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TEEN IPE of her true identity but is NAN FOSDICK, who it is wu- Sch is to for RS. "BANNISTER, st, go to the eit ows and Vera they will the Cran: That night, Schuyler and iYers go to end of the { Be alone and Vers determines - ~confess to him, He tells Vera of this love for her. Vera puts hid confession and 2nd begt him s him jo tell he his boyhood, Abo | & Aghia Vir he ad if | ihe w love her any less if he ! ' she was a nobody, without "money. A bell-boy appears, sum- { ning Vera to meet two men who 3. Await at the hotel. Schuyler ys he will not let them take her § way, that she must marry him ight, Ww GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXVII How can we get away?" Vee-Vee's h chattered with fear and excite- "Your car is in the hotel gar- y Wh of commission--" Listen!" he commanded sharply. je n along the shore read till you 'come to that little clump of three ches where I got that birch bark ifer you yesterday, Hide among the tgees until you see a car coming. I'll Hi a signal on the horn--one long d one short honk. Understand?" | 2¥But where will you get the car?" ec-Vee protested, seizing his arm as the was starting down the steps. Medien it A the hotel in the ; ning where they can pick it up," | huyler retorted grimly. "I'm not go- JME to let anything stand in my way. I t scoundrel Thurston had my car pered with, and I'll take his car to away in if I can find it. He usually is s it waiting at the rear entrance. Now--run along and be sure it's me before vou run out into the road. Darl- ing! Kiss me, so that I'll know il's real--that we're actually going to he married." "No! We--we must hurry!" While she waited in the shelter of the little clump of hirches near the lake shore road, her heart was beating so fast with excitement that she could | Do not think. She could only pray word- lessly, pray that Schuyler would not Jepudiate her as an imposter Pd a ote hief-- 'oadster which she seconded as a to Thurston, the hotel. man- ager, came suddenly into view around the curve of the road. Vee-Vee crouched behind a tree until the reas- suring signal came--one long hoot of the horn, followed by & short one. She scurried across the road, and was in the. car before it had come to a full stop. "Tot it--Thurston's car!" Schuyler exulted. "I should have taken J closed car if one had been h handy. Fortun- ately for me, Thurston leaves his keys in his car. I warned him once that it was dangerous business, but he laughed at me, said there were no thieves at the Minnetonka. He'll laugh oh the other side of his mouth, until he hears from me in the morning. Do him good to worry a little," he added, with a short laugh that jangled on Vee- -Vee's overwrought nerves. She said nothing, but huddled low in her half of the seat, wrapping the white Spanish shawl about her head and shoulders, to protect the carefully set wave in her copper-colored hair from the menace of the wind. "I believe we're being followed," Schuyler said suddenly, after a pause during which he had ipereased the speed of the car to 40 miles an hour. 00k over your shoulder, darling." Vee-Vee obeyed, "There's a car be- hind us, but of course they may not be following us," she reported, trying to keep panic out of her voice, "I'l lose them, whoever they are," Schuyler promised her grimly. The speedometer climbed from 40 to 45, hung there a moment then wavered drunkenly to Vee-Vee glanced over her shoulder fearfully, as the car swung at a perilous angle in taking the turn from the lake road to the state highway, "I think we've lost them, if they were following us," she cried to Schuy- the hum of the motor. "Where are you taking me?" she asked. "As far as I can drive before nine o'clock in the morning," Schuyler ans- wered, "I'll try to make Connecticut-- easier to get a marriage license in that state than'in New York state." "Schuyler," she began, desperately taking her courage into her hands, "I've got something to tell you. Please slow down! [I can't talk against the noise and the wind. if "Afraid of me?" She could see his smile in the light from the tiny elec- tric globe set in the dashboard. es," she answered, shivering. "Won't you please turn into the first lane that we come to, so that we can talk unobserved? Please, Schuyler! It's vitally important." "If you're going to ask me to take you back to that hotel, where those damned detectives are waiting to take you home, I can tell you now that I won't do it;" Schuyler shouted at her. "I love you and you love me, and noth- A perfect diamond of Adi