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TPE ENN '| kidnappers were caught, "Satan" and I BEGIN HERE TODAY * VERA CAMERON, plain busi- " mess girl, allows herself to be ®ve oF JERRY MA iN, boss, 4d» take DALL, ex-princess, Paris divorce is in hiding. Vera insists upon her true identity but is not believed. She lets matters Vera and Smythe flee in a st car. Smythe confesses his love and insists they. be married at once. Vera tells him the truth .hbout herself, hoping he loves her for herself alone. He is furious, proving himself a for. tune-hunter. They are interrupted two masked men. Vera is kidnapped and taken in an airplane to a shack in the mountains where Vivian's ex-husband awaits them. The kidnappers horrify the prince snd Vera by the announcement that the prince's fee is insufficient and that they will hold Vera for a ransom from the Crandalls. Vera convinces the prince he must hide his fury at the discovery of her real identity, warning him of the dire consequences should the men find she was incapable of bringing a handsome ransom. In New York Jerry is crazed by newspaper reports of what has happened at Minnetonka. His stenographer stuns him with the information she saw Vera that morning and gave her one of the advertising booklets showing her ' pictures Jerry gets a phone call and going to a given address finds the real Vivian Crandall Whom the stenog for Vera. She tells Jerry abest the shack in which her former hus- band was strangely interested (Meantime at the shack Vera so- licits secretly the aid of HAPPY, one of the kidnappers. who hon- estly admires her, to protect her from the amorous advances of the prince. Happy agrees to stay up that night and protect her. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XL Breakfast that Friday morning--the second day after Vera Cameron's ab- duction by Prince Ivan--was a strained unpleasant affair, Vee-Vee had slept very little, She was wretchedly tired, and her head ached dully from lack of sufficient ventilation, Spiritually and mentally she was at the lowest possible ebb, for she knew that today the more ruth- less kidnapper, "Satan," the instigator of the ransom enterprise, would return, possibly victorious, to take her back | to civilization, the Crandalls and cer- tain exposure. The prince, his fat, round little face mottled with sleeplessness and dull anger because he had been thwarted at every turn, refused to eat the break- fast Vee-Vee had cooked over the glowing coals in the fireplace. He had abandoned all pretense of treating her as a princess and the woman he want- ed to win to a reconciliation and re- marriage. His poping blue eyes fol- lowed every moyement she made, mocked her, promised, wordlessly, that he would have his revenge upon her. J "Happy" would certainly have no com- punction about involving the prince as their accomplice, throwing the blame upon him as the instigator of the plot. If, on the other hand, they were suc- cessful, they would probably lock him alone in the cabin, to give themselves time to get safely away, after they had returned the supposed heiress to her parents. They would consider it no part of their duty to arrange a safe conduct for the prince back to civili- zation, In this isolated cabin in the' hills the prince might very easily starve '| to death before a picnic party or a passing inhabitant of the hill country could rescue him. Vee-Vee was moved almost to pity for the scheming little ex-nobleman as '| she. reviewed the hopeless aspects of his problem, If she had been the real heiress, his former wife, he might have had some faint hope that she would have pity on him, secretly arrange his rescue from the cabin after she herself had been safely returned to the bosom of her family, But Ivan was well aware that the girl for whom ransom was even now being demanded was a nobody, that the mistake as to her identity would be discovered as soon as the Crandalls laid eves on her. he could hope for nothing from the girl he had brought to such a pass. Vee-Vee was washing dishes and the prince was playing a sulky game of solitaire when "Happy" made his third reconnoiter from the door of the cabin. He stood there for many min- utes, a hand shading his eyes, which were upturned to search the heavens. arrive by airplane, The prince, glancing up cards, saw the preoccupation of the kidnapper and rose stealthily from his stool. He advanced on tiptoe to the fireplace, wrested from Vee-Vee's hands the frying pan she was washing, and, still on tiptoe, advanced as noise- lessly as a cat toward the kidnapper, whose back was turned to the room, Wild thoughts flitted through the girl's brain, If the prince should suc- ceed in knocking out the kidnapper, the two of them--the prince and she-- would be free. If he failed, if some slight noise or movement warned the kidnapper in time, the prince might very well die before her eyes. And the chances were of course a hundred to one that he would fail, for "Happy" had served a long apprenticeship in| crime; he would not be easily disposed | of by an amateur crook like the prince, | If, on the other hand, he did succeed | in stunning the kidnapper and disarm- ing him, she would have lost her one friend, strange as that friendship was. "Do you see anything, Happy?" she called out in a casual voice, * At her first word the prince stopped dead in his tracks, concealing the tell- tale frying pan behind his back, and the kidnapper turned his head to an- swer her: "Nothing yet." Fifteen minutes later, the kidnapper, still slouching in the open doorway, flung up the hand which nursed the pistol and waved it wildly over his head, "There he is! the next field!" Vee-Vee and the prince both ran to the doorway. thought of trying to escape, it was swallowed up in the terrible drama of the next few minutes. For as Vee- Vee stared over the kidnapper's should- er, the plane, which had been circling under perfect control, suddenly dipped and careened wildly, plunging toward the earth at a sickening rate speed. "My God!" "Happy" cried out hoarsely. "Something's gone wrong. And he's going to land on that hill --in the tree tops--" from his He's going to land in "Happy," was almost as depressed and nervous as his prisoners. He made no secret of the fact that he was expecting his partner in crime at any moment and that he was frightened as to the outcome of the venture which he had opposed from the first. Twice while the sorry farce of breakfast was being played out "Happy" stamped to the door, unbolted it, and stood look- ing out toward the hills. "The more I think of it the less I like this busineds," he muttered to Vee-Vee, after his second unsuccessful search of the heavens. "Maybe Satan has come to the same conclusion," Vee-Vee suggested wear- ily. "I hope so. Don't you think you'd better clear out while you have a chance, Happy? You've been a good friend to me, and I don't want you to have to pay the penalty for Satan's greed." Vee-Vee could only guess at the mental torture which the thwarted prince was experiencing. He was as the kidnappers had pointed out to him, as guilty as they in abducting the sup- posed princess and heiress. If the Before he had finished uttering his prophecy it had been fulfilled. The plane plunged straight for the hill, turning over and over as it whirled downward. Vee-Vee clapped a hand to her eyes to shut out the inevitable horror of the catasrophe, but she could not help hearing the crash, the splin- tering of wood. While she was still tremblingly shielding her eyes there came a terrific explosion, and she knew that "Satan" at least would never trouble her again. During the next minute she scarcely knew what happened, for she was too violently nauseated by the thing that happened on the placid, treacherous bosom of the hill. She heard sobbing curses uttered incoherently by the sur- viving kidnapper. She heard the prince shouting and arguing; she was dimly conscious of a struggle between the two men; heard, faintly, the crack of a pistol shot. Then she knew noth- ing else, for her knees buckled under her, her head struck the corner of a stool drawn up to the wall near the door, and she had fainted. When she regained consciousness she was lying on the lower bunk in the front room of the shack, and Prince Ivan's arms about her, his kisses frenzied and wet on her neck and cheeks. Her hand, feeling as heavy as lead, came up slowly, instinctively, and push- ed with all its power against the fat, dimpled cheek that was pressing against her throat. "Stop!" she moaned, struggling to rise, but the prince's shoulders were pressing against her chest, his hands had seized hers, were gripping them crushingly. As her brain cleared, a dreadful realization of what had happened came to her sharply. "Happy," who had be- friended her, protected her, was gone of course. "Satan" was dead, his plane a twisted mass of burned timber 2nd steel. And she was alone with the prince-- That realization galvanized her slender body, gave her an almost sup- erhuman strength. the prince's breath came panting against her cheek, she managed to free her right hand. A moment later she had drawn from the pocket of her tweed skirt the can opener with which she had had' the foresight to arm her- self the might before. With all her strength she jabbed the sharp point of the instrument into the prince's left "Happy," in fleeing, had not forgo No, | fi Si PRINCESS dnne dustin at | et shoulder, which was still pressed crush- ingly into her chest. i, He sprang up with a howl of rage and pain, his face livid, his hand clap- ped to his injured shoulder. Vee-Vee took instant advantage of her oppor- tunity to slide from the bunk and to run toward the door. The prince gave her scarcely a glance; he was busy tearing off his coat to inspect his wound. : , In that short flight from the bunk to the door she prayed a wild prayer that the door would be open, that she could escape. Her fingers sclawed at the rusty iron hasp of the door, and to her increditable relief it $wenh aah. ten his promise to her. At the risk of his own liberty he had decided not to lock her in the cabin with the prince, until he could make good his own escape. . She was tumbling down the three rotten steps of the cabin when she heard the thud of the prince's feet as he plunged across the floor after her. Reason halted her feet. She reached up, seized the door by its dang- ling padlock hasp, and pulled it shut, just as the prince, from within the cabin, hurled himself against it. Her teeth were chattering with fear but her ngers were as strong as steel as she lifted the padlock over the hasp and snapped the jaws into place. The prince beat upon the door, called wild, incoherent promises and threats to her, but she did not heed them. She was fleeing down the faintly marked path, her feet winged with the joy of freedom, her brain too dazed He was evidently expecting "Satan" to' Want Good Health? "Thanks to 'Fruit-a-tives' I have worked steadily for four years without a sick day. I am 60 years old and never felt better." r. 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Montana and other states are willing to supply the horses at $12 per head, which is considerably lower than the amount now being paid Canadian farmers, The Dekahrist, which will be back here at the beginning of November for her third and last trip of the season will proceed home via the Sund Strait, between Norway and Sweden. and will thus effect a sav- ing of 500 miles on her journey from Canada to Leningrad. LARGE CROP SHOWN IN GRAIN MOVEMENT Winnipea, Man, Sept. 28--The rat- tle of grain wagons over the rural roads of the prairies has hecome al- most continuous and marketing figures are steadily climbiing. Thursday saw the passing of the 2500000 bushel mark at points on the Canadian Paci- fic Railwav, when farmers lodged a total of 2,513,034 bushels of grain in the elevators. 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Shipments by boat amounted to 240,000 bushels, The Canadian National reports, 1,- 584,000 bushels of grain marketed Tuesday in the three prairie provin- Storage When the ing the propelior, ces, and 811 cars unloaded. in country elevators along the system in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Al- berta stand at 3,988,000 bushels. 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