Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 283, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 April 1925 — Page 32
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SYNOPSIS Chicle, beloved and only daughter of an old-fashioned couple, Jonathan and Jennie Bryce, experience a wild Benue of joy when Arthur Sonla# kisses her on returning from her first dance. He turns his attentions to Holly Bacon when he learns Chickle loves him. Heartbroken, she starts on a business career. Sophisticated JanIna Knowles, a co-worker, gives Chickle soma very wrong pointers. She feels a bit lonesoms since Mary, her chum, has married Edward McPlko, and she refuses Jimmy Blake’s marriage proposal only because he Is poor, Chfokie attend a party given especially for her by wealthy Jake Munson, Bob and Ida Larkin and “Nicky" a bachelor, help create the gaiety which thrills Chickle. TJnbe- x known to the others, Barry Hunno and Chickle steal away before the party is over and the next day go lor a drive In the country. The following evening Munson takes Chickle to dinner and she apologizes for leaving his recent party without a farewell. She reveals to Munson her hope for big returns from her father’s oil investment, but he discourages her and begs her to accept the luxury he can give and to be a guest on a trip he is planning. GO ON WITH THE STORY By Elenore Meherln “Why. Chickie? I’ll tell you. It’s because you know you have a right to this—because you feel at home here. Isn’t that It?” “Maybe! I told you I can quite enjoy riches and such.” “Yes—” He put his arm about her. Instinctively she stiffened. He leaned down and looked Into her face. “Why did you do that?” She wouldn’t answer. He went on, his eyes demanding, earnest, “Is It that you don't like me?” “No—lt’s not that.” “Or that you’re In love with someone else?” She shook her head, fearful, not knowing what to do. Seeing the white of her neck, her lips trembling, an Immense desire, a luminous tenderness swept through him. He touched her hands. Ho said softly: “You dear! Never mind —I won’t keep you late tonight.” CHAPTER XXI GOLDEN DAYS ARRY DUNNE took a box from the drawer of his chlffonier —a small box, but in it there were a dozen tiny leather volumes. He put It In his pocket, went out whistling. Warm in his thought there glowed a face—pretty eyes, but, ah —the lips. Something in her head, too! Little wonder—little dream. She liked poetry—the clever thing—knew the best ones, too. When he stood before Chickie he pulled out the box shyly, shoving it quietly to the table. “For me, Mr. Red? You bring mo little packages in your pocket? Oh, I love that! What can It be?” “The whole darn earth, Chickie!
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It”* every wurfh-whlle thing that ewer w*- Here it is!” 1 Ete Lxmghed happily, surprised to ffiral Enerseif all at once in the gayest. spirits. All day she had moved a'none, fn a thrill of dark mysterious excitement. Her thoughts kept returning to the evening before —to the dinner with Jake—the momesnt when his hand has pressed her palm against the table, his eyes pouring fire Into hers. It caught her with a little pang of curious terror. In the midst of her work her mind drifted off into a dreamy speculation. She wondered with a touch of pathos about herself—her future. Was someone magnificent, rich, happy-hearted waiting for her? Just around the corner might she one day come face to face with this tremendous and glorious love? And did this Jake, who seemed so kind, so exuberantly satisfied with life, really have cruel, vicious thoughts against her? No-nshe wouldn’t believe that —yet there ran through all her musings a dark, tight thread of half frightened suspense. He was a problem. She wondered how she should act; what she should say. ■ With Barry Dunne it was different . . . young, like herself —free— out in the sun—nothing to fear— She pulled the paper from the box; “The whole dam earth? Tish, ’tis no more than I expect! Oh, books—So you want me to read you to sleep again?” “Say—how did you guess that? How about Sunday, Chickie? We can take another ride down the line —sit under that tree. Now listen, don’t turn round and give me the cold eye. I said we can sit quietly under the trees—a Summer idyll as it were*—just thee and I —sans jug, sans kiss, sans anything!”
