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THE HONGKONG

APH TUESDAY, OCTOBER

For the LOVE of EVE by Lucy Walling

— CHAPTER XXXVII

tect your interests it will be necca-¿client was absent and no one scent- sary for you to deposit a subatan-ed to mind. Eve parted with her $400 without ceremony. So hastily "Iace!" gulpod Erc. "How was it awept from her that she

felt a physical sense of shock. much will I need?"

Sho returned to the office, utterly unable to concentrate on her work. Fortunately Barnes was away most

Dick wrote glowingly of his newtial sum at once." work and life in the mountain camp. Fall had definitely arrived now. Eve could picture the briks liant crimsons, golds and russets

"Why, I'd ady about $100 or of the mountain sides. She could $500, the young man told her almost hear the rustle of the fallen crisply. "It's likely that will be leaves as the men tramped through an adequate safeguard."

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1933:

There was, of course, no upward a boarding house. But the fas reaction at all; Eve was to come millar ruotis seemed to bring Dick; out of the stock crash of 1929 drynearer and so is stayed on eyed and white-lipped but much often she sat in the big chair that wiser than ahe had been before. was his favourits and sobbed her-

There were others, aho knew, | self to skep... whose losses were far more serious Since her loss on the market. than her own. Eve felt a great Eve had been overwhelmed by a compassion for her fellow sufer sense of failure. "There's just one of the afternoon and the news-ers as she puzzled over the frailty thing my remaining prids hanga the woods and smell the favigor "The market never goes down ating fragrance of the evergreens, more than 25 points before advanc-papers had been supplied with cor of the investor's position in the xaon, she told herself. "That's mis

rected copy, for the next day. tion's financial structure.

| Job, 1 must make good at Bixby's, Dick was no poet but each let-ing, does it?" she asked naively, The stock edition showed that She resolved to begin repaying And making good meana only on ter move a apell over Eve. He was "It doesn't usually, but of course a man of the outdoors and de- we can't tell for certain what will Atlas Coupler had closed 16 points her mother and Esther for their thing to me-getting the manag

below yesterday's dual. Eve was loans. She could send a Rifle/ership when Barnes leaves)” lighted in his new surroundings. happen." he answered.

Thus it seemed imperative to Eve could picture him, throwing "I see. I'll bring you a cheque," agitated and slept very little that money each pay day. And some

night.

how she would have to save $400 keep the good will of Mona Allen. 'back his shoulders and scanning Eve promised.

120 Re Contined). the blue September sky through

to return to Dick's emergency fund. the tree tops. Oh, yes, she knew

For weeks she was nervous after he was enjoying the new job!

the market crash,

Now Eve drew $400 from that fund. The balance she left in the bank to ease her conscience.

The morning newspaper featured this activities of the stock market and Eve digested every word. She felt at a loss to know what to do idea where to acck had no advice.

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On the following Saturday Mona Allen asked Eve to take inner with her. "Mrs. Ball is an excellent }

MR. NATHA SINGH

cock," she said, "and there is an] DEATH OF SUPREME COURT. interesting group of people at the

|boarding house,'

INTERPRETER

She felt she had no alternative, even though she might be violating a trust. Dick had deposited $500 He had laid out the work soon in a joint account before leaving after his arrival. Foundation of Lake City. He had Impressed up the balldings were already being on her the importance of having built on both sites. Dick's office; such an emergency fund,

Barnes was extremely irritable was a crude shack, hastily put to- "If anything should happen you that morning. Arlene, with note gether. Later it would be weather-could draw on it. Eve," he had book and pencil, came from his stripped and equipped with a big said. "You might be taken sick office, scowling forcely. "The old

