THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, APRIL 20,
1934
KATHARINE HAVILAND-TAYLOR
The ROMANTIC RUNAWAY
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CHAPTER XXVII
"Yes?"
"I have never thought you had anything to do with Mr. Jeffries" death." This she confided in a whisper when for a moment they Apart from the throng of were pedestrians,
She saw his look of surprise and her heart leaped, thinking, "How could anyone even suspect him of it!"
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him, they were walking on a gravel path and she had no more need for his guidance.
"I'm going to ask you to alt down on a bench with me for a fow moments," he heard her say- Ing. "That la, if you trave time."
He smiled down at her and his breath inflated his hard, high chest. "I have all the time in the world," he answered.
thick necks, and concave chests, Boldly he left his hiding place jshe asked. "My car is up by the He took her arm and, too soon for There was accusation in Beau's chatting while wrapped in bath to make his way swiftly to the park. Pablito"
towela. Ho planned to hang this window through which he could "You done that!" he storm picture in the gymnasium. Fabiltojece her. She was standing by a at Lottle aftor Pablito had wondered whether he was getting counter waiting, one hand resting pounded down the concrete stair rotten disposition or whether, by on the counter and her hand a way and slammed the grilled iron/now, he had one.
little to one side. A minute and gate below.
He walked slowly on the nar- the clerk who had been waiting row sidewalk, resenting the rough on another customer, moved to shouldering of warm and weary ward her. She spoke to him, tourists. Walking so, stopping turned toward the window and from the curb to let women pass then she saw Pablito. For a long and dodging back to evade the moment her gray eyes were al- onslaught of a lurching, wildly most blank with surprise. Than driven motor, his eyes suddenly they lightened. She smiled un lost their heaviness. He looked certainly, flushed hard and nodded. Pablito's caution for a moment once, breathed hard and looked again. Then he stopped into a warned him to be on his way. He doorway.
had, one moonlight night near Field's camp, killed a man, and Estelle knew this. Then, with a surge of irresponsible wildness, he dismissed all caution. He did not care. He would wait.
"Mind your own business and shut up, will you?" Lettle snapped "He'e paid you more than he evor owed you and he knows it Benu told her. "He's no sucker. What makes you pick on him so?" Lottle began to sniff, a preface to the team that camo suddenly and fast. She loved Pablito, she confided, and he didn't "pay no attention to har." She always had loved him. And over since she'da known Pablito she'd gone straight. Beau grinned at this and his eyes grow sly and knowing..
"Well-pretty near," Lottle amended with a glare. "There's nothing in the world I wouldn't do for Pablito. Nothing!".
Estelle Field had halted, before shop window in which there was a display of fans. It bad sccurred to her that she might buy one for Miss Treadway who was coming to visit them. There was a black-Į fan in the window that was span- gled with sliver a Chantilly do- algs-a lovely fan. Estelle turned Into the shop.
Estelle left the shop a few minutes later, a slender packet un- der her arm. Outside she smiled once more, not quite certainly, as
"Then why don't you give your tongue a rest?" Beau asked,
An almost overpowering emo-ahe looked up at Pablito. Lottle swore at that with the tton swept the broad-shouldered "I know you right away," she picturesque freedom she had in-young man who had stepped into said, putling but a hand. He took dulged before she met Pabillo, the shelter of the doorway. It it, swallowed hard and tried to seemed now that he had never speak. "Will you walk with me?" forgotton Estelle for a minute and as it, seeing hor agai... he had re- covered something infinitely pre- cious that had always been truly hin.
That young man was, at that moment, walking rapidly down the atroet, his eyes narrowed and fixed unseeingly on the way ahead. What he really wanted was drink but he had a match next week at the Miraflores Club. He He thought, a little unsteadily, didn't dare risk forgetting his "This is what love f«!" troubles in alcohol.
When she houses began to el- bow one another he boarded a tram car that stopped obligingly in the centre of a block, then ro nowed its camel-like progress t unhurried pace alternated, when the motorman felt that way, by sudden and almost maddening spurts of speed.
Already, although it was still early, Havana was waking. Ser- vanta were strewing dampened sawdust upon the tiled floors of porticos. Venders pushed bar- rows, led donkeys or carried their goods while they called out wares of every sort, A large coloured woman sat on the curb to try on a pair of shoes and a seuork on an upper balcony screamed her order to a seller of tickets for the lottery. He plucked one for her from hip breast where they were pinned.
There was an amazing amount of a very vibrant sort of life in Havana, Pablito realized.
He renlized, too, that he did not feel part of it.
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In the pulsing heart of the city he stopped from the car to wan- der through India Park and on to- ward Obispo some distance away. He had seen in a shop there a German caricature that he wanted. It was called "At the Baths" and It showed a group of old men with fat, sagging pouches of stomachs, hairy legs, scrawny or very short,
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Dr. Khalid Sheldrake,wha.. London report has it, is likely soon to become "King of Sin. Klang." It is said that he has renamed the province Islamostan.
"I didn't know he was dead," Pablito told her.
She had always liked him, shu "I was sure you didn't. But thought, as ahe sat down, Always, never mind! It's too unpleasant. and in a way she liked no one else. What are you doing her if you And he was just the sarce now as don't mind telling me? But perhe had been--only nicer!
"You said you'd tell me what haps that is too inquisitive?"
It fen't at all, he answered a you're doing," she prompted.
He told her with a gathering little thickly. They were in the midst of one of those sporadic shame, congestions that Obispo and the other narrow streets of old Ha- vans are subject to and for a space their talking was ended. He chose a path for her, keeping off those who pressed too close, frowning blackly at a young Cuban who too obviously looked upon her as fair. Presently they were at the edge of the park and only divided from It by the confusing surge of trafic.
"But it's honest," she said and then Bushed. She had no often upon the business read attacks methods of her father that sho felt honesty was not for her to mention.
"That counts. a great deal I think," Estelle went on, perhaps a little too quickly, "Sometimes (Continued on Page 19.)
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