New Britain herald., 1927-12-14

Ii vas an honest and desperate | little plea And not only that. but it was the first time that Lily LeNing- on ever had come 10 her m other for ! real help in her life---the first tim. 1 that she ever had asked her for any ! boug or furs or rings or money for matirces.
 i Before now. Mrs. Lexington had never refused her anything. She | dresses, the furs, the dancing slip | pcrs. tho matinee tickets. Lilly must have every ything that the other girls havo,' had always been her chorus.
 But now that sho was asking for something that she greatly needed i her mothers help in the biggest ! problem that ever had come to her Mrs. Lexington refused il. What help do you need, I'd like | to know" she blazel. Your future | is all arranged for you-ts cut out i like q pattern for a dress, and you 1 know it. Lily. You're engaged to Staloy Drummond-as fine a man as ever stood in two shocs-and you've promised to marry him on the tenth | of June
 Her fore finger shot out and tapped i that date on the desk calendar O., i the table before her. "The tenth of 1 Junc--only three weeks from now, ! and here you arc telling me you're i in love with my chauffeur, It's not decent, You ought to be ashamed of yourselt,'
 ! l.ily's lovely hands twisted and rntwistod like the thoughts behind i her troubled eyes. "But is it decent to marry Staley when I'm in love with another man? Isn't that scmc- , thing to be ashamo, of too?" i She voiced the problems that had been sweeping her this way anu ,Eat for weeks, hoping that her mother would show h'r the right way to So-thc right thing to do for all concerned
 You see. don't want 10 marry q i poor man. Mothcr,' she tried to cN- 1 plain. 'I wish Pat had millions. but he hasn't. And yet I love him so much that l feel as if l can't let him go--''
 "Iovc him--noneScnsc." Mrs. Lex 1 ington's words cracked like whip. You're in love with q good-looking face and q pair of puttecs, that's aIl!"
 She took down the receiver and spoke q numbcr into the telephone | tho number of the employment agency down town.
 Whil" she was waiting for central to give it to her she turned and fin | ished what she had to say: ou Just give in to your infu1uation for this man. and youll se" where it i lands you, NoulI wake up some day and find out that there's morG rr q | husband-than q straight nose and a nice head of hair. lou'll wonder where your Pats bank account is. ] pu II h o!I'i'l " Il'l' till y o'L II lNil'' arc---Suo Cain and Ann Barney, and all the rest of them. You'd better wake up. Lily. and think things ovcr.' All of which left Lily in the state of doubt that she had been in for weeks and wccks--not knowing she wanted to do.
 However, tho thing was settled , for Lily within the next half hour of that warm and sunshiny May morning.
 She Jeff her mother tolcphoning for new butler chauffeur and ran upstairs.
 From tho sewing room came the steady hum of the sewing machin" that was stitching hems and seams into her wedding clothes. Out in tho back yard a carpenter was at work making a long. rough table that was to be covered with white satin and used to display all the wedding gifts that were beginning to come in-the silver coffee and tea service, the cut glass cocktail glasses, q clock of real Sevres, a huge cigaret box of ham, mcred brass and ebony.
 i Lily paused at the back window long enough 10 hear the cheerful sound of Pat whistling. Tt All De- bends on You"
 Hes in the garage" she said 10 herself, her eyes on the white cur tains in the windows of the room above it. T suppose he wants to leave everything in order, or maybe hes packing his clothes.'
 Then, suddenly. she wheeled around from the window and flew to turn on the water in her bathtub She must see him before he went! She must make up her mind what to do now, before he was gone.
 In record time she bathed brushed