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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1934.

The ROMANTIC RUNAWAY

CHAPTER XXII

Norma Flold's health did not Improve in the heat of Cuba. Estolló hovered near her mother, so anxious that at times she al- most forgot Pablito. Even "Blg" Field was gentle with his wife these days.

I breeze

scared

the skin.

Aubrey's checks had been turned to a royal purple.

Siron the tin-foll step. They rode through Cerro on their way to Havana proper, panaing a house in which there was a boy who was oddly palo beneath a heavy coat of tan that had clung through weeks of lincos.

Then you gave the baby into the keeping of this Angela of Koy West 7" Billings prompted.

money.

The boy was saying, earnestly, "I've got to get something to do, Lottie. What do you think I can the do?!"

Oh,

the way you walloped me. baby! I thought I'd met the Broadway Limited!"

Pablito was young enough to re- ply, "I hadn't begun-"

Beau grinned and all the ancer, ing was wiped from his face.

If you want money," he said, that's the way to get it."

KATHARINE AVILAND-TAYLOR

WORK OF GERMANS?

that the theft The boy is but 18 and

"Yes. He is still with hera kind, good soul who has given him mother's caro. We still re- "We'll have you looked over imburse her. Or rather, my re- again when we get to New York," spected father sends her he said. "And you, too," with short nod toward Estello. "I'm getting pretty tired of that 'dis- appointed in love look of yours!" She did not answer. All she wanted was justice for one she know to be innocent. But no one except her mother, who could do nothing, would listen to her.

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""But I liked Pablito," Estelle sald defiantly, "and I still like him. I know he didn't do what you think he did."

still going to school, I imagine."

Sir Aubrey forgot the heat and

the at

time forgot his dis- trust of airplanes. He would fly to Key West, he decided.

game

neat

Bonu, in the same room, sagged back in his chair, lowered heavy eyelids, "You're goin' to work ror me, Pablo," he said in a draw ling tone. "I got some jobs for youeau, I can't do your kind of work."

"I do want money," Pablito ad- mitted. He more than wanted it; he had to have it. Money would help him find Noyes. They would go away together to some isolated country and that would take money, too.

THEFT OF PRICELESS VAN EYCK PANEL

Brussels, Apr. 13. The theory is advanced here of the pricelcas Van Eyck panel, which was stolen from the Cathedral of St. Barvon in Ghent, is the work of a Ger! secrat aqciety which recently formed to efface the consequences of the Vorsailles Treaty.

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The theory that the theft is the wark of the 'Gorman society is Kivon credence by the fact that although there were a number of valuable objects, including pre- clous stones in the Cathedral they were not touched by the thieves of the panel.

"How could you fix it so that no one would know me?" he asked. In the open he surveyed the

Beau amiled. "Kid," ho said street in the Vibora-rather shabby

The famous panel is the one kindly, if a lot of these

guys are "No, but you will" to English oyes, used to

makin' money on yoo, don't you that was formerly in Berlin, and One night at dinner when Mrs. hedges and short-clipped green- "I won't." Field had been too ill to appear and sighed deeply. He was near Beau laughed sneeringly. "Look think they can rake up some ole he Peace Treaty stipulated that Estelle braced herself and then enough to the goal now to relax a here, kid," he said slowly: "You're hag who'll say she's raised you it be restored to Belgium: When spoke. "Father." sho said, "do you think Pablito was drowned 7" Relaxing, he felt a nostalgia just about half a man now. I'll from a pup? Just knock out. this was done, it was foined to the man of you-after I break couple brown brothers and you'll other two parts of the triptych, that had grown largo under his ten-make

which ware already in Belgium. "I hope to God he was!" hesion.

you. But just what do you think he safe as Grunt's tomb,"

"I didn't think these people Raid harshly. Then he leaned for- There were goat in the streets you're worth now? I could knock-

liked

anything but cock fighting.". ward, his small eyes narrowed, and little brown babies, some of you down with one hand and Shaking a thick forefinger at Es-them wearing shirts, some without. But ho did not knock Pablito Pablito said then.

