THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
MONDAY,
MAY 7, 1934.
The ROMANTIC RUNAWAY
CHAPTER XLI
cob-
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by KATHARING
AVILAND-TAYLOR
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¡offend Mrs. Noyes. She went into possible, that their engagement you two!" she said, pulling her He walked with her, disinter-
the room then and Josie Martell must be at an endi. The Noyes case absorbed Marcin arose to make hor welcome. But he knew she had never cared for "I wish I were leaving with you!"since the first threat of his loss He said that fur cont closely around her throat, estedly. Flek had felt numb ever Treadway. She knew that Pablito Mrs. Noyes did not sit down. She him. He had not cared for her. had lived with Noyes and now, of stood in the doorway, smiling,efther until he had determined to
She had decided it would be stock he had
had come to him with a drop of course, Noyes would step out of Then she raised one hand, helding show her who was master. Then kinder to act
as though nothing touchable.
thought to be un- hiding to claim the fortune that the small Spanish revolver that she somehow he had learned & blend whatever had happened. was his. He could, no doubt, tell always kept in her dressing table of love and hatred-a wish to love her where to find Pablito. Once drawer. She fired..,
"Better come along!" Field in- Mareta confided when Estelle was "I had a funny feeling just then," she found the youth, Marcia had When she next knew anything and a wish to hurt her as men hospitality..
her as he dreamed of loving her vited with a weak echo of his old out resolved that she
of hearing. "Odd, isn't it would tell the beyond her husband's swift, ur- rarely dream of hurting women.
how we Americans use the word truth and free him from the old gently voiced, "Go!" she WEN on "Of course," his mother charges.
the wrong sense "I'd love to but unfortunately funny" in No longer did Marels dream of with hor key. The testimony of note, it is quite impossible now. gagement. It's with a young man
her way home. She let herself in drawled, watching him write the have an important luncheon en- often?" making Pabilto dependment on her Josie Martell's maid that a woman And after all, dear The words who writes poems to me and all dered why she was sparring,
"Yes," Field agreed. He won-" of trips to France and Spain and had called that night to see her ended Italy. Sho wanted instead to say, mistress was dismissed as unim-shoulders.
with a raise of pudgy that kind of thing. Estelle, you're This is the truth I owe you and
rather lightly dressed, aren't you? F
"Well," she went on, "I had this must tell to set my mind at rest," had been interpreted as a
portant after Noyes' disappearance. "Oh, surely Alec agreed lan. It's euch a fearful day. The jon-odd sensation because I realized Hor mald found her surprisinglyfession.
guidly.
qulis in the florists windows are I have never asked you Marcia no longer kind these day, the slightest in-from her husband after that. Ho into a mess like this, he thought.}
Mrs. Noyes had had one letter It was like Estelle to pull him positively Insulting, aren't they 7" someone of whom I want very became harsh
much to hear. You know a good Suddenly she became silent and many things-too many, you konw terference with her will. "Ah, wrote her that he had never beenTo make him love her and hate slipped her well," she thought, amiling, "I've faithless to her physically. His in her and then leave him unable to Field's. He was surprised at her you do you must tell
arm, through Jim and you might know this. If travelled long way." She thought terent in Miss Martell had been no full the least of his morbid and touch. Marcia was reputed to be must
mo. Your too of those years during which more than a friendship based on cruel fancies. Yes, it was like her. a "cool one." she had planned to shield Pablito mutual interests. Nevertheless he He hoped she would suffer as she tint reputation except at that onc She had always had and herself. She now knew that was guilty, Noyes sald, because he never had-as few women had! she could alleld him only by the had led his wife Into loving him
time when she was said to have truth and that with the truth she and later consed, to care for her.
cared for Ted Jeffries, Marcia came down to the pier must tear from herself, the protec- He also wrote that he was not to see the Fields off. The place
"Jim," she went on quickly, "I tion that sheltered her from the coming back, that she must rear was thick with a salt tang that have a story to tell you. It's far world's scort.
their son as best she could and had been carried into the big barn-too ribald for this child's ears. The Noyes case filled long col-with the realization that the crime like structure by the fog of the Come along down here a little way umns in the newspapers. There was his, not hers. Between them ray day.
and I'll narrate the naughty were many stories about Josie May they had killed one of the best
"You're lucky to be out of this, thing tell who had danced and acted with women who ever lived, A much charm and grace. "Ab- other Maude Adams" shu bad heen. Mrs. Noyes' confession, deliver-
ed between deep gasps, was com Staid middle-aged men smiled.plete. Perhaps it was a rellef at reading this cohumm, and then last to speak. Beyond doing jus sighed a little sadly. A look over tire to her husband and delivering the shoulder is likely to cause the money to him that was his sag, while a look nhend makes the if he could I found the confer- muscles tense. And in middle ageston made little difference. The one does not look ahead so easily son whose rearing had been left as one looks behind.
to his mother was one of those re- ported "missing" in France. Per-
called.
"
Thus are the woven.
woman
At the same time there was also much space in the newspapers de- voted to accounts of Jim Field's
Norris Noyes wife had confess-haps the boy had been urged to a ed that she killed Josle Martell. too-gallant duty by thoughts of a In the midst of the confession she father who had
killed a had lost consciousness and had been and run away. revived by drastic measures.
patterns of fo Then, gasping and holding off the ekil finger of death by sheer will power, she Anished what she had to say the story she had kept secret since the night her husband spectacular financial crash. There had taken a revolver from her had been a drop in the market hands to say, "Go!"
that took him under, leaving him Mrs. Noyes had been jealous, she completely at the *** confessed, Her jealously
merey of men had whom he had betrayed. These mon grown until I completely over-settling on the little that was left powered her; she knew no other bent their red, rough necks to emotion. She had followed her pick the bones, as their feathers husband one night to Josie Morgrow sleek and shiny. tell's home which was well uptown. A maid had admitted her and she saw the mald disappear into the rear of the house. Then from the hall she listened to voices in the Before leaving for Havanu Es- next room-Josie Martell's voice telle had, learned of the crash. She and Noyes. They were talking of had received a letter from Alec pletures and of artists and they Davida the morning of their de- aid nothing that could possibly parture. Alec wrote, aa cruelly as
widely one of them bearing the Extelle's pictures were printed caption, "Deserted By Lover After Father's Fallure."
"What is it?" he asked shortly. "Do you know what's become of that boy who used to work for you -the one who lived with Norris Noyes?" one named Pablito? The
"What makes you nak?"
portant l'
"I want to know, Jim. It'a im-
(To Be Continued.)
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