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CC TETRITHL OSHAWA DAILY hin WEDNESDAY, AUGUSTEFIASINT ---- PAGE TEN. : li fl © VERA CAMERON, a tan, od fa , fer to ae her beautiful through * the use of the cempany ¢ s. movie utiful after the transforma- tion that Jerry falls in love with her, Vera's aunt, FLORA CART- < WRIGHT, is infatuated with Jerry and tells him Vera is going to + Minnetonka, - He confesses his love to Vera before she is to leave and begs io] not to go. When she leaves, Jerry gives her an envelope which i she is to open only in case of a "jam." At the hotel, Jera is im- mediately mi \ ; else and is treated with deference Pend awe, n the dining room she sees SCHUYLER SMYTHE and he "comes to her table, asking if she does not remember that they met in Palm Beach five years ago. She tells him he is mistaken. After dinner, a Mr. and Mrs. BANNIS- TER ask Vers to join them Jor B that ip ie' NAN HOSDICK. a big, athletic girl, are engaged. When she joins the swimming party and is formally introduced to Schuyler Smythe, he kisses her han NOW Go ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XVI "This situation," thought Vee-Vee Cameron, as the five of them--Mr. and Mrs. Bannister, Nan Fosdick, Schuy- Jer Smythe, and herself--emerged from the glass-enclosed runway from the hotel to the lake's edge, "is rapidly taking on the proportions of a jam. If this keeps up, I'll be forced to read Jerry's mysterious letter to find out what it's all about. But, somehow, it's rather fun not to know who I'm sup- posed to be. I've never been a mys- tery before. If I find out who I am, 1 may have to do something about it. NY Tre even 1 may even have to leave the hotel. No, I'm going to let events take their course, for a while at least." "I wonder if you know how ador- able you are when you smile like that," a low voice said so close to her ear that she felt warm breath on her cheek. "No," Vee-Vee said demurely, her green eyes glancing upward at' him tantalizingly, "but I was conSidered a very teachable child." "Are we going to swim, or is this a bathing suit parade?" Nan Fosdick demanded, her big, husky voice edged with heavy ° sarcasm. "We're going to swim, angel child," he called out, laughing indulgently. "Miss Fosdick is our champion swim- mer, Miss--Cameron," he explained. "She could have swum the channel if her mother had let her." Vee-Vee, poised slim nd grifeeful as a water nymph on the edge of the pier to which the float was attached, looked the big, "plain girl over with cool, ap- praising eyes. Enormous shoulders, still wearing their last year's coat of tan, overlaid with large, splashy brown freckles. A low, heavy bosom that strained at the black jersey of her se verely plain and practical swimming suit. A splendid torso, with a waist that looked slim for her weight; big hips, thighs that rippled with muscles; well-cushioned knees, and below them bare, brown legs that looked almost ridiculously thin and corded with mus- cles, like a professional dan "I'll race you to the poliag Sky id Nan Fosdick suddenly cried out. "You'll join us, Miss Cameron?" Schuyler turned to Vee-Vee. "I'm afraid I'd come in a rather poor third," Vee-Vee confessed. "You two go on and race, I'll paddle about 'the float here." "Oh, good!" Mrs. Bannister clapped her plump little hands. "I can hardly swim at all--just dog fashion. John says I'm a scream. We'll let these champion swimmers show off, while we have a nice, quiet good time. John, for goodness' sake, don't hang around! Swim! That's what you came here for. Miss Cameron and I have oodles to talk about, haven't we, dear?" Vee-Vee, standing beside Mrs. Ban- nister on the float, smiled provocative- ly as Schuyler Smythe turned a sulky, pleading face toward her before exe- cuting a neat racing dive into the clear blue waters of the lake. Nan Fosdick had dived from the diving-board, a PRINCESS Y dnne Qustin beautiful swan dive that hardly rippled the water. She struck out with a pow- erful crawl stroke, shouting a taunting challenge to Schuyler Smythe as she left him far behind. Obediently, John Bannister struck out into the lake, making no effort to follow the racers. A group of girl swimmers, their rubber-capped heads bobbing like bright-colored toy bal- loons, hailed him, welcomed him, seiz- ed upon him and ducked him with loud shouts of laughter. "John adores being flirted with" Mrs. Bannister said brightly. "He likes to think himself an irresistible Don Juan and far be it from me to put a crimp in his fun. If he tries to flirt with you, and you don't enjoy it, just laugh at him. The poor darling can't bear to be laughed at. Though I be- lieve that even John will be a little bit afraid to flirt with you, my dear." "Why should your John be afraid to flirt with me?" Vee-Vee laughed. "Do T look so formidable ?" "Oh, my dear! John is already near- ly a nervous wreck, trying to figure out whether he should merely bow or kiss your hand when he greets you. I've told him that you are here incog- nito and that you would be frightfully gragved if we treated you different- "I certainly should!" Vee-Vee as- sured her emphatically. "Let's not talk about me, please, Mrs. Bannister. I came here to get away from myself --and everyone else--" She hoped that was the right tack. The game was too intriguing for her to wish seriously to fathom the' mystery or to dispel it. "I know, you poor dear!" Mrs. Ban- nister sympathized. "We all feel dreadfully sorry for you--but there, I'm disobeying you already! I think it's perfectly marvellous that you are here, and that John and I should have been the first to see you. Jt was merely an accident, our being on the same train. We've been up here for 10 days--we drove up in the car, you know--but dn Friday I had a wire from my mother, asking me to come at once. As usual, the poor thing thought she was dying because she'd had an attack of indigestion. We found Mother was nearly well again, and left New York Saturday night, You're going to love Minnetonka. Is it your first