New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 22, 1927, Page 8

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1927. Money Love CHAPTER 1 At 10 o'clock on a stormy March morning last year Lily Lexington opened her eyves upon a world that had alway been wonderfully kind to her. All her life it had treated her like the spoiled child of For- tune that she was. It had coddled her and pam- pered her. ery wish and every whim that she had ever had. Every one! And now, at Lily was dis- contented and restless and un- 1ave been ex- She was exactly like a child who has had “too n Christmas.” Too much too many toys, too much fun and excitement. She looked i} child, too, o March morning, green eyes full of sleep, | mouth a sulky, velvety bow. her golden-red hair a curly tousled mass above a frowning forehead. “QOh, dear—" She yawned. stretched herself, and sighed deeply. In that unhappy sigh ‘ was all her dissatisfaction with life in general. Then she held up her left hand and looked at the large | diamond that decorated her en-| gagement finger. Her frown| deepened. The corners of her mouth drooped unhappily. “Oh, dear—" she sighed once more, turning the glittering thing slowly upon her finger. As she sat up in bed the door of the room opened slowly and her mother poked her head in- to the opening. It was a very imposing head, crowned with | iron-gray hair, dressed in a| high pompadour. “You're awake, Lily" Texington's voice was rich and full, but it had a note of sharp- ness in it just as her full, rich- spoiled articular her g ly-colored face had a sharp 'she had had time to say “Yes"” | look about it sometimes. She was tall and hea she moved with a surprising «wiftness. Her pink linen| housedress crackled like paper, some keys in her pocket jin- oled, and her heels clicked on’ the polished floor as she went sround the room pulling up the | Yades, putting down the win-| and lighting the gas logs | i the grate. She was as full energy as an clectric fan, “Let me see your ring again, | Lilv,” she said, pulling up a v to the side of the bed.| Her eves warmed as she looked | at it, and then at her daugh- ter’s lovely, sullen face. “I'v always wanted you to marry Staley Drummond. His ring is just like him—substantial and good. It must weigh all of three karats, Lily, that dia- mond!” “Three karats,” the girl re- peated, lifelessly, and from her | tone she might have been say- ing ‘“‘carro instead of “kar- ats.” Somewhere in the big, com- fortable house a bell rang shrilly, and her eyes went to the gilt telephone that stood on the table beside her bed. “If that’s Staley, tell him I'm asleep, Mother,” she said quickly. *“Tell him I'll be home this afternoon at 5 if he wants | to see me.” Her mother stared at her. “But. dear, he probably wants to see You now, way down town,” s ith a cold rightly heen engaged to you less than 12 hours, and naturally “You heard Lily interrupted, an came together wit! dropped back upon and turned her bril upon the ceili It was Stale telephone and gave | I going out Staley,” s but of gaze imond on . Lexing- nessage. after- told him in “But she'll Drun M on, up the re- anted him to 1 have told She a beautiful eross baby Mrs. Lexingt shoulders rugged her to t 1t o » pointed out, “You're engaged tc oing to marry eat dinr 14 res of your sensibly. him and you're him the told me June, so you . You but v I have to im from now on " <he asked, and vawned again behind fingers that were like bits of carved It had granted ev- ] > and mother ivory. *“Jiminy! T've seen the]| man every day for weeks. I'm | tired of looking at him—" She| shut her fringed evelids to| show how tired she was. | “I'll have my coffee now, | please,” she said. Her mother studied her for| full minute before she got up | m her chair beside the bed. | n she shook her handsome | head. “Well, T give vou up, Lily!” she decided then. “Here you! are, engaged to marry a man who can give you every :inp" worth while in life—and you're as indifTerent about him as you can be! Any other girl in this town would give her eye-teeth to be wearing that r on vour finger this morning. I'm sure I don’t understand you at all. T thought you'd like me to | ask him here for dinner.” Still | shaking her head, she went out of the room and down the]| stairs for the coffee tray. | Lily lay perfectly still, star-| ing up at the ceiling. She wasn't at all sure that she understood herself this| morning. . . . Last night she had been filled with triumph and happiness when she had walked into the house with Sta- ey Drummond’s on her mouth and his diamond upon | her finger. For months and months she had been trying to get him to the “sticking point” —the point of proposing mar- riage to her. “He'll never do it,” her best friend, Susan Cain, had told her in their heart to heart talks. “Staley’s almost 40— and a bachelor as old as that | is as slippery as a cake of wet 3 | | | | But he had done it! Last| night on the way home from Sue Cain’s house he had asked her to marry him, and before he had taken her in his arms |and slipped the ring over her| ger. Looking back upon it now, it seemed to Lily that he had been too sure of her. Too sure the