New Britain herald., 1928-01-30
By Beatrice Burton lvlOllcV LOvC Shoulders" Lou"
 Hollywood Girl"
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Drummond, . rich bachelor. to mar
 ry her mothers chauffeur. Pat
 France. Her parents and friends
 drop her, and she goes to live with
 Pat in a cheap little flat and do
 her own homework. which she de-
 testA
 Pat has invented ! new kind of
 piston ring. and he and Roy Jet
 terson rent a tiny machine shop.
 where they intend to make 1t and market 1t. Pat works three or four
 nights q week, and Lily has a very dull time of 1t. They are poor, be- sides, for Pat has put every nickel he has into the wonderful piston ring. and Lily begins to regret her hasty marriage. However. she still h in love with Pat and wildly jeal- ous of his former sweetheart, Elta- abeth Ertz. nurse.
 1 One day she meets her chum. Sue Cain. down town, and Sue asks her to . party. She accepts, finds she has no clothes to wear, and fele- phones Staley Drummond. who is' still in love with her. according to l Sue. He pays for the things with his own check, which b seen by Pats sister. Florence France. who works in the shop where Lily buys the clothes. But she says nothing to Pat. Neither does Roy Jetterson's wife, Sadye, when she sees Lily with staley; and neither does Eliza beth Ertz, when she bumps into" them one day. Pat finds out about l the affair on Christmas eve, when he discovers a jeweled watch that Staley sent Lily for a gift. They quarrel and Lily goes home. to find that her father has had some busi- ness losses and that he and her mother are living on very little. She is not very happy, and after month of loneliness and longing for Pat, goes to see him in their little flat and finds Elizabeth Ertz helping him dust it. Jealous and hurt, she goes home and consents to see Staley's lawyer about . divorce. naming Elizabeth as correspondent. Then Staley backs 8 company that buys out Pats piston ring company for a song, and he tells Lily that Pat won't make dollar out of the deal. Next Lily gets a letter from Pats mother. telling her that she IS closing the flat for Pat, and asking her to come and get a flask ana cigaret case of staley's that she left there. Lily goes on the following 1 day, and taps on the door, hoping that Pat will answer her knock.
 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY CHAPTER LIX
 Laly knocked again and waited. She opened her vanity bag and glanced quickly at herself in the mirror set in it's top. Yes. she was all right. Flushed and starry-eyed, and looking her very best, in case Pat did open the door to her.
 She was through with him forever and ever, of course. She was divorc- ing him. But even so. she wanted him to see how lovely she vas, and to realize how much he was losing when he lost her.
 But he did not open the door. and neither did anybody else. She knocked again. and then she rattled the door knob. But still the door stayed closed.
 "Wcli, of all things!" she said to herself. "To send for me to come down here to get my things, ana then not to be here to open the coor when ] arrive"
 She gave it a vicious little lick with her foot before she st:rted down the flight of steps with cleir soiled, gnudy carpet. When she reached the landing door at the foot of them opened and a small dark-haired woman who had been her neighbor for six months. stepped out into the hall
 Iily did not know her. She never had wanted to know her. She had l always held herself above all the i women who lived in the apartment l building. They're all right, put they're common and ordinary" shc had said grandly to Pat. when he asked why she iidn't make friends with them.
 "How do you do, Mrs. France?" the neighbor asked now. in the very incest way imaginable. didn't see you yesterday when you moved out, was down town. 1 But I'd like to say goodbye to you now and tell you how sorry am that we never got acquainted while YOU and your husband were living here"
 She held out her hand and Lily found herself shaking it warmly. What kind, twinkling dark eyes this woman had. and how friendly her smile was! And her voice was just as low and well-bred as Sue Gains voice.
 q made 8 mistake about her, at any rate" Lily thought, when she left her and started down the street. There's nothing common and ordi- nary about her. She'd probably have made a nice friend for me in all ths lonely. dreary months spent here" ! She wished now that she had made a fricni of the little. dark haired woman. who probably had a husband as friendly and twln!lling as she was. But then. so far as that went, she wished that shn had done q good many things that she had not done. She wished that she had not "cheated" by Geeing Staley while she was still living with Pat She wished she had not left that liquor flask and cigaret case in tho flat i where his mother had found them. She wished she had not lost her temper and shaken Elizabeth Ertz that night at the Jettersons' house. IT,. sxle.i 6...ess:4h :.