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EEN I BEGIN HERR TODAY , CAMERON, * efficient Oosmetics Co. shares apartment with her frivo- he o FLORA OART. iT gp To mm uc] © haley TH hold explanation for disappointment, Her pro- ne Assistant to TRY MACKLYN, the new advertis manager, crowds this dis. Jory "propos gh g li n 1] | ame to transform Vera, with the ald of Peach Bloom PM ow, Into a beauty and to photograph her In each stage of the transformation, Vern indignantly refuses and determines to resign but when | she seen and falls instantly in | love with a man whom she hears called BOHUYLER, she 4 rogonsiders and tells Jewry she will undergo the experiment, Anything, whe tolls herself, to become titul, for she has overheard Schuyler say he is ding to Lake Minnetonka in ate June and she resolves to go there too, Jerry and KIT. TY PROCTOR, a professional demonstrator, decide to make Vera over, taking for a model an uncaptained Bunday supe loment picture Jervy finds in bs desk, Just before she leaves her aunt's apartment to take up residence with Kitty Proes tor for the three weeks ree wired for the transformation, PETER DARROW, Flonk's late ost love, angers Vera by Ig» poring her and she resolves to bring him to her feet, At the end of three weeks Vera and Jerry Bo to Flora's apartment and tind her and Peter there, They ave dangled with Vera's beauty and Peter is - smitten, Vera tells them that she Is going to Minnetonka in June, Jerry agrees to help, but his eyes are almost somber with foreboding, NOW GO ON WITH STORY CHAPTER VIII FLORA CARTWRIGHT closed the door of Vera Cameron's bed- room upon herself ,and spoke In a grimly determined voice to her niece, whom she had surprised in the act of contemplating her brand- pew beauty in the mirror of her dressing table. "I want to know ex- actly what this means. You leave this apartment just three weeks ago an old-fashioned, spinsterish Juuiy Woman, and you come back tonight a stunning beauty, dressed Jike a Fifth Avenue Easter parade and with an adoring male in tow. I've come for the story and I'm going to get it if I have to sit or your chest and pull the words out of those fascinating lips of yours." "All right, Aunt Flora," Vee-Vee smiled in spite of her weariness. "1 should have invited yom im for bed-time confidences, but I thomght you'd be engrossed with young Peter for an hour or two more, and I wanted to get to bed early. I'm dead." "You don't look it," Flora re torted, with a slight edge to hex voice. "And I may as well confess that young Peter and I have quar- reled---over you. I semt him away, and told him not to come back I've been trying to get rid of him for three weeks, and I don't wamt you to think for a minute that I'm Jealous--" "Oh, Aunt Flora, I'm sorry! He Aid act like a perfect idiot, kissing my hand good might and all tha rot. Bat he adores yom, Awat Flora. Listen, dear, we'll prepare for bed REFRESHMENTS Soft Drisks, Ice Ovenm, and Light Lamches 4 Simove St. X. Phone 2004 You hing bi creams together. 'Il do my and things in here | tace and hands at the same timer "I'll use yours," Flora retorted, beginning to open the fascinating containers with avid fingers. 'They must be magic. All right. Out with the whole story." She drew. up & chair beside Vera's and began to smear her face with the scented Peach Bloom Cleansing Cream. her face, told her aunt the whole story from beginning to end, bear- ing as patiently as she could Flora's almost constant exclama- tions and questions, ; "And how does it feel to be a beauty suddenly, as if a falry had waved a4 wand over you?" Kora probed, her blue eyes a trifle cold and hard, "1 can't realize it yet," Vee-Vee confessed In a frightened voice, "Down underneath I'm still a timid girl that has never even had a pas- slonate kiss in all her life, I'm scared to death, Aunt Flora, Please don't become suspicious and critical of me, I need help---nged your help more than I ever needed any- thing in all my lite, I suppose you've guessed that I didn't consent to help Jerry in this advertising stunt for the pure love of business, You know how shy I am, what erucitixion it's going to be-to se ny pletures in the magazines as 'The Peach Bloom Girl'--" Of course 1 guessed all that, and I confess I'm eaten up with curi- osity, But you don't have to tell me unless you want to, darling, I'll help you, Of course I will! Don't mind me, honey. 