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: PACE TVA TWELVE THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, AUGUST 19,1927. p------------ -------------- "TePEN 1927 by NEA Service BEGIN HERE TODAY lunch she sees and falls instant. ly in love with a man whom she hears called SOHUYLER. She also hears that he is going to 1Ake Minnetonka in June. His annoyance in returning her purse which she purposely drops causes her to go promptly back to Jerry's office and tell him she will undergo the ent: anything, she tells herself, to be beautiful in time for the Minnetonka in June, Jewry calls in MISS PROC. TOR, a professional demonstra- tor, and they make an inventory of Vera, She hears them discuss bobbing, permanent waves, face peeling, hair tints and realizes the price she must pad. Jerry produces from his desk a four-colored Sunday sup- plement picture of a strikingly handsome woman with green eyes and a distinctive bob, Miss Proctor. tells Jerry she believes she can make Vera a duplicate of the picture, Jerry says Vera's sea~green eyes reminded him of the picture, which, while it has no caption, he believes to be of some movie star, Vera decides to share Miss Proctor's apart. ment with her until after the experiment is over, She is still humiliated over the scheme but her need to be beautiful by June towers above everything else, NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER VI When Vera Cameron returned to the apartment that evening, she found Flora Cartwright devoted to the serious business of dressing for an evening out, "Hello, Vee-Vee, darling. You're just in time to powder my back and shoulders, Do try to spr@d it evenly. This evening--" she turned dramatically upon Vera, who had laid aside her hat and coat and was regarding her pretty aunt with searching, calculating eyes--"is one of the most important evenings in my life." "Important?" Vee-Vee raised her heavy eyebrows inquiringly. "Absglutely vital," Flora Cart- wright smiled. 'Peter Darrow is going to propose to me tonight, and I've got to dress for the occasion." om Jt think of herself as Vee-Vee Instead of Vera Victoria, since her prospec- tive rebirth demanded an entirely new outlook upon life--took the great fluffy powder puff from the dressing table and began to dust pearly-tinted powder upon her aunt's shoulders. "How do you know he is going to propose to- ally, but her aunt would have been startled to know that the girl was hanging on her words, "Because I have planned for him to do 80," Flora Cartwright laughed, "Would you wear the new black chiffon with rhinestones, or de you think black will remind him that I have two poor dear husbands in the grave? The Nymph pink georgette, now--I bought it for, this ~gpecial occasion, but I'm getting to be just a tiny bit afraid of' pink. After all, I am thirty-eight, though I'll slay you in cold blood if you dare tell a soul. What would you say to the jade green--" "Aunt Flora," Vee-Vee interrupt- od in a tense, determined voice, "Are you going to marry Peter Dar- row? Do you think it's fair--1?" "Marry Peter" Flora Cartwright's laugh rang out joyously. She open- ed a tiny jar of lip salve and began to retouch her lips. "My dear Vee- Vee, who said anything about marry- ing Peter? I sald he was going to propose to me tonight, and he is: 'A proposal at least every six months is absolutey necessary to my peace of mind, It's Peter's turn now, and I'm going to have a perfectly lovely time, listening to him tell me that T am fascinating and young and beautiful and that he loves me mad- ly. That will keep me young for an- other precious six months, and will do the darling infant no harm at all. But--as for marrying Peter, why, darling, I'd worry myself into the grave trying to keep up with him and to keep him from finding out that IT am ten years older than he thinks I am, No, Vee-Vee dear, when I marry again, it will be a nice, comfortable, middle-aged man who will adore me before breakfast as well as under the dinner table candles. I don't dare let Peter see me in the sunlight now--" "Aunt Flora, how do you do it? Make them propose, I mean,' Vee- Vee interrupted, still in that tense, determined voice, Mrs. Cartwright dropped her hand-mirror, sprang to her feet, and flung her arms about the astonished zirl's unyielding body. "Darling! You're in love! And you weren't going to tell your old aunt a word about it! Who is he, Vee-Vee? Oh, my dear, I've simply prayed for this day to come--" "Aunt Flora, pease don't be ridie- nlous!" Vee-Vee spoke indignantly but with entirely too much empahsis Vee-Vee--she had determined to night, Aunt Flora?" she asked casu-. io deceive her aunt, who was wise PRINCESS Y dnne Qustin in the ways of women, "All right, darling." Flora kissed her niece on both cheeks, then turn- ed back to her dressing table, "I'll tell you how I do it when you tell me who it is. Oh--1I forgot to ask you, and you're probably sulking be- cause I forgot--did you get your promotion, dear? Oh, dear, which dress shall it be? Peter hasn't seen the pink, but he said that I looked like a Naiad in the green. If he only weren't so young--but tell me, dear; Aunt Flora's listening. You won't mind if I go on with my dressing?" Certainly not, Aunt Flora. But it does happen that I have some rather important news for you, I, was made assistant to the advertis- ing manager today--" "That isn't the position you ex- pected, is it, dear? But -it sounds very important, Excuse me, Go on, darling. Let's see--shall I wear these crystals or not? I'm almost sure I told Peter that Nicky gave them to me for an anniversary pre- sent. And Peter's so sensitive, Just a tiny thing like that might scare him off--yes, dear, I am listening," she interrupted herself