THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY, MARCH
1934.
The ROMANTIC RUNAWAY
OKOIN HERE TO-DAY
I'AHLITU, Indsond 17-year-old youth, at the palatial lume of millionaire When #leld's daughter ESTELLE rises lie fatia in love with her
Almost at allt.
recognized Pablito because of the blueness of his eyes. She thought, her heart warming, that in all her dreams of the party who had not lared hope this dream could come
Pablite knows nothing of his trucl lied Engllahman and a servant girl. As a #bit he ran away from ANGELA, the heart Jess old erons in whose care he was sett. Hince then be has lived with NORMIS NOYER, wanted by polles for a murder years before TED JEFFRUTS, Fest at the Field home, bees Noyes and recounla him. Noyes dees to the amp where he overhears a man and airi Blanning, to rob the Field home during maquerade paris the following evening. Pablito give Noyes money to go to layana -«nd proesfiere to meet him there later.
l'ablizo, diagled sa toreador, gore tu the masquerade in order to talk to Estelle.
CHAPTER X
down at the small pipes which she held. Something that grew of her new emotions male her speak quickly. "-1 like your dagger," she said.
He drew it from the wide red She wanted to Any, "I'm so gladansh as he answered, "It's real so you came!" but stiffed the impulse. don't touch the blade"
She took it from him and turned Perhaps he might not want her to appear to recognize him, knowing it over.
It's quiet at the lower end of that he must have come unbidden
the beach," Pablito went on, "and and by a elreuitous route.
"It'
we could see the stars there. I like them better than torches."
."Oh-so do I!"
a lovely night for the party, Isn't it?" she naked.
"I suppose so, but if it were pour- ing I wouldn't know it-now."
She rose and he was by her in "Oh!" She did like him so much an instant, towering above her and nad he said auch pleasant things1ooking down at her. She gave him "I've thought of this and thought the dagger. He slipped it under the of it," he confessed, his voico in broad sash which revealed the hard tense.
slenderness that had been made by muncle-testing work out of doors. Then, almost in silence, they made their way to the deserted beach where torches did not mute the stars.
"Have you really?"
KATHARINE
AND-TAYLOR
her of the Malayan legend which and overwhelming an aura around the moon, when she her and by the transiency of such says that comes out with her many star chil- sweetness, which she knew because dran, driven the childless sun, in on the morrow the maids would her great shame, into hiding far to begin to pack for the fight north. ahe "Are you going north?" the other side of the world. He
asked. thought she would like the and aho did like it. Pre
"No." He sat looking down at speaking a little less shyly, he was her steadily and worshippingly. In telling her the Greeks Idea that a few short hours miles would lie the stars in their moving made between them. Suddenly she lean- music that the gods alone could ed toward him and be felt her hand like to think of that," he on his. He turned quickly to grip hear. anid, "and somehow I don't believe her fingers and remembered the It's so far off. Almost every man, fact that her hand was,small and I guess, has a song that is his soft and that ho must not hurt her. "We must be friends," she sald alone and that some one he enres
not quite steadily. "I do so want for puts into his heart."
us to be friends.
Estelle turned to face, him, look- ing up at him. "Pablito," she said, "I know you and I know I'd like you and I do!"
น
Pablito found Estelle a little withdrawn from the crowd. No one seemed to notice the slender child swathed in green tulle. She was royalty exiled by a mask and "Last night I couldn't sleep for she wavered, a fledgling, while sure thinking about it," she heard next.
He could not answer that. footed seduction moved easily and It was a curious feeling that she
"Can't we be friends 7 she asked, surely jewels twinkled on low-was experiencing. She was happy
He caught his breath. "How Now and again he touched her Mias Estelle? ho asked in turn bared breasts, invitations in lan- and yet she wanted to weep a little guid-Hidded eyes.
in April fashion and to lay her arm to help her over a bit of drift-when he could speak. There was a pathetically uncer-hand on hils. She wondered whether wood or a ridge of wind-blown "But why couldn't we bo?"
that was a dreadful wish and knew sand. He felt himself trembling as she could not help it even if it were. She did want to lay her hand on his.
tain smile about her still plastic lips and there was a little ache in her stiffening checks which had grown of forcing the smile.
"May I sit with you?" Pablito asked. It was what he had planned to any but he had not planned that his voice should shake na it did.
"If you care to," she answerel and he dropped to the rug beside her. She smiled naturally now and suddenly she flunked. Sho had
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"You don't need those pipes," he said next. "Anywhere you are there is music."
"You any very kind things."
For a moment he pressed her and against his breast where the hard pounding of his heart would speak for him. Then abruptly he released it to sit away from her, lip, frowning from his effort to re- his strong, teeth set on his lower capture a little steadiness.
The fine automobile part doesn't matter," the whispered.
"Oh, but it does!" he, contra- "We belong to different worlds,"dicted, his voice almost hargh. "I he touched her and knew how he he said slowly, "You see you are a have lived one life and looked on loved her. And he know too that
at another and it has taught me a "I don't think that should make lot 1 would have missed if I had he loved her so much that he would princess and I am a servant." always think of her needs before any difference," she said with a been walled inside the one or the he thought of his own, no matter bit of youthful severity. "You other. But I'm going to work for how urgent, his own, and that this don't really think it matters, do the right to come back and nound was way of loving.
you?"
on the front gate. I'm going to They settled on a bench shel-
"I'm afraid I do?
work for nothing else but that. He shook his head quickly, vetered by the twisting, tree-like sex
"Why?" she asked with a shade will you remember that?" He had at the of disappointment. hemently, without answer. Then, grape vine and, looking
to stop to get bla breath. drawing a deep breath, he looked stars, Pablito found himself telling
"Well, because nowadays a prince you remember," he went on, "that who comes calling on a princess1 am coming back and that I shall must be mounted on a fine automo-never forget it and that I'll live on bile. You can't rescue a princess my dreams about it?" from a tower if you're astride a Aliver. People would hear you com- ing and bar the gates!"
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She smiled, liking hla manner of speech, but frowned an Inatant Inter because she did not like the meaning of It.
"Yes" he heard her whisper,
He drew a deep breath, then lifted her clasped hands from her knees to kiss first one and then the other. She shrank a little be cause she loved it so. He whis pered, brows drawn close by feel- "That, is foolish," she said.
ing, "You needn't be afraid of me---- "I wish it were. Things would over any
Will you re- be so much simpler. You see, an it member that, too?"
is, I have to acquire the proper "Yes," she whispered again, and armour dinner clothes-aumehow thought, "I wish he would kiss and a lance-l mean a cheque book. me." She did not care whether the And I have to learn the password thought were wicked or not; she which is knowing the right peo-wished he would kiss her! ple. There's so much I haven't
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"You are very clever," Estelle "Who taught you about all those things?"
"I can't tell you," he answered,
a little worry creeping. Into his voice. For a moment she was chilled, falling to see loyalty in the wall between them. But I'm not clever," he added.
(To be continued.)
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