THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1934.
The ROMANTIC RUNAWAY
CHAPTER XLVIII ..
Sir Aubrey had told 'Pablito. the whole story and NOW Bat!
As he stood thus, rigid from the waiting for the young man to moment that had passed, Noyes speak. Pablito seemed too quiet, enme hurrying up the stair 200 contained. His manner made Noyes orca were bright, his thin Bir Aubrey remember the pitiable checks Aushed. twisting of Mary's hands. His
"Pablito" he said breathlessly, could not gue whether his con- "I have a message for you. Estelle fession and his promise to do Field wants to see you." everything possible to make amends would count or not..
KATHARINE
HAVILAND-TAYLOR
"I'm sorry to hurry, you," he went on steadily, "but you ace--" "Oh, quite naturally!" Bald Sir Aubroy, struggling into his gar- menta. "So it's to be a wedding and two of you to come home to the Small House--until I go on-. And Noyes, too--If he will, I'm no end grateful to him."
Sir Aubrey had cald, was Mary the night and crawled beneath the older man, a hand on his shoul-waiting for me?" Marriage.
the mosquito netting that covered der. Now, without shamo, SirThen after a deep, indraWNI the immense bed. All his hoping Aubrey groped for Pablito's hand breath Pablito's teeth set on his new was at an ond. He was going and held it in his.
lower lip, his hands clenched and back to Lower. Girtings to see on "Father!" said Pabllto,
for a moment he closed is eyes. the terrace a line of round-cheeked, Sir Aubrey managed to say, Influence with the authorities had pale-eyed women who would wel-"Eh, what?" almost crisply. made it possible to arrange the come him with love, even though "Father." Fablito repeated, "I'm marriage ceremony hastily. With- knowing what he had been, There going to be married. The girl who in half an hour Estelle would be would be no son in the old house has promised to marry me has lost his wife. His wife -no son who would take his name her father. So if you'll dress you and bring there, in timo, his own can come to our wedding and give In an amazingly short time (con- wife and son. And so time and her away-to me. You'll bo gain- He had told his wife and daugh-sidering the distance he had to circumstances would snuff out his ing a daughter. It's all very sud- ters the same story, promising cover) Pablito was tipping aname as a cold wind snuffs out n don-and rather amazing, don't it?" them the inheritance that was shabby little boy, who opened the candle.
He laughed a little unsteadily as rightfully theirs but declaring that gate of the Field estate for him. He realized he had hoped a great he finished speaking. the house and enough to run Then he went to the garden beyond deal na he lay, trembling, under "Then some day at Lower Girl must be his son's. His son's! And the house, the garden that faced the mosquito netting. And he inga Sir Aubrey began, but 'now that son sat before him, so
know he had loved Pablito by the Pablito could not let him go on strangely quiet.
Io saw Estelle in the twilight hurt that Pablito had wrought with his dream. which had thickened swiftly. She him. Suddenly tears gathered in "I'm sorry to rush you,” he said, was standing against a wall and his eyes and rolled down his "but we really must go right away, she was trembling as she waited, cheeks. He let them come, un-Estelle is waiting for me. She is ad-When he had reached her he found checked by the handkerchief in the that he could not speak. Fablito pocket of his Bond street pyjamas. Pablito pulled up sleeve to dropped to his knees and felt her Then there was a tap on the how on his upper arm a jagged. hand on his hair. please!" door. For, a moment Sir Aubrey deep white car. "My Foster she waspered. Pleas
was minded to ignore it. He could dil that," he said. "She did it
And he knew that she meant, hardly see anyone now, but some- one day when her mood was no "Get up! Kiss me?" He strug-thing made him struggle free of worse than usual. I saw her in gled to his feet; to hold her close the mosquito netting and move un- Key West a month ago. Noyes bad and kiss her frantically. To murstendily toward the door. There been supporting her, not knowing. mur things he had not end for so he called out, "What is it?" in a of course, who she was. She re-long-those exaggerations that are voice that he tried to make crisp.) cognized me and her worn-out buť a part of the truth when one heart stopped of fright. She knows in love.
Suddenly Pablito spoke a little metallically. "I suppose she had rotten time of it." he said.
"It killed her," Sir Aubrey mitted.
I had too much to remember. But
I didn't really blame her. It's you
The
820.
"It is I-Pablito," he heard. Sir Aubrey opened the door. Pablito stepped into the room-not a Pab- "Dearest, I never will," he an-lito Sir Aubrey had ever seen be
"Don't ever leave me again!"
