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said tenderly, her waist, TRPENNY PRINCESS 1927 bY NEA BEGIN HERE TODAY CAMERON ful so she can spend her vaca- tion at Lake netonka and meet the man she loves, SOHUYLER SMYTHE, At the Minnetonka, Smythe and other guests mistake her for VIVIAN ORANDALL, an exsprincess, who after a Par. » divorce, is in hiding, Vera's to convince the people of her true indentity fails and she puts further confession from her when she realizes Schuyler is in love with the girl he thinks she is, THURSTON, the hotel mana- ger, begs Vera to let the Orandalls know of her where. abouts, She asserts her true identity again, She finds a letter of black- mall in her door, apparently written by one of the servants, That night she meets Schuyler at the pler, He professes his love for her and she wonders if his love will survive the rev. elation she will make, NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXVI 8it down, darling," Won't you When she was settled on 4) . ABERDEEN HOTEL 17 Went cL 8¢., ness Sth Ave, YORK Jobe F, yo Mansging Director Schuyler "I robbed the bhoat- house for cushions before you came. Comfortable? against my arm? Warm enough?" the step beside him, his arm encircling his hand closed warm and tight over hers, he hegan in a lean dann hesitant, strained voice, as if. he knew that he could, at best, make out only a sorry case for himself: "Ever since you came into my life for the second time I've known deal, for I knew that I was going to ask you to be my wife." Vee-Vee drew a sharp breath, but sald nothing, and his arm tight. ened about her, "You wouldn't be human if you hadn't accused me in your thoughts during these last few days of being a fortune-hunter, You must have # wide and painful acquaintance with the breed. I imagine that Nan Fos- dick told you that I was trying to marry her for her money--" "She did," Vee-Vee admitted in a cool voice, "I suspected as much," Schuyler went on. "I felt sorry for Nan, be- cause she was so obviously in love, and because her life had heen a hard one. You, who walk in beauty, my darling, cannot know the misery of a girl like Nan Fos- dieck--" ! "Oh, can't I?" softly, "Of course you can't," he laugh- ed, lifting her hand to his lips. "You've heen a heart-breaking beauty since you flirted with your nursemaid's cops in your perambu- lator, But let's not talk of Nan Fosdick now. I woudn't have mar- ried Nan if she had had a hund- red million dollars, instead of one million. But it would have been hard to convince her that I wasn't for sale, If you hadn't come along, so entirely adorable that TI could not keep away from you to save my life. When I met you five years ago, Vee-Vee--" She wanted to interrupt him then, to tell him that he had not met her five years before, that she was not the girl he believed her to be, but she so wanted to hear him out that she kept silence, "I knew that you were the only girl '1 could ever love. I had no money, and I did have the instincts and training of a gentleman: The very thought of joining the retinue of your admirers, if I could have forced an entree, sickened me, for I would have died rather than be labeled a fortune-hunter. Then they sold you to that Russian prince for a title. I went to the wedding, or rather, stood on the sidewalk along with the other poor devils who could only gaze from afar upon society outdoing itself to impress a prince, I felt then that I was guilty, too, for I who loved you had not tried to save you. That night you danced with me at the Royal Poinciana yon she Interrupted smiled deep into my eyes, -- National Liberal - Conservative Convention Winnipeg , Man., October 10th, 1927 " SPECIAL TRAIN Will Leave Toronto 8.45 p.m. Saturday, October 8th, via Canadian National ways All-steel Pie Dubin sleeping cars, compart- ment-observation-library car (radio equipped), RESERVATIONS AND FULL DETAILS FROM H.W, SHERIDAN, Agt. C. N. 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You recog- nized me, there was no question of that. Then you closed your eyes as if you were suddenly faint--'" His voice trailed off. "After that I knew that I had had no right to let pride stand in the way of what might have meant happiness for both of us. I knew we were made for each other, that it was weak of me to let your money come between us. Love comes like that, Vee-Vee, my dar- ling, or it doesn't come at all. You remember, don't you, Vee-Vee?" he interrupted himself sharply. "I haven't heen deluding myself all these years--1?" "I'm sure Vivian Crandall re- members--everything," Vee-Vee an- swered softly, as if something out- side herself compelled her to. She would hate herself later for hav- ing let him go on, revealing his most precious secret to her, an im- postor, "You darling!' he cried huskily, crushing her resisting body against his hreast. "All right, sweet, I'll not kiss you again until you ask me to," he laughed exultingly. I'll try to tell you the rest of my story, and then I'll be willing to abide by your decision. For you love me, Vivian Crandall! 