Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-04-21
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LORENA CARLETON

when you wrote about Larry, even
lying to you yesterday. If you knew
how many times I've started to
write you that he was here" Tears
ratified in her throat. But he would
never have forgiven me-"
Unbelievingly, the girl asked,
you mean Larry has been here
all the time?"
The Woman's gray head dipped
in affirmation. Then she looked at
Anette and criticized her express
| sion. "Oh, don't be so bitter, child.
Larry has suffered, too. 1t VAS hor-
rible, after he had been on top, to
! lose his looks, to be forced out of
! his profession and to be penniless
at once"
"Penniless?" Anette's topaz eyes
were enormous. "Penniless on $15,-
600. Ralph Hay said he drew out
$4,000"
Sure. To pay off Sandra Owens
quietly so she would not go through
with the lawsuit. Larry wanted to
save that much scandal. What a
devil she is, Anette. She saw Lar
rvs car in the studio parking lot
that day and got into it. When he
came out she started fighting with
him because he Rad refused to have
her in his next picture. She had
been drinking. She was driving the
car, Anette. She was the n who
wrecked it."
Then why didn't Larry say SOP"
The girls hands frightened around
the edge of the table.
who would have believed him ?
Not eve you"
Anette knew the accusation was
true. Her long lashes remained
doWncast while the hired woman
served a fluffy ham omelette. Then
they lifted. That's right" she ad-
mitted.
'If you could have seen Larry
when he got here - a SCARED
stranger" His mothers voice
broke.
but wanted to see him." the
girl put. in. "That's just the point.
I've suffered, too" she told the
woman, almost angrily. "All these
months without hearing a word.
Not that l heard this time. I found
him quite by accident and forced
myself on him."
And he is happy because you
are here. Don't ever think he is not.
But you See, after the operations
were successful, there was so much
publicity about you and James Lyn-
con that Larry felt left out in the
cold. YOu can't blame him. That
Lyndon affair." she said a%ccusingly,
TROUBLES him greatly"
Annette could not say, Eyes, and a
Lyndon affair once troubled me
greatly when supposedly Larry and
[ We're happily married." She could
not say, Suppose Larry has had a
lesson? Underneath, he is the same
Larry, just as egotistical and GER
tain of Irresistible powers" Such
things We're not said to a mother
about her son. OF, If they were, the
wife became the errant one. She
knew with lntuitive certainty that
Larry's mother considered Icr the
Grant one. IS il were
She merely said, II can't under
stand !ia waiting 50 long about the
cperation.'
"sta didn't. Wait staitcd irnme-
Gi6ta'y, bit il va & long and very
difficult process. He didn't do all
the cutting at cnce. Then Larry
was so impatient to see the results
that he lifted the tape too soon and
tore the stitches. It Was SO d~iscour-
aging"
When the siri looked back % that
day of anxiety in Waits office, raa-
iizing now that even then the doc
ter knew Larry's Wherea bouts, that
he could ever have been il the priv
acy Of the consulting room whhc
she poured out her Woes. she was
E.led with helpless rage. She said in
a carefully controlled voice, Well.
it is all ovc now ard Larry is hand
some again"
Stubboruiy she refused to allow
syn1pa.hy for past turmoil 10 sift
through re r,cn2, Al size Nanted
W. Lavry's mother to stop talking,
TO stoD heating AGAINST her inten-