Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 277, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 April 1925 — Page 14

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SYNOPSIS Chiekie, beloved ana only daughter of an Old-lMhlqned couple, Jonathan and .Jenny Bryce, experiences a wild sense of joy when Arthur Sontag kisses her on returning from her first dance. He turns his attentions to Dolly Baoon when he learns LtuckJe loves him. Heartbroken, she starts on a business career. Chickie's modesty causes her boss. Harry Lewis to treat her stiffly. Sophisticated Janina Knowles, a 00-worker, gives Chioluo some very wrong pointers. From a window across the way a young man starts a mild flirtation with Chiekie. She feels a bit lonesome since Mary her chum, has married Edward McCike. and she refuses Jimmy Blake s marriage proposal only because he is poor. Chiokie’s change of attitude bespeaks the kind o (company -ue seeps and her parents are worried on this particular night when at two o clic-s she has not returned from a party given by wealthy Jake Munson GO ON WITH THE STORY By Elenore Meherin “Os course. New dress. Look angelic. All dolled even to the shoes. Huh—all alike, aren’t we all slaves when a fellow like Jake snaps his fingers!” Chickie’s eyes kept up their smile; her lips parted; she was afraid to speak— afraid of the tickling at her throat. Janina laughed—soft, biting. She said, with her eyes mock ing. “I*l say they’re worth it.” The men were comin over. Jake was smiling—at her. He towered over the others. Ida Larkin s husband—a slight, very natty man and the other, dumpy, rotund, little fellow with merry eyes, red face, halfbald. They called him “Nicky.” Every one was very affectionate to Nicky. In return, he dispensed favors and smiles without discrimination. Nicky, as it happened, was one of those agreeable, sociable old bachelors, who fight shy of marriage all their lives —more persistently than others—and in escaping heing captured toy one woman, they are used, abused and laughed at by all the others. He went wagging along now at the side of Jake. Chiekie wondered if he was to be her partner. Old fellow of 40. She felt a little twinge of contempt. Then Jake -offered his arm. He bent his head, giving a slow sound, half laugh, half challenge: “Now for the fun and frolic!” She remembered the song from “The Merry Widow." This Jake Munson, with his magnificent presence, his vital, animal joy in life reminded her of the prince. * * * p*T“IS they entered the diningI /VI room, the comparison became bigf*r. He walked in like ft king, head thrown hack, black eyes and scarlet lips all flashing. He was greeted like a king, and a half dozen tables with faces of women, lightened up: men bowed as though proud to be .acknowledged by this great, splendid fellow. Chiokie's pulse beat rapidly with elation. Sh 9 forgot Janina and her mean, degrading taunt. She walked through an atmosphere that glittered; drew in breaths that sparkled. She felt herself charged, as though electric shocks were mildy and brightly darting through her. "So your name is Chiekie?" Munson holding her chair gave her a pleased, hayfpy look, as though she belonged to him and lie wished sveryone in the room to know it. “No! My name Is Helen. It’s only my father and people like that call me Chiekie.” “Then count me one of people like that. Will you?” “But they’ve all known me a long, long time."

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“We'll know each other a long time, I’ll promise you that —longer than that.” Janina, sitting at Jake’s left, leaned forward pushing a small cup toward him. “Fill it, Jake, but don’t promise rashly. Chiekie is young and innocent. She’ll believe you. Remember new violets every year, Jake!” He gave her a quick, mocking glance, po wed clear golden liquor into her little cup. But he looked fully at Chick!* saying, with his red lips laughing: “We drink to the one that blooms tonight!” He took a sly, passed the cup to Chiekie. Janina’s eyes danced with a tense, hard eagerness. She watched and smiled. Chiekie raised the cup—tasted a sweet, velvet pungenoe; felt it go, with soft, delightful fire. “Now,” Jake said, “we’ll dance. She glided through the ribbon, surrrised that the wild brightness that sang in her heart. She was hi s had worried the whole afternoon, and therce was not a thing to wo'ry about—just music—just sweet, sparkling dancing. Jake hummed as he ddneed. At the foot of the stairs he stopped, looking, down upon her glowing face. “You were never here < before, Miss Bryce?” “Who told you so?”

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“Yourself." “Let’s wander upstairs, because I want you to tell me some other things. I want to know why you’ve kept me waiting nearly a year.” He saw the quickness give in to hesitation; in her short question. "What is upstairs?” His laugh rang out: “Oh—so Janina has been telling you I grab girls off the great highway and burn them at the stake. Well, there’s nothing upstairs but a corridor, a few eardrooms and more dining rooms. Did she give me such a black eye as that?” "Well, well—Janina believes all men are devils —so, of course, you couldn’t be an exception, could you? She thinks the only thing for a. girl to do is to light a hotter fire quick, burn them to cinders first; That is her belief.” “Is it yours?” "No—you see, I heard of how that one man in every ten is an angel—and ” “You’re waiting for the tenth? Is it wings that you want from life, Miss Bryce?” “Well, I don’t know, Mr. Munson, if I don’t want wings but I do want something shiny and beautiful —not like what other people get.” There flashed before her Lucy and her drudgery; the plaintive, humdrum of little Jer nie’s days, now Mary with her alive, buoyant figure gone—Mary in a bLttoned-up brown coat with a scant little beaver collar. She leaned on thf balcony, looking into the brilliant room below. She sighed wistfully; “Why can’t life he always beautiful like this?" Jake saw tlie young eager hunger in Chickie’s parte dlips. His eyes bent warmly, with a smile, to hers: “Is it beautiful tonight?’’ "Yes.” “It can be beautiful like this every night. x For a girl like you ■” “Why for me?” “The world loves to toss flowers under lovely feet.” “I haven't noticed it, Mr. Hunson." "You will, when you say you want something shlnv and beautiful, do you mean money, clothes, automobiles?” “I could use those th’ngs very nicely, but I’m not sure I want them first. I don't know " She did know. She was lust then remembering the white flames that burned immortal In her thoughts; the flame that young Arthur had first kindled when his lips’*' had touched so lightly on hers; tfie flame that Jimmy had a little touched. Now often, even now, in her imagination, she watched sunsets with some magnificent other, whose arm made a sweet hollow for her head. Softly Jake Munson's hand covered hers. "You want love first? Love, Miss Bryce? That’s the shiny and beautiful thing. It's the easiest of all to get.”

