The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-30
SYNOPSIS

EVE BAYLESS. pretty as- siItant to EARLE BARNES, ad- v&rtislng manager of Bixby's de. nhrtnsent store, Inarries DiCk RAIDER, construction superin. t&5ndent. Dick wants Eve to stop wtprking but she refuses.
 tUnknown to Dick, Eve plays fh{3 stock market on borrowed snbney. ARLENE SMITH, stem onkapher at Bixby's buys stock orll E,ve's advice but loses all her mf9ney. SAM HOLERIDGE, an advertising man employed by an- other store, is infatuated with
 MONA ALLEN, copy writer, fiislllkesi Eve and is responsible for several errors at the Office for which Eve is blamed.
 The building on which Dick has been working Is completed and lhfs employers tell him they Will lkave no more work. for him for a2 least two months. He and Eve spend a brief vacation visit ing Elve's parents. The day after their return . policeman comes to the store and asks for "Nfiss BayleSs," Eve discovers that Mona Allen gave Eve's name in- stead Of her own when she was questioned following an automo- bile accident. The affair Is straightened out but Eve, humil- lated by a trip to police head quarters is resentfu1.
 Eve ts ungracious about Dicks enforced fdlcness and they have frequent disagrccmcnts.
 
 The second week in September Dick received his summons to return to work. He was to super intend construction of a group of hospital buildings in an eastern state. Work whs to begin imme- diately and would last many months. A year at least--perhaps longer.
 His departure left Eve dazed with astonishment and grief. She had not really believed he would 20 without her. Until the very mos ment when he swung aboard the train taking him away she had held steadily 10 the hope that he would yield to. her wishes and re- main in Lake City or else master fully carry her away with him. That ho did neither. but instead set off almost as calmly as though h the separation were for 8 few weeks instead of long months, shook Eyes confidence In herself more than anything that had hap pened.
 She had been certain of herself. Always! And since Dick had come anto her life and made himself a part of 1t -- how large a part she had not fully realized until that day!--she had felt doubly secure. Even Dicks lack of income during the summer had failed to shake that security. She had felt all along that he would find q good job again. Perhaps better one than before. The Dicks of the world, who never spared them- selves, never skimped their work, never let their employers down, were almost certain to win out.
 Tears misted Eyes eyes as the train pulled out of the station. Blindly she made her way to a taxi stand. She would be extrava- gant this once. She felt that she could not face curious eyes just then, not even the impersonal eyes of strangers.
 rA tho taxi some inner voice pre- vented her from yielding to the impulse to weep unrestrainedly She was thankful for this restraint when. just as she had turned the key in her door, Mrs Brooks ap- peared in the hall and invited her to make Q fourth at bridge.
 Eve. wanted to refuse. She wanted to lock her door against the world and relieve her doubts and loneliness, in tears. But she knew Mrs Brooks was trying to be friendly. She had planned the bridge. Eve suspected, to help her