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Cypay

Mad Marriage,

By LAURA LOU BROOKMAN.

BEGIN HERE TODAY

Manners

about Marcia after all? I sup Mellele, 19-yearold New York one when I was sick you were Typis), marries Jim Wallace the day after she just sorry for me and that's why meets him at the home of her wealthy equain, Ann Trowbridge. Gyper has been fited by you tried to make me think ou Aien Crosby, ak returned from a year and didn't care about her. That's why Aanews has brukens their engagemens to marry you talked about going away for

vacation

a half di Pach studying art, Wallace's

richer man

Jim had thriving aw

millonate's son.

buat Anarial affairs - and later sells him

ber marriage to Phillips was malake, She declares she cares only for him. Jim tre

La main loyal to Gypsy but seen Murcia Frequently.

ankle in an automobile sotakon and during the say while the aprain is healing dimin anually attentive.

Als Crosby comes to see Gypsy, and tells'm to go about it?" her he loves her. Jin's arrival interrupte The Interview,

Gypsy mesta Alam

secubit

in in love with Jin, Nhe wome home, ta' tall.

THE

HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1931..

Prosently she raised her head. She remembered the evening when nke had said to Jim, “If you ever regret our marriage I want you to tail me about It." And he had pro- mised that he would. Little had she realized then what she was bargaining for.

She told herself that she should þe making plans, deciding about| her future. That would have to the future now? wait. What did she care about

back up the drive but did not look She heard the rondater come

heard Jim's footsteps on the stairs, out the window. A little later sho Cypay clasped her two hands ached as the footsteps neared her tightly, pressing until the knucles door and then passed on. had been

one breathless instant

on the door.

There

The house became quiet. Gypsy) at last undressed. The flowered chiffon which she had put on bo

Was now enuse Jim admired it

As she wrenched mp with tears. it to get it over her shoulders she She throw heard the fabric tear.

Jim and Gypsy go to Forest City where "Oh, don't bother to impute high

writes to motives to me! I don't deserve, Jalives saub Gypay. Alan o, s te her but the returns the leti unopened that.. We tried something ridi Marels Larins, Jim former dances are culous and it failed. Whether when she thought. Jim might knock

Santhy pear and Brock Phillips Bed is happen to be in love with some *fail from a horse. Marcin consulta din pie clse or not jan't the question. We made a bad bargain and I'm asking you in let me out of it."

"I'll let Gypsy worsien. he aprins her

you out of It," Gypsy told "I agree with you

Wi perfectly. you tell me how

"You'll have to have a lawyer. lime and arnds him away, telling him the I'll arrange that." He went on Jim she has been cured of the old Infatus-explaining technical details of the than arrives andarin line to dfonere divores, Gypsy tried to listen to what he was saying. She found instead that she was looking at the modelled perfection of Jim's chin.

"I'm afraid I'm not going to remember all this," she told him. "I think I'm tired. We don't have "I want you to free me. Bring to let anyone bere know about the an end to this farer that is sup divorce until after I'm gone, de posed to be a marriage.

Break We it off. We both should have known better in the first place than to try much a crazy thing. think it's time หม sensible"

m.

CHAPTER XLVI

Gymy could not believe that she had heard the words correct- ly. "You want what?" he asked, leaning forward.

I

Jin said that they did not. "About the alimony"he heran. "I won't nerept allmony! won't have it, Jim

You can't pay me anything for breaking a "Oh!" The girl interrupted bin marriage like this.

It wouldn't be "Oh, I see! You mean you want

[right. me to divorce you. Go away

"But you'll have to have some That's what you mean, lau't it?" thing to live on. What will you

nodded. "I suppose Jim

JE?

"Never mind about that. would be better if you'd go away.

can if you don't want to Rene take care of myself.

I'll

You'll have

is still the quickest placé. Of to pay the expense of the trip and course I expect you to bring the divores. I'm going to leave The unas soon as I can. It it would be charges against me. thing desertion or hecompatibili. best, don't you think?"

Then if you don't want alimony ty.

"You want a divorce!". As the make a settlement," Wallace girl breathed the words they were insisted.

"It's- Vigorously Gypsy refused to barely above a whisper.

Isn't it?" she went on.Consider this. Marcia,

tool, impersonal way or talked, "You're going to marry her?"

Jim

mot her

steadily. Well, why not? The divoree *"That Isn't quite settled yet.

would mean freedom to him, hap couldn't be as matters are.

piness with Marein. thongist you'd be reasonable about: this thing. I supposed you'd see it was the best way for both

TIR."

איוני

She noticed the

Gypsy rose to her feet, "You

don't mind if I go now, do you, Jim?" she asked. "I do just as Gypsy's lips were trembling. you say about all the rest. I'm "Oh, yes," she said, trying not sure yet when I can get away. steady them. "I see that it's the Day after to-morrow perhaps." best way

He said there was no need of

30 quickly, in

touch

with

BLOUKİ

the dress on a chair and left it there, a wrinkled heap, Instead of hanging it away. Very weary, she drew down the covera and got into her bel Over and over she tried to tell herself that some time this knife-like pain would cense. She would get used to it.

Others had suffered broken hearts and learned to endure it. How Ifterally true the phrase was! A broken heart. Her heart felt as though it were crushed and bleeding.

