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By Elen ore Meherin CHAPTER I HE was the only child they had. They were old-fa jhioni___J ed these two. Often they looked at her, then at eacii other. The<r eyes filled with tears. “Chickie”—the father called her '.hat. Sometimes at night she would go in and sit on his bed, patting his big hand, telling him with a hundred airy affectations all the news of her day asking favors, naming little gifts that he might bring to her. Now it was that Mary, her dear, dear chum, got anew much smaller than hers. “And I was wondering, Jonathan darling, If you could have half an Inch taken off mine. Think you could, cutie-cutle?” She called him all funny names like that, pinching his long mustache* into a knot, leaning over him and laughing all the time. Jonathan Brice, listened and chuckled, his whole body tingling with love. “That Chickie of ours!” he would say to the mother afterwards. “That Chickie!" And she, lying in the dark at ids side, felt as though threads of gold were cast from his heart to her’s because of this last cnlld of theirs. “Ah, God is good to us,” she murmured. Whenever they talked of Chickie the mother said this quite loud to make sure that God would hear. Ever since Chlckie’s sister had died she did this. She had an idea that God was always hovering about listening that he liked praise and because of It would be kind to them now. He would leave them their joy in Chickie. He would remember the wound burned red and everliving in their hearts. That once already they had knelt beside a narrow bed and felt their littlf thing—their dear child thing—grojkr cold within their arrr.3. And saw the tiry hands relax; the little faae turn gray and still. Oh, they kpew It all —and the ache that obmes to dwell forever in the thought. Only Chickie was left them. They* poured, out their heart’s love on her. Too much so, perhaps, for it was almost an anguish to them. She was sixteen -a bright, capricious thing, pretty and flippant, but sweet as a song. She was at. the age to see adventure in the merest trifles—always tingling with some delicious excitement, whispering some vivid secret. Even as little a thing as passing a group of boys on the way home from school. She and her great chum, Mary

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Blake, walked down Thirtieth St., where It crosses Northwestern Ave. When Chickie drew near the corner where the young boys stood with their h; ids thrust in their pockets, her ey is danced. She pinched Mary’s arm—all in a flush, saying, “Hurry. Oh, heavens Mary, let's rush! The nerve! They’re just starting!” Mary blurted hotly. “I’ll not hurry an inch. Don’'; be so silly! You give me a pain, Chickie!” “But Arthur there. D'd you see him, Mary?” “Weil, I should thfow a fit be cause Arthur Sontag stands on the corner!” Chickie, pink to her temples, still conscious of the dozen lifted eyes felt herself floating along in a dream. She felt sorry for Mary. Mary was asleep. Mary was a stone. Mary did not walk airily joyous as she, Chickie. did. • • • SI HE had come now to a vivid hour. The time of her first dance. Arthur Sontag was to take her. They had argued about it for days, those two, the mother and the father. Should they let her go? So young, just 16, but she wanted it so. Why, she would just die if they said no. So it was decided. And Chickie, wild with excitement, went about in a continual fervor. Suddenly, now she grasped Mary's hand. , “Mary, suppose I should be a wall flower?” Mary shrugged with a little hint of contempt, saying sharply, “Oh Lord, I didn't suppose you’d worry about that!” “But were you ever a wall flower, Mary?” Mary’s flr.e, intelligent face flamed She remembered sitting in .he dance hall in an attitude of waiting, a strained smile on her lips, glancing about as though expecting any mo rnent a dozen partners to arrive. She remembered hasty and embar rassed'flights to the dressing room. “Oh, I generally manage to have u dance or two.” “But the very first time, how was it then? Why, you needn't look so superior, Mary. I’m not the only one to worry. I nearly dieu today. Dolly Bacon had that little Stella Brown in a corner and was telling her just how to make a hit. She said, "Now, all you have to do, Stella, is just say every funny, idiotic thing, and be sure to keep them laughing all the time.” Mary, considered this advice mindful of the enviable popularity of Miss Dolly Bacon. She commented t? rtly, “Well, it proves what I’ve always said: Men aren’t worth bothering

will be composed of perfect squares, liast puzzle answer: There were 21 persons on the mer-ry-go-round. Little Henry said: “Add fourfifths of the people riding in front

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with! I wouldn’t degrade myself trying to please them.” Chickie burst out laughing. They reached the sters of Chickie's North Indianapolis home—a little yellow cottage with peaked roof, set back a little so there was a small garden with a border of pink cowslips. On the left was an ell. Through the window, now golden with the sun, they saw Jennie Bryce and she was sewing.

