THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
TUESDAY,
APRIL 10, 1934.
The ROMANTIC RUNAWAY
that it mattered much. The boy called Pablito was the only thing that mattered to her the boy Whose life she held in her weak, soft hands. She had to find Pab
BEGIN HERK TO-DAY
PAHLITO, a handsome youth, becomes a fuxium when he fine from Florida to Cabs wib 132AU and LOTTIE, 1wa thlever, follow- Inga maquerade party at the home of rich JIM FIELD, Dead has kiled TED JEFYIUS, one of Field's surets, and silen the Jelito. penzis. Pablito does not know this, or that
* MANCIA TREADWAY `knowy, Pablito in
truth She goes to flavana, hoping to find TCBK J'abilta,
innocent but fears seanda? 58abe tells the
Tabah Him AUBREY, & Used English
there,
CHAPTER XVIII
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Jim Field sat by Estelle's bed where she lay, white and inert.
"We're going to Cuba for a while he told her. "I have home just outside of Havana that I'm sure you'll like."
KATHARINE
LAND-TAYLOR
the nurse was back with some, cuve : results ' in 'a tangle in "the thing in a gides"that would, Ea-skein of circumstanco. Norma telle knew, make her after she Field complained one morning of a had swallowed:
and drowsyle back," supine | soreness in her throat. The throat
and his repulsing Jeffries' offered tip that day when the motor boat would not go. Pablito would come to care for her in time and she would be very good to him!
was sprayed, disinfected and after Again ale searched the crowd "I won't take it!" she whim that another physician made fur- ho himself in accused, of the crime; He bec She peered over the edge of her for an unusually tall youth with pered." But she did take it after ther examinations. He did not Hevos, incorrectly) ting bow from hubox into the crowd below; moving blond hair but the mon below a little struggle and a few more and the tuberculosis germs that dist has killed man that that this fact whom nervously as they saw thoir for socmed all to be dark. For a mo- hot tears and choking subs him forever from "ETTELLE FIELD whom
he had feared, He spoke of this be_leres, and who lores blu
tunes being wrested from them ment she could not hear the music Field, sitting in his office, to one of his associates the doc- by a player's momentary clumsel back of her, so loud had grown frowned down at a plle of letters tor who had prescribed diver-
calling loudly, Jumping, the rour of voices from those be Alvarez had
neatly arranged alon" for Esten grönning, fecing untold, riches low, "Lizarraga they shouted for his reading He wished the "There are
things rotten drawing close and gibbering in "Lizarraga 1"
doctors had not advised Cuba, that aren't in Denmark" he an man and Pablitow father, begins a nenech für
high, shrill Spanish. There was
New York would be better. He nounced with an acid edge to his "In Havana Fablito hopes to must NONNIE BUD
wanted to get Estelle far away words. "I don't dare give. Mrs. NUTES, who befrientiel Tabfit an a child great tenalon about the game. Noyes also la fugitive, wanted for crime Even Marcia felt it and thought
from everything that suggested Field the test I now think would year before. Pablits goes to the hotel where the orchestra's playing of In dan-
the camp. The trouble was as locate her trouble.**** they had agreed to innet Rus Ning is no zon to be absurd. The well-marked
the doctors had said that Καιν
"She will die shortly." the other time was too stately and slow for
York was still told and it would doctor said, "And someone will this place. In the next box weft
he best not to try a definite nume the discass that kills her Americans of the sort Marcia did "That will be nice," she an change of climate while Estelle pernicious anemia. Pablito said, as he turned to not know, all pleasantly drunic swered dully. She looked at the was in such ill health. One of the "I suppone so. They're a vile leave the hotel, "I will return later but able to invigate. One man ceiling but instead of the ceiling doctors had examined Norma, too, set and it's damned, shame when to liquire for my friend. It may looked at her steadily with a be- she saw a unife the kaife she and spoken even more urgently of one who doesn't belong"; with be that he will be here then." fuddled, amorous gaze. "Ameri- had held in her hands as she sat Cuba. Norma had been lasing them is pulled into the pack!"
