Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1921-01-28


II have finished" she suddenly an
nounced.
FINISHED what? asked Eileen.
FINISHED shopping" said Pamela.
i've been keeping account, and I've
spent almost the whole check"
1.-The whole checkT" exclaimed
Eileen. "Why, you haven't touched It.
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 formallty, when they
reached Fifty-nlnth street, she asked
Eileen to come up for lunch from the
bachelors buffet in the basement, and
she could not help slight feeling OF
relief at the news that Miss Milyuns
had promised herself elsewhere.
f"But I'll break away and come for
tea at FIVE, IL you'll let me-" said FL
leen. 81 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
flash the first dazzling vision of her
metamorphoss
The first thing she did when she
| reached the apartment was to ask IL
Mr. Randolph had called the next was
to summon the office of Mi1yuns,
| Branch & Mlyuns on the telephone TO
know what steps had been taken In the
new search. She was somewhat sur
| prised to learn that the entire firm hado
gone out to lunch In II body, and still
more startled at the information OBJ
tanned three hours later from the same
supcrclllous voice at the other end of
the wire, TO the effect that none of them
had come back. She was young; she
| believed II.
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
long procession of parcels begun to ar
rive In the nick of time. Tomlinson
brought them into the bedroom, one,
two. three mt n haul, and Pamela her.
self cut the knots with Mr.. Randolph's
best nail-sclssors and laid out the
goods, iilmy fold upon tilmy fold.
BY the time Eileen turned up the
apartment looked like the stateroom
de lux of millionaire young lady re-
turning from Paris with nothing to
wear and preparing to swear to It be-
fore all the customs officials In Goth
am. Tominson was ordered to fill the
| kxifl N ~. ma n
per, cardboard boxes and string burn
Ing what was left over in the back
yard.
As soon rs sufficient space had been
cleared for action. the two girls set to
work, and were soon involved In such
an orgy of trying ON" MS only the
healthiest stamina of youth could
have endured without falling over In n
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 puerlle and gasp.
ing effort will be made in these pages
10 measure the effect upon her of the
latest creations of the rniment dream
gods OF Fifth avenue. Suffice IL to say
that, In one hours twinkllng 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 II.
For two, four, six days, a week, two
weeks, Pamela lived in breathlesS an
ticipatlon of the moment when she
could burst upon the eyesight of one
Robert Hervey Randolph, and when all
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 TO drOop pitifuly.
) Mr. Milyuns' efforts in several dlrec-
) tons had so far proved in vain. He
; had advertised in every paper in Goth
| Nlh, lIoH tue NEW lbIh Epotu u the
pink Police Gazette; he had offered
rewards; he had set traps and was
now supporting large corps of rap.
Y idly fnttening individuals who called
themselves "plan.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 thar Mr.. Randolph, in II repre-
p hensible state OF intoXlCation and al
seven o'clock OF the morning of which
he had disappeared, had exchanged his
swell evening garments at second
hand emporium on Sixth avenue for q
! suit of thIcks and eighteen dollars II
e cash, stating, as he left the place. thal
| he was thinking OF going South for the
= rest of the winter.
(TO BE CONTINUED
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