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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH

FRIDAY, MARCH

1934.

The ROMANTIC RUNAWAY

DECIN TERE TO-DAY

PAULITO, a handsome 17-year-old routh, works at the palatial, Florida home of millionaire JIM YIELU.

The son of a title Engilahman and a servant in Pallitu know nothing of his Darents. When 1 year old he ran away from care he was left. Since then be he lived with NORIA NOYES, & Materious iodiskuri who has seta butter days,

AntiA, the hearizes old crone in whose

Vield's ranged wife and their daughter, home. ESTELLE Arrive at the Florida I'abito em Futeile and almost at unes falls In love with her.

CHAPTER IV

At the door of his wife's rooms Field paused and knocked. A maid he remembered admitted him and, as she saw him, her face grew hard and chill. He heard her mur mur something about keeing if Madame could see him and ho waited in the gray and sliver alt- ting room, in a few moments Norma appeared and settled her self in a low chair. Field pulled another close to hers and dropped

into it.

"I wanted to tell you, Norma, that I appreciate your attitude to Estellé about me.

She answered in a level under- tone, her eyes on the rug at her fcot. "I want to preserve for her as long as possible," she said, "all the illusion that make life hap- pier. Then, too, you were not there and I was. I couldn't very well say anything til of you."

He did not fully understand this. She saw it and smiled a trifle wauly.

"You don't ace much logic in that, do you?" ahe questioned.

"I sco what, you're getting at all right," he answered honestly, "but I think it's bunk!"

"It la only decent." Ho pak no attention to this but "Norma-are you going

went on. to tell her now?"

She stiffened, becoming erect and Lenke.

"It would kill all that I have done my best to nurture in her," she answered with the first show of the old warmth and feel. ing he had heard in her voice, "We will have to pretend a great many things that aren't true and that I know now never were true." "I'll try to make it easy for you," he promised a trifle thickly. He found himself close to unstead- iness from the relief her words bad brought him.

"Jim," she began slowly and tem confidently, "will you promise me to be careful about the things, the peoplo-women I mean-whom she Mech ?".

"My dear Norma, I am less the gallant now. I am Go," he an swered bluntly.

She nodded, her head a bit high, her eyes suddenly chill. Then she

stood up with the manner of roy- Norma Field stood in the gray | The men in the boat saw her; alty at the moment of a dismissal, and silver sitting room where her nothing and no one else. Field Presently Flold found himself out- husband had left her, remembering watched her steadily with a slight sido in the giare of the sunlight. the aftermath of one of their early smile ifting and softening his The way Norma's head could ft, estrangements. Sho had been sometimes eruci lips. Pablito's 10 Prombolt to be crude and rough. him, expecting to find him over-nivo. He saw her ne a rare mix had always made him stricken by remorse and returned to eyes followed her with a breathless feel

This, with her dislike of scenes cast by grief over her departure ture of child and woman. She had and her withdrawals into silence, and alone. He had, on the con- dignity, unusual in American had made him more crude and trary, been neither overenst-nor girls, which made her of times rougher,

alone!

Beem far beyond her years. At other times, with the faint show- ing of a soft trustfulness, sho was sweetly young. Appallingly young, Fabilto thought, knowing Field.

She was still capable of the same trick, he realized the trick of making him feel for beneath her, "Damn It!" he thought, blinking in the sunlight. But there was a reason for him to endure it now. The reason was a slender girl who looked much as Norma had when he had married her with the intent to tame her and "bring her down a bit."

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At the end of a dock which stretched long and black in the wato: Field saw Pablito swabbing out a fishing boat. He saw also the enchanting blue of the white flecked water and the way of the tall palms against the depths of an almost cloudless, silver-blue sky. Entelle would no doubt de light in such things, as her mother had before hor. The camp had amazed her. Well, there was no other like it, he decided com- placenily,

He followed the dock which smelled of seaweed and salt and was always darkened and damp from spray and when he was near Pablito he spoke to him.

"Nice day, Smith." Pablito stood erect. "Yes, sir.} Fine," he agreed.

"Lord, you're A good-looking specimen,

"Field thought. He said aloud, "You usually run the 'Sil ver Dart, don't you? I may go out in it Inter,"

"Yes, sir."

Field turned then to go back to the land. Would Estelle go out with her father, Pablito wondered.

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Then she remembered "trying aguin" endless efforts at "trying again." She remembered the brulees which had come, oddly enough, from promises that wer as wonk as water. After that some time after that she had be come old and lost her hold upon hope and at last the worst of his sins were but pallid beads in the long, dark chain that made her alghts and days.

"She knows everything of good," he decided tenderly, and nothing of cril." And for a moment his heart turned cold as he wondered what lay before her

Estello's soft brown hair blow: Sho had been like Estelle once, and colour came into her cheeka she realized, physically and men which were a little thin because tally. Gentle to pain, hard in de she had been growing so fast. He fending others from it. Kind to could not help watching her al others but stern with herself. The most steadily. And again and woman she bad become let her see again he found her face turned the child she had been. A lovely his way, child-the child Estelle echoed. The hum of the motor and the Norma Field stirred and moved swish of water na It broke to a toward her dressing room. She white-churned froth kept Pablito thought, "I don't ask much any from hearing much that was said, more but-ob, he must be carefull" but one question of Field's shook It was a blindly aimed prayer, the his world for him beentine. It only sort she could say now, fail- brought her close. ing to bellevo in much of anything. She had cared a great deal for Jim Field in her pitinbly young years. she realized. She hoped Estelle would never care for any

man quite so much as she cared for herself.

•

That afternoon Pablito took Estelle and Jim Field for the first of their many rides together in the Silver Dart." Estelle wus stirred to silence by the riotous colour, the salt languor of the air, the blazing yellow and the utter greenness of the shor.

Field snid, I think I'll have a fancy dress party for you here, Would you like that?".

"Oh, yes!" Estelle answered and because she had been so suddenly warmly and vibrantly happy Pab- lito amiled without knowing it un- til she answered his smile. No woman or giri had ever smiled on him before unless tendering him, with her lift of lips, the wrong sort of invitation.

A barefoot boy who guards a drunkard does not hold the key "I think," she said slowly, "that that opens doorways into kindness. I have never seen any place Now he knew kindness and the beautiful" As she spoke her eyes difference in smiles and the knowl rested upon Pablito and, secing edge was so beautiful that it him, she knew suddenly that she brought an ache to his breast. He had never seen a young man who thought, "I love you and it's not was so fine in form and face. She puppy stuff. You're beautiful and did not mention this. She could kind. I love you!”.

only wish, with a new hunger,

that they might be friends. She And so camo the love of a life- was sure this youth with the blue time in a land where there is eyes and straw coloured hair would warmth and carly ripening.

(To be ontinued.)

be a friend worth having

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