Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 105, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 September 1927 — Page 22
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BEGIN HERE TODAY JERRY MACKLYN, advertising manager for Peach Bloom Cosmetics Cos., fall* in love with VERA CAMERON, after he transforms her from a plain secretary into a beauty. He is hurt to learn she consents to the transformation only because she falls in love with a man who ignores her—SCHUYLER SMYTHE—and she intends to spend her vacation at Lake Minnetonka where Smythe is vacationing. Smvthe and other guests mistake her in spite of her denials, for VIVIAN CRANDALL, ex-princess, who, after a Paris a nd! vorce, is in hiding. Learning of the supposed princess’ Whereabouts, Crandall detectives arrive one night. Vera and Smythe flee in a stolen car. Smythe begs her to marry him at once, but when she tells him the truth about her identity, he is furious, thereby revealing himself to her as a fortune hunter Vera Is kidnapped from the car by two masked men and taken by airplane to a shack in the hills where the prince. IVAN, awaits them. The kidnapers doublecross the prince, holding him and Vera for a Crandall ransom. In New York Jerry finds Vivian Crandall hiding in the Bronx. Agreeing to help And Vera, she guides Jerry to the shack. They arrive Just as Vera is fleeing from the shack. She tells them how she was left alone with Ivan, after one of the kidnapers was killed before their eves in an airplane crash and the other departed in fear. The girls become friends and Vivian proposes to Vera she play Princess Vivian a little longer. Vera consents. Vivian goes to the shack and with a bribe, gets the prince’s promise to leave the country immediately. NOW Gd ON WITH THE STORY
CHAPTER XLIV |’ ERA CAMERON could scarceWI ly take her eyes off Paul Al--1 v I lison, although she had been furtively studying him for most of the two hours that she had known him. He sat at the cleared dinner table, with his coffee cup before him and a cigaret between his thin, long fingers, talking advertising with ’ Jerry Macklyn. His slight, almost boyish figure was dressed in a disheveled, cheap suit of dark blue serge, but it was not his clothes that puzzled and fescinated her; it was his face. For Paul Allison was frankly homely, with his rumpled, thin hair of a nondescript light brown, his deep-set, gray eyes that were too intense, too luminous, as if inner fires were burning him up, his thin, long nose, his pale, thin cheeks. “What is it about him that has so fascinated Vivian Crandall that she is willing to give up social position, a fortune, her parents, everything for love of him?” the girl marveled to herself. “Why—he’s almost ugly! Jerry is handsome beside him. Maybe it’s his mind. He must be frightfully clever—” The longer Vee-Vee watched them —the beautiful woman who had been a Princess and the homely, magnetic man who would not marry her until she had proved that she could make a poor man’s wife—the sharper and more hurting was the envy which twisted her heart. She had been through incredible adventures during the six days that had elapsed since she had fared forth into the world as an almost exact duplicate, outwardly at least, of a famous princess and heiress. In those six days her world had collapsed. Her idol had been shattered, revealing that not only his feet, but his heart, were of clay. She had lost love, or, rather, had never found it, and she had looked, naked-eyed and, unprepared, upon men’s greed and a man’s lust. “Ready to talk business now, everybody?” Vivian asked, after she and Paul had cleared the table of the coffee service. Without waiting for spoken consent, she arranged writing materials on the table before her and spoke in her clear, cool voice—always cool, except when she addressed Paul Allison: “Paul has consented to my plan, Vee-Vee, largely for your sake. He likes you and wants to spare you all possible unpleasantness. This briefly, is the situation: I am on probation, a self-imposed probation, for three months.
