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|Now Go ON WITH THE STORY ' CHAPTER XXVIII > Vee-Vee's heart leaped in her breast, but it was with fear and not with joy. Then nausea rose in her throat, so that she had to lay her icy fingers against it. This couldn't be Schuyler shouting, at her, snarling at her, the music gone from his voice, his eyes darting gleams. of hatred at her. I BEGIN HERE TODAY 1% JERRY MACKLYN, advertising Cosmetics x : with "Read this letter, Schuyler," she! = Joy fale in ve Yer gd. She Lanted to sal him, "Mr 1 : » mith," to hurt him with scorn, but peveists even after learns again her pride forbade. "It will ex- | plain everything and I--I hope it will convince you." a who ignores y He xi : glared at her, his mouth, beneath her gue te Miinnatonia for the little silky moustache, twisted inta this ¥ SCHUYLER SMYTHE, |2" ugly line; then he snatched the stiff will be th s other sheets of Jerry's letter from her hand ee there, Sm. for the ex. |and held them under the dashboard Fpanests XN N RANDALL, |light, bending over to read. a aT Panis. divorce, in J, Kuce Brushed hers, and she a shrank farther away from him, but she {hiding bet parents and ex- could not tear her eyes away from his hw * face. An hour ago those lips had pressed down upon hers and she had almost swooned with delight. Now the very thought of his mouth upon hers brought disgust. Why hadn't she seen before that it was a cruel, selfish mouth? She studied his face as if she had never seen it before. It was terrible to feel the scales falling from her eyes, to feel love and passion draining out of her heart and body, like blood spurting out of an opened vein. "Why," she marvelled to herself, "he is not fit to touch the paper that Jer- ry's letter is written on," She wanted to snatch the letter from his hands. He was making low, animal sounds of bewilderment and fury as he read, but she did not listen, Nothing he could say now seemed important to her, just so he would let her go when she had convinced him that she was not the prize he had been so sure of bagging, "So you're just a cheap little crook!" He raised his eyes from the letter and looked her up and down with searing contempt. "Thought you'd rope in a rich hushand--" "Hush!" she cried, raising her clenched fists as if %o strike him. "I never claimed to be Vivian Crandall, did 1? 1 depied it every time 1 was addressed as Vivian Crandall or Prin- cess Vivian, I insisted that my name was not Vivian Crandall, but Vera Vera tries to convince people of Jat we identity bit, § io nat | de: ie: gy Schuyler ve with the girl thinks she is, Vee-Vee puts urther confession from her, She ~Adearns Jewry unknowingly used "the Crandall heieress' picture in ve- 'ashioning her and he begs her in a letter not to pose as the heir: ue should she be mistaken for er, NAN FOSDICK, whom it is ru- + 'moved Schuyler is engaged to for her money, begs Vera to leave the hotel, saying Schuyler loved her until Vera came. Nan's mother warns Vera that Schuyler is only ia secretary, 'a four-flusher and fortune-hunter, Vera determines _ to tell Schuyler the truth but puts off confession when he tells her of his love. A bell-boy appears {and summons Vera to meet two men 'who await her at the hotel. . Schuyler says he will not let them take her away. He steals a car, and they leave. Vera tells him she is not Vivian Crandall... He angrily asks her if she is crazy betrays himself by his emo- tion, Then he recovers and tells (her it is just a scheme to ditch him, that he will keep her until _ she'll be glad to marry him. - memes | Cameron! 1 forced you to listen to me tonight before 1 would marry you--" She was sobbing in her anger, and that made her more angry. i "Oh, yes, you were clever, all right! I'll have to hand it to you!" the man she had loved sneered at her, "You weren't taking any chances on going, to jail for illegally impersonating an- | other woman, but made damned sure that nobody would take you seriously | when you said you were Vera Cam- eron. Sank your hooks into me the minute you got here, came between me and the girl I would have mar-, ried--" He was plunging on recklessly, making no slightest effort to save his own face. Vee-Vee, listening to him in mounting horror, knew that he no longer considered her worth such an effort. "You admit then that you are a fortune-hunter, that you had intend- ed to take Nan Fosdick's million until I came along with 40 millions, as you thought?" Her