brilliance ler ahove the whistle of the wind and in Brome nes af 500, $150 75 If you are planning to purchase a diamond ring for yourself, or the engagement ring, or the wedding ring, we invite you to come in and consult us. As an authority on pre- cious stones, your purchase of a diamond from us is your assurance of buying the hest, Our seiection of gtamonds are set in beautiful mountings of the latest designs. FELI' BROS, The Leading Jewelers 12 Simcoe Street South Established 1886 La SPECIAL SERVICE RRR A Special Service has been arranged for the bene: 6t of ow many friends and customers for Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Austin ine is i Song to come between us again. | "Are you } ing to prove that pi a wasteriul ow, man i she laughe want you to take me oY o ---- 2A I want to get as far away as I can, but first 1 have to tell you--the truth. Then, if you still want me, I shall be happy to marry you" ° "Nothing you can tell me can make me change my mind," Schuyler as- sured her, but he slowed the car to 3 bare 15 miles an hour, leaning out t search for a lane turning off the main ro: "There's a farmhouse ahead. See the lights?" Vee-Vee pointed to the right. "There must be a private road leading to it. Yes, here it is, Please turn in." "I fail to see why we should waste time in talk, when it is of such vital importance to get clear away," Schuy- ler grumbled as he obeyed, "See any car down the road?" "No," Vee-Vee shook her head. "There's a car going toward Minne- tonka but none coming from it." "Now what is this terrible truth that you have to tell me?" Schuyler smiled, as he cut off the engine. "I believe," BA ENTERS PAPER PRODUCING FIELD IN CANADA cd Forest Resources and Water Powers of Province Basis of New Development When in 1870 the members of the Red River Expedition under Lord Wolseley had pulled their guns over the last portage of the Dawson trail--around Pine falls--how little they dreamed that on that very site would one day be reared the first per-mill in the Prairie Provinces! Eeorhane the outstanding feature of e first thirteen years of this cen- tury in Canada was the population influx that peopled the prairies and made wheat the barometer of our national prosperity; much as the next thirteen has been featured by the marvellous growth of the pulp and paper industry, For obvious reasons, the eastern provinces first experienced the major development in this vast new forest industry, but it was inevit- able that Manitoba should also come he laughed exultingly, "that my little princess just wants to he kissed. 'I'll bet many a girl has been kissed in this! lane. darling I" "No," Me Vee cried out sharply. "Not--yet, Please! Schuyler--" her hand went to her throat--"I've tried to tell you so many times, but vou wouldn't listen. Tonight, dear, 1 asked you if you wouldn't he glad if the girl you love came to you as poor as you are so that you could work to- gether--" "Do you mean," he interrupted her sharply, "that you've let that damned | prince get hold of all your money? The papers said your father had protected | your money when the marriage settle- ment was made--" "Oh, you make it so hard!" she wail- ed, "I don't know where to begin or how to convince you." She heat upon her breast with a clenched hand--and received the answer, for the crackle of folded paper came to her faintly. Jerry's letter! The letter that explain- ed the whole miserable husiness was tucked away beneath the tight hodice of her evening dress. She pushed aside the folds of the Spanish shawl and! groped for the letter. Her fingers felt icy against the warm flesh of her bo- som. "Have you some idiotic idea of test- ing my love hy telling me that you are poor?" Schuyler demanded in an odd voice. Then he seemed to pull himself together, laughed indulgently. "Darling, I don't give a damn about your pre- cious money. If you've lost 40 mil- lion dollars in four years of being a princess, why, all the better--for me, | mean. I can have the pleasure of showing you how the Hoi of Am- erica hves!" He laughed again, but there seemed to be little genuine plea- sure behind it. "Don't laugh!" she cried out of her pain. "I haven't been trying to tell you that I've lost 40 million dollars, but--" "I knew you were just trying to test me," he laughed with more assurance, "But I don't think you show much trust of the man who has loved you for five years--" "That's just it!" Vee-Vee gried. "You haven't loved me for five years, for you had never seen me. before in your life when I walked into the Min- netonka dining room on Sunday. You