New Britain herald., 1928-01-18
. By Beamoe Burton lvlOllcV AOvC Of Shoddas" Lnu,"
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0I tu0 NyS0D AvAAu8VC3A vIO 0S&~ ley Drummond, . rich bachelor older than herself, to marry her mether's chauffeur. Pat Franes. Her family and friends drop her. and shs bs- gins ts flnd nfs vsly 1ull. desug nothing but hessswork meath after month in the little Nat Pat has tak- i en for her. ........ He has invsntea . new kind ef piston rins. aad hs and hts fTtsad. Roy Jefferson. rent . tiny saep whsrs they intend to make it. One day Lily meets her ehum. Sue Cain, dewu tswA. Inc asks her to . card party. and whAa she finds she has nothing to war shs man. ages to gst some .vssy expensive new clothes from the Ansouleme shop with the aiA of stalsy. who pays for them with hts cheek. Later Lily learns that Hersnoe France. Pats sister, has become beokkesper at Angoulems's and knows who bought her the clothes. Dut she says nothing @ Fat abeut A Then Pats old sweetheart Eltsa- beth Ertx . nurss. ssss IAly with staley in his car. and % does Roy Jefferson. 0adye. his wife. is Ut the flat one day when some flowers come with etaley's card In them. but she h silent about it.
 Ignorant of what is gotns on. Fat is astounded on Christmas even when he comes homo and finds. on the table . watch that is Staleys Christmas rift to Lily. They quarrel and Lily gees back to her parents home, only to Ind that they have gone away because Of her fathers illness. The house h in the care of . slip-shod servant, who leaves. On Christmas Day Lily telephones Sta Icy. and Pat calling her from his fathers housA hears their converee- ton. He hangs up after telling Lily what . fool he ever has been te trust her. She goss with ctaley to . party at Sue Gains, whsrs she be- comes tipsy and i'll. staley hires . trained nurse for her and comes to spend . boring evening. At the end of 1t Lily decides that. money or no money, she cannot stand him. and decides to % home to Pat if he will take her back. Al she comes to thh determination the door bell ring loudly.
 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XLIX The nurse came running down the stairs
 "IT answer the door" she said quickly to Lily. You get into the other room-out of the cold air"
 She had . crisp. commanding way of speaking. and Lily. who never had obeyed anybody, fairly jumped when she spoke and hurried into the living room.
 She heard the squeak of the front door as the nurse opened 1t. Then she caught the sound Of . mans voice. and then thud and . bump. The door closed.
 "NlrA France!" called tho nurss, after a moment. your trunk is here. 1 Do you want me to sign for it?" "1y trunk" Mystified, Lily walked out into the hall.
 There, in the center of the big biue-and- gold Chinese rug that was the pride of her mothers heart. stood . small green tin trunk. The second that Lily set eyes upon It Lily know that 1t was Pats ls,.le trunk. For months she had been dusting it off every day when she straightened up the house. It had stood beside Pat'a bed and he had used 1t as . sort of smoking stand.
 But what's in it?" she wondered. Surely he had not sent her the rest of the clothes she had left at home. The cheap bungalow aprons and lisle-thread stockings that she had bought since her marriage. It was not locked. and then and there. with the eyes of the nurse upon her, she knelt down and un- strapped it..
 The first thing she saw was . bir green glass bottle of bath salts on the very top of the cheap clothes that were packed within in neat piles. And tucked into corners were all the other toilet things that staley Drummond had given her the perfumes, the brushes. the kit of manicuring scissors and files, the jars of powder. He's sent back everything that | ->.,x ->-nS~A hivn nF uoe u i1y aa iA ! to herself.
 1 That was exactly what he had done.
 l He had sent back not only her old clothes, and her rundown |, house slippers. but the very movie
 magazine that she had been reading and a cheap hot water bottle that
 he had bought for her one night
 when she had had the backache
 from a hard days cleaning. l Looking at it Lily remembered
 how gentle and tender he had been
 that night. Yes. he had been
 nice sometimes, Pat could be 50 much more adorably nice than any,
 body else on earth. she kept think ing, as she blinked hard to keep
 lack the tears.
 Shall we carry it upstairs? l
 think we can. It's very light" the
 nurse suggested, and Lily nodded
 her head.
 She might just as we'll have 1t
 upstairs. put away in the trunk room with all the rest of the dusty old boxes and suitcases and broken
 trunks that stood there year after
 year, she decided.
 "For I'n never 90 back to him after this,' she was sure This
 is the last straw as well as the one
 that broke the cancels back. This
 is the end-when he makes 1t as | lac hn O