THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1933.
For the LOVE of EVE by Lucy Walling
CHAPTER XL
ing story concerning Mrs. Ponney., and ho was gone within the week." She encouraged her to go on.
"Jean's father studied in Paris Mrs Penney's voice broke. Thon and when he returned to this coun- she raised her chin in the manner try he taught art classes in Chi-Eve had noticed was characteristic
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Evo spent Thanksgiving day of homosekness. with Mrs, Penney. They aliended The boys washed the dishes. The night before Thanksgiving services at the Little Stone church | Apparently they were quite at day Eve ate dinner In a down town together and then boarded a trol-home in Mrs. Penney's flatz restaurant and then went to the loy which took them to the art- "They are all from out of town," library where she selected two of ist's home. Mrs. Ponnoy had rent- | sho explained to Eve. "And I cugo. I had gone there to study, of, her and said calmly, "This is the newest books to read over thued the second floor of a two-family mother them a bit. But they un-and was one of his pupils. Per no subject for a holiday, Mrs. Ra- nover have beender., Shall I.turn on the radio?" hoilday. It was one of the eye-house near the college her daug-derstand I must give most of my haps we would aluge when she missed Dick dread- ter attended. Ere could not re-energy to my job and if they want more than acquaintances if we had fully and wanted to put off going frain from complimenting her on to play here they must help with hot attended an artists' ball where It was twilight and the room home. But when she finally arrived the attractiveness of the rooms.
fate or chance sent us together in was lighted only by the flickering the fireplace. Eve, at the apartment she found a lot-
"Jenn made thore hooked ruge,"
an old-time circle two-step. We glow from ter from Dick waiting for her on Mrs. Penney said proudly. "And
danced in perfect harmony and my nestling among the pillows on tho she made the draperien for the
heart as well on my soul took wings, comfortable devonport, begged her windows, too. Those pictures are
Jean comes naturally by her love to go on with her story. some of my work, done before my
for dancing.
Mrs. Pennoy continued. "That marriage."
the hall table.
He wrote that he and some of the others had driven to Old Forge for the Thanksgiving turkeys for Mrs. Williams who kept the board- "Jean has a great deal of artis- ing house. They had attended aftle talont," Eve commented. movie, the first Dick had seen since he loft Lake City. Ho added that there would be 20 at the boarding house for Thanksgiving dinner the men from the construction camp. and a number of school teachers who took their meals there.
"Yes," answered Mrs. Penney. "Her father was an artist, too, but he died when Jean was a baby."
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the work."
Jean and her friends left in the afternoon to attend a tea dance. Mrs. Penney invited Eve to curl up on the davenport while she pulled a small Windsor rocker closer to the fireplace,
"It must be a great satisfaction for you to have Jean!" begon Eve. "I don't know what I would have done, without her!" nodded Mrs, Penney, "Sho Is all I have lived for these inst 17 years. And she looks so
much like her father. Evo refrained from asking ques- That is my greatest job. I believe tions and busied herself proparing she has inherited his ability too. salad for the dinner. Joan and n If he had lived I am sure he would Was It Jealousy that Eve felt young man who was a classmate have become one of our finest art- when she read that sentence? She joined them after the football iats. His work at the time of his was beginning to attract had pictured Dick as living a game and Mrs Penney set the boy death man's world entirely. This was to work mushing the potatoca. An-wide attention." his first reference. to the school other girl and boy soon arrived Eve was Interested. She· had teachers. Eve hoped fervently that and Mrs. Penner assigned them wondered about the little woman all of them were middle-aged and tasks. It was a worry dinner and with the brave, smiling face and unattractive, and not in any way the young people were so amusing gentle manners. Eve had always like Dorothy McElhinney.
that not once did Eve feel a pang thought there must be an Interest-
"After our marriago I continued is life, Mrs Rader, Sometimes wo to study art, but in private. We got our grontest jolts when tho were extremely happy and when akles seem brightest. But some- little Jean was born it seemed life times, too, when it seems we can. could hold no greater happiness. hot go on, things suddenly make a Joan was just learning to say right about turn and the path is Daddy" and watch for him in the closrud ahead. Always there fa window at the close of day when something left to make it worth- he becume fll. It was pneumonia (Continued on Page 5.)
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