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Title: Eve to the Rescue

Author: Ethel Hueston

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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