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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHL WEDNESDAY, APRIL '18, 1934.

The ROMANTIC RUNAWAY

CHAPTER XXV

menta," Noyes wrote, "to, brood the letter later and rend carefully on what would come from my all that Marcia did not read at all. In November in little Guana- telling the truth, as I told it to If there were nows of any impor- jay where the tobacco is grown you. I am tempted because Itance the mald would be sure-inter Juanito" fought a anilor who had know that if I did this my money to report it in a shame-faced, declared his willingness to meet would be mine again and would devious manner. This, too, gave "anyone anywhere."

help so much in finding Pablito. Marela pleasure because she could Benu arranged for a cock fight

On the other hand, there is my wife be sharp with Marie about spying. to procedo the match. This drew

to think of and my own son who Now she picked up a latter with the crowd but they remained to must by this time to a man. a Havana postmark and elit it watch and cheer and depart de- "I have been paying a long recognizing Estelle Field's claring enthusiastically that this while for my sin and know that aandwriting. new and beautifully brutal sport I must continue to pay. Pray for was good.

me, Fathor, and for the woman

man I have over

het ingerent sized where toured

of whom I told you the best, wo-

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KATHARINE HAVILAND-TAYLOR

D-TAYLO

Oh, yes, Marelu would · go, to Her own senich she had renewed after this failure but It brought no Havana. She turned through the better results.

iest of her lettera, aware of a Sho considered the whole affair | vague sense of anticipation and

At moments excitement. "dainanuly trying."

which grew

To Be Continued.) Marcia's irritation, because for the first time she had learned what it was to be thwarted, turned against Pablito himself, she should have known that this COTTON TRADE'S PLEA. was unreasonable but there are wo- mon to whom reason is never

The letter read

very important consideration. "Dear Miss Treadway: Father This is particularly true among and I hope very much that you those who have ways, behir, over can arrange to visit us in to buy what they want whenever

"It with the last two weeks of February they want or early in March. Father says the price had not been in Cuba you have never seen our home here."

no.

thought of

PRICE UNDER-CUTTING BY' RIVAL INDUSTRY

London, Apr. 17.

Man-

A resolution, drawing attention to the serious position of the cotton export trade, and urging it is quite attractive and it would for more than a year and at the the need for prompt action for ita preservation, was passed by make me very happy to have you prospect of the trip she felt a come,

faint glow of pleasure, Jim Field's the Executive Committee of the "I have been travelling with home, of course, would be a mon. Cotton Trade League at father in South America for some strosity-a new-rich castle. Well, chester to-day

the

The resolution appeals to the time, meeting no friends, and have she would have) pleasure of

Government to take immediate been quite lonely. That in the rea-aneering at it while she enjoyed its son I especially want you to come, comforts. She could, awaken to stope to put in force in the Crown

Colonics and Dependencies although I would want you to come stare at the celling and murmur, system designed to prevent the anyway. I hope you are quite well. "Oh, my God, the murals!" Father and I are well but a little This feeling of superiority had systematic under-cutting by Far tired from so much travelling. become very dear to Marela and Eastern nations of sciling at prices alio welcomed chances to display it far below those of British goods I served as solace for much she produced under British standards

of living,—Router Special had missed.

tobacco was usually stored. Lanterns sup plled the only light and the 'cor- Three years later in a dim old ners were dark. Pablito, standing nbrary in an English country home erect and waiting, saw a sea of Sir Aubrey wrote a cheque payable swarthy facEA. Then Beau rang to the American detective agency a huge bell. Presently Benu rang that employed Billings. With the the bell again as the boy who was cheque Sir Aubrey sent à letter, one Ighting Pablite staggered against line of which read: "I want you the ropes. Blood was on his face, to keep on with the case." streaming from a cut over his eye, Billings himself wanted to keep Pablito stood back; Benu fanned on with the case. He had become alm ardently. Then again the interested in locating the boy who bell sounded.

we, he decided in his low ebb When at last the sailor was ly-moments, probably dead. "I cer- ing on the platform, breathing tainly am nutty about this case!" loudly. Publito erept to his cornor he murmured" often. Yet the and sank into his chair. The tangle haunted him, Cubans were screaming their ap- The spring bofore he had made proval. Money Was changing a trip to England to see Sir Aubrey hands. Pablito rose, spoke a few and hia healthy, red-checked, words, and again the spectatora. tawney-haired daughters. Mr. slender, coltish youngater who had want mad. He spoke Spanish per- Billings, being imaginative. saw thought Marcia's clothes immense- fectly. He was one of themselves the old house at Lower Girtings inly attractive and watched her with and he was a hero.

the hands of a somewhat rough, eyes widened by admiration. young buccaneer who would "tr "Poor little devil" Marcia | things up a little" and saw the said aloud. Then she looked at the village being put upon an "up-to-letter again, noticing that the Ante" basis.

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

Soon afterward the proprietor of private athletic club heard of this new boxer. "Juanito," and hunted up Beau.

"With my love, Estelle" Reading this letter, Marcia felt a warmth steal over her that she had not known for some time. She remembered Estelle vividly-a

to-

"What you lack here," he said bluntly to Sir Aubrey, "is pep!" Sir Aubrey, somewhat at a loss. replied vaguely, "No doubt." Marcia reflected, her finely- Then he quickly changed the sub-arched brows drawing closer

gether, that Estelle must be 18 or 10 y this time. Eighteen, she Marcin Treadway WIS leaner, thought. And evidently she was oddly immature in some ways though probably, from close com- panionship with Jim, unhappily worldly about others

Benu did not know whether "Juanito" would be interested. it Look a good purse to tempt him to fight, he confided. But the club proprietor had patrons who came from New York and wanted more ject." than cock fights for their enter- Lainment. He said at length, enu- tiously, that he thought he could sharper, and three years more make it worth "Juanito's" while.. weary of the world. She sat, one Beau said to Pablito, "Not a February morning, in the boudoir cunt under $5000 for the first fight. of her New York home, eating And I get a third of the purse?breakfast and reading her letters. Sce 7"

The boudoir's, walls and furnish Pablito saw. He extimated his ings were a riot of purple, blue and fighting and saw himself with green- result of a fashionable Noyes in some secluded corner of decorator's ideas of "the new colour the world where there would be harmonies." A peace and a sort of security. That was all that he could hope for.

Well, she'd visit them, she de- elded, and stick it out even though it did prove to be "rather deadly." Marcia rang for her mald then and asked for a cable blank.

There were a great many letters she

love coming. darling."

on the tray and sometimes, after Marcia had almost lost all hope

a brief glance at an envelope, of finding Pablito during the three

A price whose abode was in a Marcin would toss one, unopened, years that had passed but she had narrow, dark way back of one of into a wastebasket. This gave never been able to lose her sense Havana's churches received a letter her a sort of malicious enjoyment of responsibility for the charge. about this time from one he had and at the same time the cautious against him. She had employed sheltered.

side of her nature did not autor.detectives to search for him and. "I am weak enough at mo- She know her mald would open soon afterward, dismissed them.

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