The Oklahoma Miner (Krebs, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 6, Ed. 1, Thursday, March 17, 1921 Page: 2 of 8
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THE OKLAHOMA MINER
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PAMELA THORNTON.
Svnopi Robert Hervey Ran-
dolph young New Tork man-about-town
leave the home of hit iweet-
heart Madge Van Telller. cha-
grined because of her refusal of hU
proposal of marriage. His income
U0.0CO a year which he roust sur-
render If a certain Miss Imogen
Pamela Thornton (whom he has
seen only as a small girl ten years
before) is 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-
Mn by the driver and is driven
to the stage door of a theater. A
man he knows Duke Beamer in-
duce a rlrl to enter the cab.
Beamer attempting to follow Is
pushed back by Randolph and the
cab moves on. His new acquaint-
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
moment; then her face broke Into a
rippling smile that swept up and set-
tled In her eyes. She reached for a
cushion put It at her back tucked one
foot under herself and waved the
other in the same fashion as had Miss
Van Telller earlier in the evening.
"Now talk" she said.
"Do you like me?" asked Mr. Ran-
dolph. She nodded her head
l ilYou're not afraid to be here?"
She shook denial.
"Have you ever been In n man's
room before?"
She looked him straight in the eyes
nnd made no other sign.
It was Mr. Randolph's turn to flush.
"Then" ho said "if you like me nnd
If you're not afraid please begin at
the start and tell me all about it."
The girl's eyes fell and sought the
fire ller face slowly paled 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 disem-
bodied spirit of sincerity and truth
indubitably pure.
"I had a nurse once" she said In a
low voice "and n wire-haired terrier
a show-dog and a darling. His name
was Sport." She" raised solemn oyes
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
" She stopped speaking with an un-
mistakable finality. Randolph was
overwhelmed by the flood of informa-
tion that this slip of a girl had packed
Into two-score wordi. A life-story in
four lines and n revelntlon of the
heart thrown in for good measure I
Ovor nnd above thnt ho had to reckon
with the confirmation of a suspicion
which had been slowly establishing It-
self in his mind that ho had met her
before that not for tho first time this
night had those soft lips curved for
merry words cried "My what a
bumpl" within his hearing.
So many considerations pressed to
his linmedlnte attention that he
awoke to tho actual present too late
to stem 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!"
If anything has been said n the
course of those pages to give the Im-
pression that Mr. Randolph was mod-
eled after Joseph or hewn out of lee
or packed with probity to the exclu-
sion of red blood forget It. At the
sight of thoe tears he slid the length
of the couch to first base fielded the
girl In his arms switched her round
60 that she lay across his knees drew
her face against his shoulder and
rocked her gently.
"You poor kiddie" he sa'd softly
"what a devil of a time you've had!
iBut believe me when I tell you it's all
over. This Is the night that stnrts your
old happy sun into tho blue sky again
iDon't worry."
She stopped crying nnd looked up
ilnto the honest face so close to her
iown puzzling as to how Just those
(Words could have come from it; but
.the world had taught her a hnrd les-
cson in varying standards. She drow a
long quivering sigh.
I "If you could only wait until I love
you body and soul" she breathed.
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"What on earth do yoo mean?"
asked Mr. Randolph.
"Why then it wouldn't b so bad
so ugly."
"I di-n't get jou" remarked Robert
riervey.
"A man told rac just a little while
ao that he was making a catalogue
of reasons why women give them-
selves" she continued. "lie had eleven
already and yet he was one of the
nicest men I've met. lie talked to me
as though he were showing me a way
that I must travel alone."
"Really V said Mr. Randolph stif-
fening perceptibly.
"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 stones and after that
silk underwear."
"Silk underwear I" exclaimed Mr.
Randolph mystified and interested in
spite of himself.
"Of course you couldn't understand
that" she said "not unless you had
seen some poor girl bury her face In
crepe de chine and lace tremble to try
them on and then sob because she had
to wear clothes over them."
