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COPYRIGHT 1927 bY NEA Vera CAMERON, efficient pri- vate secretary for the Peach Bloom Cosmeties Co., ipecte a promotion to fon of secre- tary to the president, Mr. Can. field, and is disappointed to learn that another girl is given the place, When she inquiries why she is ignored, he tells her frankly she is too much of a slave driver for a man as old as he is; that he wants some one with brains but who is also human, However, he tells her she is to be made assistant to the mew advertising manager, JERRY MACKLYN. When Vera reports to Jerry for work the same morning, her morale as a perfect private [ receives a severe jolt, Macklyn asks Vera to write him a confidential report on the use of Peach Bloom Cos. metics, bar®d on her exper. fence, When she has to admit she has chastely refrain®d from everything but cleansing cream and powder he is amazed, He has a sudden in. spiration, He proposes to transform her into a bfauty with the company cosmetics, photograph her in every stage J mirror. Almost without volition she picked up the little silver case and opened it. It was new; the little white wool puff was scarcely colored with the rachel-tinted powder. She rubbed it against the hard cake of powder, then, push- ing her glasses up to her forehead, she dabbed at her tear-stained cheeks swiftly, inexpertly, covering (ne tiny golden freckles, slapping vigorously at her classic nose. he hadn't even noticed her nose! It was agony to think that she would have to go back to her office --his office--to get her hat and coat and handbag, She prayed that his door would be ciosed, or that he would be out. She hur- ried past other girls leaving for lunch, acknowledging their greet- ings only by frigid nods. When she slipped into the office that had heen hers for such a brief time, she was almost overcome with re- nef to find his door swinging open and Jerry Macklyn gone. Maybe he was hunting for her. Well, let him hunt! Thank heaven, she'd aever see him again! He'd never have another chance to insult her! She jerked on her coat, crammed her severe black felt hat upon her head without a thought of the THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1927 PRINCESS dnne Qustin an=le. snatched wo her handbag and black kid gloves, She was breathless when she reached the elevators, A car was just opening its door to discharge nassengers, and she hurried into it, thanking her stars that no other employee of the Peach Bloom Company had boarded it. She had escaped. She would never go back to the hated place again. The elevator stopped at the eighth floor and two passengers entered. And in the short space of time that it took one of those passengers to step across the threshold of the car Vera Cameron had fallen in love, She wondered afterward how there had been any room in her distracted mind and miserable heart for a new sensation--how Oshawa Luggage YOUR INITIAL FRER On Suit Case or Club Bag Saywell & Son BOND ST, WEST of the transformation and use her photograph in the adver. tisements, Vera 1®aves him, her cheeks blazing with anger, CHAPTER III When Vera Carmeron fled from the presence of Jerry Macklyn, new advertising manager of the Peach Bloom Cosmetics Company, and her "boss" since 10 o'clock that morn- ing, she did not know, for the first time in her extremely well-regu- lated young life, where she was going, Her one thought was to hide. She ran zigzaggedly down the long corridor of department heads' offices. 'She had reached the outer door of the president's office without knowing it when she collided with Rosemary Fiteh, com- ing out, a sheaf of papers in her tiny white hands. "Pardon!" Rosemary gasped, recovering her balance with a lit- tle shrill soprano shriek, "Oh, it's you, Miss Cameron Aren't you the lucky thing though? Isn't he adorable? So big and tall--" "Excuse me. I'm in a hurry," Vera told her in a harsh, choked voice, 'I've got to see Mr, Can- field right away--" "Mr. Canfield? Oh, ry," Rosemary fluttered, you can't possibly see him He's in conference. Could I the message?" "No, thank, Vera retorted furiously, swinging on her heel. Then she turned her head to call back sharply, "Yes, you may tell him that I'm through! I resign-- this minute!" "Oh," Vera I'm so sor- "But now. take Rosemary gasped while her eyes grew round and wide with delighted astonishment "Tell me about it--did he--did he get fresh with you? Honest? Oh I wish Mr, Canfield had let me have that job--" "Oh!" Vera moaned, striking the palms of her hands together Hs NEW MARTIN THEATRE One Night Only ite dab Al Mandolin Orchestra of Winnipeg Ukrainian Girls--Sixteen Celebrated Musicians Wed. Aug. 17th COME AND HEAR CANADA'S MOST