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{ | | | I a a r : TEN ey 'THE USHAWA DALLY TIMES, TUESDAY, SEFTEMEER 6, 1927 TENG PR CESS as TEM HEA Sa Tk. iH H H al iit Ii . wi marriage grines, divorce, Jerry warns Vee-Vee not to wy te to Play "princess incognito." 'or some unknown reason, bi the letter beneath her blouse, but the drawer. As she goes down to join Schuyler for dinner, she says to herself that she fears she will disobey J. s advice. Now co 0 WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XX During the following two days Vera Victoria Cameron, whom every guest at the hotel believed to be Vivian Crandall, an ex-princess, was so busy being "wooed" by Schuyler Smythe and practically every other unattached male at the big resort hotel that she had little time to worry about the consequences of her recklessness in not advising Jerry by wire that the situation which he had predicted in his letter had actually come to pass. Not once did she admit, in words, that she was Vivian Crandall, but she frequently shrugged her white should- ers and quirked that fascinating right eyebrow of hers, when inquisitors were busy trying to worm an admission out of her, in a way that said more plain- ly than words: "Oh, have it your own way! But--I'm not telling!" She was clever enough to know that her amazing popularity was not amaz- ing at all, that these well-to-do, hand- some, eligible young vacationers were not paying court to Vee-Vee Camer- on but to Vivian Crandall and to Viy- ian Crandall's 40 millions. If the royal mantle of Vivian Crandall had not been accidentally flung about her shoulders, she would have been mere- ly a very beautiful little nobody, a charming partner for a summer flirta- tion. As it was, however, she received the deep homage which even these com- fortably rich young men pay to 40 mil- lions and to a woman who has worn a crown, She wondered sometimes, but only fleetingly because they kept her so busy, how they could accept her so unquestioningly, how she escaped be- ing exposed a dozen times a day. But the clippings which Jerry had sent her gave her a partial explanation of that fact. The Princess Vivian had moved only in the most exclusive circles of NewYork and Newport society before her marriage. No princess of royal blood had even been more carefully guarded than the little dollar prin- cess. After her marriage she had scin- Wright Funerals J. A. WRIGHT FUNERAL DIRECTO AND EM- wy, FUNERAL sepyice a ii rh Pi. Davidson & Samells 88 Simcoe St. N. For Better Shoe Valor TITTY ro youd I at foreign courts, to which these Woderatel Sw rich people who pat- ized Hotel had no a evn few people in America had had the privilege of intimacy with Vivian Crandall or the Princess Vivian. She overheard Mrs. Bannister ex- plaining the amazing fact of Vivian Crandall's choice of the Minnétonka as a retreat: "The poor little thing has been under someone's thumb all her life. First her mother ruled her with an iron hand, denying her the least freedom to mingle with ordinary peo- ple. Not that I think we are ordin- ary, you understand -- Then' Prince Ivan, jealous, and domineering as those foreign men are, kept her from having any life of her own at all. When she quarreled with her parents over her divorce--Mrs. Crandall is simply para- lyzed with horror over the vey idea of divorce--the poor darling just made up her mind to live her own life for a while. I don't blame her at all. She has a right to know Americans, to choose her next husband from among the real backbone of the country, if you know what I mean--" Thus Mrs, Bannister before she be- gan to sulk because Vee-Vee had so little time for her, before Vee-Vee be- gan to try to avoid her ceaseless prick- ing little questions. Another uninten- tionally overheard remark made by Mrs, Bannister on Tuesday was not so friendly: "Oh, of course she's insuf- ferably conceited! Who was it that discovered her, introduced her, was kind to her when she arrived here, friendless and unknown, I'd like to know ?" But when she encountered Mrs. Bannister later in the day, on the lake shore, Mrs, Bannister gushed and com- plimented her as usual, "I'm getting a marvelous education in the penalties one pays for being rich, Toadies, toa- dies everywhere!" Vee-Vee told her- self with a slightly bitter twist to her mouth. No wonder the real Vivian Crandall had a patina of disillusion- ment and bitterness overlaying the ex- quisite loveliness of her face. "They say," Vee-Vee overheard a girl confiding to a young man in the concealing darkness of a June night, "that this Schuyler Smythe is the lover she divorced the prince for. And they say he hasn't a penny, is just a para- site that she'll have to support. But of course, with 40 millions, she can buy any sheik she wants. And heaven knows he's good-looking--oh, quit, quit, Rodney! Don't glare at me like that, darling! Of course I'm not in love with him, you silly boy--" Schuyler Smythe was with Vee-Vee at the time, and she felt his arm flex- ing into a battering ram of temsed muscles, She walked slowly away, down a flower-bordered path, the heavy frag- rance of the blooms like the faint odor of death in her quivering nostrils, "Who is the man they're talking about--the lover you divorced Prince Ivan for?" Schuyler's breath was hot on her neck as he drew close to her. "I haven't dared ask you before--you have a genius for discouraging ques- tions and I wanted to forget that there is supposed to be another man--but who is he, Vee-Vee? God! I