The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1921-04-29
PART III-continued


AFTER a minute and lejsurely study
OF all the exits from Manhattan. the
pla1n-ciothes men had given il as their
uhlted opinion that Mr.. Randolph had
been speaking fscetiOusIy in his last
Bnown remark and had probably not
voyaged farther south than Canal
street. They said If he would only try
to leave New York they could find him
at once, and settled down on a policy
OF wAtchful waiting for that event
Inc efforts made by Mr.. Miiyuns in
the direction of springing Miss Thorn
ton ON society went equally awry. but
were not quite so fruitless. His ma
tural love of Sm0Oth-running estab-
lishment on the slippery crust of Goth
ans social plane would have heen
saved a severe bump If American pa-
rents were as careful to look up their
guests moral records as they are to
study their ratings in Bradstreetum's.
Unfortunately for Mr.. AIilyuns. it
happened that certain young scion
of a once gentlemanIy house was in
'NNSH Az AAiI MOI ldIEt ullIllGE-DDA-
party given TO meet Miss ImOgenp
Pamela Thornton. In the natural
course of such events, the pasty youth
stepped up for preSentatiOn register
ing In his prOtIberant eyes a CLEAN of
dubious surprise. What if he should
say. Hello Yivienne!" Would 1t Gre
ate sensation?
Something else did; namely. Miss
ThorntOn's mOdulated but terribly
clear voice.
Il met Mr.. Beamer," said Pamela,
drawing back quickly her half-extend-
ed hand, when l was a chOrus-girl."
She turned with a winning smile to
her recently beaming hostess. 81 don't
care to know him In pleasanter sur
rOundings."
For one GREATNESS second there
threatened one of those stlences that
spell social disaster. Eileen took it
upon herself to mash 1t in its extreme
youth with a soft tap of her efficient
hammer.
"Oh, must you really go?" she re-
marked to Mr.. Beamer.
Did this spectacular debut strike the
name of Imogene Pamela from the lists
of the matrOnly elite of Manhattan?
1t did not. Invitations rained on her
and found her unrespOnstve. Her
would-be hostesseS would have gone
the length of submitting rostrums of
proposed guests as though to royalty,
except for the fact that each and every
one of them wished to put her own
nearest and dearest to the test of
elusive of New YOrk's latest crop of
buds
Pamela refused and accepted these
bids for the latest thing in sensations
In the most erratiC manner. No one
could fathom just why she said, No."
and much less why she occasionally
said, Eyes" The mystery only added
to the demands for her company and
the Nays soon began to show an over
wheImIng preponderance over the
Ayes. Why? Simply because it was
not in the power of any of the host
esses to call up the moody girl and
say: my dear, we are going to have
Just pork and beans for dinner tonight.
Won't you join US? Mr.. Robert Her
vey Randolph said he would drop in
for pot-luck."
Yes; every time Pamela had accept
ed an invitation, it was in the rapidly
waning hope that Mr.. Randolph, be-
loved and once at the beck and call
of these very people, would appear
and come into his own. Could she
have surmised thar on two separate
occasions the knight errant of her
thoughts had actually seen her in her
most raviShing bibleSs evening tucker
had driven her to two familiar doors,
taken her m0ney with averted face
and without inspecting the CLOCK,
and had passed on to some quiet stand
to dream over her new glory and reau
the latest batch of ads crying for news
of the whereabouts and welfare of self
could she have known these nppar-
emily insignificant items in the daily
life of the great city. she would have
wept her lovely eyes out twice over
Such being her state Of heart, I'M
agine her excitement when Mr.. NH
yuns called by appointment and re-
tailed word for word the following con-
versation which he had participated in
that very morning with Miss Madge
Van Teller of East Ninth street:
"Oh, Mr.. Milyuns, are you doing all
that advertising for Bobby Randolph
"Yes, Madge; ] certainly am, and II
II doesn't bear fruit pretty soon Ill
have to give up tobacco
''Are you advertising for his own
good? / mean Is Il important to him
mot TO you-for you to find him?
Would he be really and truly glad 10
he found even against his willg'
"Er-yes-er--it is-er--he would
EFF he isn't sixteen kinds of fool.
| think | caught them all, my dear,
put If left any out, please repeat"