The
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, JUNE
Married Flirts
CHAPTER XXI
It's fun anyway."
"Tommy
oh, darling!" to a word I say,"
by MABEL
1934.
McELLIOTT
who had been recommended by 24 hours young Mrs. Weaver found Teain of weakness ran down her He grinned at her. He's a Doctor McGuire as a practical herself almost regretting the de- And immediately the tem parture of hor orstwhile assistant. all too checks and his own eyes watered wonder. But honestly, Gype, do nurse. summer waned swiftly. Blue days, golden days in sympathy,
you think he's much to look at po of life changed. The hospital Her back ached and her feet were
there wore
when in August,
Was it so terrible, dearest?" right now? I was admiring you. had been dull-Gypsy had looked on fire. There was everything Gypsy flung her arma aloft Tor He had her hands in his. His Do you mind?"
forward to coming home-but, at aheer joy in Ilving; when there
Silly!" She pretended to be least the routine had been precise still to do. Beds were only half mado, dinner half prepared. How was not a cloud in the sky; when ye were roving anxiously over
annoyed, Ignoring the flattery. and orderly. The baby had gone did young mothers manage without her dear, familiar features. the bordera blazed with phlox and; She shut her eyes, on a long "He's the most beautiful thing back to his nursery after every assistance, Gypsy wondered Was larkapur and zinnias; when the sigh. "Let you see the baby?" God ever made! Aren't you, pre-feeding and the young mother it possible that only a month and a nights were drenched with dew "Not yet, honey. The nurae clous? Aren't you the most bee had known nothing of the routine bait ugo sho had been strong. and you wakened to cool, scented, said ......
yootiful thing God ever made? of baths, diapers and airings.
rested, that she had thought house- Now averything was different work and cooking amusing? blowy mornings,
A figure in striped and crack Look at. his little handa, Tommy. There never was, such a
Mrs. Barby was inefficient though Bum-ling cambric glided in. "Time's Marvellous!"
She was too tired to cat. Tom mer. The Morells came over from up, Mr. Weaver. This young lady "Your mother says he's like the amiable. Gypsy's own room was a Blue Hills in the shabby car and must get some sleep. And he Glynne," said Tom alyly. "But I welter of powder cabs, anfety watched her anxiously as she lay, there were plenics on the grass had to go, after a klas and a say he's the living image of my pins, folded small garments and a quite exhausted, on the day bed.
This can't go bassinette which seemed to over
on," he said. under the laden apple tree whispered admonition.
Great Uncle Tobias."
olse, The "Il bring someona in, first thing Stenks were broiled over the "She's all right. She's perfect. Gypay looked up quickly, to say shadow everything
never tidy. There the morning, if I have to send- crude outdoor oven. Tom rushed by ane," the doctor told him. "She with pride, "Why, Tommy, he kitthen was home carly, exulting in the luxury come through splendidly."
But looks like no one else in the world was always a bolling container on bag her." And now the baby was of his own vine and fig tree, and Tom was not convinced. His office but you. How could anyone say the stove. There were potatoes, crying. He had to be changed. there were two wonderful weeks maton rulled him robustly on his he looks like Uncle Tobias half of them peeled, in the sink. fed; his bed had to be made fresh. small gur There' word when ho was home altogether-grimncas. "As if they knew what Dreadful fat old man!"
rage, towela, soiled There were piles
menta waiting to be washed. "Of course, it isn't 1 real vaca-it was all about," the poor fel- Tom ronred, delighted at the way dishes everywherd.
"It's endless." Gypsy walled tion," Gypsy sighed, wistful more low thought witheringly, wincing she had risen to the bait. Of for him than for herself. "But to think of the long night and course David Morell Weaver was At the end of the second week on a long sigh, collapsing into Gypsy's smothered cries, But the vary image of his fathert Of of this, Gypsy's patience broke. bed. Tom patted her shoulder, The corn ripened under the sun afterward, when they brought the course he was handsome! And She said desperately, "I can't stand his young face creased by a frown worry and bewilderment. along the highways. The fruit child to him that evening, and he of course one day, in the march if any longer, Tom. You'll have to of
go down to an agency and got a Later, as she dozed off, she could hung heavy on the trees, Hay Was gazed upon him-his own son-of time, he'd be president. stacked in golden tents in the his spirit mounted. It was going "You're the most extraordinary maid. I'm strong enough to bath hear him clattering inexpertly in fields. And on one gorgeous day to be all right--it was going to Kiri," Tom murmured. "Last baby myself now. We'll let her go the kitchen, disposing of the In late September Gypsy's child be all right! He and Gypsy and year you were just a kid, dancing, in the morning."
