New Britain herald., 1927-12-06
By Beatrice Burton I(JV of
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! INGTONS who live far beyond their means. She realizes her highest ambition when she becomes en- gagged 10 STALEY DRU MMOND. a rich bachelor much older than her self. On the day after he proposes she goes down town to meet her chum. SUE CAIN, and sees a man watching her through the crowd She is oddly attracted by him before she sees that he is wearing q taNl ' drivers uniform. Moved by q sud don impulse. she jumps into his cab forgetting all about Sue, and ho drives her home. After that they i become great friends. She l"arnf that he is going 10 sell his cap to raise money 10 finance a piston ring invention Of his. He tells her he ia ! aroins 10 do some other kind of york on tho invention in which he : Ias boundless faith.
 In the meantime Lily sees as much : of him as she can, and falls more and more in love with him all the 1 time. even while she fights against IT,
 About the time she makes up her mind to tell Staley, who has seen . her with Pat on two different occa- sions. that she doesn't love hlln enough to marry him. Mrs. L"Xing- ton announces the engagement. Lily makes up her mind to forget Pat and have good time on a Euro pean honeymoon with Staley and a gay luxurious life with him alter ward.
 Mrs. Lexington advcrtises for l chauffeur. telling Lily that he Will 1 have to act as houseman around the place. too. And when Lily goes out i into the yard one morning she ilnds Pat there cleaning the car. Hes the new driver! They go for 1 q drive and he admits to her that n" ! took the job to be near her just tor the short time before the wedding But when she shameleSsly tells nm she wants him to kiss her he shakes his head, turns the car and takes her home. She tells him that night she is going to go to Staley's house Wl'h | her mother and father. and will pre- ! tend to have a headache and leave early so that they can be together for an hour or so. at least. She hopes that Staley won't sec who me new chauffeur is, however. (SOW GO ON WITH THE STOR1) CHAPTER MI
 Bachelors very often are very wonderful housekeepers. Staloy Drummond was. His beautiful house was a, dream of comfort service and peace. liner" were always enough cigar2ts and ash trays on the little smoking ta- bles near the deoply-cushioned arm chairs. There were always the fresh est of flowers in the rooms. and tho reading lamps were always at just l the right angle.
 There was always q silent Japanese man servant around when things had to be done-cigarets lighted, gingor-ale poured. sandwlcheS served.
 But on this particular May night the luxury and comfort and beauty of the big room where Lily LeXing- ton sat playing bridge with seven ! other people meant nothing 10 her 1 Nothing at all.
 The seven pcoplc-hcr own par ! onts, Staley, Sue Cain and her mother and father and Jack East man-meant very little to her, too, that right. They were like figures , in a dream seen through the blue 1 gray haze of cigaret smoke that rose like q cloud above the two card 1 table.
 The only thing that was real 10 1 her was the little silver clock on the ! mantel- piece across the room. | Ten minutes to nine . five min utes to nine. . At nine Pat was coming for her,
 At three minutes before the hour she told Staloy she had be@stly { headache and pushed back her | chair.
 He pushed back his, and got up when shc did.
 "Upstairs in the blue room there's a medicine chest with some head ache tablets in 1t. They're very good.' he said. looking at her anX- iously as he walked with her 10 the foot Of the wide stairs 'I'll wait here for you-don't take more than one tablet"
 "Plcase don't wait for me" she begged him. Please go back and I,n .o.I,
 She was telling him a lie, just as she had fibbed about the headache, She had no headache. and she had no intention of going back 10 the card game.
 Her plan was 10 run upstairs, put on her cape, and slip out of the house without anyone seeing her. After that they could all think what they wanted 10 think about her. She didn't care what they thought.
 All she cared about was getting out into the starry. scented dark ness Of the spring night with the man she loved--with Pat France, in his chauffcur's uniform.
 Everything else she ever had cared about or wanted seemed trifling and unimp portant. all at once. Everybody else seemed dull as ditch water = everybody but Pat,
 She did not even glance toward the medicine chest in the dressing | room off the blue room when she ran upstairs. She snatchcd her cape from the bed where she had thrown
 1t and sprayed herself with some perfume from a tall bluc-and gold atomizer on the powder table be- tween the windows.
 As she set it down on the table
 top she saw the flash of automobile
 headlights turning into the drive
 and knew that Pat had come fol
 her. Her heart felt as if 1t wert
 nose diving like an airplane, and sh'
 ran lightly out of the room and tip.