THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 1934. -
Married Flirts
CHAPTER XLII
Now the storm which had been -threatening all the long evening |
MABEL
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have saved them both. Neither beds and dusted, all with a sick into its cradle. Somehow, though, Yesterday the plan would have would offer it.
heart, Once she called the hospital. she was not as overjoyél an she, delighted her. But now where Derek had been taken and should have beon. It dign't make " let you know," she prom- Then suddenly it was all over. she was told his condition was her liko Iunt. better, tirs realiza ised. Somehow she must keep the began in real earnest. The Bght As the thunder crackled and roared the same. "No change," said the tion that the only real feeling he knowledge of her personal disas ning flashed. The heavens trembled and the flashes of light flickered dispassionate volco at the third had about Derek's fall in rolletter from them. They must not be under the onslaughts of fierce, on and off the door slammed. floor desk. Hunt telephoned and, that he should have says his own worried just now. shattering peala of thunder. Gypsy stood unmoving. It was all in an apologetic tone, and he was kin Gypay shivered, not only because a bad dream, she kept telling her sorry if he had butted in last "I don't blame him a lát." Gypsy She dressed carefully and went of the storm but because of Tom's self. The whole thing-the din-night. Gypsy assured him it was said, of Hunt. Just the same her over to Lila's apartment about last words and the baleful expires-ner and Derek's accident and the quite, quite all right. She under-heart felt sore.
two o'cinek. Mra, Bliss slon he now bent upon her.
quarrel. everything. Present stood. They had all been a little Of Tom she simply refused to seeing anyone, Davies told her "I'm tired," she repeated. "I've she would wake up and find crazy last night, she said, and think. They had quarrated before, with a concerned face. There was had a dreadful time of it. Can't herself in her own amall bed and laughed shakily. Hunt had gone naturally; but not like this. He a trained nurse. They were giv. you see that? That awful scene Tom asleep opposite, his arms on to say he was lunching with would think things ove presently, ing her oplates. Mrs. Bliss hud with Derek.. She shut her flung over his head.
Sue. Thank the Lord, he added He would be sorry. Shi would not been hysterical. сует
But the clock ticked on inexor-with apparent irrelevance. the forgive him at once. He hadn't Gypsy went out into the warm, ""Don't try to turn_me_nside." ably, the rumble of the storm con- mess had been kopt out of the meant it or had she? How bright sunshine dazedly. Derek Tom
said bleakly, "I want to tinued, and when she flung the pers. Gypsy hart seen suddenly was she to get through the day? dying, Lila frantic, herself all at
She called her mother and learn-sea. What a topsy-turvy world! know what there is between you door wide only emptiness greeted and clearly what he had meant her and Gibson?"
her. He had really and truly to see. He was perfectly willinged that Daddy had taken his first She kept hörself busy somehow, She stared at him. "You know gone.
to play around with B young walk completely alone that morning. When Elan brought the smiling there's nothing at all.
She went back into the apart married woman, beau her to. par-
"We
plan to go up that place and slightly wilted baby back "Ah, but do 17 Only to-day ment and stared around her. It tlen, oven hold her hand a moment in the Adirondacks next week," Gypsy had the apartment cool and Vera,
He checked himself, was all over, their life together. too long at parting, ao long as it the pleasant voice fald. "We shaded and dim. Mr. Weaver but she had caught the name. The plans, the laughter over bud-didn't involve him any further. thought you and Tom might like would not be home for dinner un "D'you mean to any you discuss gets and bools, the kisses, the And he was going to seo Sue. to stay in the house. 's cool and til late Gypsy announced. Any me with that woman?"
Sue would take her advice and bequist”
how this was one of Elan's "carly"
they would make it up.
awer normally. Sho and Tom... and, in the street far below, one "So that's all right," she said next week! How was the to know could hear the wild shouting of aloud, putting the telephone back what next week would bring?] (Continued on Page 10.)
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promises, the shared delights.
He had the grace to flush. to "Well, that's that," she sold her old gay, careless self with him; Somehow Gypsy managed to aa-nights. So the maid went away answer honestly. "Of course, T
datly in the silence. It wasn't don't. What do you take me for? that she hadn't honestly and sin- But she said something.
cerely tried to make a go of it but Gypsy felt her temples pounding, she had falled, even as Lila hud. There was the beat of slow anger | Maybe marringes weren't meant to in her blood, Vară.
Vera succeed nowadays. If you wont when would this woman's at them in the old-fashioned way name cease to enrage her?
(as she had determined to work and suve and cleave one man, you bored him. if you behaved as Lila had you crashed up in more spectrealar fashion.
In measured accents she naked, "You were with her to-night then? At dinner, perhaps?”
Tom, made to feel in the wrong, woaded to furious retaliation, The crisis left her light-hended. shouted, "No, not at dinner. She moved quietly about undress- might have dined with her but noing, an as not to disturb the baby. -like a fool, I was being faithful} Her mind fell fight and free now.. even in spirit to you. I acted like quite apart from her body. She a blithering idiot, and, she's a nice would have to make plans. She girl, too. Simple and direct 'and would have to spare her family, honest,
Daddy.. It was a long time "Ha! I like that!" Gypsy saldater an hour perhaps after she bitterly.
Judd crept into bed that she began
"You leave her out of this. to cry. She's got nothing to do with us.
"It can't happen as simply us
The facts are that you've been out this," she said to herself. "Oh, nt a wild party with this man till Tommy-Tommy!" all hours. I'm sick of it. We
might as well admit we're in- The day dawned bright, smil- ished. There's no use going on.ing, clean washed after the rain. And now this last hideous mess-There were things to do, to keep to have your hume dragged through hand and heart bury, Thank God, a scandill I tell you I'm not thought Gypsy dully, remembering having any more it. I'm Lila, for things to do. Breakfast getting out"
to get. Orauge juice and cereal She drow.. herself up. "You and toast and milk for David. She can't talk to me like this," she could not ent-she simply could not said, her voice shaking. "If you feat. And bathing David. And walk out of that door now it will waiting, with a sort of stricture at be the end of everything for us." her heart, for the telephone to
His hand was on the knob. His ring,
face was white with anger. They But Tom did not call. Not all ware like two focs lacked in dead- through the long morning Blea ly combat. Neither would' give an came and Gypsy sent her out with inch. One gesture, one look might the baby In his cab. She made
Of to be'in England now that the summer-and
real summer is come.
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