The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1951-03-23
BY c4lli00N g.BMTIRb

CHAPTER I-Stella Moore, masquer-
ading as Dorinda LaCroiX because she
has been tod 1t win help keep alive
Dorinda's aged grandmother, is ac-
costed by man she has met before and
who suspects her disguise. Dorinda died
before rescue came during a shipwreck
as she and her uncle fled Paris when
the Nazts came, and Stella Moore has
hold.
CHAPTER II-Uncle Edward Is as
A,,rhad AT the possibility someone mas
,nenetrated the Dorinda secret The spuI-
ious Dorinda reviews events leaons
I'M tn rer Joining in deceptlon'
CHAPTER v--Dorinda considers CIV
Ing up role and leaving Thorndyke resi-
that she remain. Cleve gives her q pup
py for present.
CHAPTER vI-GrandmothaP begins
probing Dorinda's story, asks to see scar
which real Dorinda received on wrist
when cut by broken perfume bottle as
q child.
CHAPTER VII-Fay tries to avert
Grandma's examination Of Dorinda's
wrist, but the old lady holds on and dis
covers there is no scar-that the pre-
tended Dorinda is an tmposter. Edward
attempts to make Grandmother Thorn
dyke believe him but fails and she has
q severe heart attack. DR.. Evans is
WARNS what announcer SUDDEN
shock might do to the old lady. Carol,
the nurse, reports the death Of Grand
motH Thorndyke.
CHAPTER IX-She reports her fears
to Edward, who ridicules them. The
family attend -grandmother's funeral.
Dorinda plans an afternoon at the beach
with Cleve Adams and Carrie fixes
lunch for the pair.
CHAPTER X-Anno Delahay arrives
L., live kn tot, I,A d
QUILTED in one of Dorinda's swim suits.
A boulder from the cliff above crashes
down and kills Anne. Dorinda thinks
she saw flash Of what might have
Just before boulder fell. DR.. Evans de-
sides to call in the SHERIFF.
CHAPTER XvI-Nurse Carol comes
to Dorinoa with her belief that danger
and death hang over the Thorndyke
house. She tells of having heard strange
whisperingS outside Dorinda's door
She gets Dorinda to flee the house with
her In her car. They notice a car be-
hind and think It is following them and
they plan stop at an all-night hambur-
ger stand to determine If they are being
pursued.
CHAPTER xvI1-They take stools in
the restaurant and a man enters, Dor.
india is vastly relieved to find that It Is
Edward Thorndyke. She feels almost
ready to trust him again as he tells her
she should have reported her suspicious
and fears to him. He drives her to Cleve
Adams residence where Cleve assures
her she will be free of danger, Carol
drives her car back to the house.
CHAPTER AvAA1-Sheriff Poole in
terrogates Dorinda about the night
events, and the family learns that Lana
has disappeared. Edward relates to
Dorinda the facts leading up to the deci-
sion to deceive his mother and attempts
to rationalize his actions. Dorinda learns
that while it was his mothers welfare
that first motivated the deception, Ed
ward came to see in 1t an opportunity to
get more than his share of his mothers
estate.
CHAPTER XIX-Fay found dead, os-
tensibly from an overdose of sleeping
pills, with note declaring death was
suicide and telling of use of yellow wig
and where it might be found. Carol spec
ulates upon the extent of Fay's potential
completely in all that has happened.