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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1934.

The ROMANTIC RUNAWAY

CHAPTER XXXVI

As

wants this marriage just as much I do," As he spoke he nodded Estelle heartily disliked Alec toward the two deck chairs which, Davids when she first met him close together, held Estelle and a lank, attenuated young man with Alee Davids. "Aloe told me his Jabby

£ muscles and constant aunt had promised to lend him craving

for cocktails. After aner palace near. Rome for his week on the yacht, however, the let honeymoon." him talk to her without showing

The one who married that

count?"

her Aversion and he was encour-Bo

aged.

dis-

dided. Always he had been lonely until he had met her.

Privately he was thinking, "So it's going to be as easy as this!" Then he stifled what would have been a yawn and felt his jaws ache from the effort. Lord, he was dead for sleep! But he had to go on with this farce.

One thing he was epared and that was any doubt of her. He did. not so much as question the faet that she would wait for him, Just as he would walt, antil they could be together.

The clubs were empty of tourista who enjoyed a good boxing match "You haven't told me whether and no one came to the gymna- my being near you annoys u,sium during the summer. There Sitting beside her in a deck "The place is gorgeous. "I've Estelle. I really want to know. I was nothing to do-nothing but to chair, he had his own thoughts acen it."

want to know terribly-"

wander down to the harbour on- that in bitterness equalled hors. "One of the largest in Italy," "Oh, it doesn't annoy me," she trance to hear the band play or said Field who had a great respect matter much to me lately. But 1 of these pastimes could he escape to motor into the country. At neither Nothing seems answered. for size.

Alec won talking to Estelle about don't want you about

to hope that I will | his thoughts, for 7 you.

With the idea, that change going to marry.”

"You think I'm mad about you." Alec-reflected as the girl turned away her face. "Well, I'm not. I

out of it."

|

my

KATHARINE

TAYLOR

INDIA RIOT

OFFICERS FIRE ON FURIOUS MOB

Peshawar, Apr. 30. The polled here were forced to are eight rounds on a mob, which Kathered outside the police station this morning,

The trouble arose when group visiting here in connection with of Musakhet Mohmands, who were the Council of Elders (presided over by the Governor), were taken of looting.

wouldn't look at you if I could get poetry. She liked it, he had dia- change never that I'd make a might do him good he took a trip to the police station on the chargo |

covered, and he had culled all that can't. I'm

"If I believed he could from the library aboard. Estelle, believing he really was lovely splash in the sea out there" to Camaguey and on to Santing

When the Musakhet Mohmanda fond of the veraes he quoted, she heard. She said almost petu-but the ache only increased. Ile

frequently, "Estello were taken into custody, a mob looked at him with the first showtantly. "Oh, please don't talk like thought

gathered at the police station and started throwing stones and other Twice he had visions of her that misalles. acemed so ren they rande-him Three constables were injured catch his breath on a so as they in the fulllade, and the police unlly and than waking became city magistrate was also injured faded. He dreamed of her cuntin-thou opened fire on the mob. A

agony. He would dream that she during the clash. was in his arms and then, awak- British political officers hurried ring. And them empty.

to the scene of the riot and the | situation is now described as being

under control.Reuter.

The reason, he couldn't get dirt of it was because of the state of the Davids finances. Alee quite agreed with his mother that it was accesary for him to marry a rich "After that," Mrs. Davids had gone on to point out. "you can

The yellowed calendar lesí above so your own way." Alce had

"That is one of my favourites," nodded complacently. He fully in-abe said, after his rolce had died tore the lenf off. Already it was Pablito's desk read, "June" He fended that.

He knew Field liked him and away. "I don't quite want to be the fifteenth of July and, for all wanted him to marry Estelle. Aadlieve it but it does sult a mood he knew, he might have become a he know the reason. Estello would. that comes now and then."

year older. He had no way to by means of his marriage, reach

Alee sadded and went on speak-certainty of his birthday,

count the years since he hati no the inner circle of society. shabby outer fringe of which Fielding. He talked well and pleas

He had been sittlag at his desk ingly when he cared to. He had writing to the man he had como had only touched. Alec Davidsen reared by his mother and to know as Sir Aubrey. They had could trace his ancestry sundry tutors in France and Engwritten several letters to each cratie forebears. The fact that the land and the articulateness gen- other. Now, his letter sealed in family had disintegrated sharply was unimportant. Alec's mother al in collegiate eircles was not its envelope, the aki tangle was

had been willing to rezept con..

plaguing him again. siderable benefits from these of her equaintances who wielust to reach

escape, he would have to pull Beau

in interent. She had not that. And again she turned away would like this—" thought that he would care for her face. Houseman. She must have been quite unjust to him.

the

lif

Our tastes must be the same,”

said with a suddenly flaring rder that seemed genuine. "They

a higher rung of the social ladder.must be or I could not feel-as the while she sneered at them. Both Alee and his mother took

rio."

