THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1993.
For the LOVE of EVE by Lucy Walling
CHAPTER XXXIV
Eve stared at the policeman, What could he possibly want of her? "I'm Miss Bayless," she said,
What is it?"
Now, she realized,; he would - ba | racketeer. Sam thinks I ought to
terms, fortunate to got work ou any
do something about it-bo an uplifting Influence in hor young life and see that she meets some decent men."
"Did you tell him how she edged her way into Freda's party ant how she repaid me for the invite- tion to mine?" Eve, asked.
"Henyena, nol' He'd just think. me catty and he might oven decidu to rescue her himself.
It was an ordeal to reach the office promptly on those late sum mer mornings and it was an ordeal "Headquarters wants to talk to to endure the long hours at the you about that accident last Thura store. Often whon, with frayed day night. The man who was hit nerves and aching heart, Eve tried has internal injuries and thoro's to thish hor copy so that she could some question about your ball.” meet Dick promptly at closing Eve insisted that she had been time, she thought of other wives out of the state for two weeks and she knew-wives like Eathor who "Do you know," Arlene went on had returned only the day before. could, If they choose, take a nap thoughtfully, "I've sometimea She turned to Arlene and Mrs. in a cool, shoded-room-or-spend-the-wondered why-she-doesn't try to Penney to substantiate her state-afternoon on an airy porch or vamp Barnes. The fact that he's mont but this did not satisfy the lawn. And she thought enviously married wouldn't make any dif officer.
of women like Mr. Bixby's wife and ference to her. She's the kind of daughters at mountain or seaside dumb Dore who'd believe any man resorts with nothing more arduous to do than to change from one charming costume to another.
"I'd call Mr. Barnes, the adver- tising manager, to tell you what I'm saying is the truth but he's out of town to-day," Eve explained. "And Mr. Bixby is away too!"
"Well, you'd better come along and tell it to the sergeant," the officer told her.
Eve went with him, her eyes blazing. Why couldn't they have sont a plain clothes man instead of an officer in uniform? She In- sisted upon telephoning Dick who met her at the police station. Dick demanded to see the officer who had made the arrest the week be- fore. When he arrived ho con- firmed the name but assured thoni Eve was not the girl.
"Who do you suppose could have used my name?" Eve asked Dick. He called for a description of the girl and immediately they guessed it must have been Monn Allen.
Back to the store weht Eve, nc- companied by the officer who had; made the arrest. She was deeply humillated by the stares of the other employees as they passed.
Mons was at her desk when Evo und the policeman reached the advertising office. The girl's face blanched and a frightened look came into her eyes.
"There's the girl!" The oflicer said, pointing to Mona. "Thought you said your name was Eve Bay- less! Well, you'd better come along with me. The sergeant wants to see you."
And Moni, without a word, obeyed.
"Sho'd rather see the sergeant than see me right now!" Eve told Arlene and Mrs. Penney. "She and some man were riding in a rented coupe last Thursday night and they crashed into another car on University Circle. Of course I was out of town and she thought she would get away with giving them my name!"
Next morning Eve followed Bar- nos to his private office as soon as he arrived. It was high time. she had decided, that he learned something of Mona Allen's indis- cretions. Eve told him of the in- cident. He agreed with her that it was serious and then rang for Mona. He dismissed Eve, how ever, who had hoped to be present for the interview.
She told herself that when her stock market investiments mate- rialized she, too, would have a pleasant, easy life.
Another thing that vexed Eve vas her inability to take advantage of the many bargains that heaped Bixby's counters as the summer waned. All of her salary except the small anm necessary for lun- chos and incidentals went into Atlas Coupler. And of course she could not ask Dick for money from (his anvings without explaining why
she had none of her own.
Mona did not reappear for at least half an hour. Then she came from Barnes' office, dabbing her: eyes with a handkerchief, and passed through the room into the corridor.
"Tears" sniffed Arionc. "She cried and I suppose he fell for it, Pretty soon she'll be back to tell. you ake's sorry. As though saying that will undo all the trouble she has caused. The little sneak!"
And that is exactly what Mona did. "I'm awfully sorry!" she told Eve in a contrite volco. "Will you forgive me?"
Eve felt obliged to any ahe would, though the humiliation of that trip to police court still rankled,
"I suppose Barnes would fire her if she didn't have so much imagi- nation. Her value does lie in her original ideas," Eve admitted.
"Yeah," drawled Arlene. "Tao bad so many of them are misdi- rected?"
Eve longed for, yet dreaded the arrival of the time when Dick would go to work on a new con- struction Job.. It made her uneasy to see his savings disappearing for their living expenses. At the same time she was afraid his 'now job would take him away from Lake City. In more prosperous times his employers might have given him some cholce in the matter.
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This was especially hard to en- dure because. Arlene and Mona, whose wages were mach smaller than hers, were buying liberally.
Mona gleefully exhibited some new bit of finery after every pay day. "I doubt if she ever had $50 salted away in her life," Eve told Arlene after Mona ind left the office one evening, wearing a new hat. "Do you suppose she ever looks ahead at all-over thinks of investing for the future?"
oven Mr. Bixby himself could be vamped if she went about it in the right way.
"I'll always be glad for my busi- nens experience," Arlene continued.. "If I marry I'll never be Jealous of the girls in my husband's ofske. I'll know the average man has about all he can do when he sup ports a wife, a couple of kids, a filver and a radio set and that probably he hates the way his stenographer, wear her hair, be grudges the time she spends pow doring her nose and wishes sho knew how to apell and punctuate correctly!"
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This was a long speech for: Arlene. Somehow it comforted Eve. In the present state of his finances Dick was in no position to philander, even if he were so in- clined.
Eve tried to put aside her re sentment at the fact that her hus band did not seem to worry over his unemployment. She did, how- over, resent his refusal soveral times to meet her downtown and lunch with her. Twice he packed a lunch, stowed his high boots and fishing tackle into the roadster and, after leaving her at Bixby's," was off for a day's fishing. When he returned in the evening, happy and triumphant, with a string of catfish and blue gills, she refused to cat any of the fish, and sulked through the meal like a spoiled. child."
"She was looking to the future when she bought that comne-hither hat. A good investment, too! She looks so sweet and innocent in it that I'm almost deceived about her myself. If she could hold that pose long enough I believe she could marry sonic one really worth while. But the mistake she makes is in Dick said nothing. He gave up going out with any man who in- the excursions, Eve knew, because vites her. She thinks it makes her he no longer took his fishing tackle seem popular to have a date for along. What he did with his daya every evening. Well, it's just reek-after that he did not tell her and less for her to be seen with some she was too proud to ask. of the men who take her about. Eve could not know that events Sam and I are always inecting her were shaping swiftly to separate and Sam knows about some of the them and that she was to look. men she goes with. None of thein back on her selfish, childish con. are much good., One is married dact in shame and remorse. and, another is an out-and-out
(To Be Continued.)
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