The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-27
SYNOPSIS

fisinr maparer of Bixby's de- pertinent store. rmarrfes DICK RAIDER, e construction super intendcnt. Dick wants Eve to stop working but she refuses.
 Unknown to Dick, Eve plays the stock market on borrowed
 money, ARLENE SMITH, sten- ographer at Bixbs's, buys stock on Eve's advice but loses all her money. SAM HOLERIDGE, an advertising man employed by another store, is infatuated with
 MONA ALLEN, copy writer, fiislikes Eve and. is responsible for several errors at the 0ffice for which Eve is blamed.
 The building on which Dick has been working is completed and his employers tell him they will have no more work for him for at least two months. He tries to make the best of this situh- ton but Eve is irritable and dis. contented.
 CHAPTER xxxII
 Dick has refused to let Eve pay the housekeeping bills, even though he was not working. Pri- vateiy she was glad of this because she still owed her mother and gis- ter and her pay envelope never contained the full amount of her salary because of deductions to ap- ply on her charge account.
 The seasons changed rapidly and Eve felt 1t necessary for her to keep one step ahead of the average woman in fashions. She was rather hard on her clothes. With more care they would have lasted longer but Eve preferred to buy new things and felt she had no time to spend mending old wearing ap- parel.
 stiii she complained to Dick, "We'il never get ahead like thisl"
 Hike what?" he demanded.
 Well, you seem to be content not ts be earning anything this
 Dick lost his patience then though he made an effort to con- troi his temper. "Listenw he said, 'I don't like this any better than you do but there's nothing I can do about it. There isn't any building going on now. When the firm has another contract for me to work On HI UU HOtlHVut
 Eve saw that her insinuations tent. But she told herself it was fortunate that she was working. As it was, Dicks temporary unem. pioyment caused her no privation. She did not even have to give up the iuxuries she had come to take for granted---frequent visits to the beauty shop, expensive cosm metics, fragile lingeriN. Such things no longer seemed luxuries to Eve but necessities.
 She could never, she felt sure, be content to live as simply and eco- nomically as Mrs Penney, yet she could not fail to respect the artist for her gentle dignity that rose superior to such details as suit or blouse two years behind the fashions and fingers roughed by homework.
 Eve sometimes wondered what Dick really thought of her down in his heart. Of course she knew he adored her youth and beauty and that her little affections usually amused him. But what about her ideals and ambition for business career? Did he merely tolerate them because her beauty fascinated him? If she should lose that beauty would she lose his love?
 Once she questioned him about this.
 "Dick." she said. suppose my face should be fnarred by an illness or an accident of some kind. INAssiA s,a,, ntltI fAx,a
 "of course would," he assured s'It's easy to say that, Perhaps you believe 1t now but I'm not SO surei If we should become dread- fully poor l don't think I'd be patient and cheerful about it. 1t wouldn't make me sweet and self sacrificing like my mother or Mrs Penney. don't seem to be like them at all. guess I'm rather hard!"
 "Hard as nails. aren't you ?" srinned Dick. Say, do you think all see In you is powder and rouge and mimosa perfume and slick marcel? No. Mrs Rader, l see your mothers daughter. I guess if you had to you'd meet hard luck ns well as your mother or Mrs Penney, though 1t would probably be in Q different way"
 Eve was not so certain of this Any way" she exulted to herself, "he's stiil enough in love with me to remember the kind of perfume use and that's e good deal for q man like Dick!"
 Perhaps 1t was the certainty Of her husbands trust In her that helped Eve through that trying summer. Eager for the prom otion that now seemed within sight, she willingly undertook each new task that Barnes gave her, though the extra work taxed her strength and the vexation of numberless petty annoyances frayed her nerves.
 Mona Allen was responsible for most of these annoyances. Eve was sure. though 1t was always impos- sible to fasten the responsibility of copy would disappear, only to be found after much searching un- der wire desk basket, on q hook used for filing memoranda, or per- haps even in the wastebasket. Ad- vertising copy, properly addressed and dropped in the correct basket, would be gone when the messenger boy arrived for 1t.
 
 Once such search caused so much delay that a small but im- portant advertisement missed the home edition of the evening news papers.
 To make matters worse Barnes appeared while the search was in progress. Mona, pretending a de- sire to be helped appealed to him. E ADDED EAAnv CAvc