Connecticut western news., 1921-01-27

nS uTlNer WeICOFneu the SuuNen apparition with a friendly grin, honked defiantly three times, and threw Tn the clutch. They were off. and trailing after them came such a string of blasphemous utterances as made MT. Randolph vince.
 The girl was laughing. No longer did her eyes search for a gleam they thought they had lost forever. It was there within them, come back to rol- lick in her pupils and spill itself in reckless spending.
 "Oh! Ohl What a bump" she gasped.
 Funny, wasn't itY' said Mir. Ran dolph weakly.
 "Awfully," said the girl.
 Thereupon fell long silence. The cab cut aGross the traffic, reached the Avenue, and eventually the dark park before MT. Randolph found anything further to say.
 Funny, wasn't itT' he remarked.
 The girl cast him a startled look.
 why" she gurgled. that's what you said before"
 SO uiut suId HIT. huuuolpl, frowning thoughtfully. ''So did. By the way, what's your nameT
 The girl caught her breath and swallowed her laughter.
 "vivienne vlvserrs." she said, after a pause.
 "How awful r commented Mr. Ran- dolph- ~one of tAose deliberate al- Alterations that 70 With the back row of the chorus"
 Front row. vivienna defended promptly, but rssniNng Her lips twitched down at the coFnerN -At Least, t was front row"
 -T know" safe Nr. Randolph. Weave been nrsd. heard what Beamer said to yox- How long have you known that snaksY- Mot very iong,- she answered. ''He got me on, and I suppose he got me ofr- She drew 6 long breath and turned appealing eyes to Randolph. Please she said, -dou't let's talk about him want so to be happy for few minutes. I love the park at night with it's border of lights. Let's play a game"
 "A gamer" said Randolph doubt fully.
 "Yes Wen guess which Is Central Park West and which is One Hundred and Tenth street and which Is the ave nue. It Is not as easy as you think after you've been going round a while I'm feeling d-dizzy a-already."
 You areI" exclaimed Mir. Randolph. "Well, let me tell you 1t isn't from buzzing round a two-mile circuit | What did you have for dinnerT'
 Miss Vivienne shut her lips tight.
 Wont you please play my gamer she asked faintly.
 Mir. Randolph drowned as though | considering the subject very seriously, but the matter that held his attention i; was not the proposed guessing-match. That would not have been fair nor , amusing, as the headlights of his own very comfortable apartment blinked at him every time they came to Fifty . ninth street. Re was justifying to himself very questionable move. He t wished to feed this stray damsel and, [ at the same time, talk to her with a | purpose. He could not see himself ! doing 1t in a cabaret, and every hotel supper room had already become one of those things. He came to a decision and spoke.
 'I'll take hand in your game, all right, but not just as you think. Do I you-would you trust meT' i Immediately the girl was on her guard. She looked into his face and read 1t.
 'T would never have thought of not trusting you if you hadn't asked that old, old trap question" she said gravely.
 Forget that I asked it," said MT. Randolph promptly, and leaned out to | give the driver bis address. A thin Tipped and weary scorn was still on that individuals face when he drew up before MT. Randolph's abode and honked three times derisively to the world In general as seen from the front of a taxi.
 Wait" said Mir. Randolph to the jehu, as he handed out the girl. She paused with one foot halfway to the curb, but that single word directing anything as expensive as a taxi to stand by treasured her.
 Randolph preceded her to show the way and turn on lights He never looked back to see if she followed, and this implied trust in herself seemed to drag, her after him up the single flight of stairs that led to his rooms.
 "Old-fashioued but cozy,~ he said, as he applied a latch-key and opened a door that gave directly on large square sitting room. 'T hate elevators ia place you call home" ,~... s
 h an open grats was a dying wood arS. He proceeded to poke snd feed It at once, saying ovs< his shoulder:
 "Sit down anywhere, will yeur' Facing the fire was a deep and much worn leatherp couch. with a pedestal at each end carrying shaded lamps. They were the only. ones, he had light. . MA AmA- A