New Britain herald., 1928-01-10

Divorce! What terrible word now and then in the kitchen where a window was open to the night air. In the nat below someone was playing Roses Are Blooming in Picardy" and softly grooming the home sick. love-sick words of it. Lily" Pat broke the silence. where did you really get those I furs?" He was leaning back in his chair. with his eyes narrowed. look ing at them where they lay on the tapestry pillow of the davenport.
 Lily drowned. "Oh, Pat. aren't you suspicious and horrid tonight?" she asked him pathetically. Where do you suppose l got them?"
 T haven't the faintest idea" Pat said bluntly" You evidently told one story to Florence, and another enc to Sadye Jetterson--and the one you told Sadye doesn't sound like a ! likely tale to me. I can't imagine any shop letting the wife of poor ihdu Adily oul d eoNpio oi Aoio hAN | those on approval. without paying , them penny. .. It just doesn't sound like the truth to me, Lily"
 Lily did some quick thinking. T can't help that" she snapped at him. Just because you think I'm telling you lie, I'm not a-liar."
 She turned on him suddenly. Where do you think I got them, MT. Third Degrec?" she asked him. If you're so smart.''
 He didn't know. I'm afraid you charged them the way you charged those brown velvet things at Angou- leme's," he said. And can't pay for them-that's all. l just can't He laid his hands, palms upward, on the arms Of the chair. as if to show how empty they were.
 T just haven't the money" he eN- plained. If I had it there's not q thing you'd want for, Girl. Not q thing. I'd buy you everything and anything that your heart desired- and you know It.
 Lily just looked at him. T can'r keep the furs," she was thinking duly. "I'll have 10 take them bac, to Staley in the morning" It made her positively i'll to think of giving them up-the lovely. warm, flatter- ing skins that framed her face in dusky shadow. Next to jewels, all
 women like Subsequently, the fabulously cxpensive furs like Rus sian sable and e:mine and silver
 fox. Ard silver fox was Lily's favor
 ite.
 "I'll take the skins back to the
 shop in the morning-first thing,
 she said aloud, and her voice was
 hard and cold. But you'll have to set me something warm to take the
 place of them if it's just a rabbits
 skin to wrap your Baby Bunting in!
 She stared at him resentfully fo, , minute, then she flung herself face , downward among the pillows of the davenport. "Oh. how sick am O / all this-all this wrctched povert, of ours." she vailed. '1 cant stant l it. I tell you-I can't. I wasn't mad !. for it."
 Pat was silent His pipe had gon. l out. but he still held it in his teet
 as if he did not realize that it wa. . cold.
 ''All this talk about a fool pistol ring that's going to m-m-make u : rich as Croesus." Lily's voice wen I on. thick with sobs. "Well, I've beer | married for five months now-and
 don't notice any great riches prrrin, 5 in to us from it. think you're jus l loafing down at that shop, that | what I think"
 l She sat up and slared at him
 Ter face mottled by her tears. <. '"I read somewhere that all in
 ventors are drcamers and ne'er-do 5 wells.' she told him. And I'm be
 ginning to believe f.. Here ] an l working day after day 10 keep thing $ going-and all you give me is fifteel l bucks a week and 9 lot Of promises t Well. I'm getting pretty sick of al l the promises, let me fell you." l She picked Ep the beautiful furi
 and carrying them in her arms g. - tenderiy as if they were babies, sh ' went into tho bedroom and hid then V away in the drawer where Sadly
 Jefferson had found them with he :, prying eyes and fingers. :. T could smack her!" though n Lily. closing the drawer and lockin c it.
 e Tn the morning when she opene,
 her eyes. Pat was gone. 0 He had cooked his own breakfast
 for the coffee had been made an
 there was a plate covered with toas s crumbs on the corner Of the kitche g able.
 Il Well. he should get his ow
 breakfast" thought Lily. as sh Il hathed and dressed for the day. e. l. man who doesn't tuy his wife an 2 clothes doesn't deserve lot of ser t vice.
 She took down the brown chiffo e velvet coat from the closet hook q and as she slipped into it she r.