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TePENNY; ™ BEGIN E TODAY i CAMERON, uu . $00 fr one by JERRY hE -------- poor girl with no one to pay her ig Be Be TE pd et of tony tT FLORA CARTWRIGHT, Vert's FLoRA NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXXV jad de id TTI THE OSHAWA.DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1927 PRINCESS J dnne Qustin 'Jerry strode to her dressing table; gathered up a handful of jars and bottles and boxes, flung them upon Flora's bed, then stamped into the bathroom to get her a towel. "Here! Swab off that cold cream and daub on some powder, if you just have to act like a fool," he or- dered, drawing up a chair to the bed- side. "I haven't time to waste while look of a woman who is mentally re- viewing her coming into her eyes. "Good Lord, Flora! Think of some- one else for a minute, can't you? My first idea was to notify the Crandalls that it isn't their daugh ter at all that has been kidnapped, but then. it oc- curred to me that when the papers got hold of the news and the kidnappers read it, as we may be sure they would, VeeVee would be at the mercy of a pair of brutes that would think nothing of killing her out of revenge for hav- ing tricked them into committing a useless crime. Is that clear?" '"Yes, even my infantile mind can that obvious truth," Flora smiled AGAINST ALIENS Chinese and Japanese Clash Washington, --Machine Guns Used Sept. 23.--Serious anti-foreign rioting against Japanese and British 1s in progress in Han+ ------ --_-- attempting to arrest labor leaders in the former British concession. Strong barricades are being erect- ed around the French concession. Late reports indicated that the situation has somewhat quieted with the mobs being dispersed, Chinese authorities were describ- ed as taking stringent steps to check the spread of the trouble. tom 80 ave IN JAIL ndianapolis, Sept. 22.--Mayor John J. Duvall of Indianapolis - found guilty tonight by a jury in Criminal Court of charges of vio- lating the Corrupt Practices Aect. The verdict calls for a fine of $1,« 2% and a sentence of 30 days in ail, RADIO SERVICE AND REPAIR WORK Mr. Yates, AM, grasp kow, China, according to reports re- ceived here. In a clash Tuesday night between Chinese and Japanese, in which the Jon pin on the war paint. Now isten!" ith i T, d bewilder- Woy Flora, her face tured as hy from hy 1 yo el By Ne can ar} m as' possible, wiped the cold cream | Jerry dear. After all, she got herself from her face, applied vanishing cream, Jerr this ridiculous scrape--" Jatter ime More caval. added a thick coating of powder, and sd ae : then busied herself with rouge com- er he didu'y, iii sontradieled ties resulted from Chinese soldiers A young colored girl answered Jer- at him. Then her eyes became cloud- ry's insistent ringing at the bell of Flora Cartwright's apartment, the man she falls in "No, sir!" she answered indignantly + SCHUYLER SMYTHE, ignores [when Jerry demanded that she tell Mrs, her. Cartwright of his presence. "She Vera spends her vacation at [ain't up vet, and she won't be for an- because love with, A phone call will bring prompt attention, erry told her, in as Lake Minnetonka because Smythe there, He and other ct mike her for VIVIAN a "rg "ny love and proposes er he " ng he loves her for Sovlf alone, Vera tells him the truth, substan tiating her identity by_ Jerry's let- ter, Smythe is furious, revealing himself definitely as a fortune. hunter, After his violent outburst he is tervified at' the thought that per- haps this is the princess after all and she is trying to outsmart him, a a ---- men stop them and Vera is whisked away by them in , an airplane, She is taken to a ! shack im the mountains where PRINCE IVAN, Vivian's ex-hus- awaits them > Prine learns Vera's true identity, is violently angry but she con- ; vinces him ¢ must play the part, these men will murder them, finding she is not the Crandall heiress but instead a other hour yet. Ain't no use tryi to git her up," she argued. "She" snatch me baldheaded if I woke her up this time of the morning." | "Then I'l do 1," Jerry thundered, pushing past the open-mouthed girl to the door beyond which, as he knew, lay Flora's bedroom. "You come along as chaperone until I get her waked up, if you want to," he grinned at the maid, "Matter of life and death," he elucidated. : "I