I blame You and men like you (swered.
who desert children and cave "I love you more than ever, Pabfore but a new version, strong and
them to fend for themselves! {lito!" Norris Noyes is my father.”
"That is your answer?" Aubrey asked.
"My dearest! My darling!"
smiling.
Sir Aubrey regarded the youth
Sir "I can't live-noir-withoat with wonder, forgetting the tears you!" Her hands, na she spoke, on his checks. Pablito saw them, Pabilto nodded. "I will take moved over his arms and shoulders, remembering suddenly that there nothing from you!" he said. "It clinging, reassuring him that she wore tears in the world and ren-
was really there. In a moment he sons for them,
is too into."
Standing stiffly, he watched Sir thought-trembling and breathless. "I came back," he said laying a Aubrey make his way rather as he looked down at her in a hand on Sir Aubrey's arm, "be slowly toward the stairway, realizmoment he would wake again. Is cause I know that I was brutal." ing na ho did so (and trying to it true?" he managed to whisper. I'm not-feeling brutal any more." Ignore the thought) that Šir Au-
He heard, "Oh, Pablito, dearest !" brey was an old man-a very old and then a sob. "Of course it's
But Pablito could not for true." get the woman who had been hin mother-the woman whose name,
man.
"I'm glad." said Str Aubrey, Then he had to wipe away the tears because they were rolling down his checks again. "Oh, dash
Sir Aubrey had made ready for it!" he murmured, wholly shame-
ARTMENT NEXE
faced. Then he had to sit down in a wicker chair that squeaked as he settled in it. For when a great deal of joy or pain came
him Sir Aubrey realized that the years were creeping up on him and that those years were numbered.
Pablito stood looking down at i
Agnin he mopped his eyes. "A wedding at midnight is romentis, isn't it? I say, dear boy-er-my son, hand me my braces, will you?" THE END
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The magistrate has to write a journal.
8 Censure.
9 Just the coin for a bed: and if
you say it's an old-fashioned cely, well it's an old-fashioned bed
11 Allment.
12 minus 5.
13 He is hampered by an eager mentality, and the idea that such
a gesture arises from a desire to outlaw education (hidden).. 16 Aurora'a form of wand."
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17 Spoil an old Roman in
emphatic manner of a musician. ID It will stretch.
21 The lont that carries the enttle
tail first.
23 You must take a chance on this
ubbreviation.
24 A way that writers have, 25 The opposition that centres in a traditional article of Spanish Attire,
28 Hengist, lacking his tea, đĩ• presses his disapproval in truly equine fashion.
29 The centre of nervous action when a wild beast follow the rumanly band.
30 The faint reflections that arise when the music is dying away?
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1 Ecclesiastical crime,
Where to look for barristers-or barmen, as the Babu called them.
3 Apparently there has been an earthquake in the nearest quar-
SOVIET OUTRAGE?
|,-, BATTERY FIRES ON MANCHUKUO SHIP
Tokyo, May 14,
ter of the globe,
4 Hidden in Clue 13.
A Turkish dugger may be more effective "than 1 Kay" retort (anag.).
6 Vegetalde uttire that lends
piquancy (hyphen).
7 A set is on trial for the followers
of a Greek philosopher.
10 Hidden in Glue 13.
14 Heels.
15 Ponder over the little birds.
18 Mado lesa dense,
20 Puts an and to all duplicity.
21 Stuff border.
22 Silvan setting for the black-
Amith's implements.
26 Hidden in Clue 13.
27 Descrbes the man who sat on
the gate in Wonderland.. Yesterday's Bolution
¡ISLE OF WIGHT #LAXON RON YOKE FOUTER ROOTE LE A FIZ EN M=E: TAROVE SENHANCE EN L PONDEL DURUS 6. REISACAPE: MOVENP I NDUCTT PARIS U NOUS BIT LET-A G KUUS EN VIGE SIGN ODH BETHELSET NETTLES NO ES ANGE I UNABLE TOPPLE OUSTON SETE UN E NEL PRESTONPANS
The ship was bound for Tahelho and the battery fired from a posi- tion at tho confluenco of the Sungari and Amur Rivors.
Up
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to the present details of, the affair are mengre. It la known that the vessel was carrying pos
songere.:
Among them was
The Taitalbar correspondent of Japanese colonel.
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the Tokyo Anakt has telegraphed The War Offee has received a hia nawapaper that a Manchukuo-telegram stating that one of the owned steamer, while proceeding vessel's crew was killed and an- up-stream on the Sungari River on jother wounded, Sunday morning, was fired on by There is no explanation as to
Soviet Russian battery.
the reason for the firing-Router.
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