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THE HÔNGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1934.

The ROMANTIC RUNAWAY

GHAPTER XLIV,

Ito."

"What for?"

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began gently,

KATHARING

„TAYLOR

all the more difficult. She thought "Oh, shut up! I don't need a "Say, I ain't dirt!" Lottie an-suddenly, "He could not possibly nurac." At last, thought Marcin, she was

"Thot, my child, is hardly your swered in a shrill volee. "She can't have committed such a crime! How on her way to tell the story that affair," Marcia answered coolly come here and wipe her feet on could they have accused him of "There's a little boat,salling for kept secret, had been such a terri"Is he in?" Subduing this amazing me!"

the Isle of. Pines. If you wasn't fic burden. For a moment she creature would have been simple He shook his head and suddenly Then she said, "I have been try-afraid of waitin' around there a closed her eyes. Opening them. enough for Marcia If they had the girl was scarlet and silent. Ing for years to And you. Oh, don't week you might try that." she saw above n flower-laden win- been on the same level. Looking "If you don't mind, Lottle," he be afraid!, You have nothing what- "Listen, kid, you book your own dow sill one of the tiny lights that! up made it more difficult.

sald again and more, gently. ever to fear from me! It's rather reservations. "I make mine. burns always below a shrine in

"Oh, all right!" she said, mov-the other way"

Wonder if I got everything?" He many Cuban homes., The shrine,

Little appraised the visitor asing toward a doorway with opales- Falteringly but bravely she told looked around quickly. together with the loveliness of the frankly as had the grocer and his cent glass panes. A moment later her story. Half way through the "I'd hate to see you sent up. landscape, Impressed her and clorks. He ain't here," she said the pancs were threatened na she narrative he broke in to say, "But Beau," brought a softening of mood. Mar- too loudly, for Pablito heard her slammed the door noisily.

the old man was beating

"Say-they'll never get mol" He cla, on her way to confession, answer and appeared behind her,

child-2"

picked up the bag, his hat and a thought of Cuba as she never had

Pablito faced Murcia Treadway "He testifled that you wore not light cost. "So long, kid," he said. before-a land that kneels to the

then. He settled in a chair that alone. He said, there were two "Maybe we'll meet in hell. If not forgiving, gentle Virgin; that feels

was suiciently close to hers for a other people with you; a man and before." the sunlight and sings often. A

low-voiced talk, and walled. As he is girl-¬-”

been together a long while, warm land. A happy land.

waited he saw that something was making it difficult for her to sponk.stupidly.

"Sure have!" ho agreed. With ури

don't mind I'll smoke," "Yes, yes! You didn't think-7" a little emotion that made his she murintired. "Odd, inn't it, how "I thought he was dead," he an- voice rough he added, "Well, kiss smoke clears the mind as it clogs awered and for a moment closed me." ono's lunge?"

his суев.

She raised her face.

"No?" Marcia questioned, smil- ink. She drew back the grilled gate which Lottle had clicked open from above at the touch of the bell. Marcia stepped from the glare of the sunlight and began to mount the stairs,

The taxicab lurched, avoiding goat and her kid. A moment later it almost brushed a group of baro, Pablito recognized her and lost brown babies, playing in the dust.colour. Lottle's lips set in the Soon they left behind the crowd-ancer she always summoned as od houses and narrow, twisting cover for fright. She did not like streets touched here by ebon this. She had a definite feeling shadows and there glided by the that something was wrong. sun. They were following a road of red soll that wound past the thinning dwellings to reach the country where houses were merely grass-thatched huts,

"It is here that he lives," the taxicab driver told Marcia, ns he halted the cab

before a grocery store. "Upstairs."

She got out and looked about. The grocer's force came hurrying

Marcia, now on the level with Lottle and Pablito, spoke quickly. "You may not remember me, Pab- lito," she began. "but-"

"I remember you very well, Miss Treadway," he answered honestly. "Will you sit down?"

"Thank you. I want to speak to you alone, please."

"Will you have one of these?" Pablito rose as ho spoko and brought a small humidor which he held open before her.

tho

testined?" Pablito echoed Beau

Before Marcin left Lottie sought Beau. She said excitedly, "I've been listenin'..!!

Watcha talkin' about?" demanded shortly.

He descended the rear stairway and stepped into the taxicab that was waiting for Marcia, smiling as he did so. The lady, he told the Beau driver, had decided to remain in

definitely. "Ah!" murmured the

"English!" she commented. "Yes, I learned to like them from an English friend of mine. She told him. "She's still in driver. He looked over his shoul You may not care for them. I there," Lottie finished with a back- der slyly and he and Beau ex hope you aro well, Mies Tread-ward nod, of her head. "Says she changed a fraternal, understanding way 7" He could not, for the life wants to tell the whole thing?" wink. of him, imagine what had brought He was on his feet instantly and her.

after one hunted, look about the room began throwing clothing into sunk to the edge of the hed.

"I think you'll find it more com "I'm quite well, thank you," fortable by the doorway," Pablito Marcin answered. "But to exa yawning travelling bag. Lottie out to see the stranger. While be-suggested. He had always had plain my visit" Speaking was ing thus inspected Marcia rang the that courteous manner. Murcia re-aven less easy for her now, he saw. bell,

membered no she sat down. She He waited patiently. Her cigarette Lottic peered down the stairs saw him glance appealingly at the hardly ghted, had gone out. through the grilled gate at the girl who stood, sullen and obstinate, Nervously she crushed it in a tray, new-comer. "Whatcha waut?" she her eyes narrowed and her head and took another. He struck a inquired sullenly.

little dropped.

match and held it for her.

"I have come to ace Senor Juan-

"Lottie, if you don't mind—” he

His assurance made the matter

But Beau's self-confidence dwin led as they neared Havana, Tho get-away was not going to be so, easy. "Damu it," he muttered half aloud. "This is what comes of neglectin' business. I'm AR scared ns when I quit Sing Sing."

"What about Lou?" she asked. "Don't you tell her until I'm on my way!" Beau said emphatically. "Understand?" For an instant ho turned to glare at her.

"There's a boat outa Santiago to morrow mornin'," she suggested.

"That's too late." "There's nothin' else but whating of Lou. sails for Key West and New York." |

The memory of Lottie's goodbye clung to him, too. Lottle was a Kood kid, "an awful good kid." Beau reflected mournfully, "If I'd married her it would have saved me a lotta trouble." He was think.

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