Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 86, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 August 1927 — Page 20

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r CHAPTER XXVI "Sit down, darling,” Schuyler said tenderly. ‘‘l robbed the bathhouse lor cushions before you came. Comfortable? Won’t you lean against my arm? Warm enough?” When she was settled on the step beside him, his arm encircling her waist, his hand Closed warm and tight over hers, he began in a hesitant, strained voice, as if he knew that he could, at best, make out only a sorry case for himself: ‘‘Ever since you came into my life for the second time I’ve known that I would have to face this ordeal, for I knew .that I was going to ask you to be my wife.” Vee-Vee drew a sharp breath, but said nothing, and his arm tightened about her. “You wouldn’t be human if you hadn’t accused me in your thoughts during these j£jtMew,.days of being a fortune-hunter. “You must have a wide and painful acquaintance with the breed. I imagine that Nan Fosdick told you that I was trying SO. marry her for her money—” ‘ She did.” Vee-Vee admitted in a cool voice. “I suspected 49 much/’ schuylar went on. “I felt sorry because she was so pbviously in love, and because her life had been a hard one. You, who* walk In beauty, my darling, can not know the misery of a girl like Nan Fosdick—” “Oh, can’t I?" she interrupted eoftly. “Os course you can’t,” he laughed, lifting her hand to his lips. “You’ve hee?i a heart-breaking beauty since you flirted with your nursemaid’s cops in your perambulator. But let’s not talk of Nan Fosdick now. “I wouldn’t have mnrriedtNan if she had had a hundred million dollars, instead of one million. But it would have been hard to convince her that I wasn’t for sale, if you hadn’t come along, so entirely adorable that I could not keep away from you to save my life. When I met you five years ago, Vee-Vee-—” She wanted to interrupt him then, to tall, him that he had not met her five years before, that she was not the girl die believed her to be, but she so wanted to hear him out that shte kept silence. “I knew that you were the only feirl I could ever love. I had no money, and I did have the Instincts and training Os gentleman. The very thought of joining the lHinue of your admirers, if I could have forced an entree, Saqkened me, lor I would have died Mather than be labeled a fortune-hunter. “Then they sold you to that Russian prince for a title. I went to the wedding, or jcathsr Alood on the sidewalk along with the other poor devils who cottier ArcAy gaze from alar upon society out) doing itself to Impress a prince. I V6lt then that

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' was guilty, too, for I who loved you had not tried to save you. “That night you danced with me at the Royal Poinciana you smiled deep Into my eyes, whispered, “I’ll vee you again, won’t I?’ That was nvitation enough; I should have had the courage of my love. But— I didn’t! “Then as I stood on the pavement, my eyes straining for a glimpse of you, you came out—on his arm! Your adorable mouth was quivering pitifully as you tried to smile. “I pushed forward, to the very edge of the crowd. I could almost have touched the foam ot your veil Then you saw me, looked with wide, startled green eyes straight into my eyes. You recognized me, there was no question of that. Then you cl. sed your eyes as if you were suddenly faint—” His voice trailed off. “After that I knew that I had had no right to let pride stand lr. the way of what might have meant happiness for both of us. I knew we were made for each other, that it was weak of me to let your money come between us. “Love comes like that, Vee-Vee, my darling, or it doesn't come at all. You remember, don’t you, Vee-Vee?” he interrupted himself sharply. T haven’t been deluding myself all these years—?” “I’m sure Vivian Crandall remembers—everything," Vee-Vee answered softy, as if something outside herself compelled/her to. She would hate herself later for having let him g oon, revealing his most precious secret to her, an impostor. “You darling!” he cried huskily, crushing her resisting body against his breast. “All right, sweet. I’ll not kiss you again until you ask me to,” he laughed exultingly. “I’ll try to tell you the rest of my story, and then I’ll be willing to abide by your decision. For you love me, Vivian Crandall! I defy you to deny it!” She drew away from him and bowed her face in her trembling hands. It was going to be far harder than she had feared “When I read in the papers that you had divorced the prince,” Schuyler went on, “I was glad, glad! Like a prisoner condemned to death and reprieved in the last hour. “I made a vow then that I would never rest until I had found you, until I had tried to win you. You had given yourself once to a penniless man, a man who had notning but an empty title to exchange for your beauty and your money, “I believed that the second time you married It would be for love. And I knew that you could never find a man who would love you as I do. “The world may call me a fortunebut I know that I am not —

