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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 1933.

For the LOVE of EVE by Lucy Walling

BEGIN HERE TO-DAY.

EVE BAYLESB, pretty sulatant to BAILE HARNES, advertising manager of aby department lore, secretly marries DICK RADZI, a construation engineer. Dick wants Erm to give up working but she wishes

The same day Eve learns that she is to go!

the reception room and approved renchine to the floor mado amentously busy morning. At noon | murmuring under her breath, "Oh, its furnishings. Even when she square, "bay," and ruffled curtains she purchased an orchid inön this is Impossible!" But Dick wont had learned how high the rent was were tied back to permit a view of luncheon act but there was no time on with his meal, apparently un-. sho still wanted to live there. : the snow-covered lawn.

for further shopping.

disturbed.... But Dick would not laten to har "We have a rose garden in sum-

Eve sat in the dark living room to New York for the store and murs leave argument that he could pay part mer and hollyhocks and all sorts of

looking out at the street. Dick that night. Dick takes her to the station but of the rent. "No," he said, "we're old-fashioned flowers," Mrs. Brooks

entered much lator. "Oh, thorn word from hist. The days there are busy, going to uve within my income and announced. "The garden was my The meds THERON REECE Who is much save some of it too, because I have husband's hobby.”

the lamp. "Have you are!" be exclaimed, turning on attracted by her and the visits IRENE plans for the future. It takes

gomo candy, PRENT the stock market and adviess Eve capital before anyone can be in-We must take them," gasped Eve,

batter creams. "Why these rooms are lovely:

Evop acboolmate who is

And with a smile hd held out a box of chocolate contred On her return to Lake City Dick 1ste Eve dependent."

much to her own surprise. "And:

throughout the week in New York she bau no

PRENTISS,

to do the same

to the fashionable. Hotel Miramar, where hel has engaged a sulie. At the office e onde

new copy writer, MONA ALLEN, w

appens to be a trouble-maker.

ono when · wees Theron

move from the hotel.”

side street.

··

"Oh, bothor!" she told herself. "I can't do everything. We'll just have to get our meals out for a while."

But when she reached home that

In great consternation she hurried night she was greeted by an aroma she loathed cooking cabbage! The next addresses on the list I think we can, move in to-day." to the kitchen: There stood Dick

Eve grudgingly allowed herself woorlog a blue flannel shirt with proved equally discouraging. At

one, of them.. "It's the only kind last they stopped before an old- They returned to the Miramar, turned up collar and a pair of old of dessert I really care for," Dick Bick and Ere are in the hotel dinis house on the opposite side of the checked out and stowed their be- trousers. He was grating horas explained. "This and fruit cake. Its recognises ber and comes to their table, elty. It stood at the corner of a longings into the rumble seat of radish. On the stove stood a steam You'll never have to bother mak- Later the lejla Dick; she thinks they should main thoroughfare and tree-lined the rondster. Then Dick stopped pressure cooker.

ing pics and fancy cakes for me; "Dick!" at a delicatessen for chicken sand- CHAPTER VIII

objected. "There's no

"Hello, sweetheart," he said, on hand. use both a pint of sherbert.

"Isn't that interesting?" com- There were several columns of ering to go inside. Look-the Mrs. Brooks let him make the inclining his head for a kiss, Bo- advertisements of furnished apart front steps are broken, too. 1 like coffee in her big, old-fashioned fore Eve could take her hat off hemented Eve.

had lifted the huge cooker and But Dick apparently missed the. kitchen. Sho-loaned-thom-nome ments for rent in the Sunday news-the palce-next door better. paper. Evo and Dick had decided "That house next door is the dishes and cups and Eve set out whisked it out the door. There, on sarcasm. "I'm not going to be to rent a furnished place because home of the soap magnate. John the food. It was fun oating by the back porch, he released the difficult to cook for," he assured.

few seconds Dick steam. In Dick was only temporarily located North," Dick told her. "I used candlelight, she declared.

heher.

Eve's heart sank. Why, with all beamed at her. "To-morrow," he brought it back to the stove. In Lake City. The main offices to room a few blocks from here."

"Doing that outdoors," he ex- her years of studying, had The woman who owned the house said, “wo'll have a real dinner in

shc of the company he worked for were in Chicago but Dick had been in was a widow. She and her two our first home, won't we, sweet-claimed, "keeps the cooking odours never learned anything at all about

from circulating through the cooking? Lake City for more than a year, sons and daughter occupied one heart?"

