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TAB HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MARCH

1934.

The ROMANTIC RUNAWAY

BEGIN WERE TO-DAY

PAULITO, handsome 17-year-old youth, works at the palatial Fiorids home of pulton- aire JIM YIELD.

The son of titled alshmen and ervant girl, Pabilto know nothing of h parents. When years old he san aWAY from ANDELA, the hearis old erone In whose care he was left. Hince then he has vast with NORRIS NOYES, mysterious individual who has seen better days.

Field's estranged wife and their doghter

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home. ESTEL arrive at the Florida Pablito es Estelle and almost at once falla I love with her,

wurst at the Fielda TED JEFFRIES, bome, stops his boat at the island where Pablito and Noyes live and recole Noyes Later he tells his wife Noyes i wanied by polles for murder years before, and that bele going to report Sim

Fabito tells Noyes to hide in the swamp

and promises to meet him there that night,

CHAPTER VII

The swamp was a place of low growing trees from which hung Florida moss-the gray, ghostly growth that brings the coriness of a moonless, wind-haunted night in-

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KATHARINE

LAND TAYLOR

In the small, musty, ill-lit shop he found but two costumes and, since one would have made him a clown, Pablito selected the one that would make him a toreador:

pictures on calendars. Her port mare loudly. "How are they gola' { "No, there's no others that I know, night he would hurry to the swamp and tell Norris there was nothing to face was round and her features to get you? You turn up, one of of. What'ull you 'have?"

worry about. were regular. Her dark, abundant 20 or 30 women in Spanish rigs.

"Scotch," Pablito answered. He hair was curled too thickly; there Field's not goin' to count his

hia glass, responding was mascara matted on her lashes friends. The help will all be hang-drained and too much colour on her checks.in' around the edges of the place, pleasantly to its contents by a She sat on a log with her short, hopin' to see what's goin' on. If warmth which spread slowly, over thick hands clasped around her anyone ketches you doin' it you him. Setting the glass down, he stirred by the thought of danger knees and because of this Noyes can say you're powderin-fixin' realized how deeply he had been

"Wep it up in a hurry, will An In-up. It's so damned almople it's a know she was a stranger.

you?" he asked almost feverishly. timate acquaintance with swamps crime! And the same with me. for Norris. does not invite one to sit upon That Jeffries fellow is going as

"Another?" Bantum questioned."1 haven't much time" a Toreador and we're not so much logs.

He wont to the swamp in a mo- "No. One's enough for me." different. In build. We won't stny

tordriven boat which he had to until they unmask and-"

Bantum considered saying some quit where the water was ince thing Jocular about Pablito's fos- deep. Noyca' canoe had eiged in tax-father's manner of drinking further. Pablito tred the soft and then thought better of it. Fab water-bottom as lightly as he could, lito had. a punch that was like thea wary car cocked for the rough kick of an irate mule and two pound of an alligator who moves things never failed to arouse him, ponderously but swiftly. He had One was any disparaging mention been at the camp before the ser of Smith and the other was vants' dinner and everything there.

had been as calm na' it was in the mornings when the servants sat Out in the open Pablito drew awaiting calls for black coffee. deep breath. It was all right! After he had stopped for ono short No one there, Pablito felt cor- second in a shop where he coul!tain, had heard anything, (To be Continued.) rent a costume for the following

A man, short and stocky and also dark, stepped into the clearing from a spot that was opposite Noyes.

"Where you been?" the girl naked petulantly,

"I thought I heard sumpin." "I wish to God we could get. outa here."

"Look here, girl, we'll be moving to-morrow night. How often I told

She broke in with some petulant, Then, as low-volcod objection. they forgot caution and began to quarrel loudly, Noyes crept away, Fortunately Pablito never went to the camp at night, Noyes re- flected. Otherwise he might be planned if Noyes could not in come way through Pablito forestall the plan's' maturing.

to the brightest of noons. Some you that anyway? I ain't so stuck suspected of the theft that was treatment of a chlid.

times there were fugitives there and always there were snakes.

shivered, pushing

in Noyes

n blunt among the trees with

He feared the place prowed canoe. but to-night a stronger fear made it a sanctuary.

No one could track him here. Ho know the swamp as few knew it and a canoe left no scent for dogs. Perhaps even now at Bantum's they were watching for him. He re membered, with a cold clutch at his heart, having snubbed Jeffries for telling, at club they both fre- quented, not too pleasant story of a woman they both knew. He wondered whether Jeffries remem- bered.

on the place myself but do you hear me bawiing about it?"

"No but we can't all be like you, darling."

"Shut up."

Something stirred in the under- growth to slither over the ground For a moment they were quiet; and slip without sound into a pool the man standing and looking of stagnant water. Noyes forgot

to down at the small fire, the girl's that which he heard. remember eyes, too, held by it. She broke only his waiting. Perhaps now, ut the silence. "I don't like them this very instant, Pablito at Ban- Spanish rigs anyways." she said. tum's was hearing the fact that "Say, what's the mattor, with a search was on for Norris Noyes. you?" the man asked roughly. "Haven't I tole you about 40 of Field's gang has picked on 'em

"That don't make me like 'em no better."

"It makes it safe." "I don't like it."

"My God, Lottie! Don't get ose of your nervous streaks," the man petitioued. "You know what they do to me before a job. If you keep your head there's no reason why we shouldn't clean up enough to put us on easy street. Look hera

Buntum did not know of any- one being looked for except a girl called Lottle who had escaped from a reformatory on n ladder she had made of two sheets, her night gown and the, natron's best apron.

Lottie's career, Bantum said, as he leaned across the bar had been something fierce." She had stolen to an extent that would have innd- ed any man in Sing Sing for a long period. But the jurors were men and Lottie had cried piteously

"Even if he does I don't regret It," Noyon said to himself.

Presently he discovered that deep in the swamp some one had It a fire. A faint glow from it came through the dense under brush and the curtains of seeming---I've studied all the sides of it ly dead, yet ever-growing moss, And what could be easier-?" Noyes would see who had lit the fire after he had tied and hidden ou're talking pretty loud. na she

his canoe. It would be just as well to know who else was here and it would also help to put in the time Pabilto was always thorough and that meant he would be slow. Noyes' nerves were at such a state that innction was torture.

He had made his way very cau- tiously within 50 feet of the fire. hidden by the thick brush, when he halted. From where he stood, when the moving air stirred the drooping leaves, he could see a girl who was pretty in the fashion of

"Well, who's to hear me?" be answered angrily but he lowered his voice and Noyes could hear no more than an isolated word or two, rising harsh and clear from the rough whisper.

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"Oh, all right!" she said at length and loudly, "but I tell you I don't wanta go up again! Honest to God, I'd rather die "

looked at therm and she had been sent to the reformatory, which evidently did not suit her fancy as a home for even the short time she was to serve.

She had dark hair, dimples, curling lashes and gray eyes. And there was a big reward out for the man or woman who found her.

"Here's her picture," said Ban- tum as he handed Pablito a printed bulletin.

Pab-

"My God, who's sayin' you're "Any other rewards out?" goin' to go up?" he answered, for-lito questioned. "I need money." "We all do," Bantum answered. getting caution and speaking even

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