New Britain herald., 1927-12-13
Money Love
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 who live far beyond their means. Her mothers iondest dreams are realized when she becomes engaged 10 Staley Drummond, q rich bach elor older than herself. The day after he proposes she goes down town 10 meet her friend, Sue Cain. and sees man watching her through the crowd. She is instantly attracted by him before she sees that he is wearing a taxi drivers uniform and standing beside a cab She jumps into 1t, and he drives | her home. That marks the begin ming Of their friendship. Lily sees him every day, learns from his Identification card that his name is l, , Pat France. The card bears his ! picture, and Lily takes it. She be- :. gins 10 realize that she is in love with him and cannot marry Staley. | But about that time her mother [ 1 announces the engagement, and the i wedding date is set for June tenth. ! Pat owns his cab in an indepen- [ 1 dent cab company headed by his l friends. Roy Jefferson. He sells 1t . 10 finance a piston ring which he ] ! hae perfected. telling Lily he will ! take some kind of job where he | won't need it. She wonders how ! she will see him when he no long 1 CT has the cab, and one morning F i soon after he sells 1t she walks . | out into the back yard and finds | him polishing her mothers new automobile. He has been hired as 1 the Lexingtons' new chauffeur! From the minute she sees him again. 1 Lily knows she never will care for anyone but him again, and she makes lip her mind to see as much 1 of him as possible. Then her mother learns of the love affair and | the secret meetings Of the pair 1 1 through Carrie, the housemaid, | who's in love with Pat herself. Lily orders Carrie 10 leave the house, [ and she does but she goes straight i to staley Drummond and shows him Pats picture which she found in Lilys drawer. Lily suggest 10 Staley that they break their engage ment but he refuses although he's angry with her and suspicious of | her friendship with Pat. That'night . Pat says he Is going down to his own house and Lily makes up her 1 mind to go with him and meet , his family and see his home--the | { kind of home shed live in if she married him.
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 CHAPTER XVIII
 | Lily could not eat her dinner that night, she was SO afraid that Pat would get away from the house without her.
 All through the meal she had one ear cooked for the sound of the garage door opening and closing. Her hat and coat were lying on a chair in the hall, all ready for her to slip on at seconds notice.
 She pecked at her food. rolled | her bread into crumbs. and drum | med on the tablecloth with nervous fingers.
 Ten minutes to seven found her getting Up from the table. leaving her desert untouched.
 
 pie? It's cocoanut custard,' said Mrs. Lexington. T had Agnes make it especially for you,
 She and Agnes always were plan ming to have things that Lily liked to eat-creamed chicken. peas. corn bread, frozen fruit salad. cocoanut custard pie. The whole house re- volved-and always had revolved-- 1 around Lily and her likes and dis likes.
 I'm not hungry, Mother" she said now, shaking her head and pushing her chair back into place.
 Mir. Lexington winked at Mrs. Lexington. These engaged girls don't have much appetite, Ellie" he said, wittily. They're so full of plans for the future that they don't ! have much room for food, ] guess He was we'll content these days, | knowing nothing about Pat France | and believing that his daughter was ! marrying the man of her choice ana | her heart when she married Staley | Drummond. He often told himself that his little girl was marrying well when she married a man who could give her all the things that he. him. self. had been slaving to give her all his lifeline clothes, fine cars, fine friends and fine times.
 "Remember how love-sick you were just before we were married. EIie?" he asked his wife, with some more Of his heavy humor.
 Mrs. Lexington sniffed scornfully. She never had been love sick in her life. and she said so.
 Fl can remember how work ed right up until the night l was married on my wedding dress. mak- ing every stitch of 1t myself she said with force and vigor. T couldn't find dressmaker in our little town who could make 1t with any style, so l did it myself. And hemstitched all my handkerchiefs and underthings. too. There never was anything love-sick about me. Cy Lexington.'
 Lily could easily believe her, as she sat there with her big com manding nose in the air and her chin lifted haughtily. There was nothing soft and yielding and beauti- rul about her. And she never had had any of the feminine charm of Lily, who looked as If she were made for love- with her petal-like skin. her delicately- rounded contours, her mouth that was like a perfum- ed velvety flower.
 Lily went into the hall. slipped into her coat, and quietly let her. self out by the front door.