New Britain herald., 1928-01-19

"l fixured you'l Oe back- scorn of him.
 Lily jumped up. "Well, I'm sorry. mother" she answered, opening. the door again and showing her suit case into the hall with her foot, but ! know Dad will make plenty of money again. He always has. Any way. I'm going back to Pat. I'm lonesome for him. Goodbye"
 She thought over what her moth- CT had told her all the way back to Pats little flat of course. 1t must be blow to her and her father to lose a lot of money and have to sell their house and go to live in D cheaper place tor while until they got on their feet again.
 But l can't feel so terribly sorry for them" she said to herself, flor they'll never have to live On noth- ing week the way I've had to 1.-Two -and mother will still have her own car and her diamonds and her good clothes and furniture. They'll never have to 1.-Two in dump like this"
 She looked around her at the lit- tie street in disgust. At the cheap little apartment houses that lined 1t. And were filled with cheap little families-cheap from Lily's point of view at any rate.
 All during the months she had lived among them she had noticed, with distain, their ready-made clothes. their cheap little automo- piles in which they went for long Sunday drives, their children who played on the streets. their ordinary household pcts-nondescript little cheerful dogs and cats.
 Nothing but Pat could ever make me live among such people and in such place." she told herself, open- ing the door of the apartment where she had lived for so many months and stepping into the vestibule. '.
 It always smelled of boiled cab-' bage and friend onions, somehow. It did tonight, but Lily did not notice it and turn up her nose as she usually did.
 She noticed nothing but the card <, with Pats name upon it. stuck up above the door bell. It was one Of ' her old calling cards with her mar ! ried name engraved upon it-"Mrs. Pat France"-and represented one i of the few extravagances Of her early married life.
 Pat had crossed out her name and ! scrawled his own upon it i'll pencil. i He still lived here then. Lily pulled the card out from its place and crumpled 1t up in her hand. She hunted through her purse and found a clean fresh one and tucked it behind the bell.
 | She wondered what state she would find the apartment in. As she went slowly mp the stairs,-fishing l in her bas for the front door key as she went. It would be pretty sloppy, she decided, for Pat would not have had much time to spend on ! it, with all his other duties to at- tend to.
 'I'Il clean it all up and surprise him when he comes home tonight" :" she vent on thinking fitting the key into the lock. land I'll just refuse to leave ii even if he quarrels with me. can't live without him. Why should I?-1i I'm willing to stand for his poverty he ought to be able .u,t1n I
 l She opened the door and steppeo back in amazenent. For Pat was there ahead of her--and such q Pat. \ Pat she never had seen be- fore. \ very Well-dressed and we'll 1 groomed Pat in a light gray suit and blue shirt and collar. He was standing near the window, with his back to the fast-fading light, look ing down at newspaper opened on the table before him-the very la ble upon which he had found Lily's watch that Christmas eve more than q month ago. He looked up as she came in, and frOwned as if her con- ing either puzzled or annoyed him extremely. His hands were i'll his pockets and he did not take tn btn out. Ho just stoo od and looked at her Lily smiled at him. She was sure he was going 10 take her back-in the long run didn't she usually gel what she wanted All she would have 10 do was to plead and to cOal and to get her arms around him
 After that she knew he would bt
 wax in her hands,
 He always Was when she was the
 least bit tender and affectionate
 Well, here I am" she said and closed the door b.nind her. 'I'vt come to say that I'm not goint away from you again whether yo, try to send me or not, Pat. After all, I'm your wife and put up witt a lot while I was living with you and if you can't forgive me fol seeing Staley Drummond coupl. of times just to get some money oI good luncheon from him, you're very narrow-minded. Anyway, I've come home"