The Monett times., 1921-06-17

AT tNu ml1. after hve the door
bell rang again. In spite of the fact
that it was almost exactly the hour
which Mr.. Milyuns had set for the ar
rival of his wife and daughter, Pamela
couldn't help hoping-but in vain. II
was with slightly resigned air that
she received Mrs. and Miss Milyuns
instead of Mr. Robert Randolph.
Mrs. Milyuns flew to her, set hands
on her shoulders, searched her face
with eager shrewd eyes, and said:
Borden indeed told me the truth
about you, my dear. May kiss your
Pamela extended one cheek to the
size up the tall, blonde. cool young
person that she surmised must answer
to the name of Eileen Milyuns. Being
the product Of two shorts, how on
earth had she managed to grow so
long? Her face was .agularly beauti-
full, as though it had been carefully
made to order like her clothes. She ap-
peared as passive as Palmer snow
scape.
After little skirmishing for post
ton. the three ladies' seated them
selves in a triangle. into the center Of
which the well-trained Tomlinson ran
a tea-wagon.
"Now." said Mrs. Milyuns, having
emptied and put down her cup, "let's
forget the sheer romance of the situa-
tion, my dear, and get down to prac-
tical problems. The first of all things,
as you must realize, is the necessity Of
getting you d companion. Would you
care to be our guest in Madison avenue
until you can pick one out"
II would put clothes ahead Of q
housecat," murmured Eileen.
Her mother ignored the remark and
kept her eyes fixed on Miss Thornton's
perplexed face. That young lady seemed
In no lack of something to say but
rather in search of words and the
plunging courage necessary to the say
ing. She drew long breath and deliv-
cred herself of the following:
"Really, it's mcst awfully kind of
you, but, as told Mr.. Milyuns, Tom
linson is such a dear that / am going
to continue him as my companion"
"Tomlinson !" exclaimed Mrs. Mil
yuns, and then smiled indulgently for
the first time during the interview, be-
ing under the impression that at last
she had run into something appropri-
ately naive in the bearing of her new
charge. "Of course you can keep him
on, but you must realize that you can't
live here without woman in the
house"
''Oh, yes, can" said Miss Thornton,
little breathlessly. Il have a feel
ing-I can't explain 1t exactly-that
this apartment is a one-woman setting.
AS | said to Mr.. Milyuns, I don't want
to clutter it with females"
A silent laugh crept into the eyes of
the marblesque Eileen something in
side of her sat up and took notice. She
glanced round the room and mur-
INJURED:
Mother, she's absolutely right. I'm
for her"
"'Rightl' Eileen!' exclaimed Mrs
Milyuns, flushing in her indignation at
finding traitor In the home camp. Il
don't know what your generation is
coming to. The impossible is never
right
Having taken up her suave cudgel
Eileen was In no haste to lay 1t down
and may 1t be pointed out right here
that Miss Imogene Pamela Thornton
had the rare faculty Of enlisting the
nearest bystander to assume her bat.
ties for her, thenceforth becoming q
charmingly interested onlooker, ready
to watch the tide Of her own fortune
from the vantage-point Of an entirely
impersonal detachment.
THAT'S where you slipped, mother
continued the quite unruffled Eileen
There's nothing impossible to oul
generation. Impossibilities are oul
food, drink and raiment. We're like
those surprising orchid things that de
fy the usual laws and live on air"
Eyes remarked Mrs. Milyuns "any
new dir. But / didn't bring you here
Eileen, to be a stumbling-block to--tc
Pamela, VINO Is suddenly faced with
DrohIens In y aolution Of which she
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