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} THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1927 PAGE TWELVE p-- TH TePEN 27 by NEA : BEGIN HERE TODAY i VERA CAMERON suddenly re- . alizes the meed to be beautiful secretary to JERRY YN, young advertising manager for the Peach Blowm Cor He proposes to " ler into a beauty with the aid of Sumpany cosmetics ad to was her photographs 'in A first Vera refuses, but her need to attract Schuyler causes her reconsider. She determines to to Minnetonka, where she knows he is ging, and meet this with whom she has so hope- _ lessly fallen in love. Jerry has the beauty specialist vse as a Vera an nl a Sunday sup- t picture which he finds in The picture shows an ish lovely with a hi distinctive bob and green eyes-- : es like Vera's. After the change, 'era is so lovely her aunt FLORA te TWRIGHT, does not recog ' nige her at first. Vera begs Jerry not to use her pictures in the advertising and he says he will do as she wishes if she will give up the trin. She re- 5c him again until the train is about y to leave. He gives her an envelope which she is not to open unless she "gets im a jam." When Vera gets. to Minnetonka Station, she transfers to a bus. There is . m couple in the bus who stare at her as if they recognize her and whisper significantly. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XIII . Because of the unreasoning fear which had gripped her since she had discovered her fellow-passengers in the hotel bus whispering about her and acting as if they were sure they rve- oe Y anne cognized her, Vee-Vee Cameron be- trayed none 'of the delighted surprise with which she caught her first glimpse of Lake Minnetonka and the Minne- tonka Hotel. Her chin was uplifted haughtily and her green eyes were serene, even bored, as the bus swung into the circular drive which led up to the magnificam entrance. The hotel crouched almost on the edge of the big lake. A glass-enclosed pavilion led from one wing of the building to the bathing pier, so that the guests might dress for swimming in the privacy of their own rooms. hotel itself was like an English castle | of Tudor architecture, fashioned of great, rough gray stones, its innumer- able turrets and towers decorated with narrow beams of dark stained wood. Ivy almost covered the walls. Girls and men in canoes and row- boats called to one another across the echoing waters; on the tennis court two men and two girls were playing a swift game, their laughter floating in- vitingly toward the new arrivals. "My home for two weeks!" Vera told herself, tingling with the thrill of adventure. "I have a room with bath reserved for today," Vera said in the aloof voice which covered timidity, when she faced the hotel clerk across the register. The young man smiled as he cocked his head to watch her write her name. "Miss V. V. Cameron? Yes, we have your wire, Miss Cameron. I hope you will enjoy your visit, Miss Cameron. Pretty warm in the city, isn't it? New York is all right in the spring and the fall, but give me the country in the summertime." "Thank you. joy Minnetonka," brie fly. "Show Miss Cameron to room 618, Dick," the affable clerk directed the bellboy. Vera had turned away to follow the boy, when it occurred to her to ask the clerk the closing hours for New York-bound mail. She stepped toward the desk again, but hesitated when she I'm sure I shall en- Vee-Vee answered frome Clean the Bathtub with SNAP, Useit for the nickel taps, and the tile floor, "too. SNAP cleans quickly, easily, thoroughly. SNAP hardware stores 7 ! Sold by grecers, druggists end Oricefes GINGER A Toronto Ly The ERALE Seal isYour Guarantee of Purity Made by O'Keefe's Beverages, Limited; o $5 SECURES YOUR COAT Pay Balance on our Easy Payment Plan The Reputation of This Store Has Stood The Test For Nearly Half a Century. EVERY COAT GUARANTEED THOS. MILLERYE SONS THREE MORE DAYS Monday -- Tuesday -- Wednesday August Fur Sale Dry Goods - Get it at The Arcade Ladies Ready-to-Wear PRINCESS austin\ saw that. the young couple who had so closely observed her in the bus were at the desk, the woman leaning for- ward to whisper confidentially to the clerk, who was listening with amaze- ment. When he raised his eyes, un- doubtedly to stare after Vera, and saw her coming toward him again, he flushed as if he had been caught in an indiscretion. Vee-Vee resisted a strong impulse to run away--anywhere. Instead, she raised her chin haughtily, waited until the embarrassed young couple had e | turned away, then put her question Miss--er--Cameron, if you don't like your room, would prefer a suite, per- haps. I'm sure it could be arranged." Vera wondered why he spoke so eagerly, with almost servile deference. "Thank you. I shall let you know if 1 desire to change," she said coolly. As she followed the boy down the long, richly furnished lobby toward the elevators she felt horribly con- spicuous and alone. When she had tipped him and closed the door of her rcom, she was seized with a violent fit of trembling. She stood clutching the edge of the dressing table, staring at herself with fear-widened green eves. "Why are they watching me like that?" she whispered with cold