voice was a whiplash of scorn. "I admit nothing. I don't have to admit anything to you!" he lashed at I Radio Electric 15 Prince St, Phone 2477 S. COWELL, Prop. Beach Ranges Hurley Washers Estimate given nn wiring jobs, Radio parts and sets in stock, Fell line of fixtures in stock. BOYS' SCHOOL SUITS | At Special Prices | C. W. DETENBECK KING ST. EAST -- her, "You'll have to admit, Mr. Shuler B. Smith, "that I told you of my own free will and accord that I was not Vivian Crandall, that I insisted upon convincing you" "Yes, when I told you the truth about my own financial condition," he jeered, his mouth twisting hideously. "I wasn't big enough game for you. You had to talk fast or I'd have mar- ried you! Good God! 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Vee-Vee asked, | with stinging sarcasm, "Well, Mr. | Smith--you see, I know your real. name; have known it from the first | day; have known also that you were | only asecretary--like myself--that you saved money all year for this splurge. And yet," her voice changed in spite of herself. "I loved you anyway, was r, like yourself-- y, I wouldn't elieve it when Nan and Mrs, Fos- dick told me you were a society hang- er-on, a fourflusher, a fortune-hunter. 1 had fallen in love with you at sight, came here because you were here--" "Yes, after you'd had your accom- plice to remodel you into an exact copy of Vivian Crandall," the man cut in violently. "By heaven, you're both guilty of a crime, and I'm going to see that you are punished, you and this Jerry What's-his-name of yours--" He lunged forward to hold the letter under the light again, to find the name that had hardly registered in his quick | reading. commanded him harshly. Give it to me, I say!" She struggled with him for the crackling sheets, suc- When she had them at last, she leaned far over the 'side of the car, tearing them into tiny bits, flinging them away on the brisk night breeze. "Now," she panted, facing him de- fiantly, her green eyes blazing in the S-- Johns Piano Store: 80 Simcoe St, N, For Sale by Phone 851 "I guess you'll have to go back to the Minnetonka, Vee-Vee. These must be the detectives--" ! "Do detectives wear masks on their "Give me that letter[" Vee-Vee! faces?" Vee-Vee asked calmly as two from the lamps "You're not | men sprang out of the car that block- fit to touch it or to say his name, | 88 their path and came striding toward em, the light of urston's car glinting on the barrels ceeded in tearing them from his hands. of their drawn pistols, (To Be Continued) Not detectives, but kidnappers, have been on Vee-Vee's trail. next chapter, Read the dark like an angry cat's, "what are you going to do, Mr, Smith?" "I'm going to take you hack to the Minnetonka and turn you over to the detectives who are waiting for youn," he told her roughly. "Fine!" she applauded sarcastically. "And won't your friends enjoy the story? The elegant Mr. Schuyler JUST ARRIVED at 78c each 500 Popular Fiction HENDERSONS Book Store Smythe, who ditched a devoted million- airess for a penny princess--Oh, you'll be popular at the Minnetonka for the rest of your two weeks' vacation, Mr. Smith! Of course," she pretended to consider thoughtfully, "they might not helieve your story. They might chuckle and say that Vivian Crandall had simply outsmarted another fortune- hunter--" She left the sentence in the air, a smile tugging at the dimple in the left corner of her mouth. | The man jerked up his head and| stared at her, at first incredulously, | then with horror--horror of himself, | of his own stupidity. He gulped,| clawed at his collar with trembling | fingers, closed his eyes and shook his | head as if to dispel some frightful yi- sion. Vee-Vee watched him with ma- licious amusement, behind which lay pain and shame for her own shattered dream. "Vivian," Schuyler Smythe began brokenly, reaching out a shaking hand, yuuney gin to her, you're cruel, hut, God, you're clever! And I fell into the trap. Poor fool that I am! You said--just now-- that you had fallen in love with me at sight, that you had been glad that I was poor. Can you ever forgive me? Vivian! Vee-Vee, you heartless little darling--" I "Don't be a fool," she commanded him sharply, the smile wiped from: her mouth by disgust. "You've played the fool once too often tonight as it is," she added cryptically. J She had made up her mind in a twinkling to save herself at any cost. If he was stupid enough to believe that Jerry's letter had