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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1927 Te PENNY PRINCESS #4 BEGIN HERE TODAY VERA CAMERON, i her. She starts to wire Jerry but iders, not i to drag i him into the tangle. Thurston, the hotel manager, comes to her room and asks her to notify her parents of her whereabouts. She again : otates her identity, but is not be- { lieved. She joins Schuyler for golf, : 09 NEA Service J next few hours, before inevitable exposure of her. unintentional im- | posture. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXIV As the day wore on, Vee-Vee began to wonder almost hysterically if Thur- ston, the manager of the Minnetonka, had enlisted the aid of all the hotel guests in keeping her from being alone with Schuyler Smythe. For the two found themselves practically surround- ed by the friends they had both made since their arrival at the hotel. Their golf game became a four- some, withdut the bewildered couple's knowing éxactly how it had happened. There was no opportunity 'for more than a few words between them as they played down the green, a fact which made Schuyler turn childishly sulky. They lunched together, was necessarily little privacy in the crowded hotel dining room. After lunch Schuyler suggested a drive in his car, but when he tried to start the motor he found that it was unaccount- ably 'dead. "It's a plot," he told Vee-Vee in an- gry desperation. "I'll wager that in- terfering ass, Thurston, had one of the chauffeurs put my car out of com- mission. I suppose he thinks I'm going to try to abduct you, and that that will get him'in Dutch with the high and mighty Crandalls. I wish he'd mind his own business." Vee-Vee laughed with pretended gayety, but in her heart she feared that Schuyler was right. Thurston but there wrgy Sor ! 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If he contrived that Vivian Crandall--as he thought Vee-Vee to be--should at last be delivered intact and in good condition to her anxious parents, he would have them everlast- ingly in his gratitude, and the Hotel Minnetonka would benefit accordingly. Undoubtedly he had visions of Cran- dalls: symmering gratefully at the Min- netonka and bringing in their train the very cream .of New York society. Schuyler hired one of the hotel row- boats' and took Vee-Vee out upon ihe lake, but immediately a dozen other boats followed them, them, their occupants calling out gay quips, taunting Schuyler with laughing challenges for a race. "Oh, damn!" Schuyler said in deep disgust as he whirled his boat toward the landing. ""I'm going to see you alone if I have to come up to your room: Though I suppose the house detective would follow me there and throw me out of the hotel. urston would love that!" he added, with a vi- cious stab of his oar into the smiling waters of the lake. "There's still the evening left, a whole evening before anything is like- ly to happen," Vee-Vee consoled her- self, as she and Schuyler walked to- ward the hotel after their comically chaperoned boat ride. "Vee-Vee," Schuyler laid a hand on her arm and detained her as she was about to ascend the steps of the wide front porch. "If they should come for or your parents--promise me that you won't go without letting me talk to you alone. It means life and death to me, Vee-Vee! Promise!" For the first time she realized how harassed he must be, knowing, as he must, that Vivian Crandall was being sought by private detectives hired by her parents. He must be bitter with despair over the fact that the girl he had loved hopelessly for five years was about to be whisked away from him, just when he had almost succeeded in winning her. "Don't worry, dear," she said in a low voice, addressing him with an en- dearment for, the first time, "Thurston has promised me not to interfere, not to notify--the Crandalls. Believe me, dear, when I tell you that Mr. and Mrs. Crandall have absolutely no pow- er over me." She flushed with shame at the sorry way in which she saved herself from a lie even as she evaded the truth. But she saw, to her relief, that Schuyler Smythe was neither surprised nor shocked at her peculiar manner of re- ferring to the people whom he believed to be her parents. She was passing through the lobby on her way to the elevators when a strident, half-masculine, half-feminine voice halted her. She knew the voice well, knew that it was Nan Fosdick's rather terrible mother who was hailing her. "Oh, Lord, what next?" she groaned to herself, but the face which she turned to Mrs. Fosdick was a smilingly polite one. "Want to talk to you, young wo- man," Mrs. Fosdick boomed. "Will you come up to my suite?" "Won't you come to my room?" circled about h she repeated scornfully. 