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Show BvB Bn w BvAbiv. v BMb-- BBB k( BBB lew ABBBk V V B SYNOP0I3. BBJ TART I. Robert Uorvey Randolph, BBjl young Now York man-about-town, loaves J the homo of hl sweetheart, Madqo Van BBJ Telller, chagrined because of her rotuaal BBjl of lila proposal of marriage. Ilia Incomo, BBl 110,0)0 a yoar, which ho tnuHt aurrondor BBjl If a. certain MIhs Imogen Pamela Thorn BBjl ton (whom ho has seen only na a small BBjl girl ton years before) Is found, la not BBjl considered by tho girl of hla heart ode- BBl quato to modern needs. In a "don't caro" BBjl mood Uandol,h tutors a taxi, unseen by BBl tho driver, und la driven to tho atage BBj door of a theater. A man he knowa, BBj Duke Ilenmor, Inducca a Klrl to enter the BBJ cab, Dcanier, attempting to follow, la BBJ' v pushod back by Randolph and tlio cab BBJ movca on. Ills new acquaintance tells BBJ llandolph sho la a chorus Klrl, and has BBj) loHt her position. Sho la In dlatrcaa, oven BBJ hungry, and ho takes hor to his apart BBjl mont. Tlioro, after lunch, a chance ro BBjl mark convinces him tho Klrl Is tho miss- BBjl Iiik Pamela Thornton. Ho does not tell BBJ hor of hur good fortune, but aocures hor BBJ promlao to stay In tho Hat until tho BBj mornltiK, and leaves tier. In a whimsical Hflfl mood, also realizing that tho girl's rqup- BBJ pearanco lias loft him practically pennl- BBJ lees, ha bribes the taxi driver to let him BBJ take Ids Job, and leaving word with Uie HIS -.- legal representative of tho Thornton os- BBjJ tato whore ho can find Pamela, takes up BBl 't lila new dutlea under tho namo of "Slim BBjJ .' Ilcrvoy." IIo lovca tho girl, but his prldo BBjl forbids him approaching hor under their Hflfl changed conditions. H In six nights ho learned the hoiiih! BBJ tlmt a hunker makes when slender BBl " Angers tickle ltlm tinder the chin ; the Is gnsp of u girl, llrst-klsscd ; the cry of BBJ h young man upon discovering tlie nb BBJ senco of grandfather's gold watch, his BBJ since graduation day; the cluck of a BBJ top-hot fairly sat upon in tho excite-BBJ excite-BBJ nient of a inoment that else would BBJ have been tragic, the exasperating tap, BBJ tap, tap, of a hen-perking tongue that BBJ explained and condoned a murder mys BBJ tery In the next morning's papers, and BBJ tho sou of a ruined youngster who had H played with borrowed money, BBJ All these Incidents took place with BBJ . people whom Mr, llandolph knew or BBJ knew of and Just to show what an ex BBJ tremely honest young man ho was. let BBJ It be said that It did not once occur to BBJ Mm that he need novcr he poor while BBJ humanity supposedly In good stand BBj Ing, continued to lay Itself open to BBJ blnckmall at tho rate of n enso a night. BBJ At the same line, he was not stupid BBJ und occasionally tapped out a missive BBJ loaded with dynamite on the garago BBJ typewriter when no one was around. BBJ Here Is a sample. H "Mr. Polndexter MacGulcr, Sir: As BBJ I was driving you and Miss R. I). BBJ larst night who was foster-mothered BBJ . by an aunt of a frend of n frond of BBJ mine. I heerd you talkln to her and BBl all I got to say Is If I sec you out BBpH with her again short of tho hands of BBJ matrimony I'll get another frend of BBVm mine to get Mr. Itobert Ilerv Ran BBB dolph to tell what he knows about BBB you chenten at cards on Dec. 23 last." BBB Nights that gave birth In the morn BBB lug to such llllternry tit-lilts could BBJ scarcely be called dull, but It was not BBs long before Mr. llandolph found him-BBB him-BBB ' k self threatened by an unexpected mo-BBS mo-BBS notorious employment. Unfortunately BBB for his entertainment, his reputation BBbB ns the one par excellence St. Bernard BBB tlfesaver to tho Inebriate elite spread BBB rapidly throughout the Force so that BBB - the telephone was constantly burdened BBB during the weo hours with the follow-BH follow-BH Ing: "Say, Is Slim Hervey on the job? BB ', Well, when he comes In tell Mm I got BB another tailor-model drunk here what BJBJ has lost his home address from his BH PBF With suspicious suddenness Mr. PH Randolph proceeded to forget half his Pfl