Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1921-04-01

81 have finished" she suddenly an
nounced
FINISHED what7" asked Eileen.
| FINISHED shopping" said Pamela.
i've been keeping account and I've
| spent almost the whole check"
"'Th. whole eheekY'" 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 a smile of much wis
dom and made for the nearest exit As
a matter of polite fornallty, 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 Mllyuns
had promised herself elsewhere.
"But III break away and come for
! tea at five, If you'll let me-" said N
leen. 81 simply must help you try
them all on"
| "All right; do" said Pamela inward
ly pleased that she would have some
one beside Tomlinson upon whom to
flash the first dazzling vision of her
netamorphosis.
The first thing she did when she
! reached the apartment was to ask II
Mr.. Randolph had called the next was
| to summon the office of Milyuns,
Branch & Milyuns on the telephone to
| IN ST. bod hanr. folrou In tho
new search. She was somewhat sur
! prlsed TO learn that the entire firm had
| gone ont 70 lunch in body, and still
more startled at the information, OBJ
tanned three hours later from the same
| supercilous voice ut 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 ii. 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 at haul, and Pamela her-
self cut the knots with Mr.. Randolphs
| best naii-scissors and laid out the
goods. tilmy fold upon filmy fold.
BY the time Eileen turned up the
apartment looked like the staterooin
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. Tomlinson was ordered to fill the
cellar with wrapping paper. tissue-pa-
per, cardboard boxes and string, burn
ing what was left over in the back
yard.
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 MS only the
healthiest stamina of youth could
have endured without falling over in a
dead faint from exhaustion. Even
Eileen Invested her person OF every
thing but, aud experimental with such
dear garments as il seemed impossible
Miss Thornton could get round to in
the allotted time.
Having tried TO show the public how
/ fhNtiiiiillS WAS dlhtta III uuu NlNhtut
her cheap clothes. no puerile and gasp
ing effort viii be made In these pages
TO measure the effect upon her of the
latest creations of the raiment dream
gods of Fifth avenue. Suffice 1t to say
that. in one hours twinkling Of the
eye, she became such radiant vision
as chol<es mere words down into the
nit afs - Sas
work like that of fish on hot side
walk, fills his eyes with the pleading
light of calf-loye and inspires his
hands with an oyermastering desire to
reach for IL.
For two, four six days, week, two
ticipation 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. 10 kiss, and 10
bless the air with words softly spoken
and carried on the fragrance Of clean
young breath began 10 droop pltifully.
Mr. Mllyuns' efforts In several dlrec-
tons had so far proved in vain. He
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 a large corps of rap
idly fattening individuals who called
themselves "plain-elothes' men--a
name that would have fitted Them adj
mirably had the last syllable been omit
ted. His net results were the infor-
nation that Mr. Randolph In a repre-
hensible state of intoxication and at
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 a
suit of thieks and eighteen dollars in
cash, stating. as he left the place. thar
he was thinking of going South for the
rest of the winter.
tTo BE CoNTINuED)
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