"Why, yes," said Eve soborly.

house." superintending the construction of section of the rambling old mansion

Dick threw a leg over the side "Dick Rader, why!" Evo be of his arm chair, lighted his pipe a theatre combined with a huge and the rest had been divided into She had not the slightest idea how

She was

on the verge of and went on, "It's going to be nice office building. The theatre was apartments. Once inside, Eve liad it was to be managed since she bad an

charm admit the

of the to be at the office until five o'clock.

tears. to open in March but it would be to

to have a wife to cook for me. I June before everything would be place. The walls ware thick

"Take off your wraps, dear," used to get no tired of hotel and As she waited for the trolley at completed. Dick hoped his next and tho ceilings high. Door- the corner next morning she turned he said. "We can have dinner in restaurant food that sometimes I've job also would be in Lake City. ways were arched and the to look at the house. It was down few minutes. Everything Is taken an apartment with a kitche- nette just so I could do my own Evo refused even to consider the heavy ivory woodwork was mag-right shabby from the outside. I done but the horseradish." possibility that he might be sent nificent. The vacant apartment Eve was not so plenaed with her But she laid the table for two and

Eve oboyed. She wanted to cry. ¡cooking." olsowhere.

was at the front on the main floor.new home as she had been the

Dick_triumphantly produced his The first apartment they visited I had cream coloured walls and night before.

Fog: windowa i was impressive. Eve glanced about mahogany dont's.

But she forgot all that in a tre-

"This house needs paint," Eve wiches, coffee, a bottle of cream and earth, Bhaped Eve, "What on Just koop a homemade fruit cako

The Shanghai (left) and Hongkong Interport Polo fours who closhed at Kiangwan in the final of the Cup competition, Shanghai winning Il to le The handsome trophy is shown above in the centre. The local team was composed of, left to right-Rodger, du Rirau, Franklin and Allman. Hongkong, left to

right-Keswick, Villar, Williams and Hops.

offering.

"A vegetable dinner! thought you'd be as fed-up as I was on party food. I bought the pressure cooker at noon. Just the thing for us. Cooks ment, vegetables, and everything at the same time and in just a few minutes." i

On the table was a platter of ham surrounded by carrots, onions, cabbage and potatoes. Eve looked at it without speaking.

"Wadt's the matter?" asked.

"I'm not hungry.""

Dick

"Well, that's too bad," Dick answered. "Don't you want to try Ja bit anyhow? This horseradish

sets everything off just right.”

Eve arose and left the room,

"Indeed! Where did you learn to cook?" she asked in a low voice. "Oh, in the woods. Spent a summer up north peeling bark for a medicine company when I was a kid. Fine_training."

"You like the woods, don't you?" Eve asked, in spite of herself.

"I'll take you up north BOMO time; see if you don't like it too," Dick said in answer, "I used to go up in the fall with a group of friends, But that was different. Then we stopped at a lodge and there were cooks to prepare the food. That was wonderful, too. But you never really learn the woods until you have to fend for yourself."

"How much did you pay for. that cooker," Eve demanded suddenly.

When he told her she gasped." (Continued on Page 10.)

The monoplane Lithuania ja shown soaring over New York city at the start of an attempted 4900. mile non stop flight to Kaunas, capital of Lithuania. Its two Lithuanian pilats, Capt. Stephen Darius, left and Stanley Gironas, right, of Chicago, were found dead in wreckage of plans in the woods boar Soldin, Germany, after successfully crossing the Atlantic and completing 4,000 miles of the flight. Lack

of fuel is believed to have caused the failure.

Seven vinting governors of vari- ous states, arriving in California to altend the 25th annual .con- ference of governors, went with Gov, James Rolph jr of California to the site of the Donner Party Memorial, which honors the Don- -ner party, lost in the mountain wilderness during the early gold rush days in California.

Sets National Record at 15-A new American record for the mile swim was set by 15-year-old Ralph Flanagan of Miami, Fla., at the national amateur outdoor swimming championships In Chicago when, as shown here, he plowed through the waters of the World Fair's north lagoon to win the event to the record time of 21:12:2, Former holder of the national title was Buiter Crabbe, of Stanford Univeralty.

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