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THE HONGKONG

'TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1934.

The ROMANTIC RUNAWAY

CHAPTER XXVI

Pablito, known now as Juanito, was harder both in muscle and in viewpoint, loaner and slightly taller. He had learned in the laat three years that entertaining vA- cationing millionaires was a jok that never ended. Once he had let himself get a little soft and had been knocked out. The memory of that incident stayed with him. Be cause of it he rigorously avoided wire, women, Inte hours and other dissipations-both mild ́and other

wise.

had felt the force of n jet of ice young Greek god who sometimes water on their flesh. This busi looked at them with scorn that as Beau said, "paid damned, was not even faintly veiled. Men wood. It was a smart verse in who isit this scorn were likely

land where tourists are often later to speak of him in an ap over-indulgent and later regret it. |parently casual tong but always a The gymnasium was housed in a little awe crept into their voices. glaringly

building that had been altered to make it suitable. There rheumy-eyed men of flabby fenh wheezed loudly na, with eyes intent and checks puffed out, they pummeled one another, tripped, fell and executed footwork that made ovog „Pablito smile. Later they would He down, panting, only to he ordered to their baths hy Beau whose pitiless tongue could lash Uke a whip.

Pablito fought occasionally and always for a good purse. He still kept before him the dream of some day anding Noyes and of go Ing away with him to some quiet. peaceful retreat. "Beau evinced great

favourite with the rich tourists, Yes, Pablito was secure. "Big Field himself couldn't touch him,” Beau thought, "so long as he knocks out his man."

"You keep in shape!"" be warned Patito, you don't we'll all have to pay for it."

"Have you noticed me going out

any wild parties?" "No. But, just the same, you watch your step."

"I'm doing it!" Pablito answored shortly.

་་།

KATHARINE VILAND-TAYLOR

ache-that she was happy.

Pablito had sent more than one messenger to Key West to search for Noyes but not one of them had found any trace of him. A tume old woman lived in the shack on tre island, he learned. She had broken her hip a few years before, she told the inquirers, and it loft ker so that she could move only fow atops. She lived alone. Iter old neighbours, she said, helped her.. Nu, she had never seen a thickfaced, stoop shouldered man who wore eye-glasses with heavy lenses. Never! God could witness that as truth. Never had who neen such a mant

scorn concouling recret "Give us a couple more years," envy, for Pablito's ability to hold Beau prophesied, "and we can buy "You're sure } the Ritz and give it to the first The memory of that knockout

on to his money. was charted for him, also, in an

goin' to be a wealthy old mlser!" kid that comes along."... uneven acar high ou one cheek

he sneered often,

They divided their earnings, bone and ochoing the slant of his The same vague aura that takes The thought that any of them which were large during the win- Pablito,

Pablito would have found her eye. In the same encounter he bad men away from suave metropolitan should ever be apprehended for the ter season, into thirds. received several body blows that tubs to 1 growling, bulldog murder at Ficid's Camp was troub under the name of Juanito Lopez, protestations a bit too hearty but had troubled him for some time. chinned trainer, mndo wenithy Bing Beau less and less. He had bought land, invested in some those he sent were so eager to see Beau and Pablito had opened an travellers desert luxurious hotels to grown a small moustache that sound bonds, gave prodigaily to the What the next turn of the read establisment of their own on the go to Pablito's place. There they changed his appearance surpris-orphanages of Cuba and gambled might bring that they missed this mportant sign post. Pablito had outskirts of Havana beyond the were bullied and ordered about, ingly. Lottie's hair had taken on a little,

Across the hard-beaten rond

offered whore told in language that sometimes an amazing shade of red and her

largo reward for finding Cristobal Colon Cemetery jaded men could come for exercise encompassed Elizabethan terms ayebrows were plucked in a way where each day plodded oxen with this man whose natae they did not know but whose description they and baths to bring back at least what they are and were not in that altered her expression. Pab-cane-laden carts, stood a suburban could have narrated in their sleep. a hint of youthful vigor. Beny do. Later they would emerge, pink to hnd changed, too, having grocery store and in the apartment "kept 'em movin'." Lottle served of skin, refreshed and resolved to grown tailor and more slender, which was above Lottie, Pablito Returning after the search each them boulon and dry biscuits, be more temperate.

The acar on his check also gave him and Beau lived. The road was messenger pocketed his expenнe and a "rubber" did his work after

a different look. He was more their front yard, the roof their money and remuneration, conclud- that the one he sought was they had been bathed, salted and

over, known to all Havana as a warden. Beau who could lean over the rail of the open, twisting,

stair to call "Cinco botillas

But Pablito would not believe a lager!" was satisfied since Ave Noyes was dead. He lived only for bottles of Inger were among the his dream of some day fading his few things necessary for his peace. old friend. It was the only hope Pablito didn't care where they he bad. Lottle and Beau were not. lived. Lottie murmured a good the sort of companluns with whoin deal about dwelling in a well he could be content. "Good WO- Jonse" at La Playa de Marianao, men," he felt, were lost to him, tho fashionable bathing beach and a life of meste joys spread where the Havana Yacht Club is about. He had become a rather located. "You can always see 'inded. somewhat cynical young tomethin' goin' OR there," she, mun. pointed out but she never persuad-

Pablito, too, was a drawing card, He was an unsmiling, hard-oyed

A contingent of mounted police holding back the crowds at Hyde Park during a recent demonstration against the une mployment bill.

rear

ad the others to move,

dead.

In the grip of a mood which T'ablito read avidly between was a mixture of dull hopelessnes workouts in the gymnasium, cross and sharp disgust, Pablito turned country runs

rub-downs. toward llavana one raw, February Rooks gave him the peace and for morning. The warmth of the pre- retfulness he could find nowherevious day had been wiped from the The truly happy, ho realizednie by a north wind and the sky id not need an anodyne for life was low.

or to turn sharply froni the sweet- The apartment had been creep- ters of the past because of its con-irty cold and during breakfast trast with the present. He won- Lottie had been bitter and sharp dered often about Eatelie Field of tongue, making Pablito, as sh what she was doing, and where she often did, a target for her anger. might be and whether or not she Her back hurt "like hell!" she said. was happy. He preferred not to Then she tossed her head, sniffed

hink of her because thinking of, and glowered at Pablito.

her Was painful. Nevertheless, "It was liftin' vau while you when his audy was dull or when had that fever that done it," she the old hunger was too strong to went on. "I had to do everything be quieted he found himself think for you. You just laid there like ing of her. He hoped-with an (Continued on Page 2.)

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