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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MONDAY, MAY 7:

The ROMANTIC RUNAWAY

CHAPTER XLİ

1934.

KATHARINE \VILAND-TAYLOR

thought to be un-.

offend Mrs. Noyes. She went into possible, that their engagement you two!" she said, pulling her, He walked with hor, disinter- the room then and Josie Martell must be at an end. He said that fur cont closely around her throat.cutedly. Field had felt numb ever The Noyca caso absorbed. Marcin arose to make her welcome. But he know she had never cared for "I wish I wore leaving with you!" since the first threat of his loss Trendway. She knew that Pablite Mrs. Noyes did not sit down. She him. He had not cared for her

had come to him with a drop of And lived with Noyes and now, of

She had decided it would be stock he had in the doorway, smiling. either until he had determined to stood course, Noyes would step out of Then she raised one hand, holding show her who was master. Then kinder to act

as though nothing touchable. hiding to claim the fortune that the small Spanish revolver that she somehow he had learned a blend whatever had happened, was his. He could, no doubt, tell always kept in her dressing table her where to find Pablito. Once drawer. She fred. she found the youth, Marcia had

rently and free him from the the

truth old charges,

When she next know anything beyond her husband'shawist, in voiced, "Go!" on her way home. She let herself in

Con-

of love and hatred--a wish to love "Better como along Field in her as he dreamed of loving her vited with a weak echo of his old and a wish to hurt her an men hospitality. rarely dream of hurting wometh

Marcin confided when Estelle waa *"I had a funny feeling just-then," out of hearing. "Odd, isn't it, how we Americans use the word funny in the wrong sense often?"

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about very

course," his mother had. "I'd love to but unfortunately No longer did Marcia dream of with her key. The testimony of drawled, watching him write the have an important, luncheon on- It's with a young man making Pablito dependment on her Josie Martell's maid that a woman And after all, dear- The words who writes poems to me and all dered why she was sparring.

note, "It is quito impossible now. Kagement

"Yes," Field agreed. He won- of trips to France and Spain and had called that night to see her ended with a Italy. She wanted instead to say mistress was dismissed ne unim-shoulders.

raise of pudgy that kind of thing. Estelle, you're rather lightly dressed, aren't you? This is the truth I owo you

"Well," she went on, "I hnd this must tell to set my mind at reas portant after Noyes' disappearance "Oh, surely!" Alec agreed lan. It's such a fearful day. The jon--ndd sensation because I realized

had been interpreted as

qulle in the florists' windows are I have never asked you Her maid found her surprisingly fession.

guldly.

of whom want kind these days. Marcia no longer

It was like Estelle to pull him Positively Insulting, aren't they?" Bomeone Mrs. Noyes had had one letter became harsh at the slightest In from her husband after that.

much to hear. You know a good He into a mess like this, he thought. Suddenly she became ailent and many things-too many, sou konw terference, with her will. "Ah, wrote her that he had never been To make him love her and hate slipped her arm through Jim and you might know this. It well," she thought, smiling, "I've faithless to her physically. His in her and then leave him unable to Field's. He was surprised at her you do travelled a long way." She thought toreat in Miss Martell had been no fuift the least of his morbid and touch. too of those years during which more than a friendship based on cruel fancies. Yes, it was like her. a "cool one. She had always had

Márcia was reputed to be must- she had planned to shield Pablito mutual interests, Nevertheless hoo hoped she would suffer as he that reputation except at that one and herself. She now knew that was guilty, Noyes said, because he never had-as few women had! time when she was said to have she could shield him only by the had led his wife into loving him

cared for Ted Jeffries. truth and that with the truth she and later censed to care for her.

Marcin came down to the pier must tear from herself the protes-He also wrote that he was not to see the Fields off. The place "Jim," she went on quickly, "I tion that sheltered, her from the coming back, that she must rear was thick with a salt tang that have a story to tell you. It's far world's scorn.

for this child's their son as best she could and had been carried into the big barn-too ribald The Noyes case filled long col with the realization that the crime like structure by the fog of the Come along down here a little way паля in

the newspapers. There was his, not hora. Between them gray day, were many stories about Josie Mar- they had killed one of the best tell who had danced and acted with women who ever lived, so much charm and grace. "An- other nude Adama" she had been valled.

Mrs. Noyes' confession, deliver- ed between deep gnaps, was cum- Stafd middle-aged men smiled, plete. Perhaps it was a rellet at. rending this column, and then inst to speak. Beyond doing jas sighed a little sadly, A book ever tice to her husband and delivering the shouldor is likely to cause the money to him that was hie ang, while a look ahead maken their he could be found-the confes- muscles tense. And in middle age alon made. Ittle difference. The ene does not look ahead so easily son whose rearing had been left as one looks behind,

to his mother was one of those re- ported "missing" in France. Per-

.

Norris Noyes wife had confess-haps the boy had been urged to a ed that she killed Josie Martell. too-gallant duty by thoughts of a In the midst of the confession she father who had killed a woman had lost consciousness and had been and run away, revived by drastic measures. Then, gasping and holding off the chill finger of death by aheer will power, she finished what she had

Thus are the

woven.

patterns of life

At the same time there was also much space in the newspapers de-

to say the story she had kept voted to accounts of Jim Field's socret since the right her husband spectacular financial crash. There had taken n revolver from her lind been a drop in the market hands to Bay. "Go!"

that took him under, leaving him

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Mrs. Noyes had been jealous, she completely at the mercy of men confessed. Her jealously had whom he had betrayed. These men grown until it completely over-settling on the little that was loft powered her; she knew no other bent their red, rough necks to emotion. She had followed her pick the bones, as their feathers husband

one night to Josje Mar- grew sleek and shiny. tell's home which was well uptown. Estelle's pictures

maid bad admitted her and she widely, one of

were printed them bearing the saw the mald disappear into the caption, "Deserted By Lover After rear of the house. Then from the Father's Failure." hall she listened to voices in the Before leaving for Havant Ea- next room-Josie Martell's voice telle had learned of the erash. She and Noyes. They were talking of had received a letter from Alee pictures and of artists and they Davids the morning of their de sak nothing that could possibly parture. Alec wrote, as cruelly as

and I'll narrate the "You're lucky to be out of this,thing-"

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ears.

naughty

you must tell me. You

"What is it?" he asked shortly. "Do you know what's become of that boy who used to work for you -the one named Pablito? The one who lived with Norria Noyes?"

"What makes you ask?"

"I want to know, Jim. It's Im- portant!".

(To Be Continued.)

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