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"PAGE TWELVE A i 1927 bY NEA JERRY MACKLYN, for » Vera, or Vee-Vee, as some her, finds it difficult to declare her veal identity to Smythe, especially yaince it is a mt he is in love £1 the wilh thinks he in In " ora 3 UP A News: ifr roe Log oem» i{wian Crandall in bold headlines. W 'GO ON WITH THE STORY i CHAPTER XXIII Bo closely did Vee-Vee feel herself identified with a girl she had never seen, of whom she had scarcely heard ntil three days before, that it seemed that she was reading about herself as her eyes took in the big headlines: "DETECTIVES SEEK MISSING CRANDALL HEIRESS." In the center of the front page was a picture of Vivian Crandall, with the caption: "Vivian Crandall, until three weeks ago the Princess Vivian, wife of Prince Ivan Polaski, of Russia's repudiated royalty, is the object of a nation-wide search by private de- tectives, according to information re- ggived from friends in the confidence of her parents, Mr, and Mrs, Rufus Worrell Crandall, multi-millionaire so- ciety leaders of New York and New- port." The column of front-page type gave little more actual information than the gaption under the portrait, The pic- ture might have been a photograph of herself, Vee-Vee noted with fresh won- der. It showed the Princess Vivian in decollete evening dress, with three strands of pearls about her proud neck, a jewel-studded coronet on her bobbed head, One paragraph of the small type declared: "Prince Ivan, the husband whom the Princess Vivian divorced in aris, is in New York, registered at Plaza Hotel. The Prince declares that the heiress divorced him without his knowledge and that he has come to New York to find his former wife and to plead for a reconciliation and re-marriage. He scouts the idea of foul play in connection with the Prin- cess' disappearance, and is convinced that she will reveal her whereabouts in her own good time. He also scoffs at the rumor that the former princess is in hiding with a lover whom she intends to marry as soon as conven- tion will permit. He declares that he Felt Bros. 2 he LEADING JEWELER! Batablished 1886 12 SIMCOE ST, SOUTH Wright Funerals J. A. WRIGHT rowsa. 'VRgEIgEanP Ex Successor to EY FUNERAL SERVICE Y Phone 1082 © Simos 51. 5 Davidson & Samels "For Better Shoe Values" | JEDDO--Premium Coal SOLVAY--COKE | The best fuel products that it is ro General Motors Wood 4 Best Wood Value in this City 262 DIX LAB fuel orders weighed on City Scales if dusiced. (nation for Vivian Cr of embarrassment, his big white hands "Al 'meerz fog" OH WRG (PE BROIL I A BAL 9, 1927" TT ¢& AE GAA DALY TER ES Frio stpreveen ; PENNY /PRIF CESS Service dnne has the highest possible opinion of his former wife's houor." "Trying to court her through the papers," Vee-Vge decided scornfully. "It's 2 Lv he Hide lrave mare So 'cern s 0 or. She might n have divorced im if he had." i Detectives scouring the country for harried woman who asked nothing ude. f | it self pushed aside moment now the detecti g on the scent of the girl at the Min- hatonfa, Whos all the guests, Leven the management, believed to he: Viv-, ian Crandall, i She jumped out of bed, ran té h desk and began to write with furious haste a telegram to Jerry Macklyn. But before she had finished her fran- tic appeal for him to come and stand by her in the threatened disaster, she stopped and clenched her cold hands against her pounding heart. Why wire him at all? Why not simply Pack up and leave? Terror sent her hands flying through the desk draw- ers, searching for a schedule of trains to New York. Thére was no train until the 11:52 p. m,, the train which Mrs. Bannister and Nan Fosdick had taken last night. She. felt trapped; then. came the slow, insinuating thought that she was glad she could not get away until early, midnight, She would have, would he forced to have, one more 'precious day with Schuyler Smythe. She. would pack, would be ready to leave on the midnight train, but the day at least was hers--and Schuyler's. 1 She was taking dresses off their hangers to put them inta her ward- robe trunks when the telephone rang. "Is that you, Vee-Vee? Your voice sounds so odd, darling," . Schuyler Smythe's warm, deep voice came car- essingly over the wire, "I--I don't feel very well, Oh, it's nothing. I'm just tired, I suppose," Vee-Vee answered, relaxing