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' PAGE TWELVE TENN BEGIN HERE TODAY | VERA CAMERON, ON, plain busi- mess gi bossy by JERR into a JERRY TMACKLYN, advertisi rg ek her her vacation at Lake Minnetonka : because Smythe is ing he will love her anyway, he is furious, revealing himself to her as ! a fortune-hunter. ".. Two masked men iduap Vera from the car and take her by air- plane to a shack in the hills where the prince awaits them. The kid- mappers doublecross the prince and announce they will hold them for a ransom from the Crandalls. Vera convinces the prince, furious at the discovery she is not his wife, they must "play the part." In answer to a mysterious phone call, Jerry Macklyn finds Vivian Crandall hiding in the Bronx. She offers to help him find Vera and together they start 'out for the shack which Vivian r bers the prince was interested in. Mean- time at the shack one of the kid- mnappers, returning from New York by airplane, is killed and the other flees, leaving Vera and Ivan alone. Vera flees. As she leaves the ca- bin she is stopped by Vivian and Jerry. The girls become friends. Vivian begs Vera to be the prin- cess Vivian a little longer, ex- plaining she is in love with a poor man who will not marry her unless she demonstrates she can live on a modest income. She wants Vera to impersonate her so she can fin- ish her three months' probation unmolested by her parents. NOW GO.ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XLIII When Jerry Macklyn threw open the door the prince was discovered in fight- ing pose, with a stool raised aloft to strike the invader, whoever it might att adba die BB Be a BB . w "Don't be ridiculous, Ivan," Vivian . Crandall called over Jerry's shoulder. "Drop that stool and than sit on it. But I don't believe I asked you to drop your jaw also. You might look a little glad to see me, since you made such elaborate plans to insure my visit." Jerry chuckled and stood aside to fet her pass. He stood with Vee-Vee, just inside the door, while Vivian Cran- dall took her former husband firmly (in hand. "What? No welcome, Ivan?" Her voice was cool, contemptuous, amused. The prince had dropped the stool, cbediently, and stood staring at her, his pale blue eyes almost popping from his head, his cheeks dyed crimson. "Well, what are you going to do? How did you get here?" he asked at ast. "My dear Ivan, I am a very charit- able and long-suffering woman, as you have good cause to know," Vivian Crandall answered him coolly. "I have come to get you out of a most embarrassing situation--for my own sake, not for yours. I dislike intense- ly being laughed at, and if the world knew that my divorced -husband had succeeded in abducting me ang hold- ing me prisoner for two days in a shockingly primitive little cabin like this, I am afraid I should never be able to live it down. I don't seem to remember you as enjoying jokes at your expense, either," she mused, her eyes narrowing as she studied him. "What the devil does this mean, Vivian?" Ivan demanded. "Ivan!" Vivian chided him mock- ingly. Her tone changed abruptly, be- came hard and brisk. "How did you get here? By car?" "Yes," he answered surlily. "Unless those damned kidnappers stole it, it's parked behind the cabin." "Will you see if the car is still there, THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1927 Mv, Macklyn?" Vivian asked. While Jerry was away on his er- rand, Vee-Vee slipped into the back room and began to pack her suitcase, after a word as to her intentions to Vivian Crandall. She heard Jerry return, could distinguish his words as he told the ex-princess that the car had not been taken. "That is very:good," Vivian Crandall feplied. "Now, Ivan you are at lib- erty to return to New York as fast as that car can take vou. I think, how- ever, that you will find the climate does not agree with you, and that you will be very glad to take the next boat to Paris." "I haven't any money," the prince slurted out. "You never have any money," Vivi- an reminded him mockingly. "I should dislike to think of you as hungry, since 'von do so enjoy eating, so if you will be a very discreet little prince I feel sure that you will find a fairly re- spectable sum of money waiting for you at my attorney's in Paris. Will twenty-five: thousand dollars tide you ove, until you can land another heir- ess The prince gasped like a drowning man who sees a lifeboat thrown to him; then cupidity gleamed in his popping blue eyes. "That's a ridicu- lous $um for the story that I can tell to the New York press," he began. "Story?" Vivian's voice and face ex- pressed intense surprise. "My dear Ivan, did T wrong you when I said pou disliked to be laughed at? Of tourse if you insist on making your- self ridiculous, on telling how you kid- napped your "divorced wife and tried unsuccessfully to compromise her into a re-marriage with you, you can do so, of course. The yellow journals might conceivably pay vou five thous- and dollars for the thriller." The prince wilted under® her scorn and her logic, but