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Show I Ftaxi f a" it H Am A Adventure H ; By George Agnew Chamberlain Romance BjHfl Ooprright.Th llobbt Merrill Oompin; ' , ' KIM. J HSfti if, HftV PART III Continued. H "Can't V raid Miss Tliortitnn, with BB ft new edge to her voice nnd something lH In her cycR that lunilc them look un HUBf though they were passing In review KSVC tlo iinchaperoned years since first rofll tnnde her debut oh un Independent KIH icullery-mnld nt Mrs. llluuktim's feed- HlBH house. "1 shall change nothing here." MfB Ml, concluded. "When Itimdy Mr. HH Unndolph comes back, he shan't 11ml HH l place cluttered with females" HH Mr- Mllyuns turned on her n gaze HjH that wns complex with ndmlrnthm and - rcnllznllon Hint he was on the way HftVfl to biting oft more than he could chew. HB.HK lie decided to sidestep. HBV MCim you be In this afternoon?' he HH "Oh, yes," Raid Pumeln, Involuntnr- VMVB "y glancing nt the door and betraying IH half-formed Intention to watch that RH portal night and day until death or HH Mr. Itohcrt Ilcrvey Itandolph arrived ; KM "I'll be In. Why?" yAVMH "Mrs. Mljyuus and my daughter IflH Eileen will cnll on you at about live," HH explained Mr. Mllyuns. "Just one BAV '"ore matter nnd I must go," he con- HH tinned. "Your Income umnunts to H something over eight hundred doll urn H a mouth. I slml! pay It In advance MVMVJ until you get settled and hnve n B chance to catch up " VMVMVA 'Tlcuso send mo only half," said SI I'aincla, as she roso to Hay good-hy. H Mr. Mllyuns took her hand, dropped MVMVJ It, nnd started toward the door; but Vfl before he got there, he stopped nnd SftSH AwMVB "My dear," ho said, losing for the H moment his blrdllkc, chirpy pose, "I H don't want you to think of me us just H your hanker. I knew your father nnd H your mother, nnd their futhors and mothers heforo them. I am fond, by flVKVB old usage, of every drop of blood that runfl ln 'our veins. You won't forget B ruuieln stared nt him, swept toward j 1dm, throw her arms round his neck, H hugged him, dropped her face on his j shoulder nnd wept. Mr. Ilorden Mil- H yuus stood very erect, his bald head H held high, his pink checks pulTcd out, j nnd his eyelids blinking at the rate of H fifteen to the dozen In a vain effort to B tnn ,mcl "" """"-'"K luchrymatory In- H "Theie, there 1" ho said, patting Pom- H 'Pitt un the back. "Who would have thought It, you adorable, lonely little B B I'umeln threw up her head nnd H turulcd through the sudden summer B shower, H "I know It wns ridiculous," she said, j "Rut I couldn't lielp It. You mnde me H llko you all of n sudden, nnd 1 Just had B to, because you've had n bath and you H look so clenu Insldo and out." She H kissed him us she broko away. Bf "I see; I see," said the astounded B Mr. Mllyuns, nnd beat It. ftVB At two mlnuies after five the door- bell rang again. In splto of the fact ftwfl that It was almost exactly the hour which Mr. Mllyuns had set for the nr- ftwfl rival of his wife and daughter, Pamela BV couldn't help hoping but In vain. It ' wns with n slightly resigned nlr that ftfB she received Mrs. and Miss Mllyuns AfB Instead of Mr. Itnbcrt Itandolph. ftf Mrs. Mllyuns Hew to her, set hands BftVB on her shoulders, searched her fuce ftfB with cnger flhrcwd eyes, and snld: ftfB "Ilorden Indeed told inn the truth ftVM about you, my dear. May I kiss you?" H Pamela extended one cheek to the ftVJl salute while her eyes wniidered off to ftffl else up thn tall, blonde, cool young ftH person that slut surmised must answer bVB to the iniino of Eileen Mllyuns. Helug bVB tho product of two shorts, how on BftVJ earth bad she managed to grow so B Seng? Her face was regularly benutl- B ful, .ns though It had been carefully fl' v made to order llko her clothes She up- HU pcared us passive us u Palmer snow- B B ' After n little skirmishing for posl- ftfi tlon, tho three Indies seated them- ftf selves In n trlnhgle. Into the center of H which tho well-trained Tomllnson run KVB- "Now," snld Mrs. Mllyuns. bnvlng H' emptied and put down her cup, "let's Bl forget tho sheer romnnre of the slttia- B; .' (Ion, my dear, and get down to prae- Blj lcl11 problems. The llrst of all things. Hf us you must reullre, Is the nccevdly of ftfs getting you n couipuulon. Would yon BB Clir" 1o IU "1,r KUUSt '" Madlsoi)-uveuur BftV , until you can pick one out?" SB "I would put clothes alien 1 of i IH liousecut," murmured Klleen. H Her mother Ignored tho remark uml J kept her eyes tlxed on MIhh Tlioriilnti's B perplexed face. That young lady seemed BBI In no lack