—which for once thoroughly upset our tired little heroine, who was herself “taken up” dead beat and conveyed home by gallant members of the sister services
Uncle Fred
is Again
Victimised.
Eve has a magnificent idea for helping on the war. Meeting Uncle Fred in the park, she wheedles him into escorting her into the Saveloy Hotel—
—where she is overcome with a sudden faintness, which disappears as soon as the perturbed uncle has given her a liqueur brandy. With commendable patriotism she has him arrested on the spot for treating, and
—the result is a considerable contribution to the funds available for the prosecution of the war