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daughter of the Cyrus Lexinstons. tlts s&aley Drummond. | rach bachelor, to marry her mothers chauffeur. Pat Francs. Her parents and neighboFs drop her. and she soes to live with Pat in . cheap lit- tis flat and do her own homework. which she dstsstA Pat tnvents . new kind of piston ring. and he and Roy Jetterson rent . tiny machine shop. where they intend to make and market It. Pat works thers or four nights . week. and Lily has . very dull time, with no friends out Pats parents. his ststsr. Florence, and Roy's wife. sadye. Pat puts all hts money into the pistoa ring. and Lily. strug- gling along on nothing ! week, be- gins to regret hef hasty marriage. Howes CT, she still h in love with Fat, and is wildly jealous of his former swsethenr& Elizabeth Ertz. . nurse.
 One day. four months after her marriage, she meets Sue Cain. heP girlhood chum. and Sue tells her that etaley l. still in love with her. Idly, who needs some new clothes and cannot afford them. telephones staley. who gives her . check for them, and 70 their old affair begins cgatn. Florence France. who works in shop where Lily buys her things, sees Staley's check. but says nothing to Pat about II. The letter sons see her with staley, but they say nohing. Neither does Elizabeth Erts. when shA happens to ses them.
 But on Christmas eve Pat finds out about them. himself. when he discovers a jeweled watch that etaley has sent to Lily. They quar- rel, and Lily goes home to find that her father has had business losses. and that the family must live on very little. After q month away from Pat she longs to see him. but when she goes to the flat she finds Elizabeth Ertz helping him clean it. Angry, she goes back home and consents to zee Staley's lawyer about | divorce. About this time a company, backed by staley. buys out Pat and Roy Jefferson for very little. leaving Pat practically penni- less. The divorce suit is filed. and Lily promises Staley to never see Pat again. 1t is understood between them that they will marry when she is free NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
 CHAPTER LXI
 For whole month Lily kept her promise.
 She never spoke Pats name dur ing that time.
 She did not try to eco him.
 6he did her level best to stop thinking about him. And in tha meantime she saw etaley every day. snd slowly but aHrsly her. miad began to rnn, on
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 II was hard hot to think about staley Just as 1t always had been hard to forget him. For even when he was away from the house. the things he had sent there were for ever under her eyes. Books, masa- siues, flowers, candy, ciearets-all the luxuries they had these days
 On the first of April he sent new maid to the house for her mother. Her name was Nonnie. and she was quick, clever little person. who could do as much work in a half a4y as MrA Lexington and Lily sssiI1 1Ss1A 1i11fk fllkt .:1asu~ se 's',X a',Xt snAk FIX Hid Aet- know flat Otaiey had hirsd her But one dAy Mss. Lexington told her the t,Nth about her. "staley hired her, ani he pays her." she said. T promised not to let you know. But. after all. why shouldn't you know. You ought to know what a wonder full man Staley Is. He really is. Sometimes I'm afraid you don't ap- prcciate him. Lily"
 Maybe I don't. He b kind :~nd good, isn't he?'' Lily asked, ab- sently.
 But if Ahe. did not appreciate Sta ley. - much as her mother said she ought to, she certainly appreciated Nonnie. It was heavenly to wake up in the morning and not have to get up until she felt like 1t. It was like the wonderful old times to be able to ring the bell by the side of the bed and wait for Nonnie, fin neat cap and apron, to come trotting up with the orange juice and coffee.
 Every morning Sue Cain Eastman came to the house in her little shin- ing closed car. and together they went to market.
 1 Sue, in love with Jack, and hon. estly enjoying her task of plannine l meals and keeping house for him. had I rare time poking among the heads of lettuce and the string beans and new asparagus in the stalls. She was great friends with all the f people in the market, from the butcher who told her what cuts of meat to buy, 10 the fruit man who sold her the juriest oranges and the rosiest of apples.
 What are the best kind of apples 10 make awful-sauce with 2" she
 would ask him. sober as judge, and then wait for his leathery old face to break into smile.
 I'm afraid you don't take the in-
 tere4t In marketing that you should" she said to Lily. as she
 picked out cabbage and baby car rots one morning early in May. But | you'll feel differently about it when you're buying for staley, suppose. mniny. even buying a head of cab