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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY,

JUNE 20, 1934.

Married Flirts

CHAPTER XXX

feeling.

by MABEL

McELLIOTT

get another maid teinporarily shoor face all streaked with tears, it" gave him a lifeless look, a bitter her curls an unruly mop.

monplace things, Gypsy would Poople lived with broken hearts, smile that was more cutting than

"How's Suo?" Gypsy was making call him before aine that night. Gypay reminded heraalf.

"If we had a fireplace," she wont conversation, just to keep him, to would that be all right? Perfect, They words. She did not cali went on ordering food, bathing agency. It assuaged some the on inconsequently, "I don't think fend off that dreadfully alone ho told her. And then he was gone. babies, making beds, mending anger in her, this battle with the days we always burned logs and it doop I'd mind it so. At home on rainy

Gypsy went about the business of "Sho's fine. I haven't seen her getting dinner in a more cheerful stockings. She wasn't the only

didn't seem to matter so much," woman in the world to whom this work and her own weariness,

go on like this;

lately. Suo's a grand glet.” frame of mind. What a genuinely shattering thing had happened. can't," the girl whispered to her-

"That's right. A fire is a com- "Isn't she?" And then Gypsy was nice person Hunt was! She did It was well, only that she had self one dreary afternoon. Aprit fort. He went on quietly to tell dreadfully afraid she was going to like him. She forgot her own thought she and Tom would be twilight was closing in and rain her of long days of rain in the cry again, thinking of what good troubles, real or imagined, to such different. They had been deeply pelted against the windows. Sov-tropics and of the various ways times she and Sue had had to an extent that when Tom camo

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in love: They had started their ofal blocks away the fog horns talking to give her time to pull her silly little fool she had been, to heard her whistling.

the men reacted to it. He was gether a few years' ngo.. What a soberly down the hall at 6.30 he

Presently she found

marriage with a fine resolve to brayed consulessly. The grocery make it go; succeed at it, nu mat- order had been late. David had a self together, Gypay knew, and she think life could go on like that!

He stopped to listen and the sub- tor what else happened. They cough and she had been attending was grateful to him.

"What's wrong, really 7"

len look on his face faded. He let had friends, a fond family, enough him.

She stared at him. "I don't himself in quietly. Gypsy was set (though not much) money, little

herself know what you mean,"

ting the tabk. Sho had on a with interference. Now,

the Suddenly the whole thing was laughing shakily at one of his He was standing now, towering many-times-washed blue print accond year of the adventure half too much for her. The thin shell offer. It war amazing what a above her, looking very tall and frock and her hair was burnished finished, she was disillusioned, of composure which she had been talk to you, simply and normally ing you. I wish you'd tell me."

difference it made to have someone protective. "Something's troubl-Itke dark copper. She wheeled at

hia entrance tired and heartsick and Tom was building up for the past week

and the whistling frankly Interested in another wo-cracked and she began to cry wild- jand amusingly. This was what She essayed a laugh but it wasn't stopped. The shadow slipped down

she needed ls, bitterly, in the silence

a friend,

a very successful ong, "I told you over her face once more. "It's all wrong," Gypay told gloom of the little apartment. hour," Hunt said at Inst. "I

"I mustn't disrupt your dinner had the blues." herself stubbornly and angrily. Everything was hateful, dreary wanted you and Tom to dine with regard her thoughtfully and Gypsy and stood, staring at her.

"Umm

"Ho continued to Tom said, "Oh," rather foolishly "The whole system is wrong. The Impossible! man is free and the woman tiod, The bell rang and she looked me and see 'Manhattan

Mad to-flushed, shifting her gaze from his as soon as children come along. about in a frenzy, snatching at a |morrow night”

"Hello." She was very polite, Intent one. Naturally he's attracted to the handkerchief to mop her eyes.

"I don't know," Gypsy began

"Tell you what, if it's anything very formal, very remote. sort of girl he knew before mar-She was a fright; she could not slowly. Her eyes lighted at the I can fix let me know." His hand-

"Hello." The stubborn exprea- riage-footloose, always well. possibly Boo a callor just now. I've no one to leave the baby with. with her.

prospect. "Elsa's away, £11.

and clasp, warm and electric, lingered (alon she had come to know was like dressed and groomed and scented. But when the summons

In forbidding mask. Neither would Rounded But perhaps I could manage

jgive an inch.

man.

and

"Thanks. I will” The moment passed and as he "Certainly. Hope you can make turned to go they talked of com.

11e sees his wife in her old dress-again long habit drove her to the may I call you Inter?" ing gown, weary and headachy and door to answer it. Probably, she overworked. They haven't money thought, it would be the little enough for outside amusements. tailor around the corner. He gela bored

Hunt Gluson stood in the door-

At this stage of her reflections way, lean, raugy, his soft hat în aho usually began to cry. She his hand, the collar of his ulster cried a great deal these days when turned up. "I've been trying to Tom wasn't around. When he got you by phone," he began. was at home they were coldly, Then, in a concerned volce "Gypsy, stiffly polite to each other. The what's the matter, child?, Any- promise of the earlier April dayathing wrong?"

had faded and now It rained, It was too late now to slide out coldly, steadily, unfeeling

for of the situation. She made littla days. Gypsy was

It gesture of surrender. "Come In, meant staying indoors with the Hunt." She swallowed a sob. baby. His endless smail garments "Nothing much. Just having a were never dry. There were, al-} good old-fashioned fit of the bluca." ways imp lines of damp things Ife was beside her in the living stretched high in the kitchen. To room now. She had switched on a crown it all Elsa fell ill and lamp and motioned him to the big telephoned she would have to stay chair.

in

bol for a week,

"Don't mind me," she said, smil

Gypsy struggled with it all-ing and blinking. "I was sitting dishes, wash, meals, mending. here like a mole, all in the dark,

Sometimes she straightened weary back to look about her in puzzlement. Was this really she, Gypsy Morell, this tired woman with the circles under her eyes? She was never really rested now, When Tom politely urged her to

feeling sorry for myself.

I don't know-the rain gets me."

"It has been a dismal day." Ifs deep drawly voico gave her a warm, comforted feeling. Sho ashamed, terribly ashamed, to be found po. She must look a fright

"Thought I heard musle."

Continued on Puge 11.)

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