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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, AUGUST 26, 1933.

For the LOVE of EVE by Lucy Walling

BEGIN HERE TO-DAY

pleads for a home but Kve is determined to do on working.

sent in New York by the store, and must trave that night. She does not tell Dick this nawa until they are at dinner. He sees her Aboard her train.

that he secured work with a com- EVE HAYLESS. pretty maidant to EARLE | pany manufacturing BARNES, adverting manager of Bixby's des olevators. His work was to assist passenger partment ature, secretly marries DICK RADER,

Construction A

superintendent,

.n assemblin the parts and check Dick opposes her continued employment and or possible errors.

Thrift was the watchword of the The same day Five teens that she is to be Bnyiess home. Hank had taught 18 family always to have the cash on hand before any purchase was made. For years he had set asido egularly a small sum to invest in he stock of the local manufactur- ng concern which had been built p from a small beginning by two f his friends in whom he had the greatest confidence. In the course f years the dividends from this nvestment became irregular and ncertain and it was whispered

in New York Ere meel FREDA CANTER, dress barer for lixby's who introduces her to

THRRON REECE. Berce la much attracted by Eve. He angem her by trying to klas her in taxl

10 kom to not IRENE PRENTISS, » former schoolmate wha married and working in New York, Irene le playing the alock market and adries Eve to do the

At the end of a work Eve, returns to Leki Uity. Dlek meets her and takes her to tin fashionable Hotel, Miramar. They have then quarrel that gorning.

CHAPTER V

Dick had stopped-at-the-Y.-W. C. A. for Eve's mail on his way to the station to meet her. Ther wan a large envelope from be. mother, containing letters for hei and for Dick. Eve's parents hac been asked not to announce the marriage.

"Why bless her heart!" said Dick "It must have taken her a whole evening to write this. It's a grea many years since anyone called m 'Dear Son'."

And indeed I had taken Mrs Bayless whole evening to

con

pose that first painstaking letter ti her new son-in-law, Kate Bayles plump, patient and domestic, wa suffering the tortures of rheumati fingers incurred from years hard toll in the Interest of he. familly.

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Henry Bayless--or "Hank” as hi generally was known-was secretly proud of his wife and daughters and praised their achievements ti outsiders. But it was his firm h Hef that encouragement would Cause them to overdo and therefor they seldom heard these words of jirniae.

Soon after his marriage to Kate, Пank had established a small but-

bout that the company was not as table as it had been. Hank stopp- d investing in the stock and in- reased his weekly deposits-at-the- ..nk.

work when they ought to be prae- had found a good husband. "The tieing their music" the mother money-that comes with time and argued. "They will have plenty age if you work hard enough," she of time for that later. If they had written Eve in her simple, wore lazy-yos. But they are busy | kindly way. "If he is a good man all the time, I do not boss theni.that is everything."

I do not always understand what it Eve hnd written Dick that she is all about; the modern ways of would wait to have breakfast with teaching are different from when him the morning she returned from I wont to school, My girls are New York, so he had ordered the always doing something interesting belated meal sont to their suite. and I think they will come through He suggested having dinner served all right,"

LEAVES NANKING,

MR. LO WEN-KAN'S FAREWELL

Nanking, August 20. Bid farewell by a large gather- ing of high officials, including Mr. Wang Ching-wel, Mr. Lo Wen-kan teft for Sinking by the Eurasie

"But you wear yourself out for there too, but Eve preferred to dine Co.'s now Jupkars' plane, which in

them Kate."

In the hotel restaurant.

Kate would smile complacently velvet frock for the occasion when She was donning a new brown and answer, "Yes? Well, a doctor the telephone rang. She thought once told me that if a healthy wo-it must be. Dick, calling from the man did all her own housework it would give her just the right amount of exorcise.”

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due in Sianfu At 2 p.m.

morning, when he will leave fo

He will stay there till Sunday Lanchow, from which place he goes on to Tihua on August 29,*

Interviewed before, his depar- ture. Lo Wen kan said he honau- to meet Dr. W. W. Yen, though the meeting place had not been fixed. If time and circumstances permitted he would tour southern and western Sinklang, as well as Mongolia. The journey, would occupy four months.

main Boor where he had gone for tobacco. Or perhaps some one con- nected with the hotel management. Eve caused most-of-her-father's-

"Hello?" abe answered. perturbation. After she had had "Is Mr. Rader thore?" A womar's far more schooling than he had voice-low, urgent, distressed Despite all this careful saving originally planned she reated acame over the wire, nd economizing, Kate Bayless had downtown studio and taught dra-

annged to lay by over the years matle expession. The venture A dozen distorted. thoughts amall but steadily growing lasted only one year but in that flasked through Eve's head. What ccumulation of dollars. Unknown time she was able to save enough woman could be wanting Dick? Hank, she had deposited this to take her to Lake City 600 miles What woman knew he was here? oney in a building and loan asso-distant where she enrolled in the And why that, anxious tone of atlon.

school conducted by the Lake City voice?

Yu Hauch-chung, the Governor Advertising Club.

"Mr. Rader is not here at the of Hopel, arrived from Kuling this moment," she answered, trying to morning.-Reuter. conceal her surprise. "Do you wish to leave a messaяo?"

