Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-05-18
HDIDN'T you
~ really hate

DIDN'T you
your Aunt Judith
for giving me the
pearls ?" asked Jackie
Seymour of lovely Lucy
Grange.
Il suppose you thought
they We're ordinary pearls"
replied Lucy. They aren't.
Aunt Judith last night on
purpose to hurt me and make
me ashamed before everyone,
gave you the Grange pearls
This tense scene occurred in the
charming suburban Philadelphia
home of Ralph Grange, Lucy's father,
shortly after he had come back from his
honeymoon with his second wife, Lnne
Seymour. Jaclde's mother.
Lucy had welcomed her stepmother warm
ly, but Linnie comparing Lucys surprising
beauty with the looks of her own palmer
Jackie was consumed with jealousy on her
daughters account. A few days after her
homecoming she went with Lucy to call on the
girls elderly great-aunts the Misses Judith
and Lu Grange Judith hated Lucy and
showed it. She welcomed Linnie, termed Lucy
an imbecile, sensed Linnie's jealousy of her,
and asked to meet Jackie.
During the call, DR. Henry Treyne, young
nerve specialist burst into Judith's room. He
had come by mistake, and was summarily dis
missed. Seeing Lucy downstairs he asked
her if she was married and when she told him
she wasn't because no sensible person had
ever asked her he tilted her chin, looked
searchingly into her eyes, remarked: Poor
kid" and left her much amused.
Jackie who had come to live with Linnie
quickly saw how Ions her mother of
Lucy, but the girls liked each other Jackie
and Lucy each received letters few mornings
afterwards Lucy's was from Henry Treyne
I'm very much interested in you" he wrote
and I'd be grateful to you if you'd let me
diagnose and clarity condition which be-
heve may some day bring you unnecessary
trouble and unhappiness.'
Jackies from Peter Wayne, young
man she greatly liked, announcing he'd got a
job in arplane factory. You'll love him.
she told Lucy. The latter still sensing Linnie's
latent jealousy. Modified her by proposing a
party for Jackie. Then she wrote Treyne in
viting him and humorously refusing the re-
quest in his letter.
But her party enraged Judith, who had
planned tea for Jackie. She demanded that
Lucy give up her dance: but Lucy defied her.
st the dance she met Peter was greatly
taken with him and danced with him. Unex-
psctedly Judith appeared and gave Jackie a
string of pearls. 1t was this gift that elected
Lucy's revelation the next day that the pearls
were real. When Linnie told Ralph the story
he was furious They belong to Lucy" he
said, they're an inheritance
Husband and wife had words Ralph de-
manded that Jackie produce the pearls at
once, but they had disappeared. Soon after
Treyne took Lucy for a drive They got out
to look at the view and Treyne said Aunt Lu
whom he was treating couldn't sleep. 1T was
the night Of my party she began to lie awake
wasn't 1t asked Lucy When he assented
she told him Aunt Lu was sleepless over the
business of the Grange pearls He was as
tonished to hear they had vanished. Jackie
Lucy explained, put the pearls in her purse in
the top bureau drawer on Sunday. That after
noon we all went away
(And Now Go on with the Story
NENRY was thinking hard, while Lucy
- talked. He seemed to have a strong
and fresh preoccupation and turned
blade of grass about intricately in his hands.
Lucy watched the hands and was astonished
at her own feeling towards them. so strong
and long and clean and sensitive. They looked
brave. too, she thought reliable How much
hands can express of mans quality.
We'll. he jerked his mind from whatever
trail it had been following What's being
done? Have you told your Aunt Judith p