New Britain herald., 1928-01-20
kf By Beatrice Burton IVlOHcV | AOvc c Author of "sauys
 "The Hollywood
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mothers chauffeur. Pat France. Her family and friends drop her tn- stantly, and she goes to live with Pat in a little flat near his parents home.
 Pat has invented a new kind of piston-ring and he and his friend. Roy Jetterson. rent . tiny shop where they intend to make It and put 1t on the market Pat works three or four nixhts . week. and Lily, learning to do the housework that she despises. finds life very dull. However. she still is in love with Pat and is very jealous of his former sweetheart. Elizabeth Ertz. One day Lily meets her friend. Sue Cain. downtown and asks her to a party. Lily needs some new clothes and finally she telephones Staley Drummond who pays Tor them with his own check. Later on Pats sister. Florence. who happens to be bookkeeper at tho shop where she buys them, sees the check and tells Lily that she should not have ! let Staley buy her the clothes. Lily goes on seeing staley and he takes her to luncheon. buys her gifts and sends them to her. The crisis comes on the day before Christmas when Pat, who has been homo for several weeks with broken arm, finds a jeweled watch that he has sent her. He is angry and quarrels with Lily. who tells him that she has been trying to make up her mind to leave him. anyway. and goes back 10 her mothers home. Pat tries to call her up there the next day but hears Staley talking to her and hangs up. MT. and Mrs. Lexington. who are out of town, return after three or four weeks, and as soon as Lily hears her mother saying un~ kind things about Pat all her old affection for him returns. She knows that, if he will take her back. she 1 will be only too glad to go back to him. poor as he is. She finds him in l the little flat, reading a newspaper ! article about his piston ring and when she asks him if she can come back to him he is sure she is doing 1t simply because she thinks he is going 10 have money.
 (Now GO ON WITH THE sToRY CHAPTER II There never was anyone more simply honest than Pat France. He was one of those plain blunt | people who almost always tel! the truth for the plain and simple req son that it never occurs to them to tell anything else.
 1 And because he was like that he let Lily have the truth now.
 If you've really come here to try to patch things up with me- he said, its no use. I'd never let you come back-You spoiled every chance of our ever living together in any kind of happiness when you let Drunl- mond buy you clothes and things. Even those furs that you had here that night you got from him. I'll bet q hat-No. we're through. you and l I. There isn't even any use in talk ing 1t all over. It was just hopeless from the start and it's still hope less.'
 His blue eyes looked theft honesty and sincerity at her. He meant every word that he said. She couldn't look at him without sec ing that. There was that quiet de- termination of his in the very set of his jaw.
 You told me you wouldn't mind
 being poor" he said to her, And you did mind it-You hated it and kicked about it from the very day you got married-'
 "l'ut just try me again." Lily
 broke in. Pat, my father has lost
 a lot of money lately, and he and
 my mother are going to be poor, too,
 for q long time. So it won't be any
 worse living with you. even if the
 piston ring doesn't sell. than it would
 be with them. And, anyway, I can't
 get along without you. Oh. dcar--''
 Her voice ended on sigh.
 She saw that it was hopeless 10
 go on pleading with him. His face was as grim and determined aa a face can be. and his eyes looked al her as if she had been a perfect , stranger to him. And a most dull and uninteresting stranger at that. Pat. you don't like me any more, do you?' she asked him. and while
 her question seemed 10 hang. trem-
 bling, in the air. door somewhere in the back of the flat squeaked as
 it was opened.
 s There came the sound Of soft foot
 steps in the hall. and then into inc
 tiny dining room Elizabeth
 Ertz!
 She stopped for an instant wher she saw Lily. Then. without q word
 she went padding out into the kitchen on those rubber heeled
 nurses shoes of hers
 !, Pat glanced at her as if it were n the most ordinary thing in th.
 world for her 10 bc there and ther 1 looked back at his wife. He an s swercd her question.
 I'm through with you," he said d and raised his straight black brow | for just q second. Then they cam, !, down in q scovl once more : Lily nodded at him and manage,
 to keep her voice very cool an,
 level
 ' '1es. l can soc that you are" sh : told him. And I see why, too. - Well. you should probably have mar
 ricd that 'Sappy Sister to the sick
 in the first place instead of me. Ty " known all along that you wer cock-"yed about h"r--You never di, ' care for me. really"
 She knew that was not the trutl /, when she said il.
 And going down the narrow Iittl , uIiddlt-class street q few minute