THE HONGKONG
TAPIA
WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1934.
The ROMANTIC RUNAWAY
CHAPTER XXXVII
|other drawer, Oh, my God, you|ticular ma
ain't looked Try the next one.” "Toll him I never buy oil stack,” One" "evening. In late summer
Pablito found the newspaper and he answered Than Ire thought of Publito ppeared in the doorway sat down to read. It was there, Sir Aubrey and the fact that Sir of Beau's sleeping room. "Beau-"Just as Beau rad said. Beneath Aubrey had been Billings friend, ho sald,
portrait of Estelle, a little But the Englistiman could have "Come in," the other invited. smeared in the printing but all written anything he cared to tell Beau was stretched out at full too clear, he road: "Society has him, Pablito decided surely. length on the bed. He added, un been expecting the news for some
I think you're makin' Jablito closcil the slat door behind time. Mr. Alec Davids who has
Beau persisted. him. "Hand me a cigarette, will been cruising with Mr. and Mine had a kind of feelin' when he come
Field on Mr. Field's yacht"
somethin' real Important was that you?"
Pablito found ho Pablito rummaged about the
had to go back to When'll you be back. Kid?"
"I don't know." had been his Immediately after the beginning and start over again. their escape from Field's camp. The words arranged themselves
A
this.
KATHARINE AYILAND TAYLOR":
wouldn't be better to any "yea” to
"I'll never be able to have what
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sha
"My dear," he asked often, how Alee and have it over with, much longer must I watch you I want," Estello reasoned. "Por- suffer from your obstinacy? You don't know how it hurts me when, after all, I dreamed most of I want to make you happy"
Yet remembering Pablito could Alec had passed the period when fill her eyes with tears, so he had thought the game so easy thought of him as little na posal- as. to be uninteresting. Inwardly ble. Those about her spoke admir now he fumed at Estello's "devilishingly of the fact that Estelle was lways gay and "ready, for any stubbornness" and more than aver
Sho
crowded her raking almost hated her because of the me loft for thought and those
hours who spoke of her laughter did not her repeated withdrawals. "Well, vowed, "after I've got her where she's going to lo!"
bureau in the old, slow way that It quickly. Ho...could not read up. He sort of looked that way. This was determined to win her. sort of fun." til there was little
"Well so long. We'll miss we she kept him dangling with
Beau had noticed that this manner (crazily. But at length he had finita went down the stairs und | shoʻlt · learn a few things." he Pauso to reflect that really, happy
had returned.
"A match-" he prompted, Pablito supplied the match and held it, cupped between his palms. as Beau Ht up. Well, what's the trouble? Beau asked then.
Pablito dropped to a chair by the bed. He ran his hands through his thick, lgbt hair. Then, cibows on knees and eyes averted, He began to tell Boau slowly and falteringly about Estelle: of how sha
wna
forced to comply with her father's demands because Fold believed
Pablito had murdered Jeffrien.
nowapaper.
Ished the entire, rather wordy para- graph underneath the portrait. out under the blackness and the He stood then, trembling and twinking fires that make the clutching the
Ho Cuban aky. He had not sald stared down at Estelle's picture, goodbye to Lottle. His lips were then abruptly left the room.
na langer Estelle's but he would not touch them-even ensiunily to any other woman's lins. He could not do that yet.
Beau called after him to say something about the man named Billings had said he must see Pab- to about a matter that was im portant.
Later, though not much later, Beau, whe was still in bed, looked up to see Pablito once more be fore him. Pablito was wearing a ault that had been made for trav
"Oh, God!" he whispered harsh ly, although his God was far from him. This was more hideous than the awakening from any dream ha had ever known.
Estelle did not see the an and not for a Cuban evening.nouncement of her engagement in
bow. "Hell, kid," he questioned, aggrieved. "What can I do about dered. Pablito gave him the pack-and her father returned there and it? I love life myself."
age. As he stopped with a lighted the big stone town house was
Beau raised himself on one clemme a cigaretto Reau or the New York newspaper but shel
"I know." Tablito admitted match burning blue beneath his once more opened. There she be wearily, "I don't know why I'm į palios be said slowly, "I'm having, leame acquainted with the rewa talking. I wouldn't have you give Beau. yourself up you know that. But I'm about half-crazy with things as they are-
Beau broke into this monologue. "Look here, kid! You'll get over being so chosey in time. Women, they're all alike..."
"Not when you feel na I do,” "Well, all right. Have your own way about it but just the same they are. Look here-I didn't want to tell you what I know, but I guess I'll do it. Maybe it'll make you stop this mooning. That Field dame's engaged to a guy named
Davids-"
•
Pablito sat back, eyes unbe- loving:
'.
"I scon it in a New York news- paper," Bunu confided.
"Where you goin'?"
"I don't know."
"What about your letters?"
"There won't be any letters you need to forward. There'll be nano that matter." Pablito smiled as he spoke. It was a smile that Benu didn't exactly like.
"My God," he thought, "the kid Is hit!"
"Keep up your heart, my boy," Field would encourage him warm- ly. And with sly keenness he would disparage Alec in Estella's hearing. She seemed to look at Alec more gently after these at- tacks on him by her father. They made her wonder if, after all, it
ELECTION RIOTS
-ITALIAN DEPENDENCY IN MEDITERRANEAN
Paris, May 1.
A message from Angora atates through the congratulations of her friends. She denied the truth of that 16 were killed and 30 injured the engagement ardently. Too in disorders during the elections ardently, it was murmured with at Rhodes Island, an Italian de- Amiles.
pendency in the Mediterranean.
But
It really isn't true!" Estelle repeated. The year that had passed since she had left Cuba had wrought unpleasant changes, She was loss certain now that even Pablito could measure up to the standards she had once be- "Look here, Kid." he protested, leved were his. She could not. that Billings was here again to with the new wisdom she had ac day. He said he's got to see you.quired, believe that anyone could Seemed to be all het up about be a good as she had supposed something. Came all the way him to be. She was less certain from New York to see you, he said, about everything, in fact, except You can't go without
the misery with, which she must be surrounded while she lived with her father.
Billings was probably selling something, Pablito decided slowly and heavily. He remembered that
Occasionally she realized that "Did you gave the paper?”": Billings looked like a salesman her only escape lay in marriage. "Yes, it's In the bureau drawer the sort who always come all the As she thought of this she also
Davids w Thore. The top one. Under them way from oome very distant point realized that Aloc socks. Well, maybe it's in the to sell some one thing to one pur-kind. Very firmly she believed
During similar rioting. a fort- night ago, a number of casualties was ascribed to Italian aeroplanes bombing recalcitrants.
An official communique, issued by the Italian authorities declared that the casualties were caused in a drunken brawl.-Router.
humans ara hot in need of "any sort of good time," nor searching for it.
(To Be Continued)..
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