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R---- ! i outwardly at least, of a famous prin- ) 'PAGE TWELVE TREN «2927 4 NEA Service r B JER GIN HERE TODAY Y MACKLYN, Cos- with fi He HH i i ] i f fs J 4 hey 4 i RH vinces the prince, furious at the discovery she is not his ex-wife, they must "play the part." , In New York Jerry finds Vivian Crandall hidi in the Bronx, Agreeing to help find Vera, she guides Jerry to the shack which she vemembers the prince was inter- ested in, They arrive just as Vera is flee- ing from the shack, She tells them how she was left alone with Ivan, after one of the kidnappers was killed before their eyes in an air- plane crash and the other depart- ear, The girls become friends and Vivian proposes to Vera she play Princess Vivian a little longer, Vera consents. Vivian goes to the shack and with a bribe gets the prince's promise to leave the coun- try immediately, Jerry, Vivian and Vera return to the city and go to Vivian's apartment in the Bronx, NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XLI1V Vera Cameron could scarcely take her eyes off Paul Allison, although she had been furtively studying him for most of the two hours that she had known him. He sat at the cleared din- ner table, with his coffee cup before him and a cigaret between his thin, long fingers, talking advertising with Jerry Macklyn. His slight, almost boy- ish figure was dressed in a disheveled, cheap suit of dark blue serge, but it was not his clothes that puzzled and fascinated her; it was his face, For Paul Allison was frankly homely, with his rumpled, thin hair of a nondescript light brown, his deep-set, gray eyes that were too intense, too luminous, as if inner fires were burning him up, his thin, long nose, his pale, thin cheeks. "What is it about him that has so fascinated Vivian Crandall that she is willing to give up social position, a fortune, her parents, everything for love of him?" the girl marveled to her- self. "Why--he's almost ugly! Jerry is handsome beside him. Maybe it's his mind. He must be frightfully cle- ver--" The longer Vee-Vee watched them ~--the beautiful woman who had been a princess and the homely, magnetic man who would not marry her until she had proved that she could make a poor man's wife--the sharper and more hurting was the envy which twisted her heart. She had been through incredible ad- ventures during the six days that had elapsed since she had fared forth into the world as an almost exact duplicate, cess and heiress. In those six days her world had collapsed. Her idol had been shattered, revealing that not only his feet but his heart were of clay. She bad lost love, or, rather, had never found it, and she had looked, naked- eyed and unprepared, upon man's greed and a man's lust. "Ready to talk business now, every- body ?" Vivian asked, after she and Paul had cleated the table of the cof- fee service. Without waiting for spok- en consent, she arranged writing ma- spoke in her clear, cool voice--always cool, except when she addressed Paul Allison : "Paul has consented to my plan, Vee- Vee, largely for your sake, He likes you and wants to spare you all possible unpleasantness, This briefly, is the situation: I am on probation, a self- imposed probation, for three months. If at the end of that time I have not become tired of living like this--" a wave of her beautiful hand indicated the small, cheap apartment--"and think I can be happy to continue to live on a small income, Paul will mar- ry me." Her lovely voice vibrated, and her eyes sought and held her man's for a moment. "Of course, I am ut- terly sure now that I want to marry Paul, but he won't believe me--" "She's making me sound like an ut- ter cad," Paul Allison smiled ruefully, reaching across the table to take Viv- ian's hand. "But I'm sure you two understand. 1 can't marry 40 million dollars and keep my self-respect." "Don't blame you," Jerry applaude: in his big voice, "Do you, Vee-Vee?" "No-0," Vee-Vee answered hesitant- -- ly. Vivian Crandall laughed indulgently, then went on: "In disap pearing I cer- tainly had no'idea that i would cause such a furore. I believed that, as a woman grown, I had a right to live my life as I pleased. But my parents thought otherwise. I suppose, too," she conceded fairly, "that they were really anxious about me, The very rich are always in terror lest their children be kidnapped or get into some awful scrape or other, The rich have no freedom at all, That is the big reason why I shall be glad to be poor. How- ever, that is beside the point, My par- ents asked the help A, detectives to find me. They undoubtedly believe that the resulting newspaper publicity was responsible for my kidnapping, or rather, the kidnapping of the girl they firmly believe was I. The thing can- not be ignored now. They would not rest until they found me, and the po- lice, even if my parents asked them to give up the search, could not do so --unléss | returned, That is the whole point. © Vivian Crandall will have to return to her parents--or appear to do so." She stretched the words sig- nificantly, her eyes pleading with Vera Cameron, "How will you manage it?" Vee-Vee THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY. OCTOBER 4, 1927 Ng/PRINCES % . dnne Qustin punished.' Oh, he will do it very well, never fear! Now, Vee-Vee, I am not so selfish as to ask you to give up the next two months of your life to a vir- tual imprisonment such as will be abso- lutely necessary if we are to get away with the impersonation, without com- pensating you handsomely. Will you accept ten thousand dollars for your services ?" Quick color flamed in Vee-Vee's cheeks. "I don't want you to pay me anything!" she 'protested. "You are doing me a greater favor than I could possibly render you, by saving me from public exposure, "I am also causing you to lose your position with the Peach Bloom Com- pany," Vivian reminded her. "We will not quarrel about the money, That point is settled," she stated firmly. 