·FOR THE LOVE OF EVE BY LUCY WALLING
(Continued from Page 8.) --
while for us to go on. Usually it is some other person.
who seem to disapprove of my atij titude, which they say is too cheer- fal, and my active, sones of humour, A crushed and mournful appear- ance would seem to them more bo coming. But I have had to be both father and mother to little Jean and I want her to have a happy life. So you see I can't think of myself alone 1"
"Little Jean and I have known some hard times. For more than eight years I mot defeat at every turn. It was not so bad while 1
What was it the minister had. had my health. But when my health, broke it was extremely hard you ask for some living manifes said that morning in church? to earn enough for us to live on.tation of God in our midst. Can I let myself bellove only the enyou not see for yourself the sac- couraging reports of those who had suffered similarly and determined rificing mother who forgets self in I had not yet ronched bottom. Each the interest of her child?" night I prayed that I would be
There had been more, of course, able to get up next morning and but that one sentence of the to do the housework and take care Thanksgiving sermon stood out in of Joan. It seems a small boon to Eve's memories, coupled with Mrs. nak but it was 'n very important Penney's story. What an infin- one. My recovery was complete itesimal thing the loss of dollars and I shall try never to complain and cents seemed compared to the about anything again so long as I obstacles this little woman had had have health and the opportunity to battle alone. What a triumphi over adversity was hers. Eve felt to earn a living."
her own aims trivial after Mrs. Penney had finished her story.
Mrs. Penney smiled. cheerfully and added. “I have some friends
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, OCTOBER
When Eve reached home that night she wrote a long letter to her husband.
And so, she wrote in conclu- alon, "after my talk with Mr
to give up Penney I've decided work here and come to Pine For cat if you want me to and if there Is a house available. I don't sup puso there is such a thing as an apartment.to be had there."
Slowly, with unsteady fingers, them in an envelop. To-morrow sho folded the pages and placed sho would tell Earlo Barnes that she was through at Bixby'. Sho would mcrifice the dream that had beon. hara eo long-the dream of seeing her name on the door of a private office above the words, "Advertising Manager." She would sacrifice all that for Dick.
Yes, Eve told herself, she was willing to forget hor ambitions if Dick wanted her. "If he wanted her? The words seemed to form themselves into a Iltány which sang istolf over and over again in her mind.
(To Be Continued)
THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE
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(Continued from Paga 6.)",
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Mo! I've been reading biology and things until my brain bous about like a shuttle,cock, and the conclusion to which I am driven Is that life and evolution and the universe are mysteries which we have not begun to understand. Was it Sir Humphry Davy who said "The wider the area of light the wider the circle of darkness outaldu It"?...
There! And I have not anlu what, the, Moneron is. He is a speck of jelly, Invisible to the hu- man oyo. Io can walk without feet, noize without hands, ent without mouth and digest without stomach.
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