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Synopsie— Robert Hervey Ran-
dolph young New York manabout
town leaves the home of hie sweet-
heart Madge Van Tellier cha-
grined because of hpr refusal of hie
proposal of marriage His 'Income
110000 a year which he must sur-
render If a certain Miss Imogen
Pamela Thornton (whom he has
seen only as a small girl ten years
before) la found Is not considered
by- the girl of his heart adequate
to modern needs In a “don’t care"
mood Randolph enters a taxi ‘un-
seen by the driver and is driven
to the stage door of a theater A
man he knows Duke Beamer In-
duces a girl to enter the cabl
Reamer attempting to follow Is
pushed back by Randolph and the
cab moves on His new'acquatnt-
ance tells Randolph she Is a cho-
rus girl and has lost her position
She Is In distress even hungry and
he takes her to his apartment
PART I— Continued
The girl considered gravely for a
mojientj then lier face broke Into a
rippling smile that swept up and set-
tled In her eyes She reached for a
cushion piit It at her back tucked one
foot under herself nnd waved the
other In the same fashion as had Miss
Van Tellier earlier In the evening
“Now talk" she said
“Do you like me?” asked Mr Ran-
dolph She nodded her head
“You’re not afraid to be here?"
i She shook denial
“Have you eer been In a man’s
room lofore?"
She looked him straight In the eyes
and made no other sign
It was Mr Randolph’s turn to flush
“Then” he said “If you like me and
If you’re not afraid please begin at
the start and tell me all about It”
The gill’s eyes fell and sought the
fire Her face slowly pnled to the
shade of her somber thoughts She
was no longer pretty she was beauti-
ful with a revealing transparency that
made her seem unfleshed a dlsem-
( bodied spirit of sincerity and truth
Indubitably pure
“I had a nurse once” she said In a
low voice "and a wire-haired terrier
a show-dog and a darling- His name
was Sport” She raised solemn eyes
to Randolph’s face as though measur-
ing his powers of Understanding “My
nurse died and then one day I had to
sell Sport ( I wasn’t old enough to sell
myself ’
She stopped spenking with an nn-
tnlstakable finality Randolph was
overwhelmed by the flood of informa-
tion that this slip of a girl had packed
Into two-score words A life-story In
four lines and a revelation of the
heart thrown In for good measure!
Over and Above that ho had to reckon
with the confirmation of a suspicion
which had been slowly establishing it-
self in his mind that he had met her
before that not for the first time this
night had those soft -lips curved for
merry words cried “My what a
bump!” within his hearing
- So many considerations pressed to
his Immediate attentloa that he
awoke to the actual present too late
to stein the tide of tears that sudden-
ly rose to the girl’s eyes
“Oh" she sobbed “what is to be-
come of me? I was so happy here If
you hadn’t made me think I” -If
anything has been said In the
course of these pages to give the Im-
pression that Mr Randolph was mod-
eled after Joseph or hewn out of Ice
or packed with probity to the exclu-
sion of red blood forget It At the
sight of those tears he slid the length
of the couch to first base fielded the
girl In htB arms switched her round
so that she lay across his knees drew
her face against his shoulder and
rocked her gently - 1
“You poor kiddle” ’ he said softly
“what a devil of a time you’ve hadl
But believe me when I tell you It’s all
over This Is the night that starts your
old happy sun Into the blue sky again
Don’t worry”
She stopped crying and looked up
Into the honest face so close to her
own puzzling as to how just those
words could have come from It but
the world had taught her a hard les-
son In varying standards She drew a
long quivering sigh
“If you could only wait until I 4ove
you body and soul" she breathed
“What on -earth do 1 you mean?”
