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□GYPSY GIRL - ?®
Vm, THE STORY OF AN IMPASSIONED ROMANCE
McDonald fk^
CHAPTER 60
THE OYPSIES parted around Con
*uelo and Merla. the bride-to-be of
Marou. There was ominous silence,
all rxe< t Merla’s laughing*, her
throat.', musical laughing over Con
melo’s comment that Merla never
would see (he inside of Marcu’s tent.
"Now who is It that’s talking about
seeing the inside of my new tent?”
The laughter stopped. Consuelo
straightened up. There stood Marou,
tall, more handsome than she had
remembered him.
”1 am, big fellow. 1 said I’d never
go inside it.”
‘Rah! I would not have you! So
you have come hack to Haunt your
new jewelry to the camp.” He
reached out and lore the necklaces
from tier throat and threw them to
Ute ground. ‘Slut!’’
“Liar!”
“Shut up!" He slapped her across
the fuce. “So you thought you woulu
come back, my little one, eh? Well,
i have a new bride that I am going
to marry.” lie put his arm around
Merla I have paid my gold for
her. 1 marry her in a week, but now
1 have changed my mind. I will
marry her tonight and she will sleep
in my new tent."
With one swing of her body Con
euelo jerked Merla from him. Before
she could speak Marou had her by
the arm
“Not so rough, little one,” he said.
“I will marry her tonight, but before
1 do I have a little score to settle
with you.”
She pulled herself free from him. !
"And I with you, big fellow!"
She took his ring from her finger
lind threw it in the dust at his feet, j
“There! Perhaps you remember
It! Your hunk of glass 1 paid for!”
He stared at her, eyes on tire, then
slowly, deliberately placed his foot
over the diamond and ground U iuto
the dirt.
“That is what I think of it and *f ,
you! ”
“Liar!’* She laughed up Into fate
STORMY LOVE x
A YOUNG MAN’S ROMANCE
fMAFTER i
ALONG THE Nanking road the
calls of ricksha coolies vied witl.
the piping bedlam of eastern motot
horns. A procession of students with
banners had just passed so thai
Shanghai's busiest thoroughfare
surged in the fall sunlight with
waves of traffic and humanity.
in a taxi that was taking every
opportunity to make headway
against the tide. Lieutenant Valen
tine Preston, LJ. S. N.—attached to
the gunboat Panay of the Yangtze
patrol—leaned forward urging the
driver to greater effort. This pas
senger who gripped a florist’s box
uia a Chinese doll under one mus
rular. tweed-clad arm, was a person
able young man. although just now
his square jaw was too tensely set,
auosant nostrils flared impatiently,
and his eyes—their marine blue in
tensified by thick black lashes and
his heavy tan —were fixed anxiously
on his watch.
As the taxi darted in and oul
through each breach in the traffic,
Val prayed that he should ream
Janice bidding before her ship up
anchored. Inwardly cursing the
habitual carelessness that had let
bun break last night's date with her.
he told himself she must not sal'
without knowing how contrite he
was. Not tor the world would he
have hurt her. And yet, he had
shown her a discourtesy that a high
spirited.girl like Jan would find hard
to o vet look.
it sickened him to think of *.t
Why the devil couldn't one of his
fellow officers have remembered that
two months up-river put a man out
of touch with the news? Why, when
his ship returned to port yesterday,
hadn't someone warned him that Jan
was leaving China? Instead, he had
nonchalantly let himself forget their
long-standing date for his first eve
ning hail; in Shanghai. And then
only a half-hour ago. when he had
driven out to Frenchtown to apolo
gize and try to make his peace, he
v*ad stunned to hear from a servart
that Jan's lather had his orders back
«o duty In the States. Indeed, it ap
pealed the family had already
boarded the President Taft, and was
•Ailing—he stared down at his watch
w <3ood Lord, in less than an hour!
j Btill a bit fogged as to how last
flight's blunder could have happened
be recalled that yesterday when his
ship dropped anchor in the Whang :
poo. he had intended to phone Jari
the moment he got ashore. At five
o'clock he had landed at the jetty,
then started down the sund to
He himself at the AstOr for his,three
days' leave. On the way. impor
tuned by a shipmate, he had dropped
Into the club bar for one drink-and a
look around.
