Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 93, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 August 1927 — Page 20

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BEGIN HERE TODAY JERRY MACKLYN. advertising manager ol the Peach Bloom Cosmetics Cos., transform VERA CAMERON, his plain secretary, Into a beauty by using the company cosmetics. The beauty specialist m refashioning Vera, copies a picture Jerry finds in his desk, an. uncaptloned colored picture of a lovely " Jerry falls In love with Vera, also known as Vee-Vee, and his love persists even after he learns she has fallen In love with a man who Ignores her. Vera goes to Lake Minnetonka for her vacation because this man. BCHUYLER SMYTHE, Is there. Smythe and other guests mistake her for VIVIAN CRANDALL, exprincess, who, after a Paris divorce is in hiding. Vera tries to convinces everyone of her true Identity but is not believed. When she realizes Schuyler is In love with the girl he thinks she is. she finds further confession difficult. Guests returning to the city apparently notify the Crandalls of their daughter's presence at the Minnetonka and detectives are sent to find her. Vera learns that the detectives are there while she and Schuyler are alone at midnight on the pier and they steal a car an schuyler tells her she must marry him immediately. Believing that he will love her for herself alone, Vera tells him the truth, substantiating her identity with Jerry's letter. Schuyler Is furious, then wondering if this is lust a scheme of the wily princess to ditch him, he tries to retrieve and insists they be married at once. They are stopped by two masked men who take Vera with them. . . Schuyler returns to the hotel and tells what has happened. Vera meantime is whisked away in an airplane. When the airplane lands, Vera Is surprised to find the men have brought a bag with her clothes in it, apparently packed by some accomplice of theirs in the hotel. Prom their conversation, she learns she is being taken to the prince, who, awaits in a nearby shack In the woods. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XXXII OAWN was struggling with the darknes sos night when Vera Cameron and her abductors stumbled down the last hillside that separated them from their destination. The girl was almost fainting with weariness. Her evening dress was torn and stained with grass and mud. She had slipped while crossing a mountain brook and had walked the rest of the way on sodden, broken things that had started that memorable evening as exquisite silver slippers. Briars had snatched at the deep fringe of her white Spanish shawl, a corner of which still served as a cap for her wearily bobbing head. All power of thought had deserted hem in her absolute fatigue. She no longer dreaded the meeting with Prince Ivan. Her only concern was to keep her feet moving, so that she could the sooner sink down in a warm place and rest. * “There’s the shack, miss. Just a few steps more,” the moon-faced man encouraged her, his hand supporting her elbow and urging her on. “We’ll be swigging hot coffee In another minute, or there’ll be one less prince cluttering up these United States.” The evil-faced leader of the two men strode a little in advance. He ha 4 not bothered to talk much. The mile had proved to be more than three miles, and he had cursed his partner once or twice for having led him astray. He seemed to be brooding darkly, his brows knitted with some evil scheme which required careful planning. In the murky gray light of approaching dawn Vee-Vee caught her first glimpse of the shack where the prince awaited her—or rather, the woman he believed her to be. It was a small, rough affair of not more than two rooms, built a long time ago unpainted pine. A rock chimney, set in the center of the side wall nearest to the approaching party, was sending up a curling column of bluish wood smoke, a sight which caused the moon-faced man to whoop aloud with Joy, "The prince is there, all right. Thought he mighta got cold feet and beat it. And he must be up, too, for that looks like a fire that’s Just got going good,” he shouted to his partner, who was striding rapidly toward the shack. The door was opened cautiously an inch or so. The leader of the kidnapers thrust his foot into the aperture and spoke in a low voice, then turned and beckoned to VeeVee and her guard. Without knowing why she did so, Vee-Vee snatched up a corner of her briar-torn shawl and stretched

