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SYNOPSIS.
PART L?Robert Hervey Randolph,
young New York man-about-town, leaves
the home of his sweetheart, Madge Van
Tellier, chagrined because of her refusal
of his proposal of marriage. His income,
110,000 a year, which he must surrender
if a certain Miss Imogen Pamela Thornton
(whom he has seen only as a small
girl ten years before) is found, is not
considered by the girl of his heart adequate
to modern needs. In a "don't care" .
mood Randolph enters a taxi, unseen by
the driver, and is driven to the stage
door of a theater. A man he knows,
Duke Beamer, induces a girl to enter the
DaamA. a f tomntln er tn fftllftW in
pushed back by Randolph and the cab j
moves on. His new acquaintance tells
Randolph she is a chorus girl, and has j
lost her position. She is in distress, even i
hungry, and he takes her to his apart- |
ment. There, after lunch, a chance remark
convinces him the girl is the misstog
Pamela Thornton. He does not tell j
her of her good fortune, but secures her j
promise to stay in the flat until the j
morning, and leaves her. In a whimsical |
. mood, also realizing that the girl's reappearance
has left him practically penniless,
he bribes the taxi driver to let him I
take his Job, and leaving word with the
legal representative of the Thornton es- j
tate where he can find Pamela, takes up
his new duties under the name of "Slim j
Hervey." He loves the girl, but his pride .
forbids him approaching her under their i
changed conditions.
PART II.?One evening he is engaged j
by Beacher Tremont, notorious profligate,
to drive him and Madge Van Tellier to a
hostelry known as "Greenwrood." Aware .
of the evil nature of the place, Randolph j
drives the pair to Greenwood cemetery, j
Infuriated, Beacher gets out of the cab 1
and Randolph leaves him there, taking !
the girl (who has awakened to a realiza- j
tion of her folly) to her home. Madge
recognizes him.
PART III.?In Randolph's apartment j
Pamela, pondering over the strangeness
of the night's adventure, realizes she is
very much more than interested in the
young man. Next morning Mr. Borden
Milyuns, her family's legal representative, ;
informs her of her inheritance. Learning .
that hor n/?npntnnpe nf the monev will
that, will you?" |
Pamela stared at him, swept toward ;
him, threw her arms round his neck, '<
hugged him, dropped her face on his |
shoulder and wept. Mr. Borden Milyuns
stood very erect, his bald head ;
held high, his pink cheeks puffed out, '
and his eyelids blinking at the rate of !
fifteen to the dozen in a vain effort to ;
fan back an amazing lachrymatory in- |
undation.
"There, there !" he said, patting Pain- j
ela on the back. "Who would have j
thought it, you adorable, lonely little
, girl ?"
Pamela threw up her head and j
smiled through the sudden summer
shower.
"I know it was ridiculous," she said,
' "But I couldn't help it. You made me
like you all of a sudden, and I just had
to, because you've had a bath and you
look so clean inside and out." She
t kissed him as she broke away.
"I see; I see/' said the astounded
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leave Randolph penniless, even the furniture
of the apartment belonging to her,
ahe proposes to divide the inheritance
with him. Mr. Milyuns tells her Ran- j
dolph is unlikely to agree to such an ar- j
rangement, even if found. He, however, ;
agrees to do his utmost to find the young i
man. Wide advertising and the employ- !
ment of detective agencies fail to accomplish
this. Madge Van Tellier tells Mr.
Milyuns of her encounter with Randolph.
Knowing only that he is driving a taxicab,
Pamela sets out to find him. The
search naturally is a long one, but finally ;
she comes upon Randolph in front of a <
hotel. Unseen by him she enters his cab,
but when giving the starter her address j
Randolph recognizes her voice. The J
streets are slippery with snow, and in his '
excitement he smashes the cab against j
the curb, throwing the girl out
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all tEe uncEaperoned years since Erst
she made her debut as an Independent
scullery-maid at Mrs. Blunkum's feed- i
house. "I shall change nothing here,"
she concluded. "When Randy?Mr.
Randolph comes back, he shan't find
his place cluttered with females."
Mr. Milyuns turned on her a gaze j
that was complex with admiration and
a realization that he was on the way
to biting off more than he could chew, j
He decided to sidestep.
"Can you be iu this afternoon?' he
asked.
"Oh, yes," said Pamela, involuntarily
o-ionrMrnr at th^ door and betravine !
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a half-formed intention to watch that j
portal night and day until death or j
Mr. Robert Hervey Randolph arrived; j
"I'll be in. Why?"
