The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-03-31

! Metamorph0sfS.
The first thing she did when she
reached the apartment was to ask II
Mr.. Randolph had called; the next vas
to summon the office OF Mllyuhs'
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 body, and SUI
more startled at the information. oo'
tanned three hours later from the same
supercilous 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 MN
utps 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 at haul, and Pamela lier'
self cut the knots with Mr.. Randophs
hest nail-scissors and laid out the
goods, filmy fold upon filmy fold.
By the time Eileen turned up the
papartment looked like the stateroom
de lux of o millionaire young LADY re-
turning from Paris with nothing 10
wear and preparing to swear to 1t De-
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 mad been
cleared for action, the two girls set to
work, and were soon involved in such
an orgy of "trying on as 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, 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
7 her cheap clothes, no puerile and gasp
, ing effort will be made in these page,
, to measure the effect upon her Of inc
, latest creations of the railnent dream
: gods of Fifth avenue. Suffice it to sa!
;, that, In one hours twinkling of tht
] eye, she became such radiant vision
as chokes mere words down into tn
pit of a mans stomach makes his jaw
work like that of a fish on a hot side
' walk, fills his eyes with the pleading
e light of caIf-love and inspires hi
t hands with an Overmastering desire Il
reach for 1t.
| For two, four, six days, week, tw'
| weeks, Pamela lived In breathless an
| ticipaton of the moment when SIN
| could burst upon the eyesight of on
a Robert Heryey Randolph, and when al
A these days-and weeks-passed with
| out any news of him, her lips tina
| were made to smile, to kiss, and t
fblvss the air with words softly spoke
| and carried on the fragrance OF. clea
:, young breath began to droop pitifull!
| Mr.. Milyuns' efforts in several diret
! tons had so far proved in vain. ii
A had advertised in every paper in Gotl
n am, from the New York Epoch to tn
a pink Police Gazette; he had offere
Y rewards; he had set traps and wa
now supporting large corps Of raj
!. idly fattening individuals who calle
themselves 'plain-clothes" men-
name that would have fitted them az
MI mirably had the last syllable been omi
III ted. His net results were the info
y nation that Mr.. Randolph, in a repr
4 hensible state Of intoxicatiOn and
seven o'clock Of the morning Of whic
he had disappeared, had exchanged h
u swell evening garments at secon
"A hand emporium on Sixth avenue for
81 suit of thicks and eighteen dollars
m cash, stating, as he left the place, TIL
" ne was thinking of going South for Il
/ rest of the winter.
: (TO BE CONTINUED.)