Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-03

nluCn IL concerned
She didn't seem to mind that all the others
were there in the room, grouped around her
listening of them her friends but some
of them. certainly her enemies
She glanced at Don's fiercely vgilant face.
I've got to talk bit about myself, It's
awfuly hard because well. guess did think
l Was- in lnpe-ppith- -eRee-Atle least / vas
fascinated because he was so gay. so glamor-
Gus. Maybe I'd never have really understood
how l felt if-if Don hadn't come here"
She bit her lip when Don came, knew
that whatever I'd felt for Ivor even in the
beginning it wasn't love. Oh, Don didn't
know anything about it mean, ! never told
him. hardly spoke 10 him; tried 10 avoid him.
You see, I couldn't admit The truth even TO
myself because I'd decided 20 marry Ivor and
II couldn't be that mean, couldn't marry him
If was really in love with someone else
CHE looked down at her white, slim hands.
- When she looked up again 1t was at her
brother and not at the Major.
Il guess you've all been despsing me. You
thought l was marrying Ivor for his money.
Maybe You -riEht-Its all 90 aPPaiiiHFly
difficult now, trying 10 straighten II out In
my mind. But what l was doing seemed
right 10 me then. You see ! knew how inn
portant it was for Fathers health to stay
y
more or less dependent on Ivor
Il also knew that If broke off the en-
cagement he would throw Us all out just
like that Father would have TO 60 back 10
Pittsburgh and well Ivor offering
everything. II I went through with IL, If
married him, thered never be any poverty.
misery for Mother, and Father. That seemed
so important, and the fact that l didn't love
Ivor-how important was that? Lots Of
people marry people they don't love
As Kay listened. she thought rather
ashamedly how even she, like Terry and
Simon. had suspected Elaine OF playing
deep. hard-boiled game for a rich husband
and an admirer ION the side" And this was
the truth this poignant attempt at self-sac-
rifice for her parents happiness
Elaine gave a little rleful shrug Yes
-terday- Den and IAiA-A4A talk really fer The
first time He told me he loved me- He
tried 10 make me break the engagement Oh,
il was hard but wouldn't listen wouldn't
admit a thing. In the afternoon the wedding
dress came II was a sort Of zero hour. I'd
steeed myself thought, in spite of every
thing I'd be able 10 60 through with the
wedding And then. later, read Rosemarys
diary"
ffer-eyes moved 70 the Major. or We
probably read it, You'll understand how
felt Maybe some people, reading that diary.
might think Rosemary was just half crazy,
making up all those terrible things. But l
didn't feel that because everything rang so
true 70 me once I'd II ALI IN writing
I realized many things about him that before
I hadn't understood. II was nightmare. Just
when thought everything was settled read
the diary and / knew I couldn't go through
with It, couldn't marry Ivor then-not for
anything in the world"
CHE hesitated. laying her hand on Dons arm,
y her gaze Pickering TO her father. Maybe
I should have gone to Mother or someone
and told them my decision. But / could only
think Of Don then and how l wouldn't have
to pretend with him any more. / went
straight to-to his cottage. / took the diary
with me- / told him how I felt about him,
why I'd been acting the way had and how
couldn't go through with the wedding
II was the Major now of whom Kay was
most acutely conscious. Elaine was moving
now into the realm Of hard facts, facts made
exaggeratedly significant by murder. Major
Clifford's blue eyes were keen-very much on
the job.
"Don read the diary" said Elaine quietly.
at least he read enough Of IL. He'd always
hated Ivor He'd known Rosemary when he
was a kid and he'd guessed pretty much of
the truth anyway. But the diary made him
furious. He wanted TO GO TO Ivor right away
himself and tell him what he thought OF
him. He
She broke off hastily as If it was only then
that she remembered this was murder inves-
tigation and that every word she said was
being combed for evidence by Major Clifford.
But Don didn't see Ivor." she added. "All
those things he said just now were lies 10 pro-
tect me- You see, know how impulsive, crazy
he can be when he's mad. was terrified
there'd be a fight or something if he saw
Ivor that night. BY the time I'd told him
everything it was after eleven. Just because
I was afraid Of what he might do / made
him go over TO Dr. Thorne's house-to keep
him out Of the picture
She looked at Or. Thorne. And it's true,
isn't il? He got to your house before eleven