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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1934.

by MABEL

MCELLIOTT

Married Flirts

'CHAPTER XXIII

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Yes, motherhood had changed her Tom dropped into the habit of go; second night tickets to a play in his crib, the light turned out

"Yes, darling!"

and the windows opened, a feeling It was a nightmarea hideous, more than a little. It had subered ing out without her,

But her voice dwindled; the ring of deep forlornness swept over her. black, absorbing nightmare. The and sweetened and saddened her.

at once more Sometimes sho was frightened of pleased expectancy dled out of She stood at the kitchen window, rush home through the allont it made her all

more gentle, more at her own weariness and dull-It. He had to work?. Oh, that was her forehead against the cool pane, ander the moon; the first sight of thoughtful while the experience of ness and her absorption in the too bad! She had been mentally gazing down at the lighted streets streets, slippery now, fast glazing Womanly,

father, she considered baby. Tom would tire of her, she freshening up her best black below. Far to the west she could the Morell house lighted through-being a

see the lights of the gay street, but, with the doctor's coupe parked gravely, had altered Tom not at would tell herself wildly, glancing frock, doing her hulk.

Sho Tein was sorry, he said. There Broadway. An advertising sign at the drivewas. Gypsy scarcely. When they were together, in at her image in the mirror.

the their own little home, and Cysy's had nothing to talk about these was a big now account in the twinkled on and off, red and yel- waited for Tom to put on

He hated leaving her alone flow, red and yellow, half a block brakes. She was out of the door, glowing face and bright oyes were days. The young mothers she met oflee."

fway up the stairs by the time turned up to him. Tom forget in the park were deep in the mys-but honestly he had to work on away, Night sounds, sounds of the everything except that she was histories of formule and pureed this stuff. She was a good sport city throwing of its day trendy for he had fairly stopped the car.

dear and adorable. When rots and orange juice. How could Ti, was all right, then?

ef seriousness, ranking ready for "David ... mother, how is ho?"

play, came to her faintly. The The big guest room with its unlocked his own door at night she, after an afternoon of this con-

Gypay put the telephone down hooting of taxis, the scrape of rose-garlanded paper, its peeling it was Gypsy he wanted to see, first versation, be bright and amusing

wasn't with a sensation of disappointment brakes. A radio blared out across creamy woodwork, was one blaze of all. The sound of her light for her husband 7 And

self-sacrifice? and defeat. The long evening the way. Dinner music. Some- of lights. Gypsy saw only the tiny laughter was the sweetest music hej David worth any March they went [stratched opt before her with a where down in the city men and

know, and he was still led with. One evening.in igure in the bassinette with Doctor wonderment at the thought that to dine with Tom's buss, a rubi- lonely and solitary dinner to boot. girls were dancing to the strains Bannerman bending over it. There was a peculiar smell in the room. he had chosen him out of all the cund gentleman who owned... a] Well; it was too bad, but it couldn't of that musle," were dining and i

world. The baby came second charming house in Scarsdale. It be helped.

smoking and laughing. Clytic hevered near with a kettle. Gypsy was first always.

was all very pleasant-food, host She got David's ready for the

"I-I feel like Cinderella," Gypsy While this did not make any, real and guests. But Gypsy felt quite night, a lovely, laughing aerap of Someone had made a sort of tent with sheets over the big, wide flat difference between them. Tom was out of it. Her frock was unfash-babyhood in his ribbed nightgown. said to horeclf, trying to smile. bed with the pineapple posts. conselous that under Gypsy's lovelonable and her small talk rusty. But after he had been tucked away

(Continued on Page 10.) The doctor straightened

for him ran always, without change She hadn't been to any of the new or cessition, her passionate con- plays, she didn't de the night clubs, "Nothing but a little croup" hecern for the boy. David completed for hostess was smooth, miani- said easly. "Frightening at first, the circle e he and Gypsy and cured, beautifully dressed and few- course. Your mother had quito David. Well, that was as it should elled. Gypay considered, with a turn

be, he knew that. And yet...and humorous despair, asking them to Mrs. Morell began volubly, to ex- plain. Her children, she said, had Gypay had been more com- her home and gave up the project in five minutes. No, until David never had croup. She was terrified plcely his before David's coming.

Perhaps it was natural, as the was a little older-until they had when she heard young David's months went on, that he came to more room and a better servant heavy breathing when he began to spend a little more of his time at they would have to abstain from

the office. For one thing, there entertaining. were the new demands that David's The next day- Gypsy made a lot needs placed upon the Weavers of new resolutions. She would louder income. And for another, "Tuss more" over her own looks, Gypsy was wrapped up in the would never neglect cold creaming) baby's welfare. She did not feel rites at night, would give herself baby slept quietly free to go about as she had before, a daily manicure. Tom had seemed now, one crumpled roseleaf hand She was often actually too tired to to find that young copy-writer vory thrown above his head. Lights go to the movies in the evening. charming last night. She, Gypsy, wore turned down and the watch She even urged Tom to go by him had been considered a most de ers in the

room moved softly, self or with the Maisons, another lightful companion once upon speaking in whispers.

young couple who lived on the time. Where had all her amusing Tom told Gypay to go to bed; same floor.

repartee vanished? he'd watch David himself. But she was stubborn. She wouldn't sleep, she told him. What was the use?

Gypsy's entrance.

choke.

"But he was perfectly well-he was fine when I left him," Gypsy kept saying in her bewilderment. Some one brought her a chair; her knees were trembling with the re action. The

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At first Tom protested. No, ho'd When the telephone rang late rather stay at home. He'd much that afternoon and Tom's volco rather be with her. But Gypsy was came to her she was pleasantly She refused even to take off her sometimes too weary to talk. She excited. Often when he called this frock but sat, wrapped in her wool-would make an excuse to creep off late it was to announce that some ly robe, her eyes ou the crib.

to bed early. Small wonder that newspaper friend had given him

She had been dancing, laughing, an hour ago. She had felt like a girl, carefree, minus responsibil- ities. Now she wondered at that How other light-hearted self. dreadful, how incalculable life was, always striking at you in the dark. Why, David might have died, ght- ing for his breath, if Mums hadn't heard him! She trembled at the thought.

She must, at last, have dozed off because when she opened her eyes again the room was very chilly and Tom, straight and tall in his dressing gown, stood beside her.

"Darling, you'll make yourself 1. Lie down in the other bed in Bea's

and I'll watch here. He'll-be-all-right. The doctor.said. there were even chances he'd not be disturbed again to-night."

room

She was stiff, cold, nching in every limb. It was good to be cared for and comforted. Tho sheets between which she crept were deliciously warm. She was asleep in five minutes,

David was happy, rosy, untouch- ed the next morning. The brief and frightening attack

of croup vanished without leaving a race- upon the baby, at least. But it had quite a fasting effect on, his discovered young mother. She that the love she felt for him was tinged with fear-fear she might lose him. that something might strike, out of the dark, at his smallness and helplessness.

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