1 defy you to deny it!" She drew away from him and bowed her face in her trembling hands, It was going to be far harder than she had feared-- "When I read in the papers that you had divorced the prince," Schuyler went on, "lI was glad, glad! Like a prisoner condemned to death and reprieved in the last hour. I made a vow then that I would never rest until I had found' you, until I had tried to win you. You had given yourself once to a penniless man, a man who had nothing but an empty title to ex- change for your beauty and your money. I believed that the second time you married it would be for love. And I knew that you could never find a man who would love you as I do. The world may call | me a fortune-hunter, but I know that I am not--that I am a love- hunter, and that I have served my love faithfully for five years. What do you think, Vee-Vee?" The girl could not answer at once. She was crying, for the hope- lessness of her own ove had rush- ed over her in a drowning tide, She knew now that she could not tell him the truth, could not shat- ter the dream he had cherished for five years. "Have | disguested you?' Schuy- ler asked in a flat, dead voice, "Tell me about the little boy you were," she begged in a tear-muffled voice. "I know so little of you--" She was playing for time, for a few more minutes of him--his arm about her shoulders, his caressing, musical voice in her ears. Then she would slip away, make some excuse to leave him-- "My mother was rich when she married my father--rich accord- ing to the standards of small towns," he began obediently, in a voice that was almost cheerful. "My father had nothing, but jit was a love match and they were ideally Lappy, although Dad's lack of busi- ness training---he was a professor in a small college in Ohio--was re- sponsible for the loss of my moth- | er's fortune. She never blamed im, pever once thought of him as a| fortune-hunter. She died when [I] was seven, and until then we had lived like people of wealth. After she was gone my father was a broken man. We drifted from place to place, each a little worse than the last. I've known hupger and cold-- not just briefly, but for weeks and months at a time. But I never suc- cumbed to poverty, never - forgot what it was like to live gracefully. Dad died when I was 14, just about to finish high school. He had taught me in the evenings, so that I was rather more aMvanced than most youngsters of my age. I had to g0 to work.of course. I had taen a commercial course in high school. To make up to him, I studied Greek and Latin under him in the evenings, but sometimes he was 80 tired from his work--he was a faec- tory hand then, making cigar boxes 10 hours a day--that he often went to sleep with his tired old head resting om Ovid." "Poor dear!" Vee-Vee breathed softly. "Well," Schuyler sighed, "I went to work, as I said, and the only job the 14-year-old boy could get was in a drug store. I 'jerked' soda during the summer and delivered prescriptions in the winter. When 1 was 16 I went to New York, and found a place as a typist: There's no use telling you all the ups and downs I've had there, but three tary to Arthur multi-milliopaire. In the publie's mind he is identified with no par- ticular business. but he is imter- ested in a hundred different emter- prises and charities. He is a mem- ber of more directorial boards than any other man in New York, and knows more about industry than A believe. He numenable enterprises, times he gives me a tip om stock market which mets me a wel-4 salary he pays me. He treats me more like a jon than an employee, insists that I make his home my own, that I join him every sum- mer at his camp in Maine, takes me .to Europe with him once or twice a year. And he mo longer calls me his private secretary, but his business lieutenant, 1 realize that in your eyes such success as I have achieved seems puny, laugh- able almost--" "Indeed it doesn't," she inter- rupted eagerly. 