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SYNOPSIS.

PART I.-Robert Hervey Randolph,
young New York 1nan-about-town, leaves
the home of his sweetheart Madge Van
Teller, chagrined because Of her refusal
of his proposal of marriage. His income,
$4,000 a year, which he must surrender
if & certain Miss Imogen Pamela Thorn
ton (whom he has seen only as small
girl ten years before) is found, Is not
considered by the girl of his heart ade-
quate to modern needs. In a don't care
mood Randolph enters taxi, unseen Dy
the driver, and is driven to the stage
door of a theater. A man he knows,
Duke Beamer, induces a girl to enter the
cab. Beamer, attempting to follow, is
pushed back by Randolph and the cab
moves on. His new acquaintance tells
Randolph she is chorus girl, and has
lost her position. She is in distress, even
hungry, and he takes her to his apart
ment. There, after lunch, chance re-
mark convinces him the girl is the MISS
ing Pamela Thornton. He does not tell
her Of her good fortune, but secures her
promise to stay in the fiat until the
morning, and leaves her. In a whimsical
mood also realizing that the girls reap
pearance has left him practically PENN
less, he bribes the taxi driver to let him
take his job, and leaving word with the
legal representative of the Thornton es-
tate where he can find Pamela, takes up
his new duties under the name of Slim
Eervey." He loves the girl, but his pride
forbids him approaching her under their
changed conditions.
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whats the matter with these
clothes?" asked Randolph a little
peeved. ''Well, you've heard my offer.
Take it or leave it."
"Sure I'll take it," said the driver
promptly. eff I wasn't a-goin' to have
took it from the first, what would I a
been standin' here talkin' for?"
Whereupon they entered to the
cramped privacy of the cab and ex-
changed garments. Randolph was
ready in ten minutes, but it took him
another ten to complete the apparel
ing Of the puzzled chauffeur. That
worthy added to his investiture in
Randolph's best evening suit sickly
grin.
"Say," he asked, show do I look?'
Mr.. Randolph surveyed him.
"Oh, you'll do, all right. You look
about the way I would if I'd been on a
bat. Better have a few drinks, if you
can find them, and the world will fall
for your clothes. What time do turn
the wagon in, and what time do I go
on again? Do you bunk at the garage,
by any chance?
"Never you mind where I bunk" !"
said the ex-cabman suspiciously.
'D'you think I'm goin' to throw in
happy home for two hundred? You're
on the night shift for this week. Read
the rules and regulations when you
get to the garage. Say good-by to the
boys for me an tell the manager to go
to blazes."
They followed this remark out of
the cab; the tough in fop's clothing
cranked the car and turned, westward,
as previously chronicled, while Mr..
Randolph, now substitute to Patrick
O'Reilly as driver of the Village Cab
company's No. 1898, hurled his char
lot eastward, not to meet the morning,
as it had appeared to the watching
Miss Thornton, but in search Of the
residence of the head of the legal firm
charged with the duty of carrying out
the instructions of the defunct Mr.
Asa Thornton.
Mr.. Randolph, vice O'Reilly, drew
up at the familiar address in Madison
avenue and laid his car cheek by joWl
with the curb as though anchoring it
for g leIg stay; then he descended
from the drivers seat, entered the
cab, exclaimed Thanksgiving at finding
a rug, wrapped himself in its warr.
folds. curled up ON the seat and went
to sleep.
In the cold early morning the strong
arm of the Law reached in and dragged
him back from the Elysian fields
where he had been wandering hand in
hand with a lovely person dressed in
a little velvet toQue and very cheap
clothes.
. Here, you!" said the voice of the
Law. Don't you know you can't put
up a hotel in this burg without IL
cense? Wot the"
Morning, Officer" said Randolph,
trying his best to be pleasant I'm
waiting for my fare. Any regulation
against that?"
Don't pull that stuff on me-" said
the Law "This amt the Tenderloin." l."
81 know it isn't" remarked Mr.. Ran
dolph. ''But I happen to be waiting
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that secured the freight for the caba-
ret would stand a good chance Of nall
ing it after the ball.
Consequently he was content to PICK
up a gutter-snipe and then trail his
prey to the theater. "Them is the
two" he said to his ally, suborned
with the promise of two bits, cash on
delivery, "the John with the high hat
and the dream-dame in smoke-cOlOred
chiffon"
'That'S some name for a skirt, Cap"
said the extreme youth admirlngly,
"an' some skirt, believe NE Nor!
l won't forget EN-"
And he didn't. No sooner had Mr..
Beacher fremont, bearing thistle
down burden on his arm, swelled out
from the theater with the anxious look
on his face of a man with three cars
in the garage at home and no call
number in his left hand waistcoat
pocket than the imp was at his side.
"Say, mister, wanter taxi? Got one
at the head Of the line that I'd give
up just to youse for dime" -
Lead me to it," said Mr.. fremont.
"Say," said the snipe to Randolph
as the car jumped, "I've took the boss
inside on fer a friend. You watch
yeself."
1t was a short run to the lair Of
the Midnight Rolic, but Mr.. Randolph
was not surprised at the double wage
he received nor at the murmured con-
versation that accompanied it. "Fill
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PART II.
Flesh, Spirit and the Yelled God.

