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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPIL FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1934.

The ROMANTIC RUNAWAY

CHAPTER XXXIX

carved

by KATHARINE

AVILAND-TAYLOR

all he needed; that brimming cup

of lethe that for some men must

he held in one woman's hands.

Estelle's face, as he had seen it

int lost the sounds and the smells,longer built of apprehension but builds them up again. A homo, breathe but for an hour out of the

would be genuine.

was reni; that--perhaps he hadj with a garden, some yegetables and ages mado him want more than Pablito read the news of Es

In New York Mr. J. Smithson tost a chance of somehow setting fruts and trees and nowars. Hu over to have that hour replete with tello Field's engagement of Alec Billings cleared his throat. He matters right.

could have that maèn, at least. David, the son of Mrs. J. Turner was dictating a latter and what he Bitterness welled in him. Sonic Perhaps he would become a col- to pay wid, "I can find no man-bis father had caused him lector like some he had met and Davids of Now York, Paria and Newport, an he sat on a bench in trace of him- He knew he must to be born of shame and into pain, go about buynig little pieces of

“A rumour of the engagement---” the Bunshine of Nice. The new paper mentioned the fact that the Bay it but the words did not como Angéla had put sears upon his pottery, big canVABSER,

hie body which, creeping into his coaltnings from Spain. Then when he easily, Billings moved In engagement had been rumoured wivel chair, picked up a pencil and memory, had made him a mur- and grown portly and old he could raised to his, dated before Pab- some time before and when Pallito and laid it down again. Then he dorer, Being a morterer, he had toddle about among these treas-lito's vision," "God," he said aloud, saw the word, "runnar, his heart said boldly, determinedly, "I can lust the right to cinim the one girl res saying, " picked this up I can't stand this!"

in the world he loved. That was Toledo," or, "I found this in one paused a beat,

Then he folded the Paris Heraldad no trace of him"

A moment later be turned; ahak- The slenographer made pot- the picture of his life. If only he of the inzaars at Biskra." By that carefully and neatly sad laid it hooks on a pad of soft, gray paper. could meet that father who had time, pernaps, he would look backing, from the glare of the window hesile him on the bench. A much Billings went on quickly now. forsaken him! What he would do on the hot hoon of his youth with and set to work assembling his rouged woman with heavily dark-half I go on with it?" he added. (to him-

pity and not even a faint andor-clothing and packing hin bags with ened brows and lushes passed by "Something you lot drop when we i But all that was getting him no-standing, for by then he would love hands that were not quito steady. sending him a glance of invitation. Inst met made me think that per-where. The words on the printed things and not people. Perhaps What could etchings, canvasses. fle looked through her, seelag her haps you wisho to drop the newspaper page danced before Pab-taat was the better way to love, tle pieces of pottory and earved not at all, and she moved on with

to's eyes, "A rumour of the en-after all, tilge-' a hardening of, an already hard

gagement". face and ttle shrug of the Pablito, in his hotel room, went Yes, he would go back to Cuba, shoulders.

to stand by the elaborately drap the only place that he could think The woman had seen the handed window from which he could of as home. He would build a so young man with the blonde the shimmer of blue waterhouse there, get to work and keep hair and blue eyes before and had through the palms,

himself occupied with varied in Aried in her usually successful He was strithen by the realiza.terests as a child buikls up heaps

way.

to capture him. Always be tion that the first announcement of blocks, knocks them down and fore he had looked away from her, of Estelle's engagement had been embarrassed. To-day he was only a rumour and also by the feel- hard. Well, the woman thought.ing that he might, perhaps, in fortunately the sea is full of fish. some manner bave forestalled the Nevertheless shrs, remembered the Tenuation of that earlier hint. young man's face, forgetting for a He was certain that Alec Daylils time to make her careful, akiful whoever he might for could not estimate of the nuke occupants of love Estelle so wholly as he himmat

Pertain th benches.

dil. Equhily

WALM he that he and Estelle belonged to gether in a way that was as pare

as It was anilfu},

Presently Pablito uroge and walked toward the hotel at which he was stopping. He was wearied "Make him good to her," he en of carefully planned flower beds treated that some one--or some- made up of catinas and low growthing toward which men grope in Tollage of red and green when clouds are heavy and low, striped leaves; wearled of the end- He had been running in a futile lesa fleur de ls made by gardeners effort to keep ahead of pain for who saw no beauty in the casual several years now, he realized-a arrangement of flowers; wenried, pain that was now actuidity thought ton, of the equally artificial men it had been, only a rumour before, Bl women who ening to this Who was it who bad suit. "Most world, seeking that which ther traubles new built of apprehen- sion?" Well, it didn't matter whe suw as "pleasure"

He would go back to Cuba, Pab-had said it. There was really noth- lito decided, to the bleak apart. Ing that mattered since Pablito ment over a grocery store.

Therew that his heart-break was na

He tried to think of Egypt for comfort; of Egypt where he had stayed long, trying to learn the lesson that no man can remember a lesson made of realizing the transtency of life and the relative unimportance of a heart-break or two. But thinking that he would

things from Spain de to mute this hunger? It was a hunger that was ald to him yet na keen as it had been on the day of, its birth.

but what did that knowledge offer He knew Estelle was really his except deeper pain?

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