there was a stub- born gleam in his eyes as he demand- ed: "What kind of cock and bull story are you going to tell? You haven't been here with me. Where have you been?" "Ivan when I divorced you in Paris a few weeks ago, you lost all your rights to hold me accountable for any of my thoughts or actions, Vivian Crandall reminded him serenely. "You also lost all claim upon my fortune. But--I don't believe I shall miss twen- ty thousand dollars--" "You said 25 thousand!" "Did I?" she smiled. "I'm afraid I was too generous. On second--or rather third thought--you will find 15 thousand dollars waiting for vou at my attorney's in Paris, on condition that vou leave immediately and say nothing to anyone about what has 'happened in this cabin. And every time you make an objection the sum will he five thousand less." "All right," the prince agreed so hastily that Jerry Macklyn burst into a rear of uncontrolable mirth. "Now don't let us keep you, Ivan" Vivian said with sweet courtesy. "I am sure you are eager to be on your wav--to Paris. My friends and I are going to have a very good lunch out of vour cupboard. I shall cook it my- self." Within 15 minutes the roar of an automobile motor told the three in the cabin that the prince was indeed eager to be on his way--to Paris. "All T regret is," Jerry Macklyn mourned, "that I didn't have a chance to spank him." When the early luncheon was fin- ished, the two girls, who looked so strangely alike and vet were so dif- ferent, cleaned house quickly but scrupulously, and Jerry made a thor- ough job o fextinguishing the fire in the fireplace. "We'll leave these canned goods in the cupboard." Vivian decided. "Some hungry wayfarer may find them and have his faith in the Biblical ravens restored. And now we'd better hurry. There's no telling what Paul will do if he gets home from work this after- noon and finds me gone. He has heen urging me to tell my parents where I am, to relieve them of suspense. Of course he knows that it wasn't I who was kidnapped from the Minnetonka, and the quixotic darling. may think it's up to him to go to the police or to my parents with the story." Vee-Vee paused in her work of folding up sheets and turned a look of such utter fear and consternation upon Vivian that the heiress took pity upon her and reassured her: "I don't have the least idea, really, that he'll INSIDE Keep a Home Supply EDISON MAZDA FROSTED LAMPS A CANADIAN GENERAL ELECTRIC PRODUCT ) PRINCESS Y dnne Qustin meddle, Vee-Vee dear. But I'm na- turally anxious to get back to him as quickly as possible. He always has dinner with me in my apartment, and if he comeg home and finds me away he will be worried, to say the least." It was only 11 o'clock when they closed the door of the cabin and struck off across the meadow to where Jerry's car awaited them in the little- used road. 'I'd like to spend the rest of the day picnicking," Vivian sighed regretfully when she had taken her place in the front seat of the car. "You sit here, too, Vee-Vee. If the police are really conducting the eagle-eyed search for me that the papers are giving them credit, they'll never dream of looking for me in an innocent picnic party. But to make sure, I'll pin on my braids and get out my spectacles. Mr. Macklyn bought a pair for you, too, as well as a motoring veil. I think we shall be safe enough." A When the two girls had put on their "disguises" they looked at each other and laughed like a couple of children playing make-believe. To complete the illusion, and because each of them had cause to be happy and immensely re- lieved of worry, the three sang popu: lar songs as the car speeded down the highway toward New York. They made no effort to escape attention, in- vited it rather. Vivian seemed to take a childish, irresponsible delight in waving at passing motorists and at the occasional motorcycle policeman whom they passed. Jerry, for his part, took care not to exceed the speed limit, so that his own greeting of traffic police- men was jovously unconcerned. Most of their route to New York lay along the Hudson, on a road that was sometimes congested with traffic. But not once were they' accosted. It was not quite five o'clock when Jerry swung into the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, and headed the car to- ward the street where Vivian Cran- dall, heiress to 40 million dollars, was living in a four-room furnished flat under the name of Virginia Craig. "Paul rarely gets home before five, sometimes not until six," Vivian told them, "Let me out at the corner of 180th street, Jerrv--" for she was call- ing him by his first name at his re- quest--*"and I'll buy provisions for din- ner. Paul doesn't drop in until he thinks the meal is about ready. I've told him it makes me nervous to have him hanging around while I cook. Oh, by the way, can you lend me a dollar, Jerry? Tomorrow's payday, and I've spent almost my last cent. Heavens! I hope I haven't lost my job by being absent today! I telephoned my boss I was sick," she explained to Vee-Vee. "I'l buy the grub," Jerry