Flesh, Spirit and the Yelled God.
Mr. Randolph spent the day getting
acquainted and proved himself good
mixer. By telling a few stories that
had not yet sifted down from Club
land and by standing few drinks ne
soon found himself made free of all
the technical information he needed
and some more that was so ultra-tech-
nical that it could beat the brains that
invented the delicate mechanism OF
the taximeter. He also established
part ownership in a comfortable room
in q house very much on the wrong or
west side of Broadway, in fact within
smelling and almost splitting distance
of the North river.
While he was still in funds he
bought himself a woolen khaki over
coat with one of those enormous COL
lars which look like an Inverted
bucket when they are up and surpass
in efficiency the traditional black mask
so beloved by illustrators of the week
ly press. He also had speaking slot
cut in the glass Of the cab window
lust behind his best ear and subse-
quently removed and lost the slide
that had been fitted over it with con-
siderable skill and trouble.
During the next few nights he pro-
ceeded to have the time of his life; so
much so that he was constantly over
whelmed with wonder at his stupidity
in not having become a taxl-drlver
years before! 1t should be remem-
bered that Mr.. Randolph was of New
York Yorky; he knew everybody cas-
ually, from Mr. Milyuns and his
daughter, Eileen, down to the latest
addition to the pitiful ranks Of the
midinette. More than that, so broad
was his acquaintanceship that as a
sporting gent he had once or twice
been tipped off as to the where and
when of proposed gun-play.
In addition to being by right of birth
an integral part of all the social strata
of Manhattan. he knew the surface OF
the island and of the adjacent COM
moner soil of the mainland cOnsid-
erably better than he knew the palm
of his own hand. In fact, he could
scarcely ever have been conscious that
he had palm, even as map of per-
sonal fortune; for he who is complete
! ly satisfied with the present never
worries about the future and Mr.. Ran
dolph had been born content.
With such an equipment, is it to be
wondered at that he found the taxi
field rich with unexpected and sur
prising blooms? Fair flowers, he had
known heretofore to nod only over tea
! tables and solid silver appeared sud-
denly transplanted to his cab and
ready to nod on a stalwart shoulder.
Strong male tiger-lilies of the money
market, grated to the cushions of a
! taxi, became complacent pillars upon
which some clinging ivy twined.
In six nights he learned the SOUND
that a banker makes when slender
fingers tickle him under the chin; the
gasp of a girl, frst-kissed; the cry of
q young man upon discovering the alb
sence of grandfather's gold watch, his
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old motto: Every knock is a boost.
Instead Of becoming mystery and
consequently anathema to the Force,
an impression was created that Slim
ws,s a hustler, but clean white goods
ready to sacrifice fare or two that
he might sit high up alongside Cae-
sar's wife. By stopping at two or
three strategically placed police STA
uons during the wind before the dawn
to ticket such drunks as were of his
acquaintance, he was able to give the
glad hand Of farewell to job not
to his taste.
About this time a series Of coinci-
dences befell the young and fevered
Fair Of the city Of New York which
would have given pause to the persons
involved had they been able to get
together and compare the dope. Take
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for Mr.. Borden Milyuns. of AIilyuns,
Branch & Milyuns. Ever heard Of
him?"
Sure" said the cop, impressed but
still su ;picious. "He lives here all
right, Tut I amt seen him turning
down lis own cars for night-hawks
lately"
"Wen." said Mr.. Randolph, 81 could
tease YOU along for some time ana
make yet look like nut, but l won't.
The truth is, his prize bitch, Bride OF
Lamme1moor, is pupping tonight, and
I'm here to take the lady and her lit
ter down to the dog-show in time to
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get 'em settled for the opening. Messy
job. but the meter is charging for it."
"There amt a man living that could
think up lie like that, not sudden
murmured the officer, and turned to
resume his beat, while Mr.. Randolph
promptly hit the mat in the hope of
catching up with Elysium. He slept;
!. he slept too deep for dreams. and was
beyond the reach of the call of any
motorhorn when Mr. Milyuns town
car tried to shoe him along at eight
thirty Of a bright morning.
Once more was Mr.. Randolph
dragged by main force to wakefulness.
"Go0d-morning. Thomas he re-
marked. as the old man up?"
"Hully gee! Mr.. Randolph! What
ave you been up to now?'
"None of yours, Thomas" said Rob
ert Hervey. in a kindly but firm voice.
Get NE a bit of paper and pencil"
The chauffeur discovered the re-
quired articles in Mr.. Ailyuns' car,
handed them over, and curiously
watched Mr. Randolph write his note
to the effect that Miss Imogene Pa
mela Thornton would receive her legal
representative at Mr.. Randolph's s
rooms in Fifty-ninth street between
nine and ten. 1t was added that the
said rooms, upon which rent had been
paid to the end of the quarter, and all
they contained, including the man,
Tomlinson, were at the perpetual dis
position of the said Miss T.
"Now, Thomas" said Mr.. Randolph,
"you take this in to the old man him.
self and tell him a chauffeur with an
empty cab brought it. If you say an
other word I'll have. you up at the
union for losing me my job, and I'll
lick the stufings out of you besides.
Get me?'
"Sure thing, Mr.. Randolph" said
Thomas. Leave It to me to help you
make trouble whenever you feel like
it. It's slow world except for the
likes of you"
AS soon as the man had entered the
house, Mr.. Randolph started his cab
and made for a point of vantage in
the park, from which, in due course,
he beheld the arrival Of the lawyer at
Fifty-ninth street. He waited long
enough to make sure that the legal
gentleman had penetrated to Miss
Thornton; then he threw up his flag
and made for the garage.
He sought out the manager.
