The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1921-02-17

- ~
And Were Soon Involved In an Orgy
Of Trying On.
Of MI. Robert H. Randolph had not q
long procession Of parcels begun to ar
rive in the nick of time. Tomlinson
brought them into the bedroom, one,
two. three. at a haul, and Pamela her
self cut the knots with Mr.. Randolph's
best naii-scissors and laid out the
goods, fflmy fold upon filmy fold.
BY the time Eileen turned up the
apartment looked like the stateroom
de lux of a millionaire young lady re-
turning. from Paris with nothing to
wear and preparing to swear to 1t be-
fore an the customs officials In Goth
am. Tomlinson was ordered to fill the
cellar with wrapping-paper, tissue-pa-
per, cardboard boxes and string, burn
ing what was left over in the back
yard. -
As 500 as sufficient space. had been
cleared for action, the two girls set to
work, and were soon involved In such
an orgy Of trying on" as only the
healthiest Stamina Of youth could
have endured without falling over in a
dead faint from exhaustion. Even
Eileen Invested her person Of every
thing but, and experimental with such
dear garments as it seemed impossible
Miss Thornton could get round to in
the allotted time. +
Having tried to show the public how
charming was Pamela in and without
her cheap clothes, no puerile and gasp,
ing effort will be made In these pages
to measure the effect upon her Of the
latest creations Of the raiment dream
gods Of Fifth avenue. Suffice 1t to say
that, in n hours twinkling Of the
eye, she became such a radiant vision
as chokes mere words down into the
pit of a mans stomach, makes his jaw
work like that Of a fish on a hot side
walk, fills his eyes with the pleading
light Of calf-love and inspires his
hands with an overmastering desire to
reach for 1t.
For two, four, six days, q week, two
weeks, Pamela lived in breathless an
ticipation of the moment when she
could burst upon the eyesight Of enc
Robert Hervey Randolph, and when all
these days-and weeks-passed with
out any news Of him, her lips that
were made to smile, to kiss, and to
bless the air with words softly spoken
and carried on the fragrance Of clean
young breath began to droop pitifully.
Mr.. Milyuns' efforts in several direc-
tons had so far proved in vain. He
had advertised in every paper in Goth
am, from the New York Epoch to the
pink Police Gazette; he had offered
rewards; he had set traps and was
now supporting a large corps Of rap
idly f~attening individuals who called
themselves >"plain-clothes" m
name that would have fitted them-ad-
mirably had the last syllable been omit
ted. His net results were the infor-'
nation that Mr.. Randolph, In a repre-
hensible state of intoxicati0n and at
o'clock Of the morning OF which
he had disappeared, had exchanged his
swell evening garments at a second
hand emporium on Sixth venue fora
suit Of thicks and eighteen dollars in
cash, stating, as he left the place, that
he was thinking OF going South for the
rest OF the winter.
sAfter q minute and .leisurely study
O. - Gtts from Manhattan. the
AS1kss men had given 1t as their
Olesd opinion that MI. Randolph had
been speaking fatetiously In his last
known remark and had probably not
voyaged farther south than Canal
street. They said II he would only try
to leave New York they could find him
at once, and settled down on q policy
OF watchful waiting for that event.
The efforts made BY Mr.. Milyuna IN
the direction Of springing Miss Thorn
ton on society went equally awry. but
were not quite 30 hr~uitless. His ma
tural love Of q smooth-running estab-
lishment On the slippery crust Of Goth
ans social plane would have been
saved = severe bump II American pa
rents were as careful to look up their
guests moral records as they are 10
study their ratings II Bradstreetum'a.
3. Unfortunately FOR Nj. Milyuns, It
happened that . certain young scion
Of a once gentlemanly house was IN
cluded u the frst large dinner-bdx-
party given to meet Miss mogene
Pamela Thornton. ia the natural
course ef such eyents, the pasty youth
stepped up Tor presentation, register
ing 81 his protuberant eyes ! CLEAN Of
dQhiolla aurnxiek-zhat 1 heehould