Having thanked the propriotor can he naked thickly, leaning with Pablito on the beach. She flesh steadily. - "There were "timos The doctor had become fond of and his daughter for the wine toward her. "Not at the mu- knew he had not done the thing when Field found it a little dif- Norma Field through his study for which he know better than to ment," she answered after a cool of which they accused him. He cult to look at her because Es of her. He knew she had done her offer money, he went out into the
atare.
had not killed Mr. Jeffries, telle was now so much the echo beat to mako her marriage a suc. strcel.
Lizarraga was winning. Marclu "Father," Extelle sald after a of Norma as old had once been, cess. Once, he realized, she must For many days and many weeks had half expected that he would, hard swallow, "I know that Pab- He would see, to it, he decided, have looked as her lovely, daugh- that Estelle was looked after" ter did. Now she was the saddeat thereafter Maria awaited his re- She usually got what she wanted, lito didn't do that"
The Field frowned.
doctors and that she kept strong. He was woman he had ever known, turn. Each
footfall that she realized, and thought again new echoed on the polished then would of Pablito and her quest. When had murmured heavily of obses obsessed by worry over her. He What do you suppose will be she had found him there would яions and how they sometimea summoned specialist after special- come of the girl after Mrs. Field send her heart to beating rapidly be Spain, France and Italy for take hold of adolescent minds.ist only to discount what each offs Hono?" the other asked. But Pablito did not come back to
both of them.
"Now, now!" he said soothingly. them snid and summon yet an- ask for the friend he was seek-
other. Ing.
Thinking this, a little colour"We won't think of that Marla grew to fear that the
She sat up in bed, her lips towering blend youth with the sad come into her cheeks beneath the
Never had anyone been trembling. He saw that she was The specialists all agreed that rouge. EFER was dead. He hud wanted so much to find his friend dependent upon Marcin. Pablito going to cry again. Suddenly her Estelle was morbidly held by the
would have to be dependent upon face convulsed and she was cry idea of the innocence of one who "Or she miny take to his ways,” and yet he came not!
her and she would be very goding, "You must Usten."
she was, without doubt, guilty and suggested the associate. One day some long weeks later to him. Because he was young walled almost hysterically, "te-guilty of murder? Sho must h a girl came with an Interpreter
The man who hoard this hardly to ask for such a gentleman as she would not be too exacting cause I know he didn't do it! "diverted." they raid,
thought Estes would take to har the tall, blond young man had about his conduct. Her checks know because I talked to him.j And so, with rasy words, they father's ways. She seemed to
grew warmer. She remembered People who talk the way Pablito wrote out a prescription, the in-have her mother's fineness.
Iredients for which could not be "Hell!" he said abruptly, "I'm "Tell 'em I gotta see him if he the blue of Pabilto's steady eyes dd don't do things like that!
know he didn't, Father"
found.
tired." But Field was disappearing, and ¦ There are times when too much
(To be Continued.)
blue
.described.
comes!" she said urgently and the interpreter repeated the words. "Tell 'em I gotta because I got somethin' Important to tell him. Tell 'em, I'll leave my address and Iw's to come there. Tell 'em be by the name of Smith. If it in't too late by then-when he comes--it may be a matter of We or death
•
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On that black night when Pabe lito left the Mirasal, despiring. baffled and balked, Murefa Tread- way made her way to El Nuovo Pronton to settle in a box from which she could watch the fastest Kathe in the world, Jui alal.
Down, down below her was a well marked court, backed by a high stone wall and on the court lithe men with wicker basketa strapped to their arms hurled a small ball from these baskets, entching it again with almost In- stantaneous speed.
Marcin had put a good stuke an
Lizarraga, and hoped mildly that Dr. Fong Fao-Sac, of Shanghai,
-he-would-reward-her-faith--Nut--|-who-was-elected-this year a Director.
of Rotary International, is visiting
the Hongkong Rotary Club to-day.
"God knows! Of course in time she'll find out what her father in. She may try to make him over. If she does slie, too, will be bro- ken on the wheel.""
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