'I'll hand it to him that he picked out a good name while he was about it," she snorted. * "I know Mr. Smythe's original name," Vee-Vee told her serenely. But beneath her arrogant calm her heart Yas poynding with sickening rapidity. hat did this terrible person know against' Schuyler Smythe? "Then I guess you know too that Mr. Shuler B. Smith," Mrs. Fosdick and mighty Crandalls" too much for [SWept on triumphantly, using the name of which Vee-Vee had caught a glimpse when Schuyler had dropped an envel- ope, "is just a penniless fortune-hunt- er that makes a profession of summer vacationing." "Of course I know nothing of the sort," Vee-Vee retorted. "But I fail to see why you insist upon discussing Mr. Smythe's affairs with me." "Because you're being taken in by him, just as my poor Nan was," Mrs. Fosdick panted. "I saw through him right away, but nothing could turn Nan against him. I wired a detective agency in New York to get a line on ym for me and their report arrived today. Do you want to see it?" "No," Vee-Vee said, almost in 2a whisper. "Then you're a bigger fool than I thought you were," Mrs. Fosdick snap- ped. But I'm going to do my duty by you anyway. Your mother will thank me," she added righteously, "Your fas- cinating gentleman is just a secretary. His fashionable East Fifty-Fourth Street address, which he used to im- press everyone with, is not his own ad- dress, but that of his employer, Mr. Arthur Bainbridge. Bainbridge is in Maine at his camp and he gives this young scamp a two weeks' vacation every summer, allowing him to use one of his cars. Pampers the young up- start, makes him think he's as good as his betters," she snorted. "Just a cheap little salaried man, saving his money 11 months of the year to make a splurge in a hotel like this. Makes the rounds of the swell hotels, where he knows he'll meet rich men's daugh- ters--like my Nan and like you. Just a cheap four-flusher, a fortune-hunt- er--' "Mrs. Fosdick, I can't allow you to go on!" Vee-Vee cried vehemently, jumping to her feet. "Have you finish- ed your sandwiches?" she asked with rude significance. When Mrs. Fosdick had made a stutteringly furious exit speech, Vee- Vee flung herself down upon the Chaise longue and burst into a fit of weeping. When the storm had spent itself, she sat up, dabbling at her eyes with a wet ball of handkerchief. "I care! I don't believe he's a fortune- hunter. I'm glad he's poor, just a sec- retary like me. After all, he's commit- ted no crime. What if the poor dear does save all year to go to a swank hotel? Didn't I do the same thing? Of course he likes this kind of life, the kind of people he can meet at a place like this! Who wouldn't? But [I'll kmow tonight beyond the shadow of a doulbit whether it is me that he loves or--40 million dollars." (To Be Continued) Schuyler proposes in the next hapter, still thinking Vee-Vee an heiress and a princess. She decides to tell him. WILSON &LEE MUSIO STORE » 71 Simcoe St. N. Phone 2388 Everything in Music Vee-Vee smiled, with a malicious little emphasis on the last word. Mrs. Fos- dick let pass no opportunity to im- press her wealth upon anyone she came in contact with, Although they were the "only two passengers in the ascending elevator Vee-Vee felt crowded. Mrs. Fosdick was so overwhelmingly big that she seemed to fill the car. She was like a caricature of her daughter. Nan was big, her mother was huge. Nan's aquiline nose became a beak on the older woman's face. Little pig-like black eyes were almost submerged be- tween overhanging black brows and puffy ridges of flesh. As soon as they entered her room, Vee-Vee went to the phone and gave an order for iced tea, iced coffee, sand- | wiches and cakes, to be sent up im- | mediately. "She'll be in a better humor if she) is eating," Vee-Vee told herself with a grin. ; "Now looka here, Vivian Crandall, I've come here to have a frank talk with you," Mrs. Fosdick began omin- ously. "Oh, do let's wait until the iced drinks arrive," Vee-Vee begged, with her most ingratiating smile. "I'm dread- fully warm, aren't you? And a tiny bit hungry. Rowing makes me raven- ous. I've noticed that you take iced coffee, Mrs. Fosdick. Don't you think the coffee is delicious here?" "Nothing to compare with the New Orleans coffee or the Vienna coffee," Mrs. Fosdick contradicted her flatly, but she eased her bulk into the largest chair and relaxed a trifle. Vee-Vee kept her reminiscing about her European travels--or rather, about European food--until the waiter had arrived and departed. When Mrs. Fosdick had consumed three sand- iches and half of her tall glass of SOLVAY--COKE The best fuel products that it is yssible to purchase. Fill your ins at present low Summer prices, General Motors Wood Best Wood Value in this City {ONS AR fuel orders weighed on City Scales if dusired. = 0 PHONE 540 | iced coffee, Vee-Vee permitted her, without further struggle, to open the subject which had brought her there. "Now, Vivian Crandall--" "My name is Vera Cameron, Mrs. Fosdick," Vee-Vee corrected her softly. "Well, whatever you want to call yourself--I suppose it's none of my business--but I feel it my duty to tell you the plain truth about that young man you and my daughter Nan have been making such fools of yourselves over. "Fools?" Vee-Vee repeated gently. "Don't you think, Mrs. Fosdick, that that is rather a strong word to apply to one who is practically a stranger to ou?" "You don't have to rub it in that you and me move in different circles," Mrs. Fosdick boomed, her bosom heaving. "The. Fosdicks are as good as the Crandalls any'day in the week, I'd have you know." "I'm sure they are," Vee-Vee smiled. "But we are not discussing the Cran- dalls, Mrs. Fosdick. But--oh, go on. I'm sure 'you have something to say to me which you consider important, Is 't about Nan, Mrs. Fosdick?" "No, it's not about Nan. that fortune-hunter that calls himse'f I Schuyler Smythe. Schuyler Smythe!" It's about " -- don't, CLOTHES Spic and Span | for Fall! T HE return of cooler days renews activi- ties vacations have inter- rupted. And, of course, the need for clothes 1s emphasized. But rather than buy a new ward- robe, have your clolthes given an added span of life by our Dry Cleaning process. Returned Looking New N A MANNER most pleasing, we renew the original appearance of your clothes. 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