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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. - FRIDAY,

MARCH 28,

The ROMANTIC RUNAWAY

BEGIN HERE TO-DAY- TABLITU, handsome 17-3ld south, Florida home of

work at the paatikİ millionaire JIM FIELD.

The son of titled Englihman and

servant girl, Fablite knows nothing of a mia. When years old he ran away from ANGELA, the heartless old crone a whose ekre he was left. Binge then he has fired who has such beller days.

WI NOMUS NOYES, mysterious Individus Vields estranged wife and their daughter,

ESTELLE. Arrive at the Florida boave. Fabio secs Etells and almost at once faile in love with but.

CHAPTER IV

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The men in the boat snw Norma Field stood in the gray stood up with the manner of roy- alty at the moment of a dismissal. and silver sitting room where her nothing and no one else Field Presently Field found himself out- husband had left her, remembering watched her steadily with a alight side in the glare of the sunlight the aftermath of one of their early smile lifting and softening his been sometimes cruel hips. Pablito's The way Norma's head could lift, estrangements. Shohad so proudly, had always made him stricken by remorse and returned to oyen followed her with a breathless feel himself to be crude and rough. him, expecting to find him over-awo. He saw her no a rare mix This, with her dislike of scenes cast by grief over her departure Lure of child and woman. She had and her withdrawals into silence, and alone. He had, on the con- a dignity, unusual in American had made him more crude

traty been neither overcant-nor girls, which made her at times sem far beyond her years. At rougher.

Then she remembered "trying other times, with the faint show- She was still capable of the same trick, he realized; the trick of again; endless efforts at "trying ing of a soft trustfulness, she was remembered the sweetly young, Appallingly young, making him feel far beneath her. again." She

"Damn it!" he thought, blinking bruises which had come, oddly Pablito thought, knowing Field, At the door of his wife's rooms Field paused and knocked in the sunlight. But there was a enough, from promises that wer maid he remembered admitted him reason for him to endure it now. as weak as water. After that."She knows overything of good," and, as she saw him, her face grow The reason was a slender girl who some time after that she had be he decided tenderly, "and nothing hard and chill. He heard her murlooked much as Norma had when come old and lost her hold upon of evil. And for a moment-hi mur something about seeing if he had married her with the intent hope and at last the worst of his heart turned cold as ho, wondered Madame could see him and he to tame her and "bring her down sins were but pallid bends in the what lay before her.

long, dark chain that made her a bit." walted in the gray and silver sit-

nights and days. 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, Norms, that I appreciate your attitude to Estelle about me."

Tett

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

He did not fully understand thia. She saw it and smiled a trifle wanly.

"You don't see much logte in that, do you?" she questioned.

"I see what you're getting at all right," he answered honestly, "but

I think it's bunk!"

tense.

"It is only decent." He paid no attention to this but "Norma are you going went on. to tell her now ?"

She stiffened, becoming erect and "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 grent 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 trille thickly. He found himself elose to unsteadi. iness from the relief her words ba brought him.

"Jim," she began elowly and less confidently, will you promise me! to be careful about the thinge, the people-women I mean-whom she Fees ?

"My dear Norma, I am less the gullant now. I am 50," he an swered luntly.

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

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Extello's soft brown hair blow She had been like Estelle once, and colour came lato her cheeks At the end of a dock which stretched long and black in the she realized, physically and men which were a little thin because water Field saw Pablito swabbing tally. Gentle to pain, hard in de- she had been growing so fast. He out a fishing boat. He saw also fending others from It. Kind to could not help watching her al- the enchanting blue of the white others but stern with herself. The most steadily. And again and flocked water and the sway of the woman she had become let her sea again he found her face turned tall palms against the depths of the child she had been. A lovely an almost cloudless, silver-blue child-the child Estella echoed.

Norma Field stirred and moved aky. Entelle would no doubt de- light in such things, as her mother toward her dressing room. She had before her. The camp had thought, "I don't ask much any amazed her. Well, there was no more but-ob, he must be carefull" other like it, he decided com-It was a blindly aimed prayer, the only sort she could say now, fall placently.

ing to believe in fauch of anything. She had cared a great deal for Jim Field in her pitiably young years, she realized. She hoped Estello would never care for any man quite so much as she cared for herself.

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.

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good-looking

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

in it later."

"Yes, sir."

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

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Madame Dollfuss, who, in playing An active part in the relis! work following upon the Socialist revolt in Austria.

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

The hum of the motor and the swish of water as it broke to a white-churned froth kept Pablito from hearing much that was said. but one question of Field's shook his world for him because it brought her close.

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

"O1, yea Estalle answered and because she had been so suddenly warmly and vibrantly happy Pab- ito smiled without knowing it un- til she answered his smile. No him before unless tendering him, woman or girl had ever smiled on with her li't of lips, the wrong sort of invitation.

A barefoot boy who guardė a drunkard does not hold the key that opens doorways into kindness. Now he knew kindness and the difference in smiles and the knowl edge was so beautiful that it brought an ache to his breast. He

"I think," she said slowly, "that I have never seep any place to beautiful!" As she spoke her eyes rested upon Pablito and, accing him, she knew suddenly that she had never seen a young man wha WAB so fine in form and face, She thought, "I love you and it's not puppy stuff. You're beautiful und did not mention this. She could kind. I love you!"

only wish, with a new hunger.

there is

that they might be friends. She! And so came the love of a life-

a land where was sure this youth with the blue timo in eyes and straw coloured hair weald warmth and early ripening. (To be Continued.)

be a friend worth having.

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THREE HOUSES DESTROYED IN CHEUNGSHAWAN

A fire which started in an un- numbered house in So Uk Village, Cheungshawan, about 3 p.m. yes- terday destroyed three brick and timber houses before it was final- ly got under control by the Fire Brigade. No persons were in- Jured.

The origin of the firo is not known. but it is believed to have started in a heap of dry grass, and fanned by a light wind obtained, a hold, on the houses, which wore quickly involved, the materials being of an inflammable naturo.

The alarm was quickly given, and two fire appliances from the Mongkok Fire Station under As- sistant Station Ofcer A, T, Cash, and another appliance from tho Kowloon Fire Station, were quick- ly on the scene.

Excellent work was done by the fremos, who got the blaze under control within half an hour of the not until outbreak, but it was

5m that the flames were totally extinguished.

Fortunately the fire was noticed early on, and the occupants of the houses made their way to safety, no persoas being, injured. The damage done to the three build- Ings, however, was considerable.

Fires in this aron have been quité frequent of late, and two occurred were reported to have during the last week.

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