She had

If he were to

Lottle into it. In their way them both a genuine affection that they were his friends. He had for nd persisted in spite of many She made het auswer. prodigally and gave nothing in returned her face away again,

trials, Then, too, if he were will. turn except

ling

to sacrifice them who would "You pallid little bourgeoisie believe him? The evidence was seared with patronizing arorn. The thought. "Do you honestly

clearly against him. Besides he think I'm enjoying this?"

could not do this to Beau and Lot- tie-even for Estelle.

Amile that

ካ'ዩ።

Even now Alec sometimes hor-i "I'll try not to annoy you again rowed from Field. "Might as well Estello," he promised, but it's dif- get the old rotter in the habit of felt to kep silent, feeling as coming nerass," he decided, do. Eve never cared for anyone was amused by Field's too lavish display of his wealth. The older man, seeing and sensing the ancer.

he now. He bat had no word from He wondered where she might her. Each night he dreamed that like this before. It's well, the next day might bring him sonte isn't easy! But that's selfish of message, but each day held nothing m. All want is for you to be perfectly happy--that and to he beyond the usual routine. "I must near you some times. You don't stop hoping like this," he decided on those bad days when the pain do you?"

We more than ever certain that Alec was the man for his daughter

"He's the real stuff." Jim Field mind.my saying this, said to Marcia one afternoon

He waited, leaning across the in his heart seemed too sharp to "His mother is the worst snoharm of the chair toward her. She be endured. But he could not stop. In New York," Marcia answered turned her head and he was sur-

Gossip told him the Field yacht and her usual draw! was threat-prised, but not touched, by seeing had touched many shores and now ened by rise of hent.

tears in her eyes. He said a quick, was under steam in the Mediter "She snubbed me, too." Field apparently distressed, "What is it, ganean. He thought of Estelle said quickly. Marcia langbed, ad- j dear?"

mitting that the thrust had bit a She told him she was very un-ne of far, blue mountains. But vulnerable point. "She won't anul [ happy, and that she was lonely. me now,"

"Shele, too, had been lonely, he cor-

Field went

01.

A general view of the huge gathering of civil servants which attended the mosting at the Albert Hall demanding the restoration of the 1931 wages cuis,

The gras making preparations to leave the Chelyuskin after shu became icebound. The unloading of the seroplana was the first thought.

looking on fringes on palmis, Iow pink and blue houses, or a misty

thinking of her was not enough. He was more the man and his hunger had grown with his capacity for suffering.

He grew thin., Is fare was haggard and his eyes shadowed.

"Honest, you hardly eat any- think, deserie." Lottie complained at every meal.

(To Be Continued.)'

This picture shows the captain of. the Chalyuskin and the uxpedition'a pilot, Babuskhin, starting off on a

· rèconnaissanen. Might in the ship's plane after the sinking of the Soviet ico-breaker.

1

Labour Leaders Hell

Bombay, Apr, 30. Fourteen labour leaders, includ- ing Mr. Karnik, Secretary of the Al-Illa Textile Labour Confer ence, were arrested to-day in surprise rald carried out under the Emergency Powers Act.

The arrests are in connection strike with the mill workers' which has paralyzed the cotton raunfacturing industry here.-- Kentlar.

A giant notice-board on the facade of the Braschi Palaco indicating that Italy almost to a man had voted for Signar Mussolini's Chambar nomina- tione.

Exclusive pictures of the Chelyuskin drama after the sinking of the ship in the ice-wastes of Arc-

tic Siberia, crushed by the ice, Members of the oxpedition took refuge on a large ice floe and aro

showu above preparing to camp.

Members of the Chalyoskin' party seeking shelter on the ice flos after the sinking of the ice-branker and the rescue of the women,and children by aeroplane.

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