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~ 927 E TODAY ON, plain but learns Schuyler is a small salaried secretary, a four-flusher and a for- tune-hunter. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXV When Vee-Vee Cameron had fin- ished dressing for dinner that hectic Wednesday she surveyed her reflec- tion in the long mirror of the closet door with complete satisfaction, "If the storm breaks tonight I shall at least he dressed in honor of the occasion, A dress like this would help any girl to bear up under disaster," she smiled, It was Jerry Macklyn, oddly enough, who had designed the costume, Big, red-headed, roughneck Jerry was the fast man in the world to fit the aver- age person's conception of the male designer of women's clothes. But he had insisted stubbornly that his "Gal- atea" should have the dress, had made a clever sketch of it, had sought out J the French dressmaker who could do justice to his ideas, Her clear green eyes, glowing like wels in their setting of copper-tinted hes, laughed with pure. jay in the perfection of the picture. "I know now how Aunt Flora feels posal Vee-Vee smiled. "I want to k my very best when I tell Schuyler Smythe that his Princess Vivian is real- ly Princess Nobody, Then, if he still wants to marry me, nothing else will matter--not even front page exposure. She draped herself in the Spanish shawl which she had bought as a sum- mer evening wrap--thick, soft white silk, heavily embroidered, deeply fringed. Beneath the tight basque of the dress was hidden Jerry's letter, which she had never been without since she had received it, and which she in- tended to show Schuyler Smythe when she made her confession to him, She was about to leave the room when it occurred to her that it might he wise to destroy the clippings which Jerry had sent with the letter, She had 'stuck them away in a drawer of her dressing table, careless. of the maid's prying eyes. But now the un- pleasant thought came to her that if the storm broke that evening her room might be searched. The. clippings would be a link in the chain of evi- dence against her, something concrete to connect her with the strangely miss- ing Princess Vivian, She opened the drawer, searched through the litter of handkerchiefs and cosmetics and discovered that the en- velope was missing. With fear-cold hands she jerked open drawer after drawer, then flew to her desk and searched it thoroughly, but unsuccess- fully. The envelope had undoubtedly been stolen, "Oh, maybe the maid threw it out," she decided at last, impatient of her own fears. When she opened the door to leave the room, a letter which had been stuck between door and casing fluttered to her feet. She stepped back into the room, closed the door and tore open the envelope with nervous haste, he message, on a sheet of the hotel sta- tionery, was scrawled in pencil, the handwriting that of an uneducated TZ TZ A a Oa a A RADIO SERVICE AND REPAIR WORK unequalled, A phone call will bring prompt attention, R.E., our Service Superintendent, is specially qualified in Radio and it is opr desire to give a service heretofore Mr, Yates, AM, 15 Church St, Generator and Starter Co., Lid. Phone 1438 WHITBY arnett's Antique 179 Yonge St., Toronto BRANCH] a Antigue Furniture Sheffield Plate Rare Old China Baxter Prints English Brass WATCH FOR THE SIGN JEDDO--Premiom Coal SOLVAY--COKE The best fuel products that it i possible to putchase. Fill your at present low Summer prices, General Motors Wood Best Wood Value in this City 262 DIXONS 540 All fud orders weighed on City Scales if dusived. PRINCESS dnne Qustin when she dresses to receive a pro-|edg THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1927 Retson, Her eyes darted down the eet: "Dear Princess: I know who yom are and I can sell my information to ties interested. But I won't let on f you will put a hundred dollars in an envelope and leave it under the e of the carpet outside your door, Your well-wisher and friend." "Blackmail!" she whispered. Then she laughed, crushing the shee of paper in her trembling fingers, "A hundred dollars! Your demands are quite modest, my dear well-wisher and friend! I wonder why I hadn't thought of the possibility of blackmail. Prob- ably every servant in the hotel knows that 1 am "h ed to be the Prin, cess Vivian, 1 attempted to bribe them all to silence, as well as the more mercenar of the Minnetonka guests, I should need quite a slice of those fabulous 40 millions I'm sup- osed to possess, Sorry, well-wisher! 