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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1934.
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GYPSY MORETA, and TOM WEAVER nitrilel the same day na LILA HOTALING A DEREK 112498, TAI expect tis live in Jusury, while Gepay intends to go or with her job, aching in settlement.
Ailer returning from honeymoon in Among the gila wealthy
Shopping for Christmas, Gipsy Ilaughton who offers her a jou retajosuing hfə, braty. He arrepts, bat sea mut teil Tom, The day he is to finish the work Uppvy ka Loil to leave unie. Tom overhear for with Braughton And len runteraction
is furious.
The docter orders Gypay to bed and tells her she la guine to have g
with flu Lawley
I needed the money. They ought to
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"And when is it to be?" Blanche Jerdan snubbed her cigarette out in the pewter ash tray.
by MABEL
MCELLIOTT
"You two are so happy, honoy."
And Gypsy would laugh delight- edly, liking to hear Tom praised.
dismiss her. Dinak was, at best,j A new cleaning woman, a big, wonder." be saving heaps, right now, to pay Blovenly handmaiden. She silent, strong-armed Swede named for Master Baby's arrival.
Togother, on raw ovenfugs, they brushed the middle of the room and Elsa,
weekly, came
ecrubbed, played backgammon or did jig-aaw Tom said, very well, they'd do let the corners go..
washed, swopt and went away. puzzles or hnd friends. In for that. He'd cut down on cigarettes. So it was arranged that Gypsy's The pots were scoured until they bridge or talk, Helen Mare took Evrope Jolla asks the Weavers to dinner, fie'd cat lunch at one of those one-i resignation to the settlement house shone and hung, twinkling, on their to dropping in most informally.
MARKO armed places. They were fine was shortly tendered, and accepted hooks in the kitchen. The cur- Broughton, whe unce Kaked Gyply to everybody and so. le took out with the proper regrets. Beth talns were starched and white, the Helen used to say, sighing a little. him Tabowers flypay with attentions ap
pencil and began to figure. So Helen Marr and Blanche Jordan floors gleamed with wax, Gypsy "I declare it does me good to nee Tom le Jenkou...
much lopped off here, so much came to see her, bringing flowers, was completely mistress of her
being properly enthusiastic alittle kingdom now and loved it. you. Most everybody I know In "If I let Dinah go," said the girl womanly and interested.
There was something about keep-from home getting, divorces or the Village is carrying on-boys in the green. chair, speculatively,
"So you're going to have ing house that "got you." "and did my own cooking, we'd baby!" Holon Marr alghed. She She had not heard from Lila taking other men's wives around probably save heaps. She throws didn't really envy Gypay's state. since the day the intter had asked could find such a man, I'd marry but you and Tom! I declaro, if I out food, you know. And sho's She liked her freedom, her little her go on the southern trip.
him myself." CHAPTER XVII
careless about light and gas and apartment In Greenwich Village, From the society columns in the and the things she could do with daily papers she had brief flashes all that sort of thing." "You must give up your job at "You must have Dinah." Tom her moderato salary. Still-well, for Lila's triumphant passage from once, of course, Tom had said looked up quickly, "You won't be there was something in this moth-party to party. February drifted masterfully after the first excite-able to do all that
So the early spring passed and erhood business, she said to her out in a grayish thaw and March ment was over and they had come Gypsy interrupted him with self. Maybe she was missing came in, all raw blue skies and In April came and there were one to a full realization of what the peal of laughter. "Tommy, what something.
element winds, Bat the sun was or two warm days to remind the news meant.
do you think people used to do
warm, the radiators hissed in the city dwellers that summer was on Gypsy was going to have a baby when they had babies? The pion
apartment living room, and Gypay the way. And new hata bloomer Well, it was wonderful, of course, eor women, I mean? Why, they
did not envy her fortunate friend, in all the shops, and fur coats be and they were glad-were proud baked usual. They didn't have "Oh, not for ages. Not until Marko Broughton had been very gan to look shoddy, and asparagus and happy-but they had to plan dumb waiters and gas stoves and into in September." Gypsy smiled aice about the cataloguing job was sold in the markets, and even for the future. They had to save, vacuum cleaners and frozen foods at them both. pouring tea out of Gypsy has insisted on returning, at daffodils and narcissi appeared in to look ahead. This baby miat.
