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THE

HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY, MAY 25, 1934.

by MABEL

McELLIOTT

Married Flirts

DEGIN HERE TODAY

[was aweet, aho was gay and inter-| angry, she was bewildered. Justį looked on, wringing his hands and her head instead of her heart. GYPEY NORELL and TOM WEAVER eated, friendly.

before dawn came streaking Into begging to be forgiven.. the groy canon of the street, alo fell uncasily sleep.

kre married the same day as LILA HOTAL- INU and DENTEK DL58. Kita specte to

her job, teaching in a settlement home.

The fire night Gypay and Tom spend in

.

Gypsy was almost speechless live in luxury, but Orper intende keep with fatigue when the taxi dopoa

ited them at their own door. Tom

Breakfast was a dreary affair. the old friend of Ton lephones. Tom Stil silent, ho unlocked the door The Weavers were scrupulously their New York speriment VERA GRAY, helped her out, without a word. weka her to funtheon la mert Gyper, but and stood aaldo to let her into the pollte to each other.

Gray can't leave her work. Later Yer

call and the two girls dlalike auch other, dark apartment. Gypay switched "More tenst, Tom?" their honeymoon in Europe. Life saks then the hall light, yawned, dropped

Weeks later Lila and Derek return from

WeAreTe in dioper. Among

wealthy MARKO DROUGHTON, who once

BLANCHARD.

Mackintosh's

windows

are worth

your...... attention

On the subway she road hor But apparently Tom was the sort morning paper. It seemed to hor of man Women ran after. Sho there were more than the usual looked gloomily down a vista ín number of divorce stories, although which she rescued him from doz- goodness knew there were always ens of affairs. "I can't stant It" enough of them. She read them she told herself, in despair. "I with newly sharponed interest. won't." "No thanks." Business of con- Mr. B.

of riveraide Drive was

That evening, when Dinah had the queste her wrap into a chair. Then she sulting his watch, Just a distant | marrying

ing his beautiful secretary as cleared away and was clattering soon as his Reno stay was ever. happily in the kitchen, dropping aaked Grper, iz marry him. ile showers her stily picked it up again. It was politeness.

of Yonkers was gel- aluminium saucepans with vigour with attentions which, the accepts because all very well for the idle daughters

"We might," Gypay reflected, Mrs. W. jealous of Tom's interest in HILDA of the rich to behave so with their gloomily, "have been married for ting her decree and shortly there- and slamming, spoons 'down upon

party clothes. As for hor, she centuries."

after marrying a Slavic nobleman. the metal topped table, the Weav- must take excellent care of the few He came back into the living It was, thought Gypsy, frightening,ers "had it out." CHAPTER VIII

she owned, because it would be a room with his overcont on, his gray Didn't anybody stay married nowa- It all began quietly. - Gypsy The evening, on the whole, was long time before she would be able seft hat in his hand, to say good-daya? She had never thought of started it with a remark about far from being a success for to afford others,

bye. Gypsy'n lip trembled a little divorce, befers this, in connection Marko. Tom said something cut- This this really was dreadful! with Tom and herself. But her lug, and she flung back at him, all Gypsy. Sho tried flirting mildly

When she came out of the bath-Where was Tom? Where was her thoughts were morbid this morn-her good resolutions gone. with Marko, just to make Tom angry. But it was a thankless room, having scrubbed the heavy own boy? She couldn't find him, Ing. business. She didn't really want scent of tobacco smoke from her in this stiff and formal stranger. "Nonsense. Nothing has hap-) "I noticed Ida Blanchard held to quarrel with Tom. The very hands and face, wrapped in her "It's Dinah's night on," she told pened," she told herself, robustly, on to you all evening," she Bald, thought of it turned her just a woolly robe, Tom was already wait-im. "Dinner at seven."