There, they had run across a group
•f Standard Oil men and news
writers—an entertaining lot who
were, in possession of the latest new*
from the States and Europe and th?
Japanese front —and as the drink®
circulated laughter ard conversation
had blended into a gay camaraderie
Presently someone had urged him to
the piano for one time. After that,
more drinks. A gang gathered
• round the piano to rehearse th,
“Riff Song" and “Down With Bur
gundy” until they could put them
over like .a cold million. They had
ntarted on “Good King Wenceslaus’
fallen he was electrified hy the mid
night chiming of the bar clock! An.’
it was too late lo i all Jan or do any
thing else but stick with the crowd
and go oh forgetting—
He was only vaguely aware of
what happened later. He suppose!
he had got to bed some time this
morning. On awakening a while ago
he had pulled himself together and
had driven at nnr? i 0 the Edding
home lo apologize. And now ho had
discovered Jan was leaving China:
bis head throbbed like a jungle
drum, and he wanted a drink like
no’iodv'e business
The motor approached the h&rbot
race. "Now what Is it you would
show me?”
He turned from her and went to
his wagon. The girl stood and
watched him. She was scarcely
breathing.
In a moment Marou came hack.
In his hand was the wagon whip.
“Now you will pay, you hussy!”
“I have paid a thousand times, big
fellow !" She was staring him in the
eyes. “I have paid a thousand
times!" she repeated.
He hesitated, then raised the whip.
"And one!” The whip curled
around her body.
No sound from the girl. Then she
put back her head and laughed.
“You have only kissed me!" she
cried.
H« raised the whip and again it
curled around her. the sound echo
ing through the gypsy camp. A thin
line of red came through the white
of her blouse.
"Another kiss from the man who ■
loves me!” she shouted.
"You lie!"
Again the whip wound around her
body and her laughter rang out. The
sting of the lash was joy, she was
crying inside, it is better than all
the dreams I have dreamed. Again
the whip caresses me. My eyes are |
closed. 1 see the marble columns
falling into dust and the floor of the j
marble palace is crumbling beneath
my fret. I am. not laughing now.
Again the lash! It is beating down
the marble walls. Again! They are
gone now. Again! It is stripping
from rue all that 1 have done. Again!
Now the marble is only dust and the :
high hill is gone and the last chain !
is torn from me! lam free! lam j
home once more. I have never been j
away. I have never tried to be a
gorgio! T am n gypsy! I am a
gypsy! Beat me. Marou, my loved
one. beat me! It is better than all
the kisses of a white man!
He paused, the whip held high.
“Now, you hussv. get to my tent!
Mv old one is good enough for vou 1 ”
/Coni/rlght)
r*Y//I\ Afa»i
She had snatched the last tampan.
front and Val leaned his lithe iengtb
forward to peer through the window
There he could glimpse the black
hull of the President Taft anchored
far out in the swirling brown waters
of the river where even now she
seemed to strain at her chains. His
already taut muscles tightened as
the Nanking road swung around the
turbaned authority of a huge Sikh
traffic policeman to debouch sudden
ly into the Bund. The taxi skidded
to a stop. The young man leaped ou*
to toss a bill and an answering grin
to the driver, then turning, ran with
swift, easy strides along the street
and across the gangway to the cus
toms house jetty.
There his course was abruptly
halted by an expanse of dirty watei
widening between himself and the
receding stern of the last tender
carrying visitors to the President
Taft. Nonplused* he stood for a de
feated instant. ’Then as his finely
built body swung about, his eyes
leaped* to' : where a lone sampar
awaited a fare.
He strode toward it. But even a®
he did so he was diverted by the ap
pearance of a girl—something very
special whit si fin, twinkling ankles,
tiny feet, and carrying a leopard
skin coat —who, with her imperious
little hand held up to the coolie.-
tripped from the opposite side of the
jetty. Val had signaled the man
first, but as the girl approached lie
instinctively gave way for the in
stant it took her to step into the
Craft and settle herself. Hell’s bells!