grinned. "I'm hungry as a wolf and I don't want' any penny-pinching housewife trying to put me off with one little lamb chop and a few leaves of lettuce. You two girls scoot in now and trust Jerry to provide the makings for a real meal. I know all the shops 'in this neighbourhood, and I bet some of them will remember me, too. They- 've got good cause to," he chuckled reminiscently. i "I hope," said Vivian Crandall, the two girls mounted the stairs to Vivian's apartment, "that Jerry's 'real meal' will prove a pacifying one, for everything now depends on Paul. And Paul," her voice was tender but a little rueful, "is a very masterful man. He may refuse to let me go on with r y plan--and I have good cause to know that when Paul says 'no, he means 'no.' (To Be Continued) Will Paul retract from his stubborn stand? Will Vivian Crandall find the happiness she has missed for so long? THREE KILLED WHEN HOUSE IS WRECKED (Continued from page 10) horhood. Residents rushed oui, heard the screams of the children in the ruins, and surged to the scene. Phone calls were put in for police ytmbulances' fr firemen. The fire- fighters extinguished the flames, drenched the ruins, and started the search for the missing baby--a search that continued until 8.45 o'clock at night, when the body was recovered under wreckage on the east side of the basement. Firemen and police patrolled the ruins all night. and throughout yes- terday. Yesterday morning Fire Marshal Heaton and an investigator arrived on the scene and started & prelimi- nary investigation. First the wreckage was dug up. The washing machine and an empty five-gallon gasoline can were found. Then Victqr, one of the surviving children, was interviewed to deter- mine what light he could shed on the tragedy. The Probable Explanation Mr. Heaton stated that as a result of. this inquiry he was certain that the fire had started from the ex- plosion of gasoline being used by Mr. and Mrs. House in dleaning curtains in the southeast room of the basement It had been deter- mined, he said, that in the half- hour before the accident th®ee fiye- gallon cans of gasoline had, been taken into the residence. It was bhe- lieved, he said, that the washing machine was filled with gasoline and that the clothes were being rinsed in this. The fumes spread through the basement, and in some fashion were ignited. The spark or flame that set off the fumes might possibly have come from a gas heater that was said to have been burning. It was also said that there was some smouldering material in ti furnace that also might have provided the spark for the explosion. "This" said Mr. Heaton, "is the worst case in my experience. Peo- ple have been warned continnally acainst the practice. of cleaning fron gasoline, At the Canadian' Na- as tional Exhxibition we distributed many handbills on this. There is less of this cleaning going on in the cities than in the country because in the cities t is pretty well check- ed up. There is much of it in the country. People have been warned, but it takes something like this to teach the lesson." Bridge Work Delays Firemen One phase of the case which has aroused Rosedale residents to the point of bitter complaints is the sit- uation created by the construction work on the North Rosedale bridge. Firefighters getting into the district have no longer the oppor- tunity of running through South: Rosedale and across the bridge, but must cut down and run through the second Rosedale ravine or circle around to the north and down the Maclennan Avenue hill, "The situation is appalling," Miss A. James, a maid in a home near the scene of the tragedy stated. "I will never forget what has happen- ed here. Yet there is still danger. "I was working upstairs when I heard the explosion a thunderous roar. I rushed to the door. The' screams of children caught in the flames were terrible. The firemen | could not get across through Rose- dale, but had to come round about. I have no blame for them, But something should be done. In every house in' this neighborhood there; are four or five cildren, What can the maids do if fire breaks out, trapping these children in the up- per rooms? And how can the firemen reach us in time?" Other residents of the district ex- pressed a similar opinion. No Delay, Say Firemen Members of the fire brigade de- nied there was any delay in getting to the scene. The fir8t alarm, a tel- ephone call, was received at 'the operating room at 3.10. This was followed by a call from ¢he box at Schofield and Maclennan Avenues at 3.12 p.m These calls were fol- lowed by other calls by telephone. First sections arriving were from Balmoral Hall. These trucks went north on Yonge from the hall to St, Clair avenue, east to Macleanan av- enue, down the hill to St. Andrew's Gardens and across to Douglas Drive. Sections from Yorkville Hall came in from Roxborough Drive, down the ravine into North Rose- dale. Trucks from Rose Avenue came over the first Sherbourne street bridge to Roxborough Street and through the ravine. Firemen estimated it took them