1 suppose I feel like an old stage star who finds herself supplanted by a younger and loveller actress, But I'll be a good sport, Kiss me, Vee-Vee!" Vera flung her arms about her aunt, kissed her on her cold- creamed cheek, then burst into a flood of tears, "Aunt Flora," Vee-Vee said, "I want to tell you about it, but yon mustn't langh, I've made an abso- lute fool of myself, I know it, and I can't help it to save mylife, I'm going right on making a fool of myself until---Aunt Flora, did you ever fall in love at sight with a man yow had not been introducee to, a man who paid no attention whatever to you, did not even speak to you, a man you only saw once?' Flora Cartwright laughed shakily "It almost invariably happened to me just like that," she confessed "And it still does. Why, my dear, didn't I ever tell you how I landed Jack Preston? [I'd gone down to the Penn Station to see a friend of mine off for California, and I was just leaving the train when I saw Jack settling his bags in a state room. It struck me like a flash of lightning---love, I mean--and ) didn't stop a minute to consider.) marched right back to my friend-- 'neckily it was a woman--told her | was going to California with her, though [ didn't have even a stitch of clothes with me except the things I had on. Had to wire to Chicago for some things--well, 1 won't bore you with the whole story, but by the time we'd reached San Francisco, Jack Preston and | were engaged, and we were mar- ried as soon as we could get a license. And Jack was ome of the nicest husbands I ever had. If he hadu't been sb unreasonable about ali- mony I'd marry him again, the darking. Now--tell me!" MI wish I'd had the nerve to follow Schuyler," Vee-Vee murmured, her lovely face dreamy-eyed and wistful. "What name did you say?" Flora asked sharply. "Schuyler? "That's--just a name I wade mp to call ham by," Vee-Vee lied. "I once knew a man named Schuy- ler," Flora told her. "And if I ever see him again--but go on, dear." "There's almost nothing to tell" Vee-Vee flushed. "I was going down wm the clevator when this man got on, and 1 simply fell in love with him. He was the most thrillingly handsome man Pye ever seem am my life, but that wasn't all--his eyes wore sad and wist ful, as if he's known a great sorvow-- "He was exocollent technique," Flora lavghed. "And then--3" "I overheard him toll the man he was with that he was gong to Lake Minnetonka for the last half of June and then later in the summer wp to Maine for the hottest weather. Amd Awnt Flora, 1 know thon that I'd go to Lake Minnetonko if it took the fast cent 1 had in the world" "Then you wont back and told Jerry Mack you'd accept his odioms offer to make a boanty owt of yom for ad- wortising purposes. It's all orpstal cloar now, davhng, and IR do everything 1 can to halp you. By the way, does Jory Macklyn know the story of the handsome stranger >" ertainly not?" Vera was indignant. "Do you think I'd go around tolling just anybody what a fool I am?" NM wouldnt say that Jerry Macklyn » Vera, her own fingers flying over | he? CESS ne Qustin is Just--anybody,"Flora smiled and her blue eyes took on that dreamy soft- ness that Vera knew so we "Of course," she recovered herself briskly, "vou realize that Pygmalion has fallen in love with his Galatea?" "That's silly!" Vee-Vee retorted, but flush dyed the cream satin of her Shocks, "Remember--he knew me en / "All the more reason why he'd fall for, Jou now, He made you, didn't e "For advertising purposes," Vee-Vee reminded her, "Are you sure you don't want Jerry Macklyn?" Flora asked softly, "Dead sure. know the man want--and it is not Jerry Macklyn!" "Then, degr, shall we strike a bar- gain?" Flora asked with insinuating sweetness, "You can have Peter Dar- row to practice on if: you'll promise to play a strictly business game with Jer- ry Macklyn, And I" teach you every- thing I know about the art of attract- ing a man and bringing him to the point of Jporping the question, Is it a bargain? ! : "You meg -you want Perry Mack- lyn yourself?" Vee-Vee stepped hack and regarded her aunt with blazing green eyes, "That puts it crudely, hut fairly ac- curately," Flora retorted coolly, "Aunt Flora, I'm--I'm not going to Have you playing with Jerry Macklyn, eliherately leading him on to propose to you, then breaking his heart!" "Who said anything about hreaking his heart?" Flora laughed, but there was a tremble in her voice, "My day is nearly done, Vee-Vee, Yours is just heginning. You'll he marrying and leaving me any day now, though heaven knows I never dreamed hefore tonight that I'd have t worry about that! And I may as well confess that vou made me so desperate tonight that I'd have married poor Peter if hadn't already lost him to you, And | have no intention of spending a lonely old age, If I can get Jerry Macklyn I shall certainly do it and I'll have an excellent chance when you've gone off to Minnetonka to hook your own fish." CHIROPRACTIC Nn E Stockley, Chiropractor and Drugl Therapist, will be in the office, ¥ Sim 'oe street, north every afternoon and Mon day, Wednesday and Friday evenings calls made in town snd surrounding hs trict, uitation is free ot off with thousands of customers has f them the mfety of Lux . . . that there is So mb Laver Beothers Limived Totomo LE pe dan anger. dear Vee-Vee, tha he I no arquis a rules, a every woman or heise , I'm be animous. I'm offering to teach you all the tricks so that Jou n land the man you want, All I'm asking of you in ex- change is that you keep hands off of Jerry Macklyn, and give me a chance. e's certainly old enough to take care of himself, and 1 have n intention of abducting him. You can't accuse me of being crude, darling." Vee-Vee stood for a long minute, trying to steady the chaos of her mind, Every instinct of orderliness and decency shricked at her to aban- don the whole scheme, to seek refuge in th safety and placidity of her old existence, But the clamorous, warring