"Say," he plunged, "Pat O'Reilly
lost his job to me last night shooting
craps. Ny clock read twenty-eight
dollars this morning; here's my Slip"
The manager glanced at the slip,
and took a long look at Mr.. Randolph.
you're on, kid" he decided. ''Take
any shift you like. What's your
name?"
"Slim Hervey," said Mr.. Randolph
promptly.
"One of them earned names,'' COM
mented the manager. call right. Go
to it."
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up your gas tank and wait for me at .
the Seventh avenue northeast corner.
Get me-"
"Sure," grunted Mr.. Randolph.
"Where to, mister?'
"Greenwood hostelry," breathed the
'rm on,'' said Mr.. Randolph. ran
his car to the comfortably quiet nook
designated, dug out road map OF
Manhattan and vicinity, scrutinized
it carelessly and settled down to medi-
tate.
To q select and once afluent fews
the name of the G. hostelry above
mentioned will bring certain vlVlo
recollections and will also place the
chronology of this yarn, for the
said abode of revelry was too good 10
last very long; it choked to death on
it's own popularity and consequent pub
licity From the outside, even in lts
hey-day, it presented a most innocu-
GUS appearance, just renovated farm
house standing under clump Of veil
ing sugar-maples on the top OF Dill
whence the nearest neighbor was out
of sight.
But once within it's modest portal,
its habitues found themselves In the
cleverest fake atmosphere of a pleas
ure-loving decade. An organizing gen.
ius, sensitive to all those cheap ad-
juncts which usually CRATE on the soul
lowering at the edge of the decline
to Avernus, had pandered effectively
to an ignoble end and made of each
small room an isle of forgetfulness;
price, twenty-five bucks in advance,
supper and drinks extra.
For the benefit of those who do not
remember the epoch Of the Green
wood hostelry and are consequently
reading on and on in mortal dread OF
the paragraph that will introduce the
War, let it be said at once, Forget 1t.
| Stake out the beginning of the inter-
national mix-up, hurl another bound
ary mark into November of 1918, and
| the time left outside of those limits
will be found entirely sufficient to the
needs of this chronicle. Let it further
be noted that it is inconceivable that
a single drop of the kind of blood
| which flowed in the veins Of Mr.. Rob-
ert Hervey Randolph could ever an
swer to the name of Stacker, proof
positive in itself that the events herein
set forth happened when the War
| didn't.
Mr.. Slim Hervey, chauffeur, was
still plunged in reverie when his senses
were assailed by whiff of lilac,
mere nuance of perfume, that pro-
| claimed the approach of Miss Madge
Van Teller He jumped out just In
| time to throw open the door of his
cab for the couple and take the muir
| INJURED order of Mr.. Beacher fremont.
,"All right. Hit it up for Greenwood"
Luckily for the cabmans entertain
ment, his engine was working In 81
lent perfection that night. The late
hour gave him almost undisputed right
Of way so that driving became an
automatic adjustment Of his course in
line with the curb and released his
attention to gorge itself at leisure
with eaves-dropping. By squirming
his shoulders he managed to cock one
ear over the top Of his high overcoat
collar; it was the ear next to the open
speaking-slot. -,
(To be continued next Week)
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me!" he said. ''1f you won't promise
to stay here without / a 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-"
81 do"
"Do what?" inquired Robert.
81 promise"
MAKE yourself absolutely at home,
then" he said, as he dropped her
hands and turned toward the door.
81 feel like Christmas eve," said
Miss Thornton meekly. won't 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, and left her:
She can be excused for spying upon
him from the curtained window. She
saw him awake the cabman, and then
watched the pantomime of long col
loquy.
"Oh!" she moaned. "No wonder! {!
The awful. awful price of those horr1d
clock things! Why did I let him tell it
to waltz
Presently she was amazed to see
both the driver and Mr. Randolph dis
appear into the dark recesses of the
cab and close after them it's 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. Mr. Randolph proceed
ed to crank the car and then, walking
rather strangely, went off, headed
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 doingsr' thought Miss Imo-
gene Pamela Thornton, as she turned
from the window to start on private
ly conducted voyage Of discovery.
Strange doings, indeed, and stranger
still could Imogene Pamela have heard
as we'll 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 I been freezin' most to det'
fer two mortal hours an a gent like
you starts right il kickin' on the clock
Widout even readin' it,
"Shucks!' said Mr.. 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-wagon? You?"
NAV; the Village Cab company"
replied the saturnine cabman as he
stuffed the twenty-dollar bill into his
trousers pocket.
"Wen," said Mr.. Randolph, "you
and I 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 no surprise; he
contemplated the offer with half-closed
eyes and obviously working lips.
"More than that" went on Ran
dolph: 'Tm not taking your job just
- for tonight; I'm going to hold it. The
only thing I want you to promise is
that you'll keep your trap closed if
you see any ads in the personal COL
umns looking for me-
'sHow do know you won't lift the
car and whoop it up fer New Haven?"
Randolph fixed him in the eye.
'You know won't, because I say
it."
"Sure-that's all right, boss" said
the driver conciliatingly. mo bones
broke. Now, there's just one thing
more: have you figgered that it's five
hours to the opening Of secondhand
Sixth avenue or the Bowery, an I'd
have to wear those clothes Of yourn
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me!" he said. eff you won't promise
to stay here without a 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?
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1921-02-25
.ENVED HIS SMALL DAUGHTER
Duck Hunter Would Have Given Much
for the Power She Exercised
over Ducks.

