Nogales international., 1930-08-29
Tenth Installnent
WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE


A Young woman who knows only that her
name is Eve" finds herself standing on a
Fifth Avenue corner. She has no idea how
she came there or even what city 1T is.
There is nothing about her with which to
identify herself. While policeman is talk
ing to her young man, Eric Hamilton
stops. Seeing that she is in trouble he tells
her he has seen her at the hotel where they
are both stopping. He takes her to the hotel
where they find that she had registered IN
French as miss Eve Nobody of Nowhere
Hamilton volunteers to call in his friend
troubles. Eve, terrified, eludes the doctor
and through French porter in the hotel VINO
saws he once saw her IN France but does
remember her name, she finds cheap
apartment in an obscure part OF town;
In the next apartment lives Ivy DaVen-
mort. a cabaret dancer with a weak heart.
She is friendly, and persuades Eve to go to
"Take's'' and take her place until she is
better Her job at Jake's. is to entertain
men at the tables and to dance with them.
The other girls there are crude but kindly
and Eve finds the work not as dlfticult as
she had expected. She is known there as
Miss Berson. She meets young man
named Hunt, who frankly tells her that she
doesn't belong there.
Eve does not like the atmosphere of Jake's,
but she does not know how to do anything
else. or thinks she doesn't, so when. Ivy IS
able to get back to work she accepts the otter
of a permanent job which Jake gives her.
One evening when she is talking to. the
friendly young man named Hurt one OF the
other girls tells her there's man from the
West whom Jake wants her to entertain.
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY.
Her own life, Eve was beginning to
think, would mean acceptance and
reconstruction. Marcel and Leon
seemed broken reeds, and her present
condition might go on indefinitely. Ii
it did, she would at least continue tenn
porarily in this new environment. She
was helping Ivy, whom she had per-
,suaded to see a specialist and follow
his treatment. Miss Morris had limited
chat she would like to learn some
French, and had added frankly:
"Some English, too, teacher. Don't
think I amt wise to the way spill
words"
Even Stella was more human with
Eve than with others, and on one
occasion had sought the novice's apart
ment to make fearful confidence of
a sort not often given. Eve gathered
that Stella had so far forgotten her
prejudice against mcu as to fall in
love with one of the reg'lars at Jake's,
and to throw herself violently at the
head of the unappreciative young
man. When he failed to respond she
sent him notes.
When he ceased coming to Jake's
obviously to avoid her, she called at
his rooms late one afternoon anC
waited there till he came home.
At this point in the account she
gave Eve, Stella's sobs grew so loud
that Eve feared they might draw Mis-:
Davenport from the next apartment
: She mentioned this danger to the
,raconteuse, who stihed the expression
tof her grief. 1t was no part of Stella:
k0lan. to make Ivy conhdante. But
fher plain face was tear-streaked as
she went on, and Eve experienced q
,leep sympathy not only for her but
;:or the reg'lar who had been subjected
70 this sort of scene. There may bt
girls who are beautiful when they
weep. Poor Stella was not among
hem.
II 1et'm see why I was there,
Stella gulped, "an' he was that polite
Inc broke my heart. I'd taken off my
coat an hat before he come in, fol
Of course l thought he'd keep me tc
dinner anyway. Don't they always
IN stories an pictures? But he dldn t
He got my hat an coat, an he pu
EN- on gentle an kind, like he wa;
dressin' kid, with soothin' noises, an
he told me l was too nice a girl t.
put myself in comprornisin' positions
WASH: that the ELEPHANTS knuckles
iAn' he got me to the door an out
side it, an the first I knew he haC
',hc elevator up and was putin me il
Il: ar sayin' good-by. Oh, Berson, il
was awful! For of course | caugh
or then, RIGHT off. l seen l was ;
woman scorned?"
The phase seemed to please Stella
fol she tried it again on higher key
"a woman scorned," she repeated
"Berson, / give you my word criet
all the way home. Now, what d'yo,
thinl: i ought to do? Give him up?'
Eyes, Stella" Eve said, with ;
straight face and a comforting pat OF
the girls shaking shoulders. "If
were you I'd give him up"
She had believed that, with the pos
sible exception of Queenie, Stella ha>
the keenest sense cf hamcr of an
one at Jake's. Now she realized anew
that ones sense Of humor often per
ishes under the first assault of one
emotional nature.
"Well, if you say so, I will," Stell;
agreed with pathetic snifle; ant
she drifted away, greatly relieved b,
an outburst to which she never again
referred.
Yes, one could do little for thes
girls, Eve reflected, as she depressed,
walked at Hunts side. She wa
earning money, too, and saving mos
of it, and beginning her readjust
ment, and doing her sleeping in tn
daytime, and not having to face blac
nights. Yet, admitting all thes
things, her panic returned in som
degree every time she met stranger!
Tonight she told herself she ha
been mad to come. Deep within he
an alarm was sounding, softly bt
persistently. 1t grew louder as 81
approached the man at the corn'