been a hoax, per- petrated for the testing of his love,' she would make use of his stupidity and egotism to get out of the trap into which she had stepped so inno- cently. Believing her to be Vivian Crandall, or at least in doubt of her identity, he would do anything she told him to, humbly, hoping to re-establish himself in her good graces. | "I should have known that no other girl in the world could be as beauti- ' ful as you are," he said with dejected humbleness. "I was lying when I said I would have married Nan--" he began, with shameful eagerness. i "I doubt if you know when you are telling the truth, you lie so maturally," she said with quiet scorn. "Now, I have one request to make to you. Take, me to the nearest town and let me out of the car. I will get in touch with ' my people in New York, arrange for them to come for me. I refuse to go back to Minnetonka with you and sub- mit to the impertinent questioning of those detectives. I suppose," she con- cluded, in the insolent manner that she believed Princéss Vivian would wear | under the circumstances, "that your dear little Nan put them on my trail. It is unbelievable that she would go to such pains to land you!" | "Vivian!" His voice was charged with wistful protest. "Can't you for- give me? I simply lost my head when I thought that someone had been im- personating you, stealing the love I have cherished for you for five long "I've heard quite enough of dose) five long years," she interrupted brisk- ly. "Drive on, . And when you! return to the Minnetonka I advise you to say mothing of this interesting little excursion of ours. Now take me to the nearest town and drop me at a hotel," she con imperiously. "I can't leave you at the mercy of strangers, without baggage and dressed like that." he pleaded miserably, cast- ing a long glance of humble appeal at r His misery left her entirely unmoved. "You will do exactly as I say," she spoke as if to a servant. [ have money in my vanity case, if that is worrying you. I shall be quite comfortable until my--people can come from New York, bringing suitable clothes for me. Now, drive on!" "My people?" she said to herself, that mocking little smile dimn'ng the corner of her mouth. "Jerry Macklyn! Dear Jerrn!™ The 'car had cone less than 2 mile on the state highway toward the near- est town when another car was sud- denly upon them, had swerved across fr nr blockine their passage. Schuyler Smythe gritted an oath as i EE a ire he jammed on the brakes, Kieetrie and Sapplies A. G. BROOMFIELD Hantseries, Hepmire Ant Acressories (whawn Battery Servier w7 Ring %1. W. Phone 1184 omelriy EYESIGHT SPECIALIST. New comfort for the eyes. 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He does, however, re- cognize that life insurance is the test kind of a business proposition for him in the conservetion of his estate, He does not think in terms of personal comfort or protection #8 regards tho necessities or even the luxuries of life, He thinks of the protection to his estate just as a gre~t corporation in 'takin~ aut fire insurance thinks of protecting its buildings and machinery; it is Just good business. The human element does not en- ter into.it. If the mortality amonn rorporations and businesses is so great, the mortality among great fortunes is equally 80. Men of freat fortunes are coming to real- ize that life insurance is just as necessary to the protection of thelr rrtate ng is fire insurance on prop- erty values, THE UNEXPECTED HAPPENS The recent deaths of two promin- ent men, J. Ogden Armonr, of Chi- eagn, and John Drew, the famous actor, tell a rather strange story, The great Armour fortune met with heavy raoverses. so that at the end Mr. Armeur felt that %e had Yeen a failure, At one time the Armonr fortune was estimated at fram S150.600.000 to $200,000.000. At h's death one newspaper stated that b's nerson~l resonrres webe nny 220.000. although others claim that his personal assets ware proh- more. John Drew left only 20 0"0 after a brilliant and success- ful stage career, Theee incidents but point tn the tha nnreertainties of an enterprise ~ondueted bv a ginerle man or man- Tife insvrance has the hig advantage of rooline not only the mortality evnerionre nf the hn- hut jnvestments pa well. thora is nothin more ge- ally rament man .prare, After all, En than 1'%p 'ngrrance. When ~wnnt fartnnes ihe that of the Ar- mane hones dwindla tp almost no-! ing. 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