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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPI!

THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1934.

The ROMANTIC RUNAWAY

CHAPTER XLIV

| ito."

"What for?"

That, my child, is hardly your affair," Marcin answered coolly "Is he In?" Subduing this amazing creature would have been almplo enough for Marcia If they had been on the same level. Looking! up made it more difficult.

At last, thought Marein, she was on her way to tell the story that, kept secret, had been such a terri the burden. For a moment she closed her eyes. Opening them, she ww above a flower-laden win dow sill one of the tiny lights that Jarns always below a shrine in Rol many Cuban homes. The shrine, Lottio appraised the visitor as together with the loveliness of the frankly as had the grocer and his Inndiscape. Impressed her brought a softening of mood. Mar too loudly, for Pabilto heard her cla, on her way to confession, answer and appeared behind her, thought of Cuba as she never had] "No?" Marcia questioned, smil-

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began gently.

By KATHARING HAYILAND-TAYLOR

"Oh, shut up! I don't need a

[all the more difficult. She thought "Say, I ain't dirt!" Lottie an- suddenly, "He could not possibly nurse." swered in a shrill voice. "She can't have committed such a crime? How come here and wipe her feet on could they have accused him of "Thero's a little boat sailing for met” m

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the Isle of Pines. If you wasn't He shook his head and suddenly Then she anid, "I have been try-afraid of waitin' around there a the girl was scarlet and silent. ing for years to find you. Oh, don't week you might try that.”

"If you don't mind, Lottie," he be afraid! You have nothing what-i "Listen, kid, you book your own said again and more gently.

fear

I make mine. "Oh, all right!" she said, mov- the other from me! It's rather reservations.

Wonder if I got everything?" Ho ing toward a doorway with opales cent glass panes.

Falteringly but bravely she told looked around quickly. A moment later her story. Half way through the

You sent up, slammed the door noisily.

I the old man was beating the "Bay-they'll never get me!" He

child-7

picked up the bag, his hat and -a "He

Ho said there were two "Maybe we'll meet in hell if not other people with you; a man and before." a girl"

"We been together a long while,, "He testified?" Pablito echoed Benu."

มิ stupidly,

"Sure have!" he agreed. With "Yes, yea! You didn't think-attle emotion that made his "I thought he was dead," he an voice rough he added, "Well, kise swered and for a mement closed me." his cyca.

Sho. raised her face,

and clerks, "He ain't here." she said the panes were threatened as she narrative he broke in to say, "But Beonate to see

.

before a land that kneels to the fing. She drew back the grilled then. He settled in a chair that alone testined that you were not light cont. "So long, kid," he said.

Pablito faced Marcia Treadway was sufficiently close to hers for a low-voiced talk, and waited. As he waited he saw that something was malting it difficult for her to speak.

you don't mind I'll smoke," she murmured. "Odd, isn't it, how smoke clears the mind as it clogs one's lungs?"

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

"English" so commented.

forgiving, gentle Virgin; that feels gaie which Lottie had clicked open the sunlight and sings often. A from above at the touch of the bell, warm land. A happy land,

Marcin stepped from the glare of The taxicab lurched, avoiding the sunlight and began to mount goat and her kid. A moment lator the stairs. it almost brushed a group bare; Pablito recognized her and lost brown babies, playing in the dust colour. Lottle's lips set in the Soon they left behind the crowd-aneer she always summoned as n ed houses and narrow,

twisting cover for fright. She did not like

He descended the rear stairway streets touched here by obon this. She had a definite feeling

Before Marclu luft Lottle sought und stopped into the taxicab that shadows and thore gilded by the that something was wrong.

Beau. She said excitedly, "I've was waiting for Marela, smiling as aon. They were following a road Marela, now on the level with | of red soil that wound past the Loitle and Pablito, spoke quickly.

he did so. The lady, he told the been listenin

Watcha talkin' about?" Beaudriver, had decided to remain in- thinning dwellings to reach the "You may not remember me, Fab "Yes, I learned to like them demanded shortly.

definitely. "Ah!" murmured the country where houses were merely ifto," she began. "but

from an English friend of mine. She told him. "She's still in driver. He looked over his shoul- grass-thatched hals.

"I remember you very well, Miss You may not care for them. I there," Lottie finished with a back-der alyly and he and Beau ex- Treadway," he answered honestly. hope you are well, Miss Trend-ward nod of her head. "Says ahe changed a fraternal; understanding "Will you sit down?"

Ho could not, for the life wants to tell the whole thing!" way

wink. Thank you. I

want to speak to of him, imagine what had brought He was on his feet instantly and you alone, please."

her.

after one hunted look about the "I think you'll and it more entn- "I'm quite well, thank you," room began throwing clothing into Tortable by the doorway," Pablito Marcia answered. "But-to Cx- suggested. Ile

ayawning travelling bag. Lottie had always had plain my visit" Speaking wasaank to the edge of the bed, that courteous manner, Marela re-aven less easy for her now, he saw. "What about Lou?" she asked. membered as she sat down. She He waited patiently. Her cigarette "Don't

you tell her until I'm on saw him ginnce appealingly at the hardly lighted, had gone out. my way Beau sald emphatically. girl who stood, sulien und obstinate, Nervously she crushed it in a tray "Understand 7" For an instant he her eyes narrowed and her head aand took another. He struck a turned to glare at her. little droppsi?.

match and held it for her.

There's a bo she suggested. duta Santiago to His Insurance made the matter (morrow mornin',

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

"It is here that he Hyes," the taxicab driver told Marcia, as he halted the cab before a grocery store. "Upstairs."

She got out and looked about. The grocer's force came hurrying out to see the stranger. While be- ing thus inspected Marcia rang the bell

Lottie peered down the stairs through the grilled gate at the new-conier, "Whatcha want?" she inquired sullenly,

"I have come to see Senor Juan-

"Lottie, if you don't mind-” he

But Beau's self-confidence dwin- died as they peared Havana. The get-away was not going to be so easy. "Damn it," he muttered half-aloud. This is what comes of, neglectin' business. I'm R scared as when I gult Sing Sing." The memory of Lottie's goodbyo clung to him, too. Lottle was a good kid, "an awful good kid." BCB reflected mournfully, "If I'd married her it would have saved me a lotta trophie." He was think-

(To Be Continued.)

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