New Britain herald., 1927-06-01

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 "Oh. why can't we arrange { i have her at the party. Num-" CHAPTER V PHILLIP WINNIE TRACY "
 GROWS UP
 Mrs. Tracy began to feel sorry fo Phillip. For fear that he wouI finally persuade her that Natle Jones in some way could attend hi party she began again to talk o social details.
 "Of course. Son, we must hav' Lucia Randolph" she declared. con sulting her date book. z
 All right said Phil. rather re luctantly. but you know. Mum she's an awful counterfeit"
 Son. her father is the richest maI in all New York who has youn! lady daughter"
 And she never lets you forge the fact for an instant. She makes me sick. However. Jerome Kenyor is fussing around her or her none, just at present and we can invite him to take her off our hands,"
 Shall I invite Bernice Cameron Phil?" His mother was pretty sur, by now that he was going to fin some fault with every girl invited so she was not at all surprised wher he said: "Bernicc is pretty much fl q highbrow, but if you invite old Bill Husted he probably will talk. some of the conceit out of her. You see he is examining to be college professor if he can only make the grade"
 "Luclla Carr" read Mrs. Tracy from her list.
 That little cat" exclaimed Phil. "shc snubbcd Natlee last night at Arrowhead and I know it was be- cause Natlee looked better than she did. However. we've got to invite Jack kilgore and he won't come without her. he's got a bad crush on her."
 That leaves Claire O'Donnell for Pierre Marquard," said Mrs. Tracy.
 It's too bad to pair Claire off with Pierre" said Phil. flor she is q good scout. She told me the other day that she thought Natlee was the prettiest girl she knew. Claire likes to dance. however. and Pierre is the best hoofer in the crowd"
 Mrs. Tracy checked off the names and remarked: T am going to in- vite my friend. Lyra IIilliard. She has wired me that she will be here tomorrow and I shall need a woman somewhere near my own age to keep me company among ali you young people"
 She looked over the list again We have forgotten Rodney Max. well. Phillip"
 "Oh, I expect we'll have to invite him. Just because he lived next door to us I've had to be bored with him more or less all my life. Some times I think he has an idea that he owns me. He's always advising me to do things l don't want to do."
 A sudden smile lighted up Phil's face. "I'll tell you what, he can take your elderly friend in to dinner"
 You'll not call Lyra Hilliard elderly when you see her. Phil. Cn- less she has changed greatly in the last few years she will be younger than any other girl at the party. She has always been very popular with young people"
 "I hate old women who try to be coy and young"
 "she is younger than I am. Phil" said his mother. realizing for the first time that to boy his mother is always old.
 Don't you remember her. Phil? She never makes me think of any thing in the world so much as q brilliant. devouring flame with her gorgeous red hair, her red brown eyes, her 1.-the figure and her trans parent skin that always seems light ed from within by an eternal fire"
 Good lord, Mother, I know l never saw any of your friends who were like that. You are making her out lulu"
 'Lyra Hlliard was. when last I saw her. the most beautiful woman have ever seen. I think l remem- ber now that you were always at camp when she was here.
 Did you say she was married. Num-"
 "Yes-to a man much older than herself As a girl she always said that she was going to marry money and when Spencer Hilliard. many times a millionaire. turned up. she him."
 ''I would not think you would like that kind of a woman. Mother-you whose marriage to my father was purely one of love-"
 For a moment Anne Tracy forgot herself. All the pent-up feeling of hurt that she had stored in her heart for l7 years overfIowed.
 Yes" she responded quickly, "1 your father because I loved him. but what did that marriage bring me? Nothing but loneliness and grief.
 Phillip Wynne Tracy III never considered his wife for moment when she interfered with his in- and you must have known my son. although have never spoken of 1t to you, that the very night you were born your father gayly went joy-ridine with another woman.
 You have probably also heard be- fore this that they were both killed while returning from . notorious