THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY, JUNE
1934.
by MABEL
McELLIOTT
Married Flirts
BROUGHTON.
" wealthy MARRO
After the early Tom and Gyper quarrel,
pence a lawr mutated.
mret. Bhopping for Chrlem, CYDIF Broughton what offers her a job cataloguing he livers and gives her an advenes pryment of $50. Uyday decide not to tell Tom shout 1:la, She uses the money in buy his Christ. Fine gift. Wateli. Da the Baturday fultow Ing Christmas Tert falls to come in
the
po-
DEQIN HEBE TO-DAT
watch! Now she would keep that; busy-he didn't have anything to owned It emanated almost tangibly look quizzical and sophisticated
came to and
amused. No, she couldn't GYPSY MORELL and TOM WEAVER affair to herself. She noeded, she dn. Some of the fellows had gone from its wails. Marko
Wildly she looked about for a married the same day as LILA HOTALING
DEREK BL189. Lils expects to live in told herself coldly, every penny shej over to the club and a game had stand, In her mind, for something wouldn't bear itl
a pent- luxury while Gypsy intends to run with could earn. If Tom were going to started. At first he hadn't meant fine and genorous and noble. Peo
in a settlement school.
were merely jealous.house 20 stories up offers few of her lush, teaching to her eymoon behave in this unforeseen, thin out- to get in. But he had. He had ple who talked about him, she told method of escape. But
always thosT who these. She could, of course, ask Europe Llia invites the Weavers to dinner rageous fashion, surely she had won, to begin with. He had rot herself, Among the guests
uests well pay right to earn money in any honour-excited. Then luck had changed. There were
He hadn't been able to stop.
maligned a truly great man. It Batea to smuggle her out the ner tharry him. Be showers her with attentions able way which presented itself,
"How much? She didn't look had been insinuated that Marko's vice entrance but that would put a After a time be wandered out,"
way with women was not always strange face on the whole affair. which he accepte becavas she li jealous HT MANCHARD,
might be. She lend it an indecorua it was far Ta' interest In HILDA
looking big-eyed and sleep-sodden at hin
His voice as honourable as and sheepish,
"Seventy dollars."
didn't believe it! Look how he from owning. She could wait in "Good morning!"
was very low,
"Oh, Tommy." But the word had treated her! Why, she might her, trusting that Marko would Gypsy'n reply was glacially
Ou the soon get rid of his caller.
moment Li was enough. The ice around her have been his own sister
On the fourth Saturday she had other hand, at any lite, "Will you have some coffee ?" of the window
heart had eracked up. She was in She glanced out with, studied indifference. "Your his arms and she was crying, and planned to leave rather early. As might saunter in, in search of brange juice is in tho Icebox."
ha was smoothing her hair and usual, she had told Tom a white llo cigarettes or a book. What on "No, thanks." le didnt say his telling her he never would again. about meeting someone for shop-earth was she to do?
The high studio windows were
Hoon he would begin to The family was coming to Sun- presently she could dur ten. That had to be lived shower and through it Tom's vig. She was wasting her time with was growing. Surely some time on thick fold. Gypsy drilled for BURpect. an instant with the idea of hiding over his This evening they were asked to her slim self behind one of these, Gypsy put her hand through. Not for worlds, vowed rous slapping, all part of the herself, morning ritual, once dear and Gypay passionately to would she let them see what had abusing, now only reminding her mouth, You're not to say that dine with some oflice acquaintaneca but the whole thing
that they had known happier times ever." She felt strong and
ternal and brave.. Her love went happened to her marriage. They were not to suspect that the very
But she had a busy morning be out to him like a tide. her work were foundations of
So it was that the Morells, troop fore her. She had no time, real- There crashing around her.
ing in at half past four, found the i
Gypsy were a thousand things to do al-vision of a united pair. She dragged herself from bed at, to alt about and monn. 8 o'clock.
brown curls shining, in She hadn't slept for
ways on Sunday-gloves to hours anyway. There was no use washed and mended, stockings dit-bright frock, and Tom with his trying to She dressed, glancing drearily at herself in the mirror., the Hundry to be sorted and arm around her.
pul away. Besides thin there were
het. A 10 he appears. playing poker and drinking.
CHAPTER XV
read ached but he looked it. And She knew that, didn't she? And ping. But the difficulty of making
hear the he was a hound he knew that Saturday a permanent engagement curtained in dark red damask, fold
be her
when
n
seemed 100
It was
of Tom's, a semi-Bohemian couple melo-dramatic for words. ma.
who lived in the purileus of Green-too much like the second net in a wich Vilkage, and Gypsy had society comedy.