'Now I will write the letter, and I promise you that it will turn the trick. know my parents' spot of vulnera- bility and I shall not hesitate to stick a javelin in it" Paul, Vee-Vee and Jerry watched her intently as she scribbled hastily, and on every face was a different ex- pression, with one element in common --an almost reverent admiration, "Listen," Vivian commanded, her brilliant eyes sweeping the group when she had finished, " 'Dear Mother and Dad: This will introduce my dear friend, Vera Victoria Cameron, who, as you no doubt have already observed, is my physical double. Miss Cameron has been doubling for me with my full knowledge and at my request. It was she who stayed at the Minne- tonka, she, unfortunately, who was kid- napped by underworld thugs who mis- took her for me. Now I am sending her to you to continue to take my place, so far as the police and the press are concerned. ou can make any explanation you like of my disap- pearance and my kidnapping and my return, or--as I am sure will readily occur to you--you can refuse to make any explanation whatever, thereby say- ing yourselves and me a great deal of hideous publicity. Miss Cameron will be Vivian Crandall until I choose to release her from her duties as my dou- ble, since I am otherwise and very im- portantly engaged. If you refuse to recognize Miss Cameron as your daughter, believe me, dear people, the scandal that will result through my en- forced re-appearance will make this asked, bewildered, "I will send you to them tonight with a letter from me. They cannot donbt that it is really from me, for they will recognize my handwriting. Jts ilegi- | bility makes it appallingly distinctive," Vivian smiled. "The letter will protect you thoroughly, Vee-Vee, will force their acceptance of you as my imper- | sonator." : "But what will your father and mo- ther tell the police and the reporters?" Vee-Vee worried. "Remember . that Schuyler Smythe saw you--or rather me--bheing kidnapped--" "My dear, a man as rich as my fa- ther does not have to explain any- thing," Vivian Crandall told her simp- ly. "I was kidnapped--I have heen re- turned by the kidnappers, or I escaped, or anything else he pleases to say, The papers will have to be content. The police will not dare investigate over his ultimatum, and in face of the indis- putable fact that I am back, safe and sound? "Father will simply say, with a grand gesture, as if that settles everything: 'My daughter has returned, I have nothing further to say. No, I do not wish the kidnappersfi to be found and WHEN USING WILSON S FLY PADS terials on the table before her and 4 rose 7 ad woh. wm Uli "a . refuse to accept it will mean 'misery tI herself into the house in a perfectly kidnapping furore seem like a pleasant little bedtime story. 1 am safe--never safer in my life, or rather, never so safe in my life--and so happy that the gods must envy me. Please believe me when I say that this is the best and only way out of a situation which you, in your mistaken paternal anxi- ety, have brought upon yourselves. To and scandal for all of us. I am more sorry than I can say that I have caused you pain and anxiety, and the disgrace of seeing our sacred name in the head- lines. I am sorry, too, that I cannot explain. To explain would be to ruin my chances for happiness forever. Please accept all this as absolutely fin- al, and with it my love and remorse for having unintentionally' caused you heartache and anxiety. Your daughter, Vivian." "That," said Jerry, cocking a bril- liant blue eye at Vivian reproachfully, "is rather a hard and bitter letter, young woman. I would not say it is calculated to bring a ray of sunshine into your parents' lives, But I think it will turn the trick.. It is certainly amazingly definite, not to say menac- ing." "The Ryfus Worrell Crandalls fear nothing so much as scandal--newspa- per scandal," Vivian replied, her beau- tiful mouth a little cynical. "I had to use the only weapon in my hands, And my mother and father have not been exactly model parents. I love them in spite of pill "Now, how does this child get her- self into your home without being caught in the act?" Jerry veered hast- i y. . "You will take her there in your car, leaving her at a corner about two blocks from the house. She will let matter-of-fact way, The rest is en- tircly. on the knees of the gods. You will drive straight to your own apart- ment and await a telephone call from Vee-Vee there, a call which she will make only if my parents refuse to ac- cept her as Vivian Crandall. You will then get in touch with me and I will go to her assistance immediately. And I will stand by her through anything that can conceivably happen as a 're- sult of her effort to help me. Does that satisfy you, Jerry Macklyn?" and she smiled at him so adorably that Vee- Vee felt again that little pang of ut- terly unreasonable jealousy. (To Be Continued) Does Vivian's plan succeed ? Read what happens to Vee-Vee in the mext ASKING DELEGATES 10 ARRIVE EARLY Making Arrangements for Conservative Trains to Speed Up Otiawa, Oct, 4 --Delegates to the Conservative convention are urged to reach Winnipeg mot later than Sunday evening, October 9. "It is essential that all delegates reach Winnipeg the day before the meeting opens," headquarters of the mational organization committee stated. "The convention opens at 11 o'clock on the morning of Oct. 10, but unless delegates arrive in sufficient time to register and secure their badges they will be unable to be present at the beginning of pro- ceedings. "Intimation has been received that several special trains plan to reach Winnipeg on the morning of October 10; but the committee is endeavoring to have these trains \ [NAN SURRENDERS IN'NURDER CASE Brantford Girls Death is Still a Mys Brantford, Oct. 4.