"Look 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
comes a funny one that 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 said they weren't Interesting"
she reminded him dispassionately. Her
eyes widened. "And now" she con-
tinued "we go up and up spite that
stabs its own heart; the lonely soul;
consuming fire and 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
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 "j
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 clnsp
"where Is your mind wandering? What
have you been thinking? That I was
asking you to to give yourself to
me?"
rier eyes enme suddenly to his face.
"V?St" lh.9 EflKlj "J thought thftt"
lie stared at her for a long silent mo-
ment his lips wavering nervously be-
tween pity and severity. A flush
swept ovor her face and Into her eyes
crept a look of fear. "You don't want
me?" she whispered; then as ho 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 lips nnd kissed
her as lightly as Impersonally 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. "Yon don't really want me
and I can 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.
"Yon generous careless adorable
little fool !" he growled. "Why you're
the most desirable and precious bundle
of lovable charm that robber mnn
ever trembled to hold In sacrilegious
arms I"
She stared at him amnzod.
"Why don't you kiss tho way you
talk?" she demanded.
"Because there's no reason for your
desperate barter my dear Imogene
Pamela Thornton."
In one lithe motion sho was out of
his arms on her feet back to the fire
head upthrown.
"How dare you how dare you call
mo by that name?" She was trans-
formed; her eyes flashed with such a
light as mado tho blaze In his own a
paltry thing. "Do you think she would
He in your arms?' She asked gulping
out the words. "Vivienne Vlvlerro"
her lips curled In distaste at tho namo
"ah yes ; poor despairing thing I But
I raiuela Thornton! Oh who are
you? Why did you?" She dropped
iier face In her hands and sobbed as
though her heart had broken.
Randolph did not leap to comfort
hi.r this time; he did not even watch
lior. With his eyes on the edges of
lire that peeped from between and
round her ankles he began to talk.
"I knew jou; I knew Sport; I knew
Maegle. Just once I met you nil and
e never forgotten. I couldn't." He
milled crookedly. "You and I sat down
so hnrd together and you cried out
'My what a bump." and laughed and
laughed just like tonight back there
at the stage-door of the Crocodile."
Pamela stopped crying.
"So you were that awfully nice
boy" she said disclosing tear-stained
cheeks and looking him over as though
she were Inventorying a long list of
points of deterioration.
Robert Hervey Randolph six feet
tall freckled-nosed open-faced blue-
eyed and broad-shouldered looked up
at her almost appeallngly as if his
whole sum and substance were crying
out to be appraised at face value but
no less.
"That's me" he said vapidly. "My
name Is Robert Hervey Randolph.
Some people call me 'Bob' some
'Heir' and the sidey ones say
'Randy.' "
"And I shall call you 'Mr. Ran-
dolph' " said Miss Thornton br ely
and then broke Into: "Aftt- after
I've tli thanked you again and and
again 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't
thank me ever. It's selfish but I'd
simply love to have you remember me
as Bob or Herv or at the very worst
Randy. Won't you?"
She looked this way and that before
she let her face ripple to its wondrous
smile.
T11 go as far as Randy" she con-
coded mischievously; then the smile
went and the shadow came. "But I
really can't stay here you know."
Mr. Randolph leaped to his feet
reached her In a single stride and
caught her by both wrists. "Look nt
me!" he said. "If you won't promise
"Now Talk" She Said.
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."
"Make yourself absolutely at homo
then" he said as he dropped her
hands and turned toward the door.
"I feel like Christmas eve" said
Miss Thornton meekly. "Won't you
please tell me what's going to hap-
pen?" "You've guessed It Christmas" he
answered enigmatically tossed the
latch-key on tho table and left her.
She can be excused for spying upon
him from the curtained window. She
saw him awake tho cabman and then
watched the pantomime of a long col-
loquy. "Oh!" she monnod. "No wonder I
The awful awful price of those horrid
clock things I Why did I let him tell it
to wait?"
Presently she was amazed to seo
both the driver and Mr. Rnndolph dis-
appear into the dark recesses of the
cab and close after them Its door. Tor
twenty breathless minutes she
watched tormented by tho thought
thnt they had retired to hove It out
whero they wouldn't be disturbed by
the police. But at last they issued
both of them. Mr. Rnndolph proceed-
ed to crank the car nnd then walking
rather strangely went off headed
west; the driver mounted his box
threw in tho clutch and scurriod to
the east as though he were ofT to
meet tho morning.
