New Britain herald., 1927-11-26
M21o- 2o By Beatrice Burton lvlOllCV LOV C Author O.
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NIlll'A o4 lIlt ' ' I uS i-tNlHS toilsop W iio have always lived far beyond their means. Lily has been reared 10 be 1 beautifully useless, and her highest ambition is realized when she be- comes engaged to Staley Drummond, . wealthy bachelor much older than herself.
 1 On the day after sine promises to marry him she goes down town in q driving rain to lunch with her , chum, Sue Cain. and ask her to be i her maid Of honor when she mar ries in June. On the way down the street she sees a very good-looking man who's watching her; and she feels herself oddly attracted by him before she notices that he Is wear l ing a uniform and standing beside | his taxicab. Moved by a sudden i'm ! pulse, she jumps into the taxicab and tells him 10 drive her home. forgetting all about Sue Cain. She talks to the driver and he f tells her how automobiles have al- ways fascinated him and how he is working on new invention for mo- tors. As Lily gets out of the cab she takes his identification card from it. with his name, Pat France, and his picture upon it.
 That night Staley comes for din her, and when he and Lily are sit ting together before the fire after wards, the doorbell rings and Mrs. Lexington tells her a taxi driver is , In the hall and wants 10 speak to | her. It is Pat France, and she tells | Staley a foolish He about having | forgotten to pay her cab fare that day. But he follows her into the ! hall, and hears Pat France tell her that he wants the Identification card. She tells a second fib denying | that she has it, and he goes. Staley ! leaves to go out of town, and the last thing he does Is to cross-ques- ton Lily about Pat France. After he's gone she and her mother quar- rel bitterly. and she half-accuses her mother of engineering the mar riage, and says she won't talk 10 him If he phones the next day. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
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 Tn the first place, it had been most surprising thing that Lily ever noticed Pat France.
 And in the second place 1t was still more surprising that she ever let herself go on thinking about him. as she had.
 For Lily was a first class little snob under her prettiness and her young charm.
 She never had paid any attention to people unless they had something that she wanted-money or friends of influence.
 The only times she ever noticed Carrie. the housemaid who had worked for her mother fer five years, was when she wanted her to fastcn a dress for her or clean q pair of silver-cloth slippers or per form some such task for her.
 On the morning following her IIItttllis HItI ] 'tl T AilA+' i>IlS ol'i cd her eyes at 10 o'clock, after al most twelve hours of refreshing sleep and wondered how she could manage to see him again that day.
 She stretched out q slim arm and rang the bell beside her bed. She heard it's faint buzz in the kitchen, and presently Carrie came up the stars with her breakfast tray.
 Mrs. Lexington has gone to meeting of the Consumers league. She told me I was to tell you" fho maid said, setting the tray down upon the bedside table. shell not be back for lunch"
 As she started for the door, Lily called her back. She smiled at the small, red checked little woman in her very sweetest and most friendly way.
 Carrie" she said If long dis tance telephone call comes for me. will you say I'm in bed ill with n headache?"
 Instantly Carries face was nll 'olttIll. Nlldll l e'I tou SOiiIt dS- plrin. Miss Lily" she asked. Lily smiled. NO. it's not that bad. Carrie. It's just bad enough 10 keep me from talking over long-dis- tanco. Understand
 Carried nodded her dark head, with it's hair parted in the middle and drawn back into a knot. "J don't like 10 tell lies fer people, md that's the truth" she said. setting q small. square chin. Carrie had been with the Lexingtons for so long that she was no longer shy of them. She was very outspoken. naturally. too
 Listen to me. Carrie" Lily said. You don't want 10 lose your place here, do you? You-" Then she [ stopped abruptly, as she saw that she was saying the wrong thing.
 Carrie" she began on another tack" suppose you were in loy" with a man so much that you couldn't bear the thought of another man tclephoning you from the town where he was. just to talk lovey- ION'N lHllSS lO nou Just sS tll' woman to another. wouldn't you pretend you were too ill to talk 2"
 Carries small, cheerful face soft "nei. "Tll tell Mr. Drummond you're sick with a headache" she decided suddenly, after two or three minutes of thought. while Lily sat slpping coffee in a most woe bceone way.
 You're nice girl" said Lily. and if you open that top drawer of my dresser you'll find pair of yellow silk stockings that Sue Cain gave me when she came home from Paris. . They're too small for me, but they'd just fit your tiny feet, Carrie. Ton take them"
 But Carrie gavcr her head q wig orous shake. And where would be wearing yellow silk stockings with embroidery all up the sides of ihCDl tO the kuc.2 I wouldn't fool