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A} 1927 bY NEA BEGIN HERE TODAY VERA CAMERON, the most efficient private secretary in the whole Peach Bloom Cosmetics Company, is mads assistant to the mew advertising manager JERRY MACKLYN, When Vera presents herself to Mackl h, he surveys her a bit evitically and asks her to write a report of her experi. ences with the company's cose metics so he can learn some- thing about the products, and she is forced to admit that she has chastely rvefrainel from anything but cleansing cream and powder, Macklyn, amazed, has an in. spivation, He tells her he will transform her into a beauty with the ald of Peach WRloom cosmetics, photograph her in every stage of the transforma- tion and use her picture in the advertising, Vera is turions and leaves his office, determin. ed to vosign, In the elevator she sees a man with whom she falls instantly in love, She hears him called SCHUYLER and learns he is going to Min- netonka Lave in June, She ve. tums to Jerry, determined to undergo the transformation, to become beautiful and to take her own vacation in June at Take Minnetonka, NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER IV. "Hello Back from lunch already? 1 was just going out for a bite my- gel." Jerry Macklyn burst out o. his office and almost upset Vera Cameron, "I--7 was--" Vera began to stam. mer in the %nqredible relief th ponred over her tortured nerves #Oh, Mr, Macklyn, I'm sorry I flew out of the office in such a tempe it isn't like me, really it isn't, Won't you--won't you please forgive me?" Jerry Macklyn stared at her a moment wmncomprehendingly, then burst into a roar of genuine amuse- ment. 'Forgive you? Sure I guess I wasn't very tactful. You see, I know what I want and I set out to get it, and sometimes I don't spend enough time on my approach, as the psychology sharks put it. But I knew you'd be back--knew you'd change your mind as soon as you had time to think it over. It's a swell idea, isn't it? I've been go- ing over the ads Peach Bloom has | DIAMONDS BURNS JEWELRY STORE 23 Simcoe St, S. Service been putting out, and they're lousy! Far as I can see, there's not a rea- son in the world why any woman should buy Peach Bloom instead of any other line of cosmetics--from the ads, I mean. Got to make them think we've got magic to sell--" "I hope we have!" Vera cried, in a voice so poignant with need that Jerry Macklyn's eyebrows shot up his forehead. : "What made you change mind?" he demanded, Vera's pale face flamed with eol- or, The very suggestion that she should tell anyone in the world about thy ymiracle that had hap- pened to her--the miracle of falling in love with a stranger who had merely walked into the same ele vator with her--made her dizay with horror, "I--1 want to be--a help to vou--" she hegan painfully, her hands twisting together, "Oh, come clean, child!" Jerry Macklyn laughed at her, "I said if this each Bloom stuff is any good, or one-tenth as good as the com- pany claims it is, that I could make you into a beauty, That's it, isn't it? Sure it is! You're human, even if you do wear Y.W.C.A, shoes and long skirts, Say, what's the matter with your legs, anyway?" he asked anxiously, 'I know they aren't skinnv from the sample you show," and he cocked his flaming red head at the modest six inches nf well-shaped calf that her unfash- fonably long skirt revealed. "Mr. Macklyn" Vera cried, stung fo tears, "Now, don't sav, 'How dare von, sir?' Jerry chuckled. "Good lord, child, don't carry a chip on yonr shoulder! There's ahsolutely noth- ine personal in all ehis, Tf I'm poing to play Pygmalion and make a heanty out of you, I'll he hurting vour feelings a dozen times a day, if yon want to take it like that, Be a good sport won't you?" He grinned at her with such in- gratiating hoyvishness as he thrust out a hand that she capitulated suddenly, gave him her hand, smiled at him, her rare, wide, sweet smile, that showed her perfect teeth and made her mouth an adorable and almost irresistible invitation. "Whew!" Jerry Macklyn whis- tled, his whole face lighting up with amazement and "Some smile! Those lips! Those teeth! That pose. Say, this isn't going to be halt the job I thought it was! Take oft your hat!" he commanded. She lifted off her hat, and at a gesture from him followed him in- to his private ofice. He grinned at her over his Shoulder as he turn- od the key in the lock. "I'm not taking any chances on being interrupted for a few min- your -- The New--- WEST END GARAGE Repairs Oil Storage 168 King Street W. (Formerly Rowden's Garage) Full Garage Service Gasoline Accessories ' The Repair Shop will be in charge of MR. FRED BALL (Late of the firm of Stephenson & Ball) and he promises the same excellent work that hes built his reputation as a mechanic. JEDDO--Premium Coal SOLVAY--COKE General Motors Wood Best Wood Value in this City 262 DIXONS s40 All fuel orders weighed om City Scales if dusired. "PENNY PRINCESS Y dnne Qustin .. pleasure. | 'and clear and "and THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 192 utes," he chuckled, them his face went blank as he saw her face grow rigid with fear and distaste. "Say, Miss Cameron, what do you think I'm going to try to do? Get fresh with you? Judas Priest!" The fer- vor with which he uttered his fa- vorite exclamation made her iilogi- cally angry, a fact which he re- fused to comment on, "You ean trust me, Miss Cameron! I'll swear by all the prophets and sign a con- tract fo that effect if you want me to, but for heaven's sake don't keep slowing up the works, Now--do as 1 tell you to, or the wholg show's off, What say?" Every instinct of Vera's repres- sed nature shuddered away from the indignities which she could sense that the future, if she agreed, held for her, but more powerful than in- stinet wa sthis terrible new need of hers--to make herself intg tia, kind girl that could attract and hold the love of a man Hke a stranger she had heard called "Schuyler." She drew a deep, quivering breath, spread her hands In a ges- ture of surrender, "I'll do any- thing you say, if