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Meets Barry Dunne, the red-haired young man who smiled at her from the office across the way. It happens at Jake Munson’s party.

He spoke with murmured tenderness, and met a spark in Chlckie’s eyes. She said, glancing into his rich, sparkling face; “No. it isn't, Mr. Munson, unless you mean the kind of love that Janina always means.” “The kind that doesn’t pay.” “And what is your kind of love, then, that pays so well?” “I’m not sure, but when it comes I'll know. It will be something strong and glprious. 11 k<- a great wind mating' on a mountain top—just sweep you clea- into the c)c"ds.” “Suppose it doesn’t come?”

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“It will. I've always believed that life has some wonderful, big, dazzling joy tucked away in her pocket for me ’’ She stopped abruptly, her finger pointing to the room below, her breath rapid. "Who is that dancing with Janina? Oh, they see us ” . A laughing face stared at her. “Barry Dunn,” Jake answered. "A nice boy. Oh, you know him?” Her cheeks stained red like a shadowed guilt. Janina and Barry Dunn were coming up the stairs. Janina said. “A surprise for you, Chlcld* —like it"” Chiekie glanced into the pleasant

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eyes—green, flecked amber—the very eyes that had drawn her so mightily across the alley. The red-haired young man winked merrily; “The chasm is bridged at last, Mies Bryce.” CHAPTER XIIT THE PARTI' |rys JELL me. why did you give ! Ime the cold eye so long? I— 1 Any other girl would have tumbled out of that window long be fore this.” Barry Dunn danced most buoyantly—with greater freedom than Jake. Chiekie felt the ripple of his ardent

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youth, eager, like her own. He was young, she was young. That made it so much blither. She thought of all the romances she had read about him, standing at the window. She laughed: "I suppose you’re very attractive, Mr. Dunn?’’ “Well, I’m not sure. When I was young and freckle-faced and 17, I suffered agonies, wondering just that very thing. I had a chum with black, curly hair, a regular ladies’ man. Jmrd, I envied him. T thought girls hated red hair. I thought they found me a hideous brute. I tell you those were melancholy days. Then a year later my nose came down, the freckles all ran together, and a girl gave me the come-hither eye. That put heart into me—the sweet thing—but a few black looks like you treated me to, undo all the good work. Why did you pass me up so strictly when I smiled at you?” “What should I have done? Flopped across the alley way into your arms?” “Then it is really true that you hate men and don’t want a thing to do with them?” “Did Janina say that about me?” “She did and more. I arrive at my own investigations. Now I can’t understand why a girl would begrudge a lonely fellow a smile.” “Are you lonely?” “T was—v?ry.” “Why, If I had known that I would have dropped any number of smiles. You know, I had an idea that you might be lonely like a man In a story I once read.” “And I've ar- idea that you might be kind, perched up there, with seven stars in your hair, like the blessed damosel. 1 thought you might call me up the golden stair.” “Indeed! And how could I when I didn’t know your name. You wouldn’t like it if T would have yelled out through the thin air, “Hey, red hair, come on up!” ‘ Even the imaginary conversation she had invented with this most agreeable neighbor from across the way were not as full of elixir as this. She liked his eyes and the jaunty lift to his chin. When he gave her a quick, teasing look like Jimmy’s, it made her jubilant and quite at home. "Now what do you do down in that office?" she asked. "I’ve wondered if perhaps you're somebody important.”

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"Yes—very important—but young yet. I’m going to tell you all about It some day —" * • • mHEY had to go back to the table. Jake Munson, his glass half raised, hia beautiful teeth showing, recounted some intimate story to Janina. She sat with her long, bare arms stretched before her. Her eyes and even her cheekbones glistened. Jake rose hastily, his glance turned on Chiekie warmly like an embrace. He pressed her hand with a fine, gallant air, murmuring as. though he' had known her twice seven years. “How could you stay away so long, you dear? Leave me to the mercies of this black-eyed; wench.” Round the table there flowed now an easy mellow friendliness. Not Nicky alone, hut every one was taken into the circle of affection. Bob sharing his chair, with a small, sleek brunette whd kept taking sips from his glass and giving little inarticulate shrieks ofi delight called over: “Aho there. Chiekie, meet —a good kid, and she weakens! ' • Ida Larkin, had lost a. little of herclean cut, severe aspect. Bh£ beamed on the shiny faced He had an arm about her waist and gazed Into her eyes with fatuous devotion. Janina. sharper, her face almost luminous in its vivid chiseling—made a place for Barry Dunne. Then she leaned hack, behind Jake and pulling Chickie’s arm whispered! You're going like lightening. Don't overdo it! Soft pedal, little one!”' Chiekie felt a crimson stain rush lng from her neck to her temples. Her heart hardened furiously against Janina. She kept her eyes down, l.it her lips; Jake's shoulder inclined a little towards her. He filled a glass and put It In her hands: “Losing heart, Chiekie? Not tired already? You need a drink — won’t hurt you—no chance to form a habit now.” (To Be Contlnufd) (Copyright. King Feature Syndicate) Back chapter* of "Chlrkle” can be secured at The Times ‘ office free of charge.

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