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A man had thirty-one plants. He set them in a flower bed and so arranged them that he had 18 plants in one large circle; 7 smaller circles, each with 6 plants; 6 straight rows with 6 plants in each row, and 3 straight rows with 5 plants In each row. How did he arrange the plants? Host puzzle answer: When A and B each deposited three dollars, and agreed that whoever won three games of pool should receive the total sum of six dollars, but consented to a division in proper shares when A had won two games, and_B one, they made the following division; A received $4.50; B, $1.50. Offhand, it would appear that A should receive $4 and B $3, a proportion to two to one. But the original agreement Involved the winning of three games. Therefore, when the games stood two to one in A’a favor, he would take in $6 if he won the next game; while if he lost the next game, A and B would be even, and each would be entitled to $3. As each of these cases was probable, A was entitled to half of these sums taken together, namely, onehalf of $9, which is $4.50.
, —Posed by Edythe Elliott and Kotgrt St. Clair of the Berkell Players. Sitting on the ground next to him she had a wish that recurred like some soft drowsy perfume drifting in her face.
S'” UNDAY came with a rush of Indian Summer in its soft, i-—. I uplifting breath. Barry Dunne carried out the box to the spot where Chickie had carried out sandwiches all wrapped in wax paper. “Say, isn’t this merry, though. I thought up to the last minute you were going to call it off.” “Why—and you such a devil of a fellow with the ladies?” “Well, I thought anyway that you’d ask me to shift about and go on Jake’s party.” “Did Jake ask you, too?” “Yes—l think he had a hunch we were beating it off together. He tried all ways to get me along.” He turned his eyes searchlngly into her face, his own a Ilf tie hard, doubting: "Most girls fall for a fellow like Jake. He’s quite a killer. Don't you think so?” “He’s handsome —and, of course, he has big cars and lots of money.” “Sure —that’s the bait for the girls o ftoday. If a fellow has the coin in his pocket It doesn’t make a bit of difference to them if he hasn’t a hair on his head or a thought in his brain.” She laughed merrily: "You find he competitor hard to meet, Mr. Red? You seem to be carrying it off quite Jauntily. I'd like to tell you that the redoubtable Jake, with his money and his cars, failed to
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Spends a day in the country with Barry Dunne, reading poetry and discussing things in general. Barry kisses her.
catch one little fish not so very far away from yourself. You see, I kept the date s'-yway!” He wanted t > be made sure of this. When thty sac under the tree eating their lurch, he came back to it. He was filed with curiosity about her, bu* more poignantly she wondered whr.t she saw in him. She couldn't lr. ner heart prefer him to a wonderful fellow like Jake Munson. Her ha'r was glinting in the sun. The breeze blew it in shimmering threads across her white forehead. He put up his hand and drew it back. "Will you tell me something truthfully, Chickie?” She answered abzently, because a great sweetness was rushing In and filling up her heart: "Maybe, if It’s a pleasant question.” "Did you keep the date because you said you would or because you wanted to?” She laughed softly: "How vain we are, for all our red hair and our vanished freckles.” "Please—l can't emjoy myself unless you tell me.” “Indeed! I kept It because I wished to.” “Oh, you darling. Turn your face this way—there—how do they make them like that. I’d like to know?”
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E began asking her all manner of questions: Did she l___J read much? Did she Intend to keep on working always? V hat did she think of marriage? And, finally: “Chickie, how many times have you been eigaged?” “Oh. you idiot. Now. I might think that was Mary talking. Why, never.” “You-v© been in love, though—you were handing me out a line about never kissing fellows—” Her face grew suddenly sober, then she tossed her head with a laugh: "Such a nerve as a man has! Like Jimmy—he said the very same things. Why, you’d think yourself a prize booby If you didn’t kiss every girl you could. Why not us? Why should there be one rule for you and another for us?” “There Isn't! Not any more. But If a girl thinks she has a right to do these things, why does she deny It?” "They don’t. Janlna doesn’t.” “You say there should be only the one rule, Chickie. If that’s so, then you should believe in kissing and kiss!” “Indeed, that’s like a man, all right. Suppose the one rule I’d have should be ‘no kissing either for thee
