New Britain herald., 1927-12-08

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 Lily Lexington is the spoiled only child of the Cyrus LeNingtons. who live far beyond their means. Her mothers fondest dreams arc real ized when she becomes engaged to Staley Drummond rich bachelor much older than herself. On the day after he proposes she goes down | town to meet her friend, Sue Cain, and sees man watching her through the crowd. She feels her self oddly attracted toward him be fore she secs that he is wearing Q taxi drivers uniform, Moved by sudden impulse, she jumps into the cab and he drives her homo. She learns that his name is Patrick France and that he owns his own cab in a company of cab drivers headed by Roy Jefferson. And he intends to sell it to raise money to finance a piston ring which he has invented. and go into some other kind of work.
 Lily soon realizes that she is deep ly in love with him. But about the time she makes up her mind to break her engagement to Staley. her mother announces it and the we'd ding day is set for early in June.
 Early in May Mrs. Lexington hires d new chauffeur, and when he arrives he is no one but Pat France, whom Lily was doing her best to l forget. She insists that he take her i for a drive, and when they're alone out in the country she tells him how much she cares for him. That night she leaves a card game at Staleys house to go for q drive with him, pretending she has a headache. Suspicious because he has seen her twice in Pats cab, Staley telephones the house in a few minutes 10 sec if she is at home. The next morning Pat tells her he should not have come there to work-that he's Go ing 10 leave at the end Of the week, and Lily is heartsick at the tllOtSlll Cl lllo SOlilo- ''lIP lii'N'S tp her Wind 10 see as much of him as possible before her wedding in three weeks and they start out on an carly morning picnic without so much as asking if they may have the car. On the way Pat shows Lily the humble little house where he lives and asks her if she would live in a place like that, doing all her own work.
 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XIV
 If there was one thing in the world that Lily Lexington knew ab- solutely nothing about, that one thing was housework.
 She never had swept q room, washed a painful of dishes, or boiled q kettle of water in her life. She never had so much as aired her own bed or hung up her nightgowns in the clothes closet.
 She got up in the morning to a clean house. to q weh-cooKed break fast served 10 her on bedside tray. to q household of which she was the pcttcd and coddled darling.
 And so she laughed and shook her 1 head at Pats question.
 Could I do all the work in that 1 house? Why, Pat, I couldn't do the work in any house. I may as well l be honest. - If anyone gave mo q basket of Socks 10 be darncd or a pan of dough 10 be made into loayes well, l inst wouldn't know how tc set to work. that's all"
 Then her face grew sober 'Rut could learn, l suppose" she said slowly. I'm awfully clever at pick ing up things. . Why did vol ask me if I'd live in q house like that?"
 Pat neatly turned tn" car at thc end ot the street and started do"r the other side. "5,cauSo you saC you'd marry Inc today" he told her And l wanted to give you som' idea of what marrying me would mean. II would mean the hardos
 kind Of work. day in and day out every day in the year. You sec tha
 building next 10 our house,
 Lily nodded. It was q little two
 story building with a grocery stor'
 occupying the first floor.
 \ barrel of potatoes and wood
 rn rack covered with baskets Q pansicS stood or the sidewalk bcfor
 it. The windows were filled Wlil parsley and carrots and oranges N
 turnips. Beyond them were Sh"j'c stacked with bright-colored can and paStcho1rl boxes. and in th
 doorway stool q rosy-chcckcd htt
 woman with stool-rmmed spectacle
 pushed up on her forehead. plai'
 shawl around her shoulders, and th
 whitest Of StarChcd white aprons
 standing out from the little WaiSj'
 That's my mother, Illy,' Pa
 said. quietly
 The little woman was not looking
 at them She had an egg in Inc
 hand and she was studying the Shcl
 as if it were some rare discovery. Pat laughed. Shes looking to se