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THURSDAY, APRIL

The ROMANTIC RUNAWAY

BEGIN DIKRE TO-DAY

PADLITO, ■ basketne youth, work at the palatial Florida home of millionaire JIM FIELD. When Field's daughter, ESTELLE Kertbillo fall in love with her.

makes his bome with NORRI NOYES, want-

fried egg. It was fortunate that he had money in his purse to save him from the temptation.

KATHARINE

AND-TAYLOR

survey the strangers. A small swelled within her.

little and frowned. He always Years before a masculine bruld this, having learned that black baby played on the doorstep! and back of the hut a line of wash tality that had rubbed the first fashionable clients invariably pre-. He was faint and dizzy from Huttored white, in the growing dust from her tawdry wings had fer to be considered seriously ill. Near the roadside a made her decide she would "do In This time the doctor feared his Pablito knows nothing of hie parenlack of food, and the long after-gloom. uitled Exellshman and servant i te noon in the still, heavy aft of banana tree waved its tattered long an' do dirty" any male who cross patient really was seriously ill, or.

ed her path. Now she knew she that she soon would be. A murder Yaara ako. Noyes when their hiding place had added to leaves to greet them.

weakness.

made . Moreover

An the

oliv kumt of Vield's wees him and recourse his

of the heavy could not koop that vow to

thermos bottle had scent of trople flowers weighted him. Fabio, dressed as a toreador,

masquerade at Fleid's home to me te water, in the There & tesder love scene between them run low and toward the last they the air. Somewhere in one of the has seen altresting & rhild. ie thinks the had had to dole it out a swallow hovels a lover with a gift for real muste gently strummed a guitar, man le dead..LOTTIE and DEAU, two to each und no moru. Lalar, atbla, The next thing Pabilto

The place would be a paradise, knows bele in a motor boat with these two,

Pablito thought, if only he could forget the grief and misery in his heart.

The war l'ablito

Bend had gun and tells Fabilts to Bead the bost for Cake. They arrive there unser and toward prenies set ons for the nearest, loun

CHAPTER XIV

"I didn't think I could ever be so-thirsty for water," Beau con- fidedi

Thereas Jeffries had not spoken once of her husband and that, too, was unnatural.

She stopped and bent down so that she could mop her eyes with

Marcia Treadway paced the the edge of her wide skirt. Bena turned. "Come along," he ordered length of the veranda that lay short, forward-beckoning across the front of the cottage sho with a

had chosen as her homo at the nod of the head.

Lottle sniffed, lifted her chin.camp. smiled stifly and joined them.

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"Shut up about it, can't you"?

cided was so wholly and tragi- "This place looks like some- Lottle flung at him in a rough-

leally bereft as was sho. Thero Back in Florida: the ramp was strained volce. She scratch-thing in a movio, don't it, naked. ened,

was nothing she could say except. to the en-cloaked in gloom. Several of the to make the usual comment and Beau and Pablito hurried backed one arm viciously. The gnats Lottie succumbing

No one answered. more sensitive feminine visitors she had to be careful leat even for Lottle and after they had done in the jungle had stung constantly chantment.

awell suburbs," had gone to their beds and Pablito's alert "Well, these are

with what they could to make their and sharply

Marcia knew that many of the costumes presentable the three of watchfulness had warned her there she said next, her misery making hysterica to lie there. Imagining that be made in too deep a tone.

armor of false noises and, in choked, fluttering other guests had been aware of her Assume an them followed the path the ox cart were other and greater dangers to hor

jauntiness. be guarded against.

voices, to ask their frightened

with Ted Jelries flirtation had taken.

"Ain't you the little wit?" Beau malds about those noises. Most of that they had

t Now when they were at lant in

watched with the For some time they walked in Allence. Then, at the creat of sight of relief Lottie realized. Inquired sarcastically. For a mo- the men stalked the beach, ok keen interest that arises from

ment Pablito forgot indifference. Ing hard and incessantly and talk- little hill, Lottie paused. Below with a little wonder, that she wna Ja small hollow, framed by close to tears. She was as much He understood Lottie, admired hering in undertones. The doctor who Vicarious savouring of sensation.

her, perhaps 250 ONLY had come by airplane from Palm They had expected pinas, was a cluster of one-storey, ashamed of tears as a strong man and also pitied her." one-door and one-window houses would have been. She swallowed

smiled over this and her smile "You've been a good sport about Beach sat at the side of Therese to run away with Jeffries, Marcin all this," he said gently, "and it Jeffries bed. She alone, of all the was seared by an edge of scorn. with grass thatched roofs. Beyond hard and blinked quickly.

visitors, had not indulged by these, looking liko tarnished pearls

"Let's go to won't be long now before we can Benu spoko then.

hysterica. He wished the but these others had not learned the Well, she had been willing enough the the Ritz roof. I could do some get you something to cat."

Cry She could not quite keep the doctor that she mean work to a little food." "I have some money,"

"Pablito tears back at that, so sho lagged ing would be more natural. Wo to know Ted as she knew him.

If his voice had been silenced behind the two men in order that men who were made widows by said.

"Don't go tellin' it around, In-they might not soo her "makin' the short, sharp thrust of a Spanish n few hours sooner Marcia would

He coughed¤ (Continued on Page 4.) nocent," Lottie advised. "If you in damn fool of herself." Pabilto's dagger should cry.

words had touched her strangely, do you won't have it long."

Nobody else," thought Lottle, lald awake thinkin' of gettin' me something to cat." Her blurred gaze did not waver from Pablito's broad back and her heart

the soft twilight, were cement houses of the grandees and still farther beyond on another rise stood the cathedral. Its heavy tower etched in 'blnek against the silver sky.

"Hurray-a town!" eried Lottie. Benu put his hand on the bag

They had reached the first grana- that was strung around his neck. At that moment he

A goat, tethered to realized, thatched hut. smiling, he would give two of the a tree stump and chewing ardently, famous Jeffries pearls for ons raised its long bearded head to

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