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THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPHL

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1984,

Married Flirts

CHAPTER XXXVI

by MABEL

MCELLIOTT

Jof humour. You saw him on the wichen had been so good,

fold her in his long arms..

notice particularly if he were un avenue these days, broad shoulders. The door would slam. Tom Elsa came back to work on her set off to advantage by his well would be in the doorway, "Hello,

"Been painting the town again?" { responsive." "Yes. Oh, I must tell you. "Don't you think so?" old schedule and, with the sud-atting British clothes. He swung darling?"

Ronny has the most marvellous "Umm. Tom would stare denness of a butterfly released from a stick. Girls riding to the tops She would smile at him in the Iden. Its nest, Gypsy began to rush about of huses craned their necks to see old welcoming way and he wouldly all through dinner and would not

She would talk eager at her, that puzzled small-boy ex-

(Continued on Page 15). whenever she was free. David was him. "Oh," they said. "Isn't he in good hands when Elsa was pres itke Gary Cooper7" ont. He and the clumsy but gentle; Angered mild understood each other and Gypsy could play with a easy mind. This was what she needed, she told herself, what she had been wanting.

He would offer Gypsy a lift up- town as they left the Eighth street studio-Ronny's or Elspeth Harris' place on Barrow street.

"Coming my way?" he would Bay, smiling.

She had known a gay, irrespon Gypsy would wavor, "I was go- Bible crowd in her pre-marital days.ing to stop at the French pastry She went back to them now. She shop on Sixth and get some brioche

"Well, como along. The taxi can wait, can't it?"

wor.

went to cocktail parties in Green for breakfast.” wich Village, exhibitions of mod- ern paintings, motion picture showings to the inner circle. She bought some new clothes and had a It wha fun; it was all fun. To new, daring hair cut. In many play at being a girl again, to ways she was the gay, pleasure lov-pretend for a little while there ing girl she had been before her were no responsibilities, no marriage. She laughed 21 great ries. Of course you always went deal. She had begun to learn the home to the baby and Tom with o nowest dancing steps. The tele thankful feeling. It was wonder. phone rang often bese days und ful, back of all this playing and would sit, drumming her laughing and chatting, to feel that fingers, trying to decide whether or your life was secure, settled. Just not she could make that particular, the same, the dash of freedom ten or whether. Elsa could be per-made Gypsy rounder, rosier, pret- Bunded to stay late again.

tier than she had been in years.

she.

Tom said he approved of the She looked about her at the peo- change, although sometimes youple she knew, the completely un- caught a puzzled light In his eyes fettered ones, and found that she This chameleon, this Bushed, dark-did not envy them. Elspeth was haired young person in the well cut thin, hard. nervous at 20: in gray suit was curiously unlike love with a married man from the discouraged, pallid girl who Park avenue. Ronny had been had complained last winter of the married and divorced and so had routine of dishes, bottles and naps. Willa Burns and one or two of the Since Gypsy's return she hadn't other girls. None of them had sald a single word about their old chlidren. She would rush into the difficulties. Sho had behaved as apartment after 4 ነ afternoon though nothing had ever happened punctuated by frenzied chatter. to disturb her-placidity. He didn't scented with olgarette smoke and quito understand the change but ho the dress of a cocktail shaker. She was grateful for it.

would bury her face in the pink

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Manlike, he was Interested in warmth and sweetness of David's and attracted by the transforma- baby neck. tion. Of course Gypsy was his "Was he good. Elsn?" girl his wife-no matter how she "Oh, sure, he fine." Elsa would looked nor what she did to herself. wriggle out of her apron. But, although he approved her "Take his carrots all right?" galety and spirit in theory, some- "Ya, he eat um all up." times he missed the old Gypsy with "Well, now I've got to settle her serious talk of budgets and down to business." She would cheap cuts and her adorable frown hum

dance tune, looking

over the laundry list. This girl abstractedly into the icebox. was far too busy to bother with Asparagus and cold lamb and a laundry lists. There were buttons salad; Tom would like that. She missing from Tom's things nawa wasn't hungry. Those pato sand- days and his brown and blue socks i

had holes in the toes. Often hel came home in the evening to find her still away and Elsa mattering over the pots and pans, anxious to put on her big shapeless hat and romove horself to that mysterious realm from which she would emerge the next working day.

Tom would be left to give David hia bottle.Presently Gypay would flash in with a gardeula at her throat and the scent of cigarettes elinging to-her-cool; fresh-check

"Sorry, darling. I had no idea It was so lato. Ronny Burgess had A Russian violinist and it was so! thrilling!"

She would tie a big apron over her sheer black frock with its frilly collar. Smiling still over the after- noon, she would serve Tom cold hum and potato chips and salad. She seldom bothered to cook much now. For one thing, the weather was growing warmer. For an- other, she hadn't the time and Elsa was a most indifferent chef.

Be- aldes Tom didn't care. He used to be bored, she thought now, with all those fancy messes she had pre- pared for him. That was little bride stuff Well, she had got bravely over that phase.

ex-

It was thrilling-it was hilirating to be received back in- to the old cirole as an equal. At first people had openly patronized her. "How's the baby?" they had, asked negligently. "How's mother- hood?"

But they had got past that now. Sho was one of them. She had even joined a class in and it was, she said, "in

It was queer but the prospect of | spending the summer in the apart ment didn't daunt her now. Last year she had been unable to bear the very notion. But that had been because of her condition. She felt strong now and it was fun to bo within reach of things. Why, if she moved to the auburbs she would miss out on all the in- vitations she now accepted so eagerly. No one would remember her if she buried herself in some little houso on a alde road,

When Tom said something about trying to find a place on the Island ahe smiled and shook her hond. "Don't bother, darling. We'll be all right. I don't mind. the clty any more. Besides, everyone says we're going to have a cool sum

mer."

The puzzled look came into his eyes again and ho said no more.

More often than not Gypsy én- countered Hunt Gibson at, those festivities. Hunt was very much the young-man-about-town at the moment and he had met these peo- ple through Sue Canavan.; The more Gypsy saw of him the batter she liked him. He was always BD amusing. He had a grand sones!

A remarkable action picture recording the dramatic climax of violence in the Minneapolis, truck drivers' strike.. Falling, fatally injured, in the foreground, la C: Arthur Lyman, vice-president of the American Ball Co., volunteer deputy. He died Inter hospital. One of the combatants is shown. making a terrific swing with club. A memang after this pictura was taken, union officials shouted that.

a truce had been declared and ambulances rumored A5 wounded, 31 of them special policemen.

One of the most remarkable pictures taken during the Toledo strike riots is this, showing a rioter after he had caught a smoking gas grenade flung by an Ohio guardsman and hurled it back into the troops' ranks. The picture plainly shows the grenade just

after it had left his hand. In the left, through the trans, is shown part of the crowd, of thousands watching the affray.

Choking clouds of gas hurled back 3,000 Hotars at the Elentria Auto-Lite plant in Toledo, O. se shown in this vivid plature, but they returned to maintain the sluge of 1800 strike breakers trapped in the factory building mitil militia arrived to clear the kroni With snipers åring from nearby halldings, torches being fung through windows of the plant, shown, near right, "by the bowling mob, and pitched battles in the streats, terror, reigned for two days and nights at - tha, plant, where $150,000 damage resulted," "with

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