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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MAY 28, 1934.-

Married Flirts

DÉGIN BERE TO-DAT

GYPSY MORELL and TOM WEAVER_arr married the esine day se Lila HOTALING

her job, teaching in a settlemant house,

The seemed alightly grumpy.

[dozon youthful faces.

by MABEL

McELLIOTT

IIis great laugh rang out, and umphantly finished the gume. *

to

"You brought me luck, darling." "Fiend!" Svo muttered, pretend-

Gypsy went to gather her things

together and Sue went with her.

"I thought we were going along: "This is fan!" Hunt Gibson was Tom Weaver, across the room,; and DEREK BLISS, Lils expect to lire ta homo early," he observed, watching at Gypsy's right. She smiled at moved one of his pink "men" five luxury while Oppay Entends to go on with Gypsy running a comb through her him, liking the loan ranginess of spaces and wondered what this

be talking about jing to be furious. After returning from her honeymoon in wet curls. "Your mother says him. He was far from handsome, chap could

this engineer from the Europe, la invites the Weavers to diner we're staying for supper."

remote Gypsy I haven't forgotten," Hunt Among the trenta in wealthy BARKO "Ah, darling, I thought you'd un-places of the earth, but there was BROUGHTON, who once asked Gypaz.to

definitely attractive contributed, in the silence that fol marry him. He showers her, with altentkunderstand that we couldn't run away something which she accrple because she is Frakou of like that," she began placatingly, about him, Gypsy decided. He had lowed. "I just don't think It goes After the gerty Tom and Byper quarres, but "I haven't seen Sue for ages-we way of talking slangily out of together-the job and marriage."

Gypsy tossed ber hend, “Ah, but ever seem to have time any more, the side of his mouth; and We don't want to turn into her stories wore delightful.

it goes. I'm proving it." mits, do we?"

"You are, eh?" He rubbed hin "Bot you didn't have anything chiu, considering this. He rose, but she looked pleased. "I'm gind." "Do you? Sue's tone was casual, like this in Alfghanistan. Sue resting one foot on the fender, and

Tam interent in LDA BLANCHARD.

peace is inter restored.

They spend most of their weekends with

Gypsy's parenta in a New Jersey kalnrk-

CHAPTER X

"No, but I want you to myself Home time, you know that," he

against her glowing round one.

his

"I like your cousin," Gypsy told the other girl, idly, perching her beret at an Impossible angle and reddening her lips with "expert Ongers.

The hall was full of the scent of grumbled, laying his young chenk challenged, leaning across the table. fghted n cigarette with deft lean and Dnet, get back," Gypsy went

wood fire as they came in, rosy and glowing from the out of doors. Gypsy's hand was linked in Tom's.

She

"We oughtn't to go before Mums "You bet your life I didn't" be fugers. "Well, perhaps I'm wrong. on. "Clytie isn't in, and I don't drawled, staring down at the girl Just an old-fashioned. boy." He like to leave the twins alone." beside him. Gypsy felt a queer Hit-grinned at her, and hor annoyance considered this. "I'll go the impulse of withdrawal: then, evaporated; but she was conscious, the Morells burst in, powdered with But that problem was solved, na It was one of these times to be along right now, If you say so,” looked back upon in life later with she began. Perhaps she was too smiled warmly back at him. Just and she crossed the room to stand snow, at the moment.

deciding she was imagining things,suddenly, of Tom's eyes upon her, gratitude and wondermont, when Insistent upon family ties. Tom because you were married- two human hearts were perfectly himself had no mother or father: scarcely good reason for refusing

was at his aldo. in nccerd. But their moment was and so she didn't know what it to be friends with another man.

"How's it going?"

Mackintosh's

windows

are worth

your......

attention

Hunt drove them to the stution In his sleek new car, a buff sedan He smiled at her, drawing her of an expensive make. Tom ayetl fe and colour and movement. Sto in-laws. Rosina they seldom saw, this young stranger was king running them ali ragged. Science denerved. Canavan, her red curle crackling as the claims of a large and grow her tremendously. No matter what does it" her slim figure smartly set off by

she said, no matter what she did,

"What d'you think of him, dar- the blue wool frock she wore, came

Sho rumpled his hair, proprietar-ling?" he asked, later as they rode| Alexandra Building, be applauded.

y, to show Mr. Hunt Gibson that sleepily along in a red plush seated forward and greeted them guily. "We were just about to leave

bled company, with his three-cor- withstood the acid test...

