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Show vlI gktBWv ami vTVTVTT h elIb TK-BTiB Lje-sE alB ft fc. l SYNOPSIS. . I ' PAIIT I.-rtoberl Itervey TUndelph,. young New fork man-about-tonn, leaves the home of hU sweetheart, Madge Van Telllcr, chagrined because ot hr refusal of hi proposal of marriage. HU Income, SIOJOOO a year, which he mutt eurrender If a certain Mies Imogen Pamela Thorn-ion Thorn-ion (whom he haa Men only ae a small Ctrl ten years before) Is found, le hot considered by the girl sf his heart adequate ade-quate to modern needs. In a "don't care" mood rtandol-h enters a taxi, unseen by the driver, aad Is driven te the stage door of a theater. K man he knows, Dvk Bmbw, Induces a girt U enter the U. Bestow, atWaapUag te follow. Is pusses baet by ftandalpb an th cab betes eau SO ew acaoalatanc tells nanela fa oserae girl, and baa tost ker oastUM. She hi Id estr, eve buogTj. a4 ta take ket to Ms apart-meat apart-meat There, attar keaeta, ft abaa r snarl Has 8 M ta rk Missing Miss-ing ra SnsM. K dee t tati her of her g4 ttuma, kt mm bar prsasls to stay ta the Sat InM Us mcrnfmg. eat leaves keft J a wMasalasJ moed, else reaUatsa that lb girl's reappearance reap-pearance has left kin BTaeUcally penniless, penni-less, he bribe th taxi driver te let him calre his job, and leaving word with the legal representative t th Therntan estate es-tate where he can And Pamela, takes up his nsw duties under the name of "Ullro llervey." lie lovee th girl, but his pride forbids him approaching her under their changed conditions. VAtlT II. One evening he la engaged by Beacher Treraont, notorloua profligate, to drlv lAm and lladge Van Telller to a hostelry known aa "Greenwood." Aware of the vll nature of the place, Randolph drives the pair to Qreenwood cemetery." Infuriated, Deacher geta out of the cab nd Randolph,. leave him there, taking th girl (who' haa awakened to a reiOlia-tlon reiOlia-tlon of her folly) to ber home. Uadfo recosnlses him. sir, MUyuns took her lianU, dropped i It. and stnrted toward the door; but before lie got there, he atopped and turned. - r "My dear," he said, losing for th ""moment hla birdlike, chirpy pose, "I ,slnn't want you to, think of me as Just 3 our banker. I knew yodf father and I ',5 our mother, and heir fathers and i mothers before them. I em fond, by i Id usage, ot ctcry drop of blood Uiat runs In your veins, l'ou won't forget that,, will jou?" 1 ' Pamela stared nt him, swept toward ' fift '''m' "ircw ,ier arms round his neck, I fff hugged him, dropped her face on his I houlrrandi wept. vMr. Borden Mil- juris "stood very erect, 'hls'Yalif 'Jiehd held high, his. pink cheeks puffed nutc ' end his eyelids blinking at the rate of i fifteen to the dozen In a vain effort to I ' fan bnck un amazing lachrymntory In undation. "There, there I" he said, patting Pamela Pam-ela on the hack. "JVho would have thought It, you adorable, lonely little jllrl?" t i'nmela threw tip her head and smiled through the sudden summer shower. 1 "I know It was ridiculous," she said, "Hut I couldn't help It. Xou made, me ' Jlke-you all of n sudden, and I Just had to, because you're hnd a bath and 'you . ' Jook so clean inside and out." Sht fcissed him as she broko away, l "J re; I seo," said tht astounded Mr. Mllyuna, and beat it. ", , i A( two minutes after five th door-Veil door-Veil rang again. Ih irplte of th fact that it was almost exactly the liour Which Mr. Mllyuna had set for th, arrival ar-rival ot hla wife and daughter, Pamela touldn't help hoping hut In Taln.J It Mas with i slightly resigned air pat I alio received Urn. and Miss Mtlyuus ' . . Instead of Mr, Robert Jtandolph. i Airs. Mllyuna flew to' her, act hands it her ahouldtrs, aearched her fact itvlth eager ahrewd eyes, and aald:k "Ilorden Indeed 'told too 'the truth about yon, ray dear. May I klsa y6u ." I'nmela oxtended on check to the salute while ner'eyea wandered off to j air.e op th tall, blonde,' cool young . person that ah surmised must answer to the nam ot Eileen Mllynns. Being , the product of two shorts, how oa nrth bad she managed , t .grow, e ' long! Ber face waa secularly bcautl-, bcautl-, ful, aa though It had been carefuUy ! - made to order like her clothes. Etienp- pi'arcd as passive as Palmer enow- aenpe. After little skirmishing for position) posi-tion) the three ladles eeated them-i them-i eelvea la a triangle, Into the center) of J which the well-trained Tomllnson ran 9 ta-wagon. "Now." said