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Married Flirts
CHAPTER XXXI Gypsy had just fallen into a troubled sleep after tossing rest- lessly for hours. The shrilling of the telephone startled her bolt upright in her twin bed, Across the way Tom stopt soundlessly one arm flung over his head.
She stranrbled for her mules,
to dress.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1934.
by MABEL
McELLIOTT
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"Daddy," she gulped. "He's hurt! a fever of suspense. Har knees, thought proudly, that he was mis after an instant the crackling figure It must be very serious. Mother were shaking, her hands fey. taken if he thought she was going of the nurse followed, leaving says to come right away."
"Here, let me take him." Tom's to make a fuss. Why, to make a Gypsy, free to confer with the capable hands took the bundle from fuss now, with Daddy desperately physician. She was clinging to him, sobbing her and she was free to rush up fil, would be the worst thing that "You can tell me the truth." she
though her heart would break, the worn steps,
could happen!
begged. But the moment of weakness was f
"How did it
"It's very grave. It may be. soon over. She began fronziedly Clytic opened the door sound- Mrs, Morell sat down in the low he hesitated' on the words. "It may lessly at their approach, an un-chair bestile the machine in the the a matter of hours. That's why I've got the car in town. That's familiar Clytie in a black dress pot sewing room. It was untidy, lit-I suggested you should come." could not and them in the dark, lucky." Tom was already knotting on hastily, her woolly mop all awry.tered with scraps of chiniz. There "But can't we do something-yet and rushed to silence the clangor his tic, fully dressed. He looked
were white threads all over the summons. There was some
"The doctor any hg very thing unearthly about being awak-pals and serious,
"Oh, you have?" She hadn't Clytie anld, rolling her eyes. "He noticed or cared.
"I've already phoned Martineau oned thus in the dead of night. known this and it was significant. way you come right up." She "He went to a board meeting...Dr. Henle Martineau at New- Everything looked eerie in the She and Tom hadn't been telling renched for the baby and held him the town board," Mrs. Morell said ark," he told her. "He's a bruin darkness; the telephone table and stool vere & dark blob against the each other things these days. But with a capable air, leaving Tom to lifelessly. She had been weeping man. He'll be here presently. If
she didn't care now why he had it follow Gypsy up the broad stairs. but she was beyonil tears now, Shehe Insta until morning. nor how. All that mattered was Everything in the big house was spoke mechanically, as though she Gypsy paled at the words.. How "tello Hello!" Her heart was that it would get them to Jersey hushed. Beatrice and Bertram sat had been all over this ground becold and unfeeling all these people let thudding painfully. It might be a las quickly as possible,
gravely on the window seat at thefore, "He usually gets home before were! Why, they couldn't wrong number of course, it might When they got down to the head of the staircase. The girl twin 11, but when he didn't to-night Daddy dle like this. It wasn't be. Ne use borrowing trouble.
stroet, the sleeping baby on his had been crying. Her eyes were wasn't worried. I thought he'd fair. He had watched over them There was a faint buzzing at the
shoulder, father's
they
found red-rimmed and the handkerchiefbeen delayed. It Reems he was all, protected them, and now they other end. Then she heard her broken clouds scudding over the she pressed to them was sodden, alone on the River rond. The rains were letting him slip away without mother's voice, infinitely shaken, face of the moon. The day's rain. She whispered thit Gypsy was to had washed away some of the trying to keep him.. infinitely weary.
the week's rain, was quickly dryinggo straight up. Mother was wait-shoulder. He must have been turn- "You've got to get him," she said "Gypsy!"
in the gutters as the west winding for her.
ing oal to avoid someone, You fiercely. "Tom could go and bring She said "Yes!" quickly, pas- blew through the narrow streets. The wide room with the old-know Daddy never did like driving him." Kionately, as if by so doing shei "Two o'clock," Tom offerel, a fashioned rounded bay, the room at night." she interpolated pathet "My dear child, everything will.
Rest assured of that. might take whatever trouble there the attendant wheeled the little car; Gypsy remembered from earliest feally. "They say it happened at be done. was from the frail, sloping should-out into the middle of the big girlhood as "mother's room," was 10.30. The car clock stopped then. But we can't perform miraclea." ers of the woman in Blue Hills, empty concrete garage. It was cold, still and orderly now. A twist of And they didn't find him the Tom put an arm around her to Something dreadful must be wrong, dreary, desolate. Only this man, in white paper shaded the lump on policeman didn't-until he made steady her, Below stairs they her thoughts r'an. Something his shabby blue overall, yawning the little chorry table beside the his rounds at quarter past 1. They could hear Clytie murmuring to the dreadful...what?
Doctor Bannerman was there, brought him home" Her eyes be-child who had wakened and blinking over a copy of a detec- bed.
moonilt wall.
"Gypsy, father's been hurt. "He's
very..
"She did not catch the rest. There wam a cold sweat on her palms now, on her forehead. There was sick
still.
now.
were
tive magazine, was visible: Gypsy Mrs. Morell was there. A nurse gan to fill again and she shook her Otherwise the house was deadly shivered and held David's warm, was there. Gypsy, who had been brad, unable to go on. limp softness close to her as Toni frightened before, was transfixed
"I'm frightened," Gypsy whim- teok his place beside the wheel, It at the sight of the latter. If Daddy | Gypsy's eyes sought the doctor's.pered when she noi Tom was strange; it was all strange and had nurse he must indeed be "Concussion," he said briefly. He alone again in the hall. "I'm neas at the very core of her being.infinitely terrifying. They plunged desperately ill. The Morells never hasn't regained consciousness." | frightened. Tell me what to do,
"Mother, how? Where?"
into the maw of the Hudson Jun- had had a trained. nurse in the "If I might see you for a moment. Tommy " "A car; don't ask me now. Buthels and flashed by solitary police- hause except once for a day and doctor?" The nurse was in the ; It was like being a child again, hurry. Tom's there?"
men who gazed at them incuriously, night when Mother came home doorway and Gypsy hated her, her alone in the dark, desperately "Yes, yes, of course! We'll come Duce on the other side of the river, from the hospital.
self-possession, her almost smiling afraid. right away."
Tom made time. The roads were The doctor caught sight of Gypsy |enim. her assurance. If Daddy She went back into the room She heard her mother sigh, as if empty except for nu ocensional and Tom in the doorway and said were going to die.. in Daddy where the sick man lay, motion- In mortal sadness. Then the re-ruising taxi,
something inaudible to Mrs. Blorell, were going to die
less, in the shaded light." At least ceiver clicked. She was alone in "Fifty minutes." Tom announced She lifted apathetic eyes, and fol Airs. Morell started up. "He's she could be near-could be on the vast stillness of the night.
us thi paared the first sign read-lowed him out into the hall. not to he left alone,” she said hand if he (blessed and unbeliey- A light flashed on down the halling, "You are now entering the He
a warning foresly. "1 told her particularly able miracle!) were gave the girl
to open his and Tom came out of the bedroom, incorporated village of Blue Hills: glance behind her mother's back. he was not to be left alone." She tired eyes. his dressing gown flung on over his 20 miles an hour speed limit."
**Perfect quiet." he said. Gypsy went back
To be continued, 1 pajamas, his hair rumpled small- Gypsy ant tense, rigid, her fin-1 boy fushton. Gypsy forget in thatgers curving around the baby's {' moment all their difficulties and shawled form.. Upper Dean street | misunderstanding. He was ajatu
home.. with lights in all her prop and stay, her beloved the windows and the doctor's coupe
parked in the drive. She was ini
partner.
to the sickroom
and
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