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“You get nicer every day of your life.”

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

GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERSNEW 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

CHAPTERPAGE
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