Connecticut western news., 1921-02-03

on lnIeTlOT HItln2S, DFlVeT hervEy soon switched his cab from the char tered route and made for downtown through silent back streets. Tn tuxe ten minutes he drew up at an old fashioned house In very QuieG square, shut off his engine to the Idle and waited. Not for long. Out Of the cab came a blasphemous exclama- ton in medical tones and with 1t a cry of awakening from Georgie- Through one window she looked upon the home of her childhood; through the other upon that happy railed gar den-square, which was the umbrageous garner-close of all her dearest, puremf and dreamiest memories.
 "Ohl' she gasped. "No, you mustn't scold him. This Is just where want to get out and walk. It's-it's extraor- dinary." Then from the curb. "I may be going to die of consumption, doc tor, but, after all, I'd rather-rather die that way"
 Twist things around a little and you'll get what happened to Miss Ter " de Guest with the difference that that beautiful and hungry young wom- | an who had all but turned her back on Settlement work and her face to the Great White Way. suddenly awoks not in the moonlit embrace of Ciair> monte. but before the accusing face of House in Henry street,
 Nor was Mir. Slim Hervey partial to sex in salvation. There was ths instance of young Bertram Blossome who shame-facedly hurried into his cab a painted, wan-faced waif of thm street with self-accusing eyes. Ne case this of hunted and hunter-rathr CT two strayed bits of weak humanity driven before the unleashed dogs oe poverty and lust. How readily and unQuestioningly the boy slipped from the cab at his home address, mirscu- lously confused almost as by the med ding finger of God with one very different How gratefully the girl took the possible fare and something over." and how her tears brimmed when ten minutes later the blue-eyed chauffeur, a wage-earner like herself. said: Nothing doing. Sister. The ride is on me-" and promptly whirisd awayl
 While all these incidents were ec- gaging, each In its own way, and showed a reasonable profit to all ccn- cerned, MT. Randolph looked upon them more or less as a means of get ting In his hand during a period of initiation. Once he felt sure of him self and of his new chauffeurlng point of view and attitude toward the gay world from the under side, he began to haunt the neighborhood of East Ninth street at the hour when dinners are plenty and taxis scarce.
 Twice he saw Miss Madge Van Tellier carried off in Somebody's pri- vate car, but he was not discouraged. ! for he recognized in the very fact of { that public privacy the badge of pre- ] liminary outings. In due course his ] night and hour came He was hailed by the arriving Mir. Beacher Fremont [ and ordered to stand by; twenty min 1 utes later he was listening to that ! gentleman explaining to Miss Van T. that a cylinder had gone wrong on his own car at the last moment.
 Miss Madge Van Tellier upon whom Mir. Randolph had not laid eyes since the very definite parting of their ways on the rock of ready cash, was more beautiful tonight than at any other time since the evening of her coming out party. The reason was one and the same. Tonight, as upon that oth-
 nIl .A peered out on Life with a big L A flame was in her cheeks and in her eyes; her lips were half-parted and thirsty, her bosom agitated. She was divinely dressed.
 They were very silent oh their way to dinner at the Knicksrbocker, but they exuded an aura of tense expect ancy that made nothing of the glass barrier between them and the car pi- lot, who soon felt himself lifted and carried on its wave. Something was cooking beyond a doubt and he then and there determined to stick a fist through the crust of the pie just be- fore the smell of burning.
 There is nothing more stereotyped | bNl0lG AhN ANNNA hounds of New York. It is invariably four-act play that starts with a sin gle cocktail and a tasty dinner, goes on to a show peppered with double meanings, thickens at the cabaret in the close harmony of booze and dance music and finally bursts somewhere in the country"
 The first act was easy for Randolph; he went on with the villain and the leading lady, but once the revolving door of the hotel had clucked on their backs he had to withdraw to the wings and dope out a means of evolving from a super Into a star of tho first magnitude He decided that 1t didn't much matter who waited the couple from dinner to the show, but that the next entr'act would hold the orux Of