Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 293, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 April 1925 — Page 12

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CHICKIE

SYNOPSIS Chlokio (Helena) beloved and only daughter of an old-fashioned couple. Jonathan arid Jennie Bryce, feels a bit lonesome since Mary her chum has married Edward MePlke and she rei fuses Jimmy Blake's marriage proI posal only because he is poor. Chiekie attends a party given especially for her by wealthy Jake Munson. He begs her to accept the luxury he can give, and though she and Barry Dunne now love each other, she is Interested in Munson and calls on sophisticated Janina Knowles, her coworker and friend of Munson's, to learn more about him. He sends her a costly pin with a love note. Chiekie lies to Barry about the pin. At a house party given by Bess Abbott Chiekie meets, Ila Moore, an old friend of Barry's. At Chickies request Jake promises to see that her father does not lose on his oil Investment. Chiekie does not deny that She is engaged, but Jake persists in his attentions Barry sees Jake's car leave Chickie's home GO ON WITH THE STORY Ry Elenore Mekerln CHAPTER XXXIV OUTWITTED "IE helped her into the littleroadster, took out a cigarette and lit it, doing everything with a measured calm. She stole a look at his face am! grew miserable seeing the young, full-cut mouth straightened in a stony silence. She reached her hand to his arm. “You're angry, Barry? But listen—” “No—l’m not angry." He kept his glance hard before him. Bhe waited with choking heart, frightened to find his mood affecting her In this piercing, des p-srate way. He said quietly: “If this is your idea of things. Chiekie —-go to it; Don't let me interfere.' “You’re unjust. You're jumping to conclusions!" “Yes! I am, then. I’ve jumped to the conclusion that you’ve been to dinner; that you enjoyed it that you hoped to get home a little before I arrived. But Jake was in no hurry. He races you here in his limousine. She sank down in tlie seat, hei strength, all at once dropping in a hot weakness. He was aware of her—quiet, 1111 resistant. Bike this, she had an enornpous power over him. Th< wistful sadness of her profile was before his eyes. It went in like her little warm hand and touched his spirit. He had as often a wish to draw his arm about her, to murmur lightly, “Ah, why so unhappy?” He had a wish to kiss her —make her glad. The softening of his resentment touched first his mouth. It made his hand gentle again as he took her arm and they walked to the theater. She smiled at him gratefully, saying with a rush: "Barry—please.” “Well, how would you feel, Chiekie, If you saw me running off with someone else —off on a lark?" “It wasn’t a lark. You don't know—She told him how It hap pened—why she went — all that Jake promised—how Jonathan rubbed his great hands together, chuckling like a hoy in his overpowering relief. Her eyes misted, so sweet was his approval, “Not sore a hit, then. Why, what do I care for Jake? Or anyone!” "But me, Chiekie? Ts that on the level?" ‘And you know It, Mr. Red, I’m not wise, or 1 should keep you guessing more —so I'm told by them that know!" "We need advice from them that know', Chlokle! Any old time!" • • • D f“”| URTNO the play she slipped her hand int& his, moved to tears when he held it with a quick, ardent pressure. Over the club sandwich and coffee they had afterwards he said: “But Jake will expect you to go around with him as before." “That makes it hard, T don’t know' what excuse to make or what to tell him.” "You don’t, have to go out. with every man who asks you, do you?” “No—hut, then, I was going out with him so much, and he’s been pretty fine to me. Gave me Wilde. Now he does this for Jonathan —’’ "Oh—so yo uthink you should go out with him? You should pay him hack ?" “Barry—don’t. That’s not. fair. Why, It seems as though I don’t do anything hut dream of you—” The blood flew In to his cheekft. Jle grinned, his white, even teeth stbirkling. - "Say more words like that, sweet one.” “I could. I thing oceans of them. But, just now, I thing you ought to let me tell you about this. What good is It that you’re a lawyer—a most brilliant young jurist, as It were—ls you can’t get your best friend—” “You mean ‘my steady.’ ” "All right— If you can’t get your steady out. of a tight pinch." "He asked you to go out with him already?" "Os course. And I said I had the xvhole week taken and I w'as busy. But he Just roared and xvanted to know if I’d fallen in love or was going to be married. What could I say?" "Nothing. We did not want to tell any one, do we?" She brought the question out shyly. A hundred times already it had been on the point of her tongue. A hundred time, sitting before the bureau, combing h er hair, she had thought xvith va#ue sweetness, "Are we engaged? I wonder if Barry and 1 are promised to each other?” She couldn't ev* n think these things without a warm, tremulous flush gliding over her. Now her cheeks stained. He said, “Well whose business is It but our own?" “I know. And, of course, it’s a little easier for you. You don’t have to ask other girls to go out with' you. But if I keep refusing Jake and he ddesn't come to the house any more Jonathan will ask questions and Jennie will want to know. You could find me a good alibi, T should think." "We’l—you put Jake ofr two or three times and he won't bother any more, he's like that," Barry smiled. “Jake's a Casanova In his way. What’s one unwilling flower to him xvhen the whole garden runs over The Bright Spot of Fcontain Square Shelby Furn. Cos. 1113-17 Shel^rjfr

