The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-02-16
SYNOPSIS


 GYPSY MORELLs and TOM WEAVER arc married on the same day as LILA HOTALING and DEREK BLISS, but Iila ex- pects to live in luxury while Gypsy keeps her job teaching in q settlement school.
 Gypsy has Co struggle 60 keep expenses within Toms income. Another problem Is Toms jealousy of wealthy MARKO BROUGHTON who once asked Gypsy tO marry him and whom they meet at the BIisses' home.
 When the doctor tells Gypsy she Is tO have . baby she gives up her job. Summer comes on and is intensely hot. Gypsy and Tom move tO . cottage on Long Island owned by Q friend.
 The baby Is born in late Sep- teTnber and the Weavers return tO their apartment. Gypsy finds lsOuscwOFk with thc baby to care for. cxlsausting. They spend the Christmas holidays with Gypsy's parents in New Jersey. New Years night Tom and Gypsy are summoned home from party by news that the baby is III.
 CHAPTER xxIII
 It was a nightmare-a hideous, black, absorbing nightmare. The rush home through the silent streets, slippery now, fast glazing under the moon; the first sight of the Morell house lighted through out. with the doctors coupe parked at the driveway. Gypsy scarcely waited for Tom to put on the brakes. She was out of the door, halfway up the stairs by the time he had fairly stopped the car.
 David mother. how IS he?''
 The big guest room with it's rOse-garland paper, it's peeling creamy woodwork, was one blaze of lights. Gypsy saw only the tiny figure in the bassinette with Doctor Zimmerman bending over it. There was . peculiar smell in the room. C1ytle lowered near with a kettle. Someone had made sort of tent with sheets over the big. wide fiat bed with the pineapple posts.
 The doctor strengthened al Gypsy's entrance.
 "Nothing but little croup," he said easily. "Trightening at first of course. Your mother had quite q turn :"
 Mrs Morell began volubly to ex- plain. Her children, she said, had never had croup. She was terrified when she heard young David's heavy breathing--when he began to choke.
 But he was perfectly well-he was fine when left him." Gypsy kept saying in her bewilderment. Some one brought her a chair; her knees were trembling with the re- action. The baby slept quietly now, one crumpled roseleaf hand thrown above his head. Lights were turned down and the watchers in the room moved softly, speaking in whispers.
 Tom told Gypsy 10 go to bed: he'd watch David himself. But she was stubborn. She wouldn't sleep. she told him. What was the use She refused even to take off her fro,,.s but sat. wrapped in her wool ly robe, her eyes on the crib.
 She had been dancing, laughing. an hour ago. She had felt like n girl. carefree. minus responsibil- ities. Now she wondered at that other light t-hearted self. How dread full, how incalcu.ablc life was, al- way otEfhluB aL Jou HI thS uoi h' Why, David might have died, fight ing for his breath. If Nuns hadn't heard him! She trembled at the thought.
 She must, at last have dozed off because when she opened her eyes again the room was very chilly and Tom. straight and tall in hts dressing gown. stood beside her. Darling. you'll. make yourself Ill. Lie down in the other bed in Beas room and I'll watch here. He'll be all right. The doctor said the.e were even chances he'd not be disturbed again tonight
 She was stiff, cold. aching in every limb. It was good to be cared for and comforted. The sheets be- tween which she crcpt were de- liciously warm. She was asleep in five minutes.
 David was happy. rosy, un- touched the next morning. The gbrief and frightened attack of croup vanished without leaving a trace-upon the baby. at least. But it had quite lasting effect on his young mother. She discovered that the love she felt for him was tinged with fear--fear she might lose him. that something might strike, out of the dark, at his smallness and help lessness.
 Yes, motherhood had changed F her more than q little. It had so- bered and sweetened and saddened her. It made her all at once more womanly. more gentle. more thoushtfui while the experience of being father, she considered graveiy, had altered Tom not at all. When they were together, in their own little home, and Gypsy s glowing face and bright eyes were turned up to him, Tom forgot everything except that she was his. infinitely dear and adorable. When he unlocked his own door at night it was Gypsy he wanted to see, first of all. The sound of her light laughter was the sweetest music he knew and he was still filled with wonderment at the thought that she had chosen him out of all the world. The baby came second; Gypsy was first always.
 While this did not make any real difference between them, Tom was conscious that under Gypsy's love for him ran always. without change or cessation. her passionate con- cern for the boy. David completed the circle he and Gypsy and David. Well. that was as 1t should be, he knew that. And yet and yet Gypsy had been more com pietely his before David's coming.
 Perhaps it was natural. as the months went on, that he came tC spend little more of his time al the office. For one thing, there were the new demands that David's needs placed upon the Weavers