New Britain herald., 1928-01-28
By Beatrice Burton IvlI1ICN LJvC- -4*.+- Girl"
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 Lily Lexington. spoiled only
 daughter of the Cyrus Lexingtons, I ,ilts Staley Drummond. a" wealthy
 bachelor much older than herself,
 to marry her; mothers chauffeur.
 Pat France. Her parents and friends
 drop her and she goes to. live with
 Pat in q cheap little flat and do her
 own housework. <i
 Pat has invented a new kind of
 piston ring and he and Roy letter
 son rent a tiny machine shop
 where they intend to make it and
 market it. Fat works three or four
 nights a week, and he and Lily have
 little to spend. for he has put every
 thing into the piston ring. So Lily
 has very dull time of it. and be- gins to regret her nasty marriage.
 However. she still IS in love with
 Pat and wildly jealous of his former sweetheart. Elizsbeth Ertz. One day she meets her Chunl, Sue Cain. down ] town, and Sue invites her to d cara party. Lily needs some new clothes | TUT ", anu IdEo lo iHCAfCS to Cdy 1 them, and when Sue tells her that l Staley IS still in love with her, lt occurs to her to telephone him. |ts- 1 ley pays for the clothes with his own, check. which is later seen by 1 Florence France, Pats sister who is bookkeeper in the shop where Lily buys them. Lily keeps on see i ing Staley. wi1o urges her to leave Pat. and one day bumps into Roy | Jefferson, whose wife, Sadye Is a great friend of Elizabeth Ertz- Sadye hears about Llly's carrying on. too. but mons of these people tells Pat anything He finds out about the affair between hls wife and Sta ley when he discovers a Jeweled watch that he sent her for Christ mas present. Fat and Lily quarrel, and ehe goes home. After a month spent in her fathers house, which IS not so luxurious as 1t was, owing to Mir. Lexlngton's business re- verses, Lily pays a visit to Pat and finds Elizabeth in his apartment. helping him to clean 1t She goes l home. and consents to see Staley's lawyer about l divorce. Then staley backs company that buys Pat out for next to nothing, and. filled with sympathy for him. she goes to see him again She finds him at the Jettersons', and with him is | Elizabeth The sight of her enrages 1 Lily, and she cegins to shake her and scold her and threaten her # she doesn't leave Fat alone
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 II Mrs Cyrus Lexington had heIn told that her daughter. Lily, could claw at another woman and shake her and scream at her like a fish wife, she never would have be- lieved 1t
 She would have said Impossible" Hadn't she brought Lily up to be a ladye Hadn't she sent her to the very best day schools? Hadn't she been taught to be polite and well bred? She certainly had' .... And # anyone had told staley 1 Drummond that the lovely, flower like girl he was going to marry just as soon as she was free from her unfortunate marriage, could behave as Lily was behaving, he would not have believed #. either
 Lily. herself. could scarcely be- lieve that she was doing what she vas doing-shaking The Ertz until her teeth fairly rattled, and shriek- ing at her to let Pat alone or she'd know the reason why
 This Is a terrible thing to dc.", she thought way down deep in her mind. under the rage and the jeal- ousy that were shaking her just as sh. was shaking the little nurse And then. in the midst of her fury. she felt Pats hands on her. and hls touch was like magic, ln- stantly all the anger and madness went out of her and she turned to him and buried her face against his shirt She stayed there. trembling and sobbing, clinging to him until he pushed her very gently away from him.
 She saw then that Sadye and Roy Jefferson had come into the hall by way of the dining room. and were standing in the doorway. taking tn the scene with wide-open eyes, as they might have taken ln an exclt- ing motion picture. Sadye was chewing something that she had III her mouth and there was grease on her chin sadye always tasted
 when she was cooking ~>
 Pats eyes went from her 10 them, and then back to her and Eliz4eeth | Ertz. Have you lost your fnlnd.. Lily-," he asked "You'd no right to touch her. She never done thing to you.'
 The nurse had not said a word. but she was breathing hard, as If she had bean running a race, ana ! for once her hair was rough ana tumhled where Lily had shaken It
 loose from it's pins. Her white un1-
 form was rumpled, and from it
 came d faint smell that was like
 the odor of the hospitals. where che
 spent so much of her time.
 Lily sigsled through her tears.
 How can you uke a girl who uses
 antlseptics for perfum ?" she asked,
 looking up at Pat with her lovely
 eyes wide and wet, but crinkled with
 laughter at the corners.
 Pats lips frightened and his face
 became more white and grim than
 1t had been g. second before "Lts 5
 not talk all this over right now" he
 said quietly. and then he turned to
 Roy so that Lily had swift look
 at his profile. It seemed more sharp
 lv etched than # had been eight or
 nine weeks asc. He -as thinner.
 and he looked older, somehow. n
 spite o1 his youth and his rugged