asked Mr Randolph "
“Why then It wouldn’t be so bad—
so ugly” n J
“I don’t get’ you” remarked Robert
Hervey -
“A man told me just n little while
ago that he wap mnkfhg a catalogue
of reasons why women give them-
selves” she continued “He had eleven
already and yet he was one of the
nicest men I’ve met He talked to roe
as though he were showing me a way
that I must travel alone" -v
“Really?” said Mr Randolph stif-
fening perceptibly
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“The lowest reason of all was for
cold cash” she went on as though he
had not spoken “Then came the glit-
ter of precious Btones and after thut
silk underwear” '
“Silk underwear !” exclaimed Mr
Randolph mystified and Interested In
spite nf hlifiself'
"Of course you couldn’t understand
thnt” she said "not unless you had
seen some poor girl bury her face in
crepe de chine and lace tremble to try
them on nnd then sob because she had
to wear clothes over them”
"Rook here” said Mr Randolph
shuddering at the pity of It: "we’ll
pass on to the next If you don’t mind”
"Curiosity comes next” resumed the
girl obediently “A woman Is weak
until she knows everything Then
conies a funny one thnt you won’t un-
derstand at all It’s called ‘Because
‘Because he had on a coat that re-
minded her of an old coat that a man
she had loved used to wear'”
“My dear girl — ” protested Mr Ran-
dolph -
“I snld they weren't Interesting”
she reminded him dispassionately Her
eyes widened “And now” she con-
tinued “we go up and up — spite thnt
stabs Its own heart the fonely soul
consuming fire nnd last and greatest
reason of all just love” Her eyes
glowed to some distant focus “If all
myself my honor my past and my
future dissolve to the single drop of a
present moment In the crystal cup of
“Now Talk" She Said
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love then let me give myself to a
lover's- lips for once drained nothing
will be left upon which to hang the
badge of shame — nothing remain In
all the world but the spirit and — and
the sacrifice” - ”
"Girl” said Mr Randolph crushing
her to him as though he snatched her
back from Just beyond his clasp
"where Is your mind wanderlng7 What
have you been thinking? That I was
asking you to — to give yourself to
me?” - ’
Her eyes came suddenly to his face
"Tes ” slie snld “I thought thnt”
He stared at her for a long silent mo-
ment his lips wavering nervously be-
tween" pity and severity A flush
swept over her face and Into her eyes
crept a look of fear "You don’t want
me?” she whispered then as he did
not speak “Kiss me I wish you to
kiss me”
There was something In her Insist-
ence that clutched at his heart and
bent him forward He drew her head
up slowly to meet his Ups and kissed
her as lightly as tinpersonally as
brother ever saluted sister but far
more fearfully Immediately her body
went limp In his arms turned to a
dead weight of uninspired flesh ‘
“It Is true” she murmured des-
perately “You don’t really want me
and I con never love you now”
Randolph awoke to that -still cry
He shook her seized her head In both
his hands and forced her eyes to meet
the blaze in his
“You generous careless adorable
little fool I” he growled “Why you’re
the most desirable and precious bundle
of lovable charm that - robber man
ever trembled to hold In sacrilegious
arms !”
She stared at him amazed
“Why don't you kiss the way you
talk?” she demanded
“Because there’s no renfftm for your
desperate barter my dear Imogene
Pamela Thornton”
In one lithe motion she was out of
his arms on her feet back to the fire
head npthrown -“How
dnre you— how 'dare you call
me by that name?" She was trans-
formed her eyes flnshed with such f
light as made the blaze In his own a
paltry thing "Do you think she would
lie in your arms?” She asked gulping
out the words “Vivienne Vlvlerre”'—
her Ups curled In distaste ’at the name
—"ah yes poor despairing thing! BOt
I— Pamela Thornton ! Oil who are
you? Why did you?” She dropped
her face- In her hands and sobbed as
though her’ heart had broken
Randolph did not leap to comfort
her this time he did not even watch
her With his eyes on the edges of
fire that peeed from between and
round her ankles he begnn to tnlk
“I knew you I knew Sport I knew
Maggie Just once I met you nil nnd
I’ve never forgotten I couldn’t” He
smiled crookedly "You and I snt dow
so hard together and you cried out
‘My what a hump!’ and laughed and
laughed — just like tonight back there
at the stngo-door of the Crocodile"
Fnmeln stopped crying
“So you were that awfully nice
boy" slie snld disclosing tear-stained
checks nnd looking him over as though
slie were inventorying a long Ust of
points of deterioration
Robert Hervey Randolph six feet
toll freckled-nosed open-faced blue-
eyed and broad-shouldered looked up
at her almost appealingly ns if his
whole sum nnd substance were crvlng
out to be appraised at face value but
no less
“That’s me" he snld vapidly "My
name Is Robert Hervey Randolph
Some people call me ‘Bob’ some
TIerv’ nnd the sldey ones say
Randy”’
“And I shall call you ‘Mr Ran
dolph’” said Miss Thornton bravely
and then broke Into: "After — after
I’ve th — thanked you again nnd — nnd
ngnln from my heart I’m going now
"That's a wrong guess" said Robert
smiling happily — he didn’t know exact-
ly why “I'm the one that's going aft-
er you promise me that you'll stay
here until ten o’clock tomorrow But
before we come to that please don
thank me ever It's selfish but I’d
simply love to have you remember me
ns Bob or Herv or at the very worst
Randy Won’t you?”'