'I think the little 14-year-old boy who 'jerked' soda has come very far up in the world, Tell me more, Schuyler." She won- dered if he would tell her how he had come to change his name from Shuler B. Smith to Schuyler Smythe but what did it matter? "There isn't much more to tell," the man answered hesitantly, "I just wanted you to know that my back ground has been such that 1 am not altogether unfit to stand be- side you as your husband, if you will marry me, I have lived a gentleman's life for years, have spent my vacations at resorts like Palm Beach and Lake Minnetonka, have many friends among the peo- ple of your own class, You need not be ashamed of me--" Schuyler,' Vee-Vee could hold back the words, not love were no richer than yourself, | Just a working woman who could understand your ambitions, help you to achieve them?" « "Hoy can you ask that?" Schuy- r Smythe demanded almost vio- ently. "Wouldn't I have tried to marry you five years ago {if you had had no money? Five wasted years! I wish to God you were a Princess Nobody, instead of the Princess Vivian, but--you are not. And I love you, There is no use speculating on what might have been, Vee-Vee, are you going to deny our love hecause of those damned 40 millions?" She was trying to think of an answer which would not betray her but which would not hurt him, when a uniformed bellboy popped up in front of them, as if he had sprung from an underground passage. "Miss Cameron," the boy pant- ed, "We've been looking everywhere for you. There's a couple of men looking for you--got here about half an hour ago in a car. They say they gotta see you right away." Oh!" Vee-Vee gasped, springing to her feet, a hand going to her throat. "Tell them Miss Cameron will be there right away," Schuyler Smythe commanded. When the bellboy had darted away, Schuyler seized the trem- bling girl roughly in his arms, shook her slightly, so that her face bobbed like a white flower in the starlight, "You're not going back to that hotel, Vee-Vee! "You're go- ing to let me take you away---now! You're going to marry me tonight, before they can haul you back to "Would youl be happier if--if the woman you | our family, Have ' courage, dar- . 1 love ou aad 'you love me!" North Oshawa Sept. 12.--Miss Jean Gillies, R.N., of Guelph is the guest of her sister, Mrs. A, L. Gerry, for a time. Messrs. Samuel and son, Oscar Burgoyne and Mr. Sam OCharlse motored to Toronto Saturday. Word was received here Satur- day of the birth of a baby girl to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Powell of Rag- lan who moved from here in the Spring. Our congratulations. The executive of the H. & 8. Club met at the home of the President Thursday. It was decided to hold an ice cream social and concert at the school the last week of Septem- ber. Date to be announced in next fssue. The school children of No. 11 are &oing to march on Thursday to the Oshawa. Fair. We hope to win a prize, Mr. Thos. Solomon, sr., visited his cousins, Mr. and Mrs. James Dusto, at Sunderland Sunday. He was ac- companied by his daughter, Mrs, James Woolley and his son, Mr. Thos. 'Solomon, jr., and wife and bahy Lyla. Miss Frances Barrett underwent an operation for tonsils in Oshawa General Hospital on Friday. Glad to know she is improving nicely. Miss Mary Lindsay has returned home after a week's vacation with her cousin, Miss Liza Morrow in Toronto, Mr. sOcar Burgoyne and Mr. Will Alexander motored to Fenelon Falls Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Hamilton and Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Lindsay attended Toronto Ex. a day last week. THORNTON'S COR CORNERS Thornton's Corners, Sept 12.-- Following a lengthy illness, death came to Mary Plowman, wife of Jos, Wray, one of our highly esteem- ed residents and one who was well known in our midst, Deceased suf- fered a stroke several months ago, from which she did not recover, and following another stroke recently, death resulted, last Thursday at the age of 61 years. Besides her hushand and family she leaves one brother, Mr. Anthony Plowman of this vicinity. The funeral was held from the family residenee last Sat- urday to the Union Cemetery. The family have our sympathy. Mr. G. Thurman and ' daughter, from Pickering, spent the holiday at the home of Mr, and Mrs. Robt, Miles. Miss Alma Whipns, visited over 'he week end with friends in Toron- fo. Baron Korff is making frequent tripe to Toronto with truck loads of fall vegetables grown on his Wil- lowvale Farm this season. Mr. Jas. Luke was a visitor in Toronto on Saturday and attended his nephew's wedding. Mr. J. Barlow, of