Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-01-30

ing Stage that prccedes 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 aud the lang-drawn-
out surrender; then snatch her sudden
ly 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
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 MIR. Patrick
O'Reilly in Mr. Randolph's best top
hat, best suit Of evening clothes and
overcoat, best gray silk mufiler price
twenty-five dollars, and best patent
leather shoes-the last a very tight
fit which made the revalnped gentle
mans gait cross betYeen that of a
chicken on q 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 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-erippled state
She herself was too excited to lei
pity altogether absorb her Without
waiting for either the tortured way
fGrer 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 minated, she turned
on the hot water and clasped her
hands ecstaticaHy as she watched its
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 fiat until ten the following morn
ing, she decided to do the job whole
heartedly, for Imogene Pamelas 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 misjudged when it is related that,
in the short time it took to fill the
bath, she accomplished the following ::
Rooted out Mr.. Randolph's best silk
paiamas. found his softest bathrobe,
filled a 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: 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 which she
shamel0ssly looked at herself in full
length mirror of such pure rejecting
qualities as had not crossed her path
since England was 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~
tiUns of self in the mirBor? If S@G
did, look at her now! Mr.. Randolphs
bathrobe is billOwlG at her waist and
tied tight to keep it 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 woolly towel in both hands.
she plants herself before the staid old
lookingglass and gives it such a treat
as it has never before savored in its
sixty-two years Of service to the Ran
dolph family. Rub, rub, rub with the
towel. Her cheeks grow pink and
pinker, her eyes round and rounder.
They twinkle and smile, and once,
when she made a little face at her
self. they laughed out loud. Her hair