Mrs. Mllyuna; hatjng I emptied and put down her cop, "let'a forget the sheer romance of tho situation, situa-tion, my dear, and get down to prac- tlcal problems. The first of all things, fm vou must realize, la the necessity of Z St'ttiug you a companion. Would you carp to be our guest In Madlsou nvcijue tmtll you can pick one out?" "I would, put clothes nhead of o i housecat,' murmured Ullccn. i x Hpr mother Ignored the remark nnd kept her eyes fixed on Miss Thornton's perplexed fuco. That young ludy heen ed In no lack of something to sny- but I ... rather In search of words nnd tho ) .. plunging courage necessary to tho say-( say-( Ing. She drew a long breath and dellv- " red herself ot tho following: ' "Jleally, it'a most awftilly kind of u you, hut, aa I told Mr. MUyuns, Tom- thisoijja. Bacti, a dm that I aw AoitiS r- i to continue hlin as my. companion." " Tomllnson 1' " exclaimed Mr. Mil-yuna, Mil-yuna, and then stnlted Indulgently for the first time during the Interview being be-ing under the Impression that at last she hnd run Into smtiethlng appropriately appropri-ately naive in the hearing of her new charge. "Of courso you can keep him on', but j-nu rntint ritlre thit yon can't llu l.e.u w.a.oui a wouinu In the house." "Oh, yen. I can," said Mis Thornton, a little breathlessly, "I have a feeling feel-ing I can't explain It1 exactly that this apartment Is a one-weman setting. A I said to Mr. Mllyuua, I deo'l want te clutter it wit femalea." A silent laugh crept. Into the eyes of the msrblesqu Eileen; semethlna In-eld In-eld f her eat upen4 took notice. Rhe lanced reaal Ike mat aid mur farad; "Meteor, W abselately right. I'm fer her." .'"lttghtC BlleenI" exclaimed Mrs. MUyuns, flushing ta her Indignation at finding a traitor Id the homo camp. "I don't know what your generation Is coming to. The Impossible Is never right." ' t MuvUig taken up her suave cudgel, Eileen was In no hnste to lay It down, nnd niny It be pointed out right here that Miss Imogene Pamela Thornton had the rare faculty of enlisting the nearest bystander to nssumo her battles bat-tles for her, thenceforth becoming a chnrmlngly Interested onlooker, ready to watch tho tide of 'her own fortune from the vnnfage-poinf of an entirely Impcrsonahdctachment. ThaXs y here, you slipped, mother," continued the quite .unnimed Kileen. "TJiPrc'a nothing Impossible to our 'generation. Impossibilities are our 'food, drink and raiment. We're like those surprising orchid things that defy de-fy the nsanl L- -' s :tr." '"Ves," remarked Air. Mllyuna; "any new air. But I didn't bring you here, Kileen, to be a atumbllng-btock to to Pamela, who Is suddenly faced with problems In the solution of which she deserves our sympathetic assistance." "Tou've hit tho nail on the hend again, mofher,ft parried Eileen. "You're not In sympathy with her, and I am; so you'd better hand over her check, nnd tomorrow morning at ten I'll bo here to help her cash and spend It It necessary.'' Bhe'turncd to 'Pamela' with a twinkle, of anticipation In her eyes. "How about It!" Pamela smiled hack her bubbling smile, nnd then suddenly grew grnvo. "Do you think I could order by measure?" she asked, nnd, rcmnrklnc the hurt nstonlshment on Hlleen'a face, continued In rapid but neverthe-Ie neverthe-Ie jmlllnK explanation: "You see, It's Mr. Ilnndolph, Thin Is really hla npart-went, npart-went, and he may be bock almost any any day. I I don't want to miss Mm. I I wouldn't be out when he comes, for anything," "U'm," Interjected Mrs. MUyuns, but before she could make any further progress along that Una, Eileen was oa her feet and elnff food-by " among thcee other things! "Tbat'a all nonsense. If Bhty found yeti hero just aa ho left you. the first time bo decided to tarn trp, ho might never appear agala. Sat If he flnda you after two or throe tinsueeess-fal tinsueeess-fal calls and Jtjet one day's shopping, ho will never leave, Tomllnson will have to throw him out" "Tomllnaon couldn't," said Pamela, with calm ooraplaeercy. " Gradually the aura ehet roado y Miss Mllyuna began to take effect The thought of new clothes new smart suits, airy evening nothing, filmy undergarments, un-dergarments, and eolld-ellk hosiery atolo Tamela from, her Intention of etenial vigilance and led her to any: 1 (t "At teT aU. I will go with yon, It really lent asking too moon of you." Thus waa Mr, Mllyuna side-tracked 'for kecpa, and on the following morning morn-ing the two