did not see me at Palm Beach--" "Are you trying to tell me that you think I made up a fairy story to tickle your vanity and to further my suit with you?" Schuyler Smythe demand- ed violently. Then, as suddenly as it had happened before, his voice chang- ed, became low and rich with Joye: "Oh, my darling! Don't let's quarrel now, just when I have won you. You may think I am a romantic fool to have cherished a dream all these five years, but you can't quarrel with me for that, even if you have forgotten that I danced with you--" "I baven't fd otten, because I was not there. Schuyler, I bave never been in Palm Beach in my life. I was not married to Prince Ivan Polaski--" "Have you gome crazy?" Schuyler demanded, seizing her clenched hands and bending over her. "Eyer since Sunday night I've felt that either I was crazy or that the guests of the Minnetonka were," Vee- Vee told him. "Schuyler, didn't it oc- cur to you that I might be telling the truth when I said that my name was Vera Victoria Cameron?" [It was out at last, and she Fould sink back against the cushions of the car, sobbing with relief as well as fear. "What do you mean?" Schuyler's hands relaxed, allowed her to drag her Cyt udutbadadiuing into her own, for that province is also the habitat of the spruce tree-- two-thirds of her surface is forest land--and on many of her rivers are magnificent water-powers. The de- velopment of these resources will tend to do for that province what the exploitation of similar natural wealth has done and is doing for Eastern Canada. The development of the pulp and paper industry in Manitoba promises to he of great value to settlers by providing a ready market for pulp- wood cut from their holdings dur- ing the process of land clearing op- erations, Further, this important auxiliary source of revenue, as it he- comes available, will enahle the ex- tension of settlement into the re- moter wooded areas, The Pine Falls townsite and the Manitoba Paper Company's mill are Incated on the south bank of the Winnipeg river, a little over its mouth and about 70 miles northeast of Winnipeg, The millsite has heen pronounced one of the finest on the cotinent, while the towsite has been laid out for a population of 4,000 by a town-planning expert, and nothing has heen overlooked that will help fp make Pine Falls a mnd- el town with every modern conveni- ence and service required for priv- ate or communal welfare. The mill itself is compretly built and thor- oughly equipped with every modern device to reduce overhead and in- crease ontont, The terms under which this in- itial paper prnject has been hrought erate in future have heen carefully formulated hv the Honourable Char- | les Stewart, Minister of the Interinr, with the object of conserving the Quebec, Sept. 13.-- The campaign waged by Hon. Mr, Perron against reckless driving on the highways of the Province has brought good re- sults, conditions on the highways be- ing much better than they were at te beginning of the year," stated J. 0. Oulanger, Deputy Minister, to- day, in announcing that 50 licensse had been cancelled in the weeks ending Aug. 29 and Sept. 5. Thirty-three licenses were con- fiscated in the week ending Aug. 29 but the following week establish- ed a season's low record at 17, While no official figures are avail- able as to the number of licenses cancelled so far this year, it is esti- mated the number is now more than 800, but as the figures are gradually decreasing it 1s not expected that Laos. 8 total will go much over CHURCH FINANGES INSOUND POSITION Capital Funds of $1,091,770] Reported By Treasurer of General Synod Wingsioh. Sept. 13.--That the Church of England in Canada is in a sound financial position is shown by the report of the Honorary Treasurer, made public here this evening, which will be presented at the sessions of General Synod during the next few days. The capi tal funds in the hands of the Synod amount to $1,0001770.40, and the gross income received on this amount during the past year was $60,683.38, Some $808,253 of the capital funds of the Synod are lodged in the heneficiary fund to take care of pensions for retired clergymen and for their widows and orphans. Dur- ing the year ending Aug. 31 last $23,046.30 was paid out in super- annuation pensions and $12 452.74 in pensions to widows and orphans of deceased clergymen, New Scheme Proposed In connection with heneficiary funds, the report of a Joint Com- mittee of the General Synod urges immediate steps toward the launch- ing of a beneficiary scheme for the whole Church in Canada, which public interest