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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1933.

For the LOVE of EVE by Lucy Walling

CHAPTER XXXVII

teet your interests It will be neces-ellent was absent and.no one acemi

tial sum at once."

Dick wrote glowingly of his newry for you to deposit n substan-ed to mind. Eve parted with her

work and life in the mountainj camp, Fall had definitely arrived | now. Eve could picture the bril. liant crimsons, golds and rissets of the mountain sides. She could almost hear the rustle of the fallen leaves as the men tramped through the woods and smell the invigor-i ating fragrance of the evergreens, Dick was no poot but each let ter move a spell over Eve, He was of the outdoors and de- lighted in his new surroundings. Eve could picture him, throwing back his shoulders and scanning the bluo September aky through the tree tops. Oh, yes, she knew ho was enjoying the now Job!

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He had laid out the work soon after his arrival. Foundation of the buildings were alrendy being built on both sites. Dick's office

"I see!" gulped Eve. "How nutch will I need?"

"Why, I'd say about $400 or $600," the young mun told her crisply. "It's likely that will be an adequate safeguard.”

$400 without ceremony. So hastily was it swept from her that she felt a physical sense of skock,

There was, of course, no upward a boarding house. But the fi reaction at all. Evo was to come millar rooms seemed to bring Dick out of the stock crash of 1929 dry- nearer and so Evo stayed on. oyed and white-lipped but much Often she sat in the big chair that wiser than she had been bofore. was his favourite and sobbed her-·

There were others, she knew, self to sleep. than her own. Eva felt whose losses were far more serious Since her loss on the market compassion for her fellow aulfer-sense of failure. There's just one great Eve had been overwhelmed by a of the afternoon and the news-ers as she puzzled over the frailty thing my remaining pride hangs

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unable to concentrate on her work She returned to the office, utterly Fortunately Barnica was away most

"The market nover goes down more than 26 points before advanc-papers had been supplied with cor- of the investor's position in the non," she told herself. "That's my ing, does it?" she asked naively,

rected copy for the next day. tion's financial structure. "It doesn't usually, but of course we can't tell for certain what will happen," he answered.

"I see. I'll bring you a cheque," Eve promised.

She felt she had no alternative, even though she might be violating a trust. Dick had deposited $500 in a Jolat account before leaving Lake City. He had Impressed up- on her the importance of having such an emergency fund.

The stock edition showed that Atlas Coupler had closed 15 points below yesterday's final. Eve was agitated and slept very little that night.

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INTERPRETER

Job. I must make good at Bixby's. She tesolved to begin repaying And making good means only one her mother and Esther for their thing to me getting the manag- loans. She could send a little ership when Barnes leaves!" money each pay day. And some

Thus it seemed imperative to how she would have to save $400 The morning newspaper featured to return to Dick's emergency fund, keep the good will of Mona Allen.

(To Be Continued). the activities of the stock market. For weeks she was nervous after and Eve digested every word. She the market crash. felt at a loss to know what to do -had no idea where to

On the following Saturday Monn MR. NATHA SINGH· advice.

Allen asked Eve to take dinner Barnes was extremely irritable with her. "Mrs. Doll is an excellent was a crude shack, hastily put to "If anything should happen you that morning. Arlene, with note-cook," she said, "and there is an DEATH OF SUPREME COURT gether. Later it would be weather- could draw on it. Eve," he hnd book and pencil,

interesting group of people at the. came from his stripped and equipped with a big said. "You might be taken sick office, scowling fiercely. "The old

boarding house." coat 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, Eve thought rapidly. Mona A well-known offleor nt the against the severe 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 Monn, offended, who has been interpreter for the Already the nights were cold, a hospital and have the best of on the stock exchange yesterday." was altogether too skilful at find-past few years, passed away on care instead of lying here alone. "Maybe he did lose," nodded Eve. ing means of retaliation. Thero Saturday morning at the Govern- "I feel panicky myself. Not only were many opportunities for the ment Civil Hospital after a short Atlas Coupler but everything else younger girl to cause unpleasant- illness. has taken such a toboggan slide 1 nose if not actual harm-to-Eve, don't know what to make of it!

I working together as they did.

Born on September 3, 1886, Mr. couldn't stand it to lose all the money I've

So Eve accepted the invitation Natha Singh joined the Govern- invested. Why-I and was surprised to find that ment service on November 22, don't know what I'd do!"

more than once in the intervening 1906, and in 1915 was fifth grade But Eve had to stand it. Later days she actually looked forward clerk at the Magistracy. telephone call from Sloan and Sanning. She missed Dick more than funeral on Saturday afternoon. in the day she received another to the approaching Saturday eve-was a large attendance at the ford for more money to cover her she dared admit to herself. Some The remains were cremated. holdings. She told them It was times she thought she had made

Deceased took a keen Interest Then she went limp. impossible for her to raise more. a mistake in keeping the apartment in sports and was a committon after he left and wondered if it member of the Indian Roercation "Arlene," wiped out! Completely. All my

sie gasped. "I'm would not be preferable to live in Club. money and all I borrowed from my mother and Esther and nearly all that Dick left in our emergency fund?"

And hospitals cost money!"

Now Eve drew $400 from that fund. The balance she left in the bank to euse her consolence.“

With three or four of the othora working on the job the timo keeper, carpenter foroman and an- other engineer-Dick boarded at the home of Mrg-Williams who lived in Pine Forest, a village four If she had been disappointed by miles from their work. They drove the culm appearance of the brok- back and forth from the village on erage office in normal times the main highway that was excel Impression was forever erased lently paved, though hilly.

from her mind by Once Dick asked Eve to send which greeted her that nutumn day the picture him a red sweater to wear in thein 1929. Pandemonium reigned. woods when he went hunting. The The Sloan and Sanford clientele game season would soon be open had lost its air of reserve. ent there was a lodge available ment increased as dozens elbowed Exelte for week-ends.

each other to watch the ticker re- turns being chalked on the board Telephone bells rang, constantly and uniformed messenger boy's dashed in and out of the offices.

If Dick missed Eve he did not say so in his letters. He sent bor his love always and assurance that she was the dearest wife in the world.

Eve was not the only one who There were times when Eve felt had been margining, she couli sec that she had everything in the plainly, In the confused frenzy of world a girl could want. She had that noon hour many persons were an excellent job and seemed on the making out cheque to prevent their rond to professional success. She holdings from being swept away. had a fine husband and she was The customary privacy granted a sure that through her stock market ventures sho would soon achievo wealth. What more was to be do- sired?

Thus she aummarized her assets nud gave herself a mental 'pat on the back on the morning she ro ceived Dick's letter asking her to send the sweater.

Eve dropped the letter into hor purse and a little later went to the men's sportwear department la buy the sweater. While she was completing the purebase n 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-dias- ter. Her mouth went dry and she looked about quickly. There were clerks and customers near, au she told Miss Gilday she would call from another telephone. Upstair in the ludica lounge there were booths and direct line telephones. Evo went into one of these booths and put through the call.

"Atlas 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-

"Don't take it so hard," com- fortéd Arlene. "I know how you feel." She was thinking of the lit the flyer she had taken into the financial world some months be-

fore.

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