New Britain herald., 1927-12-29
Money Love
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1rlNe. whom Sne sees OH lll' e'ltNt' He takes her home and on the way he tells her his name is Pat France land that he owns his own cab fin a company headed by his friend, Roy JettersoQ He adds that he is going to sell ir 70 finance piston ring that he has invented. He and his cab vanish from the streets after 2 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 Drummond. But her mother an nouncas the enga cement and the plans for the wedding on June tenth gre made About May tenth Mrs. Lexington hires new chauffeur, and wben he comes he is-Fat France, After that there is no thought of marrying Drummond in fLfly's mind. With her wedding dress finished and hanging in the closet the tickets bought for a sea-voyage boneymoon, etc. she leaves the house with Pat one day after he disagree with her mother about waiting on tahl-. and the following day she marries him in his parents horne next 70 their little grocery store. The only wedding present IS s scno check from Liiy's father all of which she spends on clothes. She ouarrels with Pats mother and the rair of them take a flat Of their own. Lily knows she will have 10 do her own work, but she hates TO do 1t, and the dishes go half-washed' the beds halr-made, the house half dusty. and the laundry piles up until Pat hasn't single shirt left. He ana Roy Jefferson whose wife, SadNe, does her best to get along with Li'v' have rented q tiny machine shop for the manufacture of the piston ring. and Pat leaves for 1t early every mornins-so. early that lily refuses +o get hi. breakfast, So he goes 70 a nearby lunchroonl for if, and one morning when he and Lilly have ouarrelad because of the lack Of clean clothes for him. she follows hin, to the little restaurant 10 make up. She finds him having breakfast with his old sweetheart. Elizabeth Ertz. s nurse Elizabeth. is just leaving when Lily beings to accuse Pat of infidelity 10 her.
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 CHAPTER NXNII
 Elizabeth Ertz had not seen Lily come in.
 And now, at the sound of her high and angry voice. sbe swung around from the cashiers desk where she vas paying her bill and stared al her in astonishment.
 The waitress. on her way in from the kitchen with Pats plate of smoking wheat cakes, stopped dead still for ar instant and then backed out again, through the swinging doors.
 "You're in such a rush every morning that you can't even fix yourself a cup of coffee at home Lily rushed on. "Rut you have plen- tv of time 10 come down here and chew the fat with the Frtz--
 She waved her arm III th" hlrec- ,ion of the cashiers desk. and touched Flzabat ath Ertz. who had I come up and was standing close be- , side her now.
 If she knew that anything was i yrone-and she couldn't have failed to know it--her face did not sho" it, It was calm and sweet. and her . voice was soft a.s sine spoke 10 Lily;
 
 you again.
 Then her voice traiied off into s'- lence as Lily gave her look that : WAS like dagger, and turned her back sauarelv upon her.
 She stood there for another min nte, and then went quickly out or ] the restaurant. her rubber heels [ making no sound on the floor so ] that Lily did not know she was gone, Not that she cared whether she u.as still there or not! She was so Q angry that she did not care who heard what she had to say to Pat. [ She diln't even know that tha other people in tn" place had stopped "a'- : ing to watch her and listen to. her,
 
 fury.
 "I should have known better ) than to marry lo"-brow like you. she stormed and no fish-Wife eyer 6 made more noise, 'I might nav" known this would he the ch"ap' common sort Of thing you'd Jo'
 Pat jumped up from his stool. r.. F., h Y n | white counter. and started for fh" l door. Good Lord, Lily" he said un- T. der his breath, whatever you hay" | 10 say to me, wait until We gct out J side
 = And in no time at all, they were r outside in the street On the corner r. waiting for her street car stood e Elizabeth Ertz, her whit" uniform and shoes looking whiter than eyer in the sunlight. and her blue hat T pulled down over her eyes to pro- tect them from the glare.
 The sight of her standing there onragsd Lily anew Look at her l. Hanging around this naighborhood fust because she knows you li's here" She choked up,
 = Pat shrugged his shoulders, Sh" : ii always lived around here. as far n' T. I know" he began hu. Lily cut hin IS short
 "WeH. then. you moved here s' vou could b" where she is" Sh' hlazed out at him, forgetting thA - Pat had had nothing to do with tn a choosing of the little flat.
 Angry as he was by now, Pat ha' to laugh at that. "You talk like ; cross habJ, Lily" ha said. "1 o' aren't using your head. I told vol S [ didn't care where We lived. SO lonI as the rent wasn't too high. You an, Sadye picked out this plac" out.