"She's cute," he told the assem-one modern marriage, at least, coach, amelling of dust and stale Des Voeux Road.. we had given you two wanderers

nered grin.

elgara. "You seemed to be getting up for good."

"Well, hurry up and bring this nlong like a house afire." contest to a close, my love, because Gypsy patted away a yawn. it grows late."

"He's nice," she said. "But he's got stone

I couldn't nge ideas. have married a man like that."

(To Be Continued.)

short lived. The hall was full of felt like to be submerged by one's And there was no doubt about it down to the arm of his chair. "I'm its bright fittings with respect they Men's Wear Specialists

ing family hold her in her own particular groove,

Gypsy repeated this. "I'll tell Mums you have some work to ish-that's true, anyway, fan't it,

"Cute little girl, isn't darling-and we'll barge along."

she 7" But his moment of ill-humour

It "Nonsense, dearest.

was half-past ten It was had passed.

Do We'll stay.

Jeloven. Gypsy glanced at the clock you love

and out at the drifts, piling high grouchy husband?"

"You're never that!" She was in-In the yard, making mounds of the dignant. "I won't have you calling small pines and the rhododendron

bushes,

your

The tall man looming at her side was someone Gypsy had not seen before. He had a lean, humorous face; craggy brown over slate gray eyes that seemed to see everything. Gypsy liked his handelssp. It was firm and cool and assured. hair was beginning to gray at the So they settled that particular

look temples, making him okler question with the usual kisses, and than his years.

Gypsy had heard | Gypsy's eyes were starrier than Sue speak of Hunt Gibson before usual when she rejoined the group this. He had been described as "a (downstairs.

yourself names."

"We honestly must be getting back to town?"

The slate gray eyes regarded her, the drawling voice asked casually: "You don't live out here, then?"

The other four, Beatrice ind late- Bertram, Tom and Sue, were play- ing porchesi. Gypay and Gibson im-were in deep chairs opposite each i

other at the fire.

forty-leventh cousin." But they "We've got to run," Suo In- had not met before. Hunt, Sue nounced, scandalized by the was now explaining volubly, was newer of the hour and the girl twin's just home from Singapore, and announcement that ten was points cast.

ninent.

"Engineer"? Tom inquired, with “Nonsense," protested Mrs. Mor- shade of respect in his voler. ell. warmly. "Daddy and I are go- Gypsy caught the note, remembering over to the Williams for sup- ing that it had been Tom's ninbi per, but you must all stay--Bea tion to be a mining expert, befare will scramble egys and someone his father had died. leaving him will make coffee

She raised her dark eyes to his,! smilingly. "No, we

live in the city. East Fifties."

"Rotten night to start out." His nod Indicated the drifting snow against the windows.

"Isn't it? But it'll be better go-

ing now than starting out in the morning. And I have a job.

to fend for himself, putting the possibility of further college years |

arranged. They all So it was out of the question.

gathered in the big bright kitchen, Hunt nodded, and res the girl The smell of toasting bread and

"You!" He aeamed vastly slipped upstairs to change, she at the pungent scent of fresh roasted amused. "So you're one of those served with satisfaction that the coffee and frying bacon filled the modern young women, too.” two meit were deep in conversa-air. Everybody carried pintes in-have said why, "You've been away The tone nettled her, she couldn't to the shabby dining room, and the But when Tom came upstairs a satin oval of Grandmother Morell's rom civilization so long," she told few moments Inter, to get into his mahogany table, one of the few him negligently, "that you've for

gotten how Sunday gray and put his wind good pieces left in the house, soon done

these things are breaker and knickerbockers to dry,[reflected candle light'

tion.

and half a

Tom shook a pair of sixes, moved his last man fourteen spaces, sent Sue's "blue baby" honie and tri-i

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