instincts reminded her that she had not been happy, in her life, and warned her t pt 4 the most of this heaven- sent miracle before youth slipped away fram her, taking her flew beauty wit t Vera Cameron squared her shoulders and lifted her chin defiantly. "It's a bargain, Aunt Fira, I'll play fair, And so must you." "Good!" Flora smiled, "I'l phone jerry in the morning and ask him to have Sunday night supper with us. You can't hegin your course in the charm school a minute too soon, if ou're going to he ready for your Schuyler in three weeks, wish you luck, darling." "Thanks, Aunt Flora," Vee-Vee ans- wered rather stiffly, "And won't you wish Flora suggested sweetly. "I' be darned if I do!" Vee-Vee snapped, and had no idea why she was $0 ANgry. me luck?" (To Be Continued) Ld next aw Petar onde flowers ora's apartment t . Vee. Flora begins to LE ervt " her niece. EASTERN APPLES BADLY HIT BY SCAB Ontario and Nova Scotia Suf- fer from Aphis Developed from Rainy Weather (By Canadian Press) Ottawa, Aug. 20.--Early pros- pects for a heavy commercial apple crop have been materially reduced in the Eastern fruit Provinces ow- ing to continued unfavorable wea- ther conditions which have caused the rapid development of scab and insect injuries, according to a crop report issued hy the Dominion Fruit Branch. On the other hand condi- tions have been more favorable in British Columbia since the middle of July when the weather turned warm and having sufficient irriga- tion water the early estimate is ex- pected to be maintained. Although the crop In Nova Secotia, Quebec and Ontario has been reduced, it still 'shows an increase over last year, while British Columbia Is about 20 per cent. less than the heavy crop of 1926. Present pros- pects indicate a commercial crop of 100.5 per cent.., or 2,999,000 bar- rels, compared with 2,984,230 bar- rels in 1926, and 50 per cent. of a five-year average of 3.327.600 bar- rels. The crop is distributed as fol- lows: British Columbia, 1.049.000 barrels: Ontario, £50000; Quebec, 120.000; New Brunswick, 30,000, and Nova Scotia, 1.150000. Excessive moisture in July throughout Ontario resulted in aph- is damage to many varieties of ap- ples, accompanied by scab and side- worm injury. These conditions have caused the commercial estimate to be reduced to £50000 barrels, ~om- pared with 598.700 barrels in 1926. Indications are for the proportion api beiadf ihr Hp hie ih % x | i i ; og i § 3) | : ! rl § OVER CANAL BANK Mr. and Mrs. James Hutch: eson of Toronto Victims at Montreal in Montreal, Aug. 21.--Mr, and Mrs. James L. Hutcheson of 7164 Man- ning Avenue, Toronto, were drown- ed when their automobile swerved and went over the bank into the Soulanges Canal on the Montreal- Toronto Highway this afternoon. The bodies were recovered. It is thought Mrs. Hutcheson, who was driving, had a spell of weak- ness which caused her to lose con- trol of the machine, which ran into the canal, The accident happened at a spot one and a quarter miles west of Cas- cades, and about thirty miles from Montreal, Witnesses stated the Hutcheson automobile was travelling between 16 and 20 miles an hour when it suddenly swerved and went over the edge of the canal, which fs low at that point, and headed straight into the water, Diver Recovers Body Immediately after the accident, A, G. St, Amour, Superintendent of the Soulanges Canal, was notified, and he sent a diver to the scene, The latter first recovered the body of Hutcheson, who had managed to get out of the car, Mrs, Hutcheson was later found, still at the driving wheel of the automobile, The car was salvaged, Identification of the hodies was made, said Mr, St, Armour, by the driving license card that Mrs, Hutcheson had in her purse, while a card was also found upon Hut- cheson, * The bodies were brought to Mon- treal ond an inquest will be held here on Monday. News of the tragedy reached the relatives of James L. Hutcheson last evening, when the Toronto police telephoned J. M., Hctcheson, a brother, residing at 6558 Clinton street. Mr. and Mrs. Hutcheson left on a motor trip two weeks ago last Saturday, and it is presumed by friends in Toronto that they were returning home fom Montreal when the accident occurred. Mr. Hutche- son, who was 65 years old, was Superintendent of the Booth, Coul- ter Copper and Brass Company. He | was born in Milton and is. survived by two sisters, Mrs. H. Moor and Mrs. T, W. Boynton, both of To- ronto, and five brothers, J. M. Hut- cheson, Robert, Charles. and H. F. Hutcheson of Toronto; T., R. Hut- cheson of Lambton and Alex. of Oswego, New York. F Mrs, Hutcheson was born in Folkestone, Eng., and is survived by an aged mother, living in England. Mr, and Mrs, Hutcheson lived very quietly, A NEW SAILING RECORD ------ The two-masted schooner Mary Elizabeth recently arrived at Provi- dence Rhode Island, from Brava, Caneverde Islands, having made the voyage of 8,600 miles in forty days. The remarkable feature of the voy- age, however, was not the time con- sumed but the fact that during the entire passage all her nine sails were set and not once was one lowered or reefed. 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