She looked this way and thnt before
she let her face ripple to Its wondrous
smile
“I’ll go as far ns Randy” she con
ceded mischievously then the smile
went and the shndow came “But
really can’t stay here you know”
Mr Randolph leaped to his feet
reached her in a single stride nnd
caught her by both wrists “Look at
me!” he said “If you won’t promise
to stay here without a break till ten
o’clock tomorrow nnd thereafter at
your pleasure I’ll stay myself and
hold you Now do you or don't you?
One — two—”
“I do”
“Do what?” Inquired Robert
“I promise”
VMake yourself absolutely at home
then” he said as he dropped her
hands and turned toward the door
“I -feet like Christmas eve” said
Miss Thornton meekly ' “Won’t you
please tell me what’s going to hap-
pen ?” J
“You’ve guessed It — Christmas” he
answered enigmatically tossed the
latch-key on the table and left her
- She can be excused for spying upon
him from the curtained window She
saw him awake the cabman and then
’watched the pantomime' of a long col
loquy
“Oh I” 'she moaned “No wonder 1
The awful awful price of those horrid
clock things I Why did I let him tell It
to wait?”
Presently she was amazed to see
both the driver and Mr Randolph dis-
appear Into the dark recesses of the
cab aftd close after them Its door For
twenty breathless minutes she
watched tormented by the thought
that they had retired to have It out
where they wouldn’t be disturbed by
the police But at Inst they Issued —
both of them 1 Mr Randolph proceed
ed to crank the car and then walking
rather strangely went off headed
west the driver mounted his box
threw In the clutch nnd scurried to
the east as though he were off to
meet the morning
“Strange doings I” thought Miss Imo-
gene Pamela Thornton as she turned
from the window to start on a private-
ly conducted voyage of discovery
Strange doings Indeed nnd stranger
still could Imogene Pamela hnve heard
as well as seen Tills Is what really
happened Mr Randolph awoke the
cabman gently but thoroughly then
he said : ’ -
"Look here I want to buy your
wagon”
“Gowan boss wot d’yer take me
for? Here I been freezln’ most to det’
fer two mortal hours an’ a gent like
you starts right in kickin’ on the clock
wldout even readin’ it"
"Shucks!” said Mr Randolph
“What’s biting you? Never mind the
meter-reading here’s twenty for you
to forget that Now tell me: Who
owns your buzz-wagon? You?” i
“Nnw the Village Cab company’
replied the saturnine cabman as he
stuffed the twenty-dollur bill Into his
trousers pocket ’ '
“Well” snld Mr Randolph “you
and I are about the same build and
I’ve got a proposition for you Change
cldthes hand me over your cab nnd
tnke two hundred dollars to see your-
self to another Job”
The driver showed no surprise he
contemplated the offer with half-closed
eyes and dubiously working Ups
(TO BIS CONTINUED
Rank Shown by High Heela
When high heels were Introduced In
Venice they were highly decorated
The height of the heels proclaimed the
rank of the men and women wearing
them
Everyone Wants Bergdoll Home Again
extradition of the diaft evader would
be pqsslble
Secretary Weeks announced for-
mally thnt Brigadier General Allen
had made overtures to the German
government looking to the pardoning
of Carl Neuf and Franz Zimmer
Americans sentenced to prison terms
at Eberbaeh Germany for attempting
to arrest Bergdoll on German soil
General Allen has reported to the
War department thnt Neuf and Zim-
mer are veil cared for and comfort-
able la the prison where they are
held
It was said that the state depart-
ment lmd made no request-of the Brit-
ish government that It assist In bring-
ing Bergdoll to justice Bergdoll es-
caped into Germany by obtaining a
passport In Canada Under the Brit-
ish law falsification of a passport Is
a felony punislinble by Imprisonment
and in diplomatic circles the opinion
was advanced that the British gov-
ernment could demand thnt the Ger-
man government surrender Bergdoll
for trial Doubt was expressed
whether he could be returned to the
United States - by British authorities
WASHINGTON— “We are going to
get Bergdoll If It Is possible to
get him” Secretary Weeks declared
In discussing the cose of the Phila-
delphia draft evader now In Germany
“I don’t believe we will recognize any
statue of limitation in his case If one
should exist”
Secretary Weeks would not say
what steps would be taken to get
Bergdoll out of Germany He refused
to discuss the possibility of his extra-
dition by Great Britain for -violation
of British passport laws but did say
that he assumed that If the state of
war between the United States and
Germany were declared at an end
Ask for Changes in Water-Power Rules
QUOTING President Harding’s dec-
laration for “more business In
government and less government In
business” a committee of electric
power executives has asked the fed-
eral water power commission to revise
certain portions of the regulations for
development of power under the new
water power laws which were pro-
mulgated by the old commission just
before it went out o£ office March 4
It was the second meeting of the
new commission composed of Secre-
taries Weeks Fall and Wallace Just
before the close of the last adminis-
