The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-23
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 .nt Is so I EARLE 1a i itss1 BARNEs, sdver-
 Using manager of BIxby's ge,
 fRADER. a construction supcrin-
 tendcnt temporarily working i'm
 fake City. Dick wants Eve to
 rive m working but she refuses.
 SAM HOLERID0E, an adyer.
 tfsinr man employed by another
 atOrc. becomes infatuated with
 ARLENE SMITH, sten0grapher
 nt Bixby's but she fancles her.
 self In love with GEORGE
 BLISS. Handsome THERON
 REECE hns been forcing un-
 welcome attentions on Eve.
 Unknown to Dick, Eve has
 been playing the stock market
 on money borrowed from her
 mother. MONA ALLEN, copy
 writer, dislikes Eve and tries to
 make trouble for her. When an
 appears in m advertisement
 Mona Is really responsible but the blame falls on Eve.
 DOROTHY McELHINNEY,
 pretty school teacher who lives on the floor above Eve and Dick,
 joins them one evening on the
 porch. Eve thinks the other girl
 fs trying to play up to Dick and
 becomes angry.
 CHAPTER xxrx
 After that first evening when Miss McElhinney joined Eve and Dick on the porch she reappearcd every time they sat out of doors.
 My name is Dorothy" she con- fided one evening, but l wish you'd caile me Dottie." r'3
 "Neverl" Eve told herself saw ageiy. T suppose the next thing shell want to call my husband by his given name. like her nervei" And, sure enough, before long Miss McE1htnney did assume that priv 1lege. :
 But Eve found Miss Leeds. who shared the third floor apartment with Miss McElhinney most agree able company. Miss Leeds seemed to have little time and devoted most of her evenings to work she had brought home from school or else to study.
 "she's exactly the sort of person who should be instructing chil- dren," Eve told Dick "she takes herself and her work seriously but at the same time she has q senSc of humor. 1 like her"
 For several years Dick had sub- ecribed to . magazine devoted to pictures and stories of foreign lands. He offered to lend Miss Leeds his file of back copies and mha was delir hted.
 Always tho bitter with the said Eve one night when she and chairs and gone upstairs to their at the office if it were not for Mona Allen. And how happy our evc- nings at home would be if 1t were not for Dorothy McElhinney."
 She was to remember that little speech Q long, long dime and to look back on those evenings that had been comparatively free from worry. Atlas Coupler, the stock Eve had bought, was being dis cussed generally now by those in- terssted in the market and was highly recommended as an invest. Snent.
 "Ym walking on air these days" said Arlene. Eve felt similarly elated.
 And then Atlas Coupler began to recede. The first days slump of two points did not disturb Eve. Why, she thought, Pure Soap, Inc, had done that often in the short, time she had had her holding. Even four days of decline did not frishten her because she had enor- nous faith in the Issue. Charles. tho office boy, had instructions from Eve to walt at the corner each day until tho stock edition made their appearance ana then to bring her a copy with out delay. Arlene tense and ner- vous, could scarcely wait until Eve handed the paper 10 her. Be- cause Of Mona Allen. the two girls had to assume n nonchalance they by no means felt.
 Now Atlas Coupler was down 13 points and Eve wondered what would happen next. Each time 1t Arlene figured her loss in terms of what she would have pur- chased had she not invested her money
 "There goes that Agnes hat I cravcdw she said first. Then, "There goes that new three-quar- ter length iapin coat I counted on." Later. My word, I've lost my trip to Georgian Bay to-day" And