New Britain herald., 1928-01-12
By Beahice Burton lvIOllcV ! AOv 'sauys
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engaged to marry Staley Drummond. . rich bachelor. She throws him over | few days before the wedding to marry her mothers chauffeur. Pat France. and her parents and friends all drop her.
 Pat has invented . new kind of piston ring that he and his friend, Roy Jefferson. intend to make and market. Pat goes to work in Roy's garage, and later the two men rent machine shop. where they manu- facture 1t. Lily. with no friends but sadye Jefferson. Roy's wife. and Pats parents and his sister. Flor, ence, finds life terribly dull. She has to do her own work. and she does it very badly. and begins to regret her nasty marriage, although she still loves Pat. and is very jealous of his ordinary friendship with an old sweetheart of his. Elizabeth Ertx.
 Ono day, several months after her marriage. she bumps into her best friend. Sue Cain, whom she has not seen since her marriage. and Sue asks her to bridge party. She tries to charge some new clothes, and failing to do 70. simply walks out of tho store with them, thinking that she can get her father to pay for them later. A store detective comes for her things, and in despair she telephones Staley Drummond. who pays for them with his own check. Their friendship begins anew. and this time staley keeps urging her to leave Pat. Pat knows nothing about all this. although great many other people know that Lily is seeing Staley and accepting gifts from him-Sadye and Florence and Elizabeth Ertz and Roy Jefferson. Pat and Lily quarrel about some furs that Staley has given Lily. and Lily definitely makes up her mind to leave him. She meets Staley and tells him of her plans. She gt ,s home. resolved to pack up at once, and finds Pat there with a broken arm. All her love for him comes back to her while he is ill and help less, but as he gets better and the work piles up and life becomes dull and drab, she begins to be dissatis- fled again. And on the day befor. Christmas. when jeweled watch arrives for her with Staley's card, telling her that he is counting the hours until she Is free, she again decides to leave Pat.
 i NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER XLIV The chances are that Lily never l would have left Pat if it had not been for that little green watch, with her initials "L. L." upon 1t in chip diamonds.
 For 1t is one thing for . woman to make up her mind to give up her husband-as she had been doing for months-and 1t is quite another thing to actually do 1t.
 Even now, as she stood in the gray afternoon light. looking down at the tiny 1eweled thing in her hands, she wondered if she really would be happy with Staley when she was married to him.
 She knew she would be rich. She ] knew she could be idle and fairly lapped in luxury. She Thew that staley adored her with the blind adoration that middle-aged man very often has for very young l woman.
 | But wouldn't there be times when she would tire of that love? Wouldn't there be times when she would long for Pat and his young. strong affection for her? Wouldn't there be times when she would be sick for the sound of his voice and the look in his eyes? She knew there would. and she sighed as she laid the watch back in its little satin- covered box.
 1 In the kitchen the clock struck five. It was time to put the supper on--the last one she would ever cook in the little flat, perhaps.
 Tears came yelling up into her eyes. and her throat ached as she went through .he half-clean little rooms and lit. the gas stove. In the ice-box was a bowl of cold vegetable soup with . thick layer of grease over the top. Beside 1t was a plate of raw calves liver waiting to be cooked in the way Pat liked it, smothered in onions.
 But there were no onions.
 Lily looked everywhere. but there wasn't 50 much as a whiff of one in the kitchen.
 That means I've got to stop everything and go out and buy some," she sighed dismally. For Pat, like most men had to have his food just the way he liked it or he wouldn't eat 1t. And liver and onions was his favorite dish.
 | Lily hated it. Not only did she hate the taste of it, but she loathed the red, shiny look of the raw liver and the smell of the onions, to say nothing of the way they made her eyes water when she peeled them.
 "Oh, well, what's the difference? I won't have to peel many more of them." she said to herself, putting
 
 dressing table mirror.
 The little coin purse in her hand bag was empty. and with a groan Lily flung 1t down upon the dresser . No money. Not cent. Not a single penny. She remembered, then, she had spent all she had the day before. on Christmas wreaths for the windows.
 What a life!" she thought. as she flung herself out of the house. No money for anything-not even 5 cents for few onions. And Roy Jefferson giving Pat only half of his salary because he Is laid up!" What a nit-wit Pat was to stand for 1t.
 slamming the door behind her, she started down the stairs and