four minutes, at the most, in geiting | there from Balmoral Hall, While admitting sections from Rose and Yorkville Halls might have taken a little longer time owing to the sec- ond Glen Road bridge being closed. they feel satisfied they could not have done any more ihan they did. Aerial trucks did not attempt to | go down the ravine, they went by a death toll of three lives in the disaster, the Coroner's inquiry will be conducted into the death of Baby Jean. There are many phases of this .case to be probed, the Coroner sta- ted last night, and much evidence to be secured. Yesterday parents of Mr. House arrived in Toronto from Niagara Falls, Ont., and with other relatives living in Toronto made arrange- ments to take care of the four chil- dren C. R. House, victim of the ex- plosion, was the Secretary of the Canadian Mausoleums, Ltd. He had res'ded on Douglas Drive for almost two years. Children Tell Story Not knowing of the death of their parents and baby sister, Victor, Adrienne and Joan House smiled through the pain of bruises and burns yesterday morning. They had not been told of the tragedy. The explosion seemed to them a most startling adventure. And with childlike expressions they (told interviewers of what had hap- pened in the few moments of de- vastation on Saturday afternoon. The two girls were at the home of neighbors but a few doors from the scene of the disaster. They had been put to bed early Saturday. They slept peacefully, and were up early yesterday morning. Adrienne, the elder, came out on the lawn in the misty early morn- ing. Her lips tightened, her eyes glistened as she looked down the street at the wreckage, Then Joan with hands bandaged, ran out af- ter her. "Remember, you were told to stay in," warned . Adrienne. And then they both ran back to the honse. What They Remembered There, later, these youngsters stated what they remembered of (the accident. "I was on the stairs," said Joan. "All at once they started acting funny. I don't know anything more Somebody took me out the lawn." "I was near the stairs," said Adrienne. 'Then there was a bang. Everything started to shake. The stairs fell down. Then I jump- ed and a man caught me." Victor seemed still suffering from shock hours after the accident Slowly he told of having crawled out over the roof from the garage and dropper to safety. Questioned he stated that three cans of gaso- line had been taken into the house / before the accident. ---- PHONE 705 | Kelly's Drug Store | 34 King St. W. Prompt Delivery | Ek - | way of Yonge, St. Clair and down the Maclennan Avenue hill, An aer- jal had arrived from Balmoral Ha.l with the first hose trucks. A gas-| oline wagon carrying a supply ot | gasoline with which to feed the | pumping engines broke down in the ravine, This, Fire Deapriment offi-, cials asserted, did not hinder the firemen, as there was sufficient supply in the tanks of tlre engine | trucks to keep the pumps going. Firemen of Balmoral Hall said the front of the house was out, two walls had fallen in and the Touse razed to the street level when they threw down their hose lines. In all, five lines of hose, the water press- ure increased by one of the gasoline pumps, sent powerful streams of water into the blazing rufns. A call for help was sent in by Dis- trict Chief Jones, which brought extra men. For a time it looked as though Mr. Ross's home, next door would be burned to the ground. Chief Russell, Deputy Chief Dun- can MacLean and District Chief Alex Gunn directed the men. While firefighters fought the flimes, oth- ers formed searching paities, mak- ing their way about the burning building in search of the missing baby. Many minutes had nt elapsed before the flames had been drench- ed out, Firemen with shovels start- ed in the cenre of the ruins to clear debris away to find the child's body. As the evening grew dark powerful electric lamps on stands were put into service. These were secured from the Transportation Commission. District Chief Gunn was left in charge of the men in the evening. The men by this time were working in groups of four. Baby's Bod) Discovered Against the centre of the east wall of the house Fireman Price sighted the body of Baby Jean. It was buried in the wreckage. The left leg had been burned off at the hip® and the right leg was off to the knee. The child's face was noi burned. Under the direction of the District Chief firemen gathered around and the remains were wrap- ned in a rubber coat and carried to a motor car. Ald. Hunt drove a po- lice constble who had taken charge of the body to the city Morgue. Firemen who spent several hours searching ruins said there was no fire in the furnace. There were some pieces of coal that had not been, burned. A theory as to the cause | of the explosion and fire advanced | by them was a combination of gas- oline' and illuminating gas. This theory was advanced when" they | learned of the suddenness of the| explosion; 'and fire, together with the manner in which the house was! wrecked. 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