The spectator., 1921-09-16
PART ill-Continued.

plain-cto,heS men had given it as their united opinion that Mir. Randolph had been speaking facetiously in his last known 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.
 The efforts made by Mir. Milyuns in the direction of springing Miss Thorn ton on society went equally awry. but were not quite so fruitiess. His na- tural love of a smooth-running estab- lishment on the slippery crust of Goth am's social plane would have been saved severe bump if American pa rents were as careful to look up their guests moral records as they are to study their ratings in Bradstreetums
 Unfortunately for Mir. Milyuns, 1t happened that certain young scion of once gentlemanly house was in cluded in the first large dinner-box party given to meet Miss Imogene Pamela Thornton. In the natural course of such events. the pasty youth stepped up for presentation, register ing in his protuberant eyes geam of dubious surprise. What if he should say, Hello, Vivienne!' Would it ere ate sensatlon2
 Something else dld; namely. Miss Thorntons modulated but terribly clear voice
 "I met MT. Beamer." said Pamela, drawing back quickly her half-extend- ed hand. when I was a chorus-girl." She turned with winning smile to her recently beaming hostess. "I don't care to know him in pleasanter sur roundings."
 For one breathless second there threatened one of those sileuces that spell social disaster. Eileen took 1t upon herself to mash 1t in it's extreme youth with a soft tap of her efficient hammer.
 "Oh, must you really go?" she re- marked 10 Mir. Bcamer.
 Did this spectacular debut strike the of the matronly elite of Manhattan? It did not. Invitations rained on her and found her unresponsive. Her would-be hostesses would have gone the length of submitting rostrums of proposed guests as though to royalty. exceps for the fact that each and every one of them wished to put her own nearest and dearest to the test of sudden meeting with the most ex- elusive of New York's latest crop of buds
 Pamela refused and accepted these bids for the latest thing in sensations in the most cratic manner. No one could fathom just why she said. No" and much less why she occasionally said. "Yes," The mystery only added to the demands for her company and the Nays soon began to show an over whelming preponderance over the Ayes. Why? Simply because 1t 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 usl Mir. Robert Her. vey Randolph said he would drop in for pot-luck."
 Yes; every time Pamela had accept. ed an invitation, 1t was in the rapidly waning hope that Mir. Randolph, be- loved and once at the beck and call of these very people, would appear and come into his own. Could she have surrnised that on two separate occasions the knight errant of her thoughts had actually seen her In her most ravishng bibless evening tucker. had driven her to two familiar doors. taken her money with averted face and without inspecting the "elock," and had passed on to some quiet stand to dream over her new glory and read the latest batch of ads crying for news of the whereabouts and welfare of self could she have known these appar- ently 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 Mir. MIL 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 Tellier of East Ninth street:
 "Oh. Mir. Milyuns, are you doing ali that advertising for Bobby Randoiphr
 "Yes. Madge: certainly am. and if it doesn't bear fruit pretty soon I'll have to giye-up tobacco"
 Are you advertising for his own good? mean Is It important to him mot to you-for you to find hims Would he be really and truly glad to be found even against his will?"
 "lll --yes-er--it ls--cr-he would er--if ne isn't sixteen kinds of fool. think l caught them all, my Gear. but n left any out. please repeat"
 "Yes." admitted the lady question mark ''sour legal mind answered them all. Now tell me just your human self If you were In Bobby's place. would
 want te De found by you tos tn