THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1934.
Married Flirts
BEGIN HERE TO-DAT
GYPSY MORELL and TOM WEAVER are
HOTALING and DEREK BLISS marry with
hauen,
tresher in a settlement
by MABEL
McELLIOTT
troom and bedroom, and a kitchen(tures, stopped down from his stool,-do things! They might even go voice was silf with embarrassment the New York apartment dweller, to embrace her. What a darling abroad, in a year or two. Thus and something else. What was it all about? A high, imperious, fem. married in a simple ceremony in a suburb of opened directly on the entrance she was, low good, and brave and Gypsy's dreams. Kew York on the same day that Lil hall, and the upper half of the door beautifulf Why, she might have
Tom had lighted his pipe, was inine voice summoning' from Bomb and eircumstance in the ett most which closed it off was made of had everything, this girl, and the relaxing at ease on the day-bed. some unknown place. Gypsy had fashionable church___ Gypsy and la refrosted glass. This distressed had chosen instead to link her way Gypsy went down the hall to con-made up her mind, long ago-as For trendener Lot Laid Gypsy mildly, but she numbered a with his! He couldn't believe in template, for the hundredth time, long ago na last June, in fact, when honeymonts in Tom's aback en a Long bland beach, and the Bilan za to Europe, Lile ex. handsome Japanese screen, all coll-his luck; quite yet.
the bedroom. She loved every she and Tom had become engaged ints to live in luxury, but my item ng dragons and flying birds,
and They picnicked in the kitchen inch of It, from the green
couldn't hoip the sudden out- thin
effectively hid the view from ment of canned beans and crisp of some old pattern, to the dress cropping of a perfectly natural CHAPTER II
guests.
bacon and salad. It was fun-iting table, which, draped in green Jealousy. Her resolutions faded in The October, Gypsy thought, was ex-
whole place was finished was all fun-from setting the table and white organdie, had cost the the face of it.
if uninspiredly In with a checked cloth to washing startling sum of $111 The beds. "Yes, that's great." How awk- pleasantly hilarating in the city. It was a
wore low-posted, of imitation ma-ward Tom sounded! What was this season, it held a mood, which be-cream-coloured plaster, marked off the blue and white dishes.
by Imitation panelling. Gypsy, used longed to Fifth Avenue, with its to the faded papers and liver cal-have regular meals-the sort yourus
Gypsy boasted, "you'l hogans. There "Later,"
hooked mysterious woman saying, to make on the floor, In week him an stift and unnatural? "Why, well-dressed women, Its alluring displays behind plate glass
two, she told herself, there I certainly wish I could. Didn't oured point of the house in Blue read about in the magazines, Ior
thought It dowe.
Tom moved in on
tering at the windows and a lamp everybody.
among her wedding presents, and that evening, enjoying a scrambled white counterpanes, reproductione fabot to be a suspicious wife. But
ቢ። B
Mackintosh's
windows
are worth
your...... attention
restful. She and modish and didn't take that course in cooking would be apple-green curtains flat: you know about it? I thought Their little upartment, it is true,October first, the Inst day of the for nothing... to get some sort of or
"You'll have
two to add notes of charm There was a long pause. Then was a good long trek from the vacation, and hung pictures, push part-time maid," Tom told her. Wasn't it a darling room? They he said, with forced brightness. "I Avenue-five long blocks, in fact, ed furniture about, and catablish firmly. You can't work all day had done it all themselves. She tell you what, you come and have but Gypsy and Tom admired ited in their spick and span kitchen with those kids and come home to didn't envy people who could afford lunch with Gypsy with my wlic none the less and fell smart and the treasures in tinware and glass beds and dishes."
expensive decorators. They missed and me. That would be better Men's Wear Specialists urban because they now belonged which they triumphantly brought
"We'll see
about that," Gypsy half the fun.
wouldn't it?" In "the upper East Side" class. It home from the ten-cent store. said. But privately she was sure
Gypsy didn't listen to the 'rest. was the first home Gypsy hud ever
"Isn't it
back, a smudge see...she got $28 a week at the answer it She sounded Import-Who was this porson who intruded mansarded house in Blue Hills on her charming nose, her frock Settlement, and Tom's salary was ant and young matronly, to her-upon their first night at home? | Des Voeux Road. And it was so different in all re-completely hidden by a coverall of 875 now. He'd had to take two self.
It wasn't fair. spects, so compret and shining and blue demanded approval of more than Tom, I think it's long distance." modern.
known, other than the shabby brown curk nusha Gypsy, her she was equal to anything. Let's The phone rang and she ran to She was trying not to be too angry. Alexandra Building,
i
her labours. The little room shone reduction. That was much as she end, holding her hand, againnt Tom came away from the tele- They had decided against living with cleanliness and fresh paint the girl. Back in Blue Hills there the mouthpiece. "They're so long phone with that auspiciously too- in a made-over "walk-up," as those land good will. The day-bed, up-had never been anything so glori about it
Her heart began casual air which young husbands apartments which have been wrest-holstered in green mohair, occupied ons, so utterly marvellous, as a to beat rather fast. Perhaps it was ed from the interior of stately the longest wall space. There wore regular income. Daddy had a way Mother! Perhaps she was really wen wear, and with which Gypsy was not yet familiar, Something akl brown-stone fronta Bre two windsor chairs and a drop leaf of defending penniless clients, and, this time.
deep In her bones, however, called in Manhattan. Both Gypsy table. There was an unpainted even when the cases he took were "Yes. Yes." Her expression recognized it and stiffened to meet and Tom were tired of old houses, bookshelf. There were one or two those of rich people, the latter had changed, ever so slightly. "It's it. or thought they were, anyhow. nice black and white prints. The way of letting their bili run. Mrs. Weaver, speaking, No, not "Old girl friend," Tom yawned. The big, square, cream-coloured casual onlooker might have pro- Why, on $100 a week, Gypsy felt, his mother, his wife."
The yawn, also, was a shade too block of apartments which they nounced the room half-furnished, the Weavers could do anything!
Glacially she spoke to the tall,theatrical. Gypsy, straightening | chose, with its tiled lobby and self-as indeed it was, bare of rugs and This apartment was $60. They fair-haired young man beside her. books, did not reply. steering elevator, seemed the last curtains and cushions, but to the would keep the car at mother's- "Someone for you, Tom."
"I told you about her, darling." word in comfort and convenience (young Weavers it seemed perfec-(there would be no expense in that
She went back into the living Tom pursued, cuming up to her, to them. That is, it did until they tion and therefore was,
quarter, except for gas and oil. room--the telephone was in the and slipping his arms around her. "Later, first caught a glimpse of Lila's:
i of course, Gypsy week-ends. They would save money halland tried not to listen. Tom's
(Continued on Page 5.) place. But I am getting ahead of planned, "we'll get some deep my story.
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