lips. "Do I look like a thief or--or an im- poster? And" why did that clerk's manner change so toward me? Maybe it's because I look as if I were a mil- lionaire's daughter, as Jerry said. Oh, I'm foolish to worry! Maybe this is just a gossipy sort of summer hotel where everybody speculates on every- body else and tries to find out every- one's business. Well--they won't learn much about Miss V. V. Cameron!" she nodded to her reflection with a wicked little smile. She~ lifted off her hat, hung it in the deep electrically lighted closet, and started off on a tour of inspection of her small domain--her own apart- ment for the next two weeks. It was not a large room, but it was so ex- quisitely decorated and furnished that Vera drew a deep breath of thrilled wonder. In all her repressed, unhappy, penny-pinching life she had never seen a room to compare with it. The walls were covered with a French gray tapestry wall paper. It was a cor- ner room, overlooking the lake. The wide, deep windows were hung With jade green taffeta, looped back to show gauze-thin gold silk inner curtains. "Even if I don't find Schuyler, it will be worth it all to live for two weeks in a hotel like this and a room like this," she told herself happily. She was lifting her heavy suitcase to the little slatted stand to unpack it when a knock came at the door. She opened it to find a porter and a white-uniformed maid outside. "Your trunks have come, Miss, and the housckeeper said she had orders from the office for me to help you unpack," the maid told her, bobbing her head in a quaint bow. Vera was surprised, but the maid would never have guessed it. Was such service included in the room rates, she wondered. Or would she fhave to pay extra--? The porter wheeled the trunks into the room, deposited' them, upright, in the big closet, grunted his thanks for the fifty-cent tip she gave him, and left the maid to her work. "The dining room's open for lunch now, Miss." The maid came out of the closet with her arms full of Vee- Vee's new dresses. "I don't suppose you will want to change for lunch, will you, Miss? They usually don't, not when they come on the noon train. And you look lovely, Miss, if you don't mind me saying so. Vera was wearing the suit which had been her first purchase after her transformation from a plain girl into a beauty. She had saved it for the trip, knowing that she could not find a more appropriate costume for sum- mer traveling. She stopped only to run a comb through the sculptured, flat waves of her hair, and to flirt a powder puff over her cheeks, and to touch up her beautiful mouth with the geranium lip salve which - Peach Bloom's chemist had concocted especi- ally for her. "Yes, Miss, you sure do look beau- tiful," the maid went on, in an admir- ing but deferential voice. "Much prettier than your pictures, if you don't mind me saying so--" "My pictures!" Vee-Vee exclaimed, her voice sounding angry and arrogant in her surprise. "What do you mean?" "There, now! I wasn't to mention a word, Miss, seeing as how you don't want folks to know or you wouldn't be using another name--excuse me, Miss, will you. And don't breathe a word of what I said to the office or the housekeeper, Miss, or I'll be fired sure!" Vera checked the startled stream of questions that tried to force their way out of her suddenly cold lips. Whatever this' mystery was, she cer- tainly could not discuss it with a maid, who would only be getting into trouble if she did talk. One thing was evident, she told herself, as she descended in an ele- vator that carried no other passenger: the young couple in the bus had mis- taken her for some person of impor- tance, had thought they recognized her from printed pictures; had confided their discovery to the hotel clerk, who had immediately accepted their identi- fication of her as authentic. But--who was she supposed to be? Some movie star resting between pic- tures and using her real name for a change? A Broadway actress seeking peace incognito? the dining room, a flash of under- standing illuminated the darkness of her bewilderment. That picture that Jerry had found in Stafford's desk! He had never shown it to her, said he did not have an idea whose picture it was--She remembered Kitty Proc- tor's question about the picture--""Won- der who she is?"--and Jerry's care- less answer, "Oh, some imported movie star, I suppose." He and Kitty had used the pictored face as a model in Then, as she was just stepping into : aristocratic beauty. The pictured girl had had 'the same hair cut exactly; had had green eyes, the same en- chamting unmatched eyebrows. She had gathered that much from Jerry's and Kitty's excited, laughing com- ments. "Who in the world am I?" Vee-Vee asked herself, helplessly, as she was being conducted to a table. Was that what Jerry had warmed her about in his mysterious letter---that she would be mistaken for another girl? And then in an ingtant all conjec- ture was for the moment wiped out of er mind. For she was looking into the elevator--the man with whom she had fallen in love 'at sight, the man who had looked through her as if she were non-existent. 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