young ladles were wafted down-town tn Mr. Mllyuna best limousine limou-sine and proceeded to open a chain of crcdlt-ftccounta, ea the bare aay-eo ot Kileen and In the name of Mlm X. V. Thornton, that spoke Tolumea for the former's exclusive taste In fashion-ablo fashion-ablo 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 tho fact that Pamela knew all about money from the short end. "I have finished," she suddenly announced. an-nounced. "Finished what?" asked Kileen. "Finished shopping," aald Pamela. "I've been keeping account and Pve spent almost tho whole, check." ""Tho whole check!"' exclaimed JUlcen. "Why, you haven't touched It, That's tho benuty of chnrge accounts. You can keep your chcekR to look nt I'to got some that father gave me three years ago." Pamela smiled a smile of much wis-dom wis-dom and inado for tho nearest exit As a matter of polllo formality, when tlioy reached Fifty-ninth street, she asked Kileen .to ceme up for lunch from tho bnchelorj hnffet In thjefcflBcrnnt, and the could not Btfp it slight reolTEf 3 relief at the newt that MIm Mllyvos had promised herself elsewhere. "But III break away and eeme for tea at five, If you'll let roe," oald Eileen. Ei-leen. "I almply tnust bel yea try them all on." "All right; do," aald Pamela, Inwardly Inward-ly pleaded that she would have aome one beside Tomllueon upon whom to flash the first dassllng vision of her metamorphosis. The first thing she did when she readied the apartment waa to ask If Mr. Randolph had cnlled; the next was to summon tho' office of MUyuns, Branch & Mllynna on the telephone to knuw whatateps had born taken In the new Kcnrch. She wai somewhat surprised sur-prised to learn that the entire firm had gone out to lunch In a body, and still more startled at the Information, obtained ob-tained three hours later from'the same supercilious voice nt theether end of the wire, to Vie effect that, none of them hnd come bark. She v,as young; flic believed It There Is no doubt that' In fl" minutes min-utes mure Mr. doom would have ns-snmed ns-snmed full sway In the late apartment S MWF& And Were f.oon Involved In an Orgy of Trying On. ot Mr. Robert SL Randolph had not a leng procession of parcels begun to arrive ar-rive In the nick of time. Tomllnson brought them Into the bedroom, one, two, three nt a haul, and I'nmela her self cut the knots with Mr. Randolph's best nail-scissors nnd laid out the goods, filmy fold upon filmy fold. By the time Kileen turned" up the npnrtir.ent looked like the stateroom dc Inx of a millionaire young lady re-Miming re-Miming from Pnrls with nothing to on" nnd preparing to sweor to It before be-fore all the customs officials in Qoth-,am. Qoth-,am. Tomllnson was ordered to fill the cellar with wrapping-paper, tissue-paper, cardboard boxes end strlng,1hurn-ing strlng,1hurn-ing what was left oer In the back yard. As roon as sufficient space had been elenred for action, the two girls set to work, nnd were wnon Involved In such an orgy of "trying on" as only the healthiest stamlnn of jouth could havo endured without falling over In a dead faint from exhaustion. I2ven .Kileen dhestcd her person of everything every-thing but, and experimented with such dear garments aa It seemed Impossible Mlsa Thornton could get round to In the allotted time. Having tried tp show the publie how charming was Pamela la and without her cheap clothes, no puerile and gasp-tng gasp-tng effort win be made tn these pages to measure the effect epon ber ot tho latest creations f the raiment draaza-goda draaza-goda of nfth avenue. Bafflee It to say that. In cat beWa twinkling of the eye, she be earn nek a radiant Ytaloa ts chokes mere words down late the pit of a man's etomacn. moke his Jaw work like tint of a flsn on a hot atdo-wallt atdo-wallt fills hts eyes with the pleading right of ealf-love and inspire Us hand with an overmastering desir te reach for It For two, four, irtx days, a week, two weoka, Pamela lived tn breathless anticipation an-ticipation of the moment whoa site could burst upon 'the eyesight of one Kobort Merrey IUndolph, and whoa ttl these days and weeks paseed wltV est any news of him, ber ltpo that were made to (mile,, to klsa, and to Mess tho air with words aofOy opokea and carried en tho fragrance of oleaa young breaOi began to droop pHlfulhr. Mr. Wlyuraf efforts In several, s"lrfte ttons had so far proved tn vala. He had advertised ta every paper tn Goth am, from tho New York Epoch