Pride carried her through, the ordeal of the next morning's break- fast, saying "Good morning" to Jimi as though he had not suddenly be come a stranger, pouring his coffee, trying to drink her own steaming cup while he sat buried in his news. paper.

They might have been rehears ing parts in a play, Jim said good- be and added that he would have more information about "that

matter when he returned in the evening. Gypsy nodded instead of trusting herself to reply.

She went about her customary household tasks. So long as she was busy with her handa she could fight off thoughts she did not have the courage to face. She avoided they Matilda, and Corn, afraid

her rimmed and would notice swollen eyes.

By mid-afternoon Gypsy was trying to find comfort in the thought that out of the ruin of her own dreams Jim would find

happiness. Jim's happiness should mean more to her than her own. Then she, thought about Alan, Was Alan as miserable as she now that she had sent him away?

They heard footsteps and both rushing away

On sudden inspiration she went turned. Matilda

iu the would get

He to the telephone. Crosby had told loorway. "Dinner is served. Mrs. lawyer in Reno to represent her.

aber he was stopping at the How- ard, un inexpensive hotel. Gypsy Wallace," she announced.

might take a few days. Always found the number in the directory his conversation seemed to veer and called it. bac back into ·legal technicalities

to "May I speak

Mr. which wire like 2 foreign Crosby?" she said. language to Gypsy.

Gypsy glanced toward her has band. "We'll come," she told the servant, and arise. The followed her into the dining roomn, “.

"Will you want to keep the house open?" she asked from the

ourway

"I hadn't thought about it. No. guess not. What do you think?" "Matilda's planning on three weeks at her brother's, You

There was the table with its snowy cloth and the gleaming Lapers. Gypay herself had placed the candlesticks. There was the low centrepiece of daisies and pink asters that she had arranged. There was food on the table but Gypay knew that she could not might get Cora and Sam to stay

Mechanically she sat down here."

Jim

drew the chair out for her. Jim announced suddenly that

As long as she lived the girl was he did not want the house open. never to forget that meal, Jim'a He would rather stay at the farl face, durkly tanned, and his eyes ton

avoiding hers, directly popasite

Gypsy said good night them and

She

over that mass of flowers. The turned toward the stairs, outlandish

could not endure another monient

festivity,

candles, symbols of

The knife in Gypsy's of that calm scrutiny. How Jim heart that was turning, turning must hate her to be able to look so that she could have cried out at her like that! from sheer physical paiu.

to 813 to Jim. The

lonthe her!

How he must

There was so much she wanted; Tears 'were blinding the girl words when she reached the top of the tumbled to her lips and then sud-light. Gypsy rushed into her. denly were silenced. Nothing room, closed the door and thung could be said now. Nothing!

She wept Matilda seemed constantly at herself against it. her side offering dishes which silently, the great sobs shaking her She wept as though

shoulders.

Gypsy merely looked at and shook her heart would break. Gropingly her head. Was the ment never tejshe turned the key in the lock st endt? Jim made an effort or two sank, face downward, on the bed. at conversation. He was doing it.) She had no idea how long she there. Exhaustion at Inst Gypsy stayed her

weeping. Moonlight

of course. for Matilda's benefit. lay To keep up appearances.

recognized this Tuet but could not tell across the bed when she fin-

play up to 1,

She heard hiț, mention the fact! that she was not eating.

tally sat up, white faced, and dried

her eyes.

Gypsy heard a sound outside and went to the window. She saw

"I had tea down town," she told he roadster, long, dark and pur- him. How long ago that seemed ring softly, slide down the drive. now. Two hours? It was like n

ነዪኒኬ፡

lifetime. At last the travesty of Perhaps Jim was going for enting was ended..

March. No, she knew instantly "There are a few things we that the thought was unworthy. ought to talk about." Jin sug However, Jim had wounded her li gested. "I ouppose there's less was still the honest, dependable, Chance of being interrupted in the straightforward man she loved. He was not engaged in a cheap library"

Gypsy nodded. As she stepped intrigue with Marcia Phillips. forward one finttering end of the Gypsy sat on the windowsill and drapery, at the side of her skirt looked out across the lawn. There caught in the doorway. She gave was a square patch of bright moon, a little exclumation. Jim bentlight bordered by the shadow from down and unfastened the

the hedge. It looked peaceful. silk.

The girl stiffed an impulse toqulet down there. The girl drow brush her fingers against his soft, back farther into the shadow of the sandy hair. She walked ahead of room."

him into the library and sat down It was strange that she should on a chair facing the donk. Jim not feel angry at Marela. She was took the desk chair.

not angry at any one. There wil "You want me to go right away, no room in her heart for anything I suppose?" Gypsy asked..

except the aching misery of los Suit your own convenience. I ing Jim. Losing? How could she was under the impression that the lose what she had never really had? #ooner affairs could be arrangod She would love Jim laways. She

the better it would be for both was sure of that. The thought of of us,"

long days of bitter loneliness Gypsy nodded. She was look-stretching out ahead frightened se at the floor. Presently she her. Gypsy hid her face in hor nald slowly, "So it really was true arms and wopt silently.

(To be Continued.)

Alan

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