"We'll educate 'em." telle, he said: "Look here, young Rank, coarse grass grew before down. A moment Inter Bonu was

Lottie, across the table, was lady, I'm the one who choses your the porches, high of pillar and of prostrate on the tiled floor. Lot

Pablito closely. She friends! Do you understand that? celling, before the one-storeyed, con- tie, in a corner, pressed her hand studying And there'll be no white trash necting houses to minke a collonade, to her lips, looking down at him. agreed with Beau that Pablito, among them"

Heat and languor and noise and Pablito, shaking, stooped and laid with training, could succeed as a disorder, Sir Aubrey felt. A his hand on Beau's gray silk shirt. boxer. But it would put him in "It's still going-' he said. the public eye and the women would Chinese vegetable vendor padded down the centre of the street, "Get some water. Lottle, and the begin to chase him. "It ain't no work for a gentleman," she ob carrying basketa heavily laden with Scotch."

ected harshly. greens on a pole strung across his Her heart pounding, the girl shoulders. A labourer slept soundly hurried to her mother's room +in little shade. The senorna on

"gentlemen ain't made 'cuta mur- Cathedral. 0 Hoon as the meal was over. But the balconies surveyed the stran Norma Field was burning with

with frank interest. fever and Estelle knew that she

Sir Aubrey visioned the roseate must not bother her.

future in which he saw himself Presently Beau opened his eyes taking the boy home to Lower languidly. He gulped down some Girtings. lle saw the big hall of the Scotch, touched his chin filled with family portraits his wife experimentally and moistened his weakly, and lipa. Then he said and daughters drinking tea eating strawberries on the lawn, "There's money for you in that the curate coming with some com- business, I never met a meaner panion from the courts. Soon he right. With a little training-** would be taking guests to the stables; shooting: coming in, tired and satisfied, after a day that had given him a good bag. And the Was boy would be with him; his son.

"Oh, my God!"

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Sir Aubrey and Billings, the detective, located the fat, dumpy little woman who had been slender Concepcion Villaverde y Blanco. She sat rocking in an ornate chair that had come all the way from New York, weeping as she told them how sweet the "white, white baby" had been. She had not spoken English for many years and hor part of the conference faltering. Billings aut twirling

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his hat nervously and, now and Billings signalled a roving fol- again, mopping his forehead. The fugo and they crawled in. It learned day was cruelly hot. Even the heavily as Sir Aubrey put his foot

She get them. Together they worked over Reau. "Beau-thought he could lick anybody," Lottle conflued. "He was lightweight champion of the Bowery for a while."

Further, a foreigner, with A strong German accent, had been recently inquiring in the neigh-

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Say, kid," Beau reminded her, opening derers, see?"

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The stolen panel is 37 inchga! high and 10 inches wide. It in- clades the figure of St. John the Baptist.

Pablito set his glass down. He did not want Benu to see that his hand shook and Beau was watch

It has almost definitely beun ing him narrowly.

"Plenty of money," Benn was established that the thieves re- in South mained behind after the saying slowly, Trips Anterien, and Paris. kid. Paris Cathedral has been locked for the And the right to tell anybody tonight, and escaped in the early go to hell. That's what money'd hours of the morning.-Renter.

lve you. How about it, kid?" he ended, softly and conxingly.

"All right."

Still leaning across the table. Beau wont on intently. "I get my rake-off. See? I'm your man-

Get that?" per.,

He harped on this ites all the rest of the day. In the evening, as they dined in a cafe in Cerro, open on two sides to the street, Bens sald: " few years you

"All right" Denu sut back. coull lay up enough money to last

to train the rest of your life. That "I'll scare ap someone you could if you could wallop 'em you. Then watch the fireworks!" A moment later le naked, "What's Johnnie In Cuban?" "You mean little John?" "That'd do."

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"Juanito is little John." "All right, Juanito, That's goin' to be your game, Drink to him, Lottle. May he go on with his killing!" Bau, saw, smiling, that this had "got" Pablite. It always did. He judged, did Beau, that le would get his rake-off and a good

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(To Be Continued.)

SALE OF C.E.R.

IMPORTANT MEETING IN

TOKYO

Tokyo, Apr. 13. In an effort to effect the sale of the Chineas Eastern Railway re- presentatives of Japan, the Soviet- and Manchukuo will meet at lun- choon to-morrow.

The Japanese Foreign Minister, Mr. Koki Hirota will act as inter- mediary between the Soviet and Manchukuo.

It la belleved in many quarters that there is now an excellent poe- sibility of setting the issue.

It is emphasised that Mr. Hirota is anxious to effect the sale in or- der to improve the relations be- tween Manchukuo and Russin,

Tho Soviet Ambassador, M. Yurenev, is reported to have drawn up estimates on a yen, instead of a rouble basis, for the purpose of avoiding a dispute over exchange. The Tokyo Foreign Office has decided to ignore the Sirovich charges of secret war plana,

A spokesman stated to-day that, the Government does not intend to propaganda by dignify such Issuing a formal denial. He an- sorted that such propaganda wan merly aimed at harming relations between the United States and Japan-United Press.

BRITAIN AND JAPAN.

COMMERCIAL RELATIONS

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London, Apr. 18. Further developments in the Anglo-Japanese textile deadlock are expected within a fortnight. In. consequence of the progress made in the survey of the situation by the President of the Board of Trade (Mr. Runciman) and other members of the British Cabinet.

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