school and clubmates and cold-bloolcd-Pfl 1y leave them to their fate and a BB night out. not without coming to grief BBVB on at least one occasion, however. BB "What are you coniln' over mo?" dc-BB dc-BB manded the Irate captain of the Nth PB ft precinct. "You ain't forgot that you BBB was vally to It. II. Randolph for seven BB years, have ya? Has all his frens BBV gone on the wagon?" BH It looked like a loop-hole. "Sure," BPJ suld Slim Hervey promptly. "Ills BB club's near busted what with water-BBS water-BBS drinkers and softs." BB "Sounds klnd-a phony to me." said Pfl the captain grimly, "conslderln" you BBn took this same gent home a week ago BBV come Friday," BH "Did I?" said Slim, and with feigned BBV uurprlso managed finally to recognize BBV tho mess of evening clothes that was BBB huddled on a near-by bench. "You're BH rigid, Captain. lie's drunker than I BBS ever saw him before and besides, lie'e BBB wearln a new set of shirt-studs. Kind BBB of changed his looky." BBB Slim lingered. "Look hero," he mur- BBB mured to the captain confidentially. BBB "You're on to nu but Just let trie BBB whisper. I'm getting to bo tho dollv H ry vngon for all the high-spot soaks BBB In town. The Hist one til' 'em tlmt BBB '' InKes his Jeuelry between the curb BBB f ' and his own front door, just tell me BBB ,-:' whole I gt off, will you? I'm honufct ; BBB ' I ot a reputation, an' 1 toll you, Cap-BBB Cap-BBB t 'tain, 'in wlllln' to bill 'em through for BBB ' ij'oii when you ask for tho homu port, H 's'ut l!'a ')lx u" l,HI humUln' all the bVbVbbI blgh-cx)loslve freight north of Forty-second Forty-second street. Get me?" "Sure, Slim," said tho captain, appreciatively. ap-preciatively. "I'll pass the word, lad." Thus did Mr. Randolph make good his now front namo and a little capital capi-tal besides, working on the stalwart "I'm Getting to Bo the Delivery Warjon for All the High-Spot Soaka In Town." old motto: Kvery knock Is n boost. Instead of becoming a mystery and consequently anathema to the Force, an Impression was created that Slim was a hustler, but clean white goods ready to sacrlflco a faro or two that he might sit high up alongside Caesar's Cae-sar's wife. Ry stopping nt two or three strategically placed police stations sta-tions during tho wind before tho dawn to ticket such drunks as wcro of his acquaintance, he was ablo to give the glad hand of farewell to a job not to his taste. About this time a series of coincidences coinci-dences befell tho young and fevered Fair of the city of New York which would have given pnuso to tho persons Involved had they been ablo to get together and compare the dope. Take what happened to Miss Oeorgletto Ilnttone. Her people had played In hard luck and died. Georgle had secured se-cured n Job and was doing pretty well at It until young Doctor Rones met her and gradually persuaded her that she was threatened with galloi-Ing galloi-Ing consumption. Once he had frightened fright-ened her, the rest looked easy; he would take her out of bad ventilation Into his run-nbout and the open-air out of tho goodness of his heart and the fullness of his purse, he would take care of her. He began by leading her to a Neth-erllmb Neth-erllmb Show and supper afterward. They danced a little and for the first time In her life, but under medlcnl advice, she took something In the way of stimulant after the lnltlnl pret-ty pret-ty cocktail. They Issued from supper and It was when Mr. Chauffeur Slim Hervey heard the whispered address that the game became a threesome. Counting upon tho abstraction, or rather, the concentration of his fares on Interior fittings, Driver Hervey soon switched his cab from the chartered char-tered route and niado for down-town through silent back streets. In Just ten minutes ho drew up at an old-fashioned old-fashioned house in n very quiet square, shut off his engine to tho Idle and wnlted. Not for long. Out of the cab camo a blasphemous exclamation exclama-tion In medical tones and with It a cry of awakening from Georgle. Through one window she looked upon the home of her childhood ; through the other upon that happy railed garden-square, which