--George Dun- can, in whose motor car Margaret Ferguson Brash, of Plattsville, was found dead, appeared before Magis- trate Blake charged with vagraney and was remanded for a week. No evidence was offered and Duncan has not yet obtained counsel, | The tongue and other portions of the body of Miss Brash have been taken by a Provineial officer to the! Provincial anayst at Toronto for examination, The relationship of the woman to | Duncan has not yet been clearly de-, fined. Duncan was formefly a mem- ber of the Brantford Police Force but lately has been living in Tor- onto, IS NAMED DIRECTOR COMERCIAL CORPS Chester Payne Promoted in! Government's Trade i Organization Ottawa, Oct. 4.--Chester H, Payne | has heen appointed director of the! Commercial Intelligence Service of the Depariment of Trade and Com- merce, it was announced here, Mr. Payne became secretary of the ser- vice in 1921 and has heen closely associated with its expansion, which has placed trade commissioners for Canada in all parts of the world. The new director is a bachelor of arts from McGill and in 1908 he represented the Ottawa Free Press in the Parliamentary Press Gallery. He was private secreiary to Sir Richard Cartwright, Minister of Trade apd Commerce ,and later to Sir George Foster. As secretary to Sir George Foster he attended the economic conference of the Allies in 1916 and the Peace Conference in 1919, Mr. Payne was secretary of the Canadian delegation at the League of Nations in 1920. He served overseas with the Canadian Machine Gun Corps. MOTHER TELLS | HOW BABY DIED Says Husband Struck Her While Holding Infant | Toronto, Oct, 4.-- "He shaked me while I was holding the baby in my arms," Mrs. Mary Maskewyz, a Po- lish woman, told the police in a vol- untary statement concerning the death of her baby, for which she and her hushand face a murder charge. She was referring to her husband. 4 "As he was shaking me, I felt like fainting; the baby got very sick in my arms," she continued. "I took the baby and wanted to hand it over to him, saying the baby was dying. He took it and I went out for a doctor." She brought the doctor after her husband had struck her, Mrs. Mas- keweyz . said. She did nol see whether the baby itself was struck or not. The police allege that Maskeweyz struck the baby during the quarrel. The infant died in its father's arms while the doctor was being sought by its mother. IND NOT REQUEST WOMEN SENATORS Edmonion, Alta, Oct. 4.--Magis- trate Emily Murphy, of Edmonton, interviewed concerning 4 report that she had memorialized the Fed- eral Government asking for the ad- mission of women to the Senate of Canada, said this was not the case. She, with four other Alberta women as interested persons, had address- ed a letter last August to His Ex- cellency the Governor-Gemeral, re- questing him, pursuant to Section 60. CA 139 of the Supreme Court Act, to submit to the Supreme Court of Canada for their hearing, com- sideration, and adjudication, certain constitutional questions relating to this subject. . Mrs. Murphy said the questions were short and there were only two. The first asks if power is vested in the Governor-General-in-Council of Canada, or the Parliament of Canada, or either of them to ap- arrive earlier" EYESIGHT SPECIALIST. Bifocsly - -- miles and finches one reading heeh th a2 1516 1510 Disney Hock Post Othe WHY TAKE THIS RISK o Explosion Wrecks 'RHouse in Rosedale Phone 788-789 Killing 3 of Family us. Parents in the Basement of Their Home Cleaning Cur tains With Gasoline When Devastating Blast Occurs. FINE NEW BUILDING TOTALLY DEMOLISHED Four Other Members of the Household and Two Do- mestics Are Severely In- jured, But Will Recover. Gasoline used in an electric wash- ing machine in the basement of the home of Charles R. House, of 179 Douglas Drive, Rosedale, caused a devastating explosion on Saturday afternoon, which reduced a splendid twelve-roomed 'solid brick house to an unsightly debris of twisted steel, broken pieces of timber, bricks and mangled furniture, and took toll of three lives. -- Mail and Empire, Parker's DYE WORKS Are equipped to handle safely all kinds of -- Oct, 3. Cleaning and Dyeing pp point a female to the Senate of Canada, The second asks if it is consti- sutionally possible for the Parlia- merit of Canada under the provisions of the British North America Act, or otherwise, to make provision for the appointment of a woman to the Senate of Canada. Refuses Comment Mrs, Murphy refused to make any comment whatsoever about the mat- ter other than to say the communi- cation had been acknowledged and its due consideration assured, The signers to this petition were | Nellie L. 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