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it across her face, like a fringed white mask or a Turkish woman’s veil. Only her eyes, her eyebrows that had been plucked to match those of Vivian Crandall, and her broad white forehead, with a few tendrils of curling, copper-colored hair that had escaped the cap she had fashioned with her shawl, were revealed when she stepped into the room where Prince Ivan Polaski awaited her. “Here she is, Prince, and right as rain. A little tired, I guess, but she hasn’t had a bad time of it at all,” the" leader of the kidnapers said, taking the girl’s arm and thrusting her toward the man who had arranged her abduction. She raised her heavy-lidded eyes and stared at him almost apathetically. She was too tired to feel fear'yet. And she had almost exhausted her capacity for emotion during the twenty-four hours that lay behind her. She saw a rather small man, very trim and dapper In a business suit of light gray homespun. His round Jiead was covered with thin, blond hair, faded white over the trtnples. His skin was fair and ruddy, his cheeks round and plump, and pierced by deep dimples that made him look like a mature baby. His moist, fair red mouth was set neatly beneath a reddish-blond mustache, whose waxed ends pointed rather Impudently toward his small nose. But It was his eyes that routed her lethargy, stirred her sleeping fears. They were a pale, icy blue, as unlike the blue sapphires that twinkled under Jerry Macklyn’s red thatch as a pair of eyes could possibly be. And they bulged. Vee-Vee shuddered and closed her own eyes, swaying toward the safer arms of the moon-faced kidnaper. “I see you’re glad to see me again, Vivian,” the prince spoke mockingly. Vee-Vee had feared that he might speak to her in Russian, but evidently his wife had not taken the trouble to learn her husband’s language or, If she had learned it, to use it when speaking to him. “The little lady’s tired out, prince. Can’t you give us all a shot of coffee?” the moon-faced kidnaper suggested, his nose wrinkling as he sniffed the aroma arising from the steaming pot on the hearth. “But certainly;” The prince flashed his incongruous dimples at them and sprang with hospitable alacrity toward the fireplace. As he carried the coffee pot to the rough pine table and began to fill four cups ..with the boiling fluid, Vee-Vee looked about her with some curiosity. Why had Prince Ivan chosen this miserable shack as a rendezvous with his divorced wife? It was hardly fit for habitation, even by people who had never known the ordinary comforts of city dwelling. The rough board walls were un-

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pies at her in a smile that was meant to be conciliating. Then he turned again to the men, who were tearing hunks of bread from a long, twisted loaf on the table. “Well, boys, you did "ood job, and I’m very grateful to you. No accidents to 'the plane, I suppose? No trouble of any kind? His voice was ingratiating and he rubbed his hands together with condescending friendliness. It was obvious that he was anxious to dismiss the men and be alone with the woman he believed to be his divorced wife. “No trouble at all,” the moonfaced man grinned. “Here’s the other five hundred I promised you when the job was done.” The prince reached into his pocket and drew out a tight roll of bills. “And—er—just remember to keeep quiet about this little adventure of ours, boys. You understand, of course, that this iady is my wife—” “Wife, hell!” The dark, evil-faced man rose from the stool on which he had zeen crouching and\ lumberedtoward the prince, drawing a pistol from pocket as he did so. “She ain’t no more your wife than she is mine or Happy’s here,” and he pointed contemptuously toward the moon-faced man who had sprung to his feet, his good-natured face suddenly as hard as his pardner’s. his hand reaching for his own pistol. “She is the Princess Vivian,’’ Ivan'steeth chattered with fright. “My love, tell these men—” Vee-Vee dropped her cup, the hot linuid spilling down the front of

her dress. She crept nearer, her eyeswide with fright. “She may have been the Princess Vivian once, but she ain’t no wife of yours any more,” the effaced man snarled. “She’s the missing Crandall heiress, that’s who she is. Think we don’t read the papers or nothing? Think we’d pull a big league kidnapping for one measly little grand? What’s a thousand bucks when this wren’s worth forty millions? You ain’t so smart, boy, even if you are a prince!” The pistol advanced steadily so that it rested upon the round little paunch of the quaking prince. “What do you mean?” Ivan stuttered, his pale eyes almost popping from his head. “Business!” the kidnaper snarled. “You and the princess can bill and coo all you want too, but you’re going to stay right here until old Rufus Crandall antes over with a good fat ransom. Os course I can use this SSOO, too. We earned it, eh, Happy?” he gr'nned evilly at the moon-faced man. “That’s right Satan. We gotta pay most of it for the use of the airplane, even if it is a pile of Junk.” “But, you fools, that will be criminal! They can send you to prison for life for kidnaping,” the prince protested. “Might as well go the whole hog while we’re at it,” the dark man whom his partner called Satan retorted. “We’re already guilty of abducting this lady, and so are you. You ain’t got no more right to kidnap her than we have, so you’re in it up to your neck the same as us.

And we’re going to make it pay us!” he added savagely. “Me and Happy have brought along some good stout padlocks for the doors and Happy’s going to stay and be your little playmate while I attend to all the little details like writing ransom letters and mailing ’em and collecting the money, and so on and so forth,” he concluded. Vee-Vee started forward on a staggering run, but the prince sprang to her side and seized her arm. (To Be Continued) Vee-Vee reveal* her identity to the prince in the next chapter, but finds she must continue to play the role of Vivian Crandall. ‘Rat Bite Fever 1 Case Bp Timet Special MARKLE, Ind., Aug. 26.—Ed Hite, living north of here, is slowly recovering from what is commonly termed “rat bite fever,” a rare disease. The case is the first discovered in this part of Indiana.

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