was the umbrageous gamer-close of all her dearest, purest and dreamiest memories. "Oh 1" she gasped. "No, you mustn't scold him. This Is Just where I want to get out and walk. It's It's extraordinary." extraor-dinary." Then from the curb. "I may be going to die of consumption, doctor, doc-tor, but, after all, I'd rutlior rather die that way." Twist things around a little and you'll get what happened to Miss Terry Ter-ry do Guest with the difference that that beautiful and hungry young woman wom-an who had all but turned her back on Settlement work and her face to the Great White Way, suddenly awoke not In tho moonlit embrace of Clair-monte. Clair-monte. but before the accusing" face of a House In Henry street. Nor was Mr. Slim Hervey partial to sex In salvation. There was the Instance of young Ilertram Rlossoiue who shamo-facedly hurrlod Into his cab a painted, wan-faced waif of tho street with solf-accuslng eyes. No ciibo this of hunted und hunter rather rath-er two struyud bits of weak humanity driven before the unluabhed dogs of poverty nnd lust. How reudlly und uuquestlonlngly the boy slipped from the cab nt his home address, miraculously miracu-lously confused almost ns by the meddling med-dling finger of God with onu very different' How gratefully the girl took tli. possible faro and "something er," and how her tears brimmed when ten minutes later the blue-eyed chauffeur, a wage-earlier like herself, said: "Nothing doing, Sister. The rldo Is on me," and promptly whirled away I While all these Incidents, were engaging, en-gaging, ouch In Its own way, und showed a rensonnble profit to nil concerned, con-cerned, Mr. Randolpli looked upon them more or less as a moans of getting get-ting In his hand during n period of Initiation. Once he felt sure of himself him-self and of his new chauffourlng point of view and attitude toward the guy world from the under side, he begun to haunt the neighborhood of East Ninth street nt the hour when dinners are plenty and taxis scarce. Twice he saw Miss Madge Van Telller carried off In Somebody's private pri-vate car, but he was not discouraged, for ho recognized In the very fact of that public prl'vacy the badge of pie-llmlnury pie-llmlnury outings. In due course his night and hour came. He was hailed by the arriving Mr. Readier Tremont and ordered to stand by; twenty minutes min-utes later he was listening to that gentleman explaining to Miss Van T. that a cylinder had gone wrong on his own cur at the last moment. Miss Madge Van Telller,, upon whom Mr. Randolph hud not laid eyes since tho very definite parting of their ways on the rock of ready cash, was more beautiful tonight than at any other time since the evening of her coming-out coming-out party. The reason was one nnd the same. Tonight, as upon that other, oth-er, sho stood within n threshold and peered out on Life with a big L. A flume was In her cheeks and In her eyes; her lips were hulf-purted and thirsty, her bosom agitated. She was divinely dressed. They were very silent on their way to dinner nt the Knickerbocker, but they exuded an aura of tenso expectancy expect-ancy that made nothing of the glass barrier between them and tho car pilot, pi-lot, who soon felt himself lifted nnd carried on Its wave. Something was cooking beyond n doubt and he then nnd there determined to stick u (1st through the crust of the pie Just before be-fore tho smell of burning. There Is nothing more stereotyped than n night run before the fever hounds of New York. It Is Invnrlably a four-act play that starts with a single sin-gle cocktail and a tasty dinner, goes on to n show peppered with double meanings, thickens at the cabaret In the close harmony of boozo nnd dance music1 nntl flnnlly bursts "somewhere In the country." The first act was easy for Randolph ; ho went on with the villain nnd the leading lady, but once tho revolving door of the hotel hnd clucked on their backs be hnd to withdraw to the wings and dope out a menns of evolving from a super Into a star of tho first magnitude. He decided that It didn't much mutter who wnfted the couple from dlnnci to the show, but that the next entr'act