E-text prepared by Roger Frank and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 25892-h.htm or 25892-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/5/8/9/25892/25892-h/25892-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/5/8/9/25892/25892-h.zip) EVE TO THE RESCUE by ETHEL HUESTON Author of Prudence of the Parsonage, Prudence Says So, Leave It to Doris, Etc. Illustrated by Dudley Gloyme Summers [Illustration: "You get nicer every day of your life."] Grosset & Dunlap Publishers New York Made in the United States of America Copyright 1920 The Bobbs-Merrill Company Printed in the United States of America To Carol Who came to us in the form of Duty, but who has brought us only Pleasure CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I In Defiance of Duty 11 II The Cote in the Clouds 21 III Everybody's Duty 30 IV The Irish-American League 40 V Her Inheritance 59 VI A Wrong Adjustment 84 VII Painful Duty 98 VIII She Meets a Demonstrator 112 IX Admitting Defeat 124 X The Original Fixer 137 XI The Germ Of Duty 156 XII The Revolt Of The Seventh Step 175 XIII She Finds A Foreigner 195 XIV New Light On Loyalty 214 XV Service Of Joy 226 XVI Marie Encounters The Secret Service 248 XVII Spontaneous Combustion 266 XVIII Converts Of Love 282 XIX She Doubts Her Theory 301 XX She Proves Her Principle 312 XXI Her One Exception 332 EVE TO THE RESCUE EVE TO THE RESCUE CHAPTER I IN DEFIANCE OF DUTY "To-morrow being Saturday afternoon," began Eveley, deftly slipping a dish of sweet pickles beyond the reach of the covetous fat fingers of little niece Nathalie,--"to-morrow being Saturday afternoon--" "Doesn't to-morrow start at sunrise as usual?" queried her brother-in-law curiously. "As every laborer knows," said Eveley firmly, "Saturday begins with the afternoon off. And I am a laborer. Therefore, to-morrow being Saturday-afternoon-off, and since I have trespassed on your hospitality for a period of two months, it behooves me to find me a home and settle down." "Oh, Eveley," protested her sister in a soft troubled voice, "don't be disagreeable. You talk as if we were strangers. Aren't we the only folks you have? And aren't you my own and only baby sister? If you can't live with us, where can you live?"