GIFTED ARTISTS The Program Includes Mandolin Orchestra Selections by World Famous Composers; Choir, Solos, Duets and the Choicest of Russian and Ukrainian Dances. PRICES: CHILDREN 27c--ADULTS 55¢, INCLUDING TAX, sharply. Then she began to run again, toward the haven of the girls' rest room. Rosemary Fitch called after her: "You can see him yourself after lunch, Vera. I wouldn't dare tell Mr. Canfield you're going to quit. And--maybe you'll change your mind!" "She never called me Vera be- fore."" The thought flashed un- bidden into the distracted girl's mind, as she ran, panting, into the rest room. "But just as soon as she thinks a man has got fresh with me she makes an intimate friend out of me. That's all an empty-headed little flapper like Rosemary Fitch can think about-- oh, oh!" She flung herself down upon a couch in the girls' rest room. For- tunately she was alone until the worst of the storn had subsided. She was furtively wiping her eyes and planning dismally to go to the Secretarial Bureau after lunch to seek a new position when three girls came in together, laughing, interrupting each other in an eager exchange of confidences. "And I says, "How do you get that way, Big Boy? There ain't room enough under your sheik tent for me and her, I says--choose between that pint-size vamp and me right now, I says--'" "Yes, sir--three o'clock morning! Am I tired? dearie, absolutely dead, and that pill, Godwin, had the nerve to shove a ten-page sales report at me this morning--" "Only thirty-nine fifty, darling --and the mew Uatou neckline. Wait till the boy friend sees it--"' The three girls lined up at the mirror. Vera Cameron, dabbing at her eyes unnoticed by the eager chatterers, watched them, with bit- ter, resentful eyes, as they deftly applied powder, rouge, lipstick and masacra, preparatory to going out for lunch. A Tiny combs were fished out of envelope handbagr, flashed through bobbed, marcellgd locks; pert little felt hats were adjusted at cocky, eye-catching angles. Just before they flashed out of the room, the three of them bent, as if at a signal and pulled up their mist-sheer chiffon stockings, whose shining lengths were revealed clear to their knee-caps. Business wo- men! Vera shuddered. When the door closed upon them she 'sprang to her feet, wiped the moisture from the lenses of her spectacles, thrust two or three escaping hairpins into the slightly disarranged coromet of her brown braids, them surveyed herself in the mirror with miserable, hat- ing eyes. .e She was turping sharply away, when she saw that one of the girls had left her powder and rouge compact on the shelf below the this Dead, Bread Asparagus Tips Bamby A refreshing, delicious sandwich, quickly and easily made, and correct for i Rolled Asparagus Sandwiches Cut one-fourth inch slices from a rather fresh, moist leaf of white Canada Bread. Remove the crusts and spread the bread slices with softened butter. Dip the asparagus tips, either fresh cooked or canned, in mayonnaise, place one on the edge of each slice of bread and roll into the bread like a jelly roll. Sandwiches are best when made with CANADAGEES READ COMPANY Albert Lee, Manager at Oshawa' every occasion: Butter Mayonnaise Bread. ; she had happened even to notice him. But sre did notce hm, and, magically, her distracted mind and her miserable heart were swept clean of all emotions except one-- an overpowering gladness. So keen was the shock of the discovery that the one man in the world for her stood before her, so close that she could reach out and touch him, that she began to tremble, blood pounded in her ears, and she could not take her eyes off him; in the half ceeded, while downward, then stopped at the sixth floor, her brain had regis- tered, with the accuracy of a pho- tographic plate, every detail of his appearance, Breathtakingly tall and dark and distinguished-looking, as he leaned with unstudied ease upon the slim black cane which he gripped in a gioved hand. Hair as black and smooth and gleaming as a wet seal's, Dark brown eyes, narrowed a bit with boredom or tolerant amusement, as he talked in a low voice with the man who had ente- ed the car with him. A long, nar- row, olive-skinned face, with silky, close-clipped little black mustache. A full-lipped mouth, darkly red, its corners playing at odds with each other, one down-drooping, the other turning upward, as if he were amused against his will, She told herself later, rather scornfully, that of course it was not the fact that he was the handsomest man she had ever een in her life that made her fall instantly in love with him, but an emanation of thrilling, nerve-tingling quality about him that she had never found in a man before-- "Spring makes one eager