contritely. "The new advertising mansger is Mr. Macklyn --Jerry Macklyn--" Vee-Vee began valiantly, 'Jerry, did you say, darling? There! I knew it! You have fallen in love! I never could resist a Jer- ry sort of man myself, Tell me all about him, Vee-Vee, or I'll strangle you with Nicky's crystals." "He's my new boss, Aunt Flora, and I'm not in love with him,' Vee- Vee cried desperately, 'He's posi- tively homely--has the most-amaz- ing red hair you ever saw--and eyes as blue as--as blue crystals--"' "He sounds adorable," Flora sighed. *I don't blame you a bit. Would you wear nude or silver stockings with 'this jade green dress?" "Silyer., with your silver slip- pers," Vee-Vee answered desperate- ly. *"Please-listen a minute, Aunt Flora, I'm trying to tell you that I shall have to be away for at least three weeks on work for the firm--" "Why didn't you say so?" Flora Cartwright demanded with shrill indignation, "Three weeks! You know good and well if you leave me alone that long I'll marry someone in sheer desperation. I always do! You know I can't bear to be alone, If I make a fool of myself and ac- cept Peter when he proposes tonight it will be all your fault, Vera Vic- toria Cameron! Where in the world are you going?" "Out of town, on secret business connected with the advertising de- partment," she smiled, glad that Kitty Proctor actually did live "out of town"--Toy {if Astoria wasn't "out of town" what was it? "Of course, if you want to served her expression in the mirror with interest. "Do you think I am getting too old to pout charmingly, Vee-Vee? Of all creatures, I detest the kittenish middle-aged woman. If I'm not permanently married by the time I'm forty, I'm going in for a career, Nicky says I ought to write advice to the love-lorn for a newspaper, When do you leave, darling?" "Tonight. I shall ve gone 'When you get home, Aunt Flora. I'll leave a check for my share of this month's rent on your dresser, dear, I'll come back as soon as I can. Promise me you won't do anything foolish while I'm gone--Ilike getting married," she begged, bul her eyes were laughing behind her specta- cles, "I refuse to be bound by prom- fses," her aunt chuckled. "Life would be unbearable if I didn't do foolish things. Try doing at least one 'foolish thing a day yourself, darling. And do get some new clothes while you're gone. Foolish ciorres." "I'm, going to get a lot things besides new clothes, Vee sald demurely. "Oh, dear, there's Peter's ring, just when you've said something that sounds frightfully significant," Flora Cartwright mourned, dash- ing about the room for evening cloak, lace handkerchief and vanity case, "You look perfectly lovely, Aunt Flora, I'm sure he'll * propose. Vera startled her aunt by comment- ing in a curiously softened, fond voice, "Thank you, darling! Coming from you that means a great deal. Let's run now dear. I want you to tell Peter goodby, since you're go- ing to be gone for ages." '""And you want to benefit by con- trast with my plainness,'" Vee-Vee laughed, "All right, I'll be your fool tonight, but I warn you it's the last time," she added, as she opened the door that led from her aunt's room into the living room of the small apartment. "Now what did you that?' Flora demanded, Then, "Oh, there you are, Peter! You look stunning tonight, man dear! Did you ever see anything so handsome in all your life as my Pe- ter Vee-Vee? A gardenia in his buttonhole and everything!" If Vee-Vee really wanted to know how her aunt "did it" she was get- ing a pérfect object lesson. Flora Cartwright fluttered up to the tall boy who looked scarcely older than a college sophomore, raised herself on tinptoe to touch the shining smoothness of his thick chestnut hair, and trailed her soft, scented fingers down his blushing young cheek. "Did. you more Vee- mean by startled. ever see anything so handsome in all your life as my Peter, Vee-Vee?" she demanded again, her blue eyes wide and ador- ing, her voice as soft and caressing as the spring breeze outside. "If I didn't like him so well myself, Vee- he mysterious," Flora pouted, and ob-| NR Vea I'd make you happy by giving dm to you, Then maybe you dn --- -- pid business." "Don't say that even in fun, Flora!" Peter Darrow said sternly, trying to make his voice sound very deep and mature. "You know I can't see anyone but you--" Vera turned sharply to leave the room, but not before she had seen her small, pretty aunt swept into the circle of ardent young arms, a handsome brown head bent low to meet a blond one--S8he realized that they didn't know she was gone, would nog have cared if she had stayed, that to Peter Darrow she simply did not exist. And for the first time since she had known him that realization made her fighting mad. Not that she cared a whoop for Peter Darrow, as she told her- self furiousiy wnen sne had shut herself into her room to pack-- "But I'll see Mr. Peter Darrow again in three or four weeks, and then--we'll soon find out if he can't see anyone else but Flora Cart- wright! I'm going to need a lot of practice before I see _you, Schuy- ler." Then she caught sight of herself in the mirror of her dressing table. saw herself truly for the first time -----an old-fashioned, prim, spinster- ish-looking business woman. She tore her spectacles from her eyes, ground them under a furious heel, 'then ran to her closet and began to jerk down dresses with frantic haste. "If Jerry Macklyn doesn't make good his promise to turn me into a beauty I'll--I'll snatch his hateful red hair out in handfuls!" she sobbed as she stuffed her clothes into a suitcase. (To Be Continued) Vera's aunt is due for a surprise, In the next chapter a new Vee-Vee makes her appearance. 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