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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1934.

Married Flirts

· CHAPTER XXXVII

the

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by MABEL

MCELLIOTT

One night after Tom had closed, flowers, and har wide shallow the door after their guest he caing crowned hat. She felt cool, well back into the living room and dressed and happy, u delightful stood, thoughtful and allent, for a combination Hor steps fairly moment. His quiet, listening atti-danced along the crowded pave tudo gave Gypay pause,

ments and when she came into the "What's up. dariing?"

deep, high-colled hotel lobby with its furniture already gay in sum- mor, slip covers It was with an almost overpowering sense of well: Sue, in this dim light, was pale.

frockies on the bridge of her small mous and the Tow faint golden

nose made her white skin look al most translucent. Gypsy felt a pang of concern. Why, Sue was Hil, really, and not one of them had; noticed It!

They sat over their tea, two well It had not been for Gypsy's earlier "Do I think so? I know it, you

dressed young women with pleasant suspicions he would have put him-blessed Idiot." Vera's flashing Tom might sigh little. It They dropped. the subject then voices, and no one noticed them self down as a fatuous fool for smile belied the words.

wasn't that Gypsy locked interest, and there but neither of them particularly. One was even considering the matter. "Hert's having the gang at his She had plenty of it but she was forgot it entirely. Gypsy had al- other red-haired, and they behaved, But there were no two waya place Monday night. I wish you just wrapped up in other affairs.ways said she despised young mur- the casual onlooker would have about it, he couldn't over bring could, got up there. The Manners Sho might notice he looked à bltfried women who carried on flirtamid, like old friends. Vera and Gypsy together. They people aro coming. They'd be use

downenst.

tions--alther openly or behind But the first words Sue såld to didn't like each other and never ful," Vern would say with a spee-ahe might urge.

"Tell me more about it, darling," their husbands backs. It all Gypsy were scarcely what the cas Vern was a good business fulative look.

You know I'm seemed pretty cheap, somehow.jsual onlooker would have guessed thrilled to hear."

But she found the thought of them to be. She said, "I wanted And Tom might go on but the Hunt's king her wasn't entirely to see you before I wont

away. first rosy glow of his enthusiasm unpleasant. Why, when she had 'n torribly ill. I may not be in would be dimmed. He would har been Jealous of Tom, angry at him New York again." bour the suspicion that Gypsy was because he had been seeing Vera "May not be...why, Sue dear! more concerned about the sauce for Gray, she had even entertained the This is dreadful. What fe It and the cnullflower than anything else, thought of irritating him with an why didn't you let me know be

Hunt Gibson had fallen into the admirer of her own. Of course fare?" habit of "dropping around" in the that was as far as she had gone- The band stirring the cup of tea evening. These were the first warm merely thinking of it. All wives trembled and Sue'a, under lip nights of summer and in the city she reminded herself, do that at trembled, too. "It's nerves," she the spell was evident. Gyper, in momente; the spirit of retaliation said. "I'm all shot to pieces. I'm thin, many-times-washed organdles is neither a noble nor a beautiful going out west, to Wyoming, to from last season, would sit sewing one and she was ashamed now of Aunt Henry's. I shall stay there- under the amber lamp.

iter, sentiments."

ah, forever, perhaps" "Come in," she would say wel- comingly, "I thought you'd be out at the Lido Club to-night, Ronny said you were all going.”

woman. There were plenty of Tom would flush, stammer, get things he would have liked to dls out of it. Of course, Vera under Tom didn't understand- chango that had come over Gypsy Her mind was kech. She had a was quito all right.

cuss with her outside the office. stood. Of course, he was buny. It but he was grateful for the new feline shrewdness. And so it was peace and gaiety in

"Darn it all, Tom would muiter the house, that he fell again and again into to himself later. "I'd bet for run Although Vera's name was never small trapa of hor making. He out on that girl. This will come mentioned, hor presence tho city

He stared down at her. "I'vo just in the office, in fact-appeared Would be lunching at the sandwich to no good." no longer to trouble young Mrs. him with a pinbe of cold cuts and to Gypsy about the Whitman mat- love with you."

bar and she would appear beside Lator, at home, he would talk come on something. That chap'a in Weaver. Tom had. hoard of letting sleeping daga llo and believed in salad. Tom would listen, talk, tor. "I got that soap necount I told She burst into a peal of laughter.being. the axiom. Vern was still pretty mile while the lovely woman at you about," he would say with beWhere did you get that idea?" anxious to know why he and his side, hor gilt hair just show-coming modesty at dinner.

He didn't amilc. "Happens to be Her forget-me-not eyes were enor "Tommy dear" couldn't be better would murmur, encourage, applaud. I put that carving knife? On where Gypsy was annoyed. ""Tommy,

ing under the demure small kat, "Oh, really, dear? Now whora did true." friends. She pretended to believo she had done something to offend

"You handled Whitman exactly did Elsa put it? She's getting so you never talk that way. It's

carcless. him. In a thousand small ways sho right, Tommy,"

Gypsy would put it's not a bli nice of you, really, contrived to be rear him, and yot; "Think so?" Even a clever man down the platter with the steak. We don't go in so innocently were the encounters likes flattery. Tom Weaver was "Sit down while everything's hot, thing, do we in for this sort of managed that he could never bo cernat stupid and he enjoyed appre saying about something?"

darling. What was it you were "Sorry, darling, Forget It. May tain they had been engineered. If ciation, it

be I'm just imagining things."

would.

"For the female of the species is more deadly than the male." left-handar lunge by a woman who holda s bludgeon'in her right.

Photo was taken during the riota ut Minnieapolis.

Tom would gо out into the kitchen to stir up a cool drink and Hunt would explain lightly that he had changed his plans at the last minute: something had come up.

Occasionally he brought Sue with him--Sue, looking unusually pretty and extremely wraith-like these days. But oftener than not he

came along.

Just the same, It gave her n small, secrot satisfaction to think that Hunt admired her.

Sue telephoned her one day and asked her to come to tea at the Vanderbilt, their old meeting place. "I'd love to." Gypsy said, "How rioes it happen you're on the loose to-day?"

But Sue was vague. She would explain, she said, when they met.

It was warm, clear and bright, Gypsy wore her new printed silk binsk with a scattering of eld

dark, the

Har, eyes shone with, unshed tears and her voice shook. Gypsy watched her, troubled. Suo, who had always been so happy-go-lucky, so utterly care-free-what on earth had brought her to this state?

"You've been working too hard," she said. "And playing too hard in the bargain. Why, only other day Hunt sald

tho

Sua Interrupted her, eyes glit terings "Hunt said what?"

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