Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-24

H@IVE that back" demanded Kay Winvard
" as Or. Thorne coroners physician.
seized folder containing valuable securities
and a check forged by young Terry ChilteT.
her nephew, which she was trying 10 keep
from the police Wait minute" replied
Thone. I'm in love with You
This scene occurred in a playhouse on
small island off Bermuda, owned by Ivor
Drake who had been found drowned near his
specdhoat the evening before one hand
C'Itching the silver bathing cap Of his fiaHeec
lovely Elaine Chiltem Investigation by Major
Clifford. police magistrate. pointed TO muir
der Kay had rushed 20 bermuda with tho
diary OF Rosemary Drake, Ivors adoring wife.
who had committed suicide after recording ms
calculated prosecutions Kay hoped that Gil
bert and Maud Chltern FLAMES parents
on reading il would stop Elaine's wedding but
they were all living on Ivors bounty. He had
even provided nurse Alice Lums1Cn Tot
Gilbert whose legs were paralyzed and who
had 10 use wheel chair.
on arriving Kay had met Don Baird law
student and now Ivor's Summer boatman. Don
loved Elaine and swore before Terry and
glamorous Simon Morley he would stop the
wedding even il he had TO kill someone
That night, Terry had a bitter quarrel with
Ivor over Simon. Ivor left at II 80 to spend
the night in his playhouse. Maud going with
him to the dock Finding the diary missing
and suspecting Ivor Kay padded over to
retrieve it, She saw Simon there.
Soon after they discovered Ivor drowned.
Elaine then appeared swimming but capless.
her face scratched Kay hailed Terry, who
sailing. and they got the body TO the Bermuda
shore where Kay told Don. He teephoned the
Major and Thorne. Questioning followed and
they all became suspects. Kay finding Elaine
ironing a mans pajamas long after midnight,
held up the bathing cap. Elaine gasped,
snatched it and told such wild stories that
Kay asked: you don't want me to think you
killed Ivor do you 20
Meanwhile. Thorne had found and re-
turned the diary TO Kay but when she and
Maud her sister, tried TO burn It. the Major
pocketed it, Learning that Kay-and Elaine
had worn white satin the night before he
asked to see their gowns. But Don had burned
Elaines. The Major then confronted Elaine
with the diary and a piece Of white satin
found on the beach where she had denied
going Seeing her -eornered, Don confessed 10
the murder. but his story was disproved
Elaine then admitted reading the diary,
meeting Ivor on the dock, and telling him she
loved Don Furious. Ivor tried to seize the
diary but she threw 1t into the yuccas He
then left in his boat and she swore she never
SAW him alive again Her face had been
iuE for the diary, later. The Major then as
serted that Ivor had been murdered either
On the island or on the way there
AS the Major left Elaine said she and
Don wanted 10 marry at once. Alice learning
Ivor had wlled her the house and left the
Chilterns nothing, ordered them to go Fol-
lowing an open verdict at the inquest, she an
nounced she knew the murderer and set out
during a ranstorm with her evidence to see
Clifford, Gilbert then begged Kay 10 get from
a folder she had hidden previously in the
playhouse check forged by Terry and his
confession to forging it, on her way she
stumbled over Alice dead in the road, muir
dered
To save Terry she kept on found the
folder and was surprised by Thone. 1t was
then Thorne told her he loved her He was
seeking a letter he had sent 10 Rosemary
which lvor had held over him a threat
Kay burned IT, Putting the folder IN his bag.
Thorne went back with her. He, too stumbled
over Alce's body which Kay noted with hor-
ror had been moved They saw Maud sneaking
into the bicycle shed. Cornered there, with a
pair Of mans pajamas in one hand, she par
ried Kays question as to whether she had
moved Alices body. Thorne telephoned
Clifford.
Kay then told of her scene with Elaine
and of seeing Alice bending suspiciously over
a couch. They looked there and found
green cushion missing Thorne's expression
startled Kay. What a fool" he muttered.
When Ivor was killed" he said to Kay, you
had no conscience about trying to protect
his murderer. Now Alice is dead. That's muir
der with nothing to justify it."
Kay cried out: You don't mean you know
who killed Ivor and Alice? He did not reply.
but went out, taking the evidence in the
folder she had sworn never to let slip through
her fingers again.
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