weakly Against the heaped up pillows of her bed. "I've been waiting for you," his voice came reproachfully. "Have you for- gotten that you were to play golf with me this morning?" She had deferred playing golf as long as possible, conscious that her game was extremely amateurish, un- doubtedly miles below the practiced performance of Vivian Crandall. When she had made the engagement she had not intended to keep it, had intended to suggest some other form of diver- sion at the last minute. But now she took the plunge desperately. She might as well let her golf betray her as anything else. "I'll be dressed and down in ten minutes, Schuyler, Awfully sorry to have kept you waiting," she told him. She was about to leave the room, her heart beating quickly at the thought that she would see Schuyler Smythe in just two more minutes, when a knock sounded upon the door, a discreet, deferential knock. She thought it was the waiter, come to re- move her breakfast tray and table, called "Come in!" blithely. But it was not the waiter." It was the hotel manager, Mr. Thurston, his bald forehead glistening with the dew massaging themselves nervously. "Miss--er--Cameron, I beg you to pardon this intrusion," be began de- precatingly, "but I felt it my duty to --er--your parents as well as yourself to speak to you." "I haven't the least idea what you mean," Vee-Vee said, raising her chin arrogantly, "You have seen yesterday's paper, haven't you, Miss--Cameron?" Thurs- ton asked with more spirit. "I have seen it, yes,' Vee-Vee ad- mitted. "But I stil fail to under- stand--" "I don't want any scandal, Miss Cameron," the man went on dogged- ly, "I--we all appreciate the honor of having you at the Minnetonka, and I hope you will stay all summer. But I--I should very much appreciate it, Miss--Cameron, if you would notify your parents that you are here, so that there will be no possible reason for them to blame the management for not having notified them of your presence here. I--I feel the responsibility very keenly, Miss Crandall--" "My name is Miss Cameron," Vee- Vee interrupted, her voice even and firm. "I told you when I first came that I would trust you to correct any misapprehension that might arise as to my identity." One lobe of her brain, listening critically, told her that she was talking like her old self, like the Vera Victoria Cameron she had been before her transformation, "I know, Miss Cameron," the man- ager hastened to assure her. "And I should have heen very glad to assist you in your effort to remain here in- cognito, But with detectives looking for you, likely to pounce upon you at the hotel any minute and cause a scandal--" he hesitated unhappily. , Fill yowr Summer prices, ONS sé0 Austin "T assure you, Mr. Thurston, that no detectives are ing for Vera Vic- toria Cameron, that I am Vera Vic- toria Cameron, and that you should feel no uneasiness whatever on my ac- count." But as she said the last words, color flooded her pale face. She knew she was ling, that the poor, distracted "manager had far more to fear because she was Vera Victoria Cameron than if she were the Vivian Crandall that he took her to be, "Of course, Miss Crandall--I beg' take that attitude there more than 1 can say," Thurston tol her dejectedly, mopping his glistening bald head with a fresh white hand- kerchief. "But I do hope that in case anything--anything at all, Miss Cam- eron--comes up, of an unpleasant char- acter, 1 mean, that you will absolve the management of the Minnetonka from all blame." "The only thing that you could pos- sibly be blamed for is for not be- lieving me," Vee-Vee told him se- verely. "I shall be glad to leave the hetel, Mr. Thurston, if that would re- lieve your mind." "Oh, by no means!" the unhappy man protested. "As I have told you, we are honored to have you here, | hope you are comfortable?" He was the solicitious hotel manager again. "Quite comfortable," Vee-Vee as- sured him briskly. She was think- ing that if she obeyed her impulse to flee from the Minnetonka that night she would be tactily confessing to Thurston that she was Vivian Cran-' dall, and that he would have every right to notify the Crandall family to watch for her at the Grand Central Station. Her detention in the station | would inevitably result in her being' hauled before the Crandalls for identi- fication. Their discovery