The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-04-22

FINISHED shopping" said Pamela. |
I've been keeping account, and I've |
spent almost the whole check"
""The whole check?" exclaimed |
Eileen. "Why, you haven't touched 1t. |
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 a smile of much wis |
dom and made for the nearest exit. AS |
matter of polite formality, when they |
reached Fifty-ninth 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.
''But I'll break away and come for |
tea at five, if you'll let me-" said Eli |
Ieen. Il simply must help you try
them all on"
"All right do" said Pamela, inward
| ~ pleased that she would have some
one beside Tomlinson upon whom to
| flash the first dazzling vision of her
metamOrphosis.
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 Milyuns,
| Branch & Milyuns 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 had
gone out to lunch in a body, and still
| more startled at the information, OBJ
tanned three hours later from the same
supercilious voice at the other end Of
the wire, TO the effect that none of them
had 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 az
rive in the nick of time. Tomlinson
brought them into the bedroom, enc,
two. three at haul, and Pamela her.
self cut the knots with Mr.. Randhph's
best nail-scissors and laid out the
goods, fiImy fold upon filmy fold.
BY the time Eileen turned up the
| apartment iihG AltC SluACA"SiAa
de lux of a millionaire young lady re-
turning from Paris with nothing TO
wear and preparing TO swear to 1t be-
fore all the customs officials In Goth.
am. TOmlinSOn was ordered to fill the
cellar with wrapping-paper tissue-pa-
per, cardboard boxes and string, burn.
ing what was left over i'll the back
yrd.
AS soon as sufficient space had been
cleared for action, the two girls set to
work, and were soon involved in such
an orgy of trying on" as only the
healthfest stamina of youth could
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 it 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 will be made in these pages
TO measure the effect upon her of the
latest creations of the raiment dream
gods of Fifth avenue. Suffice it to say
that, in one hours twinkling of the
eye, she became such a 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-Iove and inspires his
hands with au overmastering desire tC
5 reach for it.,
: For two, four, six days, week, two
7 weeks, Pamela lived in GREATNESS an
$ tieipation of the moment when she
? could burst upon the eyeSight of one
Robert Hervey Randolph, and when al
I these days-and weeks-passed with
r out any news of him, her lips tina
n were made to smile, to kiss, and II
3 bless the air with words softly spoken
and carried on the fragrance of clear
Y young breath began to droOp pftifully
e Mr.. MilyunS' efforts in several direc
e tons had so far proved in vain.' IA
e had advertised in every paper in Goth
= am, from the New York Epoch to thu
!, pink Police Gazette; he had Offered
i rewards; he had set traps and wa
now supporting large corps of rap
| idly fatteniug individuals who callet
themselves 'plain-clothes" mem
y name that would have fitted them ad
e mirably had the last syllable been omit
t ted. His net results were the infor
l. nation that Mr. Randolph. in repre-
- hensibIe state of intoxicatlon and a
It seven o'clock of the morning of whlcl
he had disappeared, had exchanged hi
K swell evening garments at a second
hand emporium on Sixth avenue for
d suit of thicks and eighteen dollars Fl
l. cash. stating, as he left the place, tina
d he was thinking of going South for tn
10 rest of the winter. .r