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Married Flirts
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her is Juncheon. Gypsy realles her clothes are shabby in comparison with Lile's,
liummar in the New York apartment hard on Cypay. Then friend who lives on Long Island Jours the Weavers his home
CHAPTER XX
by MABEL
MCELLIOTT
You
he,
the peas, hating horalf for tho there, for those wise enough to ened around them. Birds sang; colour. What was it Marko had In the bushes and a salt breeze said to her the other night: GYPSY MONELL and TOM WEAVER are snobbish impulse that prompted find it. married the same dky ne LILA HOTALING the gesture but unable to prevent Gypay told her friend something blow off the Sound and still Lila "You're like some wild bird and DEREK DL83. Leaprcle to live in
of the stress of the past months; stayed on.
bird of paradise, flashing by." luxury, while flyper Intenia to su on with her herself from doing it.
Presently the clack of high her feeling of weakness and Gypsy, asked about Derek and it Marko anid things like that, made job, traching in a pritienient.
After returning Iron Future Life are the Weavers do funer heels sounded on the flugstone ndisery, the heat of town, their seemed to her that his young wife you feel young, precious, infinitely. She said abruptly, Among the guest
MARKO walk and Gypsy rose to greet her release when Tom had found this answered hastily and almost cold- desirable. la wealthy BROUGHTON, whe saked Gyley to visitor. Her eyes widened. place. Lila laid her long, elim-ly, that she turned her oyes fleet-"Marko wonderful; isn't marry him. He showers Clyper with atten-
"Lila, my dear! However did fingered hand on her check and Ingly away.
Gypsy? I wonder you over had tions and Tom la palous.
Broughton after her Jobs on Saturdays, you find me?"
looked at the younger girl with "He's all right. He's splendid," the courage to refuse him." caliging his library and Gypsy Accepte
Her caller who exquialto in wide, serious, concerned eyen. she added most unconvincingly, Gypsy looked up, surprised., willet telling Tom. Just why fistin the work she is takent 11 and the doctor trils white-simple and perfectly made "But my dear, why didn't you What was the matter with Dorek
"Why, yes, I suppose he is. But ter she going to have a baby. Tam ingista
." Her voice trail- marriage she muat Live 10 her, jub at the vitlement. frock of dull crepe with a little let me know? You might have these days, Lila asked herself
with resentment. He was always od away.
wore har oyos Urper le happy keeping home uniti Li jacket, white hat atilt on her shin- come to us."
on the comes back from winter in Florida and ackn
golden waves.
Now she was more like the old tired, taciturn, reserved..
glossy foliage of the Claudius rang up your apartment and playmate Gypsy had played sand grow tired of playing up to a Fornet rose bush just under the མ་ the operator told me." Lila was tog with on the beach in Maine man's moods. She, herself, didn't
Marriage glancing about her with apprala-so many happy summers. She had believe in it. Men ought to real-iving room window.
with Marko Broughton! Out of ing eyes, taking it all in, the for the moment dropped her air (ze-her father always had that the question, her robelllous heart pleasant, rather shabby garden, of boredom and artificiality and the woman, the wife, was the im-
said. Marriage monat Tom and with no pretension about it. Just was simply another girl, sympathe-portant cog in domestic affairs shared simple meals and apricots a tangle of old-fashioned flowers tle, sincere and loving.
She was the one' to They had been established in
bo petted,
in a green bowl. the little blue-roofed house for and overgrown shrubs.
Gypsy laughed aloud at the pic, amused; made happy. It was the
"Why, I couldn't have married two weeks now and life had taken
Gypsy cleared n space for her on ture of herself, in her old king man's business to make as much on a different hue. Was it possible, the swing, pushing books, veget-hams and dimities, among Lila's money as possible, to surround his Marko," Gypsy said wonderingly. Gyper thought, awakening in herables and bowl aside. "But how Southampton crowd. "You're aw-wife with lovely things, give her What was Lila thinking of?
Lila shrugged her shoulders. It narrow green bed, looking out at nice to see you," ette said. "I've fully kind," she said. "It's sweet the setting she deserved. the interlocking branches of applebeen wondering where you were of you to say that, but I didn't She wasn't like Gypsy, to be was none of her business, after trees Just beyond her window, was and what you were doing."
want to leave Tom, anyhow."
contented with a hearth and blue all,
Hilda. Blanchard often aska aprons and a rickety little 'it possible that 14 days ago she
(Continued on Paga 6.) had been possessed by a very mad-
Lila was thin, petulant, restless. The heat of the afternoon deep. She had to have life, movement, ness of despair and sickness? The Her eyes roved, her conversation alr of this place renewed her.
was gay and morbid by turns, She sang about her work now. Things were dull, she said. Every. Everything was fun-markeling
body had gone abroad. There was in the little car, boiling fut lot absolutely nothing to do. Through aters until they wore scarlet. her discourse wove the thread of steaming clams for Tom's dinner, discontent, although the happen- stringing beans in the deen-cushings she sketched sounded, to loned swing in the garden.
Gypsy's simple nou), dazzling
·
Mrs. McKinnon's small house enough. The garden party at the seemed a very paradise to her Tewksburys, the fele at the after the cramping walls of the Chisholma, the bathing, tea-ing, fiat. The brass kettles twinkled, the water sang a little tune of its dancing existence that
sum of Lila's daily round.. own as it splashed into the dish-
"My dear!" she murmured in- pan, beds were made to the ne dulgently. "You have no ideu-
was the
compartment of robins and you simply have no idea how thrushes. Rosea bloomed in the deadly it is. Sometimes I think dooryard and peonics and mock'll run away to Majorca, to Bali, orange made screen for thear some place where one doesn't kitchen
garden. Could life be so have to see people different?
Now it was Gypay's turn to be Yes, it was a new Gypsy who amused. moved about the bare, neat little' "I hear those places are crowd- rooms. Sometimes in the eveningaed, too," she and with a pleasant it was cool enough to have a fire laugh. To distract Lila, she lighted on the hearth and neigh-offered a promise of tea. She had bours dropped in, friendly people bought some little cakes in the who lived down the road and village that morning, pink and wanted to share their largesse of white ones, looking like cakes for flowers and advice with the new- 21 children's party. These she offered her caller on a tin tray Gypay filled the
with painted green, with the ice clinking dowers.
She dusted and sewed delightfully in the amber glasses. and rend, all with a full and happY "This is nice," Lila offered. heart. Life was glorious and laying aside her gloves, her expon- complete.
sive-looking bag, to accept the
L'omeгH.
One afternoon she was sitting plate Gypsy offered. "You're a in the garden swing, shelling peas very comfortable sort of person, into a wooden bowl, happily plan- do you know that, my
dear? ning a dinner of chops and salad There's something about this and custard, when she heard the garden, simple as it is, . . .” Sho purr of an expensive motor in the did not finish the sentence, but drive. She looked up hastily to Gypsy know what she meant. And see an expensively shod and stock-Indeed the peace and simplicity -inged- fool-emerge- from-the-ton of the place laid-cool-handa-upon neau, and threw her spron over you. There was a sort of magic
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