The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1921-04-22
PART III.
Maids Adventure.

MAIDS adventure.
Take n young girl of about twenty
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 a 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
a 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
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 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
tit which made the revamped gentle
mans gait a cross between that of a
chicken on a hot stove and q 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
ii, two n two, with the mysterious
twenty minutes spent by that gentle
man and h driver in the receSSeS of
the cab, apparently to settle q differ
ence in ideas as to the value of q
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
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 q night. A
starved instinct led her straight to
the luxuriously appointed bathroom.
Ao nrnN.in1c1r nf;p,ntnl r1N 5000
on the hot water and clasped her
hands ecstatically 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, h decided to do the job whole
heartedly, for ImOgene Pamela was
one of those lucky land fated young
women who can never give themselves
by halves. If happiness so much as
showed It's nose. it was her nature 70
tackle blindly for its waist and go
to the mat for the immediate present.
Consequently, let not her mOdesty
be miSjudGed when it is related that,
in the short time it took TO fill the
bath. she accomplished the following:
Rooted out Mr.. RandoIph's best silk
pajam2S. found his SOfteSt bathrObe,
filed q hOt-WatCr bottle and Slipped it
far down between the too cold linen
sheets of his big bed. Continuing at
this rate Of achievement, it may be
imagined that in ten minutes more the
young lady, having bathcd, 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
shamelessly 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,
a long, enhancing item, called dry
ing her hair"
Did you blame her. three lines back,
in your heart for her frequent inspec-
tons Of self in the mirror? If you
did, lock at her now! Mr.. R~and0lph's
is billOwed al her waist and
tied tight to keep it from trailing on
the floor; for almost a like reason,
it's sleeves are rolled up above her
1t is open in q V at the neck,
the adOlescent curve Of a
but much excited bosom.
With q woOlly towel in both hands.
she plants herself before the staid old
lOoking-g!aSs and gives it such q treat
as it has never before savOred in its
siXty-two years of service to the Ran
family. Rub, rub, rub with the
towel. Fer cheeks grow pink and
her eyes round and rOunder.