of her re- semblance to their daughter--a re- semblance that no one would believe had been achieved accidentally, since haircut, shaping of eyebrows and col- oring of hair could not have been af- fected without deliberate design--would just as inevitably brand her as an im- | poster. She might even be arrested for fraud, would undoubtedly find her- self smeared all over the front pages. She was trapped, horribly trapped, whether she left the hotel or stayed. When Thurston had left, looking very unhappy, Vee-Vee again flew to her desk, to complete her telegram to Jerry Macklyn. But again, hefore she had finished it, she halted, her pencil stabbing viciously at the yellow sheet. "No, I'm not going to get him into a mess. I won't let him take the blame. - It might cost him his position with Peach Bloom." And again, irra- tionally, while tears gathered in her vivid green eyes, she murmured, "Dear | Jerry!" But there were no tears in her eyes when she held out her hand to Schuy- ler Smythe. She was asparkle with eagerness and excitement, determined to make the most of the precious hours that were left to her before the storm broke, For she was sure there would be a storm, and that she would have to face it alone, unless--Her vivid eyes probed the glowing brown eyes of Schuyler Smythe as if she had never looked deep into them before, (To Be Continued) Mrs. Fosdick has something inter- esting to tell Vee-Vee about Schuyler Smythe. Read the next chapter, HUSBAND HELD FOR SLASHING WIFE Wanted to Make Her Un-| attractive, Lawyer Says Montreal, Sept. 9.--Before Judge Enright in the Enquete Court yes- terday afternoon, Frank Denino. 3b, accused of attempting to mur- der his 17-year-old wife by slash- ing her with a razor, and who is held without bail, appealed for his release. Lyon W. Jacobs, K. C., counsel for the accused explained that his client married Mary Beaudoin when she was 14. Her foster mother, it is alleged, caused an estrangement end a civil action in separation is pending. The couple met in the home of a mutual friend on Notre Dame street west last week and it was thought that a reconeiliation bad been effected. Mr. Jacobs ex- plained that the wife recanted on the way home and Denino in a fit of jealousy and rage cut her nose and cheek with a razor. According to Mr, Jacobs his ecilent wanted his wife for himself and tried to dis- figure her to make her umattract- ive to a younger man, He is ask- ing that the charge beb reduced to one of wounding. HOUSE OF BISHOPS your pardon, Miss Cameron H ; Bressing {FAVORS RETENTION OF DEATH PENALTY Lord Chief Justice of England Expresses Views ; Fy Halifax, Sept. 9.--"I strongly suport capital punishment; abolish capital punishment and that whole- some deterrent instantly disappears and human Mfe is put'ia ind b- ably greater peril," sald Right Hon. Gordon, Baron Hewart of Bury, bis views on the punish. crime and its 'underlying "5 consclas effort is to keep the young out ment pipe of prison altogether and I strongly | support every effort of that kind sald His Lordship, and added: "It is a terrible thing to send any per- son to prison for the first time, for by doing so you may easily get rid of the repugnance against go- ing to prison and confirm any criminal tendency there may be. I am strongly of the opinion thot every reasonable effort should be made to avpid sending a person to prison for the first time. But when all is sald and done, speaking for myself, T have no doubt that the main purpose of imprisonment must be to deter all whom it may con- cern from: committing criminal of- fenses," 3 His Lordship expresibd himself as deliehted 'with this, his first trip to Canada, and with the heauties of the Maritimes, He also spoke In glowing tepme .of the meeting of the Canaan Bar Association which he atten and of the friends he made thete, Commenting upon the fact that he had enw inaccurately descrihed as a former reporter, His Lordship remarked: "This is a confusion. Charles Dickens was a_ reporter, so was Lord Blackburn, and so was Lord Russell of Killowel, hut I have not had the great advantage of he ing a reporter." Speaks of Trip He spoke of his trip through Up- per Canada, and the United States and stated that he was profoundly impressed with the meeting of the Canadian Bar Association. "It was wonderful to see such a gathering drawn from