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BEGIN HERE TO-DAY
*and DEREK BLIEB Lala expects to live
The
After a hard day of school she rushes home about, her face Woebegone.
to learn that Vern is coming to call on them.
Vera Arrives and the two wizi duelike each
otker on laht, Toni seems reitored when
Vare leaves.
their honeymoon in Europe.
CHAPTER V.
"What's up??
heels,
by MABEL
22
1934.
MCELLIOTT
"They look awful!" She was Gypsy's small feet, accused him not add what she thought in her Gypsy for that. But not oven her, GYPSY HORELI, 480 TOM WEAVER ready to woep. It would be the Darling, what do you think heart, they looked simply dreadful clover fingers could transform married the same day as LILA HOTALING grossest extravagance, she thought, want out of life?" "Gypsy wanted and Lila would be sure to notice, scuffed and solled daneling shoes to husary but Dypsy Intende to keep her to buy a new pair for Lila's din- to now, abandoning the search. She put on a cheerful face and into the semblance of now onca. touching in a settlement house, ner party. Tom, dashing in just "Just money and the things it went out to get suppor. But the Thank goodness her little black dots Brat might tray and Tom pond la
engthen, whistling gally, found her buye? You ought to know better thought nagged her, as she boiled velvet wrap with the white fur thair New York Aparisient
and skinned shrimps for salad and("cat" the twins called (t) still GRAY, and friend of Tom's, telephones on the floor of the bedroom, bot-than that." Tom make her to luncheon tu meet Cypties, slippers and Tags
strown) Tom said moodily that, of cut up handfuls of crisp white cel- looked nice! but Gypsy can't get war from work to go.
course, he did. But it wasn't ery, and mixed mayonnalee. This She sang in the tub. It was 07- much fun for her. ho could 800 time last year aho would have citing, going to a party. It was that. If she'd married Marko rushed out, quite carelessly, to buy fun. She sat wrapped in her blue Broughton
new sandals. Sho had spont
negligee, as Tom's koy grated in Gypsy laughed, aloud. "As if great deal of her salary on her the lock. I ever considered that!"
young and pretty person. But now
"I'm running the tub for you, "Well, ho did, nnyhow." Tomwell, it was not fair to Tom. darling" She stuck the shoes out tramped about the room now, And there were so many things of sight, under a chair. Detter seeming too big for the place. His they needed for the house. No, not put them on until the last shoulders were so brond, his loge the red slippers would just have minute. She just wouldn't think so long. he made the little table to do. And if Marko were there about them until she had to.. and clair tremblo,
well, it couldn't be helped, that "D'you suppose he'll be there was all! Tuestlay?" He frowned at her.
Gypsy anid, lightly, "How
Just the same, when she rushed should I know? He's Dorck's home from work Tucsony qvening boss."
to. bathe and dress her heart "Blooming king of finance," rather sank as she stared at the growled Tom. "Thinks bu's
Alippers. Her dress Was all right, buccaneer."
She had worked on it last night. It looked quite in the modd. Trust
ob-
Gypsy sat back on her Wreks itter Lite. and Derek return from pushing back her curly mop
"Just these awful shoes. "What's the matter with 'em, honey 7"
She held out the offending
This
one's mess. I simply can't wear it."
"Well, what's all the excito- ment? I didn't know we were go- ing places."
It was Lila's voice on the tele-fect. phone, sweet, slightly fretful, as always. "Is that you, Gypsy? We got back Inat week. I'm dyi Ing to see you." -
».
Of course, Gypsy didn't take this literally. Lila was given to exaggeration,
"Do come for dinner Bext week, Lila urged. "How about Tuesday? Is Tuesday free?"
Gypsy, smiling to herself, nid that Tuesday would be fine. Liin's air of supposing that Tom and she had a fall calendar of engage monts amused her.
This was Sat urday afternoon. Gypsy was glad sho'd been at home when Lita called. Dinner at the Bliss's on Tuesday gave her something gay 'to look forward to. What with watching tho budget, and seeing that the bills were paid, the young Weavers had little to spend on amusement.
"Lila's home. We're invited to dinner."
"Oh, that: Gö®li??
"You don't want to go?"
He grinned at her. "Of course, I do. Tell you what, wo'll go out now and buy you a new pair."
Gypsy couldn't help giggling 'nt) She said accusingly: "Thomas | him—a little. Tom was not on- Weaver, you know rent day comtes pensed, How funny that he should next week. And your insurance.' be, after all this time, and after!
He snapped his fingers. "Right being married to her for two you are. Well, what about those maiths, still jealous of Marko ivory dinguses you wore with the Broughton! dress.",
She struck at her forehead. "What a fool I am! I'd clean for- gotten my wedding shoes. I can have them dyel." Then she began to worry about She would have them dyed her dress. She didn't want to green, brilliant green, and wear look "bridley" that was fatal-the little string of jade-coloured but the ivory dress she had worn beads Father had given her on on her wedding day was the only her last birthday. really formal frock she owned. Tom watched her, smoking idly. She took it out, stared at it crifi-as she rummaged through box and cally, and decided that, without drawer, in search of the ivory stip- sleeves, it would do very nicely, pers. She was conscious of hla She had made it so that the back unwonted silence, and turned to might easily be cut down to n Vlook at him, surprising some new, while the front was fashionably troubled expression in his eyes. high, after that season's mode. "What's the Inntter, darling?" Yes, with her last year's red slip He squinted through the smoke, pers, it would do!
"Nothing-only I wish I could But when she ronted out those give you things. You weren't slippers; they proved sadly is very bright to marry a poor man, appointing. The last time she had Gypsy. You ought to have lux- danced in them, an irremediable juries. You're so pretty. and, so grease atain had appeared from young." nowhere on the. toe of the left one, Gypsy struggled, with clean- ing fluid and chalk, to remove this. But all her efforts only made the spot more stubborn,
She pretended not to notice, and went hunting her Ivory slippers. They were nowhere to be found.
"I must have left them at home," she said. "Although it's funny, if I did, Mother didn't find them be fore this,"
They did not intend to go out to Blue Hills on the morrow, so sho telephoned the house. No, Mrs. Morell had not seen the wedding slippers. They seemed to be r retrievably lost,
This was in the nature of a patastrophe for Gypsy. She came back into the living room, where Tom was sitting at the gate-legged table, with all his popers and Ag- ures spread out before him, and sat down without saying a word.
Tom pushed back the wolter of work and ran his fingers through his lair. "Find 'em, honey?"
Sho shook her head,
"
,',
He came down the hall and lean- ed against the doorframe, regard- "Goal, you look pretty!" her. tion of a curly-hatred girl with The mirror gavo back the reflex- wide, soft, eagor eyes. Tom came to her and kissed her swiftly.
"Let me see those shoes." She hunted them out and gave
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"Well, look, why don't you run "Will you stop harping on that?" over before the shops close and get He was serious, he Bald. It a pair now. You may not have made him feel ashamed. A pair time Monday.. of scuffed and shabby dancing Gypsy anid, stubbornly, that shoes, moulded to the shape of she'd wear the red ones. She did are now surrounded with scaffolding for repairs to the stone work which The famous clock tower of Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament
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