can't stand this much longer! You let me come just so close and no closer. Why, you haven't even let me kiss you yet! But--I'm going to now!" His arms, which had been upraised in a gesture of impotent despair, fell heavily upon her shoulders, gripped her like cables of steel. She strained away from him, but his body bent with hers, so that her slender waist seemed about to be broken. "Not yet, Schuyler! Not yet!" she pleaded, though her body throbbed with desire for the pressure of his mouth upon hers. She laughed; with- out sense or intention, a low, rich, shaken chuckle of mirth, which pur- chased her release. "You're laughing at me! I might have known you weren't taking me seriously. You, that could marry any man in the world you want--" His voice was broken, came in whistling gasps over his dry, parted lips, but his arms had released her. "You're jealous, Schuyler?" she ask- ed softly. She had to say something, though her mind was whirling with chaotic thoughts. Why had she not let him kiss her when she wanted his kiss so much? Her reason was not a rea- son at all, but an instinct of decency that could not be drowned in pas- sion. When he kissed her it would be Vera Victoria Cameron that he kissed, not an unwilling imposter. "Am I jealous? Oh, God! Jealous! I'm eaten up with it, Vee-Vee! can't sleep, I can't eat--When I think of you in that damned Russians arms, I nearly go crazy. But when I think of you, hiding here to save yourself from the man they say was your lover in Paris--" "Hush!" she commanded him sharp- ly. "There was no lover in Paris. Tell me, Schuyler, would you rather I had never been married, that I was -- a J EDDO-- Premium Coal SOLVAY--COKE General Motors Wood Best Wood Value in this City 552 DIXONS 52 Al fuel ordess weighed on City Scales if dvsired. girl?" she added softly. Oh, if she could only tell him the truth, so that he would believe her and yet not hate her for having taken that other wo- man's place-- "I wouldn't have you changed," he said ardently, reaching toward her again, "If it took all that is past to make you the woman that you are to- day, I am a fool to be jealous of that past. But I hate him for having made you suffer, Oh, Vee-Vee, don't hold me off an Jonger) Let me love you, let me m . Jou happy. I'll make u to you for all that you have suffered. I love you! Can't you love me? I'm not a conceited puppy, but I would not have dared hope Sunday, when ou came walking into my life again, if there hadn't been something } in your eyes that gave me permission to hope --Vee-Veel Tell me--" There is no knowing what she might have done then, with his low, musical voice pulsing in her ears and making her nerves vibrate with joy, if they had not been interrupted. The interruption could not have been more startling, It was a laugh, a hoarse feminien laugh that rose high on a crescendo of pain and shattered on a sob. A girl's tall, big body crashed through the hedge beside which Schuyler and Vee-Vee had been stand- ing, ran a blind, zig-zag course up the path, "Nan!" Schuyler called out involun- tarily. "Oh, damn that girl!" He flung out his hands in a gesture of helpless rage. "I'm going back to the hotel, Schuy- ler," Vee-Vee told him in an even, emotionless voice. "Please don't come with me. I want to be alone." "I swear that I owe her nothing--" Schuyler began tensely. "Please! It isn't--just that I want to he alone to think," Vee-Vee told him and walked rapidly away. She wanted to forget that hoarse, jagged laugh ending on a terrible sob, to think only of her own problems. But she could not forget. She found herself murmuring "Poor Nan! Oh, the poor thing!" She had a curious sympathy for the jealousy which racked the other girl. For was not she herself racked with jealousy of that woman she had never seen--the woman with whom Schuyler Smythe was really in love? "Oh, poor Nan!" Why couldn't she accept the defeated girl's pain as a part of the fortunes of the love war? A suspicion that she had crushed down repeatedly but which could not die reared its ugly head, writhed through her troubled thoughts like a poison- fanged serpent. Mrs. Bannister had hinted that Schuyler had been about to marry Nan Fosdick for her money, What was that ugly phrase she had added--"if it is luck!" Why should there be any question of Nan Fos- dick's being lucky to land a man like Schuyler Smythe? And that girl whom she had overheard gossiping about her tonight had said, "They say he hasn't a penny--" What if he was poor? Wasn't she herself dependent upon her salary as a private secretary? But the gossiper had been referring to Vivian Crandall's reputed lover, for whom she had divorced the prince. A party in the lobby, coated and hatted for a late drive along the lake shore, tried to persuade her to join them, but she escaped, going directly to her room. She was wearily raising her arms to remove her evening dress when a sharp tattoo beat upon the door, an insistent summons which said that the knocker would not be denied. Fear leaped in her throat as she smoothed her dress and went on cold, jerky feet to the door. (To Be Continued) Vee-Vee is confronted by an angry Nan Fosdick, and learns that her secret is no longer safe. Read the next chapter, THE SALARIES OF JUDGES (Stratford Beacon-Herald) The learned profession sat in con- ference in Toronto last week, and a- mong other things decided that the judges were underpaid. It was recommended that a supreme court judge should have $20,000 a year, with $15000 for a high