Connecticut western news., 1921-03-03
SYNOPSIS.

PART I-Robert Hervey Randolph, BDung New York man-about-town, leaves aha home of his sweetheart, Madge Van Ksalier, chagrined because of her refusal aG his proposal of marriage His income, ps400 a year, which he must surrender 1 @ certain Miss Imogen Pamela Thorn eE@ (whom he has seen only as small Esyl ten years before) Is found, Is not nDnsidered by the girl of his heart ade- MNate to modern needs. In a don't care" mood Randol0h enters & taxi, unseen by nMa driver, and is driven to the stage Ns0r of theater. A man he knows, Duke Beamer, induces a girl to enter the cMDa Beamer attempting to follow, is weShed back by Randolph and the cah moves on- His new acquaintance tells Randolph she Is chorus girl, and has lsst her position. She is in distress, even nhngry, and he takes her to Rts apsss- Msnk There, after lunch. chance re- Wncn eonvinces him the girl Is the miss aasr. Pamela Thornton. He does not tell haD of her good fortune, but secures her yEumise to stay in the fiat until the amexning, and leaves her. In a whimsical mood, also realizing that the girls reap Dsarance has left him practically penni- Aaaa, he bribes the taxi driver to let him aAks his job, and leaving word with the 1agAl representative of the Thornton es- Mha where he can find Pamela, takes up
 
 Hervey." He loves the girl, but his pride EuEbids him approaching her under their changed conditions.
 PART II.-One evening he is engaged By Beacher Fremont, notorious prof1igate, aD drive him and Madge Van Teller to 8 6n@telry known as Greenwood" Aware Ds the evil nature of the place, Randolph drives the pair to Greenwood cemetery. Rmfuriated, Beacher gets out of the cab @nd Randolph leaves him there, taking the girl (who has awakened to a realiza- sion of her folly) to her home. Madge recognizes him.
 "Oh, could IT" sniffed Pamela, and then her eyes fell on the clock. "No, Kean't," she decided for herself "You see, Tomlinson, only pro-promised to sfRy until ten"
 I'll be getting your bath ready, Eben, miss," said Tomlinson, and with drew.
 Half an hour later Pamela was en- 6yfng lonely tray breakfast, placed as her command before the couch, which faced the friendly fire in the big B6fng- room. Without being a mind 1sder, 1t Is possible to surmise that 1&e" ate very slowly, in the vain hope mat Mir. Randolph would pop in, with w without Father Christmas, and Mining her in the meal, banish a baby Wr. Gloom that was hanging round.
 While she was still toying with her mod she heard the bell ring and Tom ahson's voice saying, in deep, respect nsR tones: Miss Thornton will see'you, afr. She Is in the sitting-room."
 Pamela dropped her egg-spoon and aaeeG up, back to the fire, just in time hD face neatly dressed, pink checked, bkfght-eyed, bald-headed little gentle msns who stood, poised but alert, in EAs open doorway, like a bird about as peck at her to see If she were the reaI thing. .-"s =
 Hiss Thorntonr' he asked, in a pc rEikarly liquid voice.
 Pamela nodded her head twice.
 ~T am Mir. Borden Milyuns," contin- neG the molten voice, and the bright syes studied her face expectantly..
 Pamela puckered her brows in an efert to meet that expectancy half Kay, but failed.
 Are your" she asked doubtfully, md with mental reservation against Mr- Robert Hervey Randolph for out raging the traditions of childhood by sending a Father Christmas in this aapper form. Wont you sit downr' sae added politely
 mr. Milyuns hung poised