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- 1927 bY NEA Service : treated with deference 4 SCHUYLER SMYTHE, the man is in love with the girl ks she is, she finds frank confession impossible, At an inn where they join quain Vera learns the wo- 45 to Willerry gave hor with the advice that | was to be only in case i she found herself "in a jam." NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XIX The sight of Jerry Macklyn's bold, black, angular handwriting on the ree sheets of office stationery which ee-Vee unfolded caused her a tiny ang of homesickness, Dear Jerry! Fhe thought flitted through her mind Bs her eyes swept over the sheet be- fore they started to read; then excite- nent blotted out the image of Jerry. or, characteristically Jerry jumped dnto the heart of his subject, "Dear Vee-Vee: I'm scared stiff. Gosh, how could I know whose pic- tore I was copying when I played ygmalion for my bespectacled private secretary? There wasn't any caption on the darn thing, and I lay it all to r blamed green eyes. Just the color of yours, Vee-Vee, you darned little patural-born vamp that was about to miss her calling! Well, I found out after you got your hair bobbed just like hers--and I'll bet there is not an- other hob in the world just like yours and hers. But then it was too late to change you and I thought I'd let it ride, without telling you. No use to get you all stirred up. I figured. 1 thought I'd be able to persuade you to keep out of trouble's way by hecom- ing Mrs. Jerry Macklyn, but when nothing would do you but to chase off to Lake Minnetonka in quest of a sheik, I knew I'd better warn you, especially in light of recent deyelop- ments." "Why doesn't he tell me who I am?" Vee-Vee scolded, She read on, her green eyes wide and avid: "When [I read the enclosed story in one of the scandal sheets to- day, after I'd left you this evening, I knew I didn't have any time to lose. The likeness is too startling to miss causing a small riot. You'll see by the enclosed clippings that you are an almost exact duplicate of the famous Vivian Crandall. Can you beat it? The initials are the same, too! She's the American heiress, worth forty mil- lions or so in her own right, to say nothing of what she'll get when her daddy croaks. Maybe you remember that the luscious Vivian was married off to a Russian prince by her title- worshiping mama about four years ago But you can read the whole story in the enclosed clippings. The dicken: of it is that Vivian divorced her Rus: sian prince in Paris about three week: 0, came back to New York, had 2 bloody-battle with her bitterly dis- appointed mama, and--disappeared. he papers: have been full of rumors as to what the fair Vivian was doing, the general opinion being that she was in hidnig somewhere 'with a good looking ne'er-do-well she'd picked up in Paris while she was gefting her di- vorce. "You see the idea? Si ly is going to spot you, jump to tie con- clusion that you are are Vivian, Cran- less head a ghastly lot of publicity. Now, I don't want to frighten you, honey--" her breath caught at that carelessly dropped word of endear- ment. was she becoming a cheap little flirt, gloating over her conquests as Aunt Flora gloated over her hus- bands ?--"but if you shoula get into such a jam as this--and you must he in it or you wouldn't be reading this letter--I want you to' wire me immedi- ately, I'll hop into an airplane if a train can't get me there quick enough, and I'll fight your way out of this thing for you. Trust Jerry! I can't give you any more specific instruc- tions, for I can't tell, of course, just what will happen. 1 do know you could tell them till you were black in the face that you were Vera Vic- toria Cameron and they wouldn't be- lieve you, once they got on your trail --the reporters, I mean. Of course vou will have this letter to show, but they'll think it's trumped up as part of your incognito. Naturally the un- pleasantness would only last a few days, that is, until Mama or Papa Crandall could arrive to identify you And hy golly, you might fool even them! "Now, listen: above all things don't get the idea that it would be fun to be a princess incognito and try to play the game. Dangerous business, honey! I'm telling you! The Crandalls migh even: he nasty enough to sue you for fraud, or misreprensentation or imper- sonation, or some such fool thing a: that. Watch your step, darling. And if the reporters or private detectives get on your trail, wire for Jergy! 1 guess it won't interest you to 'knov that I love you, but it interests mc strangely. Jerry." There was no doubt that Jerry was seriously, deeply concerned for her Her fingers grew cold as she fumbled in the envelope for the clippings. Th first she drew out was the color-print portrait of which she had caught a glimpse in Jerry's office, when he had shown it to Kitty Proctor, as they schemed her transformation from an ugly duckling into a swan, "Oh, lovely!" Vee-Vee breathed, al- most devoutly, as her avid eyes drank in the beauty of the pictured face. It was a portrait, painted by a French artist. It showed the head, shoulders and hosom of a young woman, who looked slightly older than Vee-Vee, more proudly sure of herself, more ar- rogant of her heauty--which was no new story to Vivian Crandall, who had heen wearing the title of princess for