ain't going in there." shook her head violently, "What a sweet-tempered angel Flora must be in the morning," Jerry chuck- led to himself as he flung open the door. "Wake up, Floral!" If he had not known that the woman in the pretty little painted bed could he none other than Flora Cart- wright, he would not have recognized her, The head that jerked up from the pillow was encased in a tightly- fitted, coarse net cap, to protect the marcel wave in her tinted golden hoh from being mussed against the pillows. A broad chin strap encircled her face like a nun's coif, fighting during the hours of sleep to keep a double chin at bay. "Jerry Macklyn!" Flora shrieked, reaching for the sheet with which to cover her face. She would rather have died than to have Jerry Macklyn or any other man catch her in that pts "Get out of my room instant- yl' "But I tell you, Flora, Vee-Vee has heen kidnapped," Jerrv retorted, anger heginning to rise in his good-natured hreast "I don't give a damn how vou look now--" "Get out and let me fix up my face, Flora pleaded. "I don't care if the The girl " world is coming to an end, T won't talk to you looking like this! Oh!" fast and lipstick, ew words as possible, the story of Vee- Vee's plight. "So that's who Vee-Vee reminded me of," Flora commented, "Funny I never thought of it before, with that Crandall girl's pictures in all the pa- pers. NVhat a glorious time she must have been having, with everyone treat- ing her like a princess and a 40 million dollar Heiress. Some people have all the luck," she mourned, "What a heartless little wretch you are!" Jerry exploded. "Here's your niece kidnapped by two masked men and taken God knows where to be held for ransom, and you have the nerve to envy the girl!" "Dear Jerry!" Flora murmured, turns ing her freshly made-up face to him with a teasing smile on her rouged lips, "Now, child, what are we going to do I wonder if the reporters will want to interview me?" she mused, the faraway DODDS KIDNEY PILLS \ | KIDNEY + Wi | ce 1 own business. "My success depends on "repeat" customers ~--the ones who come back. pe "I've scen the insides of enough automobiles to know how important lubrication and the right fuel is to 2 car. That's why out of all the propositions offered Safety Moror Oils and Gasolencs. "When it comes to lubrication, years of experience have taught me that for safe, smooth running and for first-class iti British American Autolene Oil British American you keeping a car in N the gasolene and oil business you have to know what's what, just like in yous me I chose to Oil Company's can't beat this I've used it myself and I've sold it to thousands. "Autolene is making more steady customers for me every day. "Let me serve you £00." « Oe BRITISH AMERICAN OIL CO. LIMITED Upon the Af of your engine 8 she had no idea--and neither did 1-- Vivian Crandall's portrait. If Stafford hadn't already quit. I'd have him fired | out a caption on it. But there's no use crying over what's heen done. We've got to think of a way out for the poor kid." "You say her name--Vee-Vee't real "Then the people she worked with at Peach Bloom will know, won't they? What's to keep them from running to | the newspapers or the police with the facts, or as much of the truth as they can figure out for themselves?" | "Smart girl!" Jerry conceded grudg- ingly, "I'd already thought of that. It cert: 'nly looks like the cat's out ? |'of the bag, whether we want it to be A fechle plan occurs to me, or not, ; Have you anything to sug- however. gest?" "No. Flora shook her marcelled head, "lf there is any way in the world to, keep the Crandalls believing that Vee-Vee is their daughter, they will of course move heaven and earth to find her, pay any sum to ransom her when the kidnappess make their demands." "But it's plam, rank dishonesty let them pay ransom for a girl we know is not their daughter. We'd be guilty of some sort of crime our- selves, | suppose in keeping silent. But--it's her life against their money, and I'll be damned if I can worry a lot about their money when Vee-Vee's life is at stake. Of course there is an- other angle. I want to protect Vee- Vee from scandal if I can, keep the true story out of the papers--" "You're in love with Vee-Vee, erry?" Flora asked softly, regretfully, bet I am!" Jerry almost shouted at her, "I don't care what she's done