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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1934.

by MABEL

Married Flirts T

BEGIN KERE TO-DAY

GYTAY MORELL and TOM WEAVER are married the same day at LILA HOTALING and live in inany, while Gypsy intenda La go on with ber Job, tenebing in a mettlement school

Tony's interest in LDA BLANCHARD. peace Inter restored.

Shopping for Christmas.

Gypsy

tho deep. ruga. Looking up startled at the interruption, she saw Marko.

"My dear child?" His gentlo tone betokened surprisc, and Gypsy Hushed.

u troubled by the fact that Tom tore olate, know about her work for Broughton and that if he knew he would be adre foaie

AUDTOTS.

CHAPTER XIV

Mrs. Weaver was expected, Mr. Broughton's man-servant Huid,

There WAS quietly,

something about his matter-of-factness that caimed Gypsy's nerven. Of course It was all right! Why shouldn't she work for Marko? He knew she had dabbled in library work before she had gone into the Settle

Gypsy rode down in the elevator hall past, seven. It was eight.

.

McELLIOTT

"Unavoidably detained,"

said

with the sense of being reloased. And still no Tom. Gypsy's mood Tom with dignity.

Struck by a new, stabbing SUB- She must rush home to Tom now, of exultant relief waned-changed Inventing an excuse for her late to indignation, to apprehension.picion, Gypsy gazed at him. Was It was utterly unlike him not to he-no, he couldn't bo drunk! return,

Something must Tom never drank to excess. After returning from her honeymoon In

She took a trolley bound south-telephone her.

"We went to Simms' Club," ha Europe Lies Invites the Wegrats to dinner,

the Esteeta wealthy MANKO "I quito forgot the time," Gypsy ward and it seemed fairly to crawl, have happened-something dreadl BROUGHTON who once ked Grper to Cazzy him. He shower her with attentione stammered, her eyes on the crystal stopplag at every corner, starting ful. She could see him lying some said slowly. "We were playing which she acreple bookate wheels of clock face nearby. It was half again with painful ferka. Gypsy's where, the victim of a reckless cards. We got to talking. 'Fralil "And all the time I was worry. After the Party Tom and typer quartel, bui past five! And site had meant to nerves were tout. At last she driver. Her Tom, hurt, dying, I didn't notice the time."

leave at five at the very Intest. alighted at her own corner and perhaps! meets She had said something casual to turned cast. A slurp wind was She put the food back in the ice-ing, eating my heart out, frighten- Broughton who offers her fols catalogue Tom about shopping. But, she had blowing up from the river and she box. She had thought she was ed to death," Gypsy said with in- his library and gives her an advance pay. ment of $50. She tier the money to buy meant to be home early enough to shivered, buffeting it with hor allm hungry, but now the very thought dignation. "Oh, Tom, how could

get dinner. Tom's Christmas present, a walch.

Dinah was "off" figuro. She tried vainly to deter of food alekened her. She went to you?"

She was wounded past bearing. Tom and Grey spend Christine at the Blurell home. Throughout the kalely Upper tonight. Now she would be toomine whether or not her own apart-the telephono and with trembling

mont windows were lighted but in fingers dialed the number of hla This was an unfamiliar person who "Al, you mustn't run away like the darkness she could not be sure. office. As she had expected, there ant there in her pleasant living this," Marke protested, mildly. She was consetuus now of an In-was no answer. Of course, no one room. She just didn't know him. Forgotten was her relief A few "Bates will shake us up a cocktail tense fatigue, sharpened by her was working at this hour.

hours before, on discovering she or you may have tea, If you'd growing sense of nervousnces,

Reluctantly sho inserted her key The momente Jagged by Nino had reached home before him. All prefer."

Tom homo o'clock. Half past. Ten. At five other emotions were swallowed up Gypsy's one thought was to rush in the lock. Wns away, to get back to the apartment. And if so, what was abe going to minutes past ten when Gypsy, al-in a desperate fury at his callous most ill with worry, paced the floor indifference to her feelings. And Yet she didn't want to offend Marsay to him? ko. She said something vague But the door swung into a dark- of the living room, Tom's key was poker! Tom knew he couldn't af about a dinner engagement. ened room. Gypsy drow a long inserted nad the door swung wide. ford to play cards with Simms and Gypsy ran to greet him. "Darl-his crowd. He had virtually prom- "Oh, quite, quite," drawled Mar- breath of relief. Doubtless he'd ko. "Another time, perhaps," been kept at the office. There was ing, wherever have you been? I'voised to give it up, long before their

been so worried

marriage. He wasn't in the lenst the satyra good deal of extra work now.