would hold the crux of the night's entertainment, for the cub that secured the freight for the cabaret caba-ret would stand a good chance of milling mill-ing It after the ball. Consequently he was content to pick up n gutter-snipe und then trnll his prey to the theater. "Them is tho two," he said to his ally, suborned with the promise of two bits, cash on delivery, "Hie John with tho high lint and the dream-damo In smoke-colored chiffon." "That's some name for a skirt, Cap," said the extreme youth admiringly, "an' somo skirt, believe me. Nor! I won't forget 'em." And he didn't. No sooner hnd Mr. Readier Tremont, bcnrlng n thistledown thistle-down burden on his arm, swelled out from tho theater with tho anxious look on his face of n man with three cars In tho garage at home and no call number In his left hand waistcoat . pocket, than the Imp was at bis side. I "Say, mister, wanter taxi? Got one ' nt tho head of the lino that I'd give up Just to youse for a dime." "Lead me to It," said Mr. Tremont. "Say," said the snlpo to Randolph ns the car Jumped, "I've took tho boss "I Inside on fer n friend. You watch , yeself." It was a short run to the lair of j the Midnight Rollc, but Mr. Randolph was not surprised at tho double wage he received nor at the murmured conversation con-versation that accompanied It. "Fill up your gas tank and wait for mo at tho Seventh avenue northeast corner. Get me?" "Sure," grunted Mr. Randolph. "Where to. mister?" "Greenwood hostelry," brenthed the i villain. "I'm on," said Mr. Randolph, ran J his car to the comfortably quiet nook designated, dug out a road map of I Manhattan nnd vicinity, scrutinized It carelessly und settled down to meditate. medi-tate. To a select and once affluent few the nnme of the G. hostelry above mentioned will bring certuln vivid recollections and will also placo tho-chronology tho-chronology of this yarn, for tlio said abode of revelry was too good to last very long; It choked to death on Its own popularity and consequent publicity. pub-licity. From the outside, even In Us hey-dny, It presented a most innocuous innocu-ous appearance, Just n renovnted farmhouse farm-house standing under a. clump of veiling veil-ing sugar-maples on tho top of a hill whence tho nearest neighbor was out of sight But once within Its modest portal, Its habitues found themselves In the cleverest fake atmosphere of a pleas '& J' "Walt for Mo at the Seventh Avenue Northeast Corner. Get Me?" urc-lovlng decade. An organizing gen- lus, sensitive to all those cheap adjuncts ad-juncts which usually grate on the soul hovering at the edge of the decline to Avcmus, had pandered effectively to an Ignoble end and made of each smnll room an Isle of forgetf ulness; price, twenty-live bucks in udvunee, supper and drinks extra. For the benefit of those who do not remember the epoch of tho Greenwood Green-wood hostelry und are consequently reading on and on In mortal dread of the paragraph that will Introduce the War, let It be said at once, Forget 1L Stake out the beginning of tho International Inter-national mix-up, burl another boundary bound-ary mark Into November of, 101S, and the time left outside of thoso limits will bo found entirely sufficient to the needs of this chronicle. Let It further be noted thnt It Is Inconceivable that n single drop of the kind of blood which flowed In the veins of Mr. Robert Rob-ert Hervey Randolpli could ever answer an-swer to the name of slacker, proof positive In Itself that the events herein set forth happened when tho War didn't. Mr. Slim Hervey, chauffeur, was still plunged In reverie when his senses were nssalled by a whiff of lilac, a mere nuance of perfume, that proclaimed pro-claimed the approach of Miss Madge Vnn Telller. He Jumped out Just In time to throw open the door of his cab for the couple add take the murmured mur-mured order of Mr. Readier Tremont. "All right. Hit It up for Greenwood." Luckily for the cubman's entertainment, entertain-ment, his engine wns working In silent si-lent perfection thnt night. The Inte hour gave him almost undisputed right of way so that driving becajuo an automatic adjustment of