The last sampan and this young
upstart had snatched it! As the
small boat slid away lie glared down
into the lustrous dark eyes that
peered back at him over a graceful
shoulder: but when she flung hirr.
the faintest ghost of a smile, he
found himself melting into an an
swering grin.
Nevertheless the grin soon faded,
bis debonair manner grew momen
tarily more subdued as his gaze vain
ly searched the neighboring floats
lor any oilier available water-tax*
Usually there Were a dozen empty
sampans to he whistled up; but'to
day the little river craft all appeared
engaged in carrying spectators to thr
rowing races on Pootung-side Be
neath his low*-pulled hat brim his
blue eyes, burned with chagrin. He
crammed' florist’s box and Chinese
■ doll under his elbow, fumbled with
impatient flrigers for a cigaret,
lighted it. took a deep drag and ex
haled smoke and a sotto voce flow of
(OvpvrishtJ
HENDERSON, (N. C.) DAILY DISPATCH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1935.
Hl* voice wsi wild with orultatlon.
He picked up the diamond from rhe
dirt. ‘ Tut it on before 1 heat you
! more!” He was like a drunken man.
“Girtza, my father, where are you?
Why have you kept Us waiting?"
He need not have shouted, for
Girtza was standing next him.
“Well, now. what would vou
have?" /
Marcu took his purse of gold from
his pocket and flung it to ihr ground.
“No bargains. Take that. She is
not worth more!" He cracked the
whip above his head. “Now, woman,
to my tenri To my tent, I say!”
As she went, he followed behind
hei. cracking the whip and shouting
gypsy words. At the door of the
I vent he paused and turned hack to
the gypsies.
"Fools, what are you staring for?
j Petru, some music! Some songs!
Dance, dance, all night ions!" He
threw a handful of coins to them,
"Get beer! Get wine! teat! Drink*
This is my wedding night!* |n my
tent is my bride!" He cracked the
whip over his head again and then,
folding it under his arms, strode into
Ihe tent. The flap closed behind hint
ami the strings were tied hastily in
knots.
And now lor the first time in
months the camp came alive and the
trees looked good and the stars were
brighter than they had been. And it
seemed that they must sing. and (heir
songs had a happy lilt and Petru’s
music was faster and gayer than it
had ever been. Laughter was louder
and there was kissing nhd love mak
ing under the trees.
The Dummy and Merla stood apart
from the others, .
“I guess she was his ■•first.":-.'she
said, shrugging her shoulders.- She
tilted her saucy head and looked at
him.
“I have never before seen how
handsome you are. my big dumb
one. Is your purse of gold always
going to hang at your belt?"
THE END.
Bv BELLE BURNS GROMER
sea-going language adequate to tfii
occasion.
Why, in the name of the Great
Horn Spoon, had he let that girl
wangle the last sampan from under
hrs very nose? This was tire sort of
thing, lie reflected with a disgusted
shrug, that was always putting him
off an even keel. Because this nervy
little brat .had been smooth and at
tractive, he had permitted himself to
be turned aside from something that
really mattered.
She had kept him away from Jan.
that was what she had done! He
scowled at a rib-sailed junk thread
ing its way past a nest of battleships
Good Lord, surely there would lie a
boat of some sort along in a minute'
Jan mustn't sail thinking him indif
ferent to last night’s slight. Why.
they had been friends from then
youngster days, navy “juniors" both,
small wanderers whose brief periods
of home life were succeeded by
longer years of following the ships
where their officer fathers found
themselves on duty.
At the Mare Navy Yard, near Sab
Francisco, when she was a blonde
curly-top in smocks and he a lad of
10, tlie oilier boys had ragged him
for deserting their games to tearF
her to swim; their jeers had got un
der his skin but she had been, such
a game pupil he had stubbornly ig;-
nored his gang for her sake. Even
whei she was convalescing froip
measles Jan must have been very
appealing to make him surrender
sailing his raft on the shallow bay
waters, indoors tlirpugh sunny
afternoons reading St. Nicholas aloud
or playing Halma with her. jri
He paused to whistle frantically
to a passing craft, then saw it had |*
passenger. Impatiently pacing tl\e
float he returned again to his
thoughts of Jan and flushed to recall
that although they had been ptoj)-
mates through childhood, in later
years, when he was a midshipman : a*
Annapolis and' her father had re
ported there as an instructor,-he. Val.
