Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 290, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1925 — Page 32

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CHICKIE

SYNOrSIS Chlekis, beloved -iwl only dauirhter of an old-fashioned couple, Jonathan and Jennie Bryce, feels a bit lonesome since Mary, her chum has married Edward McPike. and she refused Jitumy Blake's marriage proposal only because he is poor. Chlekie attends a party given especially for her by wealthy Jake Munson. Unbeknown to the others, she and Barry Dunne steal awa.v before the party is over. Later Chlekie apologizes to Munson and reveals to hint the hope for big returns from her father's oil Investment. Munson discourages her and begs her to accept, the luxury he can give Though she now loves Barry, she is interested in rfunson and calls on sophisticated .Tanina Knowles, her coworkers and friend of Munson, to learn more about him. He sends her a costly pin with a love note. Unwillingly sho turns down his invitation to a yachting party and for the first time permits him to kiss her. At a party given by Bess Abbott at her country home to announce her engagement to Harry, Chiokte meets tho twins. Madge and Nance Abbot t GO ON WITH THE STORY Bj Elenore Meherin SHEY passed up the terrace into a cool, broad hall with rugs ad tall, high-backed chairs. It opened on a court of flowers. "Now, you go that way, Mr. Dunne. We put the fellows over there. Your door is second to the right. We fair ones are here. We ll see you anon.” He wasn't out of earshot when she said exuberantly to Chlekie: “I like your sweetie; isn’t he gay! Marge is furious! Now, here.” A big room with French doors opening on a. porch covered with vines. Nance, the irrepressible, squeezed Chickie's arm: “This Is the Romeo and Juliet balcony." She glanced downward with a wink of Impudent delight: “Easy enough crawling up or down. Isn't it!” Chickie felt herself in a dream of soft beautv —all her senses quivered to the exquisite excitement. She almost said aloud: "Well —how in heaven's name did you land here, Helena. Bryce?” As they returned to the rcom a girl was standing at the bureau,, carefully placing a net over bright hair, beautifully smooth and close to her head. She was tall —a quiet sweetness in her manner —a girl several years older than Chickie. When Nance saw her she dashed over and threw her arms about her neck: “Ila—honey angel! I didn't even know you were here!” The girl laughed: "Nancy! Now don't tell me you’re In on the party.” "I like that!” She tossed the bobbed head with a brazen shrug: •Ila, ole sweetie, what this baby doesn’t know! Well, I'll leave you two honeys a moment if you don't mind.” Ila turned with a quiet little twist of a smile: “Am I in my second • ■hildhood, I wonder?” qhickle. thrilled to her finger tips, answered: “Isn’t she the cutest thing.” “Well. I can’t get over it. I’ve bee i away three years, and to see the twins on the verge of old age anrfl Marge ready to get married. Swift lives we lead these days!” Cynickie combed her hair. She st/.md at the bureau next to this. Ila ✓Moore found the girl’s deep, quie* eyes fixed on her wfth quizzical Interest. ‘Turn your head that way again. Miss Bryce. Now, look.” Chickie was instantly struck by a resemblance between her face and Ha's. The older girl's was serene; Chickie's vivid and now all dashed with excited color. Ha said:, “We look rather alike, only you're far prettier.” • —you have a deeper look of beauty. That’s not in me.” "I’m older. T’m very old. At least I feel so with all these Infants of 15 and 16 smoking and flirting and marrying. I feel more like 50 than 25.” She gave Chickie a sweet candid look: "I like you, Miss Bryce." They both started as someone knocked at the door. It was Barry calling: “Open it, Chickie! Ready? —we'll have time for a walk." He paused abruptly, giving Ila Moore a long, surprised glance of recognition. He came over and leaned on the bureau: "Ha! Os all things'. I didn’t expect to see you here!" She put out her hand quietly but her calm face was suddenly crimson: “Barry—how very strange!” CHAPTER XXX Revelation “| HICKIE saw that bright flush on Tla Moore’s quiet face. u___J She felt all through her a vague quiver of alarm that sharpened like a little dagger going through her heart. She hadn’t the courage to raise her eyes to Barry Dunne's face. She heard him say: "See you later, Tla”; heard herself adding, “I’m so glad wa’re to have

