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BEGIN HERE TODAY VERA CAMERON, plain business girl, allows herself to be transformed Into a beauty by JERRY MACKLYN. her boss, advertising manager for Peach Bloom Cosmetics Cos. Jerry fall3 In love \vith Vera, also known as Vee-Vee. and his love persists even after he learns she consents to the transformation only because the man she falls In love with BCHUYLER SMYTHE. Ignores her. Vera spends her vacation at Lake Minnetonka because Sihythe is there. He. and other guests, mistake her for VIVIAN CRANDALL, ex-princess, who, lifter a Paris divorce is In hiding. Vera repeatedly asserts her true Identity, but Is not believed. The Crandalls, learning of their supposed daughter’s whereabouts, send detectives to the Minnetonka. They arrive at night Vera and Smythe flee In a stolen car. Smythe asserts his love and insists they be married at once Vera tells him the truth, substantiating her Identity with Jerry's letter. Smythe Is furious, revealing himself as a fortune-hunter. They are stopped by two masked men who take Vera with them. She Is whisked away In an airplane to a rshack In the mountains where Vivian’s exhusband. PRINCB IVAN, awaits them. Vera and the prtnoe are horrified when the men announce that they will hold them for a ransom from the Clandays. Vera convinces the prince, who Is furious at the discovery of her Identity. that they must play the part, otherwise the men will discover her Inability to draw a ransom and murder them. Meantime Jerry Macklyn. In New York City, reads of the kidnaping. A stenographer brings him the news she has seen Vera that morning, her old plain, spectacled self again. The girl tells of having given Vera one of the booklets with her pictures In It. Jerry gets a phone call and request to come to a certain address at once. He goes and finds the real VIVIAN CRANDALL awaiting him She tells Jerrv she will help find Vera. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY! CHAPTER XXXVIII . v -iHEN Vee-Vee, refreshed by \U the breakfast which she had ... taken a malicious pleasure in watching the Russian prince prepare, entered the second of the two rooms of the mountain shack in which she was being held a prisoner, she was no longer too tired to look about her with lively curiosity. There was one small window, roughly boarded over with solidlooking strips of weather-stained pine. She dragged a stool, the only sort of chair that the room offered, to the wall In which the window *vas set, and, standing on it, pounded against the boards with her fists As she had expected, they yielded not at all, and any effort to force am opening by banging upon them with the stool would, of course, instantly bring the guard, the moonfaced kidnaper who was called “Happy." There was a door, but knew that it had been made fast with a padlock before “Satan” had left to arrange the mysterious details of his ransom-collecting. She next turned her attention to the door which led into the front room. Vee-Vee had already noted that it swung, lockless and latchless, like a swinging door between a kitchen and butler’s pantry. There was no way at all by which it could be made fast, to serve as a protection for her against either the kidnapers or the prince, if they should desire to violate her privacy. Her heart lunged slckeningly with fear, but she quickly conquered it, telling herself that she was not the villain-menaced heroine in a Western movie. The prince had not Intentionally abducted her. His desires were centered on the woman who had been his wife, the woman he had thought he was abducting. Understand ingly enough, he was angry with her—Vee-Vee, and probably would be as glad as she when the ransom was paid and they were released, or taken within a reasonable distance of New York, however, ib? kidnapers might arrange the details of the ransom. % was silly to be afraid, she told herself scornfully. \ Along one wall were two bunks, built one above the other, as in the front room. Both were neatly made up, with new sheets, and with new brown army blankets. Curiously she turned back the sheets to discover what sort of mattresses the abandoned old cabin had offered its guests, and found that they were not mattresses at all, but the cushions of an automobile. So the prince had a car somewhere near, unless the kidnaper, “Satan,” had confiscated it. It had not occurred to her before to wonder how the prince had arranged his own part of the mad adventure, but it was fairly evident that he had