Eve thought rupkily, Mona A well-known ofleer at the coal burning stove as protection and there would be no one to take grouch!" she said. "You'd think would be likely, to take a refusal Supreme Court, Mr, Natha Singh, against the sovere winter to come care of you. I'd want you to go to he'd lost a million and a quarter as an affront. And Mona, offended, who has boon Interpretor for the Already the nights were cold.. a hospital and have the beat of on the stock exchange yesterday was altogether too skliful at ind. past few years, passed away on With three or four of the others care instead of lying here alone. "Maybe he did lose," nodded Eve, ing means of retaliation. There Saturday morning at the Govern working on the job-the time- And hospitals cost money!" "I feel panicky myself. Not only were many opportunities for the ment Civil Hospital after a short keeper, carpenter foreman and an

Atlaa Coupler but everything else younger girt to cause unpleasant-itness. other engineer-Dick boarded at

has taken such a toboggan slide 1ness if not actual harm to Eve, the home of a Mrs. Williams who

don't know what to make of it! 1 working together as they did.

Born on September 8, 1888, Mr. lived in. Pine Forest, a village four If she had been disappointed by couldn't stand li to lose all the So Eve accepted the invitation Natha Singh Joined the Gavern- miles from their work. They drove the calm appearance of the brok- money I've invested. Why-I and was surprised to fad that 1900, and in 1915 was afth grado iment service on November 22, back and forth from the village on crage office in normal times the don't know what I'd do!"

| more than once in the intervening

There a main highway that was excel-impression was forever

But Eve had to stand it. Later days she actually looked forward was a large attendance at the

clerk at the Maglatracy, lently-paved, though-hilly,—————— from-her-mind-by-the-picture-in-the-lay-she-rocoivod another to the amrouching-Saturday ove

Once Dick asked Eve to send which greeted her that autumn day telephone call from Stean and San-ning. She missed Dick mos than funeral on Saturday afternään.“ him a red awenter to wear in the in 1929. Pandemonium reigned, ford for more money to cover her she dareil admit to herself. Sonte The remains were cremated. woods when he went hunting. The The Sloan and Sanford clientele holdings. She told them it was times she thought she had made Devensed took a koen Interest game season would soon be open had lost its nir of reserve. Excite impossible for her to raise more. a mistake in keeping the apartment in sports and was committee And there was a lodge availablement increased as dozens elbowed | Thin sho went limp.

after he left and wandered if it member of the Indian Recreation for week-ende.

cach other lo watch the ticker re-

would not be preferable to live in Club, If Dick missed Eve he did not torus being chalked on the board say so in his letters. He sent her | Telephone bells rang constantly his love always and assurance and uniformed messenger boya that she was the dearest wife in dushed in and out of the offices. the world.

There were times when Eve folt that she had everything in the world a girl could want. She had an excellent job and seemed on the road to professional success. She had a fine husband and she was sure that through her stock markel ventures she would soon achieve wealth. What more was to be do- sired?

Thus she summarized her asects and gave herself a mental pat on the back on the morning she re- ceived Dick's letter asking her to send the sweater,

Eve dropped the letter into her purse and a little Inter went to the men's sportwear department to buy the sweater. While she was completing the purchase a tele- phone call came for her. Miss Gilday, the switchboard operator, told her in a swift, low voice that the Sloan and Stanford Company had been trying to locate her.

Eve felt a premonition of disan-- ter. Her mouth went dry and she looked about quickly. There were clerks and customers nent, so she told Miss Gilday she would cnll -from-another-telephono. Upstairs In the ladies lounge there were booths and direct line telephones. Eve went into one of these booths and put through the call,

"Alias Coupler has been reced- Ing rapidly, Mrs. Rader," said the young man in the brokerage office. "I'm sorry but if you wish to pro-

crased

"Arlene," ahe Knaped. "I'm wiped out Completely. All my money and all I borrowed from my mother and Esther and nearly all that Dick left in uur emergency. fund

Eve was not the only one who hatt been margining, she could see "Don't take it so hard," com- plainly. In the confused frenzy of forted Arlone, "I know how you that noon hour many persons were feel." She was thinking of the It- making out cheque-to prevent their tle flyer she had taken into the holdings from being swept away, { firinncini world some months be- The customary privacy granted ʼn fore.

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