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—Posed by Edyths ElUott and Robert St. Clair of the Bcrkell Players. His arm drew her close: "Sad? Why for, sweet one? Look up, Chickie — come on now —give your steady a smile,”

the room together,” but she was aware only of that hot, pointed thing which made even her breath giddy. She said in a little strained voice as they walked through the garden; “Isn't she sweet? Do you think we look very much alike?" They were in a narrow, secluded path beyond the pool where a weeping willow trailed its long delicate vines in a green shoed across their way. The fading yellow light moved through the lacy branches like a pale spirit reluctant to part. “Look alike? What do you mean?” “Why, that Ila Moore and I.” “She looks like you!" He turned her around, looking down at her face and laughing. “Well—let me see. Open your pretty eyes." His hands on her shoulders trembled. crossed down about her. A flush crept to his forehead. She moved toward him. She said with a little gulp, “Oh, Barry—don’t—” but a thing within her shook out a thousand glad, demanding notes. When his lips touched hers she clasped her hands against him, motionless in the sweet tide of Joy. They stared into each others eyes. He took her arm and ran her down the path: “Now —we’ve got to hurry." The terrace about the house was now a bright, moving field of color. Girls is vivid sport clothes, men and boys in white flannels, sauntered about laughing. Snatches of song rose through the soft twilight and dropped like silver chimes. Every .qow and then an automobile dashed up the driveway. Youths rollicked out, shouting gayly. "Here we are!” “Dinner ready?” "On with the dance!” Ohickie sped through the hall, stood quiet outside her door, hearing within Janina’s clear, incisive voice and the graceful languor of Bess answering. She paused. She clenched her hand on the door knob, shaking, afraid lest they should see the mad fluttering of her pulse, the blood leaping with such pain, such tumult to her face. Sho thought, trembling, "What shall I do? Oh. what am I to do now?” Bess, very fragile and dark of eye, in a simple dress of white crepe, enlivened by a vivid string of ruby amber beads that reached

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half way to her knees, was Just crossing the room. “Don't think me an awful barbarian, Bryce. Tell her I'm a sweet soul, Janka, love. But every one from far and near took a no tion to swoop down on us this week. I hope there’s food enugh for all the wolves. Let's go to the table.” “Don’t worry about the garbage, Bess, my dear. But f>ity us if the well runs dry.” There were two small glasses filled with a bright red cordial. Janina brought one to Chickie, and slipping her arm in hers whispered with an admiring sigh: ‘Enjoying every little thing? You look excited. You look rapturous. You’ll drive the poor boy mad. Ah—such Is' life!” • Chickie ran over to the bureau, dashed powder on her nose, on the bright stain of her cheeks. She pretended to wash her hands, letting the cold water run through hen fingers. She wished that something chill like that would run through her veins. • • • | INNER waa a most Informal Lj| affair—quick, hilarious—half t I of the guests standing—half of them sittting—shouts across the table; Bess and Nance divided the honors as hostess. Mrs. Abbott, Janina whispered, was in the city. She made it a point never to attend the week-end expressions of her children. She filled her life within her own demands. The three girls did likewise. They had the run of the place. They crowded It each week-end with neciic throngs of girls and very young men. They dashed about the country In automobiles. Then danced until the musicians rebelled. Strains of an orchestra came now in a golden vibrance through the open doors. Couples rose automatically from the table, drifted like figures in a slow dream into the immense room adjoining. Chickie sat next to Barry Dunne. But she didn’t look at him. She was afraid and tremulous because of the disturbing sweetness vibrant like a living thing between them. At her right was Janina’s escort—the yellow-haired boy Chickie had met coming down the steps of the studio. He was drinking with rapt ardor the murmurs of Janina’s

