THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
Married Flirts
AB
glopt.
SATURDAY, JULY
1934.
by MABEL
MCELLIOTT
was on the streets of the elty.
the
CHAPTER XLV
roses drooped over The gateway, a lonely place.
The Polish woman at the col- She did not know how long she There was only one thought in his withering unplucked. When Gypsy got off the train Gypay thought the taxi driver lapsing gray, house looked at her had been asleep (it was too dark mind and that was to get to Gypsy she could see the blue line of the looked at her oddly as he turned curiously and brought milk in a to read the dial on her wrist quickly, to act her right on
slow, events of the past ten days. He Sound far to the left. She drew away. With the key which Tom tin pail. Sure, she could get, it watch) when she heard a long breath. She held David up to and ahritys kept in his top drawer to-morrow. Sure, one of the boys stealthy sound. Wakened, she sat know her mercurial temperament see and he blow an ecstatic bubble she unlocked the door and stopped would bring it around. Gypsy boit upright in the darkness, every well enough by this time to-be as she lifted him into the lone, tax inside. She heard the chug-chug looked at the brood of tumbling norve strained to hear. The sound fairly certain she had left her drawn up beside the station plat of the taxi with relief..
children in the dooryard-two or came again. It was na if someone father's house that morning in n
mood of complete desperation. three lank little girls and a tow tried the outer door. form. In the clear wash of mid-
"“It's probably a mouse, she told or two-and
"What she might do, I can't summer sunlight the outlines of
Well, at least she was here. headest baby boy
." he said to himself and her surroundings were sharply After all her long,, dispiriting, wondered if she might borrow one herself; but in her heart she know think. otched. Scrab pak and evergreens desperate day, she was safe, within of the older children for the night it was not so. With crystal clar-drove the faster for the black Ity she saw herself at every stage shadow that clamoured, unad- against a background of white, four walls. She put David down. It would be company. white sand. Beyond a struggling on the big, flat white bed In the But that was silly, she reminded of her day's Journey; on the train, mitted, at the door of his mind.
the forry, in the crosstown car, the Without plan, without conscious rond to the beach. After the train small room opening out of the herself. She would be safe wound away there was silence here. sitting room and flung off her hat. safe. Her nerves were jumpy late tax to Penn station and the train thought he drew up at the entrance and the cab here. Ah, that was to the apartment where Hunt utler and complete, and the girl in
"Was he hungry? Did he. wantly, that was all.. the blue linen frock with the white
hia suppor?"
It was half past six when she what she had been trying to re- Gibson Ilved. He had been there rat just once, to see a pipe collection capped baby on her knee, shivered, In her bag she had a few tins got back to the house and David member that driver's can.
like face, the curious look he had of Hunt's. He remembered with Her thoughts, released, sprang of pureed vegetables. There was had begun to whimper.
fixed upon her she had paid shame the last time he and Gibson buck once more toward what she a farm about a quarter of milo! He was hungry. He was bath-him! She had no one to call, no had mét. He, had behaved like a had been fleeing. Was she, real-away, she remembered, where they ed, fed and tucked away in the big weapon. There not even a churl but this was no time to stand ly, a deserted wife? Was she "the had been accustomed to buy milk. bed before the tumbled girl in blue telephone. Who ever heard of a back because of false pride, He whom, pre- Could she carry the baby all that linen thought about her own sup beach house, used only four months would ask Hunt, simply and sumably, reporters and detectives way or dared she get him to sleep per. Besides, she wasn't hungry; of the year, with a telephone? humbly, if he had any lenat iden Mought in the death of Derek and leave him while she went to Sho made herself some tea and Sho could feel the nerves tin-where Gypsy might be. Biles? Ridiculous! And yet, grim-fetch it?
