Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 December 1941 — Page 24

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ALL DAY Diana worked faithfully at Stephen's side. Sorted manuscripts, assisted Miss Todd with last-minute typing, helped Larkin sort Stephen's clothes. When Adela learned of Stephen's plans, she produced a well-devel-oped case of hysteria. “Why do you have to go?” she stormed. “Of all the men in the world, they pick on you! Youre too valuable & person to send into danger!” “Don’t talk like a child!” Stephen said impatiently. “There is no danger in air travel today!” “Ships crash every day!” Adela cried. “What's to become of me?” “Diana is to take charge of things until I come back!” Stephen said it as calmly as possible, glancing sidewise to see how she took it. Adela’s sobs ceased abruptly. Her tear-streaked eyes were wide with horror and amazement. Her mouth became a tight line of defiance. “You mean that stenographer is—" Stephen’s eyes took on that look of blue ice. “Now, look here, Adela, I don’t want any opposition to my plans. I'm toc busy to deal with hysteria. Diana is to be in charge until I return, and I want your promise here and now that youll co-operate with her in every way!” Adela was breathing rapidly, furiously. “You'd put her above me! You've fallen in love with her!” Stephen’s busy hands stayed. “She’s not your wife!” Adela raged. “She never has been! Everybody knows that!” “Nobody knows unless you've told them!” Stephen said with sudden harshness. : After Adela had left the room, Stephen stood quietly by the hearth for some time, doing nothing. “I have fallen in love with her,” he said to himself. “That's why it hurt so devilish much to think that Thorpe—” He sighed. “I've never believed it, really. She’s protecting. somebody. Is she in love with Phil —Bill Jackson? And what does she think of me? I've got to know, but not until I came back. I'll settle

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which she sat chained to the radio. It had been like that ever since the news had first come through the Stephen's plane had disappeared. A net. zzaster in an all-too-casual voice had said, “Last word received from the Sikorsky amphibian flying toward Guayaquil, Ecuador, came from Pilot Pete Smith who reported that he was circling down through heavy skies to find better visibility. Some concern is felt for the welfare of the 15 passengers, among whom is Stephen Curt, well-known writer and political commentator.” Adela hovered close by, her animosity toward Diana forgotten in her anxiety for. Stephen. Her eyes were red from weeping, her handkerchief crumpled into a soggy ball. Elva Todd, anguish in her eyes, was a tower of quiet strength. Phil, too, scarcely left Diana's side and on that last night when uncertainty became reality, Evalyn

and Richard Thorpe joined the group. Adela had sent for her Aunt Christine, a small, plump, helpless person with a crafty eye and chubby, grasping hands. Diana had disliked Aunt Christie from the first, feeling her allied with Adela against her." With a childlike air of proprietorship, Aunt Christie helped herself to the most comfortable chairs, Diana’s favorite magazines, and ordered the choicest foods prepared for herself. “When you're an old lady, my dear, youll under-

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