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voice. They were oblivious of others. Each couple was a unit. No one bothered to make the conversation general: no one bothered with any Introductions. At the very end of the table lia Moore, serene, beautiful in a dress of pale green, smiled at Chicir'o Barry saw it and waved ins hand. "Let's dance,’” he said to Chickie. There was a lilt about him when he moved—a free, happy rhythm. They did a kind of pattering fox trot. His arm drew her close: "Sad? Why for, sweet one? Look up, Chickie—come on. now—give your steady a. smile!” She forced her eyes upward, saw his cheeks redden, hut he kept looking at her. pursed his lips, taunting. “Don’t do that. Barry." “Won't I? Here's another.” She felt little sparkling waves, intoxicating and sweet, breaking her feet. She was afraid of them: she was drawn, expectant and eager, l-the said, hesitant: “You never an swered my question, Barry." "Which one?” “Do you think I and that lovely Ila Moore look alike?” “I should say not! Any more than the yolk of an egg looks like the sun.” “Is she the sun?” "Not If it shines in my heaven! Oh, Ha's a good kid. I met her the summer I finished college. She's quite brilliant in a way—wants to write or sing or something. In my callow youth I thought that very magnificent." “She’s different from the other girls, then, isn't she?" "Sure she is! Don’t know what she's doing here. Notice the quiet chap she was with. That's her fate. She'll marry some ambitious lad of forty and push him to the top of the heap. Peace to her!" At that Chickie murmured with a sudden delight: “Oh, I think her most enchanting." • • • . troupe of the younger girls came sauntering and laugh- - Ing Into the room—radiant and pretty—all of them like a bright sea of moving popples. They drifted past, blowing the smoke behind them, very superior, wrapped In disdain. They made their way to the table In the corner where a huge bowl of punch was now established. ‘‘The airs of these kids," Bar>*y grinned. "Wonder where they'll be at twenty! Bored to extinction at sixteen years and two months." Like an answer came e gay shout. Nance, the younger twin, In a crlm-

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Mr. Gary lost the umber eight from his house address. It was ten j miles to town and he did not care [ to make a special trip for one numj her. lie found a small black triI angle of tin and made an eight from that, using every bit of the triangle. How was it done? He made six separate cuts. Answer to Last Puzzle 2521 3 =• 1260 Vi: 2521 -e ,’l =- 84011,: 2521 e 4 - 5 504Vk: 2521 a- 6 : 7 300 1-7: 2521 + 8 2521 9 = 280 1-9: 2521 10 •=- 252 1 0.

son smock, knee breeches and sandals, her curled hair standing out like a nimbus breezed down the long room. She wagged her shoulders impishly. A narrow chested young man with a drooping mouth, large heavy-lidded eyes, followed her, shrugging cynically. When she spied Chickie, she caught his hand and ran over, mak ing a gay little bow. "How do you | like me? Bizarre, am I not. Oh. I j idoro the eccentric. Don’t you? j Otherwise I'd be going into a per- | petual trance like Bess anti Marge.” "Oh, pardon, my dear! Bet me ' present Mr. Bobby Elders.” She whispered excitedly to Chickie, “What do you think of my sheik? Isn't he stunning?” Then aloud, like a - gracious embrace. “Well, we were looking all j over for you and Red just before •ilnner. I had a nice little goblet for you! Oh —not that I meant to be inquisitive atall!—not in a harem, you know! But where were you so that we can go and get lost? Hear about Harge? She's gone! Taken the ear and her sweetie and vanished! Since before dinner.” (To Be Continued) (Copyright. Kin* Feature Syndicate) Come to Our Two Card Parties Sunday, April 19 2:30 P. M.—8:30 P. M. Valuable Prizes St. Catherine’s Hall Tabor and Shelby Sts. Auspices of Alter Society and Ladies of the Farish

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