1933-09-21 — Page 3

THE HON

TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1933.

For the LOVE of EVE by Lucy Welling QUEENS

CHAPTER XXVII

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the one thing Eve determlues not lor buttons" which Evo had beon to do.

snapping on his clothes and re- placed them with buttons Bewed on firmly with heavy threat. She spent three mornings darning heels and toes and catching runners in she mado orange hosiery, And marmalade and a supply of noodles calculated to last into the summer.

Saturday evening Dick took Eve to dinner at a popular restaurant At 10:30 a rosy-cheeked Ittle known as the Old Plantation. The woman with a youthful face and atmosphere Was that of the graying hair appeared and asked hospitablo old south. Protty for Mr. Barnes, mulatto girls, wearing bandanas her to his office.

Arleno escorted and checked' gingham dresses, served Maryland fried chicken and corn fritters. A string quartet played lively tunes and Eva soon found herself dancing with spirit.

Later they were joined by a Kroup of Dick'n business friends and she chjoyed the ovening so much she was almost able to forget that Bixby's had lost $2,000

ment.

A few moments later the buzzer Bounded for Eve and she was introduced to the newcomer. This is Mrs. Penney." said Burnca, "She will take Mips Vlad's place.”

Eve took the new artist into the outer offlee and introduced her to the rest of the advertising staff and to her new duties.

·Every noon Kate met her daugh-

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it did not occur to her that men and women might suffer huge LADY MATHEW DEAD financial loss. and still maintain. their bearings,

And then Pure Soap, Inc., reached the point Eve had been hoping for. Lest it take another slump she hurried to the bank that noon and arranged to sell.

She felt rich as she figured her ter in the ladies' lounge at Bixby's, galn. After all, one had to pay Hero, while she waited, Kate ant some price for success and this had at one of the desks and addressed cost her only anxiety."

She was postal cards to relatives, neigh-eager for a now venture in finance. Eve left the office that evening bours and friends at home. During luncheon Eve planned the after-promptly as the closing gong her sounded. Sam was waiting at the mother usually either a shopping side entrance for Arlene and they tour or a matinee. Later Dick offered to take Eve home. Thus it in time to prepare an old-fashioned, apartment before Dick, who had appetizing dinner before Eve's ar- been detained by some extra work, rival.

Eve, still exulting over her financial galus, set light-heartedly to work to cook the dinner. It would be nice to surprise Dick by having the meal ready when he came. But scarcely had she start-

phone rang.

nova's

entertainment

for

through a mistake in her depart Eve told Dick that night, "but after would meet her and take her home happened that she reached their

The next day she and Dick wunt. for a long ride in the country. Omco cares seemed far away and Eve arrived home tired and sleepy from being so long in the fresh air, But Monday morning as she neared the office slie began to feel nervous, Barnes would be back to-day and the dreaded interview must take place.

The advertising manager sum- moned her to his office at 9:30: Eve managed a tremulous smile as she entered but Barnes' face was grim, his voice crisp.

"At first I felt sorry for her," he began to work I knew why Barnes had hired her. That woman has genius!"

Mrs. Penney adjusted herself

"Why, I could almost forget there easily to the office routing and Eve is such a place as home," Kate said blessed her for that. With things one day, "if it wasn't for worrying running smoothly again, Barnes re-whether Pa la, getting enough to sumed a more pleasant attitudeat and if he remembers to feed toward his co-workers and the ten- the canary! I'll bet my plants willed her preparations when the tele- alon was lifted.

be all dried up, too, for want of

Hittle attention."

at

Apparently mild and yielding Mrs. Ponney proved to be firm and

At the end of a week no amount self-reliant to a surprising degree, of persuasion could keep her in Even Mona, who usually found Lake City any longer. "I've fixed some means of gaining her own you up a bit and that will give you' "I scarcely need tell you, Mrs. ends in such matters, could neither good start again,” she told Eve. Rador," he began, "that the price outwit nor wheedle Mrs. Penney d much rather you'd stay orror in Saturday's cont advertise-into taking care of minor details home and not try to do too much. ment was the worst of the kind the of office routine which were Mona's No good can come of it—and I'm store has ever had. I am amazed responsibility or exchanging lunch worried about your nerves." that you should have permitted periods to suit Mona's whims. such a blunder."

Mrs. Penney was a widow with Eve started to speak bat hea young daughter who was in Allenced her with a curt gesture, college. Every stroke of the artist's through the closed window. Evo's "It is one of the things that simply pencil was for the sole object own eyes were blurred as she wayed cannot be explained away or of assuring her daughter's educa-ja inst goodbye. smoothed over," he continued. tion. Mra, Penney worked swiftly

Eve was determined to explain. She had decided to tell of Monn's treachery even at the risk of being considered "catty."

"But you don't understand-!" she began.

"I understand the result of thel mistake and results are what count in this department," he went on. "I feared your marriage would in- terfere with your interest in your work here. All I have to say now le don't let anything of the sort happen again!" There was a grim threat in the words.

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When the train pulled out of the station Eve and Diek, standing be- low, watched Kate smiling at them

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and untiringly eight hours a day- The week had passed no swiftly longer when necessary. But she that her mother's departure had managed to turn out smart, finish-been unexpected. Eve regretted cd drawings at & speed which that she had not found time to take usually enabled her to leave the her mother to the stock exchange office promptly at closing Ume. and the brokerugé office. "Mother gets such a kick out of seeing what makes the wheels go 'round and she's such a good sport that I like to show her new things," Eve told herself.

Eve, looking ahead, felt that Mrs. Penney would be very helpful In putting the office routine on a prompt and efficient basis when over the time came that Barnes should leave and Eve herself be in charge of the advertising offies.

She was watching the activities of the market anxiously these dava. Pure Soap, Inc., had fallen four And then Eve'a mother came to points and then, following brisk Furious that he had not per-1 visit her. Kate Bayless made an selling, had resumed its former mitted her to defend horself, Evo inspection tour of the apartment, high and plunged ahead." This returned to her desk. Mona had then shook her head and decided fluctuation caused similar one in acored against her at every point, to spend the morning doing the Evo's spirits. She looked at fellow Eye was tempted to go to Mr. things Eve found little time for passengers on the trolley with a Bixby about the affair; tempted, Painstakingly she "did up" all new interest as she rode to the too, to resign. But she knew that the ruffled curtains and washed the store each morning. She wondor- was exactly what Mona had hoped delicate crocheted rugs. To Dick's ed if some of them were similarly might happen and therefore it was delight, she discarded the "bache-concerned over the market news.

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There was a perceptible pauso after Eva answered. She was al- most certain she heard a sharp in-

Tho eldest son, Theobald Mathew, has been Recorder of Maidstone since 1927 and of Margate from 1913 to 1927.

take of breath at the other end of the line and then a girl's volca said, "Oh, I'm sorry! They must have given me the wrong number.”

Tho volve was Mona Allen's. That she had been given the num- ber of Eve's telephone by mistake was possible, of course, but a coin- cidenco almost beyond Eve's cre dulity. What could, it mean? Had Mona been telephoning to Dick?

(To be Continued.)

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