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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPII.

FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1934.

The ROMANTIC RUNAWAY

CHAPTER XXXIX

trace

by KATHARINE JAVILAND-TAYLOR

"A rumour of the engagement--"

Estelle's face, as he had seen it

A homo, brenthe but for an hour out of the at least the sounds and the shells,longer built of apprehension, but bullda. them up agaip. would be genuine.

was real; that perhaps he had with a garden, some vegetables and ages made him want more than Pablito read the news of Es-

In New York Mr. J. Smithson lost a chance of somehow setting fruts and trees and nowers. He over to have that hour replete with telle Field's engagement of Alce Bugs cleared his throat. He matters right.

conid have that much, at senst.

1 he needed; that brimming cup Davids, the son of Mrs. J. Turner was dietating a letter and what he Bitterness welled in him. Some

Perhaps he would become a col-of lethe that for some men must Davit of New York, Paris and Newport, as he sat on a bench in to any was, "I can find man-his father had caused him lector ise some he had met and be held in one woman's hands.

of him" He knew he must to be born of shame and into pain. go about buying little pieces of

CANYABRES,

carved the sunshine of Nice. The news-ay it but the words did not come Angela had put rents upon his puttery, ng paper mentioned the fact that the

moved in. his body which, creeping into his soul things from Spain. Then when he 'some time before und when Public, swivel chair, picked up a pencil auk meinery, had made him a mur- and grown portly and old he could fraised to his, floatet before Pat engagement had been rumoured easily. Billings

and into it down again. Then bederer. Being a murderer, he had toddle about among these trens-lito's vision." "God," he said alouel, saw the word, "edmour, his heart said boldly, determinedly, "I can lost the right to claim the one girl urea saying, "I picked this up in "I can't stand this!" paused a bent.

In the world he loved. That was Toledo," or, "I found this in one Then he folded the Puris Herald find no trace of him

. A moment later he turned, shak- The stenographer maile pot-the picture of his life. If only he of the bazaars at Biskra.". By that carefully and neatly and Jald hooks on a pad of soft, gray paper. could meet that father who had time, pernuts, he would look backing, from the glare of the window beside him on the bench. A much things went

on, quickly

now. foranken him! What he would do an the hot noon of Jus youth with and act to work assembling his ronged woman with heavily dach-"Shall I go on with it?" he added. to him-

pity and tol even a faint under- [clothing and packing hin bags with ened brows and Inshes passed by."Something you let drop when we But all that was getting him no standing, for by then he would love hands that were not quite steady. scading him a glance of invitation. fast met made me think that per- where. The words on the printed things and not, people. Ferlinpa What could etchings, canvasses, He looked through her, seeing her

to drop the newspaper pago dunced before Pab- that was the better way to love, little pieces of pottery and carved things from Spain do to mute this nel at all, and she moved on with ups you wished

lito's eyes. A rumour of the en-after all, nhardening of an already hard

gagement

He tried to think of Egypt for hunger? It was a hunger that was face and little shrug of thu

Yes, he would go back to Cuba, comfort; of Egypt where he had old to him yet as keen as it had shouldern.

the only place that he could think stayed long, trying to learn thebron on the day of its birth. of na home. He would build a lesson that no man can remember house there, gel to work and keep a lesson made of realizing the but what did that knowledge offer He knew Estelle was really his himself oceupled with varied in transiency of life and the relative unimportance of a heart-break or

except deeper paint two. But thinking that he would

The woman had seen the hind

with the blond some young man hair and blue eyes before and had teled, in her usually successful way, to capture him." Always be-

•

Pablito, in his hotel room, went to stand by the elaborately drap Window from which he could see the shimmer of blue water through the palms.

He was stricken by the realiza-terests as a child builds up hears tion that the first announcement of blocks, knocks them down and fore he had looked away from her. of Extelle's engagement had been embarrassed. To-day be was only a rumour and niso by the feel- bard Well, the woman thoughting that he might, perhaps, in fortunately the sea is full of fish. same munner have forestalled the Nevertheless she remembered the young man's Ince, forgetting for a time to make her eareful, skilful estimate of the male occupants of the benches.

Pablito

consummation of that earlier hin!. Re was certain that Aler Davids

whoever he might be would not hove Estelle so laholte na de bomsrå did. Equently certain Was l

that he and Estelle, baslonged to- angethey in a way that was as rare

It was beautiful.

Presently walked toward the hotel at which

he was stopping. He was wezarjend "Make him good to her,” he en- of cardially planned flower beds treated that some one-or some- muule up of canna and slow grow. | thine---toward which men gróps injt foliage of red and green | when elands are heavy and low. striped fences wenried of the oud- He had been running in a futile less tour de lis made by gardeners effort to keep ahead of pain for | who saw an lænuts in the casual ¦ several yours now, he realized-a arrangement of Bowers; wencied, jhin that was wow actuality though ton, of the expially artificlul men it had been paly Tumour before. and women who

this Who was it who had said. "Most world, seeking that which they troubles are built of apprehen- saw an "pleasure

ision" Well, it didn't matter who He would go back to Cuba, Pak. ↑ hnd said it. There was really noth- lite decided. to the bleak apart-ing that mattered since Pablito ¦ ment over a grocery store. Then know that his heart-break was no ¦

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