Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 78, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 August 1927 — Page 16

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BEGIN HEBE TODAY VERA CAMERON, private secretary, consents to let JERRf MACKLYN advertising manager ot the Peach Bloom Cosmetics Company transform her into a beauty after she falls instantly in love with a man who ignores her. Jerry effects the transformation through the use of the company cosmetics and proposes to use her photographs in advertisbookie beauty specialist *o refashion her, using as a model a portrait of a beautiful woman whom he supposes to be a movie actress. Vera, sometimes called Vee-Vee. is so amazingly pretty after metamorphosis that Jerry falls in love with her. Vera is going to Lake Minnetonka to spend her vacation because the manA with whom she is in love is to be there? At the hotel, at Minnetonka, Vera is mistaken for someone else and is treated with deference and awe. BCHUYLER SMYTHE, with whom Vera is in love, assures her that he met her five years ago in Palm Beach. Vera attempts to convince people of her true identity, but being unsuccessful decides to let matters run their course. Schuyler tells her of his love for her and she realizes he is in love with the girl he thm NOW GO ON WITH THE STOBY CHAPTER XVIII nr - ] CHUYLER SMYTHE bent Q hastily to pick up the letter 1 | which had fluttered out of his pocketbook. When he raised his head his cheeks were dark with color, and Vee-Vee averted her eyes hastily. If she pretended that she had not seen the name on the envelope he could not be sure that she had. “Mr. Schuler B. Smith”—those were the words her eyes had picked up mechanically. She had not meant to pry. Maybe the letter was not his—but there was too much similarity in the name to make coincidence seem reasonable. Smith —Smythe. Os course he—he who looked so distinguished had hated the plebeian name of Smith. What harm in his changing it to the more romantic version—Smythe? But—Shuler into Schuyler. Well, why not? she asked herself angrily. What did a name matter anyway? “Now you know,” he told her, almost doggedly, and for a moment she thought he was referring to his changed name. “Now you know why I “presumed.” “Can you wonder that I thought God had answered a poor, romantic fool’s prayers when I looked up from my luncheon and saw you today? For five years I’ve followed your amazing career—” Here reawakened curiosity seized upon the word —career. Was this other girl, the girl whom she so strangely resembled, an actress? But he had said she was rich. Os course an actress might be rich “—loving you all the time, collecting pictures of you. Why, Vee-Vee,

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I have a scrapbook full of you and your social triumphs and—and your wedding.” His voice dragged on the word, as if it hurt him, and his mobile mouth twisted downward with pain. “God! How I hated that man they made you marry! Auctioned off for a title—you!” “Stop! You mustn’t say anything else!” Vee-Vee cried, hardly knowing why she stopped him. If she let him talk on she Would discover who it was that they all mistook her for; the mystery would be solved. And, of course, she wanted it to be solved—But did she? If she said to him, at last, because she could not let him deceive himself any longer, “I am just an ordinary stenographer. I have never been married. You have seen me only once before in your life and you didn’t pay me the tribute of a second glance, because I was a homely, bespectacled, old-fashioned girl. “My name is really Vera Victoria Cameron. There is no romance and mystery about me. I am not the girl you have loved for five years,” it would be over, over! “I’ll stop, but I won’t say I’m sorry,” Schuyler Smythe said stubbornly. “I had to tell you. I’ll leave Minnetonka tomorrow if you tell me to, but you can’t send me so far away that I will stop loving you. Shall I go?” “I think we’re both crazy, I for listening to you and you for telling me such an impossible story,” VeeVee said almost severely. “I came here to escape myself, everything, not to—to—” Her voice broke, as if she were about to burst into tears. But the real reason was that she could not go on with the first deliberate lie she had ever told. Every moment she was putting frank confession farther out of reach—- “ Shall I go, take myself away where I can’t remind you of the past?” Schuyler demanded tensely, his eyes burning into hers, his mouth twisting with pain. Vee-Vee drew in a sharp breath, laughed shakily. “I—l have no past, Schuyler Smythe. Only the present —and the future.”

“You darling, you adorable thing!” he exulted huskily, his hands going so quickly to her shoulders that she did not have time to evade them. His face was almost touching hers, is breath hot and eager upon her face. “No, no! Not—yet!” Vee-Vee gasped, throwing her head backward so that her pretty hat was crushed against the seat of the car. “Remember, Schuyler Smythe, I haven’t been—carrying—your picture—for five years!” It was beastly of her voice to betray her like that, to come in little gusty gasps over her parted lips. “I’ll wait!” he decided, wrenching himself away from her, his hands going back to the steering* wheel. “If only that little gossip of a Mrs. Bannister doesn’t let the cat out of the bag, get word to New York that you are here—” "What would happen?” “They’d come for you, of course! You know that! They say he’s looking for you, vows to get you back. But you won’t sell yourself into that slavery again, will you?” he demanded fiercely. “No,” Vee-Vee answered quite truthfully. “I’ll never go back to—him.” Suddenly the game seemed thrilling in its dangerousness. Wouldn’t the girls at the office gasp if they could see her now? “I think i’d like my tea,” Vee-Vee said demurely. “Would you, you darling?” Schuyler Smythe laughed, his voice ringing out exultantly. “Then you shall have It, and anything else in God’s world that I can give you. “Do you think you know a lot 'about being loved and wooed, my princess? Well, I’ll prove to you that you don’t! I’m going to woo you you as you’ve never been wooed before!” Out of the great cornucopia of wisdom which her Aunt Flora had heaped up for her to use in this game of husband-getting a pearl rolled out now, rattled around In Vee-Vee’s mind, until she seized upon it: “Make him think you are unattainable, that you have had so many sweethearts, so many propo-

