The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-03-10
SYNOPSIS


 GYPSY MORELL and TOM
 WBAVEs are married on the
 nnnle day as LILA HOTALING
 and DEIsEK BLISS, but while
 Lila lives in luxury Gypsy has to
 aFuggie 10 keep expenses within
 Toms income.
 After Gypsv's son Is born her
 days become q dreary round of
 caring for him and for her home.
 She suspccts Tom Is interested in
 VERA GRAY who works fin the
 pame office.
 Ldla divorces Derek. Vera finds
 excuses to sec Tom often and one
 night, after tricking him into talk
 ing her home, suggests they run
 away together. Tom leaves hast
 fly.
 Derek, learning Lila divorced
 him to marry MARKO
 BROUGHTON. richer and older,
 comes uninvited 10 a dinner
 party given by Lila. Gypsy Is
 there and also HUNT GIBSON.
 Derek, who has been drinking,
 falls from balcony to the street..
 Hunt takes Gypsy home. Tom, Jealous and angry, makes a scene.
 CHAPTER KILT
 Now the storm which had been threatening all the long evening began in real earnest. The light ming flashed. The heavens trembled under the onslaughts of fierce, shattering peals of thunder. Gypsy shivered, not cnly because of the storm but because of Toms last words and the paleful expression he now bent upon her.
 ''I'm tired" she repeated. "I've had dreadful time of 1t. Can't you see that? That awful scene with Derek :" She shut her eyes.
 Don't try to turn me aside" Tom said bleakly. q want to know what there is between you and Gibson?"
 She stared at him. "You know There's nothing at all :"
 "Ah. but do I? Only to-day Vera ." lie checked himself, but she had caught the name.
 D'you mean to say you discuss a1e with that woman?"
 He had the grace to flush. to Answer honestly. "Of course, I don't. What do you take me for? But she said something ."
 Gypsy felt her temples pounding. There was the beat of slow anger 1n her blood. Vera Vera l- when would this woman's name cease to enrage her?
 In measured accents she asked, ~You were with her tonight then? At dinner, perhaps?"
 Tom, made to feel in the wrong, goaded to furious retaliation. shouted. NO, not at dinner. I might have dined with her but no like fool. I was being faithful even in spirit to you. acted like a blithering idiot and she's a. nice girl. too. Simple and direct and honest ."
 ':Ha. like that" Gypsy said bitterly.
 "You leave her out of this. She's got nothing to do with us. The facts are that you've been out at a wild party with this man till all hours. I'm sick of it. We might as well admit we're fin ished. There's no use going on. And now this last hideous mess to have your name dragged through 8 scandal! I tell you I'm not having any more of it. I'm getting out"
 She drew herself up. You can't talk to me like this" she said. her voice shaking. "If you walk out of that door now it will be the end of everything for us."
 His hand was on the knob. His face was white with anger. They were like two foes locked in dead ly combat. Neither would give an inch. One gesture, one look might have saved them both. would offer 1t.
 Then suddenly 1t was all over. As the thunder crackled and roar ed and the flashes of light flicker ed on and off the door slammed. Gypsy stood un:noving. It was all a bad dream, she kept telling herself. The whole thing - the dinner and Derek's accident and the quarrel z. everything. Presently she would wake up and find herself in her own small bed and Tom asleep his arms flung over his head.
 But the clock licked on inexor- ably, the rumble of the storm con- and when she flung the door wide only emptiness greeted her. He had really and truly gone.
 She went back into the apart ment and stared around her. It was all over. their life together. The plans, the laughter over bud gets and books, the kisses, the the shared delights.
 "Well, that's that" she said fatly in the silence. It wasn't that she hadn't honestly and sim cere1y tried to make go of 1t but she had failed. ever as Lila had. Maybe marriages weren't meant to succeed nowadays. If you went at them in the fashioned way (as she had) determined to work