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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1934.
Married Flirts
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"I feel like Cinderella," Gypsy trying to smile, 4Continned on Page 10.)
play.in his trib, the light turned out CHAPTER XXII
Yes, motherhood had changed her] Tom dropped into the habit of go-; eccond night tickets to
"Yes, darling!"
and the 'windows opened, a feeling But her voice dwindled; the ring of deep forlornness awept over her. It was a nightmare- kleous, more than a little. It had sobered ing out without her,
Sometimes ahe was frightened of plensed expectancy died out of She stood at the kitchen window, black, absorbing nightmare. The and sweetened and saddened her,
weariness and dull-it. He had to work? Oh, that was her forehead against the cool pane, rush home through the silent it made her all nt once streets, slippery now, fant glazing under the moon: the first sight of thoughtful while the experience of aess and her absorption in the too bad! She had been mentally gazing down at the lighted streets see the lights of the gay street, Morell house lighted through being a father, she considered baby, Tom would tire of her, she freshening up her best black below. For to the west sho could Tom was sorry, he said. There Broadway. An advertising sign out, with the doctor's coupe parited gravely, had altered Tom not at would tell herself wildly, glancing frock, doing her hair.
talk about these was a big new account in the twinkled on and off, red and yel- at the, driveway. Gypsy scarcely all. When they were together, in at her image in the mirror. She
Their own little home, and Gypsy's had nothing to the waited for Tum to put on braten. She was out of the door. Rowiak face and bright eyes were task. The young mothers she met office. He hated leaving her alone low, red and yellow, half a block turned up to him. Tom forget the park were deep in the mys but honestly he has to work on away. Night sounds, sounds of the halfway up the stairs by the time everything except that she was his, teries of formulas and pureed car this stuff. She was a good sport city throwing off its daytime mood of seriousness, making ready for he had fairly stopped the car.
play, came to her faintly. The ..mother, how is he "infinitely dear and adorabia. When rots and orange juice. How could I was all right, then?
of "David
he unlocked his own door at night ahe, after an afternoon of this con
Gypsy put the telephone down hooting of taxla, the scrape The big guest room with it was Gypay he wanted to see, first versation, be bright and amusing
ber husband? And wasn't with a sensation of disappointment brakes. A radio blared out across rose-garlanded paper, its peeling of all. The sound of her light for
and defent. The long evening the way. Dinner music. Some- with where down in the city men, and creamy woodwork, wns une blazo of lights. Gypsy saw only the tinyter was the sweetest music he David worth any self-sacrifice?
knew and he was still Alled with One evening in March they went stretched out before her
were dining and figure in the bassinette with Doctor wonderment at the thought that to dine with Tom's boss, a rubi- lonely and solitary dinner to boot. girls were dancing to the strains
Well, it was too bad, but it couldn't of that music, Bangerman hending over it: There she had chosen him out of all the cund gentleman who owned
smoking and laughing. The baby came second:charming house in Scarsdule. It be helped. was a peculiar smell in the room world.
was all very pennant-food, host She got David ready for the Clytle hovered wear with a kettle Gypsy was first always.
While this did mut make any real and guests. But Gypsy felt quite night, a forely, laughing scrap of Someone had made a sort of tent with sheats over the big, wide flat difference between them, Tom was out of it. Her frock was unlash-bnbyhood in his ribbed nightgown.said to herself. bed with the pineapple posts.
conscious that under Gypsy's love ionable and her small talk rusty. But after he had been tucked away The doctor straightened
for him ran always, without change She hadn't been to any of the new For ceasntion. her passionate con-plays, she didn't do the night, clubs, Gypsy's entrance..
was smooth, mani. "Nothing but a little croup, hcern for the boy, David completed Hier hostess said easily, Frightening at first, the circle... he and Gypsy and eured, beautifully dressed and jew. considered. • with Your mother had quite David. Well, that was as it should elled: Gypsy
he, he knew that. And yet, and humorous despair, asking them to Mrs. Morell began volubly to ex get...Gypsy had been more com- her home and gave up the project in five minutes. No, until Davis plass. Her children, she said, had pletely his before David's coming, never had croup.
Perhaps it was natural, as the was a little okler until they had She was terrified
David's months went on, that he came to more room and a better servant Young when she heard henvy breathing--when lie began to spend a little more of his time at they would have to abstain from
the oflice. For one thing. there entertaining. choke.
The next day Gypsy made a lot "But he was perfectly well-hc|were the new demands that David's
new resolutions. She would Weavers of was fine when 1 left him." Gypsy needs placed upon the kept saying in her bewilderment slender income. And for another, "fuse more" over her own looks, Some one brought her a chair; her bay was wrapped up in the would never neglect cold creaming knees were trembling with the re-baby's welfare. She did not feel rites at night, would give herself baby slept quietly free to go about as she bad before, daily manicure. Tom had seemed now, one crumpled roseleaf hand She was often actually too tired to to find that young copy-writer very She, Gray, thrown above his head. Lights go to the movies in the evening. Charming last night,
a most de- were turned down and the walch-She even urged Tom to go by him- had n considered
once upon a room moved softly, self or with the Maisons, anotherlightful companion ers in the
the time. Where had all her amusing young couple who lived on spenking in whispers.
repartee vanished? Tom tok Gypsy to go to bed: janme floor.
When the telephone rang Inte At first Tom protested. No, he'd¦ he'd watch David himself. But whe
volve She wouldn't sleep, rather stay at home. fie'd much that afternoon and Tom's was stubborn.
she was pleasantly she told him. What was the use rather be with her.
But Gypsy was feame to her She refused even to take off her sometimes too weary to talk. She excitel. Often when he called this frock but sat: wrapped in her wool-would make an excuse to creep af late it was to announce that some to ed early. Small wonder that newspaper friend had given him ly robe, her eyes of the crib,
She had been dancing, laughing, no hour ago. She had felt like a girl, carefree, minus responsibil ities. Now she wondered at that Hew other light-hearted self.
action. The
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dreadful, how incalculable Bre was. always striking at you in the dark, Why, David might have died, glit ing for his breath, if Mums hadn't heard him! She trembled at the thought.
She must, at last, have dazed off because when the opened her eyes again the room was very chilly ami Tom, Straight and tall in his dressing gown, stood beside her.
make yourself "Darling, you'll
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Lie down in the other bed in Ben's room and I'll watch here. He'll be all right. The doctor anid, there were even chances he'd not he disturbed again to-night."
She was stiff. cold, aching in every limb.
was good to be T'ha cared for and comforted.
It
sheets between which
were deliciously warm. asleep in five minutes,
she crept She was
David was happy, rosy, untouch
el the next morning. The brief. and frightening attack
of erup vanished without leaving a trace- upon the baby, at least. But it had quite a lasting effect on his mother. She discovered young ibat the love she felt for him was tinged with fear-fear she might might lose trim, that something strike, out of the dark, ut his anliness and helplessness.
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