THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPII. MONDAY, APRIL
The ROMANTIC RUNAWAY
CHAPTER XXIX
tray cover.
"Si, Sonorita. Gracias," he an awered with a bow and a finah of teeth.
Ho understood her not at all but it did not mattor.
"You're the finest person I know, Pablito.
1904
KATHARINE M
AND TAYL
TAYLOR
tling like a brown-roasted peanut; Jim Field was unfit to be housed with a little quiver of a smile. "bealde him always, "Alwaya?"? in the small car the servants used, with a creature so young, so sweet can't explain, only when you feel he asked her in a Estelle had disliked Trixye made his way upstairs carry and, so altogether lovely as his you can't believe something you undertone.
zoughenel Gulden from the day she first meting a tall glass of matted milk on daughter. her. Now she knew why having a silver tray. Beneath the cloth
must believe--and then know "Ruy" Estelio said, "you need that you can, you're so happy it's that with me it's for always!" she "Oh, Pablito, you must know Just seen the tableau of her on the tray was Pablito's answer. not wait but you may rotura for almost an ache." father's rough capture of this 80 Estelle took the milk. Then she me at five. At the usual place clal hoyden; Trixy's perfunctory smiled at Carilto and fifted the near the Cosmopolita."
assured him. He felt her cheek pressed against his shoulder. Ie struggle, and Jim Field's kissen,
he heard her volco again. Estelle thought, through a
Bat, blind and trembling. Then diz
"Pab- ziness
that came from actual physical hansen, "He should re-
to, you're so wonderful!" member to be more careful.”
Some day, he thought, sho would, raise him from his knees Hor heart trembled and seemed and let him touch her lips with to turn within hor. She saw the his. All the hungers he had ever figures on the screen only as misty known paled before this hunger. bletches and moved closer to Pab- She thought, "We can moot in her free hand she the grounds, perhaps, with Carlito ito. With patted his arm. He dropped her watching to see that no one comes hand then and turned cyes toward near," her that downed the last. of her
Marcia Trendway had felt that Estello would never grow up but there were ways in which Estella had grown up long ago. She had began to realize that the appear ance of rospectability was all she could hope for from her father.
"Thank you so much, Carlito," she said.
" is a good young man,
"I am a little early," she said, Senorita. All Ïtavaná knows that he is a good young man. Ah, how seeing Pablito and then coming he fushed no ho saw me! It was close to him, her hand In both of dramatic. But even the strong are his. She had known it would be as little children at the touch of like this, she reminded herself, love!"-
unhappiness was washed from her and forgotten,
Pablito could not keep his adoration from his eyes. Ho had
Carlito bowed himself away A little later she wrote a note then. Pausing a moment at the to Pablito which she sent by Car-door before closing it, he saw the
All her
As she drow near.
Ilto, a servant, whom she trusted. girl, suddenly pink of cheek Aushed daglad to see you," she
by
"Dear Juanito." Estolle wrote, reading her letter.
Pablito had written: "Will I be
before,"
"I'm
B0
She felt his sharply Indrawn breath and felt her hand pressed against hie tipe.
reserves.
"I do-love you," she whispered. She had not known she was to say
For a short second he put an jarm around her slender shoulders, pressing her close. She felt his lips against her hair and started at that. We we mustn't," ahe
"People might—” stammered.
"It's dark and they do anyway Hometimes-down here he whispered in turn,
"I wonder if you can meet me in
natendily. the park at three? I Ithink surely there at three? Don't you know"Let's go to a picture show. We
hero," he said suddenly. it. I can get away then. I am a little at all how I feel? Your wanting depressed and you always cheer to see me, if only a little, has can sit there and talk"
"And not in la preferencia," You can send an answer made me more happy than I've she said, meaning the balcony moto who is bringing this.
ever been "Your friend, Estello The letter bore no salutation. the preference of those who pay Her cagerness to see. Pablito She wished he would call her Es- an extra sum for the privilege of would have told her more than it telle. Presently she stood with stumbling up a twisting, narrow, did that she been more experi- the letter in her hands, imagining those in cheaper seats.
dark stairway to look down upon enced, As it was, she know that what he would say when they met. oven though she tried she could Then, once more, she saw the tab-
downstairs would be, not any longer pretend about her lenu in the living room. father. Sho knew, too, that Mar- At half-past two Estelle tald ria's calculating creed was the Ruy that she would use the Lancin creed of most of
the
men and to take her to Havana. She and women of the shoddy social world shopping to do and a friend at
a smile"
at her explanations. Al
Bnfer for
"I supp "Yes, under the balcony."
He signaled a reving fotingo and helped her in.
"After they were settled in the
He kept her hand in bla, kles- ing it when he dared trust him- self. He was secretly afraid that he might go wholly mad; to stand up, fling wide his arms and mash to laugh and cry and kiss "You haven't said you love
Into which her father had intro- the Inglaterra to see. Ruy stifled theatre and the story, with Span-kiss her!
fah and English captions, wis duced her. Estelle felt incredibly hurt and Incredibly alone. With the sorvants knew of her meet-moving on the screen Pablito felt
Pablito she could forget all this inga with the young man. They against his. He set his teeth, star- He could not. He pressed her
thre pressure of her shoulder me." she whispered shyly.
*
•
"Pablito. I want to see you
alone," she whispered.
sweetest heartbreak elthor of them Their parting that day was the
had ever known. Estello rode homoward with closed eyes, still seeing his humble, adoring gaze.
(To Be Continued).
TROUBLED TROTSKY
DEATH-BLOW TO FOURTH INTERNATIONALE
Paris Apr. 22. said that Trotsky's Fourth Inter- To-day the French Secret Police nationale, was given its
death- blow when his banishment from France was ordered.
It is predicted that any country
and, with him, she would not have discussed the affair frequentlying blindly at the row of boxes hand against his lips until she in which he finds refuge will ex to believe that all men were like and hoped the lovers would clope that were her father's ect.
Kay with Spanish winced a little. Then, breathless nct from him-to pledge to refrain They narrated tales of Juanito's strongth and bravery, of his ex-hawls dung across their ballus and without having soon
her from political activities. Carlito came back swiftly, rat-jcellence of character. Obvionsly. trades.
wince, he said, "Did I hurt you, Then the world rocked for him, my dearest?""
Further, it is emphasised that He felt her hand on His cuff and Pablito wondered what would the revelation of his plans has stealing into his. He turned and happen if all this proved to be a aroused, the antagonism of the [Baw that she had been crying. dream. He didn't see how he Third Internationale.--United
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