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THE

HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY, MAY 1.

1934,

The ROMANTIC RUNAWAY

CHAPTER XXXVI

| wants this marriage Just as much ifided. 'ns 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 youne man with Alec Davids. "Alee told me his Rabby muscles and 20 constant amt had promised to lend him craving, for cocktails. Alter week on the yacht, however, she lethoneymoon."

him talk to her without showing "The one who married that dis-with this farce, her aversion and he was encour-gusting count?" nged.

Sitting beside her in a dick shair, he had his own thoughts that in bitterness equalled hers. "You think I'm mad about you." Alec reflected as the girl turned away bor face. "Well, I'm not, 1 wouldn't look at you if I could get out of it."

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ner paince near

Rome for

"The place la gorgeous. seen it."

Always he had been lonely until he had met her.

Privately hu was thinking, “So it's going to be as easy as this" Then he stifled what would have been a yawn and felt his jawa ache his from the affort. Lord, he was dead

The clubs were empty of tourists for sleep! But he had to go on

{who enjoyed a good boxing match "You haven't told me whother and no one came to the gymna- my being near you annoys Entelle. I really want to know. want, to know terribly

One thing, he was spared and ** that was any doubt of her. He did not so much as question the fact that she would wait for him, just as he would wait, until they could be together.

"I've

"One of the largest In Italy,” ani Field who had great respect for size.

.latum during the summer. There I was nothing to do-nothing but is

wander down to the barbour on "Oh, it doesn't annoy me," she trance to hear the band play or answered. Nothing scams to motor into the country. At neither matter much to na lately. But 1 of these pastimes could be escup Alec was talking to Estelle about don't want you to hope that I will ¦ kis thoughts, poetry. She liked it, he had dis- change my mind about for I

you, covered, and he had called all that can't. I'm never going to marry." might do him good he took a trip With the idea that a change The reason he couldn't get out he could from the library aboard. *If I believed that I'd make a of it was because of the state of Estelle, believing, he really was lovely splash in the sen out there!" Camaguey and on to Santiago the Davids nuances. Alee quite fend of the verses he quoted, she heard. She said almost petu-but the ache only increased. He agreed with his mother that it was looked at him with the first show-lantly. "Oh, please don't talk like thought so froquently. "Estella necessary for him to marry riching of interest. She had not that. And again she turned away would like this- wife. After that," Mrs. Davids thought that he would care for her face.. had gone on to point out, you can Houseman. She must have been go your own way." Alec had quite unjust to him. nodded complacently. He fully she raid, after his volee had died "That is one of my favourites" tended that.

He knew Field liked him and Way, "I don't quite want to be wanted him to marry Estelle. Andve it but it does suit a mood he know the reason. Estelle would, that comes now and then."

Twice he had visions of her that seemed so real they made him The yellowed calendar tent above catch his breath in a sob as they tore the leaf off. Already it was ally and, thus waking became Pablito's desk rend, "Jane." He faded. He drefined of her contin- the fifteenth of July and, for all agony. He would dream that she he knew, he might have become a was in his arad and then, awak- year older. Ho had no way to ening, find them empty. by means of bla marriage, rench Alee nodded and went on speak certainty of his birthday.

the years since he had no the inner circle of society. the

He grew thin. His face was shabby outer fringe of which Field He talked well and pleas

He had hnd only touched. Aler Davids ingly when he cared to. He had writid been sitting at his deak haggard and his eyes shadowed.

man he had come been reared by his mother and to know as could trace his ancestry to aristo-andry tutors in France and Eng-written several letters to

"Honest, you hardly eat any-i Sir Aubrey They had cratie forebears. The fact that the land and the inarticulateness gen- other. Now, his letter sealed in at every ment

each thing, sleuriè,” Lottie" complained family had dialategrated sharply oral in collegiate efreles was not its envelope, the old tangle was was unimportant. Alec's mother is,

(To Be Continued.) had been willing to accept enn-

"Our tustes must be the same plaguing him again. If he were to siderable benuilts from those of her he said with a suddenly farine escape; he would have to pull Benu arquaintances who wished to reach ardour that seemed genuine. "They a higher rung of the social ladders must be or I could not feel-as the while he sneered at them da

and

they were his friends. He had for Lottle into it. In their way

them both a genuine affection that. trials. Then, too, if he were will [ had persisted in spite of many

ing to sherifice them who would "You pallid little hourgeoisie belleve him? The evidence was he thought. "Do you honestly

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

could not do this to Benu and Lot- tle--even for Estelle.

