THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1934.
Married Flirts
CHAPTER XXXI
by MABEL
MCELLIOTT
“Daddy," she gulped, "He's hurt! a fever of suspense. Hor knees thought proudly that he was mis- after an instant the crackling figure ays to come right away." It must be very serious. Mother were abaking, her hands ley, taken if he thought she was going of the nurse followed, leaving "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. her and who was free to rush up, would be the worst thing that the worn steps.
could happen!
"How did it..
Gypsy had just fallen into Troubled sleep after tossing rest- lessly for hours. The shrillingi
She was clinging do him, sobbing of the telephone startled her bolts though her heart would break. upright in her twin bed. Across at the moment of weakness wan the way Tom slept soundlessly, soon over. She began frenziedly One sem flung over his head: [to dress."
She scrambled for her mutes, "I've got the car'in town. That's could not find them in the dark, lucky." Tom was already knotting and rushed to silence the clangor-hia tie, fully dressed. He looked OUR summons. There was some pale and serious. thing unearthly about being awak- ened thus in the dead of night. Everything looked corie In the darkness; the telephone table and stof here a dark blob against the
hg.
"You can tell me the truth,” she begged,
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"It's very gruve. It may be.........' Clytle opened the door sounds Airs. Morell sat down in the low be hesitated on the words. "It may lessly at their approach, an un-chair beside the machine la the be a matter of hours. That's why familiar Clytle in a black dress put sewing room. It was untidy, lit-I suggerted you should come." on hastily, her woolly may all awry.tored with scraps of chintz. There "But can't we do something-get
"How is he?" Gypsy whispered, were white threads all over the somebody? Specialists "The doctor say he vary bad." shabby Axminster carpet. No one thing 7" "Oh, you have?" She hadn't Clytle wald, rolling her eyes, lie noticed or carvi known this and it was significant. any you come right up."
"I've already phoned Martinenu She "He went to a board moeting-- Dr. Hienle Martineau at New- Shearl Tom hadn't been telling reached for the baby and held him the town board," Mrs.. Morell sale ark," he toki her. "He's a brain each other things these days. But with a capable air, leaving Tom tofelessly. She had been weeping man. He'll be here presently. If she didn't care now why he had it follow Gypay up the broad stairs. but she was beyond tears now. She be lusts unti morning. moonlit wall.
[nor how. All that mattered, was, Everything in the big house was spoke mechanically, as though sho Gypsy paled at the words. How "Hello! Hello!" Her heart was that it would get them to Jersey hushed. Beatrice and Bertran gat had been all over this ground cold and unfeeling all these people thudding painfully. It might be a¦as quickly na possible.
gravels on the window seat at the fore, "He usually gets home before weret 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 die. like this. It wasn't No use borrowing trouble. street, 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 father's shoulder, they found red-rimmed and the handkerchief been delayed, It seems he was all, protected them, and now they other end. Then she heard her broken clouds scudding over theshe preaked to them was sodden, alone on the River road.. The rains were letting hini alip away without mother's voice, Infinitely shaken, face of the moon. The day's rain, She whispered that Gypsy was to had washed away Home of the trying to keep him. infinitely weary.
the week's rain, was quickly drying go straight up. Mother was walt-shoulder. He must have been turn- "You've got to get him," she said "Gypsy"!"
Ju the gutters As the weat wind ing for her.
ing out to avold someone. You Bercely. "Tom could go and bring She said "Yes!" quickly, pus blow through the narrow streeta. The wide room with the old know Daddy never did like driving him." sionately, as if by so doing, she "Two o'clock," Tom offered, as fashioned rounded bay, the room at night," she interpolated pathet "My dear child, everything will might take whatever trouble there the attendant wheeled the little car Gypay remembered from earliest ichily. They say it happened at be done. Rest nasured of that. was from the frail, sloping should-out into the middle of the big girlhood na "mother's room," was 10.30. The car clock stopped then. But we can't perform miracles.” ers of the woman in Blue Hills. emply conerete garage. It was cold, still and orderly now. A twist of And they didn't And him-the Tam put an arm around her to Something dreadful must be wrong, dreary, desolate.. Only this man, in white paper shaded the lamp on policeman didn't—until he made steady her. Below stairs they her thoughts, ras. Something his shabby blue overall, yawning the little cherry table beaide the his rounds at quarter past 1. They could hear Clytic murmuring to the dreadful .what?
Doctor Bannerman was there. brought him home" Her eyes be child who and blinking over a copy of a detec-bed.
had wakened now. "Gyདཱཞy° !
5. father's been hurt. He's 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 head, unable to go on,
LIL timp softness close to her as Tom frightened before. Was transfixed
"I'm frightened," Gypay whim- took his place beside the wheel. It at the sight of the latter. If Daddy Gypsy's eyes sought the doctor'n, pered when she und Tom was struge; it was all strange and had a nurse he must indeed be "Concussion," he said briefly. "He alone again In the hall. "I'm Infinitely terrifying. They plunged desperately . The Morells never hasn't regained consciousness." frightened. Tell me what ta da, into the maw of the Hudson Tun-had had a trained
nurse in thei "If I might see you for a moment. Tommy "
doctor?" The nurse was in the It was like, being a child again, doorway and Gypsy hated her, her alone in the dark. desperately self-possession, her almost smiling afraid. calm, her assurance. If Daddy She went back into the room were going to die. If Dards where the sick man lay, motion- ware going to die...
less, in the shaded light, At least
very
She did not catch the rest. There was a cold sweat on her palms now, on her forehead. There was sick nem at the very cure of her being.
"Mother, how? Where?" "A car; don't nak me now. hurry. Tom's there?"
"Yes, yes, of course! We'll come right away.
Tom made time. The roads were The doctor caught sight of Gypsy She heard her mother sigh, as if empty except for an occasional and Tom in the doorway and said In mortal andness. Then the re-feruising taxi.
something inaudible to Mrs. Morel, ceiver clicked. She was alone in "Fifty minutes." Tom announced She Hfted apatholic eyes, and fol- the vast stillness of the night. us they passed the first sign read-lowed him out into the hall,
A light flushed on down the holling. "You are now entering the He gave the girl a warning and Tom came out of the bedroom, incorporated village of Blue Hilla: glance behind her mother's back. his dressing gown flung on over his 20 miles an hour speed limit." "Perfect quiet," he said. Gypsy pajamas, his hair rumpled small- Gypsy sát tense, rigid. her fin-
Hotels and flashed by solitary police-house except once for a day and man who gazed at them incuriously.ja night when Mother came home Once on the other side of the river, from the hospital.
boy fashion. Gypsy forgot in that moment all their difficulties and misunderstanding. He was again her prop and stay, her beloved partner.
gers eurving around the baby's shawled form. Upper Dean street
home with lights in all the windows and the doctor's conpe parked In the drive. She was in
wore
Mrs. Morell started up. "He's she could be near could be on not to he left alone," she said hand if he blessed and unbeliev- forcaly. "I told her particularly able_miracle!) were to open his he was not to be left alone." She tired eyes, went back to the sickroom
(To be continued.)
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