Eve had taken the only job she could get, clerking in the basement of a department store. Her father, figuring up the cost of Eve's educ cation, grumbled when he learned how much she was carning.

Kate saved for this fund by un- Fing industry. Bleased with bundant, health, she poured her aergy Into her home-making. rom her European-born mother Je had learned the knack of pre- aring delicious and sustaining

od at comparatively little

"Probably do her a lot of good, o task was too arduous to be though," he grunted. "She can vercome by her willing labour; no use some of those six-cylinder bstacle but succumbed to plans words to sell bargains."

In just what way this experience or of her hopes.

Kate was overjoyed when teach-was to benefit Eve her father would

cost.

"If you think ho'll be back with- in a few minutes I'll hold the line, please.'

work, surely the watchman or one of the other men connected with the construction project would have telephoned.

Dick returned just then. "The call is for you," Eve said. She went into the bedroom, closing the and still Dick did not

Two hours passed, three hours door behind her. She sat down be- Neither did he telephone. Eve return. fore the dressing table and busied slipped off her velvet frock and herself

with powder paff and hung it away. Mechanically she

onservatory she became a success-vertising executives in the audience in two strides and reaching for his ing her what sho had shown him-!

ul

moon second.

ter and egg route. His earnings baby called Katherine Ann for Mrs. Barnes commented to the man be- don't know exactly what it's all since breakfast, but she resisted

Eve, a year younger, had a flairnized Eve when she applied to him words were clipped off by a hastily } sent up to the room.

ra reported that her daughters had have been surprised could he have lipstick. She could not hear Dick's applied cleansing cream to her lim, dark and rosy-checked, hading a protest against blatant adver- concern in his voice. A moment She was furious. By now she was efinite artistle tendencies. Esther. I heard her that same week deliver- words but thought she detected deep face and removed the make-up. 1

real gift for music. After tising before her class. It hap-later he tapped on the door. overal years of study at a local pened, that there were several ad-

"Eve," he said, crossing the room teach her a lesson. He was show convinced that Dick was trying to And among them was Earle Barnes overcont, "I've got to go down that work comes first and a honey- music teacher. Then she leased her mother by marrying a

of Bixby's store.

town. Something's happened on That girl is made of good stuff," the job. I can't wait to explain too. She had had nothing to eat ́oung bank derk and having a

Eve was hungry, had to be stretched with the utmost 3ayless.

side him. Months later he recog-about yat. I'm care to cover the cost of educating

Borry The her desire to order a tray of food his two daughters, keep up the for composition and

for a job, home and put by something for old Hank grumbled every time he paid office at Bixby's was it source of and sat down to await his return.

closed door. Eve's work in the advertising age, It had been the dream of his out money for music and elocution gratification to her parents. This Sho was going to be reasonable hear the low, distressed voice. Eve returned to the living room bed at last and lay there, sleepless. life to have a business of his own. lessons

That woman Eve could still However, a large stock company Crabbed old Grandmother Bayless latest surprise her ameringe to about this she assured herself. It Was she, perhaps, some one who gradually absorbed all the butter insisted Kate was spoiling her Disk Rader whom her father and was very strange, though, to say had been of importance in Dick's mother had never seen-W re- the least. Why should that wo-life; some ona to whom he was stil

man have called? If anything real of first importance? Kate prayed that her daughter ly had happened connected with his

(To be Continued.)

and egg routes of the neighbour-girls

elocution.

but Kate stood firm.

hood, Hank's with the rest. After "Why should my girls do, house-ceived with mixed feelings.

She went to

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1 An English range is not out of

place in a charlatan.

5 An animal that also conveys an

Impression of charlatinry.

3 This impossible land of wealth seems to be afleted with. Dora working in a complicated, de' system.

10 A Shakespearean “immortal." 12 Seriously, this starts rather like

n plitaw.

14 What a spear does n

timo after conversion.

15 Devotee.

10 A gifted lad may be this,

рейсе

10 Just a manner of speaking.

22 A lady who dried because she

only got the 24 Down In tho end.

23 Part of Europe,

25 In stage directions, this does not

infer that a vehicle' comes

the stage,

28 In the saddle.

20 It is a cutting verb, and Ita contro is not wasting words.

32 One Simon encountered him.

33 Graceful enough, but

cut up into a Joan.pock.

31 Lisped (anagram),

35 Carpots, lace, or sprouts,

Down

twould

1 Walt for motors, and actors walt for what they sound like. Arithmetical poisoners.

opinion

A mass-meeting,

In

of an engaged couple.

Acted (anagram)

- A national the schoolboy defined

the animal that loops all lie

7. Amphibian rather like a revolu

Įtionary-fastener:: Blitāte sald that thim in than

11 I sounds like duty to encourage

virtue, but it really deals with the framing of a sentence.

back In

10 Turf that is turned

France.

17 I train bee (anagram).

18 "And sometimes lurk in a-'

bowl,

in very likesons of a roasted crab," says Puck.

20 This should be altered

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printed. 21 "There is Home soul of in

things evil.

Would men obversingly distil It out" ("Henry V.")..

24 An honour.

20 A fish in the Dee-to put it

In plain languago.

put

27 With intense effort, only by cut-

ting off the top, can you make it lock.

30 Sometimes an utterer of false

notch.

31 Good winding-up

might think,

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