The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-09-22

with her, since she felt timid about appearing alone among q group. of men devoted to watching market quotations being chalked on the board.
 T certainly get q great kick out of coming up here," Arlene as. sured her. If father could only see me now! He thinks anyone who invests In stocks is bound for perdition. And he couldn't, for the fife of him, understand that I'd be Interested in this place without investing"
 Tuesday was pay day at Bixby's ana the following Wednesday found Arlene in Mir Sanford's of- Ave with Eve. Arlene was being initiated into making her first inc vestment.
 q think 1t would be fun to mar. gin," she commented when tho methods of investing were ex- piained to her. "rd love the ex. citement of it!"
 So Arlene also bought Atlas Coupler.
 To Eve it had always been neces. aary to share each new experience with some ono. Only after confd- ing in another and rsliving the event did she get the utmost joy from it. Hence her spirits were greatly exhilarated after Arlene made her investment and they watched the trend of the market together. There were days when both of them felt the stimulation of rise of q point or two in the valuation of Atlas Coupler. And there were days when c slight dee cline sent them into the very depths of discouragement.
 Atlas Coupler had long lain dormant, Eve learned after looking up data concerning 1t. After the patent rights had been secured there had been c lengthy, uncer- tain delay in marketing the dee vice, owing to the power of the holding company behind the coup fer that was to be displaced by At- las. But now contracts had been signed and manufacturing had be- gun. A reliable brokerage con- cern guided the activities of the is- sue and demand for 1t caused m extended furry in the stock. The girl had every reason to believe quick riches were to be theirs for their risk and they anticipated their return eagerly.
 Eve really longed to tell Dick of her investments, but she felt she could score q greater triumph by waiting until her gains were substantial. Not that she wished to Haunt her success, she assured herself, but she must be able to justify her desire to earn her own money.
 Eve felt these days an almost overwhelming sense of hope and expectancy. She attributed 1t to the apparently established upward trend of Atlas Coupler, but 1t might have been born of the sprinktime. Mrs Brooks, who was in her gar- den at six o'clock each morning, watched for Eve often and gave her a bouquet of fragrant lilies of the valley for her desk. Then came | the week toward which the entire household had been looking for- ward when the lilac bushes were | in bloom and purple and white clusters filled the air with their fragrance.
 "Dick!" called Eve softly from the shabby old front steps where she was sitting with her arms locked around her knees. Dick, lounging in a gay steamer chair on the lawn below, looked up at her. The moon was sending beams ] of light through the newly-leafed maple trees and fantastic shadows danced on Eyes face. ''I just love this place!" she declared. Dick blew a curling wreath of smoke rings from his pipe upward l toward the star-sprinkled sky. Then he answered slowly. content ly. "We'll never find . better place in the city"
 q wish we could stay here for ever!" Eve went on. T mean happy and peaceful. just as we are now"
 'su-um!" responded Dick. And then Miss McElhinney. one of the teachers who lived upstairs, came out on the porch. "It's such . gorgeous evening and you look 50 snug here! I hope you don't mind if join you"
 ! She perched herself on the newel