THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1933.
For the LOVE of EVE by Lucy Walling
CHAPTER XXXI
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"I'm going to just the same!'” [ployment. - June's roses had faded and Mrs. Eve announced firmly. "I'm going Brooks garden took on a slightly to find what it's like to be an parched and neglected look. The advertising manager--and don't Brooks boys were away for the summor, working in the kitchen of you forget it!"
Mona camo in then and the con- a lakeside camp. Hence the on-versation was dropped. tire care of the place fell on Mrs. Brooks, who seemed in need of a
rest.
now
That night Eve found a trellis decorating the porch. Dick had made ft. She went with him Dick noticed this and made it a to the garage where he showed her habit to sprinkle the lawn once a pergola for the garden and more day, either at sunrise or after sub-trellis work for the other porches. sot. He never wakened Evo until
"Why Dick," she said, "those are he had prepared breakfast and he lovely! Why don't you make these insisted upon relieving her of all to sell?" details of the housekeeping.
"Why not?" he asked. "I's bad enough to have you cooped up all day in an office. You need all the time out-of-doors we can possibly manage. Besides, I haven't any thing else to do."
He took her to the office in the yollow roadster and Eve found him waiting at the side entrance of Bixby's at the close of each day. Dick never seemed to mind the mileage and usually took her home the longest way, driving along the lake until they were forced to cut Rcross town. That cool drive was blessing during the July heat which settled in sultry monotony over the city,
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Dick's only reply was a look of forebearance.
working and yet you smoke just as much as ever."
"When a man isn't working he needs recreation- more than ever, And I take my exercise smoking." ho tensed.
"Oh, you're impossible!" Eve cried as she flung herself into a lounging chair."
Andrew's Church Hall last night, with the Rev. W. Walton Rogers pre- siding.
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The chairman commented upon the report and the statement of accounts, which showed that the club hnd on- joyed a successful season. He praised highly members of the Committee for their untiring efforts through the year.
gibes concerning his lack of em, According to the policy of Bix- by lore, Moan Allen and Mre, Penney did not recolve vacations because they had worked there less than a year. Arlene departed for two weeks at a Y. W. C. A. camp. "I'll have some fun even if I don't meet any eligible admirers,"
"See here, Eva!" Dick said firm- she said good-humoredly when she: "When I'm working I stow left the office. If it hadn't been away all the shekels. I can spare The offers for the ensuing your for my little financial flyer I'd be and when hard times come around were then elected as follows:-Freal- starting out on a vacation that I guess I can still afford to smoke dent, Rev. W. Walton Rogers; lion. would warrant a couple of inches' if I feel like it!"
Secretary, Mr. R. II. Wong; Hon. notice in the Sunday Times." Ho arose abruptly and a mo-Treasurer, Mr. A. S. Blins; Men's ment later the outer door slammed. Hockey Captain, Mr. A. E. P. Guest; Vice-captain Mr. E. H. P. White; (To Be Continued)
Ladica Hockey Captain, Misa M. Woolley; Vice-captain, Miss P. E. Gitting; General Committee, the and Mesara. G. A. White, C. W. L. Cole, J. T. K. Gilchrist and Dr. H. D. Malthows.
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The following week Eve recolved
n letter from Arlene. She read
excerpts from it to Dick that eve- ST. ANDREW'S CLUB. Misses P. E. Gitting and M. Woolley,
"But you might as well be earn ing some money," Eve persisted.ning. He merely looked at her again and "Sam brought me here in his this time Eve felt rather uncom-roadster," Arlene had written. "I fortable.
didn't want him to at first because
Dick finished making the trellises well, you know. But he insists that week and set them up. They he stopped drinking the night he added considerably to the attrac-met me at Freda's party and hasn't tiveness of the house and Mrs. touched liquor since. He says I Brooks was overjoyed.
am more inspiration to frim than The four weeks of July dragged the best gin on the market. Any on as though they were Lour how he brought me a huge box of months. Eve had never minded chocolates too, and there's always working during the summer, but a letter in the morning wail, this year her discomfort was chiefly "I love it herel. I lend he 'stair- due to the fact that she was work-case choir every morning after ing while her husband was not. breakfast and now I'm working up Once she suggested that Dick an act for Stunt Night. might look for work and he gave her a withering glance. However, be cheerfully did the housework, continued to drive her to the office and call for her at the end of the iny. Once each week he took her Eve stopped reading and said, to some resort along the lake for "Sam must be glad Arlene is where
"Thanks for the books you sent. For the first time in my life I have enough time to road. I'm leaving in a moment for my morning swim. Give my love to Mona..
a uhoro dinner. They usually fin-she won't meet anyone to give him ished the evening with a swim in competition." the lake or a dance or two before "You old romanticist!" the long ride home.
Eve looked forward engerly to her vacation but found she must wait until August for it. Despite all Dick did to make things ensler for her she could not suppress feeling of vexation when he put his golf clubs in the car and drove on to the links after leaving her at Bixby's. Earle Barnes usually left the store early two afternoons each week for a foursome of golf with
Dick some advertising men but Eve, who
challenged. had enjoyed playing in other years,
"Well, it's a neat little triangle found herself unable to leave the Eve was glad that Dorothy McEl-just the game. Sam likes Arlene office during the day and too tired hinney was spending the summer and Arlene likos George Bliss. I'm for such exertion after business with her parents out of town. not sure who Bliss cares for." hours. More and more responel-At least Dick would be free from bility fell to her lot as Barnes her persistent wiles. Miss Leeds found her trustworthy and thus re was on a European tour and Eve lieved himself of additional bur-missed her. The cards which she dens.
sent from Switzerlaud and Italy awakened in Eve a strong desire for such a trip.
"How is Dick?" Arlene asked one morning.
Eve answered bitterly, "Oh, he's busy Busy playing golf and soli- taire and reading technical stuff" "Why, Evo, don't you love him any more?" asked Arlene in moek horror,
"Of course," Eve replied, "but it's 80 stuffy in this office right now and it's so nice out-of-doors. Anyway men get all the breaks!" She swallowed a lump in her throat.
Arlene reminded her, "But Dick doesn't want you to keep on work-
"I suppose we'll never be able to go to Europe together," Eve mur- mured discontentedly.
"Why not?" asked Dick. "Look at all the money we are losing!" she pointed out. "The alary you might have earned this summer would have covered such a trip for us."
"Yes and it might have made a down payment on the Empire State Building," Dick answered. "But I'm not sure that is just what I would have done with it!"
Thus he answered each of Eve's
"And I like you and you'll have to pay for looking as sweet as you dof Dick told her, gathering her into his arms.
But their life together was not always so peaceful. There was the evening when Eve, looking up from a magazine, exclaimed, "Dick, I don't know why you have to keep pulling at that old pipe all the Line! That's the fifth time you've filled it since I came home."
"Wrong! It's the sixth," he told her cheerfully, knocking the ashes into a low brass bowl.
"I think you smoke too much," Eve went on in a petulant voice.
"Worried about, my health, [.dear?"
"No, I'm thinking how much it' costs 1" she blurted out. "Smoking is an expensive habit. You aren't
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The annual meeting of members of St. Andrew's Club was held u St.
The meeting decltted to again lavlic Dr. H. D. Matthews, Mr. J. W. Bald- win and Mr. B. Wylle to beconie honorary vice-presidents of the Club.
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