New Britain herald., 1928-01-26
M1-o By Beatrice Burton NlOllcV LOv Author Shoulders" Honey
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|, bachelor older than herself. to mar ry her mothers chauffeur. Pat France. Her family and friends drop her instantly. and she goes to live with Pat in . little hat near his parents home.
 Pat has invented . new kind of piston ring. and he and his friend Roy Jefferson, rent a tiny shop where they manufacture the new ring. Pat works three or four nights week, not only in the shop. but helping in Roy's garage, and Lily finds life very dull and uneventful. However, she still ts in lovo with } Pat and Is very jealous of his for mer sweetheart Elizabeth Ertz.
 One day Lily meets her friend. Sue Cain down town, and she asks her to a party. Lily wants some new clothes, and appeals to staley. who gives her his own check to pay for them. Florence France. Pats sis ter, is bookkeeper in the clothes shop, sees the check. and later on. when Lily and Pat quarrel. she tells Pat about it.
 Lily goes home to her fathers house to find that he has had some business losses and that her mother and she will have to do all the housework and economize a great deal. Staley is devoted to her. but Lily begins to long for Pat. She goes to see him and he thinks she has come because ofa newspaper article on the automobile page that told all about the La France piston ring. Lily has not even seen the article, and says so. but he does not believe her. Elizabeth Ertz is at the apartment, apparently helping Pat with his housework, and al- though Lily sees her there, she does not question Pat about her. She goes home and tries to be content ed with life there. On the night be- fore Sue Gains secret marriage to Jack Eastman, the pair and her. self go with Staley to his house to "celebrate" the event. Staley tells her that better piston ring than Pats has just been put on the market and that he Is thinking of putting some of his money into the new company.
 Following a dull evening with Staley, Lily, in motoring home with Sue and Jack. is in an auto accl- dent; Jack is taken to Q hospital. Everything among her old friends seems to go wrong. She is in no mood for the lawyer Staley brings her to obtain divorce from Pat France. When 1t is decided to name Elizabeth Ertz as the correspondent, Lily, with a qualm of conscience. goes to Pats mother to make . clean breast of the plot.
 Pat coming in, hearing of the at- tempt to drag in Elizabeth Ertz's Iname, defends her. This makes Lily furious. She'll name the girl. Burst ling unceremoniously into Staley's office, Lily finds his secretary firt- ling with him. Lily goes to the fash lionable Paris Lane restaurant, there to pour out her woes, sobbingly, to lSue Cain, now Sue Eastman. I(Now GO ON WITH THE sTORY) CHAPTER LVI
 Sue, who was as hard and bright as new nails, stared at her with dis gust and surprise written in her snapping dark eyes.
 "For grief's sake, brace up!" she said, in a tone that was itself brac- ling. Everybody in the place will be looking at you in a. minute"
 And Lily did brace up, casting furtive look around the restaurant to see if anyone had noticed that she had broken down.
 But no one in the restaurant had.
 All the beautifully dressed wom- en, with their beautifully waved hair, their flower-like skins, their dieted bodies and expensive clothes. were busily chatting over their non- fattening foods.
 They were much too interested in themselves and their own affairs to be anything but briefly curious about anyone's else misery.
 And Sues just like them" thought Lily. bitterly, as Sue pushed her own vanity case across the table cloth and told her for the love of Moses in the bull rushes to fix up her face and go on with her alli- gator-pear salad. She's just ns selfish and cold as she can be-"
 Sue was humming Blue Heaven" to herself, and looking out of the window between puffs at q long tipped Russian cigaret.
 What on earth ailed you? Going to pieces like that?" she asked. when Lily had dried her eyes, put on fresh lipstick, and picked up her salad fork. II should think you'd be tckled to piece because you're getting rid of that no-good husband of yours."
 Lily sniffed delicately. T am," she said.
 We'll, she was, in a way, she thought. She was glad to be out of the stuffy little flat. with it's wash ing machine and its ugly furniture.
 She was glad to be here. with Staley's lilies of the valley pinned upon her breast, orchid perfume that he had given her scentng her handkerchief. monogrammed cigar cts from him filling her cigaret case that was gift from him, too.
 "Oh. I'm all mixed up, Sue" she went on, after a minute. T know I'm going to get this divorce all right, but somehow don't feel right about it.''
 Sue was impatient. "Oh. no one ever feels right about anything" she answered. Look at Jack. for in- stance He didn't want to marry me on the very day we were married. He said so. He thought We were both too high-tempered to get along we'll .. Don't be silly. Lily Lex ington. You made a fool marriage and you have chance to marry a