had been engrossed with a seminqyy
siren from Washington and had Ig
nored the demure*!sc hoolgirU. Th.j£t
l was his last year at the Navkl
Acadehiy where, he remembered With
no great pride, his claims to'fame fiav
in his ability to play the piano, .the
• composing of some singable music
■ for the Masqueraders, and his repu
tatihn for the sensational pulchritude
of the femmes he dragged to the
hop*.
ITO BE OONTINUEDJ
0 CHANGE CHARTER
| People Would Have to Pass
On Forms of Municipal
Government
ftally niupntck Rareim,
In the Sir Walter Hotel.
By C. A. PAUI.
Raleigh. May I.—City charters could
fce changed only by a vote of the peo.
pie under the terms of a bill offered
by Senator Ray Shute, of Union coun
ty, which calls for a constitutional
amendment to be submitted to the
electorate in 1936.
“If passed by the legislature and
approved hy the voters next year.”
said Senator Shute, “it would insure
to the residents of a city or town
the right to vole on any optional form
of municipal government which the
General Assembly might set up, such
as mayor and board of aldermen, com
mission form, or council-manager
form. The form thus adopted could
not be changed by legislative enact
ment without again submitting the
question to a vote of the people af
fected.”
Another section of the bill would
require that all cities and towns be
governed by “general law" insofar as
incorporation and organization are
concerned. Thus the measure would
outlaw the practice of amending the
great number of town and city char
ters by the process of putting thro
ugh the legislature “purely local”
bills. Senate Shute does not subscribe
to the practice of permitting cities
and towns to have a mass of local
laws, applicable only to the city or
town named in the bills which flood
'egislative hoppers each session of the
'egislature. “Enactment of this meas
ure.” said Senator Shute, “will speed
progress of the legislature because it
would not have to consume so much
time considering local bills.”
The bill is sponsored by the North
Carolina of Municipalities be
ing approved at its legislative con
ference in Raleigh last January 23.
The bill is expected to meet with
opposition from those who oppose
making the laws pertaining to city
and town charters. Others will doubt
less oppose passage of the hill this
session solely on the ground that four
constitutional amendments will be j
submitted to the voters next year.
County Road Fund
Fully Safeguarded
<Combined irons Rage One.)
tenance and construction of county |
roads, and betterments of State and |
county roads, Senator Hurley, of
Montgomery, chief in the" Sen
ate of the State Highway Commission
declared that all transfers would be
made from the county funds to the
State load funds. He charged that
'hat has been the practice followed in
'he past. He sent forward an amend,
ment which would have removed from
:he the first classification,
maintenance of Slate highways. His
amendment would have permitted
ransfers only between (1) mainten
ance and construction of county roads
and (2> betterments of State and
ounly roads.
Immediately thereafter Senator Mor
gan. of Richmond, sent up an amend
ment which would limit transfens
-rom any one of the three classifica
tions to 15 per cent. Saying that “some
elasticity was required in large ap
propriations Senator Morgan said he
believed his amendment would ac
complish the protection of allotments
for county roads. Senator Hurley with
drew his amendment in favor of that
offered by Senator Morgan. Approp
riations Chairman Gravely told the
Senate the Morgan amendment was
acceptable to him, and it was adopt
ed.
The only other important changes !
made in the bill were in the approp
riations for the State hospital at Ra- j
Jeigh (Dix Hill) and a reduction in j
the allotments for vocational Educa
tion. The Raleigh hospital ap'prop-'j
nation was increased to coven the j
purchase of a new machine and '
equipment and to cover increased food
costs. For next year the allotment was
increased to $301,650 for the second
year. $301,000. The figures in the ap.
propriation bill as passed by the low-
house were $276,650 and $276,800.
