THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JUNE
Married Flirts
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parenta in 'their suburban home,
CHAPTER XIX
by MABEL
1934.
McELLIOTT
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summer long, forget the job and, tiled bath down at the Hollow, "I don't know what Tom Wenver's
Tom drew the green chair benido GYPSY MORELL and TOM WEAVER and the apartment and everything else.anyway." She was seeing the ad-thinking of ...?
her and sat down, staring at her married the same day a LILA JUTALANG Well, there was no use wishing for vantages of the apartment, admit- Gypsy interrupted gally. "Mum-worried eyes. "It's this And DEJUCK BEING, 186 pateula to tive in fukury, while Gypsy Intenda to an on with the moon. You just had to enjoy ting that the cabin with its win-my, don't be silly! You know the place," he said in a beaten voice. her solo, teachior in a settlement.
things as they came.
dows open to the wide sea had apartment is comfortable na cau"You must get away." After winning from a boneyesoon 120 Europe Li akt the Weaver to dinner.
sono dinybacka, as long as they be. We have awnings, we have re- Amon
She essayed a weary emile. The Konta 6 wealthy MARKO Tom, on the other side of the fire, | couldn't stay there.
frigeration and electric fans and mountains? JIRUUMITON, who once sakevi Gray
The lake country? marry him. ite showeta Orpar with site-felt his heart swell with love for But in the days that followed, the river nearby. You talk as Out of the question. If she could. tland we Tom is jualtas,
the small, gallant girl in the deck when the heat of early June de though I were in the Mojave get someone to stay with her at Broxton offers her a job on Saturdays chair. Gypy's entour was enchant-coated upon the city, making desert." cataloguing bla library and Gypsy weeegite
the Hollow. But she didn't want without telling Tom, dust as she inishes the ing to-day—abe was all apricot (pavethents and walls and unshaded This was all very well but when to leave Tom. He would be alone wuck she in Saken 137 and the doclete, cella beri she is going to have baby. Tora nelle brown tones-and the sea air windows one white glaro of sun-meat settled down like a blanket in this hot, staring city. she must give up her job at the awillemsezit had nude her hair one mass of shine, she thought many and many her resolution was shaken. Tom Grosy happy keeping house une feathery ringlots,
time with almost unbearable found her one night, lying on the just now,"
"Everything's out of proportion comes back from a winter In Florida and
sha faltered, laying saka ber" to Juncheon. Gypsy reallarn her "We could stay down to-night, longing of the peace and coolness daybed, whit and exhausted.
"It's nothing," she told him tired out and I'm fidgety and clothes are shabby in campuries with L. perhaps," she was saying to Suc. of Wading Hollow and the little
one thin hand on his. "You're Opper and Tom spend a week-end with com could go up in the morn cabin sot among the dunca. Gypsy's Not for worlds would she admit the we're not seeing things as they
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mother telephoned, asking her to weakness and nervousness that really are. Don't worry. It will He hated to dash her dream but come out to Blue Hills, and they had swept over her that day like abe all right." There was the cabin at Wading we could, darling, but I've got to Beatrice had moved into Gypsy's seemed a giant octopus with fiery made her lie there. He brought
hu said slowly. "Honestly I wish went one bright week-end, but fide. The city had, all at once,
But he was not convinced. He, Hollow, of course, Let it not be be in so darned early-
old room now. The house had not-fingers reaching out to destroy heter supper on a tray. Cold meat thought for an instant that the Gypsy said briskly, cheerfully, tled down to a routine which die self desperately, fanning her hot and string beans (she had pro- young Weavers had forgotten that. It doesn't mutter in the least.” not Include her and, But whlie it was ident for week- ends, perfect for a brief vacation, had to disappoint her.
But he raged within because he knew she was always more than cheeks. To-morrow we'll get apared these carller) and leod, tea
welcome, she could not accept her breeze and I'll forget about it.” and fruit. It was not to be thought of as a regular living place.
The apartment seemed especially mother's generous suggestion that she was growing heavy and For one
Gypsy nie and drank with him. small and cramped that night when she and Tem spend the summer slow of movement now, was much too far from the they got back to it, warm, weary thing,
Her hour The curls. Jay damp on her hot there.
was drawing near. city-79 miles on
It became In-forehead. Her dotted swiss frock, the railroad. and sunburned. However, Gypsy "You'll wilt away in town," Mrs. creasingly dißeult to ignore her many The commuting would be both diff-aid loyally, "We liaven't got & Morell said in melancholy tones, bodily needs and woes.
times washed and now cult and expensive and an those
(Continued on Page 2.) nights when Tom was kept inte, Gypsy would be quite alone in an Inaccessible and lonely place. It "WAB delightful place to camp. however, and on several spring Saturdays a small car might be seen ploughing through the sandy road, spilling bundles it went.
Sue Canavan and Hunt Gibson came down one bright, blowy Sun- day in May and Sue raved over the place the smell of the
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and the smug little cabin with its bunks and is all stove and its blue curtains. They hail a merry supper out of doors, Tom broiling steaks over the coals and Gypsy lading out potato salad.
"I owned the place," she said reflectively, lying luxuriously on an army blanket, I'd never leave it. I'd dig myself in and live on roots and berries." Sue was red-haired, blue-eyed, enthusiastic. She was some lucky man's good secretary, down in the city.
"You would not!" Hunt roused himself lazily to contradict her. "You're a Fifth Avenue bound and you know it. You like this in! small doses but, deep down, your want to live a stone's throw from
Times Squareething in that," Suel
"There's
ndmitted. "Bul honestly, Gyps, I'm mud about this place. Why didn't we ever come before?"
"Well, Rasina was here most of last summer," Gypsy told her. Tony's property, really, but the family love it so they sort of have it on shares. The childrer adore it.".
Tom caught her eye and she amiled at him, thinking of the child who might-who most cer tainly would-be with them here: the following-summer-Darling- Tommy, how handsome he was with the sunburn blotting out his winter pallor and his long legs stretched out on the sandi What a pity they couldn't stay here all i
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"It's just nerves," she told her
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Scenes at the Shanghai Cricket Club when Brigadier-General E. B. Macnaghton officially opened the new Club House and Pavilion. On the loft is Brigadier-General Macnaghten culting the ribbon scross the gates to the pavilion, and on the right is a view of the crowd which attended the ceremony. Mrs. R. Grimshaw; wife of the Chairman of the Cricket Club, is seen ́sitting with Brigadier-General Macnaghten.
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