Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1923-08-30
PART M.
Maid's Adventure.

Take a young girl OF about twenty
who, In her childhood, was pampered
of fortune In money. position, good
breeding. and pets, turn her loose
on the world at the age Of ten
with no prop but a faithful. sickly
and destitute old nurse. kill of the
nurse a couple of years later, let the
girl fend for herself as scullery-maid
and what not through the uninterest-
Ing stage that precedes the sudden
bloom Of unexpected beauty. give her
a long succession Of jobs secured ION
her looks and lost because she
wouldn't, lead her up to the crowded
portal Of despair and the ~long-drawn-
out surrender; then snatch her sudden
ly back from destruction, feed her.
give her the sole freedom for a night
of Mr.. Robert Hervey Randolph's com.
Portable apartment and-what will she
do? The answer Is easy. She Will
find the bath and turn on the hot
water.
That was the very first thing that
Miss Imogene Pamela Thornton did
after she had finished spying from the
window on the movements of what
she supposed was Mr.. Randolph and
what, In reality, was Mr.. Patrick
O'Reilly in Mr.. Randolph's best top
hat. best suit OF evening clothes and
overcoat, best gray silk muller. price
twenty-five dollars, and best patent
leather shoes-the last a very tight
fit which made the revamped gentle
mans gait a cross between that of a
chicken on a hot stove and a drunk
on his reluctant way home.
Even the unsuspecting Miss Thorn
ton was puzzled by that hating loco
motion In connection with what she
knew of Mr.. Randolph, but she added
IL. two and two. with the mysterious
twenty minutes spent by that gentle
man and the driver In the recesses OF
the cab. apparently to settle a differ
n C In ideas as TO the value Of a
waiting taxi, and decided that poor
Mr.. Randolph must have issued from
the Interview In a semi-crippled state.
She herself was too excited to let
pity altogether absorb her. Without
waiting for either the tortured way.
farer or the taxi to get quite out OF
sight, she dropped the window curtain
and turned 10 possess herself Of her
world OF comfort for a night. A
starved instinct led her straight TO
the luxuriously appointed bathroom.
As previously intimated, she turned
on the hot water and clasped her
hands ecstatically as she watched Its
crystalline surge and imagined she
could smell the opalescent steam.
Rut not for long was she inactive
Having surrendered TO circumstance
20 the extent Of promising to stay in
the fat until ten the following morn
ing. she decided 20 do the job whole
heartedly. for lmogene Pamela was
one Of those lucky and fated young
women who can never give themselves
nv halves. II happiness 50 much as
showed its nose. IL vas her nature TO
tackle biindiy for its waist and go
% the mat for the immediate present
Consequently. LET not her modesty
be misjudged when u is related that.
IN the short time II took 10 I'LL the
bath, she accomplished the following:
Rooted out Mr.. Randolph's best silk
pajamas, found his sofiest bathrobe.
fIied a hot-water bottle and slipped IL
far down between the too cold linen
sheets Of his big bed Continuing AZ
this rate Of achievement Il maH be