THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY,
APRIL 30,
1934.
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by KATHARINE
The ROMANTIC RUNAWAY
CHAPTER XXXV
Pablito, returning from town that afternoon, raised his oyes from the dusty, road to see an Eng. glishman who appeared to be won- doring, aimlessly.
"Are you looking for the gym- nalum?" he asked,
"No, I'm waiting for a friend who is doing a bit of sparring. Are you (the Englishman oyed the young man intently) Juanito? I mean Senor Juanito"7
"I'm Juanito," Pablita answered. He liked the appearance of this stranger. He had never even any one quite like him before at the gymnasium. Nevertheless he was rather surprised to hear himself adding. "Would you care to come to
my rooms to wait for your friend? I'd be glad to have you"
"Thank you," Sir Aubrey an-. swered. "You're most kind."
"I live over that shop," Pablito explained with a wave of his hand. Together they crossed the road and went up the long stairway. At the top Sir Aubrey looked about.
"Snug place you have here," he said approvingly.
"A little bare," Pablito answered. "Ah, well, a man's castle. I hear in a hit for boxing?" you go
"A bit," Pablito answered, «mil- ing. Then he asked, "Will you have a drink?"
Sir Aubrey murmured, “Ah, thanks awfully! That would be Hood, you know!"
Pablito rang a small hand bell and i stovenly criada appeared. "What is it?" Pablito usked Sir Aubrey.
"Eh? What?" the 'other ques tioned.
"I mean what'll you have?" Pab- lito translated,
"Oh, I see. A whiskey and soda?" "I'll have one with you," Pablito agreed. "It will be a rare dis- alpation for me. Inke a drink only about once, a year, Havo to go slow to keep in training, you know,"
"Oh, quite!"
Pablito felt suddenly warmed for the first time since he had received Estello's note. The lank, lean Eng- fishman's eyes were fixed on the youth unmovingly. They were frankly, almost pitiably affectionate, eyea, Paulito was conscious of n strange feeling that most people have known at one time or another -a feeling that makes it seem us If, living, we have stepped into an unreal dream,
"Hang It!" he thought. "What's somó over mo?" To the stranger he anid. "Is this your first trip, to Cuba"?
"No. I've been here once before."
"Like it here?"
No. To be frank, I don't like it much. Have you ever been in
: England?"
"No." Pablito nuswered.
"Ah. you must come! You must come!" The criada appeared as Sir Aubrey was speaklig, bring ing glasses, syphon and n squat. brown bottle of a tarnished tray. !
Sho set the tray on the table and lay his arm across Pablito's broad
There disappeared from the room.
shoulders. Instead he must sit and was the bubbling spurt from the sip his drink. Some day, however syphon and Pablito tendared Sirif God was kind-Bone day Aubrey his drink. He prized to note that the older man'a hand shook. He had thought him to be "In good shape."
Was sur-
Ginss in hand, Pablito motioned Sir Aubrey to a chair and then sat down himself. Bir Aubrey, be- gan
to speak of England-the hedges, the lanos, the order and quiet. He spoke of houses which grew more beautiful as they were Ilved in year after year; of great trees; of all that was to him most beautiful in the land of his fathers, the only land where he could do more than exist.
"I think I'd like it," Pablito said us Sir Aubrey's voice dropped away. "Some times it seems to mo that all my life I've been hunting a sort of permanence which is al ways just out of reach.. I haven't had much--to ko on--"
Ho Raw Sir Aubrey's eyes fill and was surprised and embarrassed by the sight.
"You must come whenever you're over there to visit me at my place at Lower Girtings." Sir Aubrey said with a shaken onger- ness. He set his glass on the tray again because the increased tremb- Ing of his hand did not permit him to hold it steadily. This boy Was his son! This splendidly strong, tall youth with the steady, even louk. He wanted intensely to
A bydroplane landing on the “step. plag stone" of the German ateamur "Westphalia" the Intermediary Allan- tic station for the German airway to
South America..
"Refreshing," he said ns le fin labed the whisky and soda. "No and refreshing, Thanks awfully. You enjoy living here?"
"Oh, I guess so," Pablito an- swered slowly. He added with more energy in, his tone, "I like Cuba."
kept apurt, so human groups seem destined inter-wenye.
Jim Fickt suggested to Marcia Treadway that she become a mem- ber of a group he was inviting for a yacht cruise. "I've got to get Estelle away," he said with a deep- ening of the worried Hre that was now almost permanently etched be- tween his course, heavy oyebrows. "I've got to divert her."
"She has rather a one-track
"You know, I'm keenly interested mind, I'm afraid, Marcin stated. in Cuban houses
"Want to look over this apart- ment?" Pablito offered,
"Oh, I say, that a no end kind of you-if you don't mind!"
This is my sleeping room," Pablito said a few minutes later. Sir Aubrey paused at the doorway.