The Senate made a compromise
gesture concerning the appropriation
for vocational education when it re
duced the House allotments to $l7O,- ■
000 for the first year and $l4O 000 for j
the second year of the next biennium I
which begins next July 1. The house !
of representatives had boosted the al- I
lotments to $200,000 for each of the i
two years. Much lower were the fig- i
tires recommended by the joint ap- j
propriations committee earlier in the 1
session. Theye were $116,065 for the 1
first year. $117,430 for the second.
The Senate boosted the appropria
’ion f° r the library commission to I
$15,945 for each of the next two years, I
rp US roncurr ing with the lower house, i
•he joint committee’s recommend?*- j
Don called for sl2 825 for the first j
yeai- $13,165 for the second.
The State Industrial Commission !
had its allotments for the next bien- i
num increased by $lO 000 for each of I
the two years to cover the cost of i
administering the new occupational
i sease law. passed hy the present leg
islature. }
I T oev and Graham Will Fight!
It Out For Governorship
■iVintiriHvi iront "mro r>».»
cles here that the campaign between
Ha ham and Hoey will be spirited and
the outcome close, the belief in many
circles is that at the present time
Graham has a distinct advantage over
the long-haired, silver-tongue orator
from Shelby. It is pointed out that
there is a steadily increasing demand
on the part of the people over the
•‘ate for a “New Deal” in State po- ;
titics and in the State Democratic I
party. Many believe that in 1936 the i
people are going to break away from I
the "Old Guard” Democratic organ- j
ization in the State and its long-time j
domination of Democratic affairs* and 1
.•■ill
Mississim-
Bing Crosby and W. C. Fields doing their stuff in Paramount’s
comedy.romance with music, “Mississippi”, which comes Thurs
day and Friday to the Stevenson Theatre. Joan Bennett is also
starred in this screen adaptation of a Booth Tarkington play.
the State government and demand a
younger, more liberal-minded man as
the Democratic nominee for governor,.
If the trend continue in this direc
tion during the next year and until
the primary in June, 1936. it is freely
predicted that Lieutenant Governor
Grahamw ill be the next Democratic
nominee for governor and the next
governor.
The more conservative element in
the Democratic party, however, in
cluding the older Democrats who for
AS FRANK WALKER STARTS HUGE “SPENDING JOB”
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These excellent candid camera
views show Frank C. Walker,
former motion picture executive,
ns he began the big task of
spending' ?4,000,000,000 bv which
After Easter Clearance
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Thursday and Friday
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COATS, SUITS
and DRESSES
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Be Sure to Attend This
Clearance If You Want
Some Heal Bargains.
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Leggett’s Dept. Store
“Henderson’s Shopping Center”
years have been associated with what
has become known as the “Democra
tic organization” in the State, are con
vinced that lloey will be the next
Democratic nominee for governor and
the next governor. They point out
that first of all hew ill be assured of
the support of the old line “Demo
cratic organization” and of the more
conservative minded Democrats in all
sections of the State.. They also be
lieve he will get the support of -the
Ehringhaus bloc or ■•organization”
the Roosevelt administration
hopes to provide a job for every
employable person now on the
relief rolls. Walker will receive
assistance from Federal Relief
jargely because of the fact that r*
ringhaus is credited with havin
'he support, of former Govern" ha<l
Max Gardner, who is a bmtv, 01 °
law of Hoey and who j s no
course, expected to support Roe’ ° f
other words, those who believe w In
will win the nomination are conv
ed he will have the support bother
the present administration, 0r
ringhaus organization and of '
Gardner organization* e
Supporters of Lieutenant Lover.
Graham, however, maintain that n°'
very factors upon which HoeyL f ri ' ,
are depending will also help Grab a
For instance, if Hoey gets the sunnon
of the Democratic ‘organization ’’r
Graham can be depended upon to
ihe support of the more liberal an I
independent Democrats.
Oldest Harvard Man
jjUfrvv : : JsblFrSk
Strenuous life Harvard undergrada
used to lead didn’t shorten life of
Henry Munroe Rogers, ’62. The old
est Harvard grad, now 96, still u
active lawyer in Boston.
Administrator Harry L. Hopkins
and Secretary of the Interior
Harold Ickes in administering
the fund. The triumvirate i- on
an equal footing.