of Miinethlni; to mi inn rather In search of words and ihu 8W ulunglng courage iiecoximry to the say- H lug. h'lie drew n long breath and dellv- H ered herself of tho following: Mt "Iteully, It's most awfully k'ud of V you, but, as 7 told Mr. Mllyuns. '1'oua- llnson is such a dear that I am going Bh t0 continue IiIl-i as my companion." v. "Tomllnson I " exclaimed Mrs. Mil- B runs, nnd then smiled Indulgently for Bp the first time during tho interview, he- lug under the Impression that at Inst B ' fiho bod run into something upproprN B ately tmlvo In the bearing of her now B. charge. "Of course you can keep him B en; but you must realize that you can't B live .hero without a woman In the Mr home." , "Oh, ye. I enn," said .Miss Thornton, a little breathlessly. "I have a feeling feel-ing I can't explain It exactly that this apartment Is a one-woman setting. As 1 snld to Mr. Mllyuns. I don't want to clutter It with females." A silent laugh crept Into the eyes of the tiinrblcsiUi Klleen; something Inside In-side of her sat up and took notice. She glanced round the room and murmured: mur-mured: "Mother, she's absolutely right. I'm for her." "Hlght!" Klleen I" exclaimed Mrs. Mllyuns, Hushing In her Indignation at tlndlng a traitor In the home camp- "I don't know what your generation Is coming to. The Impossible Is never Wght." Having taken up her suave cudgel, Klleen was In no hasto to lay It down, nnd may It he pointed out right here that Miss Imogene Pamela Thornton had the rare faculty of enlisting the nearest bystander to assume her buttles but-tles for her, thenceforth becoming n charmingly Interested onlooker, ready to watch tho tide of her own fortune from the vautagc-polnc of an entirely Impersonal detachment. "That's where you slipped, mother," continued the quite unrullled Klleen. "There's nothing Impossible to' our generation. Impossibilities are our food, drink nnd raiment. We're like thoso surprising orchid things that defy de-fy the usual laws and llvo on air." "Yes," remarked Mrs. Mllyuns; "any new nlr. Hut I didn't bring you here, Klleen, to bo n stumbling-block to to Pnmeln, who Is suddenly faced with problems In the solution of which she deserves our sympathetic assistance." "You've hit the nail on the head ngnln, mother," parried Klleen. "You're not In sympathy with her, and I ntn; so you'd better hand over her check, nnd tomorrow morning nt ten I'll be hero to help her cash nnd spend It If necessary." She turned to Pamelu with a twinkle of anticipation In her eyes. "How about It?" Pamela smiled bnck her bubbling smile, nnd then suddenly grew grave. "Do you think I could order by measure?" she asked, nnd, remarking the hurt astonishment on Eileen's face, continued In rapid hut neverthe- And Were Soon Involved In an Orgy of Trylno On. less halting exp'anntlon: "You see, It's Mr. Itandolph. This Is really his apart ment, and he may be back almost any any day. I I don't want to miss him. I I wouldn't bo out when he conies, for anything." "Il'm," Interjected Mrs. Mllyuns. but befuie she could make any further progress along that line. Klleen was on her feet and saying goodby among these other things: "That's all nonsense. If Hobby found j nu here Just as he loft you, the fiistjktlme he decided to turn up, ho U'shl never nppenr again. Hut If he tSudS'.wm nfter two or three unsuccessful unsuccess-ful e, Ms and Just one day's shopping, he vl. never loavo. Tomllneou will hnv to brow him out." "Toniln son couldn't," snld Pamela with calm otnplucency. (Jruduall. the suiv shot made by Miss Mllyuns began to ake effect. The thought of new clotlks new smurt K'AllS lllrv ni-DMlllf nntlilm- fllt..v .Im. dergnrinouts. nnd solld-sllk hosiery-stole hosiery-stole Pamela from her Intention of eternal vigilance and led her to say : "After all. 1 will go with you. If It really Isn't asking too much of you." Thus was Mrs. Mllyuns side-trncked for keeps, ntul on the following morning morn-ing tho two young Indies were waftetl down-town In Mr. Mllyuns' best limousine limou-sine and proceeded to open n chain of credit-accounts, ou tho bare say-Bo of Klleen and In tho nanio of Miss I. P. Thornton, that spoke volumes for the former's exclusive taste In fashion-nble fashion-nble purveyors nnd financial ability to humor It. Possibly the two would hnve shopped up to the moment of the present writing hnd it not been tor i i 1 4 the fact that Pnmctu knew all about money from the short end. "I have finished," she suddenly announced. an-nounced. "Finished what?" asked Klleen. "Finished shopping," snld Pamela "I've