"Mrs. Milyuns and my daughter j
Eileen will call on you at about five,"
explained Mr. Mllyuns. "Just tne
more matter and I must go," he con
tinued. "Your income amounts to
something over eight hundred dollars j
a month. I shall pay it in advance j
until you get settled and have a!
chance to catch up."
"Please send me only half." said j
Pamela, as she rose to say good-by.
Mr. Milyuns took her hand, dropped
it, and started toward the door; but
before he got there, he stopped and 1
turned.
"My dear," he said, losing for the
moment his birdlike, chirpy pose, "I i
don't want you to think of me as just j
your banker. I knew your father and
your mother, and their fathers and j
mothers before them. I am fond, by j
old usage, of every drop of blood that j
runs in your veins. You won't forget j
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Mr. Milyuns, and beat it.
At two minutes after five the doorbell
rang again. In spite of the fact
that it was almost exactly the hour
which Mr. Milyuns had set for the arrival
of his wife and daughter, Pamela
couldn't help hoping?but in vain. It
was with a slightly resigned air that
she received Mrs. and Miss Milyuns
instead of Mr. Robert Randolph.
Mrs. Milyuns flew to her, set hands
on her shoulders, searched her face
with eager shrewd eyes, and said:
"Borden indeed told me the truth
about you, my dear. May I kiss you ?"
Pamela extended one cheek to the
galute while her eyes wandered off to
size up the tall, blonde, cool young
person that she surmised must answer
to the name of Eileen Milyuns. Being
the product of two shorts, how on
earth had she managed to grow so
long? Her face was ctfgularly beautiful,
as though It had been carefully
made to order like her clothes. She appeared
as passive as a Palmer snowscape.
After a little skirmishing for position,
the three ladies seated themselves
in a triangle, into the center of
which the well-trained Tomlinson ran
a tea-wagon.
"Now," said Mrs. Milyuns, having
emptied and put down her cup, "let's
forget the sheer romance of the situation,
my dear, and get down to pracHno
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as you must realize, is the necessity of
getting you a companion. Would you
care to be our guest in Madison avenue
until you can pick one out?"
"I would put clothes ahead of a
housecat,' murmured Eileen.
Her mother ignored the remark and
kept her eyes fixed on Miss Thornton's
perplexed face. That young lady seemed
in no lack of something to say but
rather in search of words and the
plunging courage necessary to the saying.
She drew a long breath and delivered
herself of the following:
"Really, it's most awfully kind of
you, but, as I told Mr. Milyuns, Tomtinson
is such a dear that I am going
to continue him as my companion."
* Tomlinson!'" exclaimed Mrs. Milyuns,
and then smiled indulgently for
the first time during the interview, being
under the impression that at last
she had run Into something appropriately
naive in the bearing of her new
charge. "Of course you can keep him
on, but you must realize that you can't j
live here without a woman in the
house."
"Oh, yes, I can," said Miss Thornton,
a little breathlessly. "I have a feeling?I
can't explain it exactly?that
this apartment is a one-woman setting.
As I said to Mr. Milyuns, I don't want
to clutter it with females."
A silent laugh crept into the eyes of
the marblesque Eileen; something inside
of her sat up and took notice. She
glanced round the room and murmured
:
"Mother, she's absolutely right. I'm
for her."
44 'Right!' Eileen!" exclaimed Mrs.
Milyuns, flushing in her indignation at
finding a traitor in the home camp. "I
don't know what your generation is
coming to. The impossible is never
right."
Having taken up her suave cudgel,
Eileen was in no haste to lay it down,
and may it be pointed out right here
that Miss Imogene Pamela Thornton
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naa rne rare iacuuy ol eunsuug me
nearest bystander to assume her battles
for her, thenceforth becoming a
charmingly interested onlooker, ready
to watch the tide of her own fortune
from the vantage-point of an entirely
impersonal detachment.
"That's where you slipped, mother,"
continued the quite unruffled Eileen.
"There's nothing impossible to our
generation. Impossibilities are our
food, drink and raiment. We're like
those surprising orchid things that defy
the usual laws and live on air."
"Yes," remarked Mrs. Milyuns; "any
new air. But I didn't bring you here,
Eileen, to be a stumbling-block to?to
Pamela, who is suddenly faced with
problems in the solution of which she
deserves our sympathetic assistance."
"You've hit the nail on the head
again, mciher," parried Eileen. "You're
not in sympathy with her, and I am;
80 you'd better hand over her check,
and tomorrow morning at ten I'll De
here to help her cash and spend it?if
necessary." She turned to Pamela with
a twinkle of anticipation in her eyes.