A little later he and Pablito stood at the door of the gymnas- lum to meet the perspiring and anguish-eyed Blings. Seeing Bill- lugs, Pablito smiled for the first Lime since the ache had settled in his heart the night before.
"Your friend doesn't seem too | happy," he said. Sir Aubrey, guf- fawed loudly. . Later...as he and Bings were about to leave Str Aubrey clung to Pablito's hand.
"I hope you'll come again," Pab- ilo said, a trifle ill ́nt case.
"As friends," Billings promised after a groan. "As friends!"
*
As atoms spring together after suparation and as certain elements in chemical laboratories can not be
Madame Doumerque, former school-mistress, who recently marri-' ed the present Premier when he retired from the office of President, shown contributing during a charity
drive in Paris.
"U'm-I don't know.. young."
Sho's
"Yes, but determined." "Well, eba'll have to get over it. it, She'll have stol: How about Marcia, will you come 1"
I haven't anything else to do," aho answered, thereby accepting the lavitation.
"I'm going to take young Alec Davids, Field went on. "I hope
I hope very much, that he and Estelle will make a match of it.”
"So you're beginning that?" she questioned with a lazy smile.
"Well, help it along where you can," he entreated. "You can do that much, can't you?"
Oh. L.suppore so," she agreed."
Carlito, another human atom of the group of which Jim Field was the centre, heard of the sailing of
Mro. Mary Allen, chief of the Women's, Auxiliary Police in London, photographed during a recent visit
to Berlin.
HAVILAND TAYLOR
tho Field yacht, His mother, a toothless old cronc, teld him about it as they sat in her kitchen, She was holding Carlito's son in her arms.
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"Alrondy," she said, relief mank- Ing her tone bright, "they are well at seal" ,,
"But he will come back," said Carlito who had sworn vengeance with all the hot fury of which a Latin is capable..
**Ah, my son" the old woman murmured sadly. Carlito mado no answer. Again in his mind he was stooping over his young wife" who had lain in the dust. Again he was calling her futilely, again feeling her growing coldness within his arms,
"Seo the child!! Bald Carlito's mother. "He is to be a strong boy who will give you much Trip- pingas-"
Carlito looked absently at his son who, with Flold, had killed hor. He would go to Field when the man was alone. He would torture him a little while and then--
Carilio smiled and his mother, seeing the amile, was heartened. "Ah," she said, lifting the baby. "there is much in the world-even for the sorriest of us—to make the lift of the lips."
.
"Yes," Carlito agreed. "Each of us has his dream!"
(To Be Continued). *
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The flags of the new "Manchukuo" Empire. Top is the flag of the Em- peror, and below the "War flug".
Bernt Evense, the Norwegian skat-
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A sight to delight an airmen's
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slesk Lockheed-Electra,
with a cruising spood of 190 m.p.h. shortly to be placed in service for Northwestern Airways
In
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United States.
Enrico Carazo, Junr. son of the
be nearly as proficient na his father,
world-famous tenor, who is said to
Bignor Musiallai and General Julius Gemboes (Hungary) who recently signed a co-ardlaation pact with Dr. Dalifuss, which 'ja still to be studied by European chancolision,
The police officers at Cannes have taught Esperanto, and the fact is
now belog advertised.
The world's highoqk'üniversity bas. just been compisted in Pitisburg, at
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Across
A crustacean with a flat fish in- side it.
Shoe that should be popular fi Ireland.
9 "Riot rule" (ating.).
10 What the burglar made himself
when alarmed..
12 Ineffective advice to an over-
worked scene.shilfter.
14 Indian town,
16 A striking success.
10 Shoot at nothing and get
vegetalle,
19 The inhabitants of this certainly
need a housewarming.
22 Wheroin heads are lost.
23 This maid would be colloquially
ann If beheaded.
25 After, 15 across this lady sug-
guests a. summons.
28 One cannot deny that this lady
would be pleasing if heartless. 24 A fool-headed helper,
32 They do this in mineral water
factories.
33 One who is onco a law-breaker, and according to the misogynist twice n fool,
34 Foreign coln with foreign food:
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35 Not a friendly feeler.
Down
1 A line to follow but ours la in
vido.
2 But for one article this Trink
county is shipshape.
3 The mark of a good carriage. 4 Our remoto ancestors might have
made notes of thin, ⠀
The giver cannot u enjoy the
social function.
7 Usually a nasty face in 4 down, 8 This may save one from em-.
barking on many flights.
1 To run this is not considered a
good grounding in navigation. 1 Chanen.
17 A gang of note-producers, 18,Of the path, like the walter's
frionu.i
20. A certain European.
21 "Large tin" (anag), -
21 Royal letters that turned wrath.
20 Half man, and wholly irrespon
Kil
27 A figure of honour.
70 Part of the body.
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and the handle romains.
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