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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. - TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1933.

For the LOVE of EVE by Lucy Walling

CHAPTER XXV

draw in Marya's place. I hope it as quickly sopicone behind asked morning train and would be absent; some of the most thrilling hours- isn't another prize package like her to close it because of the draft. for two days, leaving Eve respons- I've ever spent were when he told With Dick's help. Eve got the Mona. Who'd ever expect that Eve shot the person a meaning ble for the advertising department me about his trips to the Near East copy for the Tuesday advertise fluffy, purring kitten of having look, then closed the window. She during that time.

and China. To me those stories ment to the Times office before the, such claws?"

dutifully glanced over the adver- "He didn't take me into his con- rivalled the 'Arabian Nights." deadline, but the exeltement gave!

"I guess it's true that I dream Eve was reading letters of up-tlsing in the morning paper and Ddence," Arlene said. "So I don't her a nervous headache. Instead

news headlines, How-know where his highness has gone, about rugs. I used to dream of plication from artists who wished read the of being sympathetic Dlek W to be considered for the place. Iever, her thoughts kept returning I don't know what he went for. baznata and caravans when I was plainly irritated by the affair, didn't dream there were so many to Dick and what he had said the either, but I hope he'll lose Inst a child and I made up my mind to regarding it as another encroach, foot-loose and fancy-free,

she night before after she hnd tossed week's grouch while he's away," be a rug buyer when I grew up. ment of office duties on his wife's

commented.

and turned for several sleepless

kept that ambition in college and leisure and home responsibilities,

hours.

took overy course offered dealing Nor was ho properly sympathetic

in any way with the countries that next morning when Eve, feeling

And tho pruduco oriental rugs, wretched, refused to remain at

fellows who laughed at me would home in bed:

be surprised to know how much of sec,"

my college expenses were paid from, the sale of gifts.my father brought my mother from those trips."

"Don't you

"

She selected a dozen letters and telephoned for those artists to come for an interview with Mr. Barnes. That afternoon they be gan arriving laden with samples she urged, of their work. It took Barnes but "how especially necessary it is for me to be at my desk to-day in ense short time to decide each was tinsatisfactory. Eve rounded up Mr. Bixby finds out that I had to another half dozen the next day, call the night watchman to let me but none suited Barnes, into the office last night? It would By Thursday his temper. was look as though I were afraid to erlap and Eve's norves were on face the consequences of my care edge. Twice he snapped at her in lesanese."

Dick did not answer. He left answer to questions." the apartment, shutting the door behind him, with unnecessary em phasis,

Arrived at the office, Eve was still unable to account for the fact that she had found the copy for the Times' advertisement under- neath the blotter on her desk the

night before.

"I have it!" exclaimed Arlene after puzzling over the mystery "Mona Allen!"

"But why should she do a thing

like that?" asked Eve,

"Because you and I had time off to go to Marya's wedding and she had to stay here and work."

"Oh, I'd hate to think anyone

be like that!" could

Eve pro- tested,

"Have it your own way then,"

bc

declared Arlene, "but I've got that girl's number! Let's not any any thing about it to her but darned careful what we let her get| away with in the future. She's out-guessing us all the time."

"I could anfihilate the person who caused all that trouble last night,” said Eve. "Dick was fur- ious about it and I wan almost scared to death for four wouldn't get to the Times office in time. As it happened, we were just under the wire-with no nec onds to spare. What a night!"

we

He had complained that she was "trying to do the work of two women," What if he realized that her ambition led her to pictura herself doing the work of a man, she thought.

Eve's spirits lifted and she went about her duties with new interest, After the early morning routine was dispatched she went to look at some rugs that had just come in. The buyer was busy when she appeared and referred her to one

of the salesmen.

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More and more, as the weeks

"George Bliss can tell you all passed, Eve had gained new under-about them," he assured her. "He standing of the importance and re- knows more about rugs than any sponsibility of Barnes position, one else in Lake City. He's read Sometimes she wondered at the everything that's been written temerity of her ambition to take about them. think he his place if the disagreements bo dreams about rugs when he's "Why do I suffer such indigni- twoen him and Mr. Bixby become asleep!" ties?" she asiced herself as she re-irreconcilable. Yet she clung stub Blisa smiled. "Yes, I'm interest turned to her desk with lowered bornly to her ambition. It had ed in rugs," he admitted, "Why yes. It isn't necessary for me to been her objective for so long that not? There's a lot to know about tay here and let Barnes work off she could not bear to give it up them and it's a fascinating sub- even though she realized the toll ject. Forty years ago my father It would take in time and energy. was rug buyer for Bixby's and went abroad and What it might do to her marriage every year ho she did not permit herself to con- selected a year's supply.

"That was before I was born but There were times, too, when Eve

his sarcasm on me."

sider.

The advertising manager's irri- tation had transferred itself to Eve and that night, because she was tired, she gave vent to her took off her French heeled slippere the possibility that she might suc- liscontent before Dick. As she suspected that Barnes kept in mind to put on a pair of mules she flangeeed him. Although his temper one slipper across the room. It often made him disagreeable she kuweked over a delicate amethyst fair on the whole. And it was was unintentional but the slipper had to credit Barnes with being glass perfume bottle, spilling its characteristic of his generosity that contents on the rug. Afterward

he did not seem to resent Eve's po- whenever Eve inhaled that fra- grance the scene came back to her her to take his place by giving her sition but was actually preparing Dick made no comment. Ho more work and new responsibilities wiped up the perfume and picked as rapidly an she could take them. up the broken bits of glass ns Eve

burst lato hysterical tears. Then

he asked, "What's the matter with you. Eve?"

Arlene mentioned the possibility Juinely glad for Eve. That

more than once and seemed gen- the "I'm just tired," she sobbed. to Mona and that Mana would stop same thought must have occurred Tired to death i"

at nothing to prevent Eve's promo- "Um-m! I was afraid you'd.gettion Eve was equally sure. She did this way.. Well-we'll see that this not mention this to Dick. So far doesn't happen again.”

What did he mean, Eve naked herself wildly. She was not going to give up her career just beenuse Earl Barnes had worked himself into a frenzy over a disruption of the oflee routine.

as possible she tried to keep from him the irritating things that came up in her day's work.

A day came, however, when Eve approached her work with lnck of enthusiasm. Her special column, after the first few weeks, had become more a burden than pleasure. Thia was partly because, the novelty had worn off and partly

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Arlene returned to her type- writer when Moan Allen entered) The next morning Eve left for and there was no sound except work with a heavy heart. The the rapid clicking of keys un- jostling of other passengers on the tl Mona left on an errand to some trolley irritated her and she used because her increased duties and other department. Then Arlene both elbows to keep from being reaponsibilities left her less. time looked at Eve.

crowded too closely. At the 55th for the column. "Do you suppose," she asked. street intersection a score or more "I haven't single idea this "that anyone

with Mona Allen's left the car and Eve sank with re-morning!" she admitted to her- diaposition would be likely to goller into a vacant seat. Immediate self, and then found her entire in for fashion art? I was wonder-ly she raised the window to let in outlook changed by a note on 'hor Ing what sort of purgon we will the spring morning air and just desk. Barnes had taken an early.

Eve felt new respect for George Bliss after that talk. She had learned dozens of interesting things about the rugs she was to describe. After she returned to the advertis- ing office she sat down at her desk and tried to put into words some of the enthusiasm with which George Bliss had invested the sub- ject of rugs.

So absorbed was she that she forgot everything else and was

with a gulity start when she heard someone enter the office.

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