"How about it?" |
Pamela smiled back her bubbling
smile, and then suddenly grew grave, j
"Do you think I could order by j
measure?" she asked, and, remarking
the hurt astonishment on Eileen's i
face, continued in rapid but nevertheless
halting explanation: "You see, it's
Mr. Randolph. This is really his apart- j
ment, and he may be back almost any
?any day. I?I don't want to miss ,
him. I?I wouldn't be out when he
comes, for anything."
"H'm," interjected Mrs. Milyuns, but
before she could make any further
progress along that line, Eileen was on j
her feet and saying good-by among
fheseofher things:
"That's all nonsense. If Bobby
found you here just as he left you, the
first time he decided to turn up, he
might never appear again. But if he
finds you after two or three unsuccessful
calls and just one day's shopping,
he will never leave. Tomlinson will
have to throw him out"
"Tomlinson couldn't," said Pamela,
with calm complacerey.
Gradually the sure shot made by
Miss Milyuns began to take effect The
thought of new clothes?new smart
suits, airy evening nothings, filmy undergarments,
and solid-silk hosiery?
stole Pamela from her intention of
eternal vigilance and led her to say:
"After all, I will go with you, if it
really isn't asking too much of you."
Thus was Mrs. Milyuns side-tracked
for keeps, and on the following morning
the two young ladies were wafted
down-town in Mr. Milyuns' best limousine
and proceeded to open a chain of
credit-accounts, on the bare say-so of
VII oan onrl in tho noma n-f ATi'ca T P. I
Thornton, that spoke volumes for the
former's exclusive taste in fashionable
purveyors and financial ability to
humor it. Possibly the two would
have shopped up to the moment of the
present writing had it not been for
the fact that Pamela knew all about
money from the short end.
"I have finished," she suddenly announced.
"Finished what?" asked Eileen.
"Finished 'shopping," said Pamela.
"I've been keeping account, and I've
spent almost the whole check."
"'The whole check?" exclaimed
Eileen. "Why, you haven't touched it
That's the beauty of charge accounts.
You can keep your checks to look at
I've got some that father gave me
three years ago."
Pamela smiled a smile of much wis- !
dom and made for the nearest exit. As j
a matter of polite formality, when they j
reached Fifty-ninth street, she asked j
Eileen to come up for lunch from the
bachelor's buffet in the basement, and
she could not help a slight feeling of
relief at the news that Miss Milyuns ;
had promised herself elsewhere.
"But I'll break away and come for j
tea at five, if you'll let me," said Ei- j
leen. "I simply must help you try
them all on."
"All right; do," said Pamela, inward- I
ly pleased that she would have some
one beside Tomlinson upon whom to
flash the first dazzling vision of her
metamorphosis.
The first thing she did when she
reached the apartment was to ask if
Mr. Randolph had called; the next was
to summon the office of Milyuns,
Branch & Milyuns on the telephone to
know what steps had been taken in the j
new search. She was somewhat sur- !
prised to learn that the entire firm had
gone out to lunch in a body, and stilJ j
more startled at the information, ob- ,
tained three hours later from the same
supercilious voice at the other end of j
the wire, to the effect that none of them
had come back. She was young; she
believed it.
There is no doubt that in five min- ;
utes more Mr. Gloom would have as- !
sumed full sway in the late apartment i
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And Were Soon Involved in an Orgy
of Trying On.
of Mr. Robert EL Randolph had not a
long procession of parcels begun to arrive
in the nick of time. Tomlinson
brought them into the bedroom, one,
two, three at a haul, and Pamela her- j
self cut the knots with Mr. Randolph's I
best nail-scissors and laid out the
goods, filmy fold upon filmy fold.
By the time Eileen turned up the
apartment looked like the stateroom
de lmt of a millionaire young lady returning
from Paris with nothing to
wear and preparing to swear to it be*
fore all the customs officials in Gotham.
Tomlinson was ordered to fill the
cellar with wrapping-paper, tissue-paper,
cardboard boxes and string, burn- j
ing what was left over in the back !
yard.
As soon as sufficient space had been
cleared for action, the two girls set to j
work, and were soon involved in such i
an orgy of "trying on" as only the |
healthiest stamina of youth could j
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dead faint from exhaustion. Even
Eileen divested her person of everything
but, and experimented with such
dear garments as it seemed impossible
Miss Thornton could get round to in
the allotted time.