Beyond the iron gates which sep- hoped to reach home by 5 o'clock.
"Don't bother to make ten for furated the drawing room from the me to-day, Bates," she had said, library she could hear Lila moving
the arrived. "I'm leaving about, humming softly.
"She'll come in. She'll find nie.” earlier than usual,"
The cataloguing was more than Gypsy thought, despairingly. "No halfway Anished. Would she better what I say,, she'll not be Why
she had aged overnight, she all her extra preparations for the So the storm blew over for the glad or sorry when it was over? lieve it."
She sat, very still and small, in told herreif. Tom still slept, heav family tea. Little sandwiches and moment and the little domestic These afternoons had been pleasant the growing darkness.
She simply aly but gulluessly, on the daybed.
a hot dish to be got ready, and the bark was sleered into safe waters, enough. They had even (she had He had the quilt which Gypsy had house put into apple pie order for But it was hard, making up for to admit it) the spice of danger must get out of this. It was an coldly given him. He looked some the expected guests,
Tom's losses. They felt the pinch which makes any adventure seem our altuation. Her cheeks how forlorn and defenceless in hie
Tum helped. He reappeared of it all through January, and attractive. For just a little while red hotly at the thought of sleep. Young, troubled, pale, shintug, brushed and shaven, smell though Gypsy said nothing. Tom she could play, if she liked, at the Lila's amused air. if she should
stroll in. But she would not forgive himing of soup and lotion. He moved felt it none the less and said to role of being mistress of this
Innocent Gypsy glanced at the clock. It an, not she! He had betrayed an table and chairs wordlessly. He himself grimly that Ite had learned beautiful place. It was
enough harmed no one.
was five minutes past five. She anwritten pact the day before. asked if he could do anything else. his lesson.
At last she put away pencils and stood up, bracing herself for the Languid, heavy-eyed, sho went He was properly and humbly male. Gypsy's Saturdays at Marko's
encounter. No matter what Lila about the business of preparing Gypsy answered him with mono- continued. All her fear had van pads, covered the typewriter and said or thought, she had to walk breakfast. She had to eat some syllables. But under her anger ished now. After that first Satur resigned it to Its cave of dark out of that room at that moment. or ness. She was just about to ring Her foot was on the threshold, her thing, she reminded herself. Even was a genuine fear. Was it going day she saw him only if Tom didn't love her any more, to u like this for always? She felt twice. Her conscience no longer for Bates, to secure once more the hand at the gates behind the vel even if it didn't matter to anyone as though her face were a frozen troubled her. She was getting custody of her hat and coat, when vet curtains.
Her heart was going whether she lived or died (she was mask. She just couldn't be nice through the work aplendidly. The she heard a familiar voice in the like a triphammer. ignoring a large family of Morells, couldn't be natural.
richness and the comfort of the big drawing room.
"I thought รกแ were gone. "Don't trouble. Bates," she heard Madam"
Instead At last Tom's composure broke. room received her agreeably, when-
of Lila, for the moment) she had to have her breakfast.
"Look, Gypsy," he said ploent-fever she came, Bates had taken to say. " wait right here. Bates stood at the fireplace. Lila's Surprisingly enough. beingly "Let's have it out. I can't serving her tea. Gypay would Mr. Broughton will be home direct-fur lay across chairback. her brought a appetite to it and sul, stand this,"
look up to see the silver tray with y. He said so."
scent lingered on the air. Gypsy perched от the white painted Its none of my doing. Gypsy its delicate chins and Inen before
murmured something hasty kitchen tool. sipping her hot thought rebelliously. I didn't her.
Gypsy's hands flew to her low and sped across the room like coffee.
Oh, an arrow. Luck was with herl gamble away our money. It's no "Mr. Broughton said you were throat. Lila. of all people!
she didn't want to be found here. Lila had gone into Marko's dress- What a food she had been to fault of mine. But she listened to to have it, Madam.” think, dying home the night before, him, nevertheless.
She could not She no longer felt strange in the It wouldn't matter what she said ing room to powder her nose!
She Wan safe. She gold that she would tell Tum she was entirely steel her heart against big library. It seemed a sort of or how she tried to explain, Lila working for Marko-that his him. He'd been at a loose end, he second home to her and the per-simply would not understand. Her escape without being seen. (To Be Continued). money had bought the platinum said, the day before. She was sonality of the powerful man who eyebrows would go up, she would! +
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