Harmony, visited last Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. F. French, Farmers are complaining of the corn borer making its appearance this fall and many say that sweet corn ie pestered mostly so far. We hope it will not destroy the corm crop for future seasons. Mr. J. Sully is spending a few holidays with friends in Meaford. Mr. F. Sully, of Toronto, visited thie week at the home of Mr, and Mrs, J Sully, The aeroplane has left us after much enjoyment and excitement, A large number had a rare chance for a sail of a few miles through the alr. The charres were high congider- ing a very short trip for five dol- lars, They are said to use eight gallons of gasoline for eighty miles an hour, but many do not want a long sall for the first trip. We were glad to hear that no accidents happened to mar their pleasure while they stayed for a few days, Mrs, Kelly and daughter, and Mrs. Smith, from Boston, Mass., were the guests over the holiday with Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Luke, PORT PERRY Port Perry, Sept. 12.--Mr, and Mrs. H. G Hutcheson, and Miss Ethelwyn, left on Monday to motor to Quebec, the Adirondacks, Boston and other places. Dr. and Mrs. McLaurin spent Sun- day with Mr, and Mrs, Burnham, Miss Frances Mellow is going to Toronto this fall, where she will at- tend business college. Mrs, Earle Beare visited friends in Toronto for a few days last week. Miss Hilda Wallace is spending her vacation with friends in De- troit, The marriage of Nora Edith. voungest daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Robert Wallace, Port Perry to Mr. Ellsworth Beacock, of Detroit, took place on Wednesday, September 7, at 4 p.m. Rev. Mr, Brown officiat- ing. After the ceremony a luncheon was served, at which only the im- mediate friends were present. The bride and groom left shortly after- wards to motor to Detroit, where thev will make their home. Miss Miriam Harris visited friends in Toronto last week, Mrs, Letcher and her sister, Migs Helen Mellow, are spending their vacation on a trip down the St. Lawrence and Saguenay Rivers. Miss Jean Cawker is taking the or- gan at the United Church during Miss Mellow's absence. Miss Lois Lundy is visiting friends in Toronto. Mrs. Burnham, Mrs. Orde and Mr. Philip Burnham, attended the C.N.E. on Thursday. Miss Pearl Kent, spent the holi- day at her home in Lindsay, -- Mr. W. J, McKenzie, the new prin- cipal of the high school has moved fma Mr. Semerville's house on Lil- a Miss Doris Sandy, of Omemee. has been appointed as Domestic Science teacher in the High School in place of Miss Irene Glasgow, who resigned to be married, - Mr, and Mrs. Wm. Doubt, of Toronto, and family, visited friends in Port Perry on Sunday. Another of "our young people, Miss Marion Goode is to attend business college in Toronto this fall. Mr, and Mrs. Jim Morrish visit ed relatives here last week, Mr. and Mrs, Wilkinson, of Ux- bridge, were in Port Perry on Sun- day. We are sorry to report the seri- ous illness of Mrs. Dan Lyle, Mr. E. B. Walker has moved into the house formerly occupied by the late Dr, Roht, Archer. Mr, and Mrs, Chas. Turner motor- ed to Niagara last Friday, Septem - ber 2nd. Owing to heavy trafic they were two hours crossing the bridge. A car ahead of them, hav- ing a Pennsylvania license, was held up by the customs officers, A search was rewarded by the find- ing of a bottle of champagne with a five dollar bill tied around its neck, The officers wanted to know if this was a bribe, but the man sald the money was his and 'he could put it where he liked. He was taken hefore the officials who treated the matter as a joke and fined him the $5., and confiscated the champagne. Mr. and Mrs. Turner visited Buffalo, Rochester, and attended the races at Ratavia, N.Y. On their return to Buffalo, they found all the hotels filled un and the only accomodation to he had was at the Ford Hotel, where for one dollar per head vou might sleep on a pool table. As this did not appeal to them they went tn Tonawanda. Next day thev visiten Niagara Falls and saw the illumina- tion, then back to Toronto, and st- tended the races at Tong Branch, and arrived home on Thursday, "Why don't you live in one of your own houses?" "Can't afford to, high." The rents are too ¥ Girls School Dresses Girl's Girl's Middies $1.75 Skirts That Are $2.50 ¥ One Lot Pure Thread Silk Hose All Shades Cc than ever to Ask About er Es Payment Fur Coat Plan $5.00 Secures Your Coat New for Au- =~ GET IT AT THE ARCADE ~ Oshawa's Centre ik addition to the very good"