been keeping account, and l'v spent almost the whole check." "The whole check?'" exclaimed Klleen. "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 ma three years ago." Pamela smiled a smile of much wisdom wis-dom and made for the nearest exit As a matter of polite formality, when they reached Fifty-ninth street, nlie asked Klleen to come up for lunch from the bachelon's buffet In the basement, and she could not help a slight feeling of relief at the news Mint Miss Mllyuns had promised herself elsewhere. ''Hut I'll break away and come for tea at live. If you'll let me," said Klleen. Kl-leen. "I simply must help you try them nil ou." "All right; do," nhl Pnmeln, Inwardly Inward-ly pleowd Hint she would diavo some one beside Tomllnson upon whom to flush the first dazzling vision of her metamorphosis. The first thing she did when sho reached the apartment was to ask If Mr. Itandolph had called ; the next wns to summon the olllcc of Mllyuns, Hrnnch & Mllyuns on the telephone to know what steps hnd been taken In tho new search. She was somewhat surprised sur-prised to learn that the entire firm had gone out to lunch In a body, and still more startled at tho Information, obtained ob-tained three iimrs later from the same supercilious voice nt the other end o( tile wire, to the effect that none of them Vad come back. She wns young; she believed It. There Is no doubt that In five minutes min-utes more Mr. Gloom would hnve assumed as-sumed full sway In tho late apartment of Mr. Ilohcrt II. Itandolph had not A long procession of parcels begun to arrive ar-rive In the nick of time. Tomllnson brought them Into the bedroom, one, two, three at n haul, nnd Pnmeln herself her-self cut the knots with Mr. Hniulolph's best uall-sclssors and laid out the goods, filmy fold upon filmy fold. Hy the time Klleen turned up the apartment looked like the stateroom de lux of n millionaire young lady returning re-turning from Paris with nothing to wear nnd preparing to swear to It before be-fore all the custom;) otllclals In Gotham. Goth-am. Tumllusou was ordered to fill the cellar with wrapping-paper, tissue-paper, cardboard boxes nnd Htrlng, burn-lug burn-lug what wus left over In the back y.rd. As soon as sufllclent space had been cleared for action, the two girls set to work, and were soon Involved In such nn orgy of "trying on" ns only the healthiest stamina of youth could have endured without falling over In n dead fulut from exhaustion. Kven Klleen divested her person of everything every-thing but, and experimented with such deur garments as It seemed liuuosslble Miss' Thornton could get round to In tho allotted time. Having tried to. show the public how ehunnlng was Pameln In nnd without her cheap clothes, no puerile and gasp-Ing gasp-Ing effort will bo made In these pages to measure the efTect upon her of the Infest creations of the raiment dream-gods dream-gods of Fifth nvenue. SulUce It to say that, In one hour's twinkling of tho eye, she beennio such n radiant vision as chokes mere words down Into tho pit or n mnn's stomach, mnkes his Jaw work like that of n fish on n hot sidewalk, side-walk, fills his eyes with the pleading light of calf-love and Inspires bis hands with nn overmastering desire to reach for It. For two, four, six days, a week, two weeks. Pamelu lived In breathless anticipation an-ticipation of the moment when slip could hurst upon the eyesight of one Hubert Hervey Itundolph, and when nil these days and weeks passed without with-out any news of him, her lips that were made to smile, to kiss, nnd to bless Hie nlr with words softly spoken and carried ou the fragrance of clean young breath began to droop pitifully. Mr. .Mllyuns' efforts In several directions direc-tions hnd so far proved lu vain. He had advertised In every pner In Gotham, Goth-am, from the New York Kpcxh to the pluk Police Gazette; he had offered rewards; lie hud set traps and was now supporting a large corps of rapidly rap-idly fattening Individuals who culled themselves "plain-clothes" men n nome that would hove fitted thimi admirably ad-mirably hod the Inst syllable bei-n omit-ted. omit-ted. His net results were the Information Infor-mation Hint Sir. Hnndolpb. In reprehensible repre-hensible state of Intoxication uml at seven o'clock of the morning of which he had disappeared, hnd exchanged his swell evening garments at a second-1 hand emporium on Sixth avenue for n suit of thicks nnd eighteen dollars In I ensh, stating, as he left the p!ac that be was thinking of going South for the rest of tho winter. (TO I1B CONTINUED.) |