THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
MONDAY, JUNE 11, 1934.
Married Flirts
CHAPTER XXII
Gypsy, assembling towels, soup, powder and oliva ell, scolded her self, "I'm a bad mother." What a lot you needed for a baby! She had never realized it before. Quite callously she had criticized young mothers for not. doing this, doing that, "Keeping up, it was gener. ally called. And yet how could you expect them to play bridge, to read the latest books, to be bright and interesting when they faced such mountainous tasks day after day?
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David was naughty that morning. Perhaps ho missed the expert mini- atrations of the absent Mis. Burby. Perhaps he sensed the nervousness of his young mother. At any rate he crled, He cried and cried and cried.
Weavers dashed out to n moyle, But this wan not often. The budget was strained too tight to allow much entertainment.
could grow and flourish. But what prodigious. No use
by MABEL
McELLIOTT
to tell Mrs. break it, break it. Other people if things went on na they were Morolt all this. It would only do
Gypsy would smile, sigh and now? No moro money, no better worry her. prospects-what then?
"You ought to give up this change the subject. No, their prob "What did we ever do with our Helen Marr.cams to call, and place," Gypay's mother would say lem could not be solved this way,
Meantime aho saved, she bought money before?" Gypsy wondered" Blanche Jordan. They admired the in her gentle, frotful tones, looking artlessly aloud one stormy Navem- baby, they brought him presente.about her dissatisfiedly at the cheap cuts of beef for ragouts, the ber night when she had established Everyone was sweet and kind. cream-coloured walls and the bright contrived a delicious pudding with herself in the big chair opposite They gave advice. They told Gypsy curtains. "You ought to come in one egg and some scraps of bread. Tom. Silk stockings and mant she must un about more-manin't with us. Bea can move back into She taught the silent Elsa' to save cures, sundaes and matinees and lot herself get rusty, Helen asked her old room and I can fix the sew-bits of butter and cream, Sho
at the Plaza now hats-why, she had thought her to lunch
and Ing room up for the baby."
walked to the chain stores, pushing nothing of all these before her Gypsy wriggled out of the invita Gypsy had heard all this a dozen the reay baby in his dark blue car- buy the things listed in marriage! Now they seemed the tion as gracefully as possiblo bo- times before. She was tempted ringe, supreme luxuries,
cause she hadn't a new hat,
ahe was often tempted. The vision the day'a advertisement as "spe "Why didn't you go with her, of herself in the big, shabby, cinle." There was nothing she did A wall from the bedroom inter-sweets?" Tom wanted to know. friendly old house; of Clytte, rush- not know these days about balane- to her with one of the ing the food budget. Was this the rupted her roverie. She rushed And Gypsy made some excuse being up in, to find two pink hands waving cause she wouldn't hurt him by any-oldtime breakfast trays; of a shad-anme Gypsy who had danced far
"taking baby ing she'd nothing decent to wear, owy someone
off into the morning hours 18 months above the blankets.
"Isn't he wonderful?" sho mar-Besides, no matter where she went your handa". It was all torri- ago, who had spent a whole week's velled. Isn't he the most precious these days she was forever flying fically alluring. But no-aalde wages on a silly little hat with a Gypsy was shaking with nervous-thing alive?" Tom said he was. back to the baby Was he warm from the fact that such an arrange feather? It was and yet it was her not. Gypsy's high colour W06 careful? Ifiment would be unfair to ness and fatigue when the ordeal Surely no other baby in the metrop-enough? Was Elea of the morning bath was finished, olla waket exactly on the dot of there should be a fira...No, she parents, she felt strongly that it dimmed. Her laugh rose less read- a wound to their ly to her lips. Her stop was not A cold perspiration beaded her up feedingtime, as David did. Tom would not leave him for long. would be also
so light. And yet there were mo- per lip and her knees sagged as held him while Gypsy warmed the Silly it was all sly, but some pride, hers and Tom's.
she looked at him
ments as witness New Year's eve she laid the now sleepy, immacu-bottle, testing It against her check times when
So she would put the generous, when she wore her old red crepe Late Infant in his crib.
as she had seon Mrs. Burby do. asleep his littleness and helpless-
aside with with a new sheer frill--when ono Could she possibly go at the reat He was a beautiful baby, he was meas and preciouaners squeczed at well-meant Invitation of the disorder now? And where beyond price. But if only he didn't her heart."
gentleness. "You know we have a caught a glimpse of the old galety lease here, Mums."
and wildness. was Tom? He hadn't even tele-waken so early in the morning. If
She found herself weeping a good phoned. She was ready to cry with only his demands and his needs wenkness and discouragement, would not multiply daily! No mat-deal at this timo; weeping for A key grated in the lock and Tom ter how much Elan did there was no renson at all, or for the slight- ushered in n big, blond. clean-always a full quota of tasks forest of reasons. She would be gulp- skinned young woman wearing a David's mother. It
to ing back sobs. They would choke tong, unfashionable coat. "This is Gypsy she was nearly always tired her throat, toars would flood her Elsa, darling," Tom announced. these nights. Almost too tired to eyes. "I am a fool," she would tell of these brief "She's going to do whatever you talk to Tom, to be gay and amusing herself after one went her to."
and Interested. Pushing the baby's¦ storms, But she was not strong Elsa worked part-tinn. Three carriage over the aldewalks was a yet, clay'n week she came at eight and dull duty.
"You're much too pale and thin," stayed until one. The other four Gypsy laughed at herself, at her her mother told her when the fam days she came at one and stayed absorption, but deep down she wasily camo over from Blue Hills. until seven, leaving dinner pre-conscious of a pin prick of fear. She scolded Gypsy all afternoon-- pared. She
alow, tireless, Tom went out into the world every "lots of milk. beef ten...a clean.
morning. He came into contnet ¦ good nap after lunch." Gypsy lis- After that things went more with new ideas, new people. While toned, nodded, agreed. Useless to smoothly. Elan was a treasure, she-well, she was just a vegetable remark that her resting times and Tom and Gypsy trild each other, these days, she told herself, saul-David's did not coincide. When She was a jewel.
Ing wryly. Tom always contra-her back was on fire, when her eyes "How we can afford it I simply dicted her loyally when she said stung and her feet were weary, don't know," Gypsy would Bay, these things. But could he help David was wide-awake, big-eyed, frowning over the bills, But there seeing it? She wondered.
ready for his airing. When David wax now no question in her min The McKinnon's little blue-roofed slept indoors there were dozens of about lett ny Elsa go. It waa house she remembered dimly, as in things to do. She had no time to simply not to be thought of. Toma dream, envying the woman who gold cream her face, nor give her said, and she agreed. Until she sang now among its copper kettles hair the many strokes it had been and looked out the bare branches accustomed to. Her nalls were was stronger, at least,
Reemed
The baby grew-flourished. The of the archard, Having a baby in short and guiltless of enamel. If days rushed by, punctuated only by the city had its drawbacks. Sonic she sat dàyn with a book or a day; bath-time, nap-time, feeding-time. Įday--sume not too distant day-old newspaper she soon felt hersof Sometimes the Imperturbable Elsa they must find a little place with nodding of No, David's demands stayed in the evening and the young In yard and in tree where David jupon his young mother were
Mrs. Morell brushed this aside with characteristic lightness. "Well,
Tom held her close, dancing in
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