THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1934.
The ROMANTIC RUNAWAY
BEGIN HERE TO-DAY PAULITO, bandante 17-year-old youth, works at the palatial Florida jume of mil-
Jonaire JI YIELD.
The son of # Litled Engitahuan anda ser kizi, Pablito know nothing of vant parents. When years old ho ran away from ANGELA, the hearties old crone it whose care he was left Bince then he ka ved with NORS NOTES, a mysterious individual
better days.
who has been bred wils and their daughter.
EATELLE arrive at the Yorkla
·Fablito en Extalie and almost at once falls
Fables ber. Ife heats Field tell his daughter he le planning a masquerade party
In her honor.
A motor Lost storm at the Noren er Norms and Pablito live at the book
man he knew youre before
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terribed because Sewure the men
recognised him also.
CHAPTER VI
alightly veiled contempt and aseur-( ance, as well as his good looks, in- terested her. He had rather put Jeff down and that pleased her too. Marcia Treadway had been hearing number of things that afternoon that had been bitter to listen to.
Years before she had laughed rathor sneeringly at "young tion." Then, in hor middle thir tics, she had succumbed to it. Now, realizing that she had been a fool (and looking at the man in the end of the boat as she realized this), she knew she must learn to laugh all over again at "young emotion." It would not be easy.
Marcia, in spite of all her money, felt
"
-
"How ?"
"The servants will gubble. They think I live alone. If they over- hear anything that makes them think I don't I'll know about it.
"He might go to the police."
I'll go down to Bantum's to find out about that. They'll be in to Bantum's to nak whether you've been there if they're notified."
"How will you do it without let- ting Bantum know I'm here?"
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KATHARINE
LAND-TAYLOR
"Oh, I knew that--or I think I about this mutter go to Field. did. Allco-"" Thorcso called, | He'll advise you. He knows overy» turning her face toward the open thing, the bounder! The only gen- doorway. "I'll have the green tafileman within 10 miles of this
place is that Pablito boy."
"I thank you, my dear. You are always charming."
feta, to-night.".
"Well, it was Noyes who mur- dered her; that's all. It was 20 years ago and the police are still looking for him. And that boy you think is so good-looking-Pab- to, isn't he?-lives with Noyes."
"Is he the son of this Noyes?" "I suppose ao.” "Illegitimato?"
"Must be. His wife never di- vorced him. She was a Callender." "Really? The Charleston Callen-
"Y08."
"I fall to see why that fact "It manage. You know how should heighten one's blood pres-ders"? Bantum talks." "Yes, but--"
"You don't see?. Look here-f "You clear out this evening."-
I don't report this it makes me one comes here they'll find the evasion." place deserted. Go
wamp and I'll meet you sa soon as I can just as soon as I know things are all right.""
Noyes nodded.
From outsido Noyes heard the raw she had had "rather a Pablito Interrupted. "Then if any-criminal for aiding Noyes in his my dressing no longer interests
sound of a balky motor and then
"And now shall we start home, Pabilto speaking of seaweed and Jeff?" she asked. She added, the best courao back. Evidently drawing, "I am rather bored with Pablito knew Jeffries; evidently you, I'm afraid- Jeffries was at Field's camp.
The job of repairing the engine look some
time. Te Noyes it seemed an hour, Pablito reckoned it as a half hour when Jeffries held out to him a silver dollar.
The youth fished in his pocket. "I get 60 cents an hour at Me. Field's camp," he said. "I've only worked for you half an hour,
same."
"Nonsense." Jeffries answered. "I prefer to be paid for what I do. Thank you just the Pablito gave a turn to the engine and it hummed. "She'll run now," he said pointedly,
Jeffries closed it off almost vio- lently.
atly. Your attitude is somewhat different here from at the camp," he commented acidly.
"I am not arranging Mr. Field's! awings now," Pablito answered.
The tall, hard-faced young woman) who sat at the end of the bost was staring fixedly at Pablita. His
manner.
Pablito watched them of. He had seen the couple flaunting their affair at the camp and noticed the indifference of Therese Jeffries, who was Jeffries' wife-an indiffer
felt was caused by once Pabllto pride.
Noyes was still cowering in the shadow when Pablito entered the shack. "Have they gone"? he whispered.
"Yes." "He knew Ne—” Pablito turned abruptly from the stove where he had been trying to rescue the bacon,
"That fellow-knew me," Noyes went on. "Is he at the camp?"
"Yes."*
"He could have me sent to prison -or worse-If he told of having seen me."
Pablito set the coffee pot on the table. "I'll find out whether he a combination of only tells-" he said.
over to
the
A little inter Pablito said anxi, ously, "you're not eating." He had not eaten much himself.
"I guess I'm not hungry," Noyes
answered.
Jeffries did speak of seeing Noyce. He lounged into his wife's boudoir and dropped by a window looking out at the sen. "Ind ani odd experience this afternoon," he began without further Introduction. "You were fishing with Marcia Treadway" she asked, in a chilly
Lone.
"Yes-hauled into it."
"Poor persecuted lamb!" Therese yawned and shifted her position. The boredom she had tried to ex- press in a synthetic yawn was not in her eyes; she watched him nar rowly.
"The experience?" she prompted at length and as casually as she could.
"Well," he began, "we ran toward Key West after we'd fished and
A maid appeared and Therese looked up. She said quickly, “It's uniy Alice. Go on,"
Alice disappeared into the nd- joining room to assemble her mis- tresses evening chrysalis.
Therese heard her husband speaking of fishing and engine trouble and e small island and then of someone he called "Norris Noyes." "And I swear I saw him;" be ended with some excitement.
"What of it?" she questioned with languor that was not as sumed.
"My Lord, don't you remember hat case?"
"No."
"The Noves-Martell case?" "No."
"But you know. Josie Martell!"
"An actress, wasn't she?"
"Yes. Well, did you or did you not know thut she was murdered?"
....
"Odd! I do remember the affair now, Ted, will you get out?. Since you I hardly Ben--"
"Do you always have to be no cross, Therese?"
"You are a criminal," Therese stated evenly, but you have been made so by Indulging your own in- He left her and she heard the clinations and not from shielding slam of the door opening to his roan Allee, with the green taffeta anyone else!”
He spoke then quickly and heat- gown over her arm, found her mis- elly and as he spoke ahe struggled tress relaxed on the chaise longuo, her eyes closed and a frown be up from her half-prostrate posi-tween her brows. Allee would have tion. "I wouldn't mind your pen- chant for other women so much," aomething to tell the servants at dinner that night, she reflected, as she broke in. "If you didn't always she laid. out the fragile garments. come back in such a bad mood.
Sho had always known that Pablito get very bored by that, Ted-"
"half a gentleman" anyway and now she could prove it. (To be Continued.)
"My God!"
"If you don't know what to do
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