things that he could give her. “But am I sure of myself?” she thought, her eyves on the gray, slanting rain outside the | windows. “I'm going to marry | him right enough, but do [} really love him the way I should ?” She wondered. She liked him, of course. No ne could help liking Staley Drummond, with his quick, ! friendly smile, his nice eyes! and pleasant face, his generos- ity and his good nature. He was just as attractive as a man could be, aside from the glam- our that his money gave him. And yet— “What is it T want?” Lily | asked herself. “There’s noth-| ing that he can’t give me.” Without realizing it, that was the way she always summed up people—from the viewpoint of what they had to offer her. What could this one give her? What could that one give her? And she liked ov disliked them accordingly. For instance: she liked Sue Cain better than any of the rest of her girl friends because Sue had the largest house and a car of her own. Because she gave more parties than anyone , and because she Kknew more men. . . . A girl couldn’t have a more useful friend than Sue Cain. Then Lil | loved her father scause they man- somehow or other, to > her all the things that she wanted i that they denic iemselves in order to buy | utiful clothes and matinee tickets and to keep her little imported handbag filled with for luncheons downtown and for bridge debts and ! hite ga Has to wear on her shoulder. She loved them because they were her father and er, too, of But then, that w. ill; door opened and Mis. Lexington in with the ray of cof ind orange juic set it on the bedside table heside ailt telephone and the gilt clock and the hand mir- ror. i as came Shi she settled her the window wit} o basket filled with chif- ockings and soft silk un- She always mend- ed Lily's clothes with her own hand The Cyrus Lexingtons had no upstairs maid to keep the bedrooms in order and do the ning and patehii w Mrs. Lexington figared that she could do that work herself lars for a cheap muslin prince der By Bea Author of “Sally’s Shoulders “The Holly She stopped dead stil without anyone being the| wiser., She was one of those women who can make one dollar do the {work of two, just as she could {make one servant do the work of two in her house. She was a hard-task mistress, but she cllent manager; and thought that the Lexingtons had twice as much money as they really did have —which was exactly what Mrs. that she wanted him and ali|L {think. xington wanted everyone to If there was turkey on the table when people came for dinner, there would be corned- beef hash for the cook and the housemaid in the kitchen. If she paid a hundred dol- a dress, she wore it. And if she \ wore white kid gloves on he Ilarge, capable hands, they were the washable sort that las forever and do not cost much to begin with. She was all for “show.” For five years she had been telling her beautiful daughter that she wanted her to marry the man she loved when it came time for her to be mar- ried. “But,” she had always added, “it’s j in love with a rich man as it is to fall in love with a poor man. That's " just common-sense, Lily.” And now that Lily had done that very thing, she was much pleased. Her handsome blon face wore a satisfied look as he rocked in her chair this morning and ran her needle in and out of Lily's gauzy silk stockings. “I'm so glad we didn't scl the house last year when your father wanted to,” she comfortably. “I"ve always dreamed of you coming down the stairs in vour white satin wedding dress and your veil. ... We'll have the house dec- orated with yellow roses anc smilax for yvour wedding, Lily, and have a little altar in the al- cove off the liv room.” Lily nodded over her of orange juice, and a gl interest came into hev | eyes . She could I self, all in white, coming down the wide stairs next June. “And Sue can wear yellow chiffon,” she answered eagerly ‘I think T'll run over to he house this morning and tell her I want her for my maid of hon- or. She'll drop dead when she finds out that Staley did ask me to marry him after all. She was so sure that he was a confirm- ed bachelor!” She jumped out of bed, slin- ped into a wadded silk bath- robe, and went into the bath- room to turn on the water in the tub. Above the rush and roar of it, as it came pouring from the faucets, she heard her mother's voice telling he again how lucky she was to be engaged to a man like Staley Drummond. sl alass am of 00 . The only automobile that Lexingtons owned was a large dark-blue limousine. day. st as easy to fall | trice Burton ‘Honey Lou,” wood Girl,” Ete. Itailor's she knew her own. They had|{ been bosom friends ever since | kindergarten days. She started down the foggy length of Albermarle street, | stopping once to look at some diamonds in a jeweler's win- dow and once to inspect her- self in the mirror outside a shop. . . . She never had looked better in her life. The wind and the rain had whipped her bright hair up against the brim of her tiny| black hat, and had brought|McCabe. 49 Walnut St. Tel. 454.