THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, APRIL
1934.
The ROMANTIC RUNAWAY
DEGIN HERE TO-DAY
PAULITO,
HIS
the palatial Parida home at milions
youth, works
で
FIELD. When Field's daughter, EXTELLE, arrives Pablit falla in Iove with her.
There is a tender love mene between them, Je seen matrewling child. Ile thinks the men la dead. LOTTE and BEAU,- thler, see this. The next thing Pablir knows he is in a motor boat with those two.
The same night Tabllo strikes mas he
Donu has a gun and tells Publito, to head the bost for Cubs. They arrive there unseen and toward evening set out for the neanet' town,
CHAPTER XIV
Morcover
the An
didn't think. I could ever be 80. thirsty for water," Beau con-
fideit."
Years before a masculino bru- rubbed the first dust from her tawdry wings had amade her deelde she would "do in
an' do dirty" any malo who cross ed, her path. Now she know she could not keep that vow.
She stopped and bent down so that she could mop her eyes with the edge of her wide skirt. Benu turned. "Come along." he ordered with a short, forward-beckoning nod of the head.
Was
KATHARINE
HAVILAND-TAYLOR
little and frowned. He always did this, having learned that fashionable ellents Invariably pre- fer to be considered seriously ill This time the doctor feared hla patient really was seriously ill, or that she soon would be,
Therese Joffries had not spoken once of her husband and that, too,.
was unnatural.
the strangers. A small swelled within ber fried egg. It was fortunate that survey he had money in his purao to save black baby played on the doorstep
and back of the hut a line of wash tality that had him from the temptation.
He was faint and dizzy from fluttered white in the growing
Near the roadside Peblife knows thing of his parent lack of food, and the long after-gloom.
lehman and Ho ANDRIUS NOYED, A, noon in the still, heavy air of banana tree waved its tattered long ed for a munier years R, Neyes fees when their hiding place had added to leaves to greet them.
olio made of the heavy guest of Field's sees him and recogule his weakness. him. l'ablita, dressed as a toreador, sues to 4 masquerade at Field's home to see Enelle, water in the thermos bottle had scent of tropic flowers weighted run low and toward the last they the air. Somewhere ki one of the
Marcin Treadway paced tho find had to dote it out a swallow hovels a lover with a gift for real musle gently strummed a guitar,
langth of the veranda, that lay to each and no more.
The place would be a paradise,
across the front of the cottage sho had chosen as her home at the Pablito thought, if only he could forget the grief and misery in his Lottie sniffed, lifted her chin camp. No one--no one, she de- Shut up about I, can't you? hearthis place looks like some
smiled stilly and joined them.
cided was no wholly and tragi- cally bereft as was she. There Lottle flung at him in a rough-
Back in Florida the ramp
was nothing she could say except ened, strained voice. She scratch-thing in a movie, don't it," naked Beau and Pablito hurried backed one arm viciously. The gnats Lottie succumbing to the en-cloaked in gloom. Several of the to make the usual comment and No one
answered. more sensitive fominine visitors she had to be careful leat even for Lottle and after they had done in the jungle had stung constantly chantment.
swell suburbs,'
beds with alert "Well, these are
ba," had gone to their and Pablito's what they could to make their and sharply
Marcia know that many of the armor of false noises and, in choked, fluttering other guests had been aware of her costumca presentable the three of watchfulness had warned her there she said next, her misery making hysterica to lie there Imagining that be made in too deep & tone.
to ask their voices, them followed the path the ox cart were other and greater dangers to her
frightened jauntinors. Le guarded against. had taken.
"Ain't you the little wit?" Benu malds about those noises. Most of irtation with Ted Jeffrica and Now when they were ni last in For some time they walked in sllance, Then, at the crest of sight of relief Lottie realized, inquired sarcastically. For a mo- the men stalked the beach, smukthat they had watched with the little hill, Lottle paused. Below with a little wonder, that she was ment Pablito, forgot indifference, ing hard and incessantly and talk-keen interest that arises
The doctor who vicarious savouring of sensation. close to tears. She was as much He understood Lottie, admired her Ing in undertones.
had come by airplane from Palm They had expected her, perhaps, ashamed of tears as a strong man and also pitied her.
Beach sat at the side of Therese to run away with Jeffries. Marcla this and her smile would have been. She swallowed
Jeffries' bed. She alone, of all the smiled over
was seared by an edge of scorn. hard and blinked quickly.
vialtors, had not indulged by Well, she had been willing enough hysterlen. He wished-did the doctor that she would cry. Cry. but these others had not learned ing would be more natural. Wo-to know Ted as she knew him.
If his voice had been allenced men who were made widows by the short, sharp thrust of a Spanish a few hours sooner Marcia would
He coughed al (Continued on Page 4.) dagger should cry.
In
a small hollow, framed by pinas, was a cluster of one-storey, one-door and one-window houses with gras thatched roofs. Beyond these, looking like tarnished penris in the soft twilight, were coment houses of the grandees and still farther beyond on another rise stood the cathedral, its heavy tower etched in black against the silver sky.
have some money," Publito
msume an
"You've been a good sport about all this," he said gently, "and it won't be long now before we can get you something to eat."
Beau spoke then, "Let's go to the the Ritz roof. I could do some
She could not quite keep the mean work to a little food."
tears back at that, so she lagged behind the two men in order that said.
"Don't go tellin' it around, In-they might not see her "makin' nocent," Lottle advised. "If you ja damn fool of herself." Pablito's words had touched her strangely. do you won't have it long."
"Nobody else," thought Lottle, "ever, laid awake thinkin'
Her gettin' me something to eat.” blurred gaze did not waver from Pablito's broad back and her heart
"Hurray--a town!" cried Lattie, Beau put his hand on the bag
They had reached the first grass that was strung around his neck. At that moment he realized, thatched hut. A gont, tethered to smiling, he would give two of the a tree stump and chewing ardently,
pearls for
ona raised its long bearded head to famous Jeffries
of
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