New Britain herald., 1928-02-03
M By Beatrice Burton NlOllVV AOv Author "Sanys Shoulders" Honey Iou,"
 "The Hollywood Girl" Etc.

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 Lily Lexington, spoiled only daughter of tho Cyrus Lexingtons, jtlts staley Drummond, . rich bachelor much older than herself, to marry her mothers chauffeur. Pat France. Her parents and frtends drop her. and she goes to live with Pat in cheap flat. where she hes to do her own housework. Pat has invented new kind of piston rtng. and he and hts friend, Roy Jetterson, rent machine shop, where they intend to 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 a very dull time of it, and besins to regret her nasty marriage. However, she still l. in love with Pat. and Is wildly jealous of his former sweetheart, Elizabeth Ertx. One day she meets her chum, Sue Cain. downtown. and Sue invites her to card party. Lily has no clothes to wear to it, and when Sue tells her that Staley still Is in love with her. 1t suddenly occurs to her that he might lend her some money to pay for some new ones. She buys them at Angouleme's shop, not knowing that Pats sister, Flor ence, k bookkeeper there. and i staley pays for them with his own check. Florence sees it, of course, but she does not tell Pat about 1t until months later, when Lly leaves him. Lily goes home and finds that her father has had business loases and that staley is helping him imam cially. After a month she becomes very lonely for Pat, and goes to sec him. She finds Elizabeth helping him dust his flat, and goes back to her fathers house, furiouaiy angry, and quite ready to see Staley's lawyer about a divorce. The suit is filed and Elizabeth Ertz is named correspond ent
 Staley backs . company that buys out Pats piston ring company for a song. He says Pat will be lucky If he has enough money to pay his debts. and Lily begins to feel sorry for Pat, who put everything he had into the ring. Then she meets Roy Jetterson's wife, Sadye. who tells her that Pat is very i'll.
 She decides to go to him, and finds Elizabeth nursing him at his mothers house.
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 CHAPTER LxIII l Lily never forgot the scene in the little white bedroom that night. It had been stripped of everything that could be easily moved. and it was almost as bare and white as Q | hospital room. There was a folded newspaper over the lamp on the table beside the bed, and bottles gleamed from the top of Pats chif- | forobe.
 | The Ertz was all in white-a tiny peaked cap on her head and uni- form fairly glistening with white ness on her slender, straight body. Her shoes and stockings were white, too, and she was as crisp and spot less and professional looking as . head nurse on duty in a hospital.
 She turned her head and looked up at Lily. standing on the thres- hold. There was no surprise in her eyes.
 Ssh" she said. quite as If Lily were a perfect stranger who might disturb her very sick patient. She seemed to have absolutely no inter- est in her beyond that, and almost at once she looked back at Pat and went on counting his heart beats.
 Lily looked at him, too. His face was flushed . little, and his breath- ing was very rapid. His lips were half open, and when The Ertz slipped a clinical thermometer be- tween them, she had to close them with her fingers.
 ''Is he unconscious?" Lily asked, forgetting for an instant that this woman was her mortal enemy.
 And, as if The Ertz had forgotten 1t herself, she glanced up and nod ded. There was no hostility in that look-there was nothing but the alert, and yet curiously calm express sion, of the born nurse on duty.
 What's the matter with him 2" Lily asked. and then she shook her head.
 'Ssh!" she whispered again, draw ing the thermomter from between Pats lips.
 She bent over towards the lamp to look closely at 1t. She drowned and looked at it again.
 Then she got up from her chair, felt Pats pulse once more, and her . frown deepened.
 At last she laid his hand down upon his chest and started out of the room.
 Whats the matter, 'Lizbeth ?' Florence France asked from the shadows of the hall where she had been standing. holding her cotton kimono tight around her shoulders "Is he any worse?" Her teeth chat. tered and her eyes were big with terror.
 Instead of answering. the nurse swept down the hall and on dowr the stairs. Her clothes cracked like paper as she went.
 In a second her voice, low ant calm. came floating up to the two women in the upper hall. She gay. number. and then, after q littl, . pause. she said something so softl, that neither one of them could mak, out what it was.
 Shes calling the doctor. Sho frightened" Florence whispered {, Lily. and she began to cry hysteri cally. The hand that went out ane Srasped Lily by the shoulder wa cold as ice, and it shook.