New Britain herald., 1928-02-02
By Beatrice Burton lvlOllcv AOV C Shoulders" Lou"
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 Lily Lexington, spoiled only
 daughter of the CyruS Lexingtons
 .iilts staley Drummond. . wealthy
 bachelor much older than herself,
 to marry her mothers chauffeur.
 Pat France. Her family and friends
 instantly drop her, all except Sue
 Cain. her chum.
 She goes to live with Pat in .
 tiny flat. doing her own work and having no friends but Pats family.
 and hia friends. Roy and Sadye Jefferson. Pat has invented .
 rew kind of piston ring. and he and
 Roy rent a little ahop where they intend to make it. Pat puts all of his money into the ring. and workes nights at Roy's garage. Lily. spend- ing most ot her time alone, has . very dull time of it. and begins to regret her hasty marriage. How ever, she still is deeply in love with Pat and is madly jealous of his former sweetheart. Elizabeth Ertz. a nurse, whom he and Lily meet sometimes at the Jettersons.
 After several months Lily gets in touch with Staley. when Sue Cain i tells her that he still is in love with ! her. Whenever. she is bored she calls him up and has lunch with him, and accepts furs and trinkets from him. With his own check he pays for some clothes that she buys at . shop where Pats sister, Flor ence, is bookkeeper. and Florence sees it.. But she does not tell Pat about 1t until after he and Lily quarrel over watch that Staley has given her. and Lily leaves him and goes back home. Her father has had some business losses. and the house ia not 50 pleasant as 1t was. However, Sta.ey hires a maid. Non- nie, for Mrs. Lexington. and he keeps the house filled with flowers and magazines, and all tho small luxuries of life. Lily begins to long for Pat, and goes down to the flat to see him. She finds Elizabeth there, helping him with his house. work. and decides to divorce him. With sta.ey's lawyers help. she files suit against him. naming Eliz- abeth as correspondent. Shortly afterward she meets sadye. who tells her that Pat Is desperately i'll at his mothers house. She decides not to go to see him.
 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER LXII Doct DTS will tell you. if you ask them, that the time of day when peoples vitality is at it's lowest point is three o'clock in he morning. And almost anyone will tell you that the most weird hour of the twenty-four is that same time three o'clock in the morning. An uncanny fearsome hour for people who lie awake. haunted by any kind of thought that will not let them | sleep.
 At three o'clock on that chilly spring morning, after she had heard | about Pats illness, Lily was wide awake in her warm lavender-scented bed in the house on Montpelier road. It was as comfortable bed as ever was. and its pillows were sof. and deep. But there had been no rest in 1t for her that night. Ever since eleven o'clock she had been twisting and turning restlessly in it. getting up on one elbow to stare into the darkness, lying down again and shutting her eyes as she tried to sleep.
 But there was no sleep for her. No rest. Her mind kept going back to the small, brown-shuttered house next door to the France family's grocery store-back to the little room under the caves that had been Pats room and hers for the first few weeks of their married life.
 She could imagine him lying there on the white bed, with his eyes closed and his breath coming. quick and shallow. and a flush on his face under the cheek bones.
 And I don't even know what's the matter with him." she thought. "Or who's with him-or if he's go- ing to live or If he's going to die"
 She could not bear to lie there, she told herself. not knowing tho answers to all these questions tha. tortured her.
 "Ill telephone" she decided at last. 'If he's as sick as Sadye said he was there is sure to be nurse on the job. and she'll answer the phone"
 Then, as she sat up and swung her slender feet over the side of the bed, another thought stopped her Suppose The Ertz were the nurse they had called in! She did not want to talk to The Ertz-the woman who was in love with Pat the woman who probably would marry Pat as soon as he was free to marry. That is, if he didn't die. If lie didn't die
 She stretched out her hand and switched on the lamp by the bed and in its sudden radiance the sap phire and diamond bracelet that Staley had given her seemed to catch fire.
 On the bedside table was bowl of yellow roses that he had sent to 1 the house that morning. Magazines that h. had given her were piled | beside them, and in the little glass cigaret box were a dozen or so of the cigarets that he always kept her supplied with.
 Staley. She owed him some- thing, certainly. He had proved him. self loyal and generous to her. and | he had been good to her people. He