'm afraid you're going to be disap- pointed." She tore the foolish letter to tiny bits and dropped them into the" waste- basket. Then, a delicate flush of ex- citement burning in her cheeks, she walked toward the elevators, She dined, as usual, with Schuyler Smythe, chaperoned by the watchful eyes of nearly every guest in the big dining room. They were both nervous, keyed up to the breaking point, but no one, observing them, could have detected it. The man, tall, beautifully groomed, in his impeccable evening clothes, with a white gardenia in his buttonhole, presented a picture of a well-bred gentleman enjoying dinner and conversation with a lady whom he admired .and to whom he deferred raciously. A casual observer would ra said that Vee-Vee was a beauty long accustomed to homage, and not more than superficially interested in her dinner companion. But the man was saying, behind the mask of a pleasant smile: "This is hell, Vee-Vee, . We've got to dodge this moh of self-appointed chaperons some- how. Where can we meet--alone?" "Ignore me as much as you can after dinner and in the ballroom," she said in a low voice, her smile arch as if she were parrying a compliment. "I shall slip away from the dance as near eleven o'clock as possible, and go to the far pier. If we find someone else already there we can take a walk along the lake shore." "All right," he agreed, smiling broadly for the benefit of those who watched. After dinner Vee-Vee was immedi- ately challenged for bridge. It made her blood hoil to see Schuyler ignored, but she accepted almost eagerly. Flora Cartwright, a bridge devotee, had bullied Vee-Vee into learning the game, but she had never enjoyed it tremen- dously. This evening she played so badly that when the game broke up at nine for dancing in the ballroom she owed her opponents more than 40 dollars, a loss which meant far more to her than any of the other three players could have dreamed. Her budget for hotel expenses had not in- cluded heavy losses at bridge. In the ballroom she was easily the most sought-after girl on the floor, For two long hours her supple body swayed to the rhythm of jazz music, played with mad abandon by the orch- estra of six black boys. Cutting in was permitted, and sometimes she had been in four different pairs of arms before a piece was finished. For two long hours she smiled up into eyes alight with admiration. For two interminable hours she parried compliments and questions, evaded top- ics of which Vivian Crandall was no doubt familiar but of which Vera Vic- toria Cameron knew less than noth- ing. She had arranged with a bellboy, by tipping him a dollar, to be paged at ten minutes to eleven. When the boy came darting through the crush of guests on the ballroom floor, droning out his "Telephone for Miss Cameron! Phone for Miss Cameron!" she excused herself to her partner, darted to the chair over which she had draped her Spanish shawl, and slipped out of the door just a few steps away. Since nearly every person in the room was dancing there was no attempt made to follow her, a fact for ich she was almost prayerfully thankful. She sped down the corridor just outside the ballroom, gained, unnoticed the stairs leading to the rear entrance of the hotel. She had pot danced all evening with Schuyler, had not seen him at all since ten o'clock, but she knew he would be waiting for her at the pier. J Summer dew lay heavy on the grass, but she disregarded it, scorning the winding cement paths, as she took the shortest route to the lake. It flay be- fore her, faintly agleam in the starlight. self up to this moment of stolen de- we drinking in, greedily, the love which might be.snatched away from her within 3 Jew minutes. "You de love el' triumphed, in vy. "Say it- s beloved | Bi By By you!" Oh Unattainable star that has fallen into shall 1 Il that?" sh say all that?" she surprised herself by wiggling, "No, wait! Don't kiss me again! must talk to you first--and then --indvhe---you won't want to kiss ain!" She dragged the words out so slowly and in so low a voice that he had to bend low to he Buyin "I'll always want Schuyler said huskily. ; lucky enough for you to want me. Let me talk first, Vivian, excuse, if I can my presumption in daringg to hope that you--you!