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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1933.

For the LOVE of EVE by Lucy Walling

BEGIN HERE TO-DAY

DICK arria

Eve reached the office half an, beauty shop. Marya was a pretty unwieldy pyramid and carried EVE DAYLEES, pretty assistant to EARLE hour, late. She hoped tais tard young Bohemian girl, whose air BARNES, advertales manager of Babysiness would dopustment store, secretly

not come to Mr. hair was parted above a broad HADER, Enstruction superintendent. Blek Bixby's notice. He always was at White forehead and whose gentle upposes ber continued employment and plende his desk early and expected every-dignity gave evidence of the car for home but Eve la determined to go on one else to be prompt. On Eve's ful training to which her old

The sand slay Eve learns that she todesk-the desk that had boon world mother hold firmly, be sent to New York by the store and must Alice Marshall's-wns leave that night. She does not tell Ukk this news until they are at dinner, lo sces which read; har aboard

In New York in.*

werking.

Eve meria FREDA CANTER dress buyer for Bixby's, who introduces her to THERON REECE Here is much st- tructed by Eve. He angers her by trying to kiss bar in a tax

At the end of a week Eva“returns to Lake City. Dick 'resets her and takes her to the fashionable Hotel Miramar. They are about to go down to dinner when a woman tela phores, making for Dick. He leaves im mediately saying something has happened "on the job and does not return all night.

CHAPTER VI

It was nearly time for Eve to start to the office whon Dick

returned next morning..

a note

"Memo to Miss Bayless from Mr. Barnes:

'After you

correct proofs

of to-day's ud, please seo Mias McElroy and get detalls for. Basement hat sale Tuesday. Belect, six or eight hats for sketching. Mako 3-col. Jay- out for Press and 2-col. för Times and writo copy and honds to fit. See layout on my desk for. depth of ad and approximate size of cut.

Send proof of your col- umn in to-day's Tress to Mr.

All her anger and suspicion-Bixby for is 0. K." were lost in concern when she saw him. She ran to him contritely Eve read, this through a second and clung to him. "Oh, Dick, time. Basement hatal Well, they what happened she cried. His wore starting her at the bottom, clothes were grimy and ruined.terally. She had taken it for

Пess.

them to the oflce herself via the freight elevatori She regarded this task as beneath the dignity of her position and did not wish to be seen by anyone she knew The buyers she suspected, did not feel about this as she did. One The girls showered Eve with of them was likely to appear in questions about her trip to New the advertising office at any time York and exclaimed rapturously with a great armful of new mer over the gifts she had brougchandise. Even Mr, Bixby could thema dram of jasmine perfume be seen at times balancing a stack in a crystal bottle for Marya and of bandboxes or carrying an ave a new lipstick for Arlene.

ning gown over his arm. Eve.corrected the proofs and Bixby believed firmly in the dig sent them to the buyers of the nity of any useful, honest labour. departments represented for their At staff meetings he frequently approval, Then she went to the enlarged on that theme. basement hat shop to discuss to- morrow's sale. She Jetted down descriptiona and prices and selected several hate for sketching: "Please send these up at once Ale Gold. "Miss Vlad wants them right away.".

"I'm sorry but I haven't any- one to send now," Janet McElroy replied crisply. "All the girls on the floor are busy and there isn't

His shoulders angged with wearl- granted that there would be a an errand boy in sight. I'd bring Dew girl to all the place made them up myself but I have to go vacant by her promotion. A new to the recolving room to look over irl to write relatively unimpart a new shipment that just came ant bite of copy and do the erin,"

"Somebody tried to wreck the foundation," he explained briefly "Used a crude bontb."

Eve'a oyes widened. "Rack

uteers?" she asked.

"I don't think so.

A man was

rands that could not be trusted to Eve stacked the hats into un

Charles, the office buy. But there? Was no time to waste on injured; feelings. Two

messenger boys

fired last week-a sullen, spiteful entered at that moment, both in

chap. He's the one they're hunt-grent haste. ing for. We worked all night trying to get, at the bottom of asked the mischief and trying to esti-into Baracs' office to see. mate the damage. How about was a manilin some breakfast 7"

"Anything for the Times?" one of them. Eve went There envelope on his desk marked, "Times--Closai-

Solicitously Eve started the hot fied." The boy anatched it from water running in the tub for her hand and was off. Eve turned Dick's bath and ordered break to the other lad. "Anybody here fast sent up,

by the name of Miss Eve Bay- Over their coffee Dick told her less 7" he inquired. He carried of the

night's work and she a box from a florist's shop. learned, among other things, that the woman who had telephoned the night before was Mrs. Jall, who owned a barbecue stand erdss the street. She had over heard conversation which led her to suspect trouble.

Floweral Eve wondered if Earle Barnes could have acht them in honour of her promotion. Perhaps even Mr. Bixby, There were six yellow rosebuds, long- stemmed with glossy, deep green leaves. The card in the tiny en-

"I should have called you,velope read, "Love from Dick." Dick sald Hegre Cully. "But

Eve rushed one of the fra- things were in such a mess and grant buds with her lips and with by the time I could get around to a topaz bar pln fastened it below it, it was long past midnight and the collar of her frock. The I hoped you word asleep. Youlter five buds she arranged in.a we had to make sure there pottery vane that she kept on her Was nothing more that could desk. enuse damage."

Arlene Smith and Marya Vlad "But you might have been entered the office together. Ar-| hurt!" Eve Was remembering lene was modern, inclined to be that while Dlek was risking his slangy. She wore the axtremes life in, the interests of his em- in fashion and wore them well. ployers she had been doubting him. She must make that up to him-never hurt him by letting him know.

Her dark eyes were shaded by a intriguing long black fringe and her soft black hair was kept sleek through weekly visits-to-thd-

Mr

Eve entered the office and dropped the hats on a table near she had never seen was sitting at Marya's drawing board. A girl her-desk-the deak, that had been Alice Marshall's. A small, blond girl with round, blue eyes.

"This Is Miss Allen, Miss Bay- less," Marya sald, "She's going "How do you do, Miss Allen: 1 to have your old place."

Eve smiled and offered her hand. hope you will like it here as much as the rest of us do."

friendly clasp, "Oh, I know I'm going to adore it here" she draw- led, taking Eyo's measure with a hostility that she scarcely took the trouble to vall.

ruler, sharpened pencil and a place Eve brought a layout sheet, a of art gum, to the desk whare the new girl was seated. Mona Allen made no move to vacate her place. "That will be your desk over there, Miss Allen," Eve said, indicatng a smaller, shabbier desk stacked with nowspapers and merchandise. "I because I've been away for a week. haven't had time to clear it out But I'll get my things out of the drawers by the time you from lunch and I'll have Charles put

roturn

merchandise somewhere else."

those nowspapers and that

cool impudence. "Oh, I think there The new girl surveyed Eve with must be some mistake," she draw- led. "I am sure this is the desk Mr. Barnes meant me to have."

Allen, she suspected, was trying to Eve thought rapidly. Miss

Barnes had paid or implied. For- Evo had no way of knowing what "put something over" on her. But

tunately Marya interrupted to ask Eve's advice about the sketch she

making. They went (Continued on Page 0.)

Languidly the young Woman WAS withdrew a limp hond from Eve's

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