THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1934.
Married Flirts
CHAPTER XXXVII
by MABEL
McELLIOTT
woman. There were plenty of Tom would flush, stammer, get; One night after Tom had closed, flowers, and her wide shallow- things he would have liked to dia-out of it. Of course, Vera under the door after their guest he came crowned hat. She felt cool, well
· Tom didn't understand tho
and dressed and happy, a delightful change that had come over Gypsy Cues with her outside the office stood. Of course, he was busy. It back into the living room
stood, thoughtful and silent, for a combination. Her steps fairly- but he was grateful for the newer mind was keen. She had a was quite all right.
feline shrewdness. And so it was "Darn it all," Tom would mutter moment. Hia quiet, listening atti-{danced along the crowded pave- peace and galety in the house. that he fell again and again into to himself Inter, "I'd better runtude gave Gypsy pause.
ments and when she came into the Although Vera's name was never small traps of her making. He out on that girl. This will come mentioned, her presence in the city would be lurching at the sandwich to no "good."
deep, high-ceiled hotel lobby with its furniture alrondy gay In sum- mer allp covere It was with an almost overpowering sense of well being.
Vora and
bakind
have-
But the first words Sue said to
"What's up, daring?" He stared down at her. "I've just In the office, in Tael-appeared bar and she would appear bealdo Later, at home, he would talk come on something. That chap'a'lu¦ no longer to trouble young Mrs. Weaver: Tom had heard of letting with a plate of cold cuts and to Gypsy about the Whitman mat- love with you."
salad. Tom would listen, talk, ter. "I got that soap account I told She burst into a peal of laughter. sleeping dogs lie and believed in amile while the lovely woman at you about," he would say with be-Where did you get that iden?" Sue, in this dim light, was pale. the axiom Vera was still pretty his side, her gilt hair just show coming modesty at dinner.g Heididn't smile. "Happens to be Her forget-me-not eyes were andr- anxious to know why she and ing under the, demure,small hat, "Oh, really, dear? Now where did true."
muus and the few faint golden "Tommy dear couldn't be better would murmur, encourage, applaud: I put that carving kalte? On where Gypsy, was annoyed. - "Tommy, frockles on the bridge of her small friends. She pretended to belleve
"You handled Whitman exactly did Elsa, put it? She's getting so you nover talk that way. Wa=]nose made her white skin look al- she had done something to offend
careless ...". Gypsy would put it's not a bit nice of you, really, most translucent. Gypsy felt him. In a thousand small ways she right, Tommy." contrived to be near him, and yet
Think so?" Even a clever man down the platter with the steak. We don't go in for this sort of pang of concern. Why, Sue was ill,
"Sit down while everything's hot. thing, do we?"
really ill, and not one of them so innocently were the encounters likes flatters, Tom Weaver was darling. What was it you were
"Sorry, darling. Forget it. May-had noticed it! managed that he could never be cerno, stupid and he enjoyed appre-saying about something?"
be I'm just imagining things." They sut over their ten, two well tain they had been engineered. If clation.
dressed
young women with pleasant "It had not been for Gypsy's earlier "Do I think so?' I know it, you] · Tom might sigh a little. They dropped the subject then voices, and no one noticed them
auspicions he would have put him-blessed Idlot." Vera's flashing wasn't that Gypay lacked interest, and there but neither of them particularly. One -Was--dark--the- .self down as a fatuous fool for smflo belied the words. even considering the matter. "Bert's having the gang at his She had plenty of it but she was forgot it entirely. Gypsy lind alather red-haired, and they behaved,
But there were no two ways place Monday night. I wish you just wrapped up in other affairs. ways said she desplacd young mar- the casual onlooker would about it, he couldn't ever bring could get up there. The Manners She might notice, he looked a bit ried women who carried on irta-said, like old friends.
tlons-either openly or downcast. Gypsy together. They people are coming. They'd be use-
"Tell me more about It, darling," thele husbands backs. It all Gypsy were scarcely what the cas didn't like each other and never ful," Vera would say with a spec she might urge; "You know I'm seemed pretty cheap, somehow anal onlooker would have guessed would: Veru was a good business (ulative look.
thrilled to hear.""
But she found the thought of them to be. She said, "I wanted And Tom might go on but the Hunt's king her wasn't entirely to see you before I went away. first rosy glow of his enthusiasm unpleasant. Why, when she had I'm terribly ill. I may not be in would be dimmed. He would har been jealous of Tom, angry at him New York again.". bour the suspicion that Gypsy was because ho had been seeing Vera "May not be why, Sue dear! more concerned about the sauce, for Gray, she had even entertained the Thin in dreadful What to it and the cauliflower than anything else. thought of irritating him with an why didn't you let me know be
Hunt Gibson had fallen into the admirer of her own. Of course fore?". habit of "dropping around" in the that was as far as she had gone The hand stirring the cup of tea evening. These were the first warm murely thinking of it. All wives, trembled and Sue's under lip nights of summer and in the city she reminded herself, do that at trembled, too. "It's nerves," she the spell was evident. Gypsy, Inmements; the spirit of retaliation said. "I'm all shot to pieces. I'm thin, many-times-washed organdies is neither a noble nor a beautiful going out west, to Wyoming, to from inst henson, would sit sewing one and she was ashamed 'now of Aunt Henry's. I shall stay there- under the amber Inmp.
hor sentiments.
oh, forever, perhaps!" "Come in," she would say wel-, Just the same, it gave her a comingly. "I thought you'd be out jamait, secret satisfaction to think at the Lido Club to-night. Ronay timt Hunt admired her. said you were all going."
Sue telephoned her one day and Tom would go
out into the asked her to come to tea at the kitchen to stir up a cool drink and Vanderbilt. their old meeting place, Hunt would 'explain lightly that ho). "I'd love to." Gypsy sald. "How had changed his plans at the last does it happen you're on the loose minute: something had come up. to-day?"
Occasionally he brought Sue with him-Sne, looking unusually pretty and extremely wraith-like theso days. But oftener than not he cante alone.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the mele.”.
A left-handar lunge by, a woman who holds a bludgeon in her right. Phole was taken during the riots at Minneapolis.
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But Sue was vague. She would explain, she said, when they met.
It was warm, clear and bright. Gypsy were her new printed silk, black with a scattering of field
Her eyes shone with urished tears and her volee shook. Gypsy watched her, troubled. Sue who had always been so happy-go-lucky, so utterly care-free-what on earth had brought her to this state?
"You've been, working too hard," she said. "And playing too hard in, the bargain. Why, only the other day Hunt said.
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Sue interrupted her, eyes glit. tering, "Hunt said what?"
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