THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1934
Married Flirts
CHAPTER XXIX
and yet she must bellove the ovi-|breaking.
the
dence of her eyes. How absorbed "Oh, good gosh, I naked Gocenaton, It would be fun, Gypsy said to he had been! She had been right son to dinner before I thought. herself on the Tuesday following he had been right all the time! I'm sorry, darling. What shall I their reconelllation, to go down She walked aimlesiy down do now?"..
Tom at and surprise
lunch- time, Somehow she never seemed
small honeymoon galetics
This
Broadway. Past Trinity church- "You mean Hunt?" to have time or spirit for the yard with doves wheeling in the "You. Met him eutside the Cen-i
Bunshine, ipast block after block tral Hanover an hour ago and it of stone facades and plate glass seemed a good idea at the time, more. She dressed in her boat and table d'hote restaurants and I've been trying to get you " the now gray sult, the postage haberdashers
WAN reprieve, Gypsy atomp hat porched on her shin-
thought, both for him and for her. Ing crop of curls. The spring
A hooded subway entrance. at She atoadled her voice, "Ob wind blow chaff and papers in the Park Place reminded her that she funt can take pot luck." she told stroots. The sun sent sint must be home before it was time him. "Let him come along." bright shafts of sunlight into the for Elsa to leave. She ran down
It was a perfect the stairs and clicked past the darling." She went up in the bronze ele-turnstile, paying her fare. There vator, smiling secretly at her own was the baby to be thought of:unnecessary vigour. So she was nj fan desk was now and did not crumbled to dunt around her Well, she'd show him! recognize her. She didn't give there was always David, small her name. Was Mr. Weaver In? and pink and trusting and fond.
gray canyons. day for an adventure.
"That's
a
good girl. That's Gypsy put the phone down with
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by MABEL
reserving it ever since for a special It lent a touch of elegance to meal, A simple affair of breaded pork chops and sweat potatoes and string beans,
Tom, who know how his wife had been treasuring the green turtle soup, lifted his brows in mild surprise as that course ap- peared. But Gypsy chose to ignore his faint marital signals. Two months ago they would have ex- changed glances of delighted re- cognition.To-nlight she ignored all his overtures.
Under har surface gaiety her thoughts beat a ceaseless tattoo.
·Hunt frankly envied-thoir- domes-
ticity and said so, and Gypsy amiled brilliantly and said noth- fog. If he only know
It was almost twelve: when he having stayed so late. He held rone to go, with apologies for Gypsy's hand for a fraction of n moment longer than courtesy de- manded. Admiration shone from
"It's been great," he told her. "Will you both come and dine with me some night and see a play?”.
"We'd love to," She felt a surge
It was one of David's good She never knew, later. how she nights and that was a bit of luck The girl, who had the head and got through the dreadful day. Gypsy was permitted to serve din shoulders of a wax mannequin Her throat would be dry, her heartner without a single interruption. spoke softly into a telephone and!
would beat thicky and painfully "I don't need any help," she had informed her that Mr. Weaver was just on his way out to lunch. When she thought of her husband's) told Tom with cool finality when his eyes.
homecoming. What would she say he followed her into the kitchen. What name?
"I'll wait here." Gypay sat in do him? How begin?
"Listen, darling, don't be mail. Elsa put on her gray coat and Honestly, I'm terribly sorry." Tom the deep divan which swallowed
big, soft, shapeless hat and went was frankly puzzled. She had up her smallness, In the
away. Gypsy bundled the baby been her old, laughing, delightful Eight ker gray costume
and carried him down to the self these past few days. Now Lip scarcely noticeable against the taupe background. Fresently she rambulator garage in the base she had disappeared into her sheil ihoard Tom's step and almost him out into the sunshiny street. from him.
ment of the building and trundled again; was cool, distant, removed started to her feet. But as he The day had turned warmer. All emerged from the corridor he along the pavemente balls were liteness was the variety reserved "It's quite all right." Her po- saw he was not alone. A tall, gilt tossed and small girls jumped for the perfect stranger. -haired girl was with him. He had rope. In a dark, narrow, stone- She had the table set with her her arm and was speaking to her pared schoolyard Home boys prettiest Ince and linen cloth, her earnestly. They seemned
utterly played marbles. Bedding tumbled beat china. Her red dress was absorbed. They did not see her
s they stood waiting for the out of second storey windows in a demurely cut, leaving her rounded i
down elevator.
block of run-down tenements and arms and throat bare. She had Gypsy sot her teeth, pushing nover looked prettler. There was Gypsy's heart felt as though an David's carriage along this par- an apricot flush on her checks and ley hand were squeezing It She ticular sidewalk. To-day she hated her eyes burned bright. Bat perfectly still as the elevator it all-city smells, rich, pulsating door clanged open and shut and life. On other days it amazed and cluded Tom's arms.
"Sweetheart Tom's laugh rang out as the car interested her, gave her a vivid ahot downward. The information sense of things happening. To "Will you see if the baby's all clork glanced up curiously as the day it irritated her beyond right? I thought I heard him rose to go.
stirring."
"Why, Mr. Weaver left just now. Didn't you see him?"
"No," she floundered, I'll bo back_later."
"Anything I can do?" The wax mannequin was helpful,
measure.
When she let herself into the
But ahe
"I'm busy," she said aloofly.
never
"OK." Tom wore a faintly apartment at o'clock the toke puzzled look. Gypsy hud phone was ringing shrilly. She boon in this particular mood be laid David carefully down upon) fore.
the bed he was peacefully asleep The little dinner was a complete -and hurried to answer it. Tom's success so far as the guest was! Gypsy's суев wandered past voice said, "Look, dear, it concerned, at least: The soup was her. Anything she could do? Elen's night In?"
a canned green turtlo várioty with
No, there was nothing anyone could "No. Why?" She thought, so sherry. Gypsy had bought it do for her to-day. She had truated we're talking commonplaces while months before in a moment of in
this winged boat invented by Fritz A remarkable speed is claimed for
Budia, of Berlin. The boat ad-
him so completely, so utterly; he's deceiving me and my heart's wonted extravagance and had beences by the movement of the winge
which can be operated by hand or foot.
MCELLIOTT
of genuine liking for him. He was simple, direct, and honest. You felt he'd never let you down
,,
Let down... let down. as Tomas doing. When he re- turned from socing Hunt to the olovator Gypsy was already at the out into the dishes. He camo
tho kitchen and took her by shoulders, --
"Look here, baby, you're dead.
(Continued on Page 13).
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