Betty, four years old, lives in a
modern apartment in Brooklyn, facing
Prospect park She knows all the
squirrels in the park and the birds
that stay there in the summer.
For several weeks Betty mas been
lonesome because all her feathered
friends went in search of warmer
weather, but now she mas plenty of
company again. Wild ducks are her
newest friends.
The ducks coming alight in Prospect
park lake and generally remain week
or two to rest and feed, They are
wary of men, but not afraid Of chill
dren, if Betty is an example.
The other day she was walking
with her father a duck hunter. Betty
noticed she couldn't get near the ducks
while she was with her father, but
when she left him and ran along the
shore alone she found she could an
proach them. After a little coaxing
the ducks swan up and ate pieces of
popcorn from her hand.
"And l have to crawl through
swamp on my hands and knees 10 get
within gunshot Of them" unused her
father.-New York Sun.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1921-02-25
SAW THINGS IN NEW LIGHT
object Lesson Given Prisoner Altered
His Determination to End
Life by Rope.

In a certain prison there have been
several attempts to commit suicide.
This desire to die has given the war
dens much trouble and anxiety.
few days age a warden entered d
cell to find the Inmate preparing to
hang himself. He was standing on his
stool and trying to throw the end Of
a strip of torn blanket around one Of
the cell bars. The other end was
around his neck
You're making a mess of It," said
the weary warden. let me help you"
In trice the blanket rope was
about the bar and the moose properly
fixed
The warden gave a tug. He tugged
and tugged until the man was raised
from the stool-until he was standing
on air There he was held until his
eyes and hands made eloquent appeal
for release.
That's the way" said the warden
releasing him. "Now try it Yourself"
But the prisoner has not tried it.
lie had decided to live
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1921-02-25
CALOMEL DANGER
TOLD BY DODSON
Says You Cannot Gripe Sicken, or Salvate Yourself
You Take "Dodson's Liver Tone" Instead

