The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-03-31
PART IlI-Continued

PART I|I-Continued.
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After a minute and leisurely study
Of all thu exits from Manhattan. the
plain.clothes men had given it as their
united opinion that Mr. Randolph had
been speaking facetiously in his last
knoN. 4 remark and had probably not
voyaged farther south than Canai
street. They said if he would only Try
to leave New York they could find him
at once, and settled down on a policy
of watchful waiting for that event.
The efforts made by Mr.. Milyuns IN
the direction of springing Miss Thorn
ton on society went equally awry, but
were not quite so fruitless. His ma
tural love Of a smooth-running estab'
lishment on the slippery crust of Goth
ans social plane would have been
saved severe bump if American pa
rents were as careful to look up their
guests moral records as they are to
study their ratings in Bradstreetum's.
Unfortunately for Mr.. Milyuns, 1t
happened that a certain young scion
of a once gentlemanly house was IN
cluded in the first large dinner-boH'
party given to meet Miss lmogene
Pamela Thornton. In the natural
course of such events the pasty youth
stepped up for presentation, register
Ing in his protuberant eyes CLEAN OF
dubious surprise. What if ne should
say, "Hello, Vivienne!" Would it Gre
ate a sensation?
Something else did; namely, Miss
Thorntons modulated but terribly
clear voice.
81 met Mr.. Beamer," said Pamela,
drawing back quickly her half-eXtend-
ed hand, when l was a chorus-glrl."
She turned with winning smile to
her recently beaming hostess. Il don't
care to know him in pleasanter sur
rOur ..lgs."
For one breathless second there
threatened one Of those silences that
spell social disaster. Eileen took 1t
upon herself to mash it in its extreme
youth with a soft tap Of her efficient
hammer.
"Oh, must you really go?" she re
marked to Mr.. Beamer.
Did this spectacular debut strike the
name of Imogene Pamela from the lists
of the matronly elite of Manhattan
It did not. Invitations rained on hel
and found her unresponsive. Hel
would-be hostesses would have gone
the length of submitting rostrums OF
proposed guests as though to royalty
except for the fact that each and every
one of them wished to put her owl
nearest and dearest to the test OF {
sudden meeting with the most ex
. elusive of New York's latest crop O.
buds.
Pamela refused and accepted thes'
bids for the latest thing in sensation
in the most erratic manner. No on
could fathom just why she said, no
and much less why she OCCASIONAL.
said, "Yes" The mystery only adde'
: TO the demands for her company an
: the Nays soon began to show an over
! whelming preponderance over tn
Ayes. Why? Simply because it wa
}, not in the power Of any Of the host
esses to call up the moody girl an
a say: my dear, we are going to hav
j. lust pork and beans for dinner tonigh
+ Won't you join us? Mr.. Robert Hel
: vey Randolph said he would drop
:. for pot.luck."
y Yes; every time Pamela had accep
" ed an invitation. it was in the rapid
IS waning hope that Mr.. Randolph, b
/ loved and once at the beck and ca
d Of these very people, would appea
il and come into his own. Could sl7
II have surmlsed that on two separat
IL occasions the knight Grant of he
thoughts had actually seen her in HI
most ravishing bibless evening tucke
v had driven her to two familiar door
! taken her money with averted fa(
and without inspecting the o'clock
J" and had passed on to some quiet star
to dream over her new glory and res
the latest batch Of ads crying for new
Of the whereabouts and welfare Of sc
at could she have known these appa
D. entity insignificant items in the dai
ID life of the great city, she would ha'
N wept her lovely eyes out twice over.
lt Such being her state Of heart, II
at agine her excitement when Mr.. M
" yuns called by appointment and I
80 tailed word for word the following co
tn versation which he had participated
er that very morning with Miss Mad
es Van Teller of East Ninth street:
he "Oh, Mr.. Milyuns, are you doing
st. that advertising for Bobby Randolph
Eyes. Madge; l certainly am, and
N. It doesn't bear fruit pretty soon
le' have to give uD tobacco"
x. Are you advertising for his o1
ne good? l mean is It important to h
Tor mot to you-for you to find hi
gel Would he be really and truly glad
ed be found even against his will?"
ga "Er-yes-er-it is-er-he would
eff he isn't sixteen kinds Of a 70
ne l think I caught them all, my de-
he but If / left any out, please repeat
nd "Yes," admitted the lady questi'
mark: "your legal pind answered tn
nd all. Now tell me just your human s
&c. If you were In Bobby's place, wo,
he you want to be found by you for
De purpose that you want to find h
fOr?"
or Mr.. Milyuns did not pretend for {
ler second that he did not understand
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