to the pmk Police Gazette; he had ottered rewards t ho had ret traps and was now supporting a large corps ot rap-Idly rap-Idly fattening Individuals who called themselves "plain-clothes" men a same that would havo fitted them admirably ad-mirably had the last syllable been omitted, omit-ted, Ills net results were the Information Infor-mation that Mr. Randolph, In a reprehensible repre-hensible state of Intoxication and at seven o'clock of the morning of which he bad disappeared, had exchanged hts swell evening garments at n secondhand second-hand emporium ,on rixth nvenuo for a suit vf thicks and eighteen dollars tn cash, stnting, ns he left the plncc, that he was thinking of going South for the rest of the Tintcr. After n minute and leisurely study ot nil the exits from Manhattan, the plain-clothes men had ghen It ns their united opinion that Mr Ilnndolph hnd been upeaklng facetiously in hla last-known last-known remark and had -probably not voyaged, foithtt, amth. thnn, Uinsl attr WMffaafil If hTweOTcntyTry M to lee to New York they could find him ' at oaeo, aad settled down oa a policy I of watchful waiting for that event 1 1 Two effort mada by Mr. Mllyuna la 1 the direction ot springing Mis Thorn- B tn oa society went equally awry, but H wro not quite so fruitless III na H ttiral love of uionth-runnlng estab- I llssweat oa the slippery cruet ct Goth- 1 1 ast' clal ptsue would have been savod a Mvere bump If American parents pa-rents were ai careful to look up their guests' mqjal recorda as they are te J atudy their ratings In Bradstreetum's. Unfortunately for Mr MUyuns, It ' happened thnt a certain young scion of a once gentlemanly hoti? was In-elnded In-elnded In tli first large dlnner-box-party given to meet Miss Imogens Pamela Thornton In the natural -cour.ebf such events, tlin pasty youth stepped up for presentation, rejlster-Ing rejlster-Ing in his protuberant eyes n gleam of H dubious suiprixe What it lie should E 'sny, "Hello. Vitiennet" Would It ere- 1 ate a sensation? D Something el-e did; immcly, Miss Thornton's in. ululated but teiribly fc clear volet-. h "I met Mr Bonnier," said I'nmela, ' drnwliig hnrli quickly her half extend- E el hand, "when I was a chorus girl." I She turned with a winning smile to I her recently lirmutng hostcs. "I don't enro to know lilui In pleasauter sur- 1 roundlngs." I For 4lie lireathles second there I threatened one of those silences that I spell social disaster. Rlletn took It J upon herself to mash It in Its extreme 1 youth with a soft tap t her efficient hammer. "Oh, must yu really g!" she remarked re-marked to llr Iteataar. Did this spactaealar dekat atrlU the ara of Iiaejtn ramela from th lists jnf the matronly elite of Manhattan! It did not Invitations rained on her and found her uuresponsive. Her would-be hote.se would have gone Jlie length of submitting rostrums of proposed guets as though to royalty, 'xcept fn tho fuel (bat each nnd oery one of them wished to put her own nearest and dearest to the lot of a sudden meeting with the most ex-, elusive of New York's lntet crop of hu ds. Pamela refused and accepted thee bids for the Inteit thing In sensations j In the most errntlc manner. No ono 1 could fathom Just why she said, "No," j nnd much less why she occasionally 'said, ,fTe!i." The mystery only added I tq the demands for nor compnny ana the Nays soon began to shoiNran overwhelming over-whelming , preponderance oev the Ayes. Wliyl Simply because It was not In the power of any of the hostesses host-esses 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 llervey ller-vey Randolph said he would drop In for pot-luck." Yes; every time Pamela had accepted accept-ed an invitation, tt was lu tho rapidly waning hope that Mr. Randolph, beloved be-loved nnd once at tho beck and call of these very people, would appear and corao Into his own. Could she nave, JJJrn!5rfl thnt on tvro ncparnte occasions Die tn!ght errant Of her" thoughts hnd actually recii her In her most ravishing blbless vvcnlng tucker, had driven her to two fnmillnr doora, taken ber money witli averted face and without Inspecting the "clock," nnd bad passed on to some quiet Htnnd to dream over her now glory and, read the lntest batch of ads crjlntf tor now a of the wherenbuuts nnd welf-im of self could she have known these upper ently Inslgnlflcnnt items In the dally life of tho great city, she would have wrtt her lovely eyes out twice oyer- (To Bo Continued) i i |