Charlevoix county herald., 1921-03-11
(Continued)
PART ~.
MaI6s Adventure.


who. in her childhood, was pampered
Of fortune In money. position, good
breeding, and pets, turn her loose
on the world at the age OF ten
with no prop but faithful. .sickly
and destitute old nurse. kill off the
nurse a couple Of years later let the
girl fend for herself as scullery-maid
and what not through the uninterest-
Ing stage that precedes the sudden
bloom of unexpected beauty, give her
q long succession Of jobs secured ION
her looks" and lost because she
wouldn't, lead her up to the crowded
portal Of despair and the lOng-drawn-
out surrender; then snatch her sudden
ly back from destruction. feed her,
give her the sole freedom for a night
OF Mr. Robert Hervey RandOlph's COM
Portable apartment and-what will she
do? The answer is easy. She will
md the bath and turn on the hot
water.
That was the very first thing that
Miss Imogene Pamela Thornton did
after she had finished spying from the
window on the movements Of what
she supposed was Mr.. Randolph and
what, In reality, was Mr.. Patrick
O'Reilly In Mr.. Randolph's best top
hat, best suit Of evening clothes and
overcoat, best gray silk muller. price
twenty-five dollars, and best patent
leather shOes-the last a very tight
at which made the revamped gentle
mans gait a cross between that Of
chicken on a hot stove and drunk
on his reluctant way home.
Even the unsuspecting Miss Thorn
ton was puzzled by that hating loco
motion In connection with what she
knew Of Mr.. Randolph, but she added
IL, two and two, with the mysterious
twenty minutes spent by that gentle
man and the driver In the recesses OF
the cab, apparently to settle differ.
ence In ideas as to the value Of a
waiting taxi, and decided that poor
Mr.. Randolph must have issued from
the interview in a semi-crippled state
She herself was too excited to let
pity altogether absorb her. Without
waiting for either the tortured way.
fsrer or the taxi to get quite out OF
sight, she dropped the window curtain
and turned to possess herself Of her
world of comfort for q night. A
starved instinct led her straight to
the luxuriously appointed bathroom
As previously intimated, she turned
on the hot water and clasped her
hands ecstatically as she watched its
crystalline surge and imagined she
could smell the opalescent steam.
But not for long was she inactive.
3 Having surrendered to circumstance
20 the extent of promising to stay In
the fiat until ten the following morn
ing, she decided to do the job whole
heartedly. for Imogene Pamela was
one Of those lucky and fated young
women who can never give themselves
by halves. II happiness so much as
showed its nose, 1t was her nature to
tackle blindly for it's waist and go
to the mat for the immediate present
Consequently, let not her modesty
be misjudged when II is related that,
In the short time Ii took to fill the
bath. she accomplished the following:
Rooted out Mr.. RandOlphs best silk
pajamas, found his softest bathrobe,
filed hot-water bottle and slipped It
far down between the too cold linen
sheets Of his big bed. Continuing at
this rate OF achievement, II may be
imagined that In ten minutes more the
young lady, having bathed, was curled
up and sound asleep. Not on your
life
= Item: 1t took her twenty-one min
utes by the clock to scrub out the
memory Of the scabby zinc bathtubs
Of many years. Item: Twenty more
minutes to wash her hair. Item
Half an hour more to scrub her under
wear and stockings. Assorted items:
Various pauses during which she
shsmelessly looked at herself In a full
length mirror of such pure rejecting
qualities as had not crossed her path
since England was a pup. After that,
q long, enhancing item, called dry
Ing her hair"
Did you blame her, three lines back.
In your heart for her frequent inspec-
tiOns Of self In the mirrorf If you
did, look at her nowl Mr.. RandOlph's
bathrobe Is billowed at her waist and
tied tight to keep II from trailing on
the floor; for almost q like reason,
Its sleeves are rolled I'D above her
elbows. II Is open in a v at the neck.
showing the adolescent curve of
virginia. but much excited bosom.
With q woolly towel In both hands.
she plants herself before the staid old
/. looking-glass and gives 1t such a treat
as Il has never before savored In Its
sixty-two years of service to the Ran
dolph family. Rub. rub, rub with the
towel. Her cheeks grow pink and
pinker, her eyes round and rounder.
They twinkle and smile, and once.