visit ?" "My very first," Vee-Vee smiled, but her eyes were gazing out over the lake to where Nan %*osdick and Schuyler Smythe were swimming side by side, the race over. "I wonder which won?" "Oh, Miss Fosdick, of course," Mrs. Bannister shrugged. "My dear, she's an absolute shark at all kinds of sports. Personally, I think she makes a mis- take to allow herself to beat Mr. Smythe at' everything--golf, tennis, swimming, diving"rowing. Men like to feel superior to women, bless their conceited hearts!" "Mr. Smythe does not seem to resent her superiority--in sports," Vee-Vee could not help reminding her. "Per- haps he likes athletic women," she added. "No man falls in love with a woman because she is clever at sports," Mrs. Bannister retorted. "But whom am 1 to tell you what men like! The nerve of me! Nan Fosdick is rather pathetic, Miss Cameron. You haven't met her mother yet, have you? You will! She's a terrible sort of persom--new- rich, yeu: know, and vulgar as they come. A big, mannish woman, who has but one purpose in life--to marry her daughter to a society man. She makes the 'rounds of society resorts season in and season out, lugging that great, homely, girl around with her and trying to force her down the throat of some scion of an old family that is tarnished and could do with a little gold-plating. I've run into them before, and this is the first time the poor girl has really had any luck--if it is luck!" she added significantly. But before Vee-Vee could question her there came a musical halloo across the water, and she looked up to see Schuyler Smythe waving at her, as he swam rapidly toward her, alone. Nan Fosdick had evidently joined one of the shouting groups of swimmers, who were having their fun in the sort of horse-play that is inevitable when youngsters get into bathing suits. "Come on in! No fair not wetting your bathing suit!" Schuyler shouted to her, as he drew himself nimbly up- on the float. He stood over her, drip- ping, his dark face glowing with laugh- ter and the joy of well-being. When he stooped she gave him her hands, sprang to her feet, stood beside him, felt a strong, triumphant surge of glad- ness through "er entire body. In that sweetly intimate moment, while he still held her hands and be- fore he dragged her off the float with him, to christen her bathing suit, as he told her, she looked at him swiftly and found him breath-takingly perfect. There was no boredom in the soft, glowing brown depths of his eyes now. His body was lean but not thin, broal at the shoulders, flat and narrow at the waist and hips. His thighs and legs, exposed by his very brief black jersey bathing suit, were very white, almost as slim and straight as her own. She turned her cyes sharply away. "I musn't let him know that Tt think he is beautiful," she warned herself. "But oh, he is, he is beautiful! Like a Greek god!" She felt his strong, slim brown hands on hers again, felt her fingers quiver in response, as he dragged her into the cold water with him. "lI wish you didn't know how to swim," he told her, in a low voice that vibrated along her nerves. "Then I'd have the infinite joy of teaching you." "I can't swim--very well," she smiled at him, clinging to the rope that was stretched from float to float for the use of inexperienced swimmers. Then, giving her own words the lie, she laid her long, slim white body on the sur- face of the water, described a slow, beautiful arc with her left arm, and swam away from him. They were climbing upon the float again, which was deserted for the mo- ment, when Nan Fosdick's powerful body came cleaving toward them thfough the blue, clear water. "Come on! You've had enough for today, haven't you? Schuyler Smythe demanded in a low voice. "I've got to talk to you. Nan will want to play about for an hour more. We can get dressed--you're shivering!" Without taking time to think, Vee- Vee gave him her hand, and they clam- bered up the swaying ladder from the float to the pier, then ran fleetly, like two children naughtily escaping, into the glass-enclosed runway to the hotel. As they sped from the pier, Schuyler snatched up her beach coat of green and white striped silk and his own dressing gown of purple and black. Safe within the runway, they stopped, panting a little, smiling into each oth- er's eyes. "You're cold, poor thing!" he mur- mured huskily, "Let me wrap you up all snug in your coat. Pretty thing!" he added, his hands stroking the bright striped silk, but his eyes glowing into hers. "My friends," Vee-Vee laughed, but her voice betrayed her by trembling, "call me Vee-Vee." His hands tightened spasmodically on her shoulders, drew her toward him. Laughing a little, but wondering what tale her green eyes were telling, she held herself rigid, in spite of a passionate longing to fling herself upon his breast. "Vee-Vee! That's--adorable! But 1t would have to be to suit you!" "Aren't you going to swim any more?" a strident, angry young voige demanded, and they whirled guiltily to face Nan Fosdick--furious-eyed, tight- lipped. (To Be Continued) Schuyler Smythe declares his love in the next chapter, and Vera is beset by new fears. CHICAGO THEATRES IN FIGHT AGAINST CITY'S UNION LABOR Chicago, Aug. 80.--Four hundred theatres today were sand union men were without jobs while a daily lpss of two hundred thousand dollars is sus- tained by the theatres while the trouble lasts. FAIL TO SWIM THE ENGLISH CHANNEL Cape Gris Nez, Aug. 30--The dog- ged British girl doctor, Miss Mona Maclellan, was the only survivor this POSTPONE PICNIC Whitby, Aug. 30.--The Daughters of England have been compelled to post- pone their picnic to Niagara Falls which was to have been held on the 31st. The trip was to have been made by bus on account of the demand for service to Toronto on that day no busses are for hire. One of the most sensational ru- mors afloat in this day of wild speculation is that the new Ford is to have springs.--Nashville Banner. I roa Tye PLAIN MR.YORK. 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