bis course in line with the curb nnd relensed his attention to gorge Itself at leisure with eaves-dropping. Ry squirming his shoulders he managed to cock one oar over the top of his high overcoat collar; It was the ear next to the open speaking-slot. "What a dream of n night," said i the clear voice of Miss Van Telller. t "Shall I be a traitor to my sex, and 1 betray one of Its secrets to you?" "Please do," murmured Mr. Tremont. Tre-mont. From the very tone of his voice one could divine that he hud slipped nn arm around her and wns holding her close. "Well. It's this," sho continued. I "Women nre not conquered by ninn ' alone, but by man and atmosphere. We never rush at the precipice; we flutter toward It with many stops nnd pauses. The silliest breezes of Impulse Im-pulse may carry us on or n puff of unkind aid hold us buck. It all really depends on the man Imposing his atmosphere at-mosphere so steadily that the drifting soul of woman forgets Its Inborn title to vagrancy and sleepily assumes Its enemy's goal." "Madge," said Mr. Tremont almost earnestly, "you frighten me. I never knew you could talk Mice that. You frighten me becnuso I have o terror of analyzed personal relations." Randolph could hear a faint rustling of her robo ns though sho had nestled closer to her escort. "I never meant to startle you, Headier," her voice continued, not quite so clenr. Into Its tone had crept, hesitatingly, a trace of unaccustomed emotion. "I was only wnrnlng you. Kvery man can make a world of his arms for one woman; not nil can hold the Illusion- to beyond be-yond possession." "I can, If you will only help me," whispered Tremont, nnd pnused as though his own earnestness were taking tak-ing him by surprise. "I wonder," suld Miss Van Telller. "You havo played the right game. You hnvo never said a vulgar thing to mo or stooped to the usual hypocrisies; hypo-crisies; thoso are compliments by Inference In-ference that have thittered tho best that Is In me. You have set the play In a high plane that winning, wins all of me; but " "Rut what?" asked Tremont. "Rut there Is danger In the high lllght," finished Miss Van Telller. "An air-pocket In your atmosphere and, pouf I nil Is lost tho good In mo that you will have missed us well as the bad that you could liue won by a baser effort." "What do you mean?" asked Tre-uont, Tre-uont, no longer ma'tlng tho slightest ffort to hide his awakened Interest. "I wns thinking." said Miss Van Teller, Tel-ler, dreumlly, "that every woman Is i group of three Individuals. Shall I tell you their names?" "Yes," said Tremont. "The first," continued tho girl, her voice floating from her ns though carried on the buom of her dream, i "Is called Flesh; tho second, Spirit, and the third the third I shall name the Veiled God," "Madge I" cried Tremont, nnd Randolph, Ran-dolph, listening with all his ears, could almost feel the clutch on his own arms with which the man had seized the girl's, ns though to drag her back from her mind's far distance. "People wonder." she continued, her mood unbroken, "at the wreck of apparently ap-parently perfect marriages and yet It's so simple to any woman that It's amazing that 1 should be the first to display our open secret Only the complete lover can he secure of his beloved, Readier. Ho who wins her flesh alone leaves her spirit to betray htm, and he who wins the spirit atone Is In mortal danger of the woman of the flesh." "The cxplnnntlon." said Tremont, whimsically, "Is so feminine thnt It confuses. If you hnd said that each woman Is n trinity and must bo thrice won before a mnn's honor can feel secure, understanding would he a simple sim-ple matter. Did you leave out the Veiled God purposely or Just to be different nnd nvold the obvious?" "To avoid the obvious Is an Instinct of breeding," said Miss Van Telller, "nnd I would never blush for doing It ; but where would your thoughts he now If I hnd suld Just what you expected, If I had treated tho Veiled God as a mutter of fnctl Oh. no I One can clip with words tho wings of flesh nnd spirit, hut not of tho Veiled God In woman, for Its very essence Is n deferred de-ferred