Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-01-31
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SYNOPSIS.

Teller, chagrned because OF her refusa
Of his proposal OF marriage. His income
$4,000 a year, which he must surrender
il a certain Miss Imogen Pamela Thorn
ton (whom he has seen only as small
girl ten years before) is found, IS not
considered by the girl of his heart ade-
quate to modern needs. IN a don't care"
mood Randolph enters a taxi, unseen by
the driver, and Is driven 10 III" stage
door of a theater. man he HnoWs,
Duke Beamer, induces q girl to enter the
cab. Beamer, attempting to follow, is
pushed back by Randolph and the cab
moves on. His new acquaintance tets
Randolph she is a chorus girl, and has
lost her position. She is in distress, even
hungry, and he takes her to his apart
ment. There, after lunch, chance re-
mark convinces him the girl is the miss
ing Pamela Thornton. He does not tell
her of her good fortune, but secures her
promise to stay in the fiat until the
morning, and leaves her. In whimsical
mood, also realizing that the girls reap
pearance has left him practically penni-
less he brides the taxi driver to let him
take his job, and leaving word with the
legal representative of the Thornton es-
tate where he can find Pamela, takes up
his new duties under the name of slim
Hervey." He loves the girl, but his pride
forbids him approaching her under their
changed conditions.
PART I1.-One evening he is engaged
by Beacher fremont notorious profiigate,
to drive him and Madge Van Teller to a
h1stelry known as Greenwood" Aware
Of tie evil nature of the place, Randolph
drives the pair to Greenwood cemetery.
lnfuriated, Beacher gets out of the cab
and Randolph leaves him there, taking
the girl (who has awakened to a realiza-
ton Of her folly) to her home. Madge
recognizes him.
Borden indeed told me the truth
about you, my dear. May l kiss you?"
Pamela extended one cheek to the
salute while her eyes wandered off to
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 rSgularly beauti-
full, as though it had been carefully
made to order like her clothes. She APP
peared as passive as a Palmer snow
scape.
After little skirmishing for posi-
ton, the three ladies seated them
selves in a triangle, into the center of
which the well-trained Tomllnson ran
a tea-wagon.
"Now," said Mrs. Mllyuns, having
emptied and put down her cup, Tets
forget the sheer romance of the situa-
ton, my dear, and get down to prac-
tical problems. The first of all things,
as you must realize, is the necessity of
getting you companion. Would you
care to be our guest In Madison avenue
until you can pick one out?"
Il would put clothes ahead of
h0usecat," murmured Eileen.
Her mother ignored the remark and
kept her eyes fixed on Miss Thorntons
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 most awfully kind of
you, but, as 1 told Mr.. Milyuns, Tom
linson is such a dear that I 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 a woman in the
house"
"Oh, yes, can" said Miss Thornton,
little breathlessly. Il have a feel
ing-I can't explain it exactIyHthat
this apartment is one-woman setting.
AS said to Mr.. Milyuns, 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 muir
INJURED;
mother, she's absolutely right. I'm
for her"
"RightP Eileen!" exclaimed Mrs.
Milyuns, flushing in her indignation at
finding traitor in the home camp. 81
don't know what your generation is
coming to, The impossible is never
wight"
Having taken up her suave cudgel,
Eileen was in no haste to lay it 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 yantage-point of an entirely
impersonal detachment
That's where you slipped, mother"
continued the quite unruffied Eileen.
There's nothing impossible to our
generation. Impossibllities are our
food, drink and rainent We're like
those surprising orchid things that de.
fy she usual laws and live on air"
'Yes,' remarked Mrs. Milyuns; "any
new air. But didn't bring you here,
Eileen, to be a stumbIing-block to-to.
Pamela, who is suddenly faced with
problems in the solution of which she
deserves our sympathetic assistance"
you've hit the nail on the head
again. mother" parted Eileen. you're
not in sympathy with her, and / am !;
80 you'd better hand over her check,