The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-04-08
PART mi.
Maids 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
1 with no prop but a faithful, sickly
/ and destitute old nurse, Kill Off the
nurse couple OF years later, let the
girl fend for herself as scullery-maid
and what not through the uninterestd
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 iong-drawn-
/ out surrender then snatch her sudden
| " back from destruction, feed her,
/ give her the sole freedom for night
Of Mr.. Robert Hervey Randolph's com
Portable apartment and-what will she
! do2 The answer is easy. She will
find 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 Mas Mr.. Randolph and
| what, IN reality, was Mr.. Patrick
ORellly in Mr., Randolph's best top
| hat, best suit OF evening clothes and
oyercoat best gray silk muller, price
twenty-five dollars, and best patent
! leather shoes--the last a very tight
fit which made the revamped gentle
| mans gait cross between that OF d
| chicken on 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
| 1t, 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 a 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 seml-crippled state
| She herself was too excited to let
| pity altogether absorb her. Without
waiting for either the tortured way.
! farer 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 a 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 ecstatlcally as she watched It's
crystalline surge and imagined she
could smell the opalescent steam
But not for long was she Inactive.
Having surrendered to circumstance
to the extent of promising to stay In
! the flat 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 If happiness so much as
showed its nose it was her nature to
tackle blindly for Its waist and go
to the mat for the immediate present.
Consequently, let not her modesty
| be misiudged when 1t is related that.
! in the short time 1t took to fill the
| bath, she accomplished the following:
Rooted out Mr.. Randolphs best silk
pajamas, found his softest bathrobe,
| allied a hot-water bottle and slipped 1t
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
| lifeI
Item: It 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 whicE she
shamelessly looked at herself in. n full
length mirror Of such pure rejecting
qualities as had not crossed her path
since England was pup. After that,
long, enhancing item, called 'tdry-
Ing her hair"
Did you blame her, three lines hack,
in your heart for her frequent inSpec
tiUnS of self In the mirror? II you
! ulu, look at hef now MT. hanuOipnS
bathrobe Is billowed at her waist and
tied tight to keep 1t from trailing on
the floor; for almost like reason,
its sleeves are rolled up above her
elbows, 1t is open In V at the neck.
showing the adolescent curve of
virginia. but much excited bosom
With a woolly towel in both haads,
she plants herself before the staid old
lo0king-glass and gives 1t such treat
as 1t has never before savored in It's
slxty-two years of service to the Ran
dolph family, Rub, rub, rub with she
towel. Her cheeks grow pink and
pinker, her eyes round and rounter,
They twinkle and smile and once,
when she made little face at her