--a princess and a Cran- dall, will stoop to me." Vee-Vee stepped back, her clasped ainst her heart. "You talk hand! inst she 4 ispered weakly. After er own dreadful ordeal would merely be fplaved--a blessed respite, durin which she could hear the sound of "his voice, feel, perhaps, the clasp of his warm fingers over hers, Then, if the gods were kind, Schuyler would hear her compassionately, understand- ingly, would rejoice that she was a nobody, like himself, not a princess who had been sold into slavery for a title, (To Be Continued) Schuyler tells the story of his life, admitting he is merely a rich man's vetary, and Vee-Vee, about to make own confession, is interrupted. BEING AND DOING AINS OF "TOC H" (Continued from page 7) standing and habitable place when he came out of the semi-circle of unspeak- able mud and suffering shown on mili- tary maps as the Ypres Salient. The Salient has faded as completely from the atlases as the war itself from the minds (it would seem) of some people. But Talbot House remains as a legacy --the only living and beneficient one, it often appears to some of us--of that time and place. It was (as its sign- hoard announced) "Everyman's Club", be he Anglican or Free Churchman, or not particularly either, corps com- mander, private soldier, or even ser- geant-major. A great part of its gos- pel was contained in the phrase paint- ed up within it "All rank abandon, ye who enter here." Unfettered fellow- ship among members of an immense, hard pressed family. of men was its whole aim, and the seal of this its pur- pose was set in the upper room among the rafters, where an old carpenter's bench served day by day as the altar of the Carpenter of Nazareth, It would not be possible, even were space given, to tell the story of all the humor and high-heartedness which reigned in the old Talbot House, or of all that love, human and divine, wrought there in the face of death. "Here indeed is death become crea- tive." Peace came and brought no peace, but many disillusionments and new sufferings and meaner conflicts. Toc H has had no cause, then, to cease from work or to change its pur- pose. On a stage and in an emer- gency no smaller than those of the war, it continues to play its part, ad- mittedly tiny as yet, as light is given to it, The transference of battlefield from Flanders to Canada, and the ex- change of bomb and bayonet for the common struggle of civilian life, have naturally demanded that the new Toc H should find forms of expression out- wardly different from the old. Actually "Eyerymans' Club," as it stood in the strects of Poperinghe (and in minia- ture also for a time in Ypres), is al- ready to be found, pretty closely re- peated in Toronto, Winnipeg and Van- couyer, all the large cities in England, Buenos Aires, Washington, D.C., Auys- tralia, South Africa, and India. These are the first founded of a series of vis- ible houses, each containing a team, a true family of twenty or so young men. But, around these, and far be- yond these, are scattered throughout the world, little groups of like minded men, meeting each other not oftener perhaps than once a fortnight, but very conscious of haying a common name--the members of the branches of Toc H. "All Renk Abandon, Ye Who Enter or members are drawn from ask t st occupations and from every rank in society. In the office and the factory, the parish and the council, they have necessary ranks and titles, but in their spare hours spent in Toc H they have none. They are of all shades of political opinion, and owe allegiance to all kinds of i denomina- you," istian tions; they are asked only to believe loyally according to individual consci- . They are not even all, or more half, "ex-service," for that way diminuendo to mothing- 25 : ] = REEVES § HH £1 | ® iF it sf bf ; r RE =§ i RE .! «fi: 3 Ae i 3 iz fry rie bes " : HEN Ln fee fz i E13 gf i 1 i : f H i} I: 4 : 41 "But T can't believe I'm | C Church and and the cricket fi oy the Regiment, Chapel, the Works an Council and Cabinet offer all the op- portunity any man can need. It is to service e with other men rtnership, not for other men less for- unate, by way of patronage. It is to be service offered to existing bodies, already in the field and hampered by lack of labourers, not the setting up of just one more competitive agency. Teo Create Harmony Above all, the fellowship is to be, with all its endeavor, a Christian Fel- lowship, and the service, without equi- vocation, to be done in the ranks of those who build hopefully at a city of God. Toc H exists to keep alive and ep ng its bers the true spirit of friendship and unselfishness, to be a fellowship of men who wish to do service for others, each in his awn way and according to his opportunity, who meet for inspiration round their Lamp (as a Branch) or Rushlight (as a Group) and thence go forth to ex- press that spirit in their occupations and as their positions aljaw. There is a contagious spirit in Tac H and an increasing sum of things attempted and done sufficient to prove that all this must come true if the human family as a whole would set about it tomor- row. In this temper reunion can come, in its ordered time, but inevitably, ta divided Christendom, and peace, far other than its present travesty, to the tormented world. Toc H is a tiny seed, but it is already above the soil, and who knows how high the tree may reach? 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