THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
FRIDAY, JUNE
1934.
by MABEL
McELLIOTT
Married Flirts
DEZIN DERD TO-DAY
Tom's interea do THILDA BLANCHARD,
1st in later restored.
Shopping for Chrletme, Orpay
Broughton who offers her job catatoning ment of 150. She uses the money to buy
his library and give her an advance pay.
Th's Christmas present, a watch.
Tom and Cyper spend Chilstmas at the
Moreli borin Throughout the alety drper la troubled by the fact that Tum woes nut know about her work for Broughton and the if he knew he would he sure to fla approve.
CHAPTER XIV
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I tho deep rugs. Looking up, Gypsy rode down in the elevator half past seven. It was clight. GYPSY MORELL and TOM WEAVES ar startled at the Interruption, she with the sense of being released. And still no Tom. Gypsy's mood Tom with dignity. married the same day a LILA BOTALING Baw Marko.
She must rush home to Tom now, of exultant relief waned-changed and itre, in luxury, while Gypsy insende to no on with her job, teaching in a settlement "My dear child!" His gentle Inventing an excuse for har late to indignation, to apprehension. piclon, Gypsy gazed at him. Was Struck by a new, stabbing sus-
asbool
Įtone betokoned surprise, and Gypsy | return.
It was utterly unlike him not to he-no, he couldn't be drunk! After returning from her honeymoon in Europe Lia Invite the Wearers to dinner. flushed.
She took a trolley bound south-telephone her. Something must Tom never drank to excesa. Among the
wasily Desti
MARKO
"I quito forgot the time," Gypay ward and it seemed fairly to crawl, have happened-something drend Bom where her with wielone stammered, her eyes on the crystal stepping at every corner, starting ful. She could see him lying someid slowly. "We were playing "We went to Simma' Club,” he BROUGHTON), to which she accepts breast she is jealous of clock face nearby. It was half again with painful jerks, Gypsy's where, the victim of a reckless cards. We got to talking. After the party Tom and Grey quatre, la past five! And she had meant to nerves
were taut. At Inst she driver. Her Tom, hurt, dying. I didn't notice the time." leave at five at the very latest. alighted at her own corner and perhapa!
"And all the time I was worry, She had anid something casual to ❘ turned enot. A sharp wind was She put the food back in the lesing, oating my heart out, frighten. Tom about shopping. But she had blowing up from the river and she box. She had thought she was ed to death," Gypsy anid with in meant to be home early enough to shivered, buffeting it with hor slim hungry, but now the very thought dignation. "Oh, Tom, how could get dinner, Dinah WILS "off" figure. She tried vainly to deter of food alckened her. She went to you?" tonight. Now she would be toomine whether or not her own apart the telephone and with trembling
She was wounded past, bearing.. Inte
ment windows were lighted but In fingers dialed the number of hie This was an unfamiliar person who "Ah, you mustn't run away like the darknees she could not be sure. office. As she had expected, there sat there in her pleasant living this," Marko protested, mildly. She was conscious now of an lawas no answer. Of course, no one room. She just didn't know him. "Untes will shake us up a cocktail tense fatigue, sharpened by her was working at this hour.
Forgotten was her relief a few or you may have tọa, if you'd growing sense of nervousness.
hours before, on discovering she prefer."
Reluctantly she inserted her key The moments lagged By, Nine had reached home before him. All Mre, Weaver, was expected, Mr.
Gypsy's one thought was to ruah In the lock. Was Tom home? o'clock. Half past. Ten. At five other emotions were swallowed up Broughton's man-servant Buid,
away; to get back to the apartment. And if so, what was she going to minutes past ten when Gypsy, al-In a desperate fury at his callous .quietly. There Was something Yet she didn't want to offend Mar- say to him? about his matter-of-factness that o. She said something
most ill with worry, paced the floor Indifference to her feelings. And But the door swung into a dark-of the living room, Tom's key was poker! Tom knew he couldn't af calmed Gypay's nerves.. Of course about a dinner engagement.
oned room. Gypsy drew a long inserted and the door swung wide. ford to play cards with Simms and It was all right! Why shouldn't
he work for sarko? He knew ko. "Another time, perhaps."
