The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-07
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SYNOPSIS

EVE BAYLESS, pretty assist ant to EARLE BARNES, adver- Using manager of Bixby's de. partment store, marrles DlCk RAIDER, a construction super intendent. Dick is sent to take charge of a construction job in the Adirondacks, It will require at least year to complete but Eve refuses to give up her work and go with him.
 MONA ALLEN, copy writer, dislikes Eve and is constantly causing trouble at the office. She is responsible for several mis- takes for which Eve Is blamed. REECE who continues to force unweIcome attentions on Eve.
 Unknown to Dick, Eve has been playing the stock market, borrowing money from her mo. ther and sister. She loses this, as well as all her savings and $4OO Dick left in tho bank.
 Eve Is lonely and misses Dick. She begins to wonder if she should not give up her job and go to him. On Thanksgiving day she writes him a long letter te1l- ing him that she Is willing to come to Pine Forest.
 CHAPTER XII
 But Eve did not give up her job. at Bixby's next morning. In- stead she burned the letter she had written to Dick.
 "I'li have to keep away from Mrs Penney and Marya," she de- cided. "They always put me in a sentimental mood. After all, there's no more reason why I should give up my work than that Dick should give up his"
 It would be foolish, she assured herself, to give up the comforts she enjoyed in Lake City for the privations under which she was sure Dick lived in Pine Forest.
 Tn midsummer he wrote to her: "When 1t snows up here It snows and stays snowedi We have had to borrow our way through the drifts for several weeks now and there's no knowing how long 1t will be before this blanket of snow thaws. We have had some difficulty getting over the hills to the job because the road is almost irnpas. sable at this time of the year. Fortunately, though we work ur- der cover. We've had enough men on the job to make considerable progress. The two buildings are separated by patch of woods so have to make frequent trips back and forth, keeping an eye on both jobs at practically the same time. By night I'm pretty tired and don't need to be rocked to sleep"
 Dick did not seem to mind the ,.Iu lHt .R 4fstg tVa xpAnd0 Indeed he did not even consider such primitive surroundings as hardships. He never wrote to Eve that he missed her and she failed to read between the lines. Though each letter always concluded, with all my love = Dick" Eve wanted more proof than that of his steadafst devotion.
 She was disappointed that he made no reference to the coming holidays. Her resentment grew un- til she felt she had a real griev- anno because he failed to show concern over the Christmas ahead. The day was to fall on Wednesday and Eve felt that Dick should come home to spend week or 10 days. Her better judgment told hee 1t would be a long expensive trip to make and that Dicks work was too important for him to leave 1t to others at this time. She knew that the wives of some of the men who were working with him had gone to Pine Forest and were making homes for their hus- bands there. Eve wondered how Dick explained the absence of his own wife who remained in Lake City to work despite the fact that his name topped the camp payroll.
 
 Ten days before Christmas she mailed q box to Dick which she took great pleasure in packing There was the pair of skates he had wanted for years. Eve was sure they would mean more to him this year, perhaps. than at any other time. She shared with him the homemade fruit cake and