you'll--keep your word and make a--a beauty of me." "Good girl!" hg applauded. "I can't gnarantee results, That's largely up to Peach Boom cosme- tics, but #ve got a whole bag of tricks besides the beauty treatments, Clothes, carriage, manner, psycho- logy-- oh, girl dear, I can make you sn different your own mother would- n't know you. Now---take down vour hair! Remember--you said yon'd do anything TI told you!" Her hands trembled as she drew the hairpins ont of the flat braids that encircled her head twice, Thev fell below her waist, those braids nnd she was proud of their extraor- dinary length. "ITnhraid it!" he commanded her. "T want to get an idea of the real enlor and the ¢oxture of it, Here, "11 help vou!" She was glad Ireked the door, heran tn work at she, with the expertness of long practice, nntwined the three strands of the other, When her hair hung free, she took a comb from her purse and ran it through the rip- pling mass that formed a cape ghout her shoulders. "Pretty stuff, hanging like that!" Jerry Macklyn told her. "But a girl can't go around using her hair for a cape and when it's all bun- dled up on her head it's just so much excess baggage. Now, off with the goggles! Can you see without them? And he lifted the horn bows of her spectacles from her ears. "I can see prefectly without them, but § had headaches for a month two years ago and the oculist pre- scribed glasses--she began, closing her eyes for a moment to accustom them to the light which the amber tint in the lenses minimized and changed. Then she opened her eves wide and faced Jerry Macklyn. "Judas Priest!" that amazing young man ejaculated fervently "Why in the name of all that's holy didn't you tell me you had green eyes!" "Why should I haye told you that I had green eyes?" Vera retorted angrily. "I can't help it if they're green--"" "Help it! Why, Judas Priest child, you should be thanking God every night on your knees for those eves of yours! Green. As green sparkling as sea water! A pair of emeralds set in your eyes and you trot out to am oculist and pay him good hard cash to cover them up for you" with yel- low glass! Oh, my 'sainted aunt! If I ewre a girl what I could do with a pair of eyes like those!" "What would you do with them?" Vera twinkled the extravagantly praised eyes at him, let a shy dimple tug at the cormer of her kissable mouth. "Oh, I'll teach you, never you fear!" Jerry Mackiyn's laugh rang out. "Here! Let me get an idea of what shape your head is under that cloak of hair." She stood quite still while he strained the heavy masses of her mousy brown hair back from her forehead and confined it tightly at the nape of her meck with his en- circling hands. "Amn aristocratic head, by golly!" he exuited. "High forehead, but not to high, a narrow small head, but not too small, a long, slim neck Why, girl, you ought to be sent to jail for grand larceny--stealing from your owm self!" "I'm--glad--I'm not so hopeless," Vera quivered happily. "Now for the bad mews," Jerry Mackiyn said briskly. "eyebrows all wromg--thick and straight, and almost meeting in the middle; eye- lashes not Jong enough or tmex enough. Guess you batted the life cut of the poor things against those goggles of yours--" "I can't go without glasses," Ve- ra eried. "Ihe Joist. uid § soulg- n't" "Here, lot me hav, a look at those glasses! And fen I'l squint a bit into your eyes--" "What do you know about eyes glasses?" Vera demanded im- patiently, as he squinted at her glasses with. one eye closed in a highly professignal manner. then that he had for his big fingers "Me? Why 1 wrote advertising copy fbr the National Optometrists" amoctation:* he chuckled at her, "And I always study the line i'm in. These glasses are for nothing but a very slight farsightedness and the most minor astigmatism. Not enought to give you any real trouble. Nobody's eyes are .abso- lutely perfect. Throw 'em away!" pe qrdered her abruptly, in his lordly manner, tossing the glasses conteptuously to the top of his desk. Joy anda resentment battled for a moment in Vera's completely up- set mind, then joy won and she smiled at him again, brilliantly. "Go ahead! Complete the Inventory! What else is wrong with this pie- ture?" She thrust her face up to- ward his almost provocatively, im- pudently. "Freckles!" he said, with exag- gerated sternness to cover his own confusion, "And no color. And your skin is too dry, young woma™! I'll bet you've been washing your face!" "Of course T have!" she told him Indignantly. "Good soap and wa. ter---" "Not when our marvelous, re vivifying, youthifying, beautifying, Peach Bloom Cleansing Cream is available!" he boomed at her like a slde-show barker, They ®.0th laughed, then, and in that shared laughter they became friends, "oH Jerry Macklyn took one step backward, and for the first time during their extraordinary inter- view he looked at her as if she were a girl, a desirable girl. "I'll confess that T was so sure you'd change your mind that I left word for the crack demonstrator of the company to come to my office this afternoon at three. Miss Proe- tor it is and they tell me she's a whizz with this Peach Bloom stuff. Then I'll trot you over to a swank photographer for the first picture in the series. Oh boy it's going to be a knock-out! Something abso- lutely different!" ""A photographer?' Vera cried, backing away from him, She had completely forgotten, in the ex- tremity of her need to hecome beau- tiful, the price ghe must pay. (To Be Continued) one hrald while | Photographs are only a minor in {eident, Vera learns, There are oth er and greater sacrifices, but she determines to make them, TOO DEAD TO PROVEST It is a curious fact that while the names of Sacco and Vanzetti have rong around the world for years not one person is a million remem- bers the name of the man they were convicted of murdering, CAR CRASHES NEAR PORT HOPE SUNDAY Lady Has Broken Collarbone --Car Brought to Osh- awa For Repairs Port Hope, Aug. 16.--Losing control of the Chevrolet Sedan he wsa driving, Mr, C. 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