New Britain herald., 1927-12-21
Money Love
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6 q. rich bachelor much older thar - herself. She is very fond Of him. hu il realizes she Is not in love with hin a the day after she accepts him. Fol f she falls in love ''at first sight with n a taxi driver that she Sees down Q town when she is on her way tc
 meet her chum, Sue Cain. Forget f ting all about Sue. she jumps into T hls cab and he drives her home that S day, and for days afterward she r mana ges to see him. She learns that
 his name IS Pat France and that he owns his own cab in company I headed by his friend. Roy Jefferson. = He sells 1t to finance q piston ring {. that he has invented. and he and , his cab disappear from the streets. z Lily misses him terribly, and f makes up her mind that she can 3 not marry Staley. But Mrs. LeXing- , ton announces the engagement, and , the wedding day is set for June ; tenth. a few weeks off. Then, on the - tenth of May, Lily goes out into the 5 back yard to see the new chauffeur
 her mother has hired and finds -- [ Pat France. He admits he has taken , the job just to be near her. and he and Lily spend hours together every day. Finally Carrie, a housemaid,
 who likes Pan pretty well herself.
 tells Staley Drummond that Lily 1 ] has Pats picture In her room. and goes with the same story to Mrs. Lexington. Then she leaves the house.
 Lily offers to break the engage
 ment when Staley comes to ask her
 about the story. but he refuses to
 let her. insisting that he cares too much for her to really believe the story. Then Mrs. Lexington takes
 matters into her own hands by tell
 ing Pat he'll have to take Carries
 place, and serve dinner that night
 when Staley comes. Pat refuses and
 Lily leaves the house with him. They
 go to his fathers house. next door
 10 his grocery, and are married the
 next day. despite the protests of
 Lily's parents and Staley. On Sunday
 morning Lily lies in bed til noon.
 and Florence, Pats sister, says Pat
 Is at the Jettersons' house. Lily who
 doesn't like Sadye Jefferson because
 she is a friend of Pats old girl.
 Elizabeth Ertz, Is angry because he
 has gone there. She falls asleep
 again, although it's noon, waiting
 for him to come home.
 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY l CHAPTER XIV
 II was half past twelve when Lily opened her eyes again. Someone was knocking at her door, and from the hall came Florences light, pretty voice:
 Wake up. Lily! Dinner will be ready in half an hour"
 Lily sat up in bed. blinking her
 eyes to get the sleep out of them.
 Turn on the water in the tub,
 then, will you?" she called, drowsily.
 And then come here a second" She
 reached for a cigaret and was lying
 flat on her back. sending a plume Of smoke to the ceiling, when Florence came into the room.
 Honey, which dress would you put on?" she asked. her eyes run ming over the clothes that she had hung in Pats closet.
 This one" Florence answered, taking down the pink-and- orchid one that Lily had worn the day be- fore. I'm crazy about it."
 jfc with a wide yawn. And if you look in my suitcase youll see some orchid silk underthings and a pair of sand-colored stockings with orchid clocks. Just hang them in the bathroom for me, will you?'
 Florence rummaged through the ] suitcase, exclaiming over the cn- I hroidered stockings, the hand-sew silk lingerie, the sachet bags of vio- i !et-scented silk that were tucked into the corners. 1 Everything you have Is so beau ] tlful." she said. Tt would have just poisoned me 10 leave all the things 1 that you must have left behind you when you married Pat. But you know what they say--'Ain't love wonderful? ?" 1 Lily frowncd, sitting on the edge of the bed and slipping her slender. naked feet into her mules. She won dered why Pat had not come home 1 from the Jettersons Wouldn't 7, :t be dreadful if he found out now 1 that he really liked the Ertz girl 1 better than he thought he did? Sometimes men never discovered | who the right woman was until they had married the wrong one.
 What do you suppose is keeping Pat so long," she asked Florence, anxiously.
 Florence shrugged her shoulders and held mp a yellow silk princess slip to admire, "Oh, he always hangs around their house a lot" she said, ahsently, "Just look at the lace on this slip: ! never saw anything so fine" She sighed. folding it up and laying it back in the suitcase.
 Lily sighed, too-but not because of the slip. Why don't you run over to the Jettersons' and get him 2"
 Florence shook her head. 'I've got to help mother with the dinner" she said. T always make the salad and the coffee.'
 It was while she was combing her hair that Lily decided to run over to the Jettersons' house, herself, to bring Pa. home. T may as well be friends with them first as 'ast." she said to her bright image in fhe glass. 'Tf I'm not, it's going 10 make trou- ble between me and Pat. He likes them-so I'll have to pretend that ' do, too. l suppose
 She went to the top of the stairs and called 10 Florence, to ask her to tflauhOOe foY 1 taxic3b for her.