New Britain herald., 1928-02-06
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Lily Lexington. spoiled only daugnter of the Cyrus Lexingtons. iilts Staley Drunmond. a rich 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 a cheap little flat. where sh. has to do her own housework.
 Pat has invented new kind of piston ring. and he and his friend, Roy Jefferson. rent tiny machine shop, where they make it. Pat works three or four nights a week, and he and Lily have very little to spend. for he has put everything into the piston ring. So Lily has d very dull life. and begins to regret her nasty marriage. However. she still is in love with Pat, and is wildly jealous of his former sweetheart, Elizabeth Ertz. One day she meets her chum, Sue Cain, down town, and Sue invites her to a card party. Lily has no clothes to wear to it, and when Sue tells her that Staley still is in love with her. it suddenly occurs to her that the might lenG her some money to pay for some new ones. She buys them at Angou- leme's shop. not knowing that Pats sister. Florence, is bookkeener there, and Staley pays for them with his own check. Florence secs it, or course, but she does not tell Pat about. 1t until months later, when Lily leaves him. after half-promis- ing Staley that she will get di- goes home and finds that her father has had business losses and that Sta ley is helping him financially.
 She becomes very lonely for Pat, and goes to see him She finds Eliz- abeth helping him dust his flat. and goes back to ner fathers house, furiously angry, and quite ready to see Staley's lawyer about q divorce. The suit is filed and Elizabeth Ertz is named correspondent.
 Staley backs company that buys out Pats piston ring company for q song. and tells Lily that Pat will be flat broke when he pays his debts. Then Pat comes down with typhoid fever and Lily goes to the Frances house to help Elizabeth Ertz nurse him. In his delirium Pat talks about Lily leaving him because he was poor. and Elizabeth tells Lily that she is sure Pat still cares for her. She says that she is sure. too. that Lily still loves Pat.
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 CHAPTER LXV
 All along Lily had been sure that Pat was planning to marry The Ertz as soon as he was free.
 But now that she actually heard it, she went sick and faint and dizzy. mulling 1t over and over in her mind.
 She turned her head finally and looked at The Ertz, hardly believ- ing her ears.
 Say that again." she said. What you told me about marrying Pat as soon as l divorced him. Did he ask you to marry him?"
 The nurse hesitated. Well, ot in 50 many words" she confessed. But he told me that I was the per son he should have married in the beginning. instead of a girl like you "a girl who had had everything and was used to everything. And I told him 1t didn't make any difference to me that he had made a mistake and married you. told him I still cared about him. . I do. I al- ways have" She spoke as simply as a truthful child.
 "But if he still loves you I wouldn't have him" she went on. as if she were thinking aloud. be couse he'd never be happy with me. even if you were married to that Drummond man. would he? He'd al- ways have you on his mind, and I'd know it"
 Lily nodded. "Yes. you would if he did care for me-" she agreed But he doesn't-and I am going to marry Staley Drum mond. That is, I'm going to marry him if he still wants me to. He may be very angry with me because came down here. wrote to him the night ] came here and forgot to mail the lctter-but l can probably explain all that to him when I see him. The Ertz nodded. "Thirgs are all ! mixed up in this world. aren't they?" she asked. People never seem to know their own minds abort any thing. What are you doing about your divorce?"
 I'm going to try to have t held np for wI,ile-until Pat is better" Pats wife answered. getting up from the window seat and yawning And do hope he's better soon. Typhoid fever is queer disease, isn't 1t? Dra eGing on for weeks this way. while we don't know whether Pats going 10 get well or not
 They had all become SO used to the knowledge that Pat was bat anced on the very brink of death Curing these slow weeks that they