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that I love you, but it interests me
strangely. Jerry"
There was no doubt that Jerry
was seriously, deeply concerned for
her. Her fingers grew cold as she
| fumb1ed in the envelope for the
clippings.
The first she drew out was the
color print portrait Of which she
had caught a glimpse in Jerry's
Office, when he had shown it to
Kitty Proctor, as they schemed her
transformation from an ugly duck
ling into a swan.
ooh, lovely" Vee-Vee breathed.
almost devotedly, as her avid eyes
drank in the beauty of the pictured
face. 1t was a portrait, painted by
a French artist.
1t showed the head, shoulders and
bosom of a young woman, who
looked slightly older than Vee-Vee,
more proudly sure of herself, more
arrogant of her beauty-which was
no new story to Vivian Crandall,
who had been wearing the title OF
princess for four years.
"We look almost exactly alike, but
there is difference" Vee-Vee de-
cided, "a difference in soul, per-
haps." She turned to the mirror to
study her own. face alternately with
the portrait in her hand.
"She looks as if she had been
through rather terrible hell and
refused to be broken by 1t. I like
you, Vivian Crandall. T don't care
what you've done! And-I don't
blame Schuyler Smythe for having
loved you for five years."
She dropped the print of the
painted portrait to the top Of her
dressing table and drew the news
clippings out of the envelope. Odd
that she had missed the entire story
in the papers,!
But she only read the most con-
sentative, staid papers and never
waster moment on scandal, the
doings Of society. or crime stories.
She arranged the unfolded clip
pings on the dressing table, glanced
at the sensational headlines:
CRANDALL HETRESS d.
VORCES PRINCE
VIVIAN CRANDALL RE-
NOUNCES TITLE FOR LOVE
PRINCESS NOW PLAIN MISS
CRANDAJI,
Vee-Vee dimpled at that last
Princess now plain Miss Crandall."
Plain?
PRINCESS VIVIAN DIS
APPEARS AFTER ROW
WITH FAMILY
PRINCE IVAN SAILS FOR
NEW YORK; WILL ATTEMPT
RECONCILIATION WITH
PRINCESS VIVIAN, NEE
CRANDALL, WHO DIVORCED
HIM IN PARIS.
LOVE NEST LIMITED IN
CRANDALL HEIRESS' DIS
APPEARANCE
She glanced hastily at one of the
news stories, conscious that time was
passing rapidly and that Schuyler
would be awaiting her impatiently.
She had promised to join him at
half past seven, to dine with him.
The story, a signed one, undoubt-
edly clipped from the society COL
umns of one of the more sensational
morning papers, was written in that
familiar, chatty style which is sup
posed to intrigue the hoi polloi who
know of society's Goings only
through the newspapers:
II told you SO! Pardon me for
again committing the social faux pas
of Dragging, but I must remind my
readers that I predicted, as long
ago as last December, in the issue
Of December 10, to be exact-that
the beauteous Vivian, affectionate-
ly known in Newport, New York and
Palm Beach society, before she be-
came princess as Vivi. would not
be willing much longer to pay the
bills which he Russian husband,
Prince Ivan, has such a talent for
running up.
"a blond cfarmer in Vienna, a
Juno in Rome, and a cabaret cutie
in Paris proved to be a little too
much for one red-blooded American
heiress to stand for-or rather, to
support, and, just as predicted, the
! long suffering princess took her
troubles to the Seine tribunal and
has received quick redress therefor.
1.-THE only title to which the fair
Vivi is now entitled is that of dollar
princess, and since her fortune,
which her father, the sagacious
Rufus Crandall, shrewdly protected
for her, amounts to a cool and fair
ly adequate forty millions, she is
certainly entitled to that tag Of
royalty.
"Society's tongue is wagging bus
lily today, recalling the magnificent
ceremony at st. Luke's which gave
in marriage reluctant American
heiress to a Russian whose title
meant less than nothing, but which