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either rented or bought a car for the trip. On the folded-back blanket of the top bunk lay a pair of pale blue silk pajamas, as neatly arranged as if the prince’s valet had laid them out for him. When she had taken off her evening dress earlier in the morning and dressed herself in more suitable clothes, she had left her suitcase on the floor, and had hung her dresses on big, rusty nails in the wall opposite the bunks. Although it was broad daylight outside, the room was in semi-darkness, because of the boarded-up window, but her eyes were becoming accustomed to the lack of light and she had no difficulty in finding the prince’s suitcase, a huge brown leather affair, almost covered with foreign hotel and ship labels. He had pushed it out of sight beneath the lower bunk, as if he had the instincts of a meticulous housekeeper. Vee-Vee dragged it out, lifted it, found it to be heavy, and then dragged it across the floor to the swinging door. She paused only to pick up the prince’s silk pajamas, which she stuffed under the lid of the case without examining its contents, then she pushed open the door, and called out, in a matter-of-fact but imperious voice: “Here is your dressing case, Ivan.” The prince, who was sulkily returning packages of food to the small wall cupboard beside the fireplace, while the kidnaper, “Happy,” looked on, grinning with amusement, whirled to face her. “Leave it In there,” he commanded her in a crisp, clipped voice. “I am sure you will find it more convenient to have it here, where you will sleep and dress,” Vee-Vee told him everily. . Before he could reply she had dumped the suitcase upon the floor and returned to the back room. She stood just inside the door, her hand on her heart, hear ears straining for his footstep. But he had evidently concluded not to press the point—so early in the morning. She did not undress— could not bring herself to do so. with that door likely to fv ing open any minute but lay down in the lower bunk, smoothing her skirt carefully to avoid wrinkling it, and drawing the sheet over her slim body. There was no pillow, but she thought she could not have slept, even if there had been a cushion of down under her tired head. An hour ago she could have slept standing, but coffee and food had revived her body and stimulated her brain.

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Surely no girl had ever paid more dearly for her folly in running after a man, she thought bitterly. The memory of Schuyler Smythe and his hideous unmasking in the hour when she had needed him most, had thrown herself on his pretended love, shot through her heart like a red-hot sword. Her whole body quivered with shame for him and for herself. How easily she had been taken in! A pair of sultry, brooding dark eyes, a handsome face, a tall, lean body —it had taken no more than these to turn the head of an efficient business woman like Vera Victoria Cameron, to make her forget everything else and follow a stranger into a Sunday supplement series of wild adventures. What a fool she had been, what a silly, romantic blind little fool! She could have saved herself the soul-searing humiliation which Schuyler had brought upon her, could have extricated herself from the whole, foolish situation, if she had only heeded Jerry's pleas in the letter which he had armed her with. What must Jerry be thinking of her now? Was his love, which she had done nothing to hold and which she had valued so lightly because her dreams were fixed upon another man, strong enough to follow her into the peril which she had brought upon herself? Then a sudden though Jerked her up in the narrow bed. Her arms went about her knees, and she rocked herself in an agony of remorse und pain—not for herseif but for Jerry. For the first time it occurred to her that she had dragged Jerry over the precipice with her. If the Crandalls paid the ransom and then discovered that the girl they had rescued was not their daughter, no power on earth could keep the whole miserable story out of the papers. Jerry had told her all about the red-headed, freckle-faced little

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fighting “Irisher” that he had been, had boasted a little, because her eyes had been kind and sympathetic, of the seven-league-boots strides he had made toward the top of his profession. He had told her of his hard-working, big-heart-ed, adoring mother, had shown her that mother’s picture and she had wanted to lay her head on that broad bosom and feel the warmth of the heart that was still now forever. And now she—she, an idiotic, vain girl who had not had sense enough to value the love of a real man—had lighted a fuse that would blow up the world of the red-headed boy that that mother would have given her life for. “Oh, Jerry! Jerry!” she moaned, rocking herself In an abandonment to grief. And then she prayed, a frantic, childish prayer: “Please, God, help me to protect Jerry from the consequences of my own folly! Make him hate me now so that he will keep silent! I’ll He for him, tell him that I—l alone—am responsible for the whole thing! Please, God, make me a good liar, so that they will believe me, no matter what he says!” To the girl, rocking with agony for the man who loved her and whom she had scarcely given a thought to before, her prayer did not seem ludicrous. Her determination to save Jerry Macklyn, In spite of himself, if necessary, gave her almost instant peace. She relaxed, lay inert upon the sheet-covered automobile cushion, and soon the tears ceased to flow. Before the last of them had

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splashed from her white cheek to the sheet, she was asleep, one hand hanging limply over the rough board that formed the side Os the bunk. Several hours later she was dreaming that she was seated on the big couch in Aunt Flora’s living room, and that Jerry Macklyn sat hassock at her feet, his head, with its flaming red curls, against her knees, her fingers, which had been straying lovingly through those curls, Imprisoned in one of his big, freckled hands. Her sleeping body quivered with a sharp thrill as Jerry’s hand carried hers to his lips—- “ Aren’t you getting hungry for your dinner, my sleeping geauty?” The strange voice—not Jerry’s voice! pierced the veil behind which she had been dreaming. Real lips—not dream lipj—were moving against the tips of her fingers. In the semi-darkness, her eyes, wild with fright, saw the spiked ends of a waxed mustache and pale, bulging eyes, gli tering with passion. She screamed, a high, shrill siren of fright—(To Be Continued) Between she orli.et end “Happy,” the kidnaper, ihe latter seems the lesser d * n .**l. 10 Vee-Vee. She Implores hla protection.

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