"Oh, quite, quite," drawled Mar-breath of relief. Doubtless he'd Gypsy ran to greet him: "Dari- his crowd. He had virtually prom she had dabbled in library_work
licen kept at the office. There was ing, wherever have you been? I've ised to give it up, long before their He wasn't in the least the satyra good deal of extra work now,been so worried. before she had gone into the Selfie-type, Gypay reflected, pulling on making up contracts for the new
marriage. She stopped. Tom looked AD "You lost!" ahe accused with ley her little hat. He was just kind, year. But if that was the case, strange. He strode past her. His calm. "Oh. Tom, you loat, didn't friendly, have to have an understanding phone her all afternoon to let her Her heart plunged, her throat
generous. Sho
would he'd probably been trying to tele-eyes wore glazed. He was pale you? with him about the $50 though. know, They would have to come to some
thickened. Had he heard. then? He nodded, dully, his eyes on his She switched on the alabaster Did he know about her pact with linked fingers. Of course he had entirely businesslike arrangement, lamp on the drop-leaf table and Marko?
lost. He felt a slow, dult sort of But when she spoke of this, Mar- stood, irresolute, for a moment. ko waved it aside. "Nonsense," he What to do now? Should she wait What an utter fool she had been, guessed. Why else should he have She was stricken into silence. Indignation at her for having boomed. "That was merely a re- and see what Tom's plans for the not to tell him at the start. tainer. If you do the work as well evening were: or should she tele- thing more innoccnt than
No stayed so late, except that he hoped as I know you will, that amount phone the grocer at once and order afternoon's adventure could pos
hor to win back what had gone before? will only be a drop in the bucket." things for a late dinner? She de-sibly be imagined.
Gypsy sat down on one end of the daybed. She felt sick. She cided on the latter course and, with But Tom's first words dispelled felt beaten. To try so hard to get a kind of wild reaction after her at least a little of her fears. needless fears of awkward explann-
nhead, to work and plan and save "Sorry, dearest," ho said dully, so anxiously, and then to have Tom tions, rushed out, eotting the table, and then stopped. Gypsy stared behave like thielt was past bear- making everything gay and fresh at him curiously. How strange ing! against his return.
his voice was, and how odd he She shook her head, dumb with looked! His overcoat was solled, the injustice of it. Tom looked at too. It looked as if it had been in her with a gray face. If he hadn't contact with the pavement. let Simms All his glass so often. Were you hurt, darling?" she he'd explain to Gypsy now, tell her prompted. "I've been almply fran-just why It was he wanted that ex- Lic.
I was just on the point of all-tra money. It was for her-for ing the hospitals
her alone! He said, in that unfamiliar, drag- But Gypsy's face was cold, still, ging voice, that he wasn't hurt-closed to him. Without a word, what gave her the iden?-but he'd she stripped the gaily laid table, been detained.
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ment.
What she had expected, exactly In the way of a reception, she could not say. Only this quiet, high- celled room, with its dark Bokhara rugs. Its wood panelling, ita shelf on shelf of volumes, was distinctly reassuring. She gave the man her hat and coat and gloves. She ran her hand over her unruly curte Gypsy looked rather like a little girl to-day in her dark green jersey frock with its demure white collar. Then she forgot herself, her sur roundings, her nervousness, in the serious business of her task.
It WBB Inseluating Marko's bool themselves were that Sho lost herself in the absorbing work. She climbed the ladder a dozen times. She sat at the typewriter the man had disclosed, cleverly hid- den in one corner of the mammoth. walnut desk. She Bated and rubbed out and listed again.
kosten
And the ight waned, the lamps were snapped on by an hand, and still Gspay worked un- noticing.
She was aroused by a footfall on
He saw her to the door, pressing her hand gently. She was n trent to any one's eyes, he told her ful- somely. She quite lightened up his lonely home. But then every body knew Marko's gallantries, They were just the casual coin of every day. He was like that to everyonel
The clock struck seven. The grocer's boy, bearing chops and vegetables and materials for anlad, had come and gone. Now it was
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