Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-04-08
PART lii-continued.
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After a minute and leisurely study
of all the exits from Manhattan. the
plain-clothes men had given II rs their
united opinion that Mr.. Randolph had
been speaking facetiously in his last
known remark and had probably not
voyaged farther south than Canal
street. They said IL he would only try
10 leave New York they could find him
at once, and settled down on policy
of watchful waiting for that event.
The efforts made by Mr. Milyuns In
the direction of springlng Miss Thorn.
ton on society went equally awry, but
were not quite so frultless. Ills ma
tura love of a smooth.running estab.
lishment on the slippery crust of Goth
ans social plane would have been
saved severe bump If American pa
rents were as careful To look up their
guests moral records as they are 10
study their ratings in Bradstreetums
Unfortunately for Mr.. AIilyuns, II
happened that n certain young scion
of IA once gentemanly house was in
cluded in the first large dlnner-box.
party given 90 meet Miss Imogene
Pamela Thornton. In the natural
course OF such events. the pasty youth
stepped up for presentation, register
Ing In his protuberant eyes CLEAN of
dubious surprise What if he should
say, "IIello, Ylsienne!" Would IL Gre
ate a sensation?
Something else did; namely, Miss
Thorntons modulated but terribly
clear voice.
II met Mr.. Beamer," said Pamela,
drawing back quickly her half-extend-
ed hand. "when | was chorus-girl."
She turned with a winning smile to
her recently beaming hostess. 81 don't
care to know him In pleasanter sur
roundings."
For one breathless second there
threatened one of those silenees that
spell social disaster, Eileen took 1t
upon herself to mash 1t in Its extreme
youth with a soft tap of her efficient
hammer.
"Oh. must you really got" she re-
marked to Mr. Beamer.
Did this spectacular debut strike the
name of Imogene Pamela from the lists
of the matronly elite of Manhattan?
1t did not Invitations rained on her
and found her unresponsive. Her
would-be hostesses would have gone
the length of submitting rostrums of
proposed guests as though To royalty,
except for the fact that each and every
one of them wished to put her own
nearest and dearest to the test of
sudden meeting with the most ex-
elusive of New York's latest crop of
buds.
Pamela refused and accepted these
bids for the latest thing In sensations
In the most erratic manner. No one
could fathom just why she said, mo"
and much less why she occasionally
said, Yes" The mystery only added
to the demands for her company and
the Nays soon began TO show an over
whelming preponderance over the
Ayes Why? Simply because 1t was
not in the power of any of the 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 Her.
yey Randolph said he would drop in
for pot-luck."
Yes; every time Pamela had accent
ed an invitation. ii was In the rapidly
waning hope that Mr.. Randolph, be-
loved and once at the beck and call
of these very people, would appear
and come into his own. Could she
have surmlsed that on two separate
occasions the knight Grant of her
thoughts had actually seen her in her
most ravishing bibless evening tucker,
had driven her To two familiar doors,
taken her money with averted face
and without inspecting the o'clock"
and had passed on to some quiet stand
to dream over her new glory and read
the latest batch of ads crying for news
of the whereabouts and welfare of self
could she have known these appar-
emily insignificant items in the daily
life of the great city. she would have
wept her lovely eyes out twice over.
Such being her state of heart, inn
agine her excitement when Mr.. Mil
yuns called by appointment and re-
tailed word for word the following con-
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
Eyes, Madge; certainly am, and if
1t doesn't bear fruit pretty soon III
have 10 give up tobacco"
Are you advertising for his own
good? ] mean Is II important to him
not to you-for you to find him:
Would he be really and truly glad to
be found even against his win?'
-yes-er-it is--er-he would
EFF he isn't sixteen kinds of fool
think l caught them all, my dear
but If left any out, please repeat"
Yes" admitted the lady question.
mark: "your legal mind answered them