The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-03-25
An
Adventure
Romance


from super into star Of the first
magnitude. He decided that IT didn't
much matter who waited the couple
from dinner TO the show, but that the
next EXTRACT would holr IA crux OF
the nights entertainment, 2r the cab
that secured the freight for the caba-
ret would stand good chance Of nail
ing 1t after the ball.
Consequently he was content to pick
up gutter-snipe and then trail his
prey TO the theater. ''Then is the
two" he said to his ally, suborned
with the promise OF two bits, cash on
delivery. ''the John with the high hat
and the dream-dame in smoke-colored
Chiffon
That's some name for skirt, Cap"
said the extreme youth admiringly,
IAN some skirt believe me. Norl
won't forget EN-"
And he didn't No sooner had Mr..
Beacher fremont, bearing a thistle
down burden on his arm, swelled out
from the theater with the anxious look
on his face Of man with three cars
In the garage at home and no call
number In his left hand waistcoat
pocket, than the imp was at his side.
Say, mister, winter taxi? Got one
at the head of the line that I'd give
up just to youse for dime
Lead me to It," said Mr.. fremont.
Say" said the snipe to Randolph
as the car jumped, "Tve took the boss
inside on fer a friend. You watch
yeself."
1t was short run to the lair of
the Midnight Rolic, but Mr.. Randolph
was not surprised at the double wage
he received nor at the murmured con-
versation that accompanied It, "Fill
up your gas tank and wait for noe at
the Seventh avenue northeast corner.
Get me?'
"Sure," grunted Mr.. Randolph.
where to, misterf"
Greenwood hostelry,' breathed the
villain.
I'm on, said Mr.. Randolph, ran
his car to the comfortably quiet nook
designated, dug out road map OF
Manhattan and vicinity, scrutinlzed
1t carelessly and settled down to medi.
tate
the name of the G. hosiery above
mentioned will bring certain vivid
recollections and will also place the
chronology of this yarn, for the
said abode of revelry was too good to
last very long; 1t choked to death on
its own popularity and consequent pub.
llclty. From the outside, even In Its
| hey-day, 1t presented most innocu
GUS appearance, just renovated farm.
house standing under a clump of veil.
ing sugar-maples on the top Of hill
whence the nearest neighbor was out
of sight.
But once within Its modest portal
its habitues found themselves In the
cleverest fake atmosphere of q pleas
ure-loving decade. An organizing gen
ius, sensitive to all those cheap adj
juncts which usually CRATE on the sou
l lowering at the edge Of the decline
i to yAvernus, had pandered effectively
to an ignoble end and made of eacf
small room an isle Of forgetfulness
price, twenty-five bucks in advance
supper and drinks extra.
For the benefit of those who do mo-
remember the epoch of the Green
wood hostelry and are consequently
reading on and on In mortal dread o,
the paragraph that win Introduce th'
War, let it be said at once, Forget 1t
Stake out the beginning of the inter
national mix-up, hurl another bound
airy mark into November of 1913, ant
the time left outside of those limit
win be found entirely sufficient to tn,
needs of this chronicle. Let 1t furthe
be noted that II is uncomfortable tina
a single drop of the kind of bloo'
which flowed in the veins of Mr.. Rob
ert Hervey Randolph could ever an
swer to the name of Stacker, proc
i positive In itself that the events hereii
set forth happened when the We
didn't.
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