choked down a few of the crackers, gling along her spine. The child Hunt was in. He wore a rather ly, it was true. She was trembling She lighted the water heater-After she had tidied up she saw beside her stirred and breathed a constrained air as Tom presented with fatigue. The day had been & thank heaven there was all that the slindewe were lengthening. long sigh and Gypsy held hor himself at the door. Tom made, long one, with a journey by train, and investigated the contenta of In the silence of the pince only the breath. Whatever happened haste to state his case. The other by forry, by yet another train, but the shelves. She had been pretty deep wash of the waves could be whatever came to pass he must man shook his head. He didn't her physical sensations were blott-sure Resina would have left some heard. Boom".. Booo-com!
not be terrified, her little son. know, a thing, he said. Sue might. She threw her robe across her If Tom would step inside he would ed out by an agony of mind which supplies. The beach shack was comprehended that all her running used as a sort of week-end place
She drow the shades and shoulders, trying to still the chat-telephone her. of no actual avall. by all of them although really it switched on the electricity. There toring of her teeth. It seemed to
Tom lifted his brows when Hunt One could not run away from one-belonged to Tom. Neither he nor were memories to haunt bor in this her they sounded like castanets in
Gypsy had visited RCH!
of it this year. litle house memories
Oh called Sue "darling" but he two the dend allence of the room.
relieved, just the few buoyant young people in a gold God, send someone, she cried in-said, "No, I don't think he's tried This particular rond w an-scattered cano-one of peaches, and blue September, beginning life wardly! But only the faint, far that." He put his hand over the
unknown woman"
away
was
was
was
Rame. Hunt
The taxi jolted over the bumps. Sure enough, there were #
speakable and the driver glanced tin of tomato soup, a round con- together. The kirl had been off splash of sea against 'sand back at her over his shoulder, tainer with salted crackers. There young and carefree and loving. the replied. grinning a sort of apology. He war was tea in a blue canister. And, boy hnd adored her with every With ebaking knees she erent thought of Wading Hollow?"
mouthplece. "She says, 'Have you
rough-looking fellow in a ragged best of all; there were two cartons breath that he drew.
Tom struck his palm into hiạ over the sill into the sitting room. cont. She wild not remember of cereal. David would have bis But there was no good going She shut the door behind her. She hand. "What a consummate fool having seen him at Wading Hollow supper, after all.
Into all that now. The bright had a flashlight in her hand, an am" Gypsy had said she loved before.
child?
knew what might happen
So, her regrets.
All at once panic seized She debated about fencing him dreams had been broken and tar-old one of Tom's. For courage, the cabin above all places. It her. What was nhe doing in this in with pillows and leaving himinished. Night ħad closed in as if to feel the touch of his warm might be that she had sought it expanse of sca and uky, alone with while she went for the milk but around her. Gypsy was alone in Angers on her own, she held it out in her wild flight. this small. adorable, dependent decided against it. You never this house with her memories and clone. The knob turned.......
"Who's there?" she said clearly, She directed the driver. It was with the heavy baby on her nem, Fatigued beyond telling, she There was no answer. just a few hundred yards beyond, she started up the uneven road crept at Inst into the bed beside The door moyed an inch she xaid. Yes, the little house toward the farm. I na longer her sleeping child. It was a moon-it was open. In that split second with the white gate. But na she way, than she had remembered less night but the stars were out, she screamed. sighted and took out her purse and she stumbled with weariness From where she lay she could see to pay him sho saw no one. The on the Inst few yards. She had the bright path they made nerosy Tom drove like a man demented green door was shut and mambler passed no one on the road. It was the sky. After a time
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Hunt said, "Wait a second and face was eager, "The Bliss story face was eager. "The Bliss story has quieted down," he said no he got into the car. "I wonder if Gypay could possibly have worried Jabout that. I hope not. I under
stand Broughton has hushed the
continued, a lot of things he want- ed to talk to Tom about on the way down. He and Sue were going to be married in the fail.
she through the tunnel, and now he whole thing up." Hunt had, he
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Tom scarcely heard. He was driving like wild now, out on the open road. His one thought was To get to Gypsy quickly.
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