— advt. color to her cheeks and sparkle | to her eyes. “I am good looking,” she thought, tilting her hat down over her forehead. “There’s no doubt of it.” As she turned away from theia rain-bespattered mirror she felt | rcliabie. Not |cists. someone's eves upon her. more than six feet away, on the other side of the walk, a man stood looking intently at her. She stopped dead still and, stared at him. For a good hal minute she saw nothing of him but the eyes that held hers. Blue eyes under straight, black brows—the bluest eyes she ever had seen. Then she saw that he was voung and broad shouldered ! and very nice to look at, in| . spite of his hard, impudent stare. a taxicab that was parked be- f fore the tailor shop, with his!* hands in his khaki-colored pockets, and a khaki-colored ¢ ¥ City Coal & Wood Co. Tel. 217 City Coal & Wood Co. Tel. 217—adv. | J. Ryan, 184 North St. —Advt. prescriptions.—advt. New He was leaning against ot Union Veters city. This morning, room 106 was piled high with jams, canned stuffs, 1 everything to complete the Thanksgiving meal. Room 214, un- der the cirection of Miss Given, led in the number of contributions. The sectional presidents will hold their weekly meeting tomorrow morning. Duane Steinle, Civic lea- gue president, will officiate. City_ltems Johnston's clean coal is good coal. Nash Suit or Overcoat—! Johnston's clean coal is good coal. A Nash sult or overcoat, $22.90. Phone 2909. | | New Lunch Speclals, Crowell's.— | avt. Prescription service. Prompt and | Two registered pharma- | The lair Drug Dept.—advt. | Mr. Clarence W. Brainard, at The | Fair Drug Dept., will compound your Bring your prescriptions to the | r Drug Dept. Efficient service. | gistered pharmacists of over ] experience.—advt, | Hot Lunches at Packard Drug.— | Advt. | Tasillo's big dance orchestra at| A B hanksgiving Eve, | . A. B. hall, Main St. | —advt | Vocal numbers rendered by T: o's I men's hank’s Eve, ) . hall, Main St L. D. Penfield will instal ficers at a meeting tomorrow Ning. | Booths, syncopating musie, dane- | ng, entertainment, and a good time | o be enjoyed by all. Will meet you | cap upon his dark hair. There Thanksgiving night at St. John's | 'h | | and stared at him. Every morning Mrs. Lexing-| ton drove her husband down to his law office in it, and then drove it home, so that she and Lily could use it if they wanted to, during the day. It was standing age on this wet March morning went downstairs. She stood in the windows of the sunroom looking at it for a minute as she buttoned her gloves. Then, she shook her head. . .. She would walk the three miles to Sue C house. She was tir- ed and pale, and the in the gar- and windy when Lily 1 t into her rouged cheeks and put! some life into her body, she told self. There was no beautifier like a windy spring “You're surely not going to walk on a day like this!” her mother called to her from the head of the stairs as she open- ed the vestibule door. Lily glanced up at her and nodded. “Do me good,” she said, shortly. “But you will ruin your No, T won't—and what if 1 do?" The girl laughed. 1t was a careless sound, even if there was nothing light-hearted in it. |“I'll never be able to wear out § all my clothes before June, Mother, and after that—." Her words were swallowed in the wind. The door closed behind her. “And after that,” she said to herself, starting down the wet shining sidewalks on slender arched feet in the thinnest of kid pumps, “I'll have every- thing T want.” | Everything she wanted. . . . and yet she felt that she was being cl 4 of something. That she was missing some- thing that she ought to have.| Something important. Some- thing worthwhile. What it was she didn't know, but she miss- od it anyw And Lily hated to miss any- Cain was not at home. down town for house of the 0's gone the old colored who opened the door lere ! id. So Lily swung around on the heels of her wet slippers and et off through the misty more to the street car haif past one when 1o reached the busy down- town district, with the Tight hining in the shop windows and the people rushing about under their dripping umbrellas, jostling each other in their hurry to get to shelter from the ra ain. was a badge upon the lapel of ! jacket. x “Why, he's a taxi driver!” ', Lilv gasped inwardly Fair, T. A. B. hall. Adm. 25c.—Advt. | As the result of an automobile ac- | cident at Ibell's corner last Decem- her, B. Solomon of this city, | through | and went Monroe S. Gordon, has brought suit on her way down the sidewalk. for $100 damages against Emil F. | After a few seconds she turne her head and looked back. He was watching her. She stopped for an instant, her head down, thinking. Then went back to where he stood! |t (To Be Continued) I NOTES 5 ral Junior 1 tomor- CENTRAL J The pupils of il be gestion and colds as mustard slowly she swung around and the old-fashioned mustard with oil of m Anop of Holyoke, Mass. d Grandmother Knew | here was nothing so good for con- | But | plaster | burned and blistered. | Musterole gives the relief and help | hat mustard plasters gave, without | he plaster and without the blister. | 1t is a clean, white ointment, made | ard. Gently rub it | n. See how quickly the pain disamp- BUILD FLOATING DOCKS Buenos Aires, Nov. 22. 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