The Monett times., 1921-07-08

lllafR; your legal Illnd an SWereu tileiIi
all. Now tell me just your human sel2
IF YOU We're in Bobby's place, would
YOU want to be- found by you for the
purpose that you want to find him
for?'
Mr.. Milyuns did not pretend for one
second that he did not understand the
prepo$terousiy worded query.
"YoU bet would I" he answered
promptly and emphatically. "Now te.l
me what you've got up your sleeve.
Please, Madge; that's a dear girl IF
you only knew how I'm worried seven
times a day
TN trying to tell you" broke In
Mss Van Teller, ''but you talk SO
inuch I can't get in anywhere. Last
night, a taxi brought me home from
er-frcm q drive, and the cabman was
Bobby, looking simply stunning in one
of those awfully high-co!ared khaki.
waist-eifect woolly coats chauf'eur's
cap, tan puttees, boots, and all"
"les. yes,' interrupted Mr. Milyuns.
Il know now just how he looked. What
was the license-number of the car, and
to which company did it beiong?"
A long pause
"Wh%, l didn't notice."
"Thanks awfully, my dear"
Sound of hanging up the receiver.
$50 there you are said Mr.. Milyuns
to the very much excited Pamela.
We've got this far and, by fluke en-
tirely Gnconnected with the twenty-five
sleuths l have been pensioning in adj
vance of their lifelong service, Robert
is driving one of the siyty-three thou
sand taxicabs that infest the streets
of New York"
"poor dear" said Pamela, tears ris
ing to her adorable eyes. Then she dis
missed Mr.. Milyuns, who would gladly
have fingered. q have to so oct nov.
I'm so sorry, but thank you very, very
much"
Cant drop you wherever you're
going?" asked the very human mind of
the leading legal authority on corpora
tion hedge-rows and byways.
"Oh no. said Pamela, translucent
as love itself; Il shall go in taxis."
How many vulgar vehicles for hire
We're blessed by the transient presence
of Miss ThGrnton during the next seven
hours is matter OF gross mathematics
and consequently beneath the ken of
an intelligence that, can chat along
about nice things like Pamela and Rob-
ert Randolph for pure pleasure and
subsequently, sell the remayks for cold
cash. Five minutes to SPOT a lively
cab, five minutes to ticket the driver
and pi'e him on the discard, two more
y i.Lt. Lea purse, three more to look
innocent; (. then start all over again
Divide seven times sixty minutes by
all that. and you've got her number.
Let us. leave tile statistical fiend and
pass on to seven o'clock tof the near
Christmas evening when Miss Thorn
ION was momentarily out of a cab
md strolling down the slope OF the
htlnp in West Fifty-seventh street A
ulushy snow-ra,n had just begun to
ali giving anyone with the price a
.l!xpdid cscuse Tor taking cab any
where for anyw aara. Before the portal
of thesCsreat Northern Lights squatted
four taxis in a line. III the drivers
seat Of the rearmost of these, and con
sequently the last On the rank, a lank.
rQlndn being was buried in an enor-
mons turned-up collar rooted by a
chauffeur's cap set at an angle OF
lumber.
Pamela, the very moment her eyes
fell on the recumbent figure, felt that
short quick leap of the blood in her
veins which is ordinarily termed a
'hunch." She longed to step forward
and raise the yelling headgear, but she
dared not for not only was the hotel
starter on the job but also the window
shades Of the Poppy club next door
We're still elevated By special request.
owing to- the slippery state of the side
walk In coaiunction with the home,
ward-bonnd stream of iress-models.
AS a consequence, she was necessar-
lily content with opening the car door
for herself and stepping in. The starter
politely begged her to pass to the taxi
at the head of the rank and just as
politely she Informed him that her Feet
We're wet enough as it was. In the
meantime, even her light weight on
the running-board had startled the
driver into wakefulness and without
going through any motions, he had
heard the unforgettable tones Of her
voice.
The starter shrugged his shoulders.
barked out an address in Eifty-ninth
street and kindly offered to turn her
over for him. The driver laid trein-
bling hands on the wheel and cautious
" drew himself up to sitting POSI-
don without disturbing the shielding
angle Of his cap. Far from his trou-
bled mind were thoughts of snow, the
slusb ana skladins. He threw in his
18th, starteT with sssEs rof q.