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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 1934,

The ROMANTIC RUNAWAY

CHAPTER XXV

met in a great abed where tobacco man I have over known “e best wo- and I hope very much that you thong who have always been able

KATHARINE ILAND-TAYLOR

Oh, yes, Marcia would go to Havana. Sho turned through the rest of her lattera, aware of a vague sense of anticipation and excitement.

To Be Continued.)

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|menta," Noyes wrote, "to brood; the letter later and read carefully Her own search she had renewed on what would come from my all that Marcia did not read at all. aftor this failure but it brought no In November in little Guana-telling the truth, as I told it to If there were news of any impor better results,

She considered the whole affair jay where the tobacco is grown you. I am tempted because Itance the maid would be sure later

At moments Juanito fought a sailor who had know that if I did this my money to report it in a shame-faced, "damnaby trying." declared his willingness to meet would be mine again and would devious manner. This, too, gavo Marcia's Irritation, which grew "anyone, anywhere."

help so much in finding Pablito. Marcia pleasure because she could because for the first time she and Beau arranged for a cock fight On the other hand, there is my wife be sharp with Marle about spying. learned what it was to be thwarted. to procede the match. This drew to think of and my own son who Now aho picked up a letter with turned against Pablito himself. COTTON TRADE'S PLEA. the crowd but they remained to must by this time be a man, a Havana postmark and elit it. She should have known that this "I have been paying a longopen, recognizing Extelle Field's was unreasonable but there are wo watch and cheer and depart de-

mon to whout reason is never claring enthusiastically that this while for my sin and know that handwriting.

The letter read!

a very important consideration. new and beautifully brutal sport I must continue to pay. Pray for

"Dear Misa Treadway: Father Thin in particularly true among me, Fathor, and for the woman was good.

of whom I told -the

can arrange to visit us in Havana to buy what they want whenever the last two weeks of February they want it with no thought of or early in March. Father aays the price.

bad not been in Cuba you have never seen our home here. it is quite attractive and it would for more than a year and at the make me very happy to have you prospect of the trip she felt

faint glow of pleasure. Jim Field's come,

"I have been travelling with home, of course, would be a mon- of father in South America for some strosity--a new-rich castle. Well, time,

meeting no friends, and have she would have the pleasure Blinge himself wanted to keep been quite lonely. That is the rea-uneering at it while she enjoyed Its on with the case. He had become non I especially want you to come, comforts. She could awaken to interested in locating the boy who although I would want you to come was, he decided in his low ebb anyway. I hope you are quite well. moments, probably dead. "I cer- Father and I are well but a little tafaly am nutty about this case!" tired from so much travelling. he murmured often.

Yet the

"With my love, Estelle " Reading this letter, Marcia feit

"Juanito" and his opponent had was usually stored. Lanterns sup- plied the only light and the cor- nors were dark. Pabilto, standing erect and waiting, saw a sen of swarthy faces. Then Beau rang a huge bell. Presently Beau rang the bell again as the boy, who was Aighting Pablito staggered against the ropea. Blood was on his face, streaming from a cut over his oye. Pablito stood back; Bena fanned him ardently. Then again the bell sounded.

Three years later in a dim old library in an English country home Sir Aubrey wrote a cheque payable to the American detective agency that employed Billings. With the cheque Sir Aubrey sent a letter, one line of which read: "I want you to keep on with the case.

When at last the sailor was 15 ing on the platform, breathing loudly, Pablito crept to his corner and sank into his chair. The tangle haunted him. Cubans were screaming their ap- The spring before he had made a warmth steal over her that she proval. Money was changing a trip to England to sco Sir Aubrey had not known for some time. Sho

Pablito rose, spoke a few and hands.

bls

Estelle healthy,, red-checked,remerabered

vividly-a words, and again the spectatorn tawney-haired

daughters. Mr. Blondor, coltish youngster who had wont mad. He spoke Spanish per Billinge, being imaginative, saw thought Marein's clothes immense- fectly. He was one of themselves the old house at Lower Girtings Inly attractive and watclied her with and he was a hero,

the hands of a somewhat rough, eyes widened by admiration. Soon afterward the proprietor young buccaneer who would "ater "Poor little devil Marcia of a private athletic club heard things up a little" and saw the Hald aloud. Then she looked at the of this new boxer, "Juanito," and village being put upon an "up-to-letter again, noticing that the hunted up Beau.

handwriting was less school-girl- ish than it had been, though still marked by affectations.

*

dato" basis.

Marcin reflected, her finely-

waa ways

Benu did not know whether "What you lack here," he said "Juanito" would be interested. It bluntly to Sir Aubres, "is pep!" took a good purse to tempt him to Sir Aubrey, somewhat at a loss.

"No fight, he confided. But the club replied vaguely,

doubt." proprietor had patrons who came Then he quickly changed the sub-arched brows drawing closer to from New York and wanted more ject."

gether, that Estelle inust i 18 than cock fights for their enter-

or 19 by this time. Eighteen, she tainment. He said at length, cau- Marcia Treadway Was leaner, thought.. And evidently she tiously, that he thought he could sharper and three years more oddly immature in some make it worth "Juanito's" while. weary of the world. She ent, one though probably, from close com- Beau said to Pablito, "Not a February morning, in the boudoir panionship with Jim, unhappily cent under $5000 for the first fight. of her New York home, cating worldly about other

See?"

Pablito saw. He estimated his: fighting and saw himself with Noyes in some secluded corner of the world where there would be a peace and a sort of security, That was all that he could hope for.

Well, she'd visit them, she de

And I get a third of the pursel breakfast and reading her letters ded, and stick it out even though

A prias whose abode was in a narrow, dark way back of one of Havana's churches received a letter about this time from one he had sheltered.

JUTI wenk enough at mo;

The boudoir's walls and furnish- ings were a riot of purple, blue and green-a result of a fashionable decorator's idens of "the new colour harmonien."

There were a great many letters on the tray and sometimes, after a brief glance at an envelope, Marcin would tous one, unopened, into a wastebasket. This gave her a sort of malicious enjoyment and at the same time the cautious side of her nature did not. suffer. Sho knew her maid would open

"rather deadly." it did prove to be Marcia rang for her maid thon and asked for a cable blank.

"I shall love coming. darling." she scrawled.

Marcia had almost lost all hope of finding Pablito during the three years that had passed but she had never been able to lose her sense of responsibility for the charges against him. She bad employed detectives to search for him and. soon afterward, dismissed them.

Marica,

stare at the celling and murmur, "Oh, my God, the murals!"

This feeling of superiority had become very dear to Marcia and she welcomed chances to display It It served as solace for much sho had ruissed.

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