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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI

WEDNESDAY, MAY

1934.

The ROMANTIC RUNAWAY

CHAPTER XLIII

for

Was

aware married in this church, nó

pence

KATHARINE

TAYLOA

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

the testimony of the old man who | now roadster, turned toward the Cuban soll. Bald Pablito had not been alone.Belen church. He parked the car. Billings, the detective, Rut at

These were the only blts of evi-and after he had wandered Carlito had found work at the ls, desit reading for. I second dence Billings had to substantiate through the colonnade and past plantation of a wealthy American 'time the cablogram that had just his theories of the crime. And the small inner court that was on the Iaio of Pines. Every six or been delivered. For weeks and they were from convincing beautiful with flowers and trees be eight, weeks he boarded one of the months he had been trying to un-

proof.

stood for some time in a doorway few, boats 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

Pablito was free now and she of the Jeffries" pearls. And at had instructed Billings to tell Pab-dim, lovely old church before him to Havann to spend a few hours was free, yet fear held her. She every turn ho had bean halted.

Ito the truth and ask the youth He saw women kneeling before with his son.

wondered timorously whether she The cable from Havana, sent by to go into hiding at Lower Girt- various aide altars and craved the

dared look back upon the last few swarthy Cuban co-worker, read. ings. Billings had arrived at the temperament that Anda

The wealthy American, knowing years A waking nightmare. "Clasp Sold by Girl Called Lou gymnasium only to learn that Pab- through the chanting of prayers. Carlito's story, was kind about Nevertheless, Pablito was free and Following Trail"

Billings

Hto had departed for parts un-Lottle had said she wanted to he granting the time for these holi- she was free. If he still cared--- studied these words. known. All Havana

here days and Carlito knew something but he must care! She could not frowning. He had hoped Beau that the boxer's romance with Jim they would be married-he and strolled the twisting streets of the less he cared. She would send him of content as, with the child, he feel as she did, she reasoned, un- himself might turn in that clasp. Field's daughter at an end. Lottle. Half an hour later a second cable Gossips volged numerous explana

svetlon known as Jeaus del Monte, ja note-again! The thought arrived. Billings read,

The day was not overly warm Yet his dream of avenging the brought to mind Carlito. Poor "Lou Iations of the affair but note Beau's Wife."

of for one accustomed to Cuba but hej these explanations came anywhere found a little dew of perspiration wrong done him by Jim Field had Carlito. For a moment she felt a near the truth.

not dwindled; instead It had chill In the breeze though it came "Oh damn!" Billings sald loudly, lip and palms were damp. Ho on his forehead and that his upper

from the south, grown. surveying the total of his work was uncomfortably

thut aware The dictation of his next letter to memories of Estelle were torment- vann he journeyed Into the country quired some clothes she sold Frequently during visits; to Ha- Meanwhile Marcla, who had acs. Sir Aubrey was a slow and palutuling him. ordeni..

usual. He to stand by the great gatan which "would do" untli she could reach gave entrance to, the palm-lined Paris, had sought out the Icust rundway leading to Field's home, i rickety of the taxicabs at the edge Standing there, he would reinem-of Im Parque Contral. She stepp- ber his young wife's agonics in the ed into the car and gave the

of the public way; the little, address of Pablito's gymnasium. torture-twisted smile she had given him as ahe whispered so faintly

"You know where that is?” she

happy with you!" "Ah, Carlito mlo, but I have been

ΟΙ course, Billings realized Beau's story would be one of de- ceived innocence. He would in Bist that, in selling pearls occa sionally, he was merely acting for a friend. Beau's past record would not help him, but neither would it convict him of the Jeffries Tobbery and murder.

As

On the day after Pablito hud asked Lottie to become his bride Billinga sighed deeply he he bought a sizable plot of land. itemized the scant bits of informa-That done, he sought an architect tion gathered with so much perse and told him the sort of house he vering effort.

wanted. As they discussed it a The old man whom Pablito had breeze from the sen swept over the knocked unconscious had testified Mairean, fluttering the papers on that there had been another man the architect'a table. bogldes Pablito

the scene. " want a billiard room," Pab-

can have

A garden under the stars."

"All quite simple. Yea." "And a big patio, of course." "Of a certainty?" "And" Pablito hesitated a mo- ment, then continued, "spacious quarters for my wife."

more than could not acem to keep the vision of her away,

"Would you like to sea the church, Senar?" a black-robed boy asked in rather stilted English. (No, thank you.

"No, gracias. Soy Cubano."

I am Cuban.) dream that until you speak. But "Ah, Senor. No one would sco you come to pray."

1

It was not so simple as that.

tlust

They had had very little time sometimes so happens. Perhaps Gol, knows why.

demanded in bnd Spanish.

Ah, yes,

the chauffeur know. Marcin said in English, "Oh, I He nodded but seemed to hesitate,

Norris Nayes, whom Billings had to said, "and a flat roof where Pablito thought as the boy disnn- together and a very grent love. I know ladies don't go there but I'm

MON

sought out to question the day after his arrival in New York, had said anxiously that he had heard a and girl taking in tho swamp, planning some manner of thlevery. Then Noyes had risen,, trembling, and talking rather in coherently of Cuba where Billinge and said he would find Pablito. The architect sniffed a romance. "Only one soul in all the world "A" he murmured. "Ah, yes, speaks my tongue," Noyes had of course! Then he smiled daz said. "Pablito is the only one zlingly at Pablito whom he who understands me." Teara Aidered a very sombre young man flooded the man's eyes. "I have for one who was so soon to become been 80 lonely." he confessed. a bridegroom. "So very lonely! I must Ond Pablito l'

There was the murmuring of the pair whom Noyes had heard plot ting in the swamp and there was

con-

"We will make of this house a paradise," the architect promised. "And we will hope that in this paradise there will be no snake!" Later Pablito, driving a shining

come

peared. One could always but one could not always pray.

Five days Inter Marcia Trend- way. Estelle and Jim Fletd were Estelle Field found the ghost of among those who walked down a her former salt in the Cuban narrow gong plank to step on house that was her father's.

She

not a lady. I'm merely a crook turned honest. Drivo on, You fool."

Understanding her tono, the driver started his machino.

(To be continued.)

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