New Britain herald., 1927-12-05
N11~o- By Beatrice Burton lvxOllOv AOV V Author of "Salys Shoulders"
 "The Hollywood Gr,"

who live tar beyond their means. She realizes her highest ambition
 when she becomes engaged to Sta
 ley Drummond, q rich bachelor old rr than herself. On the day after he
 proposes she goes down town 10 meet her Chum. Sue Cain. and sees a man watching her through the crowd. Sh" is oddly attracted by him
 before she secs that he is wearing taxi drivers uniform and standing
 beside a cab. Moved by q sudden inn
 pulse, sh" jumps into the cab, for getting all about Sue, and he drives t'r homo, She learns that he is Go- ing to sell lis ctb-hc owns if. him. ~elf--to raise money to finance a piston ring invention of his. He tells her that he will have 10 give up cab driving and do some other kind of work that will give him plenty Of time for the pcrfccting of the pis- ton ring.
 Tn the meantime Lily sees as much of him as she can. although he seems indifferent toward her, particularly after he sees her en- GaS"ment 10 Staley announced in the paper.
 About the tune Lily makes up her mind that she is too greatly infatu- ate% with him to make q good wife to Staley, Mrs. Lexington announces that the wedding will be early in June, and Lily resigns herself 10 the idea Of marrying Staloy and being comfortable and contcnted, if not wildly happy with him. Mrs, Lex- ington makes elaborate plans for the wedding and even hires butler. Butler, and orders him 10 learn to drive the car and act as chauffeur as well. The first time Butler drives, he WreckS the car and injures both l,lly and her father. who happen to be in it. Then Mrs. Lexington de- cldcs that d safer plan would be 10 hire an expert driver and teach him 10 wait on table after he starts work. She buys a new car in place of the old one, and tells Lily she has man coming to work as driver for it the next day.
 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
 CHAPTER NI The next day was the tenth of May. It was one of those glorious i llne-and greenland gold days of spring. A day of warm wind and blazing sunshine.
 Montpelier road. with its green | To CTS, it's budding trees and green and white houses, looked like a strip of | | hand-blocked cretonnc 10 Lily when 1 i she opened her eyes and sat up in . | bed, looking out of the windows Of , | her room.
 Outside in the lilac bushes a robin was singing, and somewhere in the l middle-distancc, another robin was answering it.
 It certainly was no day to lie 1 a-hod. and Lily found herself eager 10 get mp and get dressed and get | out into the brightness of it.
 At o'clock she walked into the ! 1 dining room.
 "Well. wonders will never cease" ! her mother exclaimed, looking up | from her poached eggs on toast and :, her morning paper. This must be the first time in a year that you've i come down 10 breakfast, Lily Lex iEgton.'
 Lily laughed and sat down in her , fathers empty chair.
 Dad gone already?" she asked, and Mrs. Lexington nodded. "Thc new man took him a while | ago" she said. If he drives as well as he looks, he'll be all right. . . Hes q handsome young fellrE,."
 Lily held out wrist to have her cuff ribbons tied.
 One of her few virtues was that she never went around inc house looking sloppy and dow inc heel the way so many Wo' in the morning.
 If she used cold n her face she put it on at ms and took it all off before anyone SAW her th. next morning. If she came down to break fast in l1imono and slippers they were always attractive ones.
 And on this particular May morn- irg she was as clean and fresh and fragrant as spring itself Her pale i, yellow silk stockings matched her silk smock. and her red gold hair lay in damp little ringlets around her forehead,
 "Woll, month from today my girl will be Staley Drumm ond $ wife" said Mrs. Lexington. pouring her cup of coffee.
 She looked across the table with love and pride and satisfaction in her gray eyes that usually were so cold. T know you're going to be happy" she said tcnderly. Just thlnk-Paris and London for a Honeymoon. And then coming back to Staley's country house for the summer! You're getting just what I've always wanted for you, Lil:. Just what I've never had-enough money so youll never have 10 worry " here your next fur coat or auto mobile is coming from"
 "Yes, Mother" said Lily, in il good little voice that might have belonged to the saintly heroine of the "IlSie" books.
 Sh. said it almost without think ing. Sh" wasn't doing very much thinking these days. She was just going ahead with the thing she had made up her mind to 1o--to marry Staloy and hay" the luxurious kind of life she had always longed for when she married.
 since that flaro-np Of rebellion and passionate longing the night sho had dragged herself out of bed 70 got Pat Frances picture from her dressing table, she had been more or less Contcnt"1 and resigned to the idea of marrying Stal"y. . After all how could she fail to be