or for me/ I think abstinence would be especially fine for a man.” He took her hands and turned them over, laughling. “That’s on your tongue—all that. It’s not in your heart. I’m here to shout it’s not in mine!” “Read to me! That will keep your lips busy.” • • • r- i ITTING on the ground next I Q j to him, listening to his voice, I I she had a wish that recurred like some soft drowsy perfume drifting In her sac wish to lean back against his shoulder—to close her eyes dreamily. She would have been glad to let him sleep against her ami—let her fingers loiter on his face. He read on and on. He stopped over his •favorites and sometimes quoted whole stanzas, asking her opinion. She gave it with a grand, princess air, hoping eagerly she said the right thing. Finally he closed the book. “Some things are awfully hard on the lips, Chickie.” He pulled her to her feet. The sun was caught In a great black splash of clouds. He put his arm about her waist, whispered softly In her ear, “Ah, 'tis a beauteous evening, calm and free —and thou, dear girl that walkest with me here —like to walk on and on and hate to walk back?” He looked down at her and laughed. She felt his heart thumping—a deadly stillness In her own. An impulse that suddenly charged over her like a rush of hot tears made her turn —made her reach out her hand to him. He caught it. He said w(th a gasp, "Chickle! Oh, you darling!” She stood there and let his a\ms sweep about her. She raised her face. She said “No.” But she waited, moveless —waited trembling. He put his amis swift to her shoulders, he drew her, whispering. "You darling!” He kissed her. His face was white. He turned her hands upward and kissed them He said, breathless, looking into her face: "Chickle, you’re beautiful. You are!” She wished the world would end—then —too sweet to bear. They walked down the hill silent. Afterwards It frightened her. She lay awake, clasping her hands hard against her heart. She said to herself. half aloyd: “No! Not again, No!” CHAPTER XXII . Disillusion rtirVl AVING a pretty gay time, r—l Ch’ckle?” Jimmy had a - L herd grip on her arm, holding her back so that she was forced to walk slowly.
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She felt his eyes draw sharply against her profile. She answered lightly, yet with a disturbing pang, "Oh, salubrious, Jimmy!” “Which is it going to be, the redhead or the rich one?” “What are you talking about?” "Which are you going to marry?” “Why—the idea —” “Well, you don’t have to tell me, I suppose. You’ve not engaged yet?” "Os course not! I’m not even thinking of it.” He shut his lips tightly. Without looking at him, Chickle knew that his face kindled with excitement. Her fingers touched his and were caught In a harsh clasp. He forced out his next question after a long, jagged pause. "I suppose—humph —l’m out of it altogether, Chickle?” She turned her hand in his. "Jimmy, you make me feel terrible. I’m not going to get married—not for years and years. Why—Just because I’m Having a little fun. You go out yourself, don’t you? Why—l won’t think of settling down —” “You say that, but look here, Chickie! It’s none of my and business, but you’re not trying out any of that wild stuff you told me about, are you?” “Wild stuff?” Her breath caught in a little gasp. “Jimmy, you old funny! Well, listen to the darling!” “Aw, don’t kid about it, Chickie!” He doubled up his fists, aswlnging along, truculent. “If I thought you were treating those fellows to any petting parties I’d lie around here and knock their blocks off!” Iler face, suddenly white, flashed against his with hurt indignation. He turned from it brusquely. “I didn’t mean It, Chickle. Honestly. Forget it, please. I know you better than that, I guess. But gee whiz—” When she didn’t 'answer, he said in his quick, impulsive way, looking at her humbly, “Look here, Chickle are you going to get sore at me after all these years? Say—can’t I even pull the brother stuff any more?” “But just the same, Jimmy, that was pretty cruel.” “Maybe It was. But I happen to know a thing or two about fellows. It makes me kind of wild thinking about you and things—” He searched her face, an agony of tenderness in his look. She was all at once In a tumult —her eyes filled.
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He said, huskily, "Aw, Chickie—don’t —I didn’t mean a word of it. You know I didn't. Don’t I know you, though!” " They reached her door Just as a delivery boy brought up a huge basket of flowers. Without seeming to notice, Jimmy said, “Goodby, Chickle.” • * • r 1 HE took the basket and ran Q into her room. Autumn flowI 1 ers of gold and orange with long trailing ribbons of blue larkspur. Jake’s card. The third basket In two weeks. , She was hearing Jimmy; listening to a sudden wild storm of questions breaking in her own mind. He knew; fellows—Did he? She had refused obstinately to look at the world except as she wished j to see it—a lovely, delightful place —full of good times —wondrous Sutv*; days under a tree with someone! happy of heart —luxurious evenings with a princely, lavish fellow Ilka Jake. Why should one ask more? One could go on In this happy care* i lessness years and years,. So shq assured herself. (To Be Continued) (Copyright, King Feature Syndicate) Back chapters of ‘'Chickie” can be secured at The Times ofTice free of charge.
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