with roses only too anxious to be plucked?" • • * H r ~~~ E was always making allusions that she didn't understand. But he thought her clever and a wide reader, so she assumed an air of wisdom. Many an evening coming from work she got oil at Thirtieth St., sauntering into the library. She pored over the encyclopedias; asked the tall, fairish girl at the desk questions; gathered bits of information that she laced about Her conversation with airy nonchalance. Tomorrow she would find out about Casanova—maybe ask Janina or Martha Blake or the good old reliable books. Tonight she said with a knowing •shrug, "Casanova was a wise old owl, wasn’t he?” Then with an aching sigh, "It’s terrible to believe that Jake or men do things like that!” “Like what?” You know, I don't see how they nanage to look so tickled to death Aitli life and be so swaggery if they lave all those dark, awful tilings -ehind them. Do you?" Chickie’s eyes sought Barry's •ugerly, wishing him to agree—wishng him to stand forth far apart ! ibout those other men. “Do you ee that, Barry?" "Well, that's the way a blessed lamozel looks at things.” "You, too, don't you?’’ He hunched his shoulders, grinning, his forehead redder than his hair. "Oh, sure! Ever since the fair one came upon the scene, anyway" "Meaning me?” “Meaning you." She laughed, glad as though song ushed goldenly all through her houghts. When he kissed her that night, his arm about her shoulder, he touched her hair, laughing. “Ah. Chiekie, you’re so sweet." Her heart was his. She answered: “Barry, 1 love you so—oh. so— ’’

I r |OT until the door c losed after him and she wu In the ——l kitchen, Wilde coming with t slow, luxurious yawn from his corner near the stove, did she think of Jake. Nothing had been settled, rhey had lost count of him in the delicious sweetness of their own warm emotions. Now she thought of him distantly as though he were i Ion" way from her. He phoned the next morning: What night is a good night for the theater, Chiekie?” “I haven't a single night this week.” “That’s all right you've got ■seven next week.” "But I haven't—really—" And there came humming over the wires a rich, soft way the wind blows. Chiekie, my dear. We'll have to try anew tack. Till then, au revoir!" A thrill of apprehension caught her. Jake was not dismissed, Jonathifl was rugged and domineering; straight as a grand red-wood again. A broker had come from 4he Star Oil Refinery and bdught up his stock. He had the $1,375 in his hands again. “And that’s a great, fine man, that Mr. Munson,” he said, shak Ing his head fl< Chiekie. "There's a prince for you!” Tuesday when Chiekie reached home, she found the table In the dining room laid with Jennie's wedding silver; masses of Jennie's violets in the center. She called out: "Hey! Whose birthday is this?" Jennie in her gray silk dress, lace at the cuffs, though lace was now quite out of date, opened the door and came pattering over to Chiekie. Her face and her shy, gentle eyes beamed with lighted pleasure. ‘A surprise for you. Chiekie!" she whispered like a child in her delight. Jennie took down the best dishes from the little built-in-china cabinet, moving with extraordinary care and precision—careful of the lace and the gray silk. Voices and chuckles: Jonathan's resonant laugh fang out from the kitchen. Chiekie pushed the door, motionless with astonishment. There sat Jonathan, odorous with moth balls —togged out in his Prince Albert. There, opposite him at the small table, the two of them like old cronies, swapping tips on oil and other stock, sat Jake. He rose, triumph flashing on his dark,' handsome face. He took Chickie's hand, pressing it between both his own, laughing down at her, saying with a boy’s ardor, "Chiekie, rr y dear, w?'re off to the thsater—the whole family of us." i CHAPTER XXXV At the Theater mAKR was the king at the feast. "Best dninef T ever had!" His black eyes praised Jennie. He passed his plate for another slice of her flaky apple pie. She blushed, the knife in her hand trembling. He offered cigars to Jonathan. And sitting next to Chiekie, he hunched his shoulder down cosily, saying with a rich laugh: "Like the surprise we fixed for you?”

Puzzle a Day

Farmer Gray pave his second son thrice as many horses to care for as his first son had cows, and his third son thrice as many pigs as the second son had horses, and to his fourth son thrice as many chickens as the third had pigs. Iji this way he equalized the work on his farm. He had altogether 160 animals. How many cows, horses, pigs and chickens did he have? Ijst puzzle answer: 11g3|5|478l 1p17gg45 Lvery line, either way across or down, equals seventy-five.

Is outwitted by Jake, who appears at her home. .

