The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1942-06-23

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 was 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 $751;
900. Ralph Hay said he drew out
SIS, o0o."
Sure. To pay of 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 had refused to have
her in his next picture. She had
been drinking. She was driving the
car, Anette. She was the one who
wrecked it."
Then why didn't Larry say so?"
The girls hands frightened around
the edge Of the table.
who would have believed him
Not even you"
Anette knew the accusation was
true. Her long lashes remained
downcast while the hired woman
served fluffy ham omelette. Then
they lifted. That's right" she ad-
mitted.
IF you could have seen Larry
when he got here SCARED
stranger" His mothers voice
broke.
But I 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 heard this time. 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-
don that Larry felt left out in the
cold. You can't blame him. That
Lyndon affair" she said Gccusingly,
troubles him greatly"
Anette could not say, Eyes, and a
Lyndon aroir once troubled me
greatly when supposedly Larry and
l were 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 were not said to a mother
about her son. OF. IL they we're, the
wife became the Grant one. She
knew with intuitive certainty that
Larry's mother considered her the
Grant one, as IL we're.
She merely said, Il can't under.
stand his waiting so long about the
Operation"
He didn't Walt started imme-
diately, but 1t was a long and very
difficult process. He didn't do all
the cutting at once. Then Larry
was so impatient to see the results
that he lifted the tape too soon and
tore the stitches. 1t was so discour-
aging"
When the girl looked back to that
day Of anxiety in Waits office, rea-
lizing now that even then the doc
tor knew Larry's whereabouts. that
he could even have been In the priv
acy Of the consulting room while
! she poured out her woes, she was
filled with helpless rage. She said in
a carefully controlled voice, Well
II is all over now and Larry is hand
some again"
Stubbornly she refused 10 allow
| sympathy for past turmoil 10 sif.
through her plans. All she wanted
was Larry's mother to stop talking,
! to stop beating against her inten-