to get away," he was saying to his com- panion, an entirely neglighle male of forty or so, Vera caught her breath sharply as she heard his voice. It was deep-toned, velvet, enriched a subtle accent which she not identify, "Where you going this sum- mer?" the negligible male inquired. "Oh, the usual thing. I've made reservations for the last half of June at the Minnetonka, A de- cent layout---big lake, magnificent golf course, a fair stable, excellent Jazz orchestra, I'll run up to my camp in Maine a little later, when New York becomes unbearable, if my business permits--"' "Hmm! The Minnetonka!' the negligible one commented admir- ingly, 'There ain't no flies on you, Schuyler, my boy--" Schuyler! He looked it, Vera sighed happily, Then the realiza- tion that the elevator, in spite of its stops at every floor to handle the noon-day rush, was plunging from second to first, galvanized the dream-locked girl into action. Within another second or two he would be walking out of her life forever unless she could stop him somehow, make him aware of her- self as a person, as a girl, a de- sirable girl---a girl who--well, why not?--had fallen in love with him. She had no time for being amazed at herself, to consider. She step- ped toward the front of the car and as she did so she dropped her black leather handbag so that it fell upon the smartly shod foot which rested against the slim, ex- pensive black cane upon which he leaned. . Her heart beat suffocatingly as she turned toward him with a word of apology on her trembling lips. She watched him as he bent his tall, slim body to pick up the bag, felt an almost irresistible de- sire to reach out and touch- the gleaming, smooth cap of his seal- like. hair, had a tremulous smile of thanks ready for him when he should straighten up and hand the bag to her with a bow. Of course she would bow--and look deeply into her eyes with those narrowed quizzical brown eyes of his-- "Oh, thank you!" she stam- mered, started to. smile, then the mouth which Aunt Flora had called adorable and kissable drew" into a tight circle of pain, for the man with whom she had fallen so suddenly and completely in love was looking at her as if she were not there, or as if she were a man. He even looked slightly annoyed as he turned toward his negligible companion and walked out of the elevator with him. Vera Cameron stood in the empty car, unable to move a step. The elevator operator glanced over his shoulder at her--annoyed, too --**All out, miss. Main floor." "I'm going up. I--I forgot something," Vera was startled to hear her voice say almost calmly. But as the elevator Bhot her up- ward again she was praying, over and over, incoherently, "Please God, make Jerry Macklyn be there! Please, God-- make him take me back! The Minnetonka--the last week in June--please, God--" {To Be Continued) Vera decides to play Macklyn's game, She will be a mew girl-- anything, just to be at the Mune- tonka in June, that suc- plunged minute the car could 100 PER CENTERS One of the things that helps you to appreciate the 100 per cent Am- ericanism of the Kilu Kiux Klan is to read of the flogging of an Ala- bama negro who, after he had been whipped, sold 60 acres of land, said to be worth at least $6,000 to a Kian leader for $600. It would not be fair of course, to judge the Klan simply on this story from Birmingham. But it happens that one is mot so limited for evid- ence. The story of the old megro Arthur Hitt, is one of many. Some- times the sceme of the story is mot in the Souh, where megroes are he victims, but in the North, say im Indiana where the Klan gets its 100 per cent through political cor- ruption instead of floggings. Workman says he was promoted in the Ford plant at Detroit the other day He now tightens up bolt A instead of bolt B on the radiator. --Florida Times-Union. personality, al with! "A MILLION BID" AT NEW MARTIN -- Those who have seem Dolores Costello in "The Sea Beast," "When a Man Loves," or "The Third De- gree" will look for great things from her characterization in "A Million Bid" and their expectations will be gratified beyond their most extravagant dreams. Dolores Cos- tello has never had a part more calculated to bring into vivid emo- tional reality the possibilities of her genius. "A Million Bid" opened at the New Martin Theatre last night and will continue tonight and tomorrow night, The story is that of a girl who is sold by her mother to the high- est bidder; freed by a storm at sea from her husband and her mother, and at last married to the young doctor, whose letters her mother had intercepted. When life goes well with the two, the supposedly drowned hus- and comes back. 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