The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1921-03-09

versatiOn which he had participated In
that very morning with Miss Madge
Van Teller of East Ninth street:
"Oh, Mr.. Milyuns, are you doing all
that advertising for Bobby Randolph"
YES. Madge; certainly am, and If
1t doesn't bear fruit pretty soon I'll
have to give up tobacco"
Are you advertising for his own
good? l mean Is 1t important to him
not to you-fOr you to find him?
Would he be really and truly glad to
be found even against his will?"
"Er-yes-er-it ls-er-he would
er-if he isn't sixteen kinds of fool.
l think I caught them all, my dear.
but If ! left any out. please repeat"
"Yes," admitted the lady question
mark your legal mind answered them
all. Now tell me just your human self
If you were In BObby's place, would
you want to be found by you for the
purpose that you want to find him
fOrT
Mr.. Milyuns did not pretend for one
second that he did not understand the
prepOsterously wOrded query.
"YOu bet wOuld!" he answered
promptly and emphatically. "NOw tell
me what you've got up your sleeve.
Please, Madge; that's a dear girl! II
you only knew how I'm worried seven
times q day"
I'm trying to tell you" broke in
Miss Van Teller, "but you talk so
much l can't get In anywhere. Last
night. taxi brought me home from
er-frOm drive, and the cabman was
Bobby. looking simply stunning in one
OF those awfully high-collared. khaki,
waist-effect woolly coats, chauffeur's
cap. tan puttees, boots. and all"
Yes, yes" interrupted Mr.. Milyuns;
Il know now just how he looked. What
was the license-number of the car and
to which company did 1t belOng?"
A long pause.
"Why. didn't notice"
Thanks awfully. my dear"
Sound of hanging up the receiver.
so there you are" said Mr.. Milyuns
to the very much excited Pamela.
We've got this far and. by a fuke en-
tirely uncOnnected with the twenty-five
sleuths | have been pensiOning in ad.
vance Of their lifelong service. Robert
Is driving one Of the sixty-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. II have to 60 out now.
I'm so sorry. but thank you very, very
much"
Cant l drop you wherever you're
soingT asked the very human mind of
the leading legal authority on corpora
ton hedge-rOws and byways.
"Oh. no." said Pamela, translucent
as love Itself; II shall go In taxis."
How many vulgar vehicles for hire
were blessed by the transient presence
Of Miss Thornton during the next seven
hours Is matter of gross mathematics
and consequently beneath the ken Of
IN intelligence that can chat along
about nice things like Pamela and Rob-
srt Randolph for pure pleasure and
sell the remarks for cold
ash. Five minutes to spot q lively
,ab. five minutes to ticket the driver
md pile him on the discard, two more
% find her purse. three more to look
innocent; then start all over again.
Divide seven times sixty minutes by
I'll that. and you've got her number.
Let us leave the statistical fiend and
lass on to seven o'clock of the near
christmas evening when Miss Thorn
on was mOmentarily out of cab
md strolling down the slope of the
lump In West Fifty-seventh street. A |
nushy snowman had just begun to
all. giving anyone with the price a
plendid excuse for taking a cab any
where for anywhere. Before the portal
4 the Great Northern Lights squatted
our taxis In a line. In the drivers
eat of the rearmost of these, and con-
equently the last on the rank, a lank
uman being was buried In an enOr-
nous turned-up collar rooted by a
hauffeur's cap set at an angle Of
lumber.
Pamela. the very moment her eyes
ell on the recumbent figure felt that
hort quick leap of the blood In her
ems which Is ordinarily termed a
hunch." She longed to step forward
nd raise the yelling headgear. but she
AIRED not. for not only was the hotel
tarter on the job but also the window
hades Of the Poppy club next door
1ere still elevated by special request,
wing to the slippery state of the side
'alk In conjunction with the home
stream of dress-models.
AZ consequence. she was necessar-
y content with opening the car door
Dr. herself and stepping In. The starter
olitely begged her to pass to the taxi
the head Of the rank and Just %
olitely she Informed him that her feet
ERE wet enough a. Il was. In the
even her light weight On
70 running-board had startled the
river into waksfulness and. without