Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1923-09-06

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something over eight hundred dollars
q month shall pay Il In advance
until you get settled and have .
chance to catch up"
Please send me only half said
Pamela. as she rose to say geod-by.
Mr.. Miiyuns took her hand. dropped
IL, and started toward the door: but
before he got there. he stopped and
turned.
MY dear he said. losing for the
moment his birdlike. chirpy pose. Il
don't want you to think Of me as just
your banker. I knew your father and
your mother, and their fathers and
mothers before them. I am fond. BY
old usage. Of every drop Of blood that
runs In your veins You won't forget
that. viii your"
Pamela stared at him. swept toward
him. threw her arms round his neck.
Rugged him. dropped her face on his
shoulder and wept Mr.. Borden Mil
yuns stood very erect, his bald head
held high. his pink cheeks pulled out.
and his eyelids blinking at the rate Of
fifteen to the dozen In q vain effort to
fan back an amazing lachrymatory In
undation.
There. there !" he said, patting Pam
ella on the back. "Who would have
thought II. you adorable. lonely little
giriy'
Pamela threw up her head and
smiled through the sudden summer
shower.
Il know II was ridiculous" she said.
But I couldn't help IL. You made me
like you all Of a sudden, and just had
to. because you've had a bath and you
look 50 clean inside and out" She
kissed him as she broke away.
II see; I see" said the astounded
Mr.. Milyuns, and beat It.
At two minutes after i've the door
bell rang again. In spite Of the fact
that IL 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 a slightly resigned air that
she received Mrs. and Miss Milyuns
instead Of Mr.. Robert Randolph.
Mrs. Milyuns few 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 I kiss your
Pamela extended one cheek to the
salute while her eyes wandered OF to
size up the tall. blonde. cool young
person that she surmlsed must answer
to the name of Eileen Milyuns. Being
the product Of two shorts. how on
earth had she managed to grow so
longf Her face was ngulariy beauti-
full. as though II had been carefully
made to order like her clothes. She ap-
peared as passive as a Palmer snow
scape.
After a little skirmishing for posi-
tion, the three ladies seated them
selves In a triangle, into the center Of
which the well-trained Tomllnson ran
q tea-wagon.
"Now." said Mrs. Milyuns. having
emptied and put down her cup, Tets
forget the sheer romance Of the situa-
ton, my dear, and get down to prac-
teal problems. The first OF all things,
as you must realize. Is the necessity OF
getting you q companion. Would you
care to be our guest in Madison avenue
until you can pick n outT'
Il would put clothes ahead Of .
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 a long breath and deliv-
cred herself Of the following:
Really. It's most awfully kind OF
you. but, as I told Mr.. Milyuns. Tom
Iinson 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, I can" said Miss Thornton.
a little breathlessly. 81 have q feel
Ing-I can't explain IL exactly-that
this apartment Is a one-woman setting.
As I said to Mr.. Milyuns, l don't want
to clutter IL 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"
"'Rightr Eileen" exclaimed Mrs.
Milyuns. flushing in her Indignation at
finding a traitor IN the home camp. Il
don't know what your generation Is
coming to. The impossible is never
right"
Having taken up her suaye cudgel.
Eileen was In no haste TO lay II down.
and may Il be pointed out right here
that Miss Imogene Pamela Thornton
had the rare faculty Of enlisting the
nearest bystander to assume her bat
lies for her. ~thenceforth becoming q
charmIngly Interested onlooker, ready
to watch the tide Of her own fortune