tration the outgoing commission pro-
mulgated regulations which the power
men today acknowledged to be about
70 per cent workable but containing
provisions which fhey said undeni-
ably would prevent the development
of water power projects which the
bill was Intended to stimulate
The regulations as drawn by the
outgoing commission the power exec-
utives told the secretaries seek to
constitute the federal commission a
regulatory body' with expensive ma-
chinery involving duplicate systems
of accounts and thousands of employ-
ees Congress they argued It was
shown by the terms of the bill and
the record of Its passage Intended
the commission to be a supervisory
Marking Mount McKinley National Park
these was to maintain for the ‘benefit
MARKING on the ground the boun-
dary of Mount McKinley Nation-
al Park Alaska will be started as
soon as weather conditions permit by
the United States general land office
through the surveyor general at Ju-
neau This Is the first step to be tak-
en by the national park service in es-
tablishing adequate protection over
the region which Is the fountain head
of the big game herds of Alaska
The total length of the boundary is
approximately 250 miles but due to
the ‘rugged topography of the park
and to the fact that the boundary
crosses several Immense glaciers It
will be Impossible to monument the
entire line
Congress when It created the park
had in’ mind two main objects to be
fulfilled by its establishment One of
Capitol Decorated
MOST of the decorations on the
capitol at Washington are the
work of the Italian artists according
to an article by Prof Bnrico Snrtorlo
In “Carrocclo” an Italian magazine
published In New York
The dome was decorated by a young
Italian painter Pietro Bonaai who
had previously worked In Rome He
died In 1810 The cast of the Statue
of Liberty was done by Causlcl who
died before he could put It into mar-
ble As the hall of representatives
neared completion In 1800 Giuseppe
Frazonl and Glqvannl Andrei sculp-
tors were brought over from Italy
Their work was destroyed when the
capitol tyas burned by the British dur-
ing the war of 1812 The clock in
Statuary hall was begun by Carlo
Franzont and completed by Francisco
Iradella
As the capitol neared completion
In 1823 Enrico Causlcl and Antonio
Capelluno pupils of Canova arrived
The sculptured portraits of Columbus
Raleigh Cabot and La Salle and- the
groups representing the landing of the
Pilgrims Pocahontas rescuing Cnpt
John Smith and some others are by
them
In 1820 Luigi Perslco arrived in
body and they argued congress
showed Its intent when it limited the
appropriations for the commission’s
work to $100000 a year 1
To carry out the regulations as they
now stand the secretaries were told
would cost 'the government hundreds
of thousands of dollars a year retard
the development of power projects
and represent duplication of effort
To carry out the regulations the sec-
retaries were told would be to cre-
ate another great federal bureau
By amended regulations the power
executives maintained ' the govern-
ment could do the work with a small
personnel and at a moderate expen-
diture by utilizing the services of the
army engineers Present regulations
it was argued were contrary to Intent
of the law
use and enjoyment of all the people
this great area of magnificent scenery
and unsurpassed natural attractions
and the other was to preserve the
game supply of this part of Alaska
Due regard was had in framing the
law for certain important factors In
the development of Alaska
The validity of existing claims un-
der the land laws of the United States
was recognized as was also the right
'of prospectors to moke new locations
For necessary development It Is per-
mitted that prospectors nnd miners
actually engaged In prospecting and
mining may take and kill in the park
what game or birds are needed for
their actual necessities when -short of
food All other hunting and killing
of wild life is prohibited and offend-
ers are liable to a fine of $300 or six
months’ Imprisonment or both and
will be adjudged to pay Ilie cost of
the proceedings
With the completion of the govern-
ment railroad from Seward to Fair-
banks which approaches the south-
eastern corner of the park within fif-
teen or twenty miles tourist travel to
Mount McKinley Park will be an ac-
complished fact The national park
service will assume active admlnls-
trative control of the park July 1
by Italian Artists
Washington The large allegorical
group in the portico of the rotunda
ls his and also the statues of War
and -Peace on either side of the door-
way At the foot of the west stair-
way there is a bronze bust of a Chip-
pewa chief by Vincent! There are
also many frescoes by - Constantino
Brumldl and some by Castiglni the
two having been employed together
on the large fresco on the rotunda
UlustrAIng In pseudo-relief the peri-
ods In the history of the continent
Brumldl who painted many of the
frescoes In the Vatican In Rome as
well as In the capitol In Washington
came to America In 1849 In 1853 he
became a citizen and in 1859 he was
- entrusted with the decoration of the
capitol
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