text: PAGE 18 wmmipnmcE ss *'i927™ to <tae Austin BEGIN HERE TODAY VERA CAMERON, plain secretary, allows herself to be transformed into a beauty by JERRY MACKLYN, her boss, advertising manager for Peach Bloom Cosmetics Cos. Jerry falls in love with Vera, and his love continues even after he learns she consents to the transformation only because the man she falls in love with. SCHUYLER SMYTHE. In Vera, she spends her vacation at Lake Minnetonka because Smythe is there. He, and other guests, mistake her for VIVIAN CRANDALL, ex-prince, who after a Paris divorce is in hiding. Learning of the supposed Vivian's whereabouts, the Crandalls’ detectives arrive late one night. Smythe and Vera flee in a stolen car. Smythe confesses his love and insists they be married at once. Vera tells him the truth. He is furious, thus revealing himself as an unscrupulous fortune-hunter. Two masked men stop them and Vera is kidnapped and taken by airplane to a shack in the hills where PRINCE IVAN. Vivian’s ex-husband, awaits them. The kidnappers announce they will hold Vera for a ransom from the Crandalls. In New York, Jerry’s stenographer stuns him by announcing she saw Vera that morning. Jerry gets a phone call, and acting on instructions calls on the real Vivian Crandall, who is hiding in the Bronx. She agrees to help find Vera. Meantime, Vera is repulsing advances of the prince. One kidnapper Returning from the city by airplane, crashes on a hill nearby and is killed. The other flees, leaving the prince and Vera alone. She runs from the cabin. Jerry and Vivian arrive as she is leaving. The two girls become instant friends. Vivian surprises Vera with the question: “Would you like to be the Princess Vivian a little while longer. Vee-Vee, for now? GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XLII. Once-Vee stared at Vivian Crandall for one wide-eyed moment, then, with a little cry, she turned to Jerry Macklyn and laid her head on his breast. “Does she mean that I won’t be disgraced, exposed—that you won’t have your career wrecked through my folly?” she asked. “My career? Have you been worrying your darling head about me?” “More than about yourself,” she insisted vehemently. “You tried to save me and I— I read your letter and ignored it. I was planning to deny anything you might say about having anything at all to do with my transformation from an ugly duckling into a copy of Vivian Crandall. “I couldn’t bear for you to suffer from my foolishness—lose you? Job at Peach Bloom, become the laughing stock of the advertising world—” “My, my, how tragic that would be!” Jerry’s laugh boomed out. KIDNEYS GAVE HIM YEARS OF PAIN. Back-ache is all gone now, and he is perfectly well. 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Maybe you’ll find that none of us will become laughing stocks—though it does seem cruel to cheat the public of its amusement." "What did you mean, Miss Crandall?" Vee raised her head and asked humbly. "I’ll do anything I can for you—anything! Though I don’t see how you could need me." "As I said before, you haven’t been the only impersonator," Vivian Crandall smiled. "I’ve been stealing your stuff, as they say on Broadway, without knowing it, just as you impersonated me unconsciously." "If you’re not too dead with fatigue and shock, I’ll tell you the story. It’s rather necessary that you should know something of the truth about me before we have our pleasant little interview with my wicked little prince." "Please tell me," Vee begged. "As I said," Vee begged. Vivian Crandall began, I had had good cause to lose my faith in men and love. And then six months ago that faith was miraculously restored. “I had run away from Prince Ivan, from the chateau that my money maintained on the outskirts of Paris. I knew that a divorce would cause a world-wide scandal, and I had been surfeited with newspaper publicity.” "My disappearance was scarcely noticed by my husband, for his attention was engaged most pleasantly elsewhere and I had not made my absence conspicuous by cutting off his rather huge allowance. "I had always wanted to earn my own living, or to have the soul satisfying experience of trying to do so. I went to London, very much incognito, and enrolled in a secretarial school to learn stenography. "I limited myself to the most meager allowance. I had no plan, really, beyond the blessed present. It was enough to me then to know that I was living as real girls live, that no one who looked at me saw the glitter of gold surrounding me like a halo. "I had not dared hope for love, but— I found it." Her voice dropped so that it was little more than a whisper. "He lived in the same funny, dirty, cold little old house in which I had lodgings." Vivian Crandall went on. "Our acquaintance started as acquaintances do in such houses— I borrowed a card of matches from him to light my gas. "And then, because he looked so forlorn and hungry, I asked him to share my boiled eggs, tea and toast. I found that he was a writer, and that he was making his living— such as it was— by writing on space rates for one of the big London dailies. “In the evenings he was working on a novel into which he was put ting his very hiart and soul, one of those sublime things of truth and beauty and stark realism that pub lishers are afraid of, because they have no ‘popular appeal.’ “He showed me his book, of course. He had been simply starv ing for someone to talk to about It, and I helped him by retyping, on Sommers £ve<-'6 bears a. ?nnxA -moiveu bacX. aaara.rvxee ¥o rebartv vxotxc m&vxevvVvifcvxcaa nvercYvanAxse reaularVu stNWtva io? \essm ofoer swres. g&nw Washington Street at Capitol Avenue the second-hand machine I bought for practice work, the chap ters he had finished. “Os course I fell in love with him that first evening, and he—he says it happened to him then, too,” she confessed, as shyly as a girl. “He used to feel sorry for me, because I had so little money and ate so little,” Vivian went on, her voice low and tender. “I suspected that he frequently went without lunch himself so that he could con tribute more lavishly to our funny little dinners, cooked on the one gas burner in my rooms. “We used to be dreadfully afraid that the landlady would smell cook ing and raise a row, but I suppose most of the other poor devils in that house did the same thing and she winked at it, like the kind-hearted old dear that she was. “Oh, those were happy days!” she cried suddenly. “It’s glorious to be poor and in love and to struggle together! But, of course, it couldn’t last forever, for when he asked me to marry him, I had to tell him that I was married to someone else—a prince!” How bitter her voice was, Vee-Vee thought pityingly. The princess’ eyes flashed a look of intense hatred at the cabin where Prince Ivan was being held a prisoner. “I had to tell him that I was an imposter, that I had won his love under false pretenses,” Vivian went on in a quiet voice, but her hand crushed Vee-Vee’s. “You can imagine the scene that followed, since you have had a rather bitter experience yourself with unmasking,” she added to Vee-Vee. It was her only comment so far on Vee-Vee’s disillusioning affair with Schuyler Smythe. “I confess that I had been guilty of an unworthy doubt as to how he would receive my news that I was a multi-millionaire. “Remember that I had never before met anyone who loved me for myself alone. But his reaction was all that my pride could have hoped, although it came near to breaking my heart. “I told him that I was going to divorce the prince and that I would marry him as soon as that formality had been attended to. He refused, repudiated me as if he hated me.” Her breath came in a sharp gasp, as If she were living again, the shame and grief and remorse of that scene. "I'd like to meet that chap," Jerry commented feelingly. “Oh, you will!” Vivian smiled brilliantly upon him. “You and Vee-Vee are going to meet him this week.” BUSINESS WANTS YOU Prepare definitely and you can go to work at once. For particulars see, write or telephone Fred W. Case, Principal Pennsylvania and Vermont, First Door North V. W. C. A. Indiana polls F°3:r €>€) Penn. T-BONE SUPPER ALL WEEK—ALL DAY Steak, Potatoes, Side Dish, Salad, Butter, Coffee, 4 for $4 Tea or Milk 4 for $4 BROWN’S SO 8. 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No woman ever relinquished a title more gladly. As soon as the divorce was granted I hastened back to London—and found that he had given up his lodgings. “The landlady told me he’d gone to New York and I took the next boat. I found him living in a furnished room in an apartment in the Bronx and for the second time I disappeared.” “So you were in New York all the time—in the Bronx,” Vee-Vee marveled. “Exactly,” Vivian smiled. “Any woman could guess what I did. My parents were very angry with me for having divorced the prince and caused a scandal and I simply walked out of their Park Ave. house, having all my clothes, jewels and everything else of any value. “I found a furnished apartment in the same building where he has a room, though he had not idea that I had discovered his whereabouts. “Before I revealed myself to him I found myself a job as a stenographer, using the name of Virginia Craig. I, suppose it is instinctive to retain one’s initials when seeking an alias,” she smiled. “Oh!” Enlightenment dawned in State Fair Visitors ATTENTION While in the city don’t fail to visit the mammoth Thrift Shoe Store... the one place where the very and most wanted styles are now available. JEWELERS Vee-Vee’s wide, green eyes, then she laughed suddenly, deliciously. “Did you wear braids and spectacles and severe tailor-made suits?” “The braids and spectacles, yes, but not tailor-made suits, Vivian laughed. “Ready-made, cheap little suits, which were all I could afford on my salary of $25 a week. I let Paul Allisoh,” she explained—“discover me, quite by accident apparently.” "He wanted to run away again, but I convinced him that I would follow him to the ends of the earth if he did, putting my wretched mind to some good use, at least." "I imagine," Vee-Vee smiled, "that it did not take a great deal of convincing. He must adore you." "There you are wrong," Vivian retorted. 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He has agreed that if I can stick it out three months he will consider my important proposal of marriage, provided, of course, that I agree to live on his income and forget that I have any money of my own." “Now you can see what it is that I want you to do—what you must do if I am to win the man I love?” “But how could I take your place?” Vee-Vee puzzled. “Your parents would recognize the deception instantly—” “Details can wait.” Vivian sprang to her feet, her face radiant. “Now let’s give my disgusting little princeling the surprise of his life!” (To Be Continued) A Checking Account is a Convenience Your money in a checking account is just as much at your service as if it were in your own pocket. Aetna Trust & Savings Cos. 23 N. Pennsylvania St. REMEMBER THE DIAMONDS HAVE A TRADE-IN VALUE of $21.75 on a larger stone. They also will give you free entrance to our Diamond Club. Pettis Dry Goods Cos. 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