They made clothes for the her pretty china pot. She was go- the end of her convalescence, to street vendors' trays.
told finish the work. Marko had met rest of the family and belled ing to miss them both, she have everything he needed.
And Lila came back! her at the door, with outstretched Gypsy was recovering from her batches of soap, and move ruga in them, and the work, too,
Her high, clear voico came over She had their attack of Influenza now,
time spare
As the weeks passed she came to hands, all sympathy because of her the telephone early, one morning been home definitely for two weeks, stopped, quite out of breath. draw on her reserves of strength illness. Gypsy had taken the cheque.. that la, early for Lila. and was sitting, a little palo and
and courage, True, sho did have he had offered, although she knew was half past nino and Gypsy had shaky, but convalescent. In the big "I know," Tom said; quite un moments of wankness and terror it represented more than her aery-just finished the breakfast dishen,
her chair Great Aunt Mareli had s. fmpressed by
arguments. when she wept in Tom's arms, de-ices were worth, because she had had hung the blue checked tea to ayer from Morristown as soon as "But you're not a pioneer woman claring she was afraid of dying decided to put it aside against the wels up to dry. she had heard the news... Great and you've got to be taken care women did die having babies, now- baby's coming.
"Darling" said Lila. "Where was frightened,
As she had planned, the house-are you keeping yourself? Aunt Morell hadn't given them a of He
The adays, in spite of modern science-
I called wedding present but when Gypsy's doctor had said Gypsy needed rest but usually she felt brave and hope hold budget benefitted from her the house. I wanted you for mother had told her about the com-and care. Well, she was going fut and happy. Dinah vanished management. It was amazing how lunch. But the girl there sald in child she had been moved to to have it, if it meant doing with from the scene, as Gypsy had far you could make a dollar go you weren't working any more... send them this big, rich and rather out shoes.
planned, and the little rooma be- these duys. You shopped at the "I'm not." Gypsy told her gaily. unwieldly affair upholstered in "I'll keep Dinah for a few weeks, came her very own, to keep sweet chain store. A bunch of carrots, "Well, but how nice! Come and
loaf of bread, a pound of beef lunch with me green damask. It made all the until I am perfectly strong," Gypsy and clean as she wanted them to
at one. At the other furniture in the living room told him. Then I'll let her go. be. She knew the sharp joy of for ragout. Two appics made a Chatham. Not a party. Just the look pale and colourless. Gypsy You'll see what a splendid house- creating new and delicious dishes, pudding. You saved the scraps of two of un." snuggled into it, wrapped in her wife I can be." Her eyes shone at of experimenting with a spoonful bread that Dinah threw out in her "I'd love to," Gypsy said it rosy robe, and listened to Tom: the thought of it. Already that of mushrooms and scraps of left lordly fashion and served breaded quickly, without thinking. But in First of all, I don't want you wobbly feeling in the morning was over chicken and half a cup of chops, soup croutons-ether do-an instant the realization that her rice, so that her young husband licious things. Tom never ceased wardrobe would hardly match the travelling on subways," Tom sail.leaving her. oracularly. "You might faint or She decided not to argue with looked up from his plate with sur-to marvel at her skill.
springtime gaiety of the smart something
Tom about Dinah-to let things go prise and delight, saying; "This is "You're a wonder," he would say restaurant swept
over her. Oh, Gypsy protested faintly. It was along as they were for a while and just like the Ritz, darling. How when some particularly appetizing nonsense! She would wear her such easy work, she said, and they then, in a few weeks, quietly to do you do it?"
dish was served. "You're simply a (Continued on Page 12.)..
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