four years. "We look almost exactly alike, but there is a difference," Vee-Vee decided, "a difference in soul, perhaps." She turned to the mirror to study her own face alternately with the portrait in her hand. "She looks as if she had been through a rather terrible hell and refused to be broken byt it. [I like you, Vivian Crandall. I don't care what you've done! And--I don't blame Schuyler Smythe for having loved you for five years." She dropped the print of the painted portrait to the top of her dressing table and drew the news clippings out of the envelope. Odd that she had missed the entire story in the papers! But she only read the most conser- Just Arrived! Car Load ~ SMOKELESS LUMP COAL $8.50 per Ton "4% 7""_ None Better LS ual --- Tr TEPER LS Mallett Br y Regardless of Price act J wil Coal Importers ena Service That Satisfies" Phone 2560 ,iw'- 671 Albert St. dall, and draw down on your defense. "THE USHAWA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1927 PRINCESS Anne Qustin vative, staid papers and never wasted a moment on scandal, the doings of society, or crime stories. She arranged the unfolded Slinpings on the dressing table, glanced at the sensational headlines; CRANDALL HEIRESS 'DIVORCES NCE MALY CRANDALL RE- NOUNCES TITLE FOR LOVE PRINCESS NOW PLAIN MISS CRANDALL Vee-Vee dimpled at that last-- "Princess now plain Miss Crandall." Plain? PRINCESS VIVIAN DISAP- PEARS AFTER ROW WITH FAMILY IVAN SAILS FOR . CRANDALL, WHO DIVORCED HIM IN PARIS, LOVE NEST HINTED IN CRANDALL HEIRESS' DIS- APPEARANCE She glanced hastily at one of the news stories, conscious that time was passing rapidly and that Schuyler would promised to join him at half-past seven, to dine with him, The story, a signed one, undoubtedly clipped from the society columns of one of the more sensational morning papers, was written in that familiar, chatty style which is supposed to in- trigue the hoi polloi who know of so- ciety's doings only through the news- papers "1 told you so! Pardon me for again committing the social faux pas of bragging, but I must remind my readers that I predicted, as long ago is last December, in the issue of De- 'ember 19, to be exact--that the beau- irons Vivian, affectionately known in Newport, New York and Palm Beach society, before she became a princess 1s Vivi, would not be willing much longer to pay the bills which her Rus- sian husband, Prince Ivan, has such a talen for running up. A blonde charm- or in Vienna, a Juno in Rome, and a cabaret cutie in Paris proved to be 1 little too much for one red-hlooded American heiress to stand for--or rather, to support, and, just as I pre- licted, the long-suffering princess took her troubles to the Seine tribunal and vas received quick redress therefor, The only title to which the fair Vivi s now entitled is that of dollar prin- ress, and since her fortune, which her father, the sagacious' Rufus Crandall, shrewdly protected for her, amounts to a cool and fairly adequate forty millions, she is certainly entitled to that tag of royalty. "Society's tongue is wagging busily today, recalling the magnificent cere- mony at St. Luke's which gave in narriage a reluctant American heiress to a Russian whose title meant less than nothing, but which Mama Cran- lall was determined to have. It is safe o wager that Mama Crandall has de- rived a thousand times more pleasure out of Vivi's title during these last four years than the beauteous Vivian herself." "What rot!" Vee-Vee thought dis- qustedly. "I haven't time to read any more of this stuff now. Schuyler will be waiting. Nothing can happen to- night. I'll finish reading it when I rome up to bed." She stuffed the clippings into the :nvelope, was about to insert Jerry's scrawled explanation, when an ob- secure impulse, probably born of cau- tion, made her thrust it beneath the snug little brassiere of lace-trimmed wet. The envelope of clippings she re- urned to the dressing table drawer, then began, with anxious haste, to dust her cheeks with the pearl-tinted pow- der. "If be hadn't been in love with that other girl for five years I could tell him the truth, show him Jerry's letter. But if I do, I may lose him. Jerry," she patted the crackling sheets hidden n her bosom, "I'm afraid I'm going to disobey you--and take the comse- quences |" (To Be Continued) Vee-Vee keeps the de- I deg Ail BE one to whom her jon is cams- ng pain. JUDGE THAYER ILL Worchester, Mass., Sept. 2.-- Judge Webster Thayer, who pre- sided at the Sacco-Vanzetti trial, is suffering from "nervous shock and a severe illness" and is con- fined to bed at his home here. IT AT TET on hs (From E. W. Howe's Monthly) A reader in Iowa writes me: "I have lately made am experiment which may profit other men; I turned my entire income over to my wife, and asked her to manage our family affairs. She spent every dol- lar of it for six months, but by that the family on a hundred dollars a month, whereas when I kept family expenses down to $160 a month, she regarded me as a slave driver. At the end of two years she had a frequently consuits me: I have the benefit of her intelligence, help and enthusiasm for the first time since our marriage. Formerly she was the other women that she was mot made of putty. I could never make her understand the enim realities of life until I actually placed them fin her hands." he awaiting her impatiently, She had almost willing to ruin me, to show | TRIED TO DEFRAUD ST. MAURICE CO. Quebec, Sept, 2.