THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1934.
The ROMANTIC RUNAWAY
CHAPTER XXIV
Angela hobbled back to her shack and packed her belongings. There was scarcely more to do than to slip a bottle of gin in the front of her dress. This done, sho hobbled forth again. She would
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on a hummock not far from him. Then she studled him. Soon-- when she felt it to be wiso-she would return to Key West and tell the authorities that a man, was hiding in the swamp in a spot to which she could direct them. She would do this, providing she could bonent by it. The probability of her benefiting she would make sure of before she spoke.
to the swamp for a little while, she decided. She did not wish to encounter the Inqulative strangers again. Picturesquely she cursed theu If their coming should dia turb the monthly remittance from Cubn for caring for Pablito whully would become of her?
She wept, whining vituperation and cureus as sho went,
At the edge of the swamp she pulled her sagging skirta high and waded cnutiously, a wary eye out for allgators and water moccasins. Again on land, she followed what was called the "Slave's Way" be- cause years before many slaves had followed this route, secking free dom.
When she stopped into the first clearing she jumped so that a twinge of rheumatism made her wince. Someone else had sought the shelter of the swamp-a man.
"Good day, mother," he said easily. He too, looked startled. He hoped she had not noticed tinis but aho had seen it and smiled shyly.
"It is a good day for a picnic,"
she said slowly.
"Will you share my meal?" 1:0 asked. She nodded as she sat down
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Cuban youth, to the small island eyes which deny an enjoyment of He would be kind, she realized, so but the messenger could find no torture,
long as he had his way and wholly trace of Noyes. Storma had loft: "Go, stranger and with. God!" [eruol if antagonized. She feared sand thick and gritty upon every-she repeated between her groans. the years when she must be alone thing within the shack, the Cuban So the Cuban boy had gone after with him. ..
boy testified, and the place looked as though it had been desorted for months.
"You seek the solitude?" she asked blandly,
"And you went into the swamp?" The man stirred, looking anxious-Pablito asked, his hard muscles toward the shadow. "I am strained and tenso as he leaned hunting orchida," he answered. forward over the bare-topped table,
"Ah!" she thought, with an in- word leer. "So you're hunting orchids! Already you look ne if the dogs had chased you 100 niles."
He spoke a stiff variety of Span- lsh and she concluded that he was a northerner who had long bean in hiding.
"God grant that you find your orchids! sho murmured, hor blood-shot eyes fixed upon him.
She was certain now. The man was hiding from something same оде. And she would have her reward.
Above them the trees grew un- usually high for awamp ground, making an impenetrable green- black roof. Now and again a leaf stirred gently but usually quiet
prevailed,
"It is a warm day, stranger, and you have hurried," she said with a thick pretence of concern.
"Yes" he admitted,
He took from his pocket then a gray haudkerchief that Pablito had ince kept white for him. With it he mopped his brow.
Pablito pent 21 messenger, Tu
one last glance toward the dark- ness of the shadows and after crossing himself.
house of Corro, "Pablito, in the
"Are you comfortable, mother?". "Quite, dear heart-"
"Nadie alli!” he repeated with a lift of the shoulders and out-aank back in his chair, his brow
But her mother spoke slowly flung hands. "Nadle!" ("Nobody furrowed. He had grown older in now with long gape between her there, nobody!")
a very short time. He, was still words and always there was the sure that some day, somehow he fush of fever on her sunken would locate Noyes and that again checks and the brightners of it in they would dwell in that peace he her eyes. now thought of as close to Utopla Norma Field died in October. The boy hesitated a moment. He arose to pay the messenger|| Then he spoke. He had gone into and the buy, reassuring himself of The day was Estelle's sixteenth the swamp, he reassured his con- the fact that he had been in the birthday, a day when the moun science. Not far, to be sure, yet swamp, went on his way
tains were tinged with pink and ho had gone into the swamp.
Lottie appeared the Too bad, gold and purple and the air was "Seguro que si, Senor!" He an honey," she said, laying a hand on sparkling. swered. ("Surely yes!")
Pablito's
shoulder. He realized
She had never seemed better. Thou
he wiped his brow although that the only sincere kindness hell Estelle had laughed with her that the day was not over-warm, being know those days came from Lot- morning over some trivial happen- freshened by a cool breeze that had tle. He thought, "Some time, in me that had amused them both. had its start in a late, northern some way, I must repay her.
Flek had said sho blizzard. That swamp, the Cuban- And this aced, spring from his Then Mrs. boy feared, he would never forget. sense of fairness, grew into a wanted to rest and Estelle had The place had been as black as heavy sense of duty but his grati-gone to the garden to look at the the inside of the devil's cauldron. tude was to lie dormant longer mountains, the changes of which.
nover falled to entrance her. Half way toward its darkest gloom than he could guess. he had come across a wicked old, woman who had seemed a witch. She was lying on a path with one leg twisted under her and she had screamed as he had never heard
is woman scream.
He had backed away from her, asking haltingly, "Old woman, can I help you? May I send friends to you from Key West?"
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Seeing her, he had decided that, sin or not. He could not touch her!
She returned at luncheon time Norma Flaid and Tetelle had to meet the day nurse. "Dear, settled in Tucson, Ariz." Norma, don't come in now!" the nurse knowing that she could not live ordered sharply. Estelle grew long, clutched the hours with faint hut the nurse did not stop to Estelle jealously. Meanwhile she help her. She hurried back to her made a brave pretence of feeling patient. better.
Estelle ant by her mother's bed constantly, watching with tragic young eyes and smiling stiffly.
"Darling, you should go out
Estelle
"Elg" Field carne soon. had not cried and did not ery un- til sho enw her father. Then she clung to him, weeping hysterically.
be bis now-all his.
And she had answered, shricking, else you should get more exer. She felt his heart rise. She would
"No, no! Not from Key West! I have a daughter who will come to me.. Gal"
Ah, her troubles! Angela thought through the pain that con- fused her. Help from Key West would deliver her into the power of the strangers who had inquired [about the hoy left in her care,
The orchid hunter would. heb her, she knew. He had the soft
"But I'd rather be here."
"I'm afraid it must be stupid for you, dear, penned up with me."
"I want to be here, mother."
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"Never mind, darling. You have your daddy," he said apothingly, patting the girl's shoulder. He
Estelle thought a great deal dur-felt her clinging to him more
tightly. ing those days. She thought of the
(To Be Continurd). past and of what was thend. She had begun to understanil her father through his attitude about Pablito. He had been ruthless In refusing to listen to her defence of the boy.
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