She stopped. Tom looked RU "You lost!" she accused with Icy type, Gypsy reflected, pulling on making up contracts for the new her little hat. He was just kind, year. But if that was the case, strange. He strode past ber. Ills calm. "Oh. Tom, you lost. didn't What she had expected, exactly, friendly,

would he'd probably been trying to tele-eyes were glazed. He was pale you? generous. She In the way of a reception, she could have to have an understanding phone her all afternoon to let her Her heart plunged, her throat

thickened. Had he heard, then? He nodded, dully, his eyes on his not any. Only this quiet, high- with him about the $50 though. know. celled room, with its dark Beidharn They would have to come to some She switched on the alabaster Did he know about her paet with jinked fingers. Of course he had lont. He felt a slow, duit sort of rugs,

its wood panelling, its shelf entirely businesslike arrangement. lamp on the drop-leaf table and Marko?

moment. She was stricken into silence. indignation at her for having on shelf of volumes, was distinctly But when she spoke of this, Mar- stood, Irresolute, for a reassuring. She gave the man her

ko waved it aside. "Nonsense," he What to do now? Should she walt What an utter fool she had been, guessed. Why else should he havo hat and coat and gloves. She ran boomed. "That was merely a re- and see what Tom's plans for the not to tell him at the start. No-stayed so late, except that he hoped her hand over her unruly curls.tainer. If you do the work as well evening were: or should she tele-thing more innocent than her to win back what had gone before? Gypsy sat down on one end of Gypsy looked rather like a little as I know you will, that amount phone the grocer at once and order afternoon's adventure could pos girl to-day in her dark green jersey will only be a drop in the bucket." things for a late dinner? She de-sibly be imagined.

the daybed. She felt sick. She frock with its demure white collar.

cided on the latter course and, with But Tom's first words dispelled felt beaten. To try so hard to get ahead, to work and plan and save Then she forgot herself, hor sur-

a kind of wild reaction after her at least a little of her fears.

"Sorry, dearest," he said dully, so anxiously, and then to have Tom roundings, her nervousness, in the

needless fears of awkward explana serious business of her tank.

tione, rushed out, setting the table, and then stopped. Gypsy stared behave like this--it was past bear-

strangeing! making everything gay and fresh at him curiously. How

hia voice was, and how odd ho She shook her head, dumb with against his return.

The clock struck seven. The looked His overcoat was soiled, the injustice of it. Tom looked at grocer's boy, bearing chops and too. It looked as if it had been in her with a gray face. If he hadn't let Simms all his glass so often, vegetables and materials for salad, contact with the pavement. hand come and gone. Now it was

"Were you hurt, darling?" she he'd explain to Gypsy now, tell her prompted. "I've been simply fran-just why it was he wanted that ex- tic. I was just on the point of enll-tra money. It was for her-for Ing the hospitals

her alone! He said, in that unfamiliar, drag- But Gypsy's face was cold, still, ging voice, that he wasn't hurt-closed to him. Without a word, what gave her the idea?-but he'd she stripped the gaily laid table, been detained.

(Continued on Page 2.)

ment.

lle saw her to the door, pressing her hand gently. She was a treat to any one's eyes, he told her ful- It was fascinating Marko's somely. She quite lightened up books themselves were that! She his lonely home. But then every- lost herself in the absorbing work. body knew Marko's gallantries. She climbed the ladder a dozen They were just the casual coin of timos. She sat at the typewriter every day. He was like that to the man had disclosed, cleverly, hid- {everyone! den In one corner of the nummoth Walnut desk. She listed

rubbed out and Hsted again.

And

And the Bight waned, the lampa : were snapped on by an unscen hand, and still Gypsy worked un- noticing.

She was aroused by a footfall on

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