--Armand Legace and Elphege Lacerte, of St. Etienne des Gris, changed their plea of not guilty to ome-of guilty and were remanded until Sept. 13 for sentence Wednesday, The men were accused of plotting to defraud the St. Maurice Valley Corporation of approximately §10- 000 by false reports of timber cut as well as by "padding" pay-rolls. CANADIAN AVIATION LEAGUE PROPOS Meeting in Ottawa to Discuss Organization Ottawa, Sept. 2.-~The formation of a Canadian league for the promo- tion of aviation was informally dis- cussed here, called by Major Gen, McBrien. For some time those in- terested in aviation have had in mind such an organization but it has never taken any defipite form, Within the past few days Haydon Guest, ex-M.P, has been here and considerable impetus has been given | the movement by him. An aviation league exists in Great Britain and it is proposed that one with similar | Purposes be formed here and affil- {fated with the British organization, | The functions are relatively like those of the Navy League except that instead of promoting the navy the aviation league seeks to develop in- terest in clvil and military flying, English System In the Old Country aviation ae- tivities are bonused and a plan on foot here provides that where local | flying societies buy a 'plane the | Government would duplicate it and otherwise encourage flying in all its branches. While primarily it would ibe fore commercial purposes the | prowess developed in aviation would | be of utility in the event of war. The last Imperial Conference de- | voted considerable attention to the subject and as a result of it a more | 1heral appropriation has been made {this year for aviation in Canada {while contracts will be awarded be- | fore the year ends for the big moor- ing tower in Montreal in connection with the trans-Atlantic aerial ser- vice to he established hy the British Government. The league. now under | discussion would he an unofficial or- 'ganization to promote Canadian | aviation generally, CHANNEL SWIMMER OUT Cape Gris Nez, France, Sept, 2. ~--Mrs. L. R, Weidman who began an attempt to swim the English channel here Thursday, collapsed and abandoned the swim after covering six miles in three and one half hours. GEORGE M, COHAN'S DAUGHTER ELOPES New York, Sept. 2.--Following the precedent set by her half-sister Georgette, who eloped in 1921, Mary Cohan, 18-year-old daugh- ter of George M. Cohan, theatrical producer, ran away from her fath- er's Spring Lake, N.J. home Wed- nesday and was married in Elkton, Md., Broadway learned Thursday. The man in the case was Neil Litt, of Dayton, Ohlo. GIRL, 16, IS ONLY FINISHER Boston, Sept. 2.--Frances Vin- cent, sixteen-year-old East Boston school girl, became the sixth school girl of her sex to swim the twelve and one-half-mile stretch of treacherous tide rips from the Charlestown Bridge to Boston Light. She covered the distance in seven hours and thirty minutes, nearly three-quarters of am hour behind the record established last year by Miss Mae Elwell, of Rey- ere, Nearly a dozen women were to have started the grind, but a bit- ter northeast wind and water only fifty"Seven degrees in the warmest stretch kept all but four women from the starting line. Of the four starters, Miss Vincent was the only one to finish. The others, May Me- Cullough, of Charlestown; Anna Pearson, of Worchester, and Bgtty Bushey, of Dorchester, were talfjn from the water before the haif- way mark had been reached. G. LEWIS HIND DIES London, Sept. 2.--G, Lewis Hind, the writer, died here Wednesday. He was born in 1862 and in addi- tion to being connected with var- fous journals, had published many books. WEALTHY WOMAN AND POLICEMAN ELOPE Trenton, N.J., Sept. 2.--Elopement of Mrs. Linda H. Bache, wife of a wealthy iron manufacturer of Plain- field, with Jos. Dever, a policeman of that place, formed the basis of di- his wife with infidelity, MUNICH TENDERS WALKER LUNCHEON Munich, Sept. 2.--Mayer James 13 Walker was the guest of the municipality at luncheon Thursday. The Bavarian Crown Prince, Prince Rupprecht, expressed a de- sire to meet the mayor of New York. | The Italian Consul has informed Walker that he would be accorded diplomatic privileges when he crossed the Bremnor Pass into Italy enroute from Munich to Venice. PASSENGERS ARE TAKEN FROM LINER $.5. Princess Charlotte Spends Perilous Night on Reef Wrangell, Alaska, Sept. 2.--Two hundred and sixty-one tourists who set sall from Vancouver, B.C. last week on an excursion tour of South- h eastern Alaska, were sheltered on this hamlet Wednesday night after | a perilous night at sea aboard a ship caught helplessly in the treach- erous Seymour Narrows. They were hrought here Wednes- day by the coast and geodetic ves- sel, Explorer, after their excursion ship, the Canadian Pacific liner, Princess Charlotte, struck a rock and puntured her hull on Vichnef- sky Reef, near St. John's Harbor, 22 miles from here late Tuesdoy night, Among the toruists were Sir Godfrey Dalrymple White, a mem- ber of the English House of Com- mons, Lady White and thelr two children, and many prominent per- sons from, scattered parts of the | "rhe States and Canada. 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