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THE

APRIL HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY,

20, 1984.

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KATHARINE AVILAND-TAYLOR

The ROMANTIC RUNAWAY

CHAPTER XXVII

There was accusation in Beau's eyes. "You dong that!" he storm- ed at Lottle after Pablito had pounded down the concrete stair- way and slammed the grilled Tron

gente below,

In

him, they were walking on a gravel path and ahe.had no more need for his guidance.

thick necks, and concave chesis, Toldly he left his hiding place jahe asked. "My car is up by the He took her arm and, too soon for

chatting while wrapped in bath to make his way swiftly to the park. Pablito--".

"Yes?" towels. He planned to hang this window through which he could

"I have never thought you had picture in the gymnasium. Pablito ace her. She was standing by a wondered whether he was getting counter walting, one hand resting anything to do with Mr. Jeffries

"I'm going to ask you to alt rotten disposition or whether, by on the counter and her head a denth." This she conflded now, ho had one.

little to one side. A minute and whisper when for a moment they down on a bonch with me for a He walked slowly on the nar-the clork who had been waiting wero apart from the throng of few moments," he heard her say

ing. "That is, if you have time." "Mind your own business and row sidewalk, resenting the rough on another customer, moved to pedestrians.

She saw his look of surpriss and He smiled down at her and his shut

She spoke to him, up, will you?" Lottle snapped shouldering of warm and weary ward her. back.

tourists. Walking 80,

stepping turned toward the window and her heart leaped, thinking, "How breath Inflated his hard, high "He's paid you more than he from the curb to let women pass then she saw Pablito. For a long could anyone oven suspect him chest. "I have all the time in the ever owed you and he knows it and dodging back to evade the moment her gray eyes were al of it!"

world," "he answered. "I didn't know he was dend," Beau told her. "He's no sucker. onslaught of a lurching, wildly most blank with durprise. Then What makes you pick on him so?" driven motor, his eyes suddenly they lightened. She smilest-un-Pablito told her.

"I was sure you didn't. But flushed hard and nodtled. Lottle began to snift, a profnco last their heaviness. He looked ito's caution for a moment nover mind! It's too unpleasant, and in a way she liked no one else. to the tears that came suddenly once, breathed hard and looked and fast. She loved Pablito, she again. Then he stepped into a warned him to be on his way. He What are you doing here if you And he was just the same now as confided, and he didn't ways had

donvale Field had halted before attention to her." She always loved him. And ever since she'd a shop window in which there was known Pablito sho'd gone straight.n display of fans, It had occurred Beau grinned at this and his to her that she might buy one for eyes grew aly and knowing.

Miss Treadway who was coming "Well-pretty near," Lottle to visit them. There was a black amended with a glare. "There's fan in the window that was span nothing in the world I wouldn't gled with silver in a Chantilly de- do for Pablito. Nothing!"

sign-a lovely fan. Estelle turned into the shop.

"Then why don't you give your tongue a rest?" Beau asked.

Lottie awore at that with the picturesque freedom she had in dulged before she met Pablito.

That young man was, nt that moment, walking rapidly down the street, his eyes narrowed and fixed unscéingly on the way ahead. What he really wanted was drink but he had a match next week at the Miraflores Club. didn't dare risk forgetting his troubles in alcohol.

Field's camp, killed a man, and had, one moonlight hight near Estelle know this. Then, with a surge of irresponsible wildness, he dismissed all caution. He did not care. He would wait.

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Estelle loft the shop a few minutes later, a slender packet un- der her arm. Outside she smiled once more, not quite certainly, ns she looked up at Pablito.

An almost overpowering emo- tlon swept the broad-shouldered "I knew you right away." who young man who had stepped into said, putting out a hand. He took the shelter of the doorway. It it, swallowed hard and tried to seemed now that be bad never speak. "Will you walk with me?" forgotten Estolle for a minute and as if, seeing her again, he had re- covered something infinitely pre- cious that had always been' truly hin.

He He thought, a little unsteadily.

"This is what love is!"

When the houses bogan to cl bow one another he parted a tram car that stopped obligingly in, the centre of a block, then re-. newed its camel-like progress, at j

unhurried Pace alternated, when the motorman felt that way. by sudden and almost maddening spurta of speed.

stil!

Already, although it was early. Havana was waking. Ser- vants were strewing dampened sawdust upon the tiled floors of porticos. Venders pushed bar- rows, led donkeys or enrried their goods while they called out wares of every sort. A large coloured woman sat on the curb to try on a pair of shoes and a senora on An upper balcony screamed order to a seller of tickets for the lottery. He plucked one for her from his breast where they were pinned.

$12

There was an amazing amount; of a very vibrant sort of life in Havana, Pablito realized. He realized, too, that he did not feel part of it.

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In the pulsing heart of the city he stopped from the car to wan der through India Park and on to- ward Obispo some distance away. He had seen in a shop' there a Gorman caricature that he wanted. It was called "At the Batha" and It showed a group of old men.with. fat. sagging pouches of stontacks, hairy legs, scrawny or very short.

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Dr. Khalid-Sheldrake,who.- London report has it, is likely soon to become "King of Sin- king." It is said that he has renamed the province Islamostan.

She had always liked him, she thought; as she sat down, Always,

he had been-only nicer!

"You said you'd tell me what

He told her with a gathering you're doing," she prompted.

shame.

haps that is too inquisitive we don't mind telling me? But. per "It isn't at all," he answered a little thickly. They were in the midst of one of those sporadie congestions that Obispo and the other narrow streets of old Ha- vana are subject to and for a space thon flushed. She had so

upon the business their talking was ended. He chone read attacks

"But it's honest," she said and often

montion.

a path for her, keeping off those methods of her father that she who pressed too close, frowning felt honesty was not for her to blackly at n young Cuban who too

*That counte a great deal I obviously looked upon her as fair.

Presently they were at the edge think," Estelle went on, perhaps of the park and only divided from a little too quickly. "Sometimes

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