Connecticut western news., 1921-02-03

nre tnae peeped from between and round her ankles. he began to talk.
 "T knew you; knew Sport; I knew Maggie. Just once met you all, and I've never forgotten. I couldn't" He smiled crookedly. You and I sat down so hard together and you cried out, My, what bumpp and laughed and laughed-just like tonight, back there at the stage-door of the Crocodile"
 Pamela stopped crying.
 "So you were that awfully nice boy" she said, disclosing tear-stained cheeks and looking him over as though she were inventorying a long list of points of deterioration.
 Robert Hervey Randolph, six feet tall, freckled-nosed, open-faced, blue eyed and broad-shouldered, looked up at her almost appealingly as If his whole sum and substance were crying out to be appraised at face value but no less.
 That's me-" he said vapidly. My name Is Robert Hervey Randolph. Some people call me Bob some 'Herv,' and the sidey ones say Randy"
 And I shall. call you MT. Ran dolph,'" said Miss Thornton bravely, and then broke into: "After-after I've th-thanked you again and-and again from my heart. I'm going now"
 "That's a wrong guess" said Robert, smiling happily-he didn't know exact. ly why. "Tm the one that's going, aft CT you promise me that you'll stay here until ten o'clock tomorrow. But before we come to that, please don't thank me ever. It's selfish, but I'd simply love to have you remember me as Bob or Herv or, at the very worst, Randy. Won't your"
 She looked this way and that before she let her face ripple to its wondrouk smile.
 "Tn go as far as Randy" she con- ceded mischievousfy then the smile went and the shadow came. "But really can't stay here, you know" MT. Randolph leaped to his feet, reached her in single stride and caught her by both wrists. Look at ew he said. "If you won't promise to stay here without break till ten o'clock tomorrow and thereafter at your pleasure, I'll stay myself and hold you. Now, do you or don't you? One-two-"
 "I do."
 Do what" inquired Robert.
 q promise"
 Make yourself absolutely at home, then" he said, as he dropped her hands and turned toward the door
 T feel like Christmas eve," said Miss Thornton meekly. Wont you please tell me what's going to hap pen"
 "You've guessed it-Christmas," he answered enigmatically, tossed the latch-key on the table, aRd left her.
 She can be excused for spying upon him from the curtained window. Slss= saw him awake the cabman, and then watched the pantomina@ eE aeng col loquy.
 oh" she moaned. "Ne wonder! 1! The awful, awful price of those hc--.5 clock things Why did let him tell 1t to wait?"
 Presently she was amazed to see both the driver and Mir. Randolph dis appear into the dark recesses of the cab and close after them its door. For twenty breathless minutes she watched, tormented by the thought that they had retired to have it out where they wouldn't be disturbed by the police! But at last they issued both of them. MT. Randolph proceed ed to crank the car and then, walking rather strangely, went off, headed 1 west; the driver mounted his box, threw in the clutch, and scurried to the east as though he were off to meet the morning.
 Strange doingsW thought Miss Imo- gene Pamela Thornton, as she turned | from the window to start on a private ly conducted voyage of discovery.
 Strange doings, indeed, and stranger still could Imogene Pamela have heard as well as seen. This Is what really happened: Mr. Randolph awoke the cabman gently but thoroughly; then he said:
 Look here: I want to buy your wagon"
 "Gowan, boss; wot dyer take me for? Here been freezin' most to det' fer two mortal hours an a gent like you Starts right in kickin' on the clock widout even readin' It." "Shucks!" said MT. Randolph. What's biting you? Never mind the meter-reading; here's twenty for you to forget that. Now tell me: Who owns your buzz-wagon7 Your
 Nav; the Village Cab company" replied the saturnine cabman as he stuffed the twenty-dollar bill into his trousers pocket
 Well" said Mir. Randolph, "you and are about the same build and I've got a proposition for you. Change clothes, hand me over your cab, and take two hundred dollars to see your self to another job" ..... .. | The driver showed m aurrriso. ho