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Married Flirts
CHAPTER XLIY
madness that hud possessed him When Tom Weaver flung him-was cooling. He found the office self out into the rain that night he change to fresh clothes in His office deserted and managed to make the had no least idea where he was utterly unmolented. going. Anger ruled him for the moment that and an unacknowl
At 9 o'clock Mr. Clayton bustled edged sense of jealousy and frus-
Fin. tration. How dared Gypsy rush in I want to see. Want you to catch "Weaver! You're just the man with that impossible bounder, lank- the 11 a'clock for Cleveland." ine so utterly lovely, pouring out, that absurd and fantastic explana-into the briefcass. Tom had to
There were papers to be tucked, tion of her tardince?
hurry, he tried to telophone Gypsy because of course he would have to let her know-he wasn't com- pletely and finally a car). But the do not answer," in her maddening operator sald, "Sorr-ry. They sing-song several times and finally he gave up.
He rushed out. There was no direction In his iny a change of clothes when he He'd have to stepa, yet after a while, dripping, got to Cleveland. Then he'd drop be found himself outside Grand Gypay a note. Central station. The big terminal light-headed
He must have been at this hour was almost deserted. drink he had made at Vera's had
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night. That A few desolate souls ant drearily just set him off. He hadn't had about in the main waiting room; any dinner to speak of and that there were one or two cleaning green bottle must have contained. women about. The whole place what the mountaineers called heat- had a soul-stirring air of forlorn-lightning.
which nulted Tom's mood.
Ile was not conscious, really, of the storm as he planged out into it. The boy at the apartment switchboard looked at him curl- ously and said something about a taxi. Tom did not even hear him. He went out, hend down, charging like an angry stallion.
He chose a bench in a corner and
But there, scarcely thinking, steep-|He told her what hotel he would On the train he wrote Gypay. ed in his black despondency. It in at and would she send his was on, such mighty as this he things? And he was sorry brooded, that
chose thewould she forgive him? It had all river.
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vet
and
How long he sat there he ever
been pretty childish and irrational. knew, but after a time he was con- not to hear from her in a day or He was disagreeably surprised sclouts of a new life and movement, two. When he tried to get the
coming and going. It morning early,
wasapartment by long distance the indubitably operator said they did not answer. morning. Ile bestirred himself. He knew her family was going to His suit was wrinkled. He needed be away so he didn't even try the shine and he ran his hand over house in Blue Hills but sent a tele- the stubble of a beard.
gram. Gypsy to ignore all there, but she instead.. It' wasn't like did and be He searched the New York papers was rather alarmed. for comment on Derek'e accident but found none.
Well, he would go to the office. Curiously enough, the day before he had parked in his locker there a suit just received from the tailor. He had not remembered to take it home-or rather he had not wanted to carry it all the way to Tarry town and back. Yesterday how long ago it seemed.
After shave and a cup of coffee he felt better. He was a little bit ashamed of himself. The fever of
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but he had time to worry about He was very busy In Cleveland
his wife and child, to feel com- pletely cut off from them. He didn't blame Gypsy for sulklag. He'd acted like a complete ass, But when he explained all the cir-
FRIDAY,
JULY 6, 1934
by MABEL
MCELLIOTT
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camo into the foyer. "Was that Mr. Weaver I saw her a few min- utes ago?"
The hallboy looked blank. mail?"
"Then you didn't give him the
cumstances of the evening she the subway on his way to the ferry, would understand. He was in a He had caught sight of two-column fever of impatience to be back. headlines on a tabloid story,
This morning, after turning in "CLUBMAN DIES AFTER his reports at the office, he barged TEN-DAY FIGHT FOR LIFE: up to the apartment. Had Mrs. UNKNOWN WOMAN SOUGHT" Weaver returned? The hallboy) didn't know. But he buzzed the fever of exeltement. Derek Bliss You never tole me."
Tom had bought the paper in a
"Didn't know there was none. apartment and no one answered, was dead. In characteristle tabloid The superintendent shrugged, he hadn't seen any about. Well. No, there wasn't any mail; at least fashion the story rant
It was no affair of his, after all, "Derek Bliss, clubman and un-Those letters that had been coming that meant that Gypsy had got the ciniite, died, at 2:26 am, to-day in every day from Cleveland for Mes. letters-ant had simply left them Miss Blank's Nursing Home atWeaver might or might not be im- unanswered. pockets, frowning. It was darned rounding his ex-wife's penthouse came. He was a careful man so he
Madison avenue. Tom
thrust his hands into his or jumped from the parapet sur- and give them to her whenever she Bliss, who fell portant. He'd just have to wait queer he hadn't got a message of on June 28. was said to be despond. locked the mail up in his desk and any kind. Well, Gypsy was angry ent over the divorce, granted in told the hallboy to inform inquiring and she had every right to be. He Reno last month. His wife, the tenants that he'd be back about had neted badly. As soon as he'd socially prominent Lila totaling three: He had to go down to the changed his clothes he'd call her ing matrimony with Martin Scan- gone up into the apartment and Bliss, is rumoured to be contemplat-bank. at Blue Hills; take a chance on It, nell
Thus it was that when Gypsy (Marko) Broughton, Wall came and looked in her mail box anyhow, After that-well, didn't know what he'd do.
he Street king.. Polleo tre hunting for and peered under the door there
unknown The little rooma looked utterly been with Bilas at the moment heened. Tom had really dewarted her woman, sald to have was no message. She was fright- desolate although everything was fell from the penthouse roof. neat, in perfect order. In the Holaling Bliss, said to be in scclu-alarmed by the newspaper account Mrs. then! She had been thoroughly closet some of Gypsy's frocks hung sinn with friends, is reported to of Derek's death. There was noth Jimply, mute accusers. Tom shud-have suffered a nervous breakdowning to be ashamed of-nothing- dered. There ghostly about that brave, pathetic
something as a result of the tragedy." but if alte went to the police and
Tom ground its teeth. array. She must have left hurried-wouldn't even atop to telephone the would be binzoned in all the papers. He told her story, her name and Hunt's ly. the thought came; she took so house in Jersey. He would rush very Hitle The baby's
The hallboy was at the switch- crib, over there and if Gypsy weren't to board when she came in. He was primly made up. with its blue be found he would search until he new one and she didn't know him. spread and appliqued rabbit. mock-did find her, ed him with Its emptiness.
She went up to the apartment with David in her arms. David whim- (Continued on Page 4).
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