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“If at the end of that time I have not become tired of living like this—” a wave of her beautiful hand indicated the small, cheap apartment —“and think I can be happy to continue to live on a small income, Paul will marry me.” Her lovely voice vibrated and her eyes sought and held her man’s for a moment. “Os course, lam utterly sure now that I want to marry Paul, but he won’t believe me.” “She’s making me sound like an utter cad,” Paul Allison smiled ruefully, reaching across the table to take Vivian’s hand. “But I’m sure you two understand. I can’t marry $40,000,000 and keep my self-re-spect.” “Don’t blame you,” Jerry applauded in his big voice. “Do you, Vee-Vee?” “No-o,” Vee-Vee answered hesitantly. Vivian Crandall laughed indulgently, then went on: “In disappearing I certainly had no idea that I would cause such a furore. I believed that, as a woman grown, I had a right to live my life as I pleased. “But my parents thought otherwise. I supposee, too," she conceded fairly, “that they were really anxious about me. The very rich are always in terror lest their children be kidnaped or get into some awful scrape or other. The rich have no freedom at all. “That is the big reason why I shall be glad to be poor. However, that is beside the point. My parents asked the help of detectives to find me. They undoubtedly believe that the resulting newspaper publicity was responsible for my kidnaping, or rather, the kidnaping oi the girl they firmly believe was I. “The thing cannot be ignored now. They would not rest until they found me, and the police, even if my parents asked them to give up the search, could not do so—unless I returned. “That is the whole point. Vivian Crandall will have to return to her parents—or appear to do so.” She stretched the words significantly, her eyes pleading with Vera Cameron. “How will you manage it?” VeeVee asked, bewildered. “I will send you to them tonight with a letter from me. They cannot doubt that it is really from me, for they will recognize my handwriting. Its very illegibility makes it appallingly distinctive,” Vivian smiled. “The letter will protect you thoroughly, Vee-Vee, will force their acceptance of you as my impersonator." “But what will your father and mother'tell the police and the reporters?” Vee-Vee worried. “Remember that Schuyler Smythe saw you—or rather me —being kidnaped—” v“My dear, a man as rich as my father does not have to explain anything,” Vivian Crandall told her simply. “I was kidnaped—l have been returned by the kidnapers, or I escaped, or anything else he pleases to say.. “The papers will have to be content. The police will not dare investigate over his ultimatun , and in face of the indisputable fact that I am back, safe and sound. “Father will simply say, with a grand gesture, as if that settles erything: ‘My daughter has returned. I have nothing further to say. No, I do not wish the kidnapers to be found and punished.’ “Oh, he will do it very well, never fear! Now, Vee-Vee, I am not so selfish as to ask you to give up the next two months of your life to a virtual imprisonment such as will be absolutely necessary if we are
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to get away with the impersonation, without compensating you handsomely. “Will you accept SIO,OOO for your services?” Quick color flamed in Vee-Vee’s cheeks. “I don’t want you to pay me anything!” she protested. “You are doing me a greater favor than I could possibly render you, by saving me from public exposure.” “I am also causing you to lose your position with the Peach Bloom Company,” Vivian reminded her. “We will not quarrel about the money. “That point is settled.” she stated firmly. , “Now I will write the letter, and I promise you that it will turn the trick. I know my parents’ spot of vulnerability and I shall not hesitate to stick a javelin in it.” Paul, Vee-Vee and Jerry watched her intently as she scribbled hastily, and on every face was a different expression, with one element in common—an almost reverent admiration. “Listen,” Vivian commanded, her brilliant eyes sweeping the group when she had * finished. “ ‘Dear Mother and Dad: This will introduce my dear friend, Vera Victoria Cameron, who, as you no doubt already have observed, is my physical double. “ ‘Miss Cameron has been doubling for me with my full knowledge and at my request. It was she who stayed at the Minnetonka, she, un-
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fortunately, who was kidnaped by underworld thugs who mistook her for me. “ ‘Now I am sending her to you to continue to take my place, so far a i the police/ind the press are concerned. You can make any explanation you like of my disappearance and my kidnaping and my return, or—as lam sure will readily occur to you—you can refuse to make any explanation whatever, thereby saving yourselves and me a great deal of hideous publicity. “ ‘Miss Cameron will be Vivian Crandall until I choose to release her from her duties as my double, since I am otherwise arid very importantly engaged. “ ‘lf you refuse to recognize Miss Cameron as your daughter, believe me, dear people, the scandal that will result through my enforced reappearance will make this kidnap, ing furore seem like a pleasant little bedtime story. I am safe—never safer in my life,,or rather, never so safe in my life—and so happy that the gods must envy me. “Please believe me when 1 say that this is the best and only way out of a situation which you, in your mistaken paternal anxiety, have brought upon yourselves. To refuse to accept it will mean misery and scandal for all of us. ” “I am more sorry that I can say that I have caused you pain and anxiety, and the disgrace of seeing our sacred name in the headlines. I am sorry, too, that I cannot explain. To explain would be to ruin my chances for happiness forever. “Please accept all this as absolutely final, and with it my love and remose for having unintentionally caused you heartache and anxiety. Your daughter, Vivian.’ ”
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“That,” said Jerry, cocking a brilliant blue eye. at Vivian reproachfully, “is rather a hard and bitter letter, young woman. I would not say it. is calculated to bring a ray of sunshine into your parents’ lives. “But I think it will turn the trick. It is certainly amazingly definite, not to say menacing.” “The Rufus Worrell Crandalls fear nothing so much as scandal—newspaper scandal,” Vivian replied, her beautiful mouth a little cynical. “I had to use the only weapon in my hands. “And my mother and father have not been exactly model parents. I love them in spite of myself.” “Now, how does this child get herself into your home without being caught in the act?” Jerry veered hastily. “You will take her there in your car, leaving her at a corner about two blocks from the house. She will let herself into the house in a perfectly matter-of-fact way. “The rest is entirely on the knees of the gods. You will drive straight to your own apartment and await a telephone call from Vee-Vee there, a call which she will make only if my parents refuse to accept her as Vivian Crandall. “You will then get in touch with me and I will go to'her assistance immediately. And I will stand by her through anything that can conceivably happen as a result of her effort to help me. Does that satisfy you. Jerry Macklyn?” and she smiled at him so adorably that VeeVee felt again that little pang of utterly unreasonable Jealousy. (To Be Continued) Doe* Vivian’* plan .uceeed? Read wbal happen* to Vee-Vee In the next chapter. -
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