But she looked about her in She had been rushed the little fellow! Why, that was playing around. And now you're
Next morning she dragged her- to the city hospital the night be an unbeatable combination.
the morning of Mrs. a full-fledged parent, bristles and despair fore. For 10 long hours she had
self out, only half rested. Young | Burby's departure. everything." writhed in in, digging her nails' "Isn't he the darilngest
"You stop tensing me," Gypsy "I don't know where to begin," David had awakened in the night, for his feeding." A into her flesh, trying to stifle the It was a week inter and the told him with dignity. "I am now she said wearily. The living room of course
were inexorable. erica that were wrung from her. baby, a bundle" of pink blanket a full-time mother, with no sense was dusty, the chairs were all in baby's demands
were Tom scrambled together his own At 8 o'clock the baby's wall and muslin, with only the top of of humour where my child is con- the wrong places, pictures sounded and the watching young
nwry. There were half dead flow-hasty breakfast and Gypsy drank rasy head showing, lay oncerned," husband, pacing the corridor out-Gypsy's arm. Her
The kitchen cup of coffee lifelessly, stand- The McKinions had returned ers in the blue vase. were side, sagged against the distem-freshly brushed, her eyes had the from Minnesota during the early was piled high with solled clothes,ing at the kitchen table. She must pered walls to an agony of relief.peculiar deen, lambent glow that part of Gypay's hospital sojourn, week-old newspapers. There were it everything go now, attend to "It's over, it's over," he whis-rones to young mothers just outs it was to the apartment in crumbs on stove and sink. The the baby's bath first. What lux- percil. When they allowed him in of the shadowy valles. Tom had stend of to the little house that caffce pol, with a scruff of grounds ury, she thought longingly, it to see her an hour later she was eyes only for her.
the young Weavers brought David on spout and lid, stood on the win-would be to sink down to sleep
dow sill.
this moment; to sleep the clock lying white and seemingly broken "Isn't he the sweetest.. must Morell. in the narrow bed. Only her eyes adorable
Tom Wenver, They arrived there
It was the first morning Gypsy around and waken refreshed, made one brisk
Jand got out of bed before break newl were alive, moving alertly in her you're not paying attention to October morning, squired by a
She went to gather him up, a tanned young face.
You're not listening slow, plump, talkative individual fast, under doctor's orders. Now
she donned one of her old Bum rosy bundle of babyhood, a
few mer prints and, having assured moments later and even her tired herself that the baby was warm eyes brightened at the sight of and wasn't in a draft, she attacked him. the kitchen.
was born.
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(To be continued.)
REVOLT CRUSHED,
Wasn't Tom coming back? Would she live to battle with this disorder all day? She began to regret having let Mrs. Burby go, as wave after wave of wenkncas swept over her. But her spirit was valiant.
KAT BUT VALJEMARAS MAY WIN She filled the dishpun
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*Soapy stubbornir attucked the dle-
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The
Riga, June 8. milltors Insurrection
Lithuanian capital, hus
eulging task. She had stacked i the cupa
and
thu saucers in drainer and was beginning to ex- Koyno, perience the fine Bavour of en- failed. couragement when Bhe heard a It is likely the Government will thin reedy wall,
be reorganised to include some of She hurried to the baby."What Valdemaras adherents. and per is it? What does he want, the haps Valdemaras himself-Rett- dariing
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Oh, what an idiot she was! · He Iwas used to his bath, ut precisely | this hour, Mrs. Barby had im- pressed on her the importance of GRAN CHACO WARFARE doing the same thing at the same | time for David. And she bad heen-forgetting.
A
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She Was not, really strong enough, but it seemed worth both
Asuncion, June R. labour and exhaustion to be rid of; A complete rout of the Bolivian the dawdling, never-silent, com- troops, who left numerous dead. in plaining Mrs. Durby. The first claimed in an officiul communique day Gypsy was carried through issued here to-day. by sheer force of will and nervous)
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