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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1934.

Married Flirts

DECIN HERE TO DAY

GYTRY MONELL and TOM WEAVER are married the same day as LILA HOTALING and DENER BLISS, Lite expects to live in luxury, Int Dyper, intends to keep her job, teaching in

*seillement house.

by MABEL

MCELLIOTT

"Year" Her eyes shone. "I'm glad" Ho was like that.

breathless, staccato fashion.

liked the Idea of going. But hof self to filet of sole. "I ought to-across to her. Sho seemed favorisli. She chat-was finding it less painful than ho but I dare not, after this? ted, laughed, gestured, na though had expected,

She put her hand over her glass. her emotions were all at concert And yet and yet-Gypsy wns No, ale would not have any wine. He said very little, but you know The first night Grper and Tom spend in Pitch. She seemed thinner, Gypsy conscious within herself of an un- She looked up to find Dorok's eye when he was for you.... thetr New York apartment VERA GRAY, thought, but that might have willing sense of inferiority. The upon her. He smiled encourag- old friend of Tom's, Lelephones. Tem akbeen only the effect of the black chatter, the gowns, the give-and-ingly. He was nice. He most de- her to lunchron to meet drpay, but Gypsy can't leave her work. Later, Vern calls and frock, cascading into many ruf- take of these well-dressed young eldedly was. the two girls dlaliky esch_other.

flea. Or of her makoup, which people, all belonged to a different

their honeymoon in Europe, Lila Wenvers to dinner.

CHAPTER VI

"Mr. Bilas, air? Studio A, on

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the young man called Bobby, who

to

The dessert camo just then and The food was delicious, and was at Gypsy's right, hegan Weeks later Lils and Derek rette stressed a lilac eye shadow and world than hers and Tom's. What Gypsy, accustomed to Dinah's plain talk to her about the theatre.

made her eyes seem large and did they know of scrimping to and

uninspired dinners throo wistful.

make ends meet? They all sound nights a week, and to her own Oh, she must! She must go at Had she, seen "The Brigh Caro"? ed so assured, they threw off casual aronized efforts the reat of the once. The room was all black and references to smart restaurants:

It was grand. It was swell time, enjoyed it to the fullest. entertainment. She mustn't miss the 14th," The page boy with white and cherry. A bed made of the younger of the two men, Bobby She, could not help notfeløg, how-it.

curious, some

gleaming black Wiltford, tossed great names into ever, that the other young people answered Tom's question. Gypay's wood; n dressing table of metal. the conversation quite off-handedly scarcely touched what was on thuirngreesbis. Tickets to "The Bright his pillbox hat cocked nskew,

"I suppose he's what they call a plates. Before the éntreo heart was boating faster than white rug. A cherry show! anal. The prospect of seeing thrown over the foot of the white man about town," Gypsy sold to fairly served, all were smoking. La again was rather exciting satin coveriet. Cherry curtains, herself innocently. Hic looked pale Glasses were frequently refilled. in itself: and she had met Derek Lila, catching Gypsy's interested and vapid and exhausted besides her Often courses were carried away only once. The building was im- glance, surd, languidly, that she husband, whose summer tan had untouched posing. All its angles were ele decor. She hadn't chosen it her Tom seemed a true man and the thought it rather an amusing insted well into the early winter. gant in the modern manner Gypsy stole a shy, side glance at self, she added. Some decorator other just a vague shadow of one, she giggled to herself. What Tom na the elevator shot upward. Aunt Priasy know had run it up in, almost like a dummy in a tailors would they all say if they knew He seemed cool. No one could their absence.

guese what he was thinking.

"I'm a fool to be excited about 20 small a thing as a mere din- ner party," Gypsy chided herself "Why, my heart is going us fast as if I had an appointment with

the dentist.

"Derek's own place is beyond

window.

there," she said; carelessly, throw- Gypsy told herself loyally that ing open the door communicating all this surface glamour of the with a black and white shining art world meant nothing to her: bathroom. And aure onough, and yok, In her heart, she was just there

Was Derek's masculine a bit envious of them all, chamber, solidly maple and blue "I dont' want to be like this." aho cried, within. "But, olt,

Iand matter of fact.

The clatter, the tinkle of glass "Now come on down and meet they've got something I haven't and rise and fall of many voices, the others," she commanded. "You and I mind, I mind!" proclaimed Lila's apartment be- look simply sweet, dear. You al- Meanwhile she laughed, mado fore the elevator door opened. A ways do." And Gypsy folt com-the proper answers, and followed Filipino boy In a white cont forted. Perhaps she wouldn't be her hostess into dinner. Nothing bowed low at the entrance.

out of things, after all, in her lit-of her turbulence registered on her "Darling!"

tle old home-made dinner dress. Pretty wide-awake countenance, And evidently Marko wasn't to be Tom, across the table, nodded at here. The other guests resolved her and gave her the special look in black flounces. She was Car themselves Into personalities. that meant he thought she was! men a la mode. She was mystery, There was Hilda Blanchard, one of lovely to-night. seductive, alluring. Gypsy felt, Llia's friends; there were

That was Lila, rushing for ward, a now, strange, elegant Lila

two

Everything about this dinner)

were

all at once, the home-madeness of young men called, respectively, was perfection. Silver dolphins her own Maud Muller costume. It Danny and Bobby, both evidently held the flaring candles: the seemed to her there were a dozen nasociates of Derek in the financial flowers

white. The Ince people in the room, although later world; and there was a pleasant tablecloth must have cost a king's she was to discover there were only looking young woman who, Gypsy fansom. The Filipino boy slipped six, counting Derek and Lila. So presently discovered, was Danny's back and forth noiselessly with does a party in a strange setting wife.

tempting vianda in silver diabes

affect many of us. Meanwhile, Gypsy liked Derek. He was d "I ought to ask Lila to our Gypay was glad to be carried off,pale, bland, reserved young man place," Gypsy thought, helping her

up a fight of gleaming stairs, to with light brown hale and a dif lay her wrap aside and attend to fident smile. His manner, though the business of renewing her com- quiet, Was distinctly cordin!. plexion.

Gypsy naw with pleasure that he "Darling, how thrilling to see and Tom were "hitting it off" you after all these nges!" Lila well. Tom hadn't expected to like always talked that way, in the crowd .. hadn't, she knew,

Was

"It's a sin," Gypsy mourned, in her thrifty housewife's soul. Then

what she was thinking?

"Having fun?" Dorek leaned

Mr Franklin Roosevelt in the new hat creation the hec chosen for the Spring.

Gypsy murmured something

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