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that I am a love-hunter, and that I have served my love faithfully for five years. What do you think, Vee-Vee?” The girl could not answer at once. She was crying, for the hopelessness of her own love had rushed over her in a drowning tide. She knew now that she could not tell him the truth, could not shatter the dream he had cherished for five years. ‘‘Have I disgusted you?” Schuyler asked in a fiat, dead voice. “Tell me about the litfcTe boy you were,” she begged in a tear-muffled voice. “I know so little of you—” She was playing for time, for a few more minutes of him—his arm about her shoulders, his caressing, musical voice in her ears. Then she would slip away, make some excuse to leave him—“My mother was rich when she married my father—rich according to the standards of small towns,” he began obediently, in a voice that was almost cheerful. “My father had nothing, but it was a love match and they were ideally happy, although Dad’s lack of business training—he was a professor in a small college in Ohio—was responsible for the loss of my mother’s fortune. “She never blamed him, never once thought of him as a fortunehunter. She died when I was seven, and until then w r e had lived like people of wealth. After she was gone my father was a broken man. We drifted from place to place, each a little worse than the last. “Ive known hunger and cold—not just briefly, but for weeks and months at a time. But I never succumbed to poverty, never forgot what it was like to live gracefully. Dad died when I was 14, just about to finish high school. “He had taught me in tfie evenings, so that I was rather advanced than most youngsters of my age. I had to go to work, of course. I had taken a commercial course in high school. To make up to him, I studied Greek and Latin under him in

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the evenings, but sometimes he was so tired from his work—he was a factory hand then, making cigar boxes 10 hours a day—that he often went to sleep with his tired old head resting on Ovid.” “Poor dear!’’ Vee-Vee breathed softly. “Well,” Schuyler sighed, “I went to work, as I said, and the only job the_l4-year-old boy could get was in a drug store. I ‘jerked’ soda during the summer and delivered prescriptions in the winter. “When I was 16 I went to New York, and found a place as a typist. There’s no use telling you all the ups and downs I’ve had there, but three years ago I became private secretary to Arthur Bainbridge, the multi-millionaire. “In the public’s mind he is identified with no particular business, but he is interested in a hundred different enterprises and charities. He is a member of more directorial boards than any other man in New York, and knows more about industry than any living man, I believe. “He trusts me to handle a great mass of detail connected with his innumerable enterprises, and sometimes he gives me a tip on the stock market which nets me a welcome addition to the very good salary he pays me. “He treats me more like a son than an employe, insists that I make his home my own, that I join him every summer at his camp in Maine, take. 4 me to Europe with him once or twice a year. “And he no longer calls me his private secretary, but his business lieutenant. I realize that in your eyes such success as I have achieved seems puny, laughable almost—” “Indeed it doesn’t,” she interrupted eargerly. “I think the little 14-year-old boy who ‘jerked’ soda has come very far up in the world. Tell me more, Schuyler.” She wondered if he would tell ner how he had come to change his name from Shuler B. Smith to Schuyler Smythe—but what did it matter- “ There isn’t much more to tell,” the man answered hesitantly. “I just wanted you to know that my background has been such that I am not altogether unfit to standvbeside you as your husband, if you will marry me.

“I have lived a gentleman's life for years, have spent my vacations Minnetonka, have many friends at resorts like Palm Beach and Lake among the people of your own class. You need not be ashamed of me—” “Schuyler,” Vee-Vee could not hold back the words/ “Would you be happier if—if the woman you love were no richer than yourself, just a working woman who could understand your ambitions, help you to achieve them?” f “How can you ask that?” Schuyler Smythe demanded almost violently. “Wouldn’t I have tried to marry you five years ago if you had had no money? “Five wasted years! I wish to God you were a Princess Nobody, instead of the Princess Vivian, but—you are not. And I love you. There is no use speculating on what might have been. “Vee-Vee, are you going to deny our love because of those damned forty millions?’’ She wa strving to think of an answer which would not betray her but which would not hurt him, when a uniformed bellboy popped up in front of them, as if he had sprung from an underground passage. “Miss Cameron,", the boy panted. "We’ve been looking everywhere for you. There’s a coupla men asking for you—got here about half an hour ago in a car. They say they gotta see you right away." "Oh!” Vee-Vee gasped, springing to her feet, a hand going to her throat. "Tell them Miss Cameron will be there right away,” Schuyler Smythe commanded. When the bellboy had darted away, Schuyler seized the trembling girl roughly in his arms, shook her slightly, so that her face bobbed like a white flower in the starlight. “you’re not going back to that hotel, Vee-Vee! You’re going to let me take you away—now! You’re

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