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"Strange doings!" thought Mls Imo-
gene Pamela Thornton as she turned
from the window to start on a prlvate-
lv conducted voyage of discovery.
" Strnnse dolnscs Indeed nnd stranger
still could Imogene Pamela have heard
as well as ieen. This is what really
happened: Mr. Randolph awoke the
cabman gently but thoroughly; then
he said :
"Look hre: I want to buy your
wagon."
"Gowan boss; wot d'yor take me
for? Here I been freezin' most to dot'
fer two mortal hours an' a gent like
you starts right in klckln' on the clock
wldout even rendln' It."
"Shucks!" said Mr. Randolph.
"What's biting you? Never mind tho
meter-reading; kere's twenty for you
to forget that. Now tell me: WhQ
owns your buzz-wagon? You?"
"Naw; the Vlllnge Cab company"
replied the saturnine cabman as ba
stuffed the twenty-dollar bill Into his
trousers pocket.
"Well" said Mr. Randolph "you
and I are about the same build and
I've got a proposition for you. Change
clothes hand me over your cab and
take two hundred dollars to see your-
self to another Job."
The driver showed no surprise; ho
contemplated the offer with half -closed
eyes and dubiously working lips.
"SUm Hervey" taxi-driver.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
CAT SCORED USUAL VICTORY
Japanese Legend Merely Another
Feather in the Cap of the Ever-
Conquering Feline.
There Is an enchanting story told by
the Lady Sel Shonagon a beauty of
Japan of nine centuries past of the
emperor's favorite cat herself a
spoiled beauty. She had received a
cap of honor and had been raised to
the third rank of nobility with the
title of Wiyobu-no-Ototo or "Chief of
the Female Attendants" and was a
cat of many graces. Unfortunately
on a day of disobedience her lady-ln-wnltlng
summoned the emperor's dog
Oklnamaru to startle her Into good be-
havior. He barked obediently and
the cat dashed madly behind the
screen where his majesty sat at break-
fast and sought refuge In his arms.
The emperor much shocked sent for
the lord high chamberlain and pro-
! nouneed sentence on poor Oklnamaru.
A thrashing and exile I The Lady Sel
describes him as hitherto a happy dog
nnd much esteemed. But a short time
1 before he had been cnrrled In a proces-
sion In a willow litter with peach
blossoms and hollyhocks on his head !
He was now an outcast on dog Island
"and none so poor to do him rever-
ence." He may possibly have found
life easier without the hollyhocks but
it Is interesting to see that the eternal
! cat Is victorious as ever. The dog Is
vanquished ; the lady-in-waltlng ruined
and the cat lies In the emperor's lap
and purrs. So was it always; so will
It ever be writes L. Adams Beck In
Asia Magazine.
HAD REHEARSAL OF FUNERAL
Curious Notion Held by Spanish Mon-
arch Concerning Ceremony in
Which He Would Figure.
Charles V king of Spain and emperor
of Germany In the Sixteenth century
was a pious ruler. Toward tho end of
his life he conceived the curious Idea
of rehearsing his own funeral not be-
cause he wished to have the event go
off without a hitch when tho time
should come but because he thought
the performance of the ceremony
would redound to the credit and well-
being of his soul In the after-world.
His friends sought to dissuade him
but deeming It a holy act the ruler
went ahead with his preparations. A
catafalque was erected and the serv-
ice performed. The high altar tho
catafalque and the entire church
shone with wax lights; the friars were
all In their proper places and the
household of the emperor attended In
deep mourning. "The pious monnrch
himself was there attired In sable
weeds" according tw the monkish his-
torian "and bearing a taper to see
himself interred and to celebrate his
own obsequies." While the mass for
the dead was sung he came forwnrd
and gave his taper to the officiating
priest as a symbol of his desire to
yield up his soul. Not only once but
for many years until he finally died
In 1558 Charles V performed this
strange ceremony annually.
