New Britain herald., 1928-01-19
By Beatrice Burton NlOllcV lAOHC of Shoulders" Iou."
 Hollywood Girl"
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Lily Lexington, spoiled daughter of the Cyrus Lexingtons. jilts sta- ley Drummond. q rich bachelor old- CT than herself. to marry her moth- CTS chauffeur. Pat France. Her fam lily and friends drop her, and she l begins to find life very dull. doing 1 nothing but housework month after 1 month in the little flat Pat has talk en for her.
 He has invented new kind Of piston ring. and he and his friend. Roy Jefferson. rent . tiny shop where they intend to make it. 1 One day Lily meets her chum, sue Cain. down town. Sue asks her to card party. and when she finds she has nothing to wear she man. ages to get some very expensive new clothes from the Anxouleme shop with tho aid of Staley, who pays for them with his check. Lat l CT Lily learns that Florence France. Pats sister. has become bookkeeper l at Angouleme's and knows who bought her the clothes. But she says i nothing to Pat about II.
 Then Pats old sw weetheart, Eliza beth Ertz. a nurse, sees Lily with staley in his car, and 50 does Roy Jefferson. Sa1ye, his wife. is at the flat one day when some flowers come with staley's card in them, but she Is silent about 1t. ] Ignorant of what is going on, Pat is astounded on Christmas eve when he comes home and finds. on the table, . watch that Is Staley's Christnas gift to Lily. They quarrel and Lily goes back to her parents home, only to find that they have gone away because of her fathers illness. The house is in the care of a slip-shod servant. who leaves. On Christmas Day Lily telephones Sta ley. and Pat. calling her from his fathers house, hears their conversa- ton. He hangs up after telling Lily what a fool he ever has been to trust her. She goes with Staley to a party at Sue Gains, where she 1 becomes tipsy and i'll. Staley hires d JEdl1Cu I1ul9 9C 1Vl lSA ohA SeAAAS,' to spend a boring evening. At the end of it Lily decides that, money or ! TO money, she cannot stand him, and decides to go home to Pat if he will [ take her back. As she comes to this determination the door bell rings loudly.
 Pat sends his tin trunk to the I Lexington home full of Lily's be- longings. Lily declares she will nev. CT return to Pat after this. Lily's father and mother return. after g. months stay at Hot Springs. and find Lily m possession of the old home, with a new maid. Her l father has lost heavily in business, and his health is impaired. Lily still has that old longing for Pat. and asks her mother if she | can't bring him to the big house to live.
 iNoW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER l. | Sometim es-but not so very often Mrs. Lexington was too upset to speak.
 This was one of those times.
 For a full minute she stood facing her only daughter with her eyes as cold as Jumps Of gray ice in her face and her mouth opening and closing without making sound. Then her words came with the force of a small explosion: Bring your husband here to this house? We'll, I just guess not" Her lips came down on the last word like 8 hammer blow.
 l Lily shrugged her shoulders. "All right, mother. 1just thought you and my father might like to have me here instead of our never seeing one another, as we have been do- ing" she explained. T cant be happy living away from Pat But if you knew how hard have to work
 when I'm with him, and how little money I have, you'd change your mind about our coming here. l
 know. After all. you don't want me to spend all my life slaving in a
 two-by- four flat. while you and Dad
 rattle around in this big place, do
 you? And we could pay you some
 board" Her voice died away on 8
 plaintive note. and her eyes pleaded
 with her mother.
 She might have been a spoiled lit-
 tic girl once more, begging for the toys and candy that she wanted
 in those long ago days of her
 spoiled childhood. just as she wae
 begging now for home for herself
 and Pat here in her fathers big,
 comfortable house.
 Mrs. Lexington shook her head.
 Come into the room and shut the
 door," she said. T want to tell you
 something.'
 Lily obeyed her.
 Then she dropped down into a
 lowered silk chair. just inside the
 room, beside the painted door and waited for her mother to go on.
 After second she did. You
 know, Lily" she said, 'that your
 father has not been well, and that is why We went away. But you
 don't know just how serious things are with us. Didn't it strike you a:
 odd that I would have a servant
 like Hester Belle here to look afte. tho house while your father and were away"
 Lily nodded. She never had seer a slattern like Hester Belle in hei mothers house before. The house
 hold help had always been clear , and up to date. and far above ths average servant
 Well, l hired her because could , get her for ten dollars a week" hcl . l mother enlightened her. f Fen dollars looks like I lot o , l money 10 me these day. You see