The Lehi sun. [volume] (Lehi, Utah) 1913-1949, 1921-04-21
PART M.
Mazda Adven4ur.

rake a young girl Of about twent,
VINO In her childhood, was pampored
VI fortune In money, position. good
ureeuing, and pets, turn her loose
ID the world at the age OF ten
win no prop but faithful. sickly
una destitute old nurse. kin Off the
nurse a couple Of years later, let the
glrl tend for herself ms sculIery-mald
ana what not through the uninterest-
ing stage that precedes the sudden
OIoom Of unexpected beauty. give her
long succession Of Jobs secured ION
her looks and lost b cause she
wouldn't, lead her up 70 the crowded
portal Of despair and the long-drawn-
our surrender; then snatch her sudden
~ hack from destruction feed her,
give her the sole freedom for a night
OF Mr.. Robert Hervey Randolph's com.
portable apartment and-what will she
dof The answer is easy. She will
ma the bath and turn on the hot
water.
That was the very first thing that
Miss lmOgene 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 Mr.. Patrick
OReilly In Mr.. Randolph's hest top.
nat best suit Of evening clothes and
overcoat, best gray silk muller. price
twenty-five dollars. and best patent
leather shoes-the last n very tight
ut which made the revamped gentle,
mans gait cross between that OF a
chicken on a hot stove and a drunk
on his reluctant way home.
Even the unsuspectlng Miss Thorn.
ton was puzzled by that hating loco.
motion I'm 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 a differ
ence In Ideas as to the value of n
'>sitlng taxi, and decided that poor
Mr.. Randolph must have issued from
the interview In a seml-crippled state.
She herself was too excited to let
pity altogether absorb her. Without
waiting for either the tortured way.
farer or the taxi 70 get quite out of
sight, she dropped the window curtain
and turned to possess herself of her
world of comfort for night. A
starved instinct led her straight to
the luxuriously appointed bathroom.
AS previously lntlmated she turned
ON the hot wa,er and clasped her
hands ecstatlcally MS she watched It's
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 ir
the fiat until ten the following morn
| ing, she decided to do the job whole
heartedly, for Imogene Pamela was
one Of those lucky and fated young
women who can never give themselves
by halves. II happiness so much as
showed It's nose, II was her nature to
tackle blindly for Its waist and 90
to the mat for the immediate present
Consequently, let not her modesty
be mlsjudged when It is related that,
in the short time It took TO fill the
bath, she accomplished the following
Rooted out Mr.. Randolphs best silk
paiamas. found his sOftest bathrobe,
filled n hot-water bottle and slipped II
far down between the too cold linen
sheets Of his big bed. Continuing at
this rate Of achievement II may be
imagined that In ten minutes more the
young lady, having bathed. was curled
up and sound asleep, Not on your
lifel 1,
Item: 1t took her twenty-one min
utes by the clock 10 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 10 scrub her under
wear and stockings. Assorted items:
Various pauses during which she
shamelesSly looked ut herself In full
length mirror Of such pure rejecting
qualities as had not crossed her path
since England was n pup. After ;hat,
II long, enhancing item, called dry
ing her hair"
Did you blame her, three lines hack,
In your heart for her frequent lnSpec-
tlUns of self in the mirror? II you
did look at her nOwl Mr.. Randoiph's
bathrobe is billowed at her waist and
tied tight to keep II from trailing on
the floor; for almost like reaSon,
its sleeves are rolled up above her
elbows. II is open in V at the neck
showing the adolescent curve OF IA
virginia. but much excited bosom,
With a woolly towel In both hands
she plants herself before the stald old
looklng-glass and gives II such treat
as II 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 ind
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 bRir
slowly wakes from its stringy damp
ness until II, too, bursts into a sort Of
IIpbt and curly merriment Pamela