New Britain herald., 1927-12-12
By Beatrice Burton lvlOllCV LOV C Honey
 

daughter Of the Cyrus leXingtons ] who live far beyond their means. l Her mothers fondost dreams are realized when she becomes engaged i 0 Staley Drummonl. q rich bache- ! Tor older than herself The day after i he proposes she goes down town to | meet her friend, Sue Cain. and sees l q man watching her through the i crowd. She is oddly and strongly attracted by him before she sees that ! he is a taxi driver. Then she jumps 1 into his cab and he drives her ! home. She learns that his name is 1 Pat France and tbat he owns his i own cab i'll q company headed by ! his friend, Roy Jefferson. However, i inc intends to sell il. he says. to 1 finance pis;on ring invention of ] his.
 Getting out of the cab. Lily takes 1 his chauffcur's Identification card, ] with his picture on it. She begins 1 to realize, as the days go by. that she k deeply and sincerely in love with him. But about the time she 1 makes mp her mind not to marry ] Staley. her mother announces her engagement and sh" resigns herself l to q wedding early in June. But early in May Mrs. Lexington i hires q new chauffeur. and when he comes he is Pat France. From the minutes she sees him again, Lily | knows she cant marry Staley, and actually hegs Pat 10 marry her, But, | although he admits he loves her. he says she was not made for a poor mans wife. He shows hers tho place where he lives. and the grocery store where his mother helps his father earn the living, and tells Lily that his wife probably will have 10 slave the way his mother always has. He introduces her to his friends, the Jettersons and Lily instantly dotcsts Sadye, Roy's wife. partly be- cause of her loud clothes and partly because she is q friend of Elizabeth Ertz, with whom Pat has been going around. One day Carrie. the Lexing- tons housemaid. tells Lily's mother of the love affair between Lily and Pat, and that same day Mrs. IeXing- ton sees them in the car. making love to each other. Lily denies that her head was on Pats shoulder and so on, but admits she wishes he 1 would marry her and says he is leaving his job on tho next Satur- day, Mrs Lexington decides 10 let him work the rest of the week. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
 CHAPTER XVII
 When he mother left hor alone Lily sat down before her dressing table and did some hard thinking
 She never had done very much really hard thinking in her life. It had always made her tired out. Even when she was a little girl at school she had cried over problems in art hm etic--and so Mrs. Lexington had asked the head Of the expensive private school not 10 give her too many hard problems 10 work out and the head Of the expensive pri- yatc school had agreed not to. She
 
 tered on,
 Later Lily had stopped taking French lessons because they were too hard. And she had dropped piano lessons for the same reason. For 2c years life had been made soft and smooth and easy for her. She was like the Biblical lilies of the field. She toiled not. neith- CT did she spin. But Sheba, in all her glory. was not arrayed-and served and sheltered and coddled - like Lily Lexington. She had been brought up in rose-colored cotton wool.
 Now. suddenly, without any warn ing, she was faced with a real prob lcm-a problem that nobody but herself could solve for her.
 'I can make Pat marry mc-1 can cry and coax until he does it." she said 10 herself. her face sunk in her hands, her eyes on her lovely reflec- tons in the toilet mirror before her. "But If ] do, it means the Roy Jet tnrsons. the grocery store. the wash tub probably. and vanilla for per fumc the rest of my life" She laughed for q second. remembering Pats face when he saw the price mark on the bottom Of the black glass perfume bottle.
 Then her face grew grave once more. And if marry Staley-as probably shall-1'll have every thing l want in the world except Pat"
 She remembered how she had said 10 Pat that morning: I'm going to marry you or know the reason why"
 But now, when she was all alone | with her thoughts, she began to wonder if she would have the cour age 10 do ito give up tho life she was used to for life in the neigh lorhood of the France family's gro cery store and Roy Jotterson's ga rage. All h"r black doubts and mts givings came back 10 settle over her like storm clouds.
 After all. il was very pleasant to live in world of big Well-furnished rooms, NlSh- powered auto'nOblic", nicely served meals. breakfasts on a tray. card parties and luncheons and dances.
 TO have nothing to do but enjoy herself had seemed the simplest and most natural thing in the world 10 Lily, always. II was impossible to think of life with poverty and hard work in it.
 A knock sounded on the panels Of the door, and Mrs. Lexington put her head into the room for all in stant like d cuckoo suddenly pop ping out of q cuckoo clock. "Stal"y's downstairs to see you Sh" said. and popped out again.
 on the foot of th" bel lay the lit- i t1r pink sports dress that Lilly had