New Britain herald., 1928-01-04
M0~o By Beahice Burton lvlOllCv AOv Author "Sany Shoulders"
 Hollywood Girl"

of the Cyrus LextnGtone, ts engaged to Staley Drummond. . rich bach, elor. She throws him over . few weeks before the day set for hel wedding and marries her mother'l chauffeur. Pat France.
 Pat has invented . new kind oi piston ring that he and his friend Roy Jefferson. want to manufacturs and put on the market Pat goei to work in Roy's garage and later on the two of them rent a machine shop where they intend to make the piston ring. He works all day and far into the night very often. and Lily, living with his family in their house next door to their little gro- cery store, is very lonely and ups happy.
 She quarrels with Pats mother and insists that Pat take flat that he can't afford. But when they are in it she is not happy. although ahe still loves Pat and learns to keep house in a slap-dash fashion. She misses her former friends, her good clothes. and the easy life at home with her parents who have com- pletely forgotten her existence ap- parently.
 Then. one day, months after her marriage, she meets her former chum, Sue Cain, down town. Sue is giving bridge party that afternoon and invites Lily to come to 1t. Lily accepts, and then wonders where she is going to get the new clothes she needs. She buys some at Ango- uleme's, a shop where Sc always had charged clothes to her father. and charges them to him now. only to find that her mother has given or ders not to let CT charge things to him. So she boldly carries the clothes out of the store. and when store detective comes to the. house for the money for them she telephones Staley and asks him for it. vaguely intending to pay it back. He gives her a check for more than $500. and next day Lily learns that Pats sister. Flor ence, has just become bookkeeper at Angoulemes. She Is afraid that Flor ence has seen Staley's check. but learns that she has not. However. she Is afraid that she has aroused Tlorence's suspicious by questioning her. That afternoon she meets sta- ley, who insisted that she see him again when he gave her the check and he tells her how great a mis- take she made in marrying Pat. Holding her ork-hardened hands in his, he says he wants to say something else to her.
 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
 CHAPTER XXXvII
 A full minute went by-and sone- times a minute seems like a very long time-whtle Staley held her by the wrists and peered at her through the brown darkness without saying a. word.
 Lily began to be impatient. "le must be five minutes after six by now" she thought, wondering why he did not go on with what he had to say to her. "and I've just GOT to be home in ten minutes to get Pats supper.." She could picture Pat. sit ting in his easy chair reading the evening paper and glancing up at the clock every now and then.
 'I must go. staley," she said, and drew her hands away from him. What wepe you going to say?"
 staley looked at her & moment more through the thickening dark ness. Nothing" he said quickly. nothing that mattered particularly. Tell you some other time."
 He started his car and they drove back to Boyle street in silence. At the corner of her own street he stopped and she got out. looking quickly around first, to zee if Pat were in sight.
 Good bye. Lily" he said. looking around the street as she had done. to see if anyone were watching them. Then he bent hts head and kissed the hand that he held.
 'I don't know why - but fee' worse about your hands than do about anything else" he observed "I hate to think of you scrubo'ng floors and peeling potatoes. some how"
 Then he was gone, and Lily was going up the street past all the ii1- tie houses and the apartments where dozens of other women were peellng potatoes and doing the hundred ana one homely tasks that women spend their lives in doing, for the most rart-and doing very cheerfully. too'
 But Lily did not give the other women a thought. She was thinking only of herself as she walked along and by the time she reached the door of her own little flat she was very, very sorry for herself. She looked at her hands again. as she fitted the key into the lock. How rough they were, and how red across the knuckles. A nail was broken, too.
 With q deep sigh she pushed open
 
 the door, and switched on the iights in the sitting room.
 Pat was not at home. but in the kitchen was a huge. lumpy-look1ng ob;ect covered with heavy brown wrapping paper. A card was tied 70 it, and Lily began 10 smile as shc read what was written upon 1t;
 with all good wishes to Fat and Iily from the France family. This certainly is some time 70 send a wedding present-aiter we've , been married for four months. she said to herself, tearing off the heaFF paper wrappings and trying to figure ont what the shining white glass; and-enamel machine under them was.
 Then she saw that a name was