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She was making Chickie's dress, soft thing of blue with little silver flowers worked Into the fabric. She had been sewing on it for days, loving the stitches, her heart growing young with the work. The two girls watched her in silence. Then Mary said, “I supposed your dress is most finished, Chickie?” “Come in, Mary, I'll try it on— ’’ They did this every afternoon,

of me to one-quarter of those who are ridi.ig in back of me and you will i,ave the nurr.i'er of persons on the merry go-round." There weie twenty people in front, and twenty in back of the boy. Four-

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Mary, standing aside and giving h> percritical suggestion—the mother, plump, uncertain, pushing her spectacles back on her nose excited, because Chickie was so radiant —her eyes shine so—- • • • INALLY the night of the great adventure came. Jennie .. was in a flutter. Now and hen she bit her lips.

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“Chickie, dear." she pleaded In her agitation, “stand still or I can never find the clasps—" “But, Jennie, darling—for pity sakes, won't you hurry? I’ll be late! The dances will all be gone. Oh, mother, inside of me is just all Jumping! Oh, I don’t know what to do!" Suddenly she remembered Dolly Bacon's tried and tested formula for bringing the young male to his knees. She began to think of all l

fifths of 20 is IS; one-quarter of 20 is 5; IS and B give the total of 21. which, of course, included little Henry, who was on the merry-go-round, even though he was neither in back nor front of himself!

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the funny, idiotic things she had ever heard. Jennie caught a forgotten thread. "There.” she sighed, stepping back from the bureau, her plump, gentle face rosy with pleasure.' “Ah, well —quick—let your father see—” Chickie gave a little gasp of joy, forgot the rule for making "hits," entranced at her own image in the mirror. She drew her hands together in ecstacy. “Mother! Do I

really look like that? Oh, heavens!” She ran and 'stood before her father’s chair —nervous —waiting for the glow to light up his face. He put down his paper and surveyed her with rejoiced but astonished eyes. "Chickie! Why, how grown-up you seem—l’ll be blessed!" "Oh, Jonathan, angel, if you only knew how perfectly gorgeous I feel.” She laid her soft cheek against his,

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running her fingers through his hair.* “I feel all springs—all full of bubbles. Hurry—you come to the door with me—” He went reluctant. He watched Jier running down the steps with jthis young Sontag. He heard her laughter rippling back —caught the kiss she blew to him. He leaned on the knob—suddenly heavy and old, oppressed with a sense of loss. "She's not a child any more,” he

said to the mother when they two sat alone in the quiet that night. “No,” Jennie answered softly. “We had no right to let her go.” “Why, Jonathan! We couldn’t keqr her little always.” He gave no answer, but sat with his arms folded over the newspaper. Later, when they lay awake listening for her key In the door, he said abruptly. ”1 wish It was a son we had ”

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Jennie trembled with the shock. She repeated, stunned. "A son. Why?” “It would be easier with a son.” “What do you mean?” "Well, things aren’t like they were when you were young, Jennie.” Terror like a live thing crept through her. “But, Jonathan " For two hours he had lain there tormented by his imagination. In his excitement, he sat up in the bed, shaking. / “But I won't have it, Jennie! I tell you, I won’t have it! Chiokie’ll not carry on ’’ Jennie sat up and faced him, pale with fright. Suddenly she gave a little gulping laugh. “Why, Jona-than-poor fellow! You must be crazy!” He grew red and sheepish. "Just the same, Jennie—l see plenty to make me worry.” Her hand went down in quick comfort to his. After a long pause, she said: "Yes, Jonathan, but we can’t keep her from life, can we?” He slid back on his pillow, stirring uneasily. His child —yes? He would have wound his great arms hard about her —keep her from life—” And she was running into it—reaching out white, eager hands that beckoned—that called in rapture: "Hurry! Come!"—Heart glad; sense quivering—- • • • OFF to her first dance—and with Arthur. Why, Mary i___l would have given an eye to be hurrying down the hill to the school auditorium with Arthur Sontag holding her arm? She took quick, short steps, giggling, saying between times: “I'm so nervous—oh, Arthur, if I’m a wall flower I’ll die!" “You? Well—any old time!” “You’re sure, I won't be?” “Well, am I?" That lifted her up. They sailed into the dance hall, wrapped in a cloud of music. She was laughing all the time. When the first dance began she had her program filled. "And names all over the back, Arthur. Think of It!” “Well, sure!” More softly: "Say—you’re the prettiest girl on the floor!” The blood rushed in a hot tide to her face. She kept her eyes down. "You’re silly, Arthur.” "But you're pretty, Chickie!” He kept looking at her until all the little springs inside began to bubble. , “Say, you’re prettier than ever.” Afterwards he scratched names from her program and put his in

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