Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1921-04-22

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{ Finished what?" asked Eileen.
Finished shopping" said Pamela
I I've been keeping account, and I've
spent almost the whole check"
: The whole eheckT" 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 q smile of much wis
dom and made for the nearest exit. As
a matter of polite fOrmality, when they
reached Fifty-ninth street. she asked
Eileen 10 come up for lunch from the
bachelors buffet in the basement. and
she could not help a 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 En-
leen- 81 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 if
Mr.. Randolph had called; the next was
TO summon the office of Afilyuns,
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 stilI
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 it.
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. c
self cut the knots with Mr.. RandGlph's
best nail-scissors and laid out the
goods, filmy fold upon filmy fold.
BY the time Eileen turned I'D the
apartment looked like the stateroom h
lie lux of a millionaire young lady re- r
turning from Paris with nothing TO =,
wear and preparing to swear to it be- f,
ore all the customs officials in Goth n.
I'm. Tomlinson was ordered to fill the
eiiar with wrapping-paper tissue-pa-
er, cardboard boxes and string. burn. :.
ng what was left over in the back -
ard. de
AS soon as sufficient space had been
feared FOR action, the two girls set to :.
FORK, and were soon involved in such Id
orgy of trying on" as only tbe q
stamina of youth could
ave endured without falling over in a 9e
ead faint from exhaustion. Even TO
neeh Invested her person of every yi'
ing but, and experimental with such
ear garments as it seemed impossible a
-lss Thornton could get round to in lig
lie allotted time. Pr,
having tried to show the public how
iarmlng was Pamela in and without
IT cheap clothes, no puerile and gasr,-
g effort will be made in those nogas wa,
measure the effect upon her of the "
test creations of the raiment dream. sigl
ds OF Fifth avenue. Suffice II to saw
at IN one hours twinkling of the F
e she became such a radiant vision pen
cnokes mere words down into the eve
OF mans stomach, makes his law "
'rk IKE that Of a fish on hot side.
llk' nils his eyes with the pleading
II Vi caif-love and inspires his
mas with an overmastering desire to
lch for IT,
'or TWO, four, six days. week two
eks' Pamela lived in breathIess an
patton OF the moment when she
l'u Dursf upon the eyesight of one
peri Hervey Randolph, and when all
Sc days-and weeks-passed Win
any news of him, her lips that
re maze TO smile, to kiss. and 70
- 'ne AR with words softly spoken
carried ON the fragrance of clean
ny breath began to droop pltifulIv
IT. Aiilyuns efforts In several dirac-
Is had so far proved In vain no
advertised In every paper in Goth
from the New York Epoch to tho
follce Gazette; he had offarod
ARDS; he had set traps and was II
supporting large corps of ran. III
fattening individuals who called II
nselves "pialn-ciothes" men II
y 'hat would have fitted them al. III
'oiy mad the last syllable been onit.
HIS net results were the inter.
ION that Mr.. Randolph. in renra. HI
1ole state Of IrtoxIcatIon and ot III
y O'Clock Of the morning Of when HI
ad disappeared, had exchanged HE HI
! evening garments at second HI
emporium on Sixth avenue for iii
OF thicks and eighteen dolIaro r. III
; stating, as he left the place finn, Ill
as thinking Of going South for tha iii
OF the winter. '''' iii
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