New Britain herald., 1927-12-30
M@~o- By Beatrice Burton lVlOllCv AOV Author of sanys
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whom she sees on the street. He takes her home and on the way he : tells her his name Is Pat France
 and that he owns his own cab in a company headed by his friend, Roy
 to sell it to finance piston ring that
 he has invented.
 He and his cab vanish from the
 streets after a week or two during
 which time Lily sees him every day,
 and she begins to miss him so much
 that she decides she cannot marry
 Drunmond. But her mother an-
 nounces the engagement and the
 plans for the wedding on June tenth
 are made. About May tenth Mrs.
 Lexington hires q new chauffeur,
 and when he comes he is-Pat France. After that there is no thought of marrying Drummond in 1ily's mind. With her wedding dress finished and hanging in the closet, the tickets bought for a eea-voyage honeymoon, etc, she leaves the
 house with Pat one day after he
 disagrees with her mother about
 waiting on table, and the following
 day she marries him in his parents home next to their little grocery
 store. The only guest from Lilys world Is her chum, Sue Cain. The
 only wedding present is s2oo
 check from Lily's father all of
 which she spends on clothes. She
 quarrels with Pats mother, and the
 pair of them take a flat of their
 own. Lily knows she will have to do
 her own work, but she hates to do
 it. and the dishes go half-washed,
 the beds half-made, the house half
 dusty, and the laundry piles up until 1 Pat hasn't single shirt left. He and
 Roy Jefferson, whose wife, Sadye,
 does her best to get along with Lily,
 have rented 8 tiny machine shop for
 the manufacture of the piston ring,
 and Pat leaves for it early every
 morning-so early that Lily refuses to get his breakfast. So he goes to a
 nearby lunchroom for It, and one morning, when he and Lily have
 quarreled because of the lack of I clean clothes for him, she follows him to the little restaurant to make
 up. She finds him having breakfast with his old sweetheart, Elizabeth
 Ertz, nurse. Elizabeth is just leav- ing when Lily begins to accuse Pat
 of infidelity to her. Lily created con-
 siderable of a scene in the restau-
 rant. Finally, Pat accompanied her | home and told her she must trust l him. and that, in the future, she 1 must take better care of the home. 1 Lily tried, and their domestic ship
 sailed smoother for few months. One day. Lily met Sue Cain, an old friend. on the street. Sue invited her to card party. Lily, without funds, went to store and tried to charge some clothes to her father. She was | informed her mother had left word that Mrs. Patrick France could not | charge things to Mir. Lexington"
 1 (NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY) 1 CHAPTER NXXIII l With her fingers almost touching , the box, Lily began to argue with ] herself.
 Suppose take it." she thought, ! T might be arrested for thief" 1 Then another thought came to 1 her: But they never would arrest | me-not in this shop" Why, | she had been buying clothes here in | Angouleme's for years and years, | They ought to have been ashamed to even telephone her mother to ask | whether she still could charge clothes to her father or not,
 l I'll just take them, anyway" she l finally made up her mind, "and worry about it afterward" The girl in charge of the credit | desk still had her slender back turn | ed towards her, and without another 1 thought Lily picked up the big | pasteboard box and walked swiftly | out of the store.
 One or two of the black-clad l saleswomcn nodded to her as she ! went past them. She had known 1 them for a long time, and they did not stop her.
 There was taXicab in the street. Lily hailed it, and in two minutes she was on her way home with the box in her arms She laid il down on the seat beside her and peeped into 1t 10 see that everything she had ordered was in it-a golden brown chiffon dress with a fur-trimmed velvet coat to match. 4 golden brown hat of satin. A handbag of brown suede with q lace-edged handkerchief and a small bottle of Blue Star perfume in it.
 It was half past one when she unlocked the door of the little flat.
 Sues bridge was at two.
 T can just make it if l hurry" Lily said to herself, turning on the water in the bathtub and laying out fresh underthngs that she had washed and ironed with her own hands. She could have wept tears of hn imitation over the hands, themselves. | They were bruised and cut and stained from all the bangs and hard | work of housekeeping-from the ! securing of knives and the peeling of vegetables. Never mind. I can manicure | them little in the cab" she said to herself. She had kept the cab. and she could hear it throbbing and pantng in the street outside the house as she dressed. The golden brown clothes were wonderfully becoming, and Lily | st,,,r I pt,,. iinlng Of her new ""', felt very well peased with herself. zW
 Il got them the only way l could have got 1heln.' she thought. If I hadn't walked out with them, I couldn't have gone to Sues party" And, even if a store detective came for them he wouldn't take them
 away, now that she had worn them Besides, Lily knew that her