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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1934.

The ROMANTIC RUNAWAY

CHAPTER XLHI

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the testimony of the old man who now roadster, turned toward the Cuban soil. sald Pablito had not been alone. Bolen church. He parked the car Billings, the detective, sat

These were the only bits of cvi-and after he had wandered Carlito had found work at the his desk reading for Recond time the cablegrant that lunt dence Billings had to substantiate through the colonnade and past plantation of a wealthy American his theories of the crime. And the amall Inner court that was on the Isle of Pines. Every six or been delivered. For Weoks and

they were for from convincing beautiful with flowers and trees ho eight weeks he boarded one of the montia he had been, trying to uns

proof.

stood for some time In a doorway | few bonts that stopped there for tangle the puzzle behind the theft

A few years before Sir Aubrey-the sunlight back of him and the the ecstatic pleasure of journeying of tile feries peur. And at had instructed Billings to tell Pab-dim, lovely old church before him to Havana to spend a few hours every turn he had been halted.

lito the truth and ask the youth The cable from Havana, sont by to go into hiding at Lower Girt- various side altars and craved thoj

He saw women kneeling before with his son. Awarthy Cuban co-worker, rend. Ings. Billings had arrived at the temperament that finds peace!

The wealthy American, knowing "Clasp Sold by Girl Called Lou. gymnasium only to learn that Pab- through the chanting of prayers. Carlito's stor

WIS kind about Following Trail,"

to had departed for parts un-Lottle had said she wanted to he granting the tinse for these holt Billings studied, these words known. All Havana was aware married in this church, here days and Carlito knew something frowning. He had hoped Beau that the boxer's romance with Jim they would be married he and of content ax, with the child, he himself might turn in that clasp. Field's daughter was at an end. Lottle.

strolled the twisting streets of the Half an hour later a second cable Gossips voiced numerous explana- arrived. Banka rend. "Lotions of the affair but none of for one accustomed to Cuba but he Yet his dream of avenging the The day was not overly warm ection known as Jesus del Monte, Benu's Wife."

these explanations came anywhere found a little dess of perspiration Wong done hins by Jim Field had Of course, Billings realized, near the truth.

had Beau's story would be one of .do. "Oh dama!" Billings said loudly,

on his forehead and that his upper not dwindled;. Instead it ceived innocence, He would in-surveying the total of his work lip and palms were damp. He grown. wist that, in selling pearis occa- The dictation of hla next letter to memories of Estelle were torment- vana he Journeyed into the country uncomfortably aware that Frequently during, visita to In- sionally, he was merely acting for Sir Aubrey was a slow and patufui ing him more

frlond. Benu's past record ordeal.

than usual. Heto atand by the great gates which would not help him, but neither

could not seem to keep the vision gave entrance to the palm-lined would it convict him of the Jeffries

of her away.

roadway tending to Field's home. robbery and murder..

"Would you like

Ben the Standing there, he would remem- he bought a sizable plot of land.church, Senor?" a black-robed boy ber his young wife's agonies in the That done, he sought an architect asked in rather stilled English.dust of the pubile way; the little, tion gathered with so much perse-and told him the sort of house he (No, thank you. I am Cuban.)

“No, gracias. Soy Cubano," torture-twisted amile she had given wanted. As they discussed it a

him as she whispered so faintly.) The old man whom Pablito hnd breeze from the sea swept over the dream that until you speak. But happy with you!"

"Ah, Senor. No one would "Ah, Carlito mio. but I have been knocked unconscious had testified Malecon, fluttering, the papers on I see you come to pray." that there had been another man the architect's table. besides Pablito on the Norris Noyes, whom Billings had to said, "and a dat roof where I

"I want a billiard room." Pab Pablito thought as the boy disap- Bolight out to question the day ean have 5. garden under the after his arrival in New York, had said anxiously that he had heard af

Yea." man and girl talking in tho swamp, planning some manner of thievery. Then Noyes had risen. trembling. and talking rather in coherently of Cuba where Billings hud said he would and Pablito.

"Only one soul in all the world

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Billings sighed deeply na he itemized the grant bits of informn

vering effort.

Reene,

On the day after Pablito had asked. Lattle to become his brida

stars,

"All quite simple.

to

It was not so simple as that,

One could

They had had very little thine together and a very great love. It

ematimes so happens. God knows why.

Perhaps

peared,

HÊWHYR come but one could not always pray.

Five days later Marcin Trend- "And a big patio, of course."

way, Estelle and Jim Fleld were Estelle Field found the ghost of "Of a certainty t

among those who walked down a her former self in the Cuban "And" Pablito hesitated a mo-arrow xang plank to step on house that was her lather's. She ment, then continued, quarters for my wife."

"spacious

The architect sniffed a romance. "Alt he murmured. "Ah, yes.

speak my tongue," Nayca had of course!' Then he smiled daz- "Pablito in the only one zlingly at Pablito whom he con- Tears sidered a very sombre young man

said,

who understanda

flooded the man'a eyes. "I have

been 10 lonely he confessed. "So very Innely! I must find Pablito!"

for one who was so soon to become

a bridegroom.

thin'

"We will make of house a paradise," the architect promised. There was the murmuring of the "And we will hope that in this pair whom Noyes had heard plot-paradise there will be no snuke!"* ting in the swamp and there was

Later Pablito, driving a ahining

KATHARING AVILAND-TAYLOX

Imlcony

stepped out upon the beyond the windows of her sleep- In-room and saw below the gar- den. Beyond was the utter blue of the water, white-capped to-day and glittering in the sunlight.

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Pablito was free now and she was free, yet fear hell her. Sho wendered timorously whether she dareil look back upon the last few years as waking nightmare, Nevertheless, Pablito was free and she was free. If he still cared- but he must care! She could not feel as she did, she reasoned, un- less he cared. She would cond him The thought brought to mind Carlito, Poor a note-again! Carlito, For a moment she felt a chill in the breeze though it came Trom the south,

quired some

Meanwhile Marein, who had ag- clothes she said "would do" until she could reach 'aris, had sought out the least rickety of the taxicabs at the edge

of La Porque Central. She stopp- ed into the car and gave the address of Pablito's gymnasium.

"You know where that is?" sho demanded in bad Spanish.

Ah, yes, the chauffeur know. He nodded but seemed to hesitate. Marcin said in English. "Oh, I know Indies don't go there but I'm not a lady. I'm merely a crook, furned honest. Drive on, J'ou fool."

Understanding her tone, the driver started his machine.

(To be continued.)

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