Having tried to show the public how
charming was Pamela in and without
her cheap clothes, no puerile and gasp
ing effort will be made In fhese pages I
to measure the effect upon her of the
latest creations of the raiment dreamgods
of Fifth avenue. Suffice it to say
that, in one hour's twinkling of the
eye, she became such a radiant vision
as chokes mere words down into the
pit of a man's stomach, makes his jaw
work like that of a fish on a hot sidewalk,
fills his eyes with the pleading
light of calf-love and inspires his
hands with an overmastering desire to
reach for it
For two, four, six days, a week, two
weeks, Pamela lived in breathless anticipation
of the moment when she
could burst upon the eyesight of one
Robert Hervey Randolph, and when all
these days?and weeks?passed without
any news of him, her lips that
were made to smile, to kiss, and to
bless the air with words softly spoken
and carried on the fragrance of clean
young bteath began to droop pitifully.
Mr. Milyuns' efforts in several directions
had so far proved in vain. He
had advertised in every paper in Goth-^ !
am, rrom the iNew xork h,pocn to tne
pink Police Gazette; he had offered
rewards; he had set traps and was
now supporting a large corps of rapidly
fattening individuals who called
themselves "plain-clothes" men?a
name that would have fitted them admirably
had the last syllable been omitted.
His net results were the information
that Mr. Randolph, in a reprehensible
state of intoxication and at
seven o'clock of the morning of which
he had disappeared, had exchanged his
swell evening garments at a secondhand
emporium on Sixth avenue for a
suit of thicks and eighteen dollars in
cash, stating, as he left the place, that
he was thinking of going South for the
rest of the winter.
After a minute and leisurely study
of all the exits from Manhattan, the
plain-clothes men had given It as their
united opinion that Mr. Randolph ^iad
been speaking facetiously in his lastknown
remark and had probably not
voyaged farther south than Canal
street. They said if he would only try
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to leave i\ew xoris tney couiu lillu uiuj
at once, and settled down on a policy
of watchful waiting for that event
The efforts made by?Mr. Milyuns in
the direction of springing Miss Thornton
on society went-equally awry, but
were not quite so fruitless. His natural
love of a smooth-running establishment
on the slippery crust of Gotham's
social plane would have been
saved a severe bump if American parents
were as careful to look up their
guests' moral records as they are to
study their ratings in Bradstreetum's.
Unfortunately for Mr. Milyuns, it
happened that a certain young scion
of a once gentlemanly house was included
in the first large dinner-boxparty
given to meet Miss Imogene
Pamela Thornton. In the natural
course of such events, the pasty youth
stepped up for presentation, registering
in his protuberant eyes a gleam of
dubious surprise. What if he should
say, "Hello, Vivienne!" Would it create
a sensation?
Something else did; namely, Miss
Thornton's modulated but terribly
clear voice.
"I met Mr. Beamer," said Pamela,
drawing back quickly her half-extended
hand, "when I was a chorus-girl"
She turned with a winning smile to
her recently beaming hostess. "I don't
care to know him in pleasanter surroundings."
For one breathless second there
threatened one of those silences that
spell social disaster. Eileen took it
upon herself to mash it in its extreme
youth with a soft tap of her efficient
hammer.
"Oh, must you really go?" she remarked
to Mr. Beamer.
Did this spectacular debut strike the
name of Imogene Pamela from the lists
of the matronly elite of Manhattan?
It did not. Invitations rained on her
and found her unresponsive. Her
wnnid-hp hostesses would have gone
the length of submitting rostrums of
proposed guests as though to royalty,
except for the fact that each and every
one of them wished to put her own
nearest and dearest to the test of a
sudden meeting with the most exclusive
of New York's latest crop of
buds.
Pamela refused .and accepted these
bids for the latest thing in sensations
in the most erratic manner. No one
could fathom Just why she said, "No,"
and much less why she occasionally
said, "Yes." The mystery only added
to the demands for her company and
the Nays soon began to show an overwhelming
preponderance over the
Ayes. Why? Simply because it was
not in the power of any of the hostesses
to call up the moody girl and
say: "My dear, we are going to have
Just pork and beans for dinner tonight.
Won't you join us? Mr. Robert Her*
vey Randolph said he would drop in
for pot-luck."
Yes; every time Pamela had accepted
an invitation, it was In the rapidly
waning hope that Mr. Randolph, beloved
ej?.d once at the beck and call
of these very people, would appear
and come into his own. Could she
hnvo <5nrn!s(Jf1 ffint nn tWO SCDarate
occasions the knight errant cf her
thoughts had actually seen her in her
most ravishing bibless evening tucker,
had driven her to two familiar doors,
taken her money with averted face
and without inspecting the "clock,"
and had passed on to some quiet stand
to dream over her new glory and read
the latest batch of ads crying for news
of the whereabouts and welfare of self
?could she have known these apparently
insignificant items in the daily
life of the great city, she would have
wept her lovely eyes out twice over^
(To Be continued next week.)
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