Rank Shown by High Heels.
When high heels were Introduced In
Venice they were highly decornted.
Tho height of the heels proclaimed the
rank of the mon and women wearing
them.
Cleaning Jet
Brush it well. Put ono drop of
sweet oil on the palm of tho hand rub
tho brush over tho hand and then
again brush tho Jet Rub lightly with
a chamois leather;
DON SOUK
CALOMEL 111
The "Liver Tone" Man Warns
Folks Against the Sickening
Salivating Drug.
Ugh ! Calomel ninkos you sick. It
horrible! Take a dose of the dangu-
ous drug tonight and tomorrow j.u
lose n day.
Calomel Is mercury 1 When It com. H
Into contact with sour bile It crashes
Into It breaking it up. Then Is whui
you feel that awful nausea and cramp-
ing. If you are sluggish if liver la
torpid and uowels constipated or .u
have headache dizziness coated
tongue U breath Is bnd or stomndi
sour just try a spoonful of harmKs?
Dodson's Liver Tone tonight.
Here's my guarantee Go to anv
drug store and get a bottle of Dodsnu s
Liver Tone for a few cents. Take a
spoonful end If It doesn't straighten jou
right up uid make you feel fine and
vigorous go back to the store and get
your monty. Dodson's Liver Tone Is
destroying the sale of calomel because
It can not salivate or mnke you sick.
Adv.
If the conceit were taken out o?
pome people there would be nothing
left to bury.
Baby's little dresses will just simply
dazzle if Red Cross Ball Blue Is u-ed
In the laundry. Try it and see for your-
self. At all good grocers Oc.
In the golden chain of friends-hip
there is many a missing link.
RUN-DOWN WEAK
NERVOUS WOMEN
Houston Tcsa9 : " A few months ago
my health became very poor. 1 was
run-down weak and nervous and could
not eat nor s' ep. I
suffered with alns la
my head. I was very
miserable " h o n my
husband g ne a bot-
tle of 'F i.urlte Pro-
scription ; but by the
time I had taken this
ono bottle my health
w a s comDletoly re
stored. Doctor Plerco's Favorite Pre-
scription la a fine medicine for women
and I take pleasuro In giving it a.
recommend." Mrs. N. J. Vess 1520
Everett Street.
Send 10c. for trial package of Favorlto
Prescription tablets to Doctor Plerco's
Invalids Hotel. Buffalo. N. Y.
TOMAC
UFFERER
SHOULD TRY PRESCRIP-
TION OF A FRENCH
PHYSICIAN
This stomach corrective is a purely
vegetable digestive mildly laxative.
Sold under the trade namo of DI
GESTOIDS.
So positive aro results that every
package is sold on a money back
guarantee of satisfaction.
Bolton-Smith Drug Co. of Fulton
Mo. Bay: "Wo have sold DIgestoids
for about two years and they have
given splendid satisfaction. Have
never had a single complaint. Wo
think DIgestoids one of tho best di-
gestive remedies we ever sold."
DIgestoids should be In every
home. Get a package today. At your
druggist on a Money Back Guarantee
Price 50 cents.
1T0MACH PAINS GONE
Eatonlc Made Him Wei
"After suffering ten long months
with stomnch pains I have taken
Eatonlc nnd am now without any pnln
whatever. Am as one raised from tho
dead" writes A. Perclfleld.
Thousands of stomach sufferers re-
port wonderful relief. Their trouble
is too much acidity nnd gas which
Eatonlc quickly takes up and cnrrles
out restoring the stomnch to n
healthy active condition. Always car-
ry a few Entonlcs take one nfter eat-
ing food ill digest well you will
feel fine. Big box costs only n trifle
with your druggist's guarantee.
TIIIN WOMEN I GET l'AT
Qatn three to Ave pound a week Abjolute
proof No exercise no medicine. Write noyal
Developing System Dept. 392 Austin Minn.
LEAF TOHACCO :5 to 100 pounds freight
or express 16o pound. Second grade lOo
pound. DTRUM 13RUS. Portland Tennesse.
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