THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1934.
Married Flirts
BEGIN BERE TODAY
and DEREK BLISS. Lil'expects to live in
teaching in a settlement an
by MABEL
McELLIOTT
in a whirl. It was all very well | Lila hadn't been able to understand great man prottily. Her manner Jilda sat on GYPSY MORELL and TOM WEAVER are she thought, for Tom to behave Gypsy's choice of th
handsome, was a deft blend of respect and married the same day: LILA HOTALING nicely to this girl: that was part penniless youngster like Tom comradliness. FunDry, but firper intends to keep her job. of being a guest. But he needn'tWeaver. Derek was one of Marko's
"You know everybody but Hilda net as though she were the only many young men and Lila hoped Blanchard, I think. Marko, And, The Arst sight Grey and Tum spend a person in the room. He didn't that great, things were to come of oh yes, Tom Weaver." old friend of Tom's, telephones Toes maks even glance to see if she (Gypsy) his association with Broughton Marko's bright, steel-gray eyes, ni te luncheons to meet pay, but Grey were having a good time: how she & Co. This apartment, all these under their commanding brows, can't leave her work. Later Vern colle
was faring, And they had been things (which seemed such luxury went from face to face. -and-the two witia dislike each other.
their New York apartment VERA GHAY,
their honeyeon In Europe. Lila make the,
Impressed by thin party.
CHAPTER VII
Someone turned on the radio and the sound of jazz blared through the big room. Hilda Blanchard! held out her arms to someone Was it Tom7-and began to dance, Hilda was in red-flame red, and her little black curls, feathering
was
room and smoked a hasty elgarette a posf in Lila's while the others renewed make up and talked in the vague fashion women affect when they are absorb ed in their personal appearances. thought eminently likeable.
Young Mr. Wiltfordd Gypsy She Wesks Inter Billa and Derek return from, married only a littlo more than two to Gypdy and Tom) were, in Lila's "Gypsy!" Ho was al cordiality. prematurely gray hair and bright a rosy young woman with Weavers, & dinner and tippay is enormously months! Why it was monstrous! mind, more stepping stones in "They didn't tell me I was to see blue, yes, Sho
It was unbelievable!
rich man's career.
turned cordially. you. But how splendid!"
to Gypsy. Gypsy thought that Durek And now Marko was coming, He shook hands with Tom, after "My dear, you must come to sea glanced at her rather oddly. She Gypsy would meet him for the a keen glance, Marko was not in me. I should love it. Come in for tried to collect her thoughts, to frat time since she had been Tom the least the "old man" young Mr. tea next week, wen't you?"
Wenver's wife! attend to what he was saying.
Weaver had pictured to himself. I beg your pardon. I'm For Tom's sake, she had hoped Ho
Gypsy explained lightly that sho carried his 60 years well had a job. afraid I didn't hear that. The Murke would not turn up. Tom Handball and swimming kept him
hated the very itles of the "rich in the pink of condition. He was something. Isn't that It?"
"Oh, you write or paint or musle is so loud.
"Awful," agreed Deick. "Can't old man" who had wanted Gypsy a decidedly
attractive man In hear yourself think. I'll turn it for his own. But now, looking at middle life. No one in his senses "No, It's kindergarten work, nt all over her small head, gave her down. I just said it was time for Hilda, at the possessive way her could have called him old, and Tom's settlement.". Gypay explained, a slightly Grecian air. She, like Marko to be here, if he's coming scarlet-tipped hand curled itself frown attested to this thought.
She felt self-conscious, with Hilda's Lila, affected an unearthly pallor at all."
around Tom's black collar, Gypsy "Givo Marko a drink, darling, critical eyes upon her. Hilda was and her lips were like a geranium
decided she was gind he was com- while we got our things," Lila mensuring her frankly and coolly, elash in her pulild face. She hung He left her with a murmured ing. Let Tom worry! Let him be cried, marshalling the womenfolk in a disconcerting fashion. on Tom. She was, Gypsy observed, excuse to adjust the dial of the jealous, too,
up the stairway. "We're going on "How very int'resting!" Hilda almost tall as he while she, instrument, and Gypy was left The orchestra music came to a to the Cotton Club, darling, you contributed, in a drawling voice, Gypsy. was smaller, reached only with the disturbing nows. Marko pause, and the announcer's voice, knew that?"
at this juncture of the conversa to his shoulder.
| Broughton' was coming, after all! disagreeably nasal, came through: The latter endearment was dition. She rubbed her half-smoked Under her laughter, her civil. Yot somehow the thought did "Now I want to tell all our rected at the great visitor. Gypsy cigarette out in an alabaster tray İzed air of casuulness, the most not seem quite so disquieting, so friends about the wonderful prize was amuaed," Apparently "dar-and stood up, stretching herself firimitive of all emotions began to disagreeable, now, as it had some offer the Blank Soap Company is ing" meast nothing on earth tofu Teline fashion, stir-that of jealousy. It was un-hours before. Marko had been in making
sterling
ver Lila. She called her friends, herThey'll be shouting for us, we're "Come along," Lila interposed. reasoning, aho admited it. It was love with her a year ago or so spoon ab-so-lutely free.
husband, her husband's boas, mad. It was utterly without foun- he had said. Marko had wanted
"Shut it of
Isn't that by the same affectionate term, dation. Why, she had never laid her to marry him. Ignoring the dreadful stop dancing, you The fine old Anglo-Saxon word, vyes on this girl before in her great disparity in their nges. two, I can't bear it.
Bacred to lovers down the ages, life, and neither had Tom. Yet, Marko was 60, very rich, coni- Simultaneously with Derek's was the, morest scrap of courtesy, from the first moment of entering manding. He was that character clicking off of the music, a slight the room, she, had felt a wholly of stage and drama and downtown commotlan ensued. Kote, bowing foolish and feminine sensation of life, a financier. The thought of and smiling aa a slave before a distrust. Hilda had liked Tom at marrying Marko had seemed pre-potentate, ushered Marko into the sight, that much was certain. posterous to Gypsy, and she had room!
"You can tell. A wife can tell,"mid no much to Lila, who had n- Marko had made a good en- said, Gypay to herself with all the troduced him to her.
trance. Trust him for that wisdom of her 22 years. Menn- "Why, you little goose. he's Gypsy smiled to herself at the while she chattered and nodded worth millions," she remembered thought. Hildn, one of these her head: said "absolutely!" with its had said, indulgently. "What predatory looking, scarlet-tipped emphasis, although she hadn't then earth are you thinking of ?" hunds of hers still clinging to her faintest notion what Derek wanted Yes, there had been, decidedly, partner's cont sleeve, stared at him her to agree with. Her head was tone of envy In Lila's voice. Interestedly. Lil greeted the
dawdling so."
She took Gypsy's arm. As they
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