and at the same time providing an opportunity for the de- velopment of this new industry. Upon the Department of the Interior, into being and by which it will on-| the heavy through the Forest Service, rests responsibility. of safe- guarding and developing the future producing power of the forest lands to which the company must look for its supply of raw material, WELCOME We wish to extend a very hearty welcome to the many visitors who will be visiting the Exhibition in our city of this week, during the latter part Best Wood Value in this City PHONE 262 DIXONS PHONE 540 All fue! orders weighed on City Scales if desired, would he free from the diocesan limitations of the present arrange- ment. The Board of Finance in its report brings up the question of a consoli- dation of the funds of the General Synod and of the Missionary Society of the Church in Canada. An act passed -hy the Legislature of On- tario at its last session authorized the consolidation and the Synod will be asked to pass the necessary canon to put it into effect, Not Against Cadets While in sympathy with any movement to do away with war, the Executive Council of the Synod has refused to condemn cadet corps and the maintenance of officers' training corps in educational institutions, A resolution passed unanimously and contained in the report of the Council which will be presented to the Synod during the coming ses- sion comments as followws on a let- ter received from the National Exe- cutive of the Women's Christian Temperance Union: "We helieve that there are times when it becomes the duty of Chris- tian men to take up arms in defense of the sacred principles of liberty, truth and righteousness, as the Brit- ish Empire did in the late World War. For this season, we regard proper military training as a neces- sity." CANADA'S BEEF (Toronto Star) Somebody is complaining that in some cases Canadian beef is sold in England as "prime English beef." This, it is said, should not be permit- ted. But it is pretty good heef if it can be sold in that way, and perhaps it is hetter to have it so sold than | not. have it sold at all ATTEMPT TO WRECK TRAIN IS FOILED Yarmouth Centre, Sept. 13.--Apply- ing the brakes instantly tonight as the Canadian National passenger tran from Hamilton was passing through Yarmouth Centre at 45 miles an hour, Engineer George Slaughter averted an attempt to wreck his train, saved valu- able rolling stock and his passengers from serious injury. As he was approaching Yarmouth Centre, Engineer Slaughter observed six ties stretched across the track. He applied the brakes, and had slack- ened the speed of the train consider- ably. The engine skidded the ties a- long the track. None of the rolling stock was derailed. Many passengers were shaken up hy the sudden application of the brakes, but none was injured through the jolting of the train, The police are investigating the at- tempt to wreck the train, It is be- lieved that it is the work of boys, FIRE SIREN DEBATED BY WESTON COUNCIL Weston, Sept. 13.--Rescinding of the Weston Council's order that the fire siren be silenced between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. was urged by a deputation appearing before the Council last night. The order that the fire brigade be apprised of fires by telephone and not by the siren during the night hours was issned by the Council about a month ago. Last night R. J. Flynn, former May- or; Dr. Inch, James Gardhouse and W. Shiells declared that the new sys- tem of fire alarm was dangerous, The question was left over until a full meeting of Council and in the in- terval the siren will be silent at night, LL) -ne® «< an't you believe mel? she shrilled at him in ation. "I tell you Im not Vivian Crandall! I have never even seen her in my life, had scarcely heard of her until Sunday when every- i: Sane. on misting me 2 "I don't believe it?" Behwler's yoics ras suddenly shouting in ear. "| tell wv T don't believe it! I'm mot si Nlghy Rgds o It's a great Shane ko dick » Tan yon Me lire with, but it wont work, avian! Just using me as 2 tool to escape those detectives your parents had put on your trail! Well, I'm not 2 man to be trifled with! I'll me 10 ss yo precast roman of Dhani L North Bay, Sept. 13--When attemp- ting to cross the tracks at Cache Bay | Station in front of Canadian Pacific' passenger train No. 2, Louis Copeland of Restigonche, NB, was struck and fatally miured. The train makes no stop at Cache Bay, and whefi Cope- land was seen on the track it was too fate to do anything. 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