court official and $9,000 for a county judge. All was going well, and it seemed that the recommendation would find its way to Ottawa, until a delegate from the Yukon rose to remark, "If all the judges should resign, there would be no difficulty in filling their positions." And that from a learned gentleman whose shingle flaps in the breeze that wafts down from the Arctic circle. He may have been quite right in one sense, but he didn't blow over the fact that judges should be well paid, It is well to have them receiving enough so that they need not look elsewhere for income. The public demands that judges be absolutely independent in their out- look on all that passes before them, and one way to make that condition certain is to have the judges' finan- cial arrangements on the same inde- pendent basis. TAKE PART OF THUG (Brantford Expositor) The Stratford Beacon-Herald re- marks: "Two more gamblers were '| killed by other thugs in Detroit, and the list of killings in this way has gone to 14 in recent months. The thugs themselves seem to be more in favor of the death penalty there than the law courts." And when one of these thugs is convicted of murdering an innocent citizen there is always a large number of people ready to take the part of the thug. THE WINNIPEG CONVENTION (Hamilton Spectator ) No matter who may be chosen for leader, it is essential to comsolidate the right of the party to this pro- gress; that the convention shall ex- press itself in terms plain and em- phatic for those principles of mational autonomy upheld and extended by Macdonald and Borden, and that it will continue to work for a normal constitutional development in har- money with those principles and with the unity of the British Empire. tN E. MUSIC DAY A FINE FEATURE (Continued from page 7) volume, clarity and expressive purity blended in jucombarghle majesty. Parry's "Jerusalem" was the first of two numbers, the second being the famous "Hallelujah Chorus" from Han- del's "Messiah." This noble selection is considered the supreme test of an individual singer's art and of massed direction. The Exhibition Chorus met that test and set a new record of achievement. As the swelling triumph of the angelic "Hallelujahs" rang through the Colliseum's vast auditori- um, not a few felt themselves within hearing of that choir of "ten thousand times ten thousand" which fills the courts of St, John's heaven with the splendor of endless melody Folk and national songs were most effectively rendered, Indian, Quebec airs, Scotland's premier love song "Ye banks and braes of bonnie Doon," Ire- land's "Love's benediction," Wales "All through the night," and as a finale two numbers from Gilbert and Sullivan's "Mikado" which must have had the shades of those illustrious composers as unseen auditors, Men's voices rendered "The corh- rade's song of hope" by Adam, and the ladies of the choir sang "The Staines Morris" arranged by Fletcher. At the director's luncheoh at noon, Judge Mott of the Toronto juvenile court gave a most interesting though brief address on "Music and its infiu- ence on childhood." The subject was handled with the tender understanding of one who truly loves childhood in the mass. His rich store of experi- ence was drawn upon for illustrations which at one moment presented the stark tragedy of neglected infancy, and the next revealed the fairy humor of childhood at its endearing best. Officials and members of the Cana- dian Bureau for the Advancement of Music are much encouraged by the success of this year's music day and already plan greater efforts for the future. Under Mr. Carlyle's presidency, the Bureau's music day at the Exhibition hie made a long stride towards the 000 mark, The greater henefit, however, is that music has héen sent out to the multi- tude in costumes meant to conceal the fame of singers, and the representative mass to whom their work appeals re- sponded in a way that speaks great things for the future of music in Can- ada, Whatever displacement may he made by the coming in of radio and superior honographs, the divine art will not Jhounss so long as a throng of over a hundred thousand people can go out to do honor to "Music, that heavenly maid." ENNISKILLEN Enniskillen, Sept, 2.--Rev. W. E. Honey B. A. of Welcome, called on Mrs. H. J. Werry and other friends this week. Mr Honey was a Meth- odist pastor here twelve years ago Certainly, she can have My dear it is plain that I'll have to explain Over and over and over again Plain York's really great It's the best chocolate | With flavour and quality splendid for Jane. Mothers and fathers who have tried Plain York chocolate realize at once how. pure it is, how wholesome, Not too bitter, not too sweet, but with all the deliciousness of pure plain chocolate, Plain York is the triumph of 200 years of experience in fine chocolate making, Just try a bar--to-day. anotfhier! ALI T EET Mr. and Mrs, Cook left for Pet- terboro and Ivanhoe and other points East today. Rev. Eugene Beech of Haydon, | who has been stationed at St. Ola will preach here next Sunday; Rev. J. Bunner of Bowmanville on Sept. 11, and Mr. M. H. Staples, of Oro- no, on Sept, 18. Mr. Wm. Griffin is shortly mov- Why blame the Children: to their st the suling ob th various Bourds of --_-- ing into the village to occupy the store now occupied by Mr. W. Smith. Mr, Smith is giving up the store business and moving back to the farm. held back at school on ? Is it nervous, uneven and untidy? 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