Mountain Home Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1915-1946, 1921-08-27

the fAct tnat fdmeld knew all aDQu
| money from the short end
~ have finished" she suddenly an
nounced.
FINISHED what" asked Eileen.
"Fmlshed shopping" said Pamela
i've been keeping account and Eva
spent almost the whole check"
1.-The who're checkT" exclaimed
| Eileen. "Why, you haven't touched Il
That's the beauty Of charge accounts
You can keep your checks to look at
| I've got some that father gave me
three years ago."
Pamela smiled smile Of much wis,
| dom and made for the nearest exit. As
a matter of polite formalty. when they
reached Fifty-nnth street, she asked
| Eileen to come up for lunch from the
! bachelors buffet in the basement, and
she could not help a slight feeling OF
relief at the news that Miss Mlyuns
had promised herself elsewhere
But I'll break away and come for
tea at five, IL you'll let me-" said Ell.
leen. Il simply must help you try
| them all on"
"All right; do" said Pamela inward
~ pleased that she would have some
one beside Tomllnson upon whom TO
eaFzh the first dazzling vision of her
metemorphOsis.
The first thing she did when she
| reached the apartment was to ask If
Mr.. Randolph had called; the next was
| to summon the Office Of Milyuns,
| Rranch & Milyms on the telephone to
know what steps had been taken In the
new search She was somewhat aur.
prised TO learn that the entire firm had
| gone out to lunch in body, and still
more startled at the information, oh
| tanned three hours later from the same
| superciliOus voice at the other end OF
| the wire, to the effect that none of them
sad come back. She was young she
| believed 1t.
There is no doubt that in five min
utes more Mr.. Gloom would have as
sumed full sway in the late apartment
of Mr.. Robert H. Randolph had not a
long procession Of parcels begun to ar.
rive In the nick OF time Tomlinson
brought them into the bedroom, one,
two, three at haul, and Pamela her
self cut the knots with Mr.. Rand0lph's
best nail-Scissors and laid out the
goods. fiIny fold upon filmy fold
BY the time Eileen turned up the
apartment looked like the stateroom
de lux OF a millionaire young lady re-
turning from Paris with nothing TO
wear and preparing TO swear to II be-
fore all the customs officials In Goth
am. Tomlnson was ordered to fill the
cellar With wrappng-paper. tissue-pa'
per, cardboard boxes and string, burn
ing what was left over in the back
y I'D.
AS soon rs sufficient space had been
cleared for action. the two girls set 10
work, and were soon involved In such
IN orgy Of "trying on as only the
itNliDlCNl stamina vi fbuAl N'N'N
have endured without falling over In a
dead faint from exhaustion. Even
Eileen Invested her person OF every
thing but, and experimental with such
dear garments as 1t seemed impossible
Miss Thornton could get round to in
the allotted time.
Having tried to show the public how
charming was Pamela in and without
her cheap clothes, no puerile and gasp.
ing effort win be made In these pages
TO measure the effect upon her of the
latest creations of the raiment dream
gods of Fifth avenue. Suffice II TO say
that, In one hours twinkling of the
eye, she became such radiant vision
as chokes mere words down into the
pit of mans stomach, makes his jaw
work like that OF fish on hot side
walk. fills his eyes with the pleading
light OF calf-love and inspires his
hands with an overmastering desire to
reach for It.
For two. four. six days, week, two
weeks, Pamela lived in GREATNESS an
tcipation Of the moment when she
could burst upon the eyesight OF one
Robert Hervey Randolph, and when AL
these days--and weeks-passed with
out any news OF him, her lips that
were made to smile. to kiss. and TO
bless the air with words softly spoken
and carried on the fragrance of clean
young breath began 10 droop pitItully.
Mr.. Milyuns' efforts In several direc-
tons had so far proved IN vain. lie
had advertised in every paper in Goth'
am from the New York Epoch to the
pink Police Gazette; he had offered
rewards; he had set traps and was
now supporting large corps OF rap,
idly fattening individuals who called
themselves "plain-clOthes" men--a
name that would have fitted them ad'
mirably had the last syllable been omit
ted His net results were the infor'
nation that Mr.. Randolph In n repre-
henslble state OF intoxlcatlog and Al
seven o'clock Of the morning Of when
he had disappeared, had exchanged MS
swell evening garments ut secohn'
hand emporium on Sixth avenue for
suit of thicks and eighteen dollars IN
cash, stating. as he left the place. that
he was thinking Of going South for the
rest of the winter
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