or what scandal breaks over her head, I love her and I'll stick by her. One thing I can do, if the worst comes to worst--I can give out interviews to all the papers, telling them how the whole thing happened, and taking the blame on myself. It is my fault," he admitted gloomily. "Have 1 your permission, as her nearest kin, to do anything I think is best?" "Of course, Jerry dear," Flora said softly, laying Jerry's hand against her cheek. "Don't forget, though," she added practically, "that if this thing comes out you'll lose your job with Peach Bloom, and be a marked man in New York--a laughing stock, prob- ably." "I'm not thinking of myself," Jerry told her fiercely. "If you think Vee Vee has a better chance to get away from the kidnappers if they know who she really is, I'll taxi right down to police headquarters and tell the whole story. All I'm thinking of is Vee-Vee." "Let's see," Flora mused, pressing her fingers into her temples. "It is so hard to think before one has had one's coffee. If the kidnappers read the story in the papers, what would their reaction be? They'd be as sore as boiled owls, wouldn't they? All their hard work for nothing! And as guilty of kidnapping as if they'd really made away with an heiress. Same crime, same punishment if caught. Vee-Vee could furnish police with their descriptions. So could Vivian Cran- dall, if they'd been lucky enough to have captured the real heiress. ""But before they turned Vivian loose they would have lots of money to make a getaway, also Vivian's promise not to peach on them. I believe that's the word. But with Vee-Vee it would be a different story. No ransom money, you see, to help them get away. Two men, with a girl in their power, hidden safely away where no one could interfere. A beautiful girl," she em- to she worked out her argument. "They wouldn't dare harm the real Vivian Crandall, but what do you suppose they would do to a penniless imposter whom they had every reason to hate? Mur- der would only be the last act of the tragedy, Jerry." "Oh, Lord!" Jerry groaned, sweat beading his forehead. "I'm going to do the one thing that's left for me to do, Flora. And I won't tell you what it is for fear it won't work. Did you ever try praying, Flora? Well, now's a good time to begin!" On his way to the offices of the Peach Bloom Cosmetics Company Jer- ry Macklyn bought and scanned hast- ily the early editions of the afternoon papers, all of which were devoting their front pages to the sensational story of the Crandall kidnapping. He learned that Prince Ivan Polaski was also missing from his hotel; that police had discovered traces of an airplane's land- ing and taking off in a lonely field near the road where the sedan used by the abductors had been abandoned; that late joyriders had heard the faint roar of an airplane motor far overhead at about the time the supposed Vivian Crandall was being spirited away. There was not 2 word in the pa- pers to indicate that an effort would be made to discover why Vivian Cran- dall had chosen te register at the Min- netonka as Vera Victoria Cameron. The name was accepted as an alias, chosen by the heiress because the ini- tials corresponded with her own. Jerry drew a deep sigh of relief, but he knew that he and Vee-Vee were in the crater of a volcano that might erupt at any minute. He arrived at the office at 10 minutes of nine. Ap- parently no employe had been trying to win promotion by punching the clock ahead of the official nine o'clock open- ing time, for he saw no one, not even an office boy. He was charging up phasized, her blue eyes very keen as]. that I was remodeling her to look like | iio hands clutching his sleeves: "Oh, Jerry! I mean Mr. Macklyn! Who do you think I saw this morning? for keeping a picture in his desk with-| v7 yoo pers? using her name! to And have you seen the pa- That Vivian Crandall has been Oh, I'm just about die, I'm so excited!" (To Be Continued) Jerry Macklyn gets a telephone and down his office when Rosemary Fitch tore open the door and flung i herself mapon her employer, her pretty We name--is in the papers?" Flora mused. communication from the real Vivian | Crandall. Read the next chapter. R.E,, our Service Superintendent, is specially qualified in Radio and it is our desire to give a service unequalled. 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