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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1921.
TAXI
An
Adventure
Romance
By Georg* Agnew Chamberlain
‘ U . .- "I f
Capxrtcau Ito Bohba-Merrill Cetapaaj
SYNOPSIS.
PART L—Robert Hervey Randolph,
Sun* New Yerk man-about-town, leavei
» home of hie aweetheart, Madge Van
Tellier, chagrined because of her refusal
es his proposal of marriage. His income,
(10,000 a year, which he must surrender
If a certain Miss Imogen Pamela Thorn
ton (whom he has seen only as a small
girl ten years before) Is found, la not
considered by the girl of his heart ade
guate to modem needs. In a "don't care"
mood Randel-h enters a taxi, unseen by
the driver, and Is driven to the stage
door of a theater. A man he knows,
Duke Beamer, Induces a girl to enter the
tab. Beamer, attempting to follow, is
pushed back by Randolph and the cab
moves on. His new acquaintance tolls
Randolph she Is a chorus girl, and has
lost her position. She la in distress, even
hungry, and bo takes her to his apart
ment There, after lunch, a chance re
mark convinces him the girl is the miss
tag 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 a whimsical
mood, alee realizing that the girl’s reap
pearance has left him practically penni
less. he bribes 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 nsw duties under the name of "Slim
Hervey.” He loves the girl, but his pride
forbids him approaching her under their
shanked conditions.
PART ll.—One evening he is engaged
Reacher Tremont, notorious profligate,
to drive him and Madge Van Tellier to a
hostelry known as “Greenwood." Aware
St the evil nature of the place, Randolph
drives the pair to Greenwood cemetery.
Infuriated. Beacfaer gets out of the cab
and Randolph Leaves him there, taking
the girl (who has awakened to a realiza
tion of her folly) to her home. Madge
recognizes him.
PART Hl.—ln Randolph's apartment
Pamela, pondering over the strangeness
of the night's adventure, realizes she is
very much more than interested in the
young man. Next morning Mr. Borden
Mllyuns, her family's legal representative,
informs her of her inheritance. Learning
that her acceptance of the money will
leave Randolph penniless, even the furni
ture of the apartment belonging to her,
she proposes to divide the inheritance
with him. Mr. Milyuns tells her Ran
dolph is unlikely to agree to such an ar
rangement, even if found. He, however,
agrees to do his utmost to find the young
man. Wide advertising and the employ
ment of detective agencies fail to accom
plish this. Madge Van Tellier tells Mr.
Milyuns of her encounter with Randolph.
Knowing only that he is driving a taxi
cab, Pamela sets out to find him. The
search naturally ’3 a long one, but finally
she comes upon Randolph in front of s
hotel. Unseen by him she enters his cab,
but when giving the starter her address
Randolph recognizes her voice. The
streets are slippery with snow, and in his
excitement he smashes the cab against
the curb, throwing the girl out
PART IV.—Stopping only to see that
Pamela is unhurt, Randolph flees from
the scene. While he Is explaining his
mishap at the office of the cab company
Mr. MUyuns appears. After much per
suasion Randolph agrees to call on
Pamela nine days after that time. He
also announces his Intention of accumu
lating SIOO,OOO In the Interval, and ar
ranges to drive a cab on the Wall Street
beau There, as he had hoped, he picks
up a "tip" on the market. His entire
capita! being in the neighborhood of $74
he goes to one of his clube and sits in •
poker game, trusting to chance to secure
a stake that will enable him to play the
"tip" he has secured. He Is lucky and
runs his capita! up to an amount suffi
cient for his needs His inside Informa
tion on the market proves correct and he
closes the deal with the sum he had de
cided it was necessary to have in order
to meet Pamela on a footing of equality.
Punctual t® the minute he calls on the
young lady, who had awaited his coming
with Impatience, and at the close of the
interview there Is no question of the di
vision of the Inheritance—or the apart
ment
"M—my— what a b- —bump!”
They got on the floor, face to face,
and matched a treble: “Ha! Ha!
Ha!” with a heavy male: “Haw!
Haw! Haw!"
The terrifled Tomlinson burst In up
on the scene and there are twenty-six
adjectives that would have fitted the
look on his countenance, the first five
being “astounded,” "scandalized,
“amazed.” .“deprecating," “appalled.
“M—Master Robert t M—Miss Ims
gene I”
Pamela pointed one Anger at him
weakly, and was off again to tumble
down another cascade of laughter.
Tomlinson shook his solemn head from
side to side in a grieved and palsied
motion.
“Such doings! I never— no—l
neverl” •
•Tomlinson la right," said Mr. Ran
dolph solemnly, as he rose and he'!’®
Pamela to her feet. “I consider this
the most astonishing sample of de
portment that has come to my *
ate attention so ten years. He
turned to the unmollified servitor,
“Tomlinson,” he continued, still sup
porting the laughter-weakened Pamela
with one arm, “I think it is due you
to explain that Miss Thornton and 1
were merely rehearsing, or, rather re
viving the occasion of our first meet
ing. It was sitting just ns you found
us that wa first made each other s ac
quaintance a decade ago. except tha
the encounter took place on the wes -
era sidewalk of Fifth avenue at about
the comer of Forty-eighth street,
trust that this Information will clear
Op all doubts in your mind as to our
sanity, and that you will now leave
us to the settlement of certain per
*<ninl affairs of great moment.”
roml’iisciti withdrew, still •dr'.. | '"f
his old head fFom sTSe to sice, find
mumbling his opinion that the expla
nation, far from condoning an affront
to what had once been an orderly es
tablishment, was In the nature of a
plant on his credulity. No sooner had
he closed the door softly but firmly
on the scene of wreckage than Mr.
Randolph turned all his attention to
the lady In his arms.
After a few moments, he laid his
hands on her shoulders, held her
at arm's length, and forced her eyes
to a long and breathlessly solemn
meeting with his own. ”My dear girl,”
he continued, “when I came here this
afternoon, the sudden bloom of your
beauty swept me off my usually con
fident mental bearings. I saw how
completely desirable you are and my
courage sank and left me, as though
some one had said, 'You can have her
If you’ll just step up to Mars.’ When
I was running away, so that I might
live to fight for you in many other
days, the flame of you swept down and
seized my coward heart. It's yours,
darling, forever—if you’ll only take
it!”
And then they kissed each
one of those long, unhurried marriages
i™
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Mra 'mm
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One of Those Long, Unhurried Mar
riages of the Lips.
of the lips in which eye meets won
dering eye so closely that the bar
riers of flesh and space and time are
pushed aside, and all the whole wide
world together with seven heavens are
crowded into the tiny sphere of a sin
gle lucent orb. Look at them, oh,
you growing public; watch them do
it! For while it is customary to draw
the veil on these intimate first con
tacts of the soul, let -it be said that
such conventional literary hypocrisy is
herein abjured on the grounds that
the real thing In youth in love doesn't
give a whoop who sees.
Even such a kiss as Is under re
view has an end as well as a begin
ning, and just as this one finished its
too brief but crowded span of life
came the honk three times repeated
of a motor horn, as though the world
at large had availed itself of that
means to cap the shameless osculation
with three exclamation points.
“Why. Bobby,” cried Pamela,
“you've never kept your cab wait
ing?”
"Sometime tonight,” said Mr. Ran
dolph dreamily, sadly, wistfully, ‘Til
have to go somewhere away from
here. Let him wait."
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