sals that his cannot interest you. But don’t be too convincing!” So Vee-Vee said, a smile tugging at thfe dimple in the corner of her adorable mouth, glinting in the clear emerald of her eyes: “I shall never fall in love again!” That was true, too, she told her conscience, for she never expected to love anyone but the man beside her. When they reached Snyder’s roadhouse on the far side of the lake, they found Mr. and Mrs. Bannister rather impatiently awaiting them and bored with each other. Mrs. Bannister pounced upon them, her eyes alight with the insatiable curiosity and suspicion of the inveterate gossip. “You two must have got lost,” she crowed. “We’ve been drinking pot after pot of tea. The cinnamon toast here is really divine, Miss— Cameron,” she turned upon VeeVee, hesitating as usual upon the name, suggestively. “I declare, I have to catch myself every time. It’s such a temptation to call you Vivian. After all, I am lots older than you, though everyone says I don’t look a day over twenty-five.” Vivian! The name rang a bell in Vee-Vee’s mind, but thp memory it evoked was too faint for her to catch. So the other girl—the girl whom Schuyler Smythe had been in love with for five years, the girl who had been sold by her family to a titled foreigner, the girl whom she herself resembled as if she were that girl’s twin sister—was named Vivian. That accounted for the similarity of initials, at lest for the sameness of the first initial. And Mrs. Bannister had eyed the tiny “V. C.” upon her luggage before she had jumped to the conclusion that VeeVee was this'other girl. Vivian C. Was the “C” the initial of that other girl’s maiden name or her married name? Oh, it was all a silly puzzle and she had no time to solve it now.

“I’d rather you did not call me Vivian—for obvious reasons. While I am here that is not my name,” Vee-Vee answered evasively. “My name—” and she was glad to be telling the truth, though it dad not sound like the truth—“is Vera Vivtoria Cameron. My friends call me Vee-Vee,” she added. “How cute!” Mrs. Bannister gushed. “My first name is Rita. I’d adore having you call me tbt. Cinnamon toast and tea for you, too, Schuyler?” she asxda c^ v , “Or will you have the same kind of tea that this terrible John of mine has been drinking!” “Ceylon for me—and cinnamon toasfci” Schuyler told her, frowning slightly. It was 7 o’clock when they arrived at the hotel, Schuyler’s car decorously leading the way. The two couples had kept within hailing distance of each other during the hour’s drive after tea, an arrangement insisted upon by Vee-Vee, and acquiesced in rather sulkily by Schuyler. “But I suppose you’re right,” he admitted grudgingly. “That gushing little gossip will have us the talk of the hotel if we don’t take care. And that would be dangerous. “Any departing guest could carry the story to New York and cause a frightful row. I’m not /eady to have your mother or father pounce on us just yet. "No one dresses for dinner here on Sunday night,” Schuyler told her, as he assisted her to alight from the car. “Don’t run away. We can talk in the sun parlor. No one will be there now.” His voice was pleading, and his hand would not release hers. “The dining room closes at 8. There won’t be much time.” “I want to freshen up a bit,” VeeVee told him. “I’ll be down at half past seven. You sit at Miss Fosdick’s table, don’t you?” she added. “Not any more!” Schuyler retorted ardently, but she thought she detected a shade of fear or uneasiness darkening the glow in his brown eyes. When Vera reached her own room, she tossed her hat to the bed, then flew to the mirror to search her newly flawless complexion to see if the warm June sun had brought out pale ghosts of her old freckles. She could have sobbed with relief

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when she saw that, except for a faint flush of excitement her cheeks were still as white and smooth as satin-skinned gardenias. “I mustn’t take any chances,” she breathed as she smeared her flushed cheeks with cleansing cream to remove the light dusting of pearltinted powder, preparatory to “making up” afresh. She was rummaging in the drawer for absorbent tissue paper when her Angers encountered Jerry’s mysterious letter which he had hurried to the station to give her as she left to seek her fortune. She drew it out, weighed it thoughtfully in her hands, held it up to the light and saw the indistinct outlines of a picture. So she had guessed right. Jerry’s fears for her had centered around her amazing likeness to the woman from whose printed portrait he had modeled the beauty which he had created for her. "I’m going to open it!” she decided suddenly, overcome by curiosity. “I have a hunch that Jerry would call my present situation a jam.” She wiped the cold cream from her fingers, then slit- the envelope with one quick thrust of her nail file. (To Be Continued)

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