and scented wedding house. All the Hotaling women thing you know.
Yes, it was pity he hadn't more not all of you...
"Why not come along? Why "Bee, Bec, such dreadful stang," Kuch Ladies in beige, in bluu, had expensive lastes and indulged lada bit of a lamb, that boy.
in black, with expensivo furs them. Lila's father had died money, but she, Llla, would soon getting the occasion was her mourned Mrs. Morell, primly, slung over their modish shoulders, three years ago, exhausted from see to it that he got more of it. honeymoon. She wanted to make
"So out of date, too," crowed although the day was warm. the atrain.
That was a wife's job. Sue,
Gymay had been sorry, glad of anything to break the Gentlemen in the uniform of the
Her expression was soulful, but tension of the moment.
day, the topper, the striped trou- couldn't to Lila's wedding. she was thinking of things mund There were more embraces, more sers, the perfectly cut tail coat. They had met, down on the Cape, ane. Had Uncle Win remembered handshakings, a few tears, and the shining shoes. The old wo- every summer, in childhood. to order the champagne? Hao then the young Weavers get into men loved it all. They wouldn't Gypsy's Morell grandmother and Derek really wangled the biggest the bright and shining little car miss it for anything.
Lila's had been friends. To the suite on the Empiric? She want- Her voice was decidedly pettish. which Tip Darrington, Tum's hast At long last, the awaited thrill rambling old housea on the ed it. She meant to travel in stato Nerves crept into it, now the ex friend, had tooled around from the
The bride! All brides bleached shore they had gone. The other two times she had citement had died down and the gurake.
should be lovely, and Lila Hotel- summer after summer, Of course, crossed, with Aunt Phoebs, she had audience had disappeared.. "So long : Toodle-co
"I'm a wreek. Honestly. What Don't forget ved up to the tradition. their lives, back home, had run had a muggy little cabin on C deck. be seein' you
Gardenin-fair her skin, buttercup-inlong entirely different lines. No more of thal, thank you! In postcard. Goodbye, darl-yellow her shining hair, a feather Gypsy's lawyer father made just ...I. Lin, take thee, Derek... Her face was a white blur in or two of which escaped from the enough money to feed, clothe and, It was funny, but weddings, the early dusk. He caught her Harvey Morell. long lexged.rare point lace which framed her house his brood.
were all exactly alike. She'd hand. dark-haired, with quizzical wrink-face, Hor frock, of medieval cut,
been a bridesmaid twice last
"We're going to make a go of it, les at the corners of his fine eyes,wan of some soft, dull stuff. Sho Nothing was left over for ex- acason. You got bored with the uren't we, sweeta? Not like some took his wife's arm.
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 Well, Louise, that's over knew they were real. She carried childhood, while Lila had of more kick to it? How solemn the closely, you might have caught a Makes a fellow feel a bit long inenlia lilies.
course experienced what is known clergyman sounded!
note of anxiety in his voice. It the tooth, eh?”
Lovely, lovely bride!
as "the best" in that quarter. The organist crashed into the was ns if he pleaded for reassur Mrs. Morell was frankly wiping | How the music pealed as she Lila had even had a year in Paris, recensionat now. She faced about ance. her eyes. Her daughter was gone came, with cool dignity, into the when she was 19, while Gypsy's triumphantly. She knew she look
"What? Oh, yes, of course?" of course, she still had Bert vestry! The tall man with her frst college year had been cut her heat. That photographer Lila hardly listened. She had gone and Bee, but the house wouldn't her uncle, it was whispered, a short by Mother's operation. had kept her standing for ages, back Into the brightly lighted room be the RAMC without Gypay diplomat of parts, who had crossed Gypsy had come home, just though, the Idiot. She was just now, with its lamps and drawn silk Gypsy, lying in and out, slamming 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 doors, running the bath water, quaint old style, marvelled at her manage Clytie, somewhat sketchi-a cocktail this moment,
past her. Gypay appearing in the doorway calm. The bridesmaids ahead-ly, and see that the twins washed
"Beg pardon, madam! There with an armful of blue irls. "Look six of them-in graded nasturtium behind the ears. While Lila hadj Down the aisle they went. Lila were more telegrams, more roses, what I picked up for you at the tints, are more nervous than she, come out in state, had been kept her eyes down. She didn't moro boxes. Derek was boing ferry to-night, Mums. Only One of them, a willowy redhend, presented at court in a train and believe in tils beaming-bride stuff, tiresome, Lin deelded, with all his trembled all over with every step three feathers, had learned the Demureness was more her style, solemn talk. She didn't see any different.ah 1ook.
It must be her first language of the amari world. anyhow,
велле to ft. wedding, thought Lila's uncle, It was during Gypsy's year at No lingering outside here, as at The engines, far below, churned
life: gravely.
the settlement house, (she had Gypsy's wedding. Lila and Derek into
A whistle brayed, There was a striped red and Necks were craned, there was a managed a course in kindergarten ran the raantiet of old ladies and Silently the big boat moved away white canopy' outside St. Barthol nolite rusile all over the church. ing in the year: following her disappeared in the maw of a shin-from the pier. Life was beginning oniew's. The red carpet at the Scent of lies, of hothouse roses, muther's convalescence) that the Ing long-limbed ear. The recep-for Lila and Derek. edge of the side-walk was already of les Vierge Folle, delicate and two girls had renewed their ion was to be at Sherry's. Lob- dusty from the scuffling of many
The ferry carrying Gypsy and sonorously. Shabby old women, lie outside in Park avenue, of in fars, had rushed
New York Central trains rumbling shabby brick establishment one ligh, nervous Inughter. An or slipped through the warm Septem- who always seem to spring up somewhere in the bowels of the Navember afternoon.
chest thrumming above it ber night. like ma
mushrooms after rain nt
earth.
"My dear, I couldn't get away “Come along, sweets, let's get
"Look, Tom!" Their. car had big city wedding, hrouded murkily
"Here contes the
The earlier. Am I late?" The other out of this!" That was Derek, been the first one on the boat, so around the doorway, waiting for
old women outside could hear the Junior Lengaers gabbled Tran- frowning, looking at his watch. they had a splendid view of the the big moment. More than once music. They were humming to tically. Lila had looked up to see "We're riding a bit close to the harbour. "Look, that must be 13 frock-conter young man with
themselves. They'd wait till she the young secretary. nent and wind." Lila'e taughter rose higher yes, it is the Empiric. Lila's boat." sleek hair came 10 store im came out again. It wasn't every plain in her dark blue frock, star-and higher. They must came— The majestic ship, a falry cargo pationtly through the aperture, day you saw such a swell wed-ing at her.
they must all come to ace them of twinkling lights, moved on its way. The ferry rocked a little in Shy vanished,, reappearing in al (Continued on Page 10.)
quarter
No, it would Quile.
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feet. Indoors an ergan prated saling: sound of musie, of acquaintanceship. Lilk, beautiful ster thermidor. Curved classes
into the brimming with golden bubbles. Tom, in the shining little
r
"The bride's late she's late ding, Gave you something to My dent, isn't it... it's never nf.
The murmur ran from liphink about. to lip. The old Indies aniled and
Gypsy Morell!"
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