Calomel loses you a day You know
what calomel is. It's mercury; quick
silver. Calomel is dangerous. 1t
crashes into sour bile like dynamite,
,ramping and siclening you. Calomel
attacks the bones and should never be
put into your system
When you feel bilious, sluggish,
,onstipated and all knocked out and
believe you need a dose of dangerous
calomel lust remember that your drug
gist sells for n few cents a large bot
lie OF Dodson's Liver Tone, which is
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entirely vegetable and pleasant to
take and is a perfect substitute for
calomel. 1t is guaranteed to start your
liver without stirring you up inside,
and can not saliyate.
Don't take caomel 1t can not be
trusted any more than a leopard or
a wild cat. Take Dodson's Liver Tone.
which straightens you right up and
makes you feel fine Give it to the
children because it is perfectly harm
less and doesn't gripe.-Ady.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1921-02-25

When you have decided that tho worms
or Tapeworm must be exterminated gef
Dead shot'-Dr Peery's Vernifuge. one
dose win clean them all out-Adv.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1921-02-25

Fine literature is a mosaic in which
unexpected words are in opposite
places.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1921-02-25

RERS J. NJ. CRAIG, Of Los "A.
M eelss, Calf, who says no one
can feel more grateful for what
Tan}ae has done than she does.
Declares she bss gained twelve
pounds and her health is now Bet
Ter than an years,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1921-02-25
Simple Explanation,

dorothy whatever makes You talk
so muchY Because l always fink OF
sumpin' to say
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1921-02-25

Father Time is no gallant; he al
ways tells on a woman.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1921-02-25

Mankind is divided into TWO classes
those who drive autos and those
who dodge them