Ez vonven't even had a crogabitterly. "Right. At seven." And he was

No, but she had discover. little sick. They had been so Ing. His own things were neatly

"That's good." Tom's face was happy. What serpent had entered, folded and laid across a chair back. gone.

ed how angry she could be with flushed. "You were listening to Men's Wear Specialists suddenly, into their little Tom, she reflected, was that rare She sat down and cried. She Toni. Why, last night when Hilda everything that old chap said. "You

bird, a Eden?

tidy husband. At least, couldn't help it. Well, she had no Blanchard had been so possessive didn't pay any attention to me." It was one o'clock. It was two. from all she had heard, such crea-time for this. A business woman with him, she had wanted to claw It was terrible It was three. And the music went tures were rare. She gave him a wife didn't. She'd have to hurry her eyes out--and Tom's too, for. They quarrelled in low voices, so

in brief Inquiring glance and saw that Bath. gathered

Cold crenim. Dash of lip-being such a goose.

that they should not be heard above clouds and the glasses were filled he still wore the frown he'd stick, Hoavens, she looked a wreck! Jealously, Gypsy decided, was a Dinah's clamour, but even in the and emptied. filled and emptied adopted when they had left the What cirdes she had under her dreadful thing. was so unres- kitchen, she stopped slamming kot-

Was Tom going to sulk? | syea!

soning, it was such a bitter, black ties about and stood to listen. again. Her head began to ache thers. and her spirits flugged. Looking Oh, she hoped not. Gypsy, herself, Well, there was no help for it. emotion. It

a disease. hands akimbo, shaking her woolly was like from one ince another, she won could never harbour a grievance. Maybe the circles made her look She had had a taste of it, before, head in sadness. dered fully how they stood it, night She had been taught never to let pale and interesting. She hoped when Tom had taken Vern Gray "Such nice young folks, too.” after night.. Why, she was only the sun go down upon her anger.so. She lost herself, as she rushed to lunch, She had told herself, Dinah mourned. 22, strong, almost without nerves,

brushed her hair, she into her dark blue knitted dress, when that incident had blown over, "I didn't want to go, anyway," and yet she tired of it quickly. could hear Tom's vigorous splash-in a dream of intense dramatle in- that nothing like this would ever Tom stormed. "You made me. Marko, who made the social rounda ing. She let her glance rove terest. In the dream, she wasted happen to her again. She would was your idea. We don't belong. so briskly, waa 60, and his skin around the little room and what she away to nothing and her husband be calm, judicial, she would use (Continued on Page 12.) was stretched tight around his saw she inevitably contrasted with

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on and the smoke

eyes,

As she

HeLila's exotic boudoir. Involuntari- he Beemed untiring. must havo unexpected stares ofly a sigh escaped her, strength to draw upon. Marko, "Don't you feel well?" Tom was reflected Gypsy, was rather wonder- beside her.

full

"Just tired."

At three-ten (and how Gypsy He threw back the covers on his blessed her for i11) young Mrs. own bed. "Good night," he said, Wiltford and they must govery formally. He kissed her coolly there was something about on the check. Gypsy wanted to cry early start on the morrow. They out, to say something angry and were going south Springs. The party began to dis- integrate.

Hot

hurtful about Hilda Blanchard and the way he hid devoted himself to her all evening. But she was ac Gypsy's own farewells to her tually too weary to quarrel, al- hosteen were the hollowest of po. though n quarrel might have ite les. She hadn't enjoyed her cleared the air. She answered him solf at all. Sho was tired to death, in her turn coldly. Tom waited she was almost 1 with annoyance until she hud. got between her own at Tom and Jealousy of Illda neat sheets and green blankets, Blanchard, she WR0

Then he turned out the light, flung ashamed of herself for her mild the window wide, and got inte bed. flirtation with Marko,

Long after he was asleep, Gypsy And yet she said all the correct | Iny awake. She had to get up at things. Illa must come to lunch half past seven, she know that. with her downtown-woon. Oh, But just the same, she tossed and she meant that, all right. Lila turned, Sho was tense, she was

little

terrible.

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