all; oyer such a vast area, magy. fom vile to attend and all sple esprit de corps, ngninkaining t best tradi- tions of{d legal y pudfession. I heard m remarkakle and bril- liant pap joyed meeting Sir and ape es, and en- mes Ailkins; 'Father of the Canadfan Bar Asso- ciation," Chief Jus Anglin; Sir William Mulork, 'The grand old man of Canada' Chief Justice of Lord Chief Justice of England, ex+. Ontario, at whose hands 1 received the honorary degree of LL.D. at Toronto University; Chief Justice Martin and many others." Asked what his views were comn- cerning punishment, His Lordship stated that punishment has three purposes, first to discourage erime by letting possible offenders ob- serve the penalties which erime may bring. Punishment has a partly de- terrent influence on the actual of- fender and indescribably more of a deterrent effect on others. Im- prisonment does not deter any of- fender from repeating the offence, but it is useful in that the public, 80 far as it consists of possible erim- .inals, should see by the example of others, the consequences of wrong- doing. '"That," sald His Lordship, {'l, regard as the main purpose of 'Punishment from the point of view of the state, It is a penalty im- posed in the public interest for the urpose of discouraging erime.' ere are two other minor pup poses; rctribution, in which the of- fender is made to experiecne in his own person the consequence of crime, and the other reformative in which an effort is made to improve a person's character and outlook, This last aspect is especially impor- tant in the case of comparatively young offenders," PROVINCES TO MEET ON NOVEMBER 3 Ottawa, Ont., Sept. 8.--November 3 has been definitely set as the date for the opening of the inter- provincial conference, Premier W. L. Mackenzie King announced at the conclusion of today's meeting of the Cabinet. Expectations are that the meeting will extend over a week or ten days, The agenda for the conference, sald the Prime Minister, was under consideration at today's sitting. All the provinces had made their recommendations in respect to the suhiects which might be discussed, while the various federal depart- ments had submitted their proposals, As soon as the agenda had been finally prepared, intimated Premier King, copies would he forwarded to each of the provinces, CHINESE FIRE ON U.S. MINE SWEEPER Washington, Sept. 9.--Admiral Williams, commander of the United States Asiatic fleet has reported to the Navy Department that the mine sweeper Pigeon has been heavily fired upon by machine guns at Shiassan Shiang, 12 miles ahove Nanking and replied with machine guns and 34 reunds from the main battery, silencing the Chinese fire, The Pigeon was .hit many times, but there were no casualties, he added, Good luck in bakin g Is due 10 good judgment im using ur Nelle BAKING POWDER tsually PRINCE OF WALES REWARDS CHAUFFEUR WITH GIFT OF PIN Montreal, Sept. parture from Montreal early this morning of Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales and Prince George; there remains in Montreal a souvenir of the Princes' visit in the form of a small gold pin stamped with the Royal Crest in the possession of William Sproule, chauffeur to Their Royal Highnes- ses, during their sojourn in Mont- real, Mr. Sproule, who is a former Air Force chauffeur, acted in the ca- pacity of oyal chauffeur while the Princes were here. He drove them wherever they went--at a fast rate of speed but safely. The Prince of Wales remembered this," Last even- ing, after Mr. Sproule had driven Their Royal Highnesses to Cartier- ville, to the home of Brig.-General 8.--After the de- | . and Mrs. F. 8, Meighen, the Prince of Wales, before entering, clasped his hand, and thanked him cordially for his: services, handing him at the same time a blue leather jewel case containing the pin, as a token of appreciation, 'I want to thank you very much for your kind services," said His Royal Highness upon presenting the pin. "And I think you are an ex- cellent driver. I hope to see you again upon my return visit to the Dominion of Canada." Mr. Sproule resides at 494 Belle- chasse street. The royal pin Is treasured by him, It lies in its blue leather case, upon which is en- graved the Royal Crest, and the words, "By Special Appointment to the Royal Family. 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