The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-26
SYNOPSIS

SINOPSlS
GYPSY MORELL and TOM
WEAVER are married ON the
same day as LILA HOTALING
and DEREk BLISS, but LiIa's
wedding is a society event while
Gypsy's is very simple.
While Lila lives in luxury,
Gypsy has to struggle to keep
expenses within Toms income.
She keeps her job teaching until
she learns she is to have a baby.
After DAVID'S birth she is ex-
trcmeIy busy, caring for him and
for her home.
Tom Is frequently away in the
evening and Gypsy suspects he is
interested in VERA GRAY, who
works in the same Office.
Lila cOnfesses to Gypsy that
she intends to divorce Derek and
marry MARIO BKOUGHTON,
richer and older.
A few days later Gypsy, calling
at the Office. secs Tom going to
lunch with Vera. She goes home
heart broken. HUNT GIBSON
calls and finds her i'm tears. He
invites Tom and Gypsy to have
dinner with him next night.
Gypsy tells Tom that Gibson has
invited her alone.
CHAPTER XXI
Gypsy had just fallen into a
troubled sleep after tossing rest
lessly for hours. The shrilling of
the telephone startled her bolt up
right in her twin bed. Across the
way Tom slept soundlessly, one
arm flung over his head.
She scrambled for her mules
could not find them in the dark,
and rushed to silence the clangor-
Gus summons. There was some
thing unearthly about being awak-
ened thus in the dead of night.
Everything looked eerie in the
darkness; the telephone table and
stool were a dark blob against the
moonlit wall.
Hello! Hello" Her heart was
thudding painfully. 1t might be O
wrong number-of course, it might
be. No use borrowing trouble.
There was a faint buzzing at the
other end. Then she heard her
mothers voice, infinitely shaken,
infinitely weary.
GYPSY"
She said. "Yes!" quickly, pas
sionately, as if by so doing she
might take whatever trouble there
was from the frail, sloping Shout
derS of the woman in Blue Hills
Something dreadful must be wrong
her thoughts ran. Something dread
full what?
Gypsy. fathers been hurt. He's
She did not catch the rest. There
was cold sweat on her palms now
on her forehead. There was sick
ness at the very core of her being.
Mother, how? Where?"
"A car; don't ask me now. But
hurry. Toms there?"
YES, yes. Of course! Well come
right away"
She heard her mother sigh, as if
in mortal sadness. Then the re-
ceiver clicked. She was alone in
the vast stiffness of the night.
A light flashed on down the hall
and Tom came out of the bedroom,
his dressing gown flung on over his
pajamas, his hair rumpled small
boy fashion. Gypsy forgot in that
moment all their difficulties and
misunderstanding. He was again
her prop and stay, her beloved
partner.
Daddy" she gulped. He's hurt!
1t must be very serious. Mother
says to come right away"
She was clinging to him, sobbing
as though her heart would
| break. But the moment of weak
ness was soon over. She began
frenziedly to- dress.
1--WE got the car in town. That's
lucky" Tom was already knottine
his tie, fully dressed. He looked
pale and serious.
"Oh, you have" She hadn't
known this and it was significant
She and Tom hadn't been telling
each other things these days. But
she didn't care now why he had il
nor how. All that mattered was
that it would get them to Jersey
as quickly as possible.
| When they got down to the
street, the sleeping baby on hi
fathers shoulder, they founC
broken clouds scudding over thu
face of the moon. The days rain
the weeks rain, was quickly drying
in the cutters as the west wine
blew through the narrow streets.
| Two o CLOCK, ION OHereu, ~
the attendant wheeled the little ca
out into the middle of the bill
empty concrete garage 1t was cold
dreary, desolate. Only this man, II
his shabby blue overall, yawnini
and blinking over copy of a dc
tective magazine, was visible. Gyp
sy shivered and held David's warm
limp softness close to her as Ton
took his place beside the wheel.
was strange; IL was all strange an'
infinitely terrifying. They plunged
into the NAV of the Hudson Tun
nels and flashed by solitary police
men who gazed at them incuriousl
Once on the other side OF the river
Tom made time. The roads wer
empty except for an occdsiona
cruising taxi.
Fifty minutes, Tom announce
as they passed the first sign read
ing. You are now entering IN
incorporated village OF Blue Hills
go miles an hour speed limit
Gypsy mt tense, rigid, her IN
gers curvIng around tho baby
shHwlcd form. Upper Dean stree
home with lights In a.
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