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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1934.
The ROMANTIC RUNAWAY
You keep in shapo!" he warned Pablito, "if you don't we'll all have to pay for it."
"Have you noticed me going out on any wild parties?"
KATHARINE HAVILAND-TAYLOR.
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favourite with the rich tourists. ; ache-that she was happy. Yes, Pablito was secure. "Big Field
Pablito had sent more than one himself couldn't touch him," Benu thought, "so long as he knocks out messenger to key Weat to search for Noyes but not one of them had found any trace of him. A lame old woman lived in the shack on the Island, ho learned. She had broken her hip a few years before, she told the inquirors, and it left her so that she could move only a few steps. She lived alone. Her old neighbours, she said, helped her: Nu, she had never noch n thickfaced, stoop shouldered man who wore eye-glasses with heavy lenses. Never! God could witness that as truth. Never had so seen such a man!
would have found her
Pablito
protestations a bit too hearty but
those he sent were so enger to aco of the road
CHAPTER XXVI
had felt the force of a jet of ice young Crock god who sometimes water on their flesh. This hunt-looked at them with acorn that Pablito, known now as Juanito, hen, as Beau sald, "paid damned, was not even faintly veiled. Men was harder both in muscle and In good. It was a minnig veure in who felt this scorn wore likely viewpoint, leaner and slightly a land where tourists are often later, tu speak of him, in an aphis man." taller. He had learned in the last over-indulgent and later regret it.parently casual tone but always a **three years that entertaining ya-
The gymnasium was housed in little awo crept into their voices. cationing millionaires was a job
white building that had that never ended. Once he had let been altered to make it
glaringly
Buitable. Pablito fought occasionally and himself get a little soft and Ind There rheumy-eyed men of flabby always for a good purse. He been knocked out. The memory of flesh wheezed loudly na, with eyes still kept before him the dream of "No. But, Just the same, you that incident stayed with him. Bo-intent and chools pulled out, they some day finding Noyes and of go- watch your step."
I'm doing it!" Pablito answered cause of it he rigorously avoided
pummeled one another, tripped.
retreat. peaceful
Beau ovinced shortly. wise, women, late hours and other fell and extrated footwork has in areas with him to some quiet. dissipatione both mild and other a
concanling Boeret "Give us a couple more years," avan Pablito smile. Later great score, made wise,
they would lie down, panting, only envy, for Pablito's ability to hold Beau prophesied, and we can buy to be ordered to their baths by en to his money. "You're sure the Ritz and give it to the first Benu, whose pitiless tongue could goin' to by wealthy aid miser!"kid that comes along,"
he ancered often,
They divided lash like a whip.
their earnings, The same vague aura that takes The thought that any of them which were large during the win .Pablito, men away from suave metropolitan should ever bo apprehended for the ter season, into thirds. subs, to 9 growing, bulldog-murder at Field's Camp was troubunder the name of Juanito Lopez, chinned trainer, made wealthyling Beau lean and less. He had bought land, invested in some travellers desert luxurious hotels to grown a small moustache that sound bonds, gave prodigally to the what the next turn go to Pablito's place. There they changed his appearance surpria orphanages of Cubs and gambled might bring that they missed this mportant sign post. Pablito had were bullied and ordered about. ingly. Lottle's hair had taken on
Across the hard-beaten road
offered a large, reward for finding told in language, that sometimes an amazing shade of red and her encompassed Elizabethan terms oyebrows were plucked in a way where each day plodded oxen with this man whose name they did not what they are and were not to that altered her expression. Pab-cane-laden carts, stood a suburban know but whose description they do. Later they would emerge, pink lito had changed, too, having grocery store and in the apartment could have narrated in their sleep. Returning after the search ench moro Blonder. which was above Lottie, Pablito of skin, refreshed and resolved to grown taller und be more temperate,
The scar on his check also gave him and Beau lived. The road was messenger pocketed his expense a different look. He was, more their front yard, the roof their money and remuneration, conclud- over, known to all Havano as a garden. Bena who could lean over ing that the one he sought was ¦
rail of the open, twisting, dead. rear stair to call "Cinco botilins But Pablito would not believe e lager!" was satisfied since five Noyes was dead. He lived only for bottles of Inger were among the his dream of some day finding his few things necessary for his peace. old friend. It was the only "hope Pablito didn't care where they he had. Lottle and Benu were not lived. Lottie murmured EL good the sort of companiona with whom leal about dwelling in a swell he could he content. "Good WO- ouse" at La Playa de Marianao, men," he felt, were lost to him, the fashionable bathing bench and a life of meagre joys spread where the Havana Yacht Club is ahead. He had become A rather vented, "You can always are jaded.' somewhat, cynical young somethin' goin' on there," she man. pointed out but she never persund-¦
The memory of that knockout was charted for him, also, in an uneven scar high on one check bone and echoing the slant of his cyc. In the same encounter he had received several body blows that had troubled him for some time. Beau and Pablito had opened an establisment of their own on the outskirts of Havana beyond the Cristobal Colon Cemetery whore jaded men could come for exercise and baths to bring back at least a hint of youthful vigor. Benu "kent 'em movin'" Lottie served them bouillon and dry biscults, and a "rubber" did his work after they had been bathed, salled and
NEA:
Pablito, too, was a drawing card. He was an unsmiling. hard-eyed
A contingent of mounted police holding back the crowds at Hyde Park during
against the une mployment bil.
a recent demonstration
П little.
id the others to move.
In the grip of n mood which Pablito read avidly between was a mixture of dull hopelessness workouts in the gymnasium, cross-and sharp disgust, Pablito turned
1 country runs and rub-downs. toward Havana one raw, February Books gave him the peace and for morning. The warmth of the pre- retfulness he could find nowhere vious day had been wiped from the
se. The truly happy, he realized air by a north wind and the sky lid not need an anodyne for life was low.
or to turn sharply from the sweet-¡
The apartment had been creep- tess of the past because of its con-ingly cold and during breakfast rast with the present. He won- Lottie had been bitter and sharp tered often about Estelle Field of tongue, making Pablito, na she what she was doing, and where she often did, a target for her anger. might be and whether or not the Her back hurt "like hell!" she said. was happy. He preferred not to Then she tossed her head, sniffed 'hink of her because thinking of and glowered at Pablito. 'her Who painful. Nevertheless, when his anodyve was dull or when the old hunger was too strong to be quicted he found himself think ing of her. He hoped-with an
"It was liftin' you while you had that fever that done it,” she went on. "I had to do everything for you. You just Inid there like (Continued on Page 2.1
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