Both Alec and his mother took She made no answer. She haut prodigaily and gave nothing in returned her face away again, turn except ʼn smile that wom seared with patronizing scorn,

be now. He had had no word from fle wondered where she might

her. Each hight he dreamed that

Even now Alec sometimes bor- rowed from Fleld. "Might as well Estelle," he promised, "but it's dif "I'll try not to unnay you again, get the old rotter in the habit of feult to keep allent, feeling as coming scrons," he decided. He do, I've never careti for anyone was amused by Field's too lavish like this before. It's-well, the next day might bring him some display of his wealth. The older isn't easy! But timt's selfish of man, seeing and sensing the sneer. (mu. All I wont is for you to message, but cach day held nothing was more than over certain that perfectly happy--that and to in/beyond the usual routine. "I must Alee was the man for his daughter near you some times. You don't stop hoping like this." he decided

"He's the real stuff," Him Field mind my saying this, do you?"

on those bad days when the pain said to Marcia one afternÐI,

He waited, leaning across the in his heart seemed too sharp to "His mother is the worst anal farm er the chair toward her. Shu be endured. But he could not stop, in New York," Marela answered turned her head and he was sur and touched many shores and now Gossip told him the Field yacht and her usual draw! was threat-prised, but not touched, by seeing ened by a rise of heat.

tears in her eyes. He said a quick was under steam in the Mediter "She snubbed me, too." Field apparently distressed, "What is it, looking on fringes on palms, low anean. He thought of Estelle said quickly. Marcia laughed, ad- dear?" mitting that the thrust had hilt ». She told him she was very un-pink and blue houses, or a misty vulnerable point. "She won't sub happy and that she was lonely. line of far, blue mountains. But me now."

Field went on. "She He, too, had been lonely, he con- He was more the man and his thinking of her was not enough.

A general view of the huge gathering of civil servanja which attended the meeting at the Albert Hall demanding the restoration of the 1931 wagas cut..

The srew making propavations to leave the Chelyuskin after the became icebound. The unloading of the aeroplane was the first

thought:

hunger had grown with his cạpacity for suffering.

This picture shows the captain of the Chalyuskin and the expedition's pilot, Babuskhin, starting off on a reconnaissance flight in the ship's plane after the sinking of the Soviet ice-breaker.

KATHARING

INDIA RIOT

OFFICERS FIRE ON

·FURIOUS MOB

Peshawar, Apr. 80. The police here were forced to fro eight rounds on a mab, which gathered outside the police station this morning.

The trouble arose when a group of Musakhet Mohmands, who were visiting here in connection with the Council of Eldors (preaded to the police station on the churro over by the Governor), were taken of looting.

When the Musakhet Mohmands were taken into custody, a mob gathered at the police station and started throwing stones and other missiles.

Three constables were injured in the fusillade, and the police city magistrate was also injured then opened fire on the mob. during the clash.

A

British political officers hurried to the scene of the lot and the altuation is now described as being under control-Beuter,"

Labour Leaders Hetd

Bombay, Apr. 80. Beurteen labour letters, includ- ing Mr. Karnik, Secretary of the AB-India Textile Labour Confer- enee, were arrested to-day in surprise raid carried out under the Emergency Powers

Aci.

The arrests are In connection with the mill workers' atrike which has paralyzed the cotton ruanufacturing industry Reuters

here.-.

A giant noticn-board on the facade of the Braschi Palace indicating that Italy almost to a man had voted for Signor Mussolini's Cliamber nomina. tlont.

Exclusive pictures of the Chelymiskin drama-after the sinking of the ship in the ice-wastes of Are

tie Siberia, crushed by the ica. Members of the expedition took reluge on a large ica flore mad are

shown above proparing in camp.

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Members of the Chalyuakin parly aqaking shelter on the ice for after the sinking of the ice-breaker and

the rescue of the women and children by aaroplane.

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