possession." She pnused, but ns Tremont clung to the silence, she presently continued! contin-ued! "The complete lover Is the man who having conquered all the heights of flesh and spirit In his mistress, dwells consciously In the presence of nn undiscovered god nnd gazes out upon a broad land eternally promised, never materially seized. Few are the men few are the men " Her voice trailed off as though her thoughts had run ahead of words and reached fltinl-Ity fltinl-Ity without the use of the spoken phrase. "Few are the men who attain to thnt serene security," Tremont finished fin-ished for her, only hnlf conscious of what ho wns snylng. Randolph could her tho rustle of her turning to her companion, "now wonderful," she snld. "That Is what I thought, but didn't say." "Madge," said Tremont, "whnt hnvo you done? It's true thnt I have never stooped to hypocrisies with you nnd thnt I hnvo never while with you spoken n vulgnr word. Did you think thnt I have been knowingly wise? Well, I hnven't. I didn't know until this moment why I chose n rare and high atmosphere to reach you. Now I know. It was because you were there. I chose only to como to you rather than drag you down to the drab of the uvunl. What you have done Is to carry me higher thnn I ever meant to go. You have taken mo off tho beaten path nnd showed me nn unexpected un-expected trensure. I'm no longer myself. my-self. I am cold and nfrnld." Randolph could feel that the speaker speak-er was drawing nwny from the girl and it moment Inter bis senses wcro to surpass themselves In nddltionnl divination. "You are afraid of that woman In me?" asked Miss Van Telller Tel-ller softly. "What about this one?" t And then It wns that Randolph's deductive de-ductive antennae quivered under their burden of Intelligence. IIo knew ns certainly ns though ho hud fuced about that an adorable Madge, tender and wide-eyed, hud slipped her buro arms nrotind Rcncher Tremont's neck nnd kissed htm on the mouth. There wns n long silence; then enmo Tremont's voice, thick and strange to the enr. "A moment ugo," It snld, "I wns afraid for you; now I'm afraid for myself. I nm llko n ninn who has carelessly dropped a lighted match and finds himself within with-in the ring of n pralrlo fire. I can only wonder at my stupidity in thinking think-ing of you In connection with n casual possession nnd not as a consuming tlame. You see? Already you have burned through the thin crust of lies thnt guards man from definite seizure by woman any womnn." "Kiss me, Rencher," murmured tho girl's voice as though his words had swirled around and by her, leaving I her purpose untouched. "Take mo nnd hold me carefully where no unkind un-kind air can drive me from you. Take all tho women In me ono by one If you must." At thnt moment Mr. Robert H. Randolph. Ran-dolph. In the person of Slim Hervey, chauffeur, very nenrly wrecked his four-cylinder nrgosy with Its burden of three fates, still Individually and collectively Indispensable to tho continuity con-tinuity of this yarn. Ho missed the ditch by a hair's breath, caught his own with u gasp, returned to the middle mid-dle of Him brond highway and fixed his attention on n certain very definite mntter with which It had been more or less constantly concerned ever since ho hnd been directed to hit It up for Greenwood. Tho road to that well-known hostelry hostel-ry wns usefully devious and fares were seldom worried as to how any particular driver set out to find this choicest of needles In the liny-stack of the country Inns that dot the land-I land-I scape of Westchester and ndjncent counties as long us ho brought the I senrch to a successful end somewhere this side of the pangs of hunger. j Nevertheless, had not Mr. Tremont, himself a motorist of no mean expert 1 ence, been completely absorbed by thfc sudden discovery that ho had his right arm uround nn entirely new world, he would have been struck Inevitably In-evitably by two things. First, that this was certainly not nny one of the climbing roads to the Greenwood hostelry; hos-telry; second, that the wheel knew more nlvi-n w-j2::s"-j'- " ---- In the vicinity of Mnnhntt ing it again than did the roadmaps of tho United Stu, Its allies supposing it to havo had allies nt tho time. However, Mr. Tremont's Tre-mont's absorption wns not only absolute abso-lute but continuous so thnt It held him In Its Inexornblo grip right up to the moment of ghastly awakening and even over the edge. Ho wns Just saying. say-ing. "My darling, never fear. I'm taking you to n place so quiet and so gunrded that this dream which you havo dressed In nn unexpected glory can flow on unbroken as long as we arc true to it and to ourselves," when the cab drew up at n solemn nnd Impressive Im-pressive portnt. Without leaving his seat, the cab-ninn cab-ninn reached bnck, unhitched the door and threw It open. "Greenwood cemetery, ceme-tery, sir," he barked. Tho girl was first to grasp the words, tho time and the place. "Oh t'! she gasped, and in the sound of hW, cry Mr. Randolph could divine her whole body suddenly stiffening to n tense nwnkenlng nnd to the stabbing memory of the Inst tlmo, she hnd come to this still place, her heart bursting wth Its long farewell to all that was left of her mother. Then came Mr. Readier Tremont's voice In oldtlme familiar tones. "Greenwood cemetery! Why. you trl- 'Greenwood Cemetery, Sir," He Barked plicate blockhead, I said Greenwood hostelry. Of nil the d n fools I What the devil What the h 11 What the What" He choked himself into a gulping Innrtlculuto silence as he climbed from the cnb to look in tlio face the sum total of all human stupidity. No sooner hnd he alighted than Miss Van Telller found herself In voice agnln. "Oh I ohl" sho moaned, pressing her hands to her eyes, nchlngly open, "tnko me nway from here." "Sure, miss," said Mr. Randolph promptly, threw in his clutch and was off. "Ill, you I D n you! Hey! You! Driver! Confound your d d Impertinence Imper-tinence 1 Hey! How nm I going to get home?" The first of these cries wus very plainly, the last very faintly heard by Mr. Randolph. After them enme down the wind something thnt I sounded very much llko the ghost of I n wall of despair, but tho driver paid ! no heed. His attention was absorbed by something quite different; the dry sobs of u little heap of smoke-colored chiffon. Detours, subterfuges and the finesse of tho road-faker were swept from Randolph's mind; ho made straight for tho bridge and home, but long before be-fore they reached tho river nil sound hnd censed to Issue from the cab and In Its stead reigned a purposeful, nl-most nl-most menacing silence. Whnt was sho thinking In there? Whnt could she think? Why didn't sho go right on crying nnd keep her ralnd fully occupied with thnt? As they swept down tho Incline from tho bridge Into City Hall park j ho suddenly realized that he had been I on the verge of giving himself nway. He hnlf turned his head nnd shouted through the spenklng-slot, "What address, ad-dress, miss?" Her voice came back to him from very doso ns though her face had been pressed to the glass In an effort to mnke him out. "At tho corner of tho Avenue nnd East Ninth street." Ten minutes later he drew up his I cab ut the appointed spot nnd reached I hack to throw open the door, but kept I his foot on tho clutch release, leaving tho gears In mesh, first speed abend. All his precautions were In vain. As ho opened the cab door his cont sleeve wus seized In n very determined grip und drawn Inward, catching his elbow In n jlu-Jut.su levcrnge thnt left him the Ilohson's choice of either get ting out nnd facing his captor or listening lis-tening to his arm break. Ho chose to get down from his seat quickly. "Well, Robby," murmured Miss Van T. Mr. Randolph attempted no evasion; he handed the lady to tho curb and guided her gently toward her own door and up tho high steps. "Madge." ho said, "you fought u great fight t,o I night and when you had wou yovCJit sorry for Tremont and surrenrfeird. You were swept too high on the wave of the best thnt Is In you. Promise mo that you won't forget that you havo won. Promise mo thnt you will wait and take Tremont, all of him, with honor." "What do you mean? What did you hear?" cried Miss Vnn T. angrily, her Dale face suddenly flushing. |