1934-06-20 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1934.

Married Flirts by MANDELA

CHAPTER XXX,

MCELLIOTT

monplace thinge. Gypsy would

get another mald temporarily sheher face all streaked with tears, [it." gave him a lifeless look, a bitter her curls an unruly mop. People lived with broken hearts,smile that was more cutting than "If we had a fireplace," she went conversation, just to keep him, to would that be all right? Perfect, "How's Sua?" Gypsy was making call him before nine that night. Gypsy reminded herself. They words. She went on ordering food, bathing agency. It asaunged some deep I'd mind it so.

did not call the on Inconsequently. "I don't think fond of that dreadfully alone he 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

At home on 'rainy [feeling,

Gypsy Went about the business of stockings. She wasn't the only work and her own weariness.

Sho's fine. I haven't seen her getting dinner in a more cheerful woman in the world to whom this "I can't go on Uke this; didn't seem to matter so much." Jately. Suo's a grand girl." frame of mind. What a genuinely

"That's right. A. fire is a com- shattering thing had happened.

"Isn't she?" And then Gypsy was nice person Hunt was! It was well, only that she had can't," the girl whispered to her fort." He went on quietly to tell dreadfully afraid she was going to like him. She forgot her own She did self one dreary afternoon. April 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 diferent. They had been deeply peited against the windows. Sev-troples and of the various ways times she and Sub had had to an extent that when Tom came in love. They had started, their cral blocks away the fog horne talking to give her time to pull her silly little fool she had been, to heard her whistling.

the mon reacted to it. He was gether a few years ago. What soberly down the hall at 6.30 he marriage with a fine resolve to brayed ceaselessly. The grocory make it go; sucecod at it, no mat-order had been late. David had a self together, Gypsy knew, and she think life could go on like that!

He stopped to listen and the suk ter what else happened. They cough and she had been attending was grateful to him.

"What's wrong, really?"

len look on his face failed. Ho 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

Presently she found herself know what you mean." Interference. :

ting the table. She had on a Now, with the

Suddenly the hole thing was stories. It was amazing what

laughing shakily at one of his He was standing now, towering many-times-washed blue second year of the adventure half too much for her: The thin shell difference it made to have someone protective. "Something's troubl-like dark copper. She wheeled at above her, looking very tall and frock and her hair was burnished print finished, she

was disillusioned, of composure which she had been talk to you, simply and normally ing you.. tired and heartsick and Tom was building up, for the past week and amusingly.

I wish you'd tell me." his entrance and the whistling frankly interested in another wo-cracked and she began to cry wild-

This was what She essayed a laugh but it wasn't stopped. The shadow slipped down bitterly, in

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the alience and

a very successful one. "I told you over her face once more. herself stubbornly and angrily. Everything was hateful, dreary, wanted you and Tom to dine with regard ter thoughtfully and Gypsy

"It's all wrong," Gypsy told gloom of the little apartment. hour,n't disrupt your dinner I had the blues.

said at Inst. "I Umm..

He continued to The whole system is wrong. The impossible! man is free and the woman tied, The bell rang and she looked morrow night."

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

intant one. Naturally he's attracted to the handkerchief to mop her eyes. slowly. Her eyes lighted at the I can fix let me know. His hand- "I don't know," Gypey began! "Tell you what, if it's anything sort of girl he knew bofore mar-She was a fright; she could not prospect. "Elsa's away, ill, and elsap, warm and electric, lingeredalon she had como to know was like riuge-footloose, always well-possibly see a caller just now. I've no one to leave the baby with. with her. dressed and groomed and scented. But when the summons sounded But perhaps I could manage... Ho 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 Attic onough for outside amusements. tallor around the corner. Ile geta bored

'man.

Hunt Gibson stood in the door-

At this stage of her reflections way, lenn, rungy, his soft hat in she usually began to cry. She hie hand, the collar of his ulster erled a great deal these days when turned up. "I've been trying to Tom wasn't around. When he get you by phone," he began. was at home they were coldly, Then, in a concerned voice "Gypay. stiffly polite to each other. The what's the matter, child? Any- promise of the carlier April days thing wrong?" had faded and now it rained, It was too late now to Blide out coldly, stendily, unfeelingly, for of the situation. She made a little days. Gypsy was distracted. It gesture of surronder. "Come in, meant staying indoors with the Hunt." She swallowed a Rob. baby. His endless small garments "Nothing much. Just having a were never dry. There were al-good old-fashioned fit of the blues.' waye Hm nes of dump things He was beside her in the living stretched high in the kitchen. Te room now. She had switched on # crown it all Elsa fell and lamp and motioned him to the big telephoned she would have to stay chair. in bed 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 atraightened feeling sorry for myself. I don't weary back to look about her in know the rain gets me." puzzlement. Was this really she,

Is Gypsy Morell, this tired woman with the circles under her eyes? She was never really rested now. When Tom politely urged her to

"It has been a dismal day." deep drawly volce gave her a warm, comforted *feeling. She W08 ashamed, terribly ashamed, to be found so. She must look a fright

she needed

"i

and stood, staring at her.

Tom said, "Oh," rather foolishly "Hello." She was very polite, very formal, very remote.

"Hello." "The stubborn expres-

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

a forbidding mask. Neither would give an inch.

"Thought I heard music,"

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