THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1934.
The ROMANTIC RUNAWAY
DECIN HERE TO-DAY
PARIJTO,
titled Englishman and a servant girl. Ha makes home with NORRIS
-beźworn then,
He
Field said, "He couldn't swim handaume youth, works at to Havana, Tho theory is that the the palatial Florids home of intensire bout got half way there and then FIELD. When Field's daughter, TELL ran out of gasolene. Someone else
•*•„merives Publita fall in love with her.
Pablito know nothing of his parent may have picked him up or ho
NOXES, may have jumped overboard, soc wanted for a murder years 150. Noyes fling aamothing bearing down on
coward. Agent of Field's him and him. He wasn't a
tr recognise him. Pablito, dressed E A ador, or to a masquerade at Field's home once licked big Zeke, who had all lose Velalle. There is a tender lore noen the other servants afraid of him, Bald Pablito took lot. of The same slekt Pablito strike an punishment in that fight; Zeka - In treating a child. He thinks the
exactly follow the Queens- man la'died. LOTTIE and DEAU, two thevar, this. The next thing i'ublim
I saw him land one. berry rules. knows he le in a motor boat with these two. Beau has a gun and tell Pablitu to head the fellow blow in the stomach that At the Field home sourch begins for Pablito, Bent him 20 feet and afterward It le believed he killed TED JEFFRIES sad the man walked doubled over like stole the Jeffrim pearla, MARCIA THEAD- 題 WAY knows this is not true but fours pesada nut cracker for a week. if she tells the truth.
"Jim," Marcla sald, "why are you so frightfully certain Pablito killed-Jeff?" She could not help the break in her volce nor the hesitation between the words.
bost for Cabn.
CHAPTER XV
he
"The 'Silver Dart' has been found," Field announced as Marcia joined the group. "It was sighted by Jo Janvier who's headed for Rio in his yacht. He wirelessed."
"Empty?" Marcin asked. "Yes. Signal up-perhaps for help. It was well below Cubn."
"Can Pablito swim?"
"Swim?" Field laughed. echoed. "My God, can he swim He's a fish. He was one of those dock rats, the sort you tons coins to when you sail for Havana."
"Do you think he's in Havana? Will they look for him there?" Murcia asked feverishly. She could at least warn Pablito. Thank heaven she had enough money to hunt for him and care for him if the need arose.
"Noyes!" he said its
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"I think you're working on very part of the debt she owed him. a plne wocda from which he had little," Marcia said sharply.
She had a curious certainty that ho escaped after two long, misery: My dear," Field andworod irri- must be la Havana or near there. packel days. Nevertheless he had tably, "the whole thing a crear. This certainty persisted despite all come back to get the Pennell otch- We have the proof in Pablito's the testimony that made it seeming and the Winslow Homer water colour. He hoped to sell ond dagger which my own poor little impossible.
this girl recognized
morning. Will you make my excuses to for the other or both in order to There's the fact, too, that the boy Norma and say goodbye to her for get his fare to Cuba where Fab knocked down an old man who ine?" she asked, turning to Field.to, whom ho AD tried to stop him-close to killed" judge she's too busy to see would be waiting for him. the old chap-and this fellow's m
"She's father absorbed," he ad- Hiding himself. child described Pablito. It nli tien
Noyes had up-not a doubt in the world!"mitted, Frowning. "Estelle's quite heard nothing about the trageds
"Perhaps IL was Noyes who did jill. This affair has upset her. Itt the Field camp. it,"
"Marela.
keems that she was fond of Pub-
He peered nervously from the He had taken hur boating doorway of the shack toward the Field laughsted. and laughed again. "Remember a good deal. I think Norma would mainland, suspecting that the once him, Fortnoy 7" he asked, turning not want to leave her." to the man at his right. "So easy- Fortney looked after Marcin white human vulture that had al- going he'd do anything to avoid she turned to go back to her rendy picked his bones might be vulture hal a fight!"
bungalow. Watebing her he said. following. But the "Then how did he murder any-"All that There Jeffries lest quitted him to go on to another one?"
were her pearls and rings." "Oh, Lord!" Field broke out na
Implication Wh under. Then Noyes looked farther and Fortney drawled a lazy, ginslowed, stood
on the water saw a boat bearing """I'm glad Marcia's getting out," toward the island. He poked the "Rallier good come to think of
Field stated bluntly, Then he for-etching and the water colour under Field thought, "Steady,
Marcia was tapping a toe on the got her and her interest in the an oilcloth table cover and wrig- old girl! You're giving youself away th
He said more patiently and and looking down. "It's no lato Mr. Jeffries who had been sealed through n small rear window
sign the boy did because he unwise as to object to stranger's and slowly than was usually his
knocked down an old man," way, "I know he did, Marein. His
she opening the small safe that, held of the shack.
Field forgot is a man
named
his wife's pearls. wald. foster father
"Pablito was in a big hurry." because Alvarez was hurrying to Nayea, wanted for a murilor years
Field pointed out. "And there's ward him, un Important message
That was during the early nft- ago. Jeff saw Noyes on one of the
ernoon when Murcia Treadway, amail keys and recognized him.another thing, too. Nobody but making his lean face keen
Pablo could run the Silver Intense. He thought Noyes recognized him.
Dart for more than 10 feet lately. Field left his guests to move with the arrogance of those who Can buy whatever they want too. Noyes must have told Pablito
The damned tubs had developed a toward Alvarez, about it and the boy obviously de-
heart leak. So you see?”
There is
Alvarez. commanded an airplane and set cided to seal Jeff's lips once and
"Jim." 'said Marcin, you atated. "A fisherman last aight forth for Havana. That was when for all.”
don't mind I'm going on to Ha-saw a light in the shack where, Pablito and Beau, soaked with vana. The carnival's starting and Pablito lived. It in thought that salt water and shaking from fa- I think it might do me good." he has not left Florida at all bat, tigue, sank to a cleared patch in "Flying over 7" Field qura-in order to set us off on a false the jungle. That was when Jin tioned.
trail, he started the 'Silver Dart to Field said to his wife with reilef, sen with his red sash-if it was his "Marcia's gone on to Havana-
-tied to the mast. I've sent men over to the shack to search--'
One of the men studied his cigar thoughtfully, the other looked out to ken.
It,"
news,"
and
"Yes" She answered quickly, and her face grew keen. She could get there promptly, she realized She felt herself responding to the Noyes realized that it was not promise of action. She could warn safe for him to stay in or near Pabllie, protect him and care for the shock. He had erept there him after she found him. In that after be had been knocked out, way she could discharge at leas, ni rabbed and taken to a hovel in
He knew, as his heart pumped hard, that they were after him.
And that, oddly enough--euch odd things do happen-was at the approximate time when, in New York, an Englishman of great height with gray, lifeless hair that hard once, been blond was an- (Continued on Page 10,)
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