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THE

TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, AUGUST

1933.

For the LOVE of EVE by Lucy Welling

CHAPTER I

To Eve hor wedding was like, a Would she disturbing dream. get back to the store before Mr.

i tried to focus through her girlhood-these she i should not be thinking about all de ti. on the words that was moved to heap on love's altar his now. She must keep her were banda, er to Dick, but as a sacrifice, ineto be so many thoughts that Kept intertec.ng."

And new, even wing the Was¡-. being married to Dick, there wan It was a brief and hurried mar the menacing ghost of the morn; riage ceremony, not at all the iming hovering hetween her and hor posing affair Eve Bayloux had

happiness. dreamed her wedding would be. Just he and Dick, at the Little Stone Church, with the rectory housekeeper and a Young civil engineer whom Dick knew for witnesses. Monday noon-and the imstlly performed ceremony was like an anti-climax to the pas sionate scene of parting Thursday night when Eva hnd decided she wanted to be Dick's wife with as little loan of time as possible.

Now rest young rector was wiving them his blessing. Dick's ring was out her anger, Barnes sent for her? Would Dick Dick's ma were around her. be angry rad storm when she told Dick's lips, possessive yet vory him what had happened that tender, pressed to hera. - Eve's morning? Or would he be hurt heart melted. In that moment she and allent? Well, she wouldn't was almost ready to give up every tell him until she had learned thing for Dick. Her work, the for sure this evening after din-coveted geni almost within reach, ner. No une to spoll the after-the career she had dreamed of

The annual race for Doggett's Coat and Badge was rowed over the traditional course from London Bridge to Chelsea. There were five competitors. Picture shows the King's Bargemaster in his Stato costume starting the race. (Planst News),

nerves steady and her mind clear for that conference with Mr. Farnes at two o'clock. She hoped, yet feared, the outcome of that

It was Dick who broke the spell, Abruptly his arms released her, It was he who suggested, himost

to conferenze. brusquely, that they'd have hurry or they would be late

work.

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unwelcome.

Eve was relieved to find there was no one in the advertising But by the time is roadster had oflice except Marya Vlad, the nosed lis way through the noon- fashion artist, who was working day traffic to the side entrance of at her drawing board in a corner Bixby's department store, whereby the window. Perhaps Marya. Eve was employell as a copy writer was not so oblivious to what went 63 she seemed. in the advertising office, Dick's on about her mood had changed again. Hle Perhaps her candid blue eyes hand closed, over, hers," "Eve, were more penetrating than her sweetheart, don't go back! I don't fellow workers realized, but

courteous want my wife out earning her any rate she was too living. Let me take care of you, and considerate to ask questions. darling. You know the kind of that might prove. marriage we talked about last She merely looked up and smiled night-that's what I want. Aás Evo entered, Ite house with a fireplace and a garden and a baby?

"Dick" she pleaded, "let me got We can't thrash that out again. At least not here. Not now. Wait for me here this evening. I try not to be late, but I don't know. "Oh, I'm glad you think so! I Something came up in the office huve a special reason for wanting this morning-something unex-to look well to-day."! - pected and terribly important.. Is that so?" echoed a volee I tell you about it this evening in gay raillery and Arlene Smith, 'Bye, deareat."

Earle Barnes' stenographer, enter-

"Did anyone ask for me?" Marya knew of the conference with Mr. Barnes, scheduled for two o'clock.

"No one. How lovely you look to-day. Eve."

Eve consulted her watch whened the office, only a few steps be- she reached the third floor. Shehind Eye. "Don't tell us you are had just five minutes to change turning to such tactics to land a from the brown ensemble which promotion," Arlene went on. "Not was her wedding costume into her after the way I've been bragging smart but simple black office to my family about the high- dress. The change was accom-mindedness and all-around super- plished in the allotted time and iority of this office force!" the brown costume and the "Goodness, no!" laughed Eva.

creamy, fragrant rose-

corsage

buds with tawny orchids that Dick. The promotion, if any, hasn't a had sent, put away in her lucker, thing to do with my wish. I just Thank goodness none of the girls came in from a date with a very He's the marked had special man. whom she knew at Bixby's spied that corsage! They could letim of my fatal charm-not

Mr. Barnes, nor yot Mr. Bixby." scent a wedding months away.

"Oh, I know," said Arlene. She slipped of her wedding ring, the little circlet of pale The strong, silent one who parks yellow gold engraved with orange that yellow roadster at the side blossoms which she had chosen in- entrance at quitting time about week. Listen, stend of platinum because it five evenings a matched the golden lights in her dearle, any time you get a chance amber eyes and honey-coloured to pass up this madhouse in ox- hair and harmonized with the change for a permanent seat in October browns and yellows that that rondster and the privilege of were her favourite colours. She operating a kitchenet and can- put the ring in the chumols en-opener for that young man you'd velope which guarded her money better grab off the prize." and trinkets. Eve had told no one at Bixby's that she was to be married to-day. She would not tell them for a while-not until ahe was certain she wished them to know,

"Sometimes I really believe you prefer domesticity to a business carcer," Eve said.

was

Just watch me help myself to the first chance at sweet domos- ticity that comes my way." Oh, she should have waited Arlene's forvent reply. "I'm fully until June to be married, she as domestic as Marya, here, and told herself unhappily as she twice as domestic as you, Eye. went into the office. If only they But do the men see that? They could have been married Saturday do sol! I'm alright to play instead of to-day, it would have around with but when they begin helped the situation some. But to shop around"for"an engagement the state law had been changed ring they have some sweet young and a three-day notice was re-thing like you or Marya in mind." quired before, a marriage license Eve laughed uneasily and could be issued. She knew she (Continued on Pape 10.)

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