New Britain herald., 1928-01-14

Sure, I'm nuts about you" sht was saying between sobs. but wht wants to bring up three kids that belonged to some other woman? NJ mother told me should say that tt ] you next time you talked to me = I and I'd say it anyway. myself-' Her voice ended in a storm q smothered sobbing.
 "D-d-don't call me up no mort and take my mind off-my j-job" she went on. This woman's daugh' ter is here. and she's as mean al dirt. I ain't going to have no timt to talk to you while she's here. ana anyway, I ain't going to talk to yoi l ever again."
 Lily heard her bang the receiver up on its hook, and then she came flying out of the pantry, wiping hei | eyes and her nose as she came. Sht gave ! little shriek when she saw Lily standing there. (,
 "Oh, you scairt mel" she gasped and then she went white. Did yo, hear what l was saying on th. phone?"
 lilly nodded. "1'm sorry I was a, mean as dirt to you" she said You're in trouble about something aren't you?" She was surprised al the feeling of sympathy and under standing that came yelling up into her heart as she looked at Christine with her swollen nose and red yc' eyes.
 K Hester Belle admitted that sh' was and then she told her stor! with many pauses and blusl'es. II seemed that two mon were after her-ore who was a handsome young widower with three children and one who WIS not handsome, but who was a bachelor with money.
 He. got his own house and butcher shop" she explained, "ano I'd have it soft if married him But I don't like him. like the on what's got three children, and no l il penny to his name. Mrs. France But my mothers made me promise rot to take him and slave my llit away looking after him and hii three brats, and l know I'd be craz' if I did marry him"
 You certainly would be-" LII! fold her. Think what a terrible iif' you'd have working for those three childreA, year in and year out. witt no money to bring them up. 4o, take the one with IT oney and youl be happy
 The girl looked troubled. Do vol think so?" she asked. doubtful'y "He ain't a bit nice looking. and was afraid that maybe if married him I'd always be hankering for th' good looking one. The one with th' 1 kids. you know.
 | Lily shook her head. You'd nevc' think of him when you had you own house and maybe a little auto mobile" she said. But if you marr, the poor one you'll always be sorr! you passed up the one with th' money. Nothing can eat into you soul like poverty. Hester Belle,
 Hester Belle gazed at her. hel mouth hanging open, her face stupie and heavy as if she only dimly un derstood what was being said to her
 "I don't know as could live will a man I didn't like" she remarked after a whole minute. T don't know as it's d very good thing to do. eith | CT. Seems to me it ain't real homes or rur".'
 Tor just one fteeting second Lill found herself wondering if 1t "er' honest and pure to divorce .the mar YOU loved but couldn't be happ, with. and marry the man you die not love but who had the only thinG that would make you happy money.
 Then she shook off the though and went back to the living room fire.
 After dinner she rlayed the piano for a while, simply glorying in tn knowledge that someone else val out in the kitchen washing th' dishes.
 At ten she went 70 bed, gratefu for the linen sheets. the emell O pine and llven1ar tn the piiloTs and the silk-co ,ered comforter toa she tucked around her shoulders.
 She dropped off to sleep. thinkin1 drcv silly. not of Pat, but of Stale! prummond, and how she would tele phone him first thing in the morn , ing to let him know where she wa and why she wss there.
 Hell be tickled to death,' sh' kuew.
 She woke up at noon the next da. and spent two hours dawdling owe her breakfast and her toilet. Sh' scrubbed and brushed and polished herself within an inch of her life.
 "I want to look well the first tiln' I see Staiey." she said to herself rubbing perfume into the back Q her neck where the bright gold hat rose from the white skin. Y don | want hin, 10 weaken. nov that In all set to go ahead and get my di