The Oklahoma miner. [volume] (Krebs, Okla.) 1912-192?, 1921-04-14
PART III.
Maids Adventure.

Maids Adventure.
Take a 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 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 "On
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
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 I'm Mr.. Randolph's best top
hat, best suit of evening clothes and
Overcoat best gray silk mufIler, price
twenty-five dollars, and best patent
f,rI,t
fit which made the revamped gentle
mans gait 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 halting loco
motion in connection with what she
knew of Mr.. Randolph, but she added
it, 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 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 a night.
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 opaIescent steam.
But not for long was she inactive
Having surrendered to circumstance
to the extent of promising to stay in
the fiat until ten the following morn
ing, she decided to 90 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, 1t was her nature to
tackle blindly for its waist and go
to the mat for the immediate present.
Consequently, let not her modesty
be miSjudged when il is related that,
al 'llN nllol llllt II TOOK 10 III lut
bath, she accomplished the following:
Rooted out Mr.. Randolph's best silk
pajamas found his softest bathrObe,
filled hot-water 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 bathed, was curled
up and sound asleep. Not on your
life!
Item: 1t tool; 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