THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
TUESDAY, MARCH
20, 1934.
The
KATHARINE NAVILAND-TAYLOR
ROMANTIC RUNAWAY LAKEROL
"You see,
Mary, it's quite, governmental red tape and how I promised, as if it were her own. penned a
It all began song 30 years ago when a young Englishman saw now it hurts me to see you." maid, Mary Marriage, In the upper "Yea, sir! I know, sir." It hurt hail of an old place that is well her. too, to see him now. And known in England. It was a spring as the spring came again and day and perhaps that had some summer followed he found himself thing to do with it; and she had to be increasingly uncomfortabla. A fine prettiness that he was
to England is not large. It would learn was not echoed in her mind, be better to have mary in unus or speech.
country. He thought of the States, He kissed her and, bécause he so big and far away.
Mary called for New York in was young, he confused passion and love; it is done often. He kissed December and one day when the her again. "I love you," he said.sen was rough and the aky was "and don't care who knows it!" bleak with gray she died giving
Then we looked up at the oid birth to a portraits on the walls
A
of the
the
The small baby was given to her nierciless custody and she de- parted, adtinfied that the price for caring for the child would buy great deal of sin.
Thun ended his influence upon them and their influence upon him. though the abuse from Angela sustained.
flowery Balutation his
For this renson Pablito was to suffer yet a little longer from the wrath of Angela. And then came the night of unbearable agony the
strange man and the new life that was to make him all he became.
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changed now. I'm sorry but but can tanglo to restrict motion. And, And that one of her own was an lips turned blue and hie head too, he know that if the baby were idiot from a blow on the head that dropped to the desk. There had bim made the been too many houvy dinners for returned to England he would she had given
him. be reared in some foundlings home promise seem no less real. when would be a poor substitute for the one now offered him.
"I will say yes," he stated after full consideration of the danger that he ran. Concepcion drew a deep, shaken breath to close her eyes. Bolen suid a telumphant, "ile is named Pablo Tomas
The small blond boy was Francisco Villaverde y Blanco!"
curious, unnaturally keen animal. The chaperoning aunt shook her head; she doubted whether the When Pablito reached the age] He knew the colours of the sky Senor Villaverde would be pleased, of seven he knew his world well.. and what they forecast; that sca she found dread increasing as she There was a filthy shack of one water stopped itching; that you looked toward the moment when room which shook with, the wind stole food to run with it where no the Senor, and Sonora Villaverde and grew damp when rafu fell. In one could snatch it from you: would. meet her, thoir daughters, this was a bed, a broken stove, a and he knew exactly what mentol from Angola's and this child at Key West.
make-shift table and broken reactions came
there Also were various degress of drunkenness. The World Famous Pastilles "Your parents, I fear they will crockery. not approve," she told the girls, Angeln's none; all souvenirs of On his eighth, uncelebrated which proved a mild description gentlemen who had come and birthday he had his first lesson of what was to be.
poor
"The small boy baby will be returned to his father?"" Con-
brown option questioned the while the
eyea that
filled
gone.
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The passengers wore shocked and spacious hall and something of sobered but none of them felt tradition and wet habit that they the tragedy so fully an did Con- impiled made him suggest a meeting cepcion and Belen Villaverde, two that night beyond the grounds, young Cuban girls travelling Mary, poor child, was willing. He under the chaperonage of a was of the gentry and she of the relation. servant class. One said "Yes! and "Thank you" to one's better She stood plucking at the edge of
Senor Villaverde was at first By the sugging' door was a plein love and its loss. He found à her apron, even then--through the
speechless; in Madre was not. ture that was called for some bird with a broken wing: he held gift of two kissca-lost to love.
easily with tears.
Ing this net in him. led him to A month later the village and
The aunt lifted her fat shoulders. "Do you know what will be said?" runson) "La Santissima Madre det close to his heart and the feel- the tenants celebrated the young "Dios mio! And how?" she ques she screeched, looking from one to Christo."
the other of her offending Angela's brood were hard upon make small soft noises. Then one man's twenty-first birthday. With tioned in turn. "The Indy was that done he announced his inter-registered only from England and daughters. "It will be said that Pablito. She too, was hard upon of Angela's own came across him
instead of an
education Con- Pablito and the acars her beat and wrested the bird from Pablito tion of "seeing the world a bit" England, while small, can be large and started for italy where he had when a child of this nature seeks cepelon aequired something else. Inga left on his body made her the to break ite neck. After he had Would, 3 ask you, any Christian harder on him, for they brought gone, laughing, Pablito held the sent Mary.
its remaining parent.”
came from his eyes. Many of the believe this tale of adoption? from her a vague slume that she bird close again and salt water In Italy they both learned
Mary's status had been clear
Noi I know the worid and it is must still by self-justification. length of the stretches
between almost from the start of the voyage: the pious who believe the worst.
"I give you a hoine and you rob scars on his back would never passion which, while indulged, She had been "shamed to the
my own of their bread! What do fade, but this bruise on his mind obliterates differences And futile-sluning heart" of her
it It cannot bel" ly they strove to hold that which showed.
Concepcion said she would I get for this?" began many of her never in any senso healed.
It was not long after this that THE had never been theirs, save through "What then will become of it, herself if the child were taken tirades which ended in yet an imagination; be with forced, hollow the baby?" asked felett, with from her and Belen joined her other scar on Pablito's back. The rage shook from Angels her cau- echoes of his old want for her unusual energy for a daughter of chorus. Senor Villaverde y Blanco monthly remittance from Caution. Pabilto, alone in the shack,
day for drink
had eaten the bread, her eldest and she with pitinbly little at the tropics. She had leaning to said he would seek the counsel of would go in one tempts at "conversation."
good deeds, a love of adventure a Key West friend who might be nhd after that was forgotten.
As time passed her ways beton safd. Would she doubt her
own? Never! When she told him about "thend-why not? Senor Villaverde able to suggest a foster-mother
W28 came known. She
rarely
"You, thief! The xon of one baby" he grew on Something had menas.
To adopt the baby, for the infant.
Senor Villaverde's friend suk-sober the town whispered. The
in silks and that was good for him happened that would entertain, she reasoned,
diamonds but who came home repart to him when he saw her sitting remembering long, hot afternoons gested Angela, a pious crone who, Key West friend of Senor Villa who went away hefore him. Aagged and humble when there seemed nothing to do on the Cathedral steps, whined verde decided he must and utterly at his meres, but to wave a fan and yawn.
for nims. Then Angela was sum-Angela's evil ways, her possible with another song! That Con- covered his young eyes then to
moned and she came; a premature-Influence upon the child that had repeton Villaverde y Blanco, your shut her out but he still saw her
The captain did not, at first, ly old woman with the whining, been given her. But he settled mother!" and heard her saying without know what to do about the matter voice of the professional beggar. to write this letter after a too- and after he had words to him, "And what will you but he did know the length of She would care for the child, she heavy dinner be doing with me-now?"
He knew, by that time, that he couldn't marry her. She had never expected that and her fuck of expecting it added to the burden he had Assumed-so easily! The title that would be his some day and her memories of her own life of work had made her the more his servant and him the Kreater cad.
"I'll send you away," he promised, "and I'll always care for you and -the child,"
She whispered a shaken, "Thank you," and began to cry from relief. For she knew, from night after night of lying awake thinking of it, that her place with the decent folk of home-was -Kone. Sh. couldn't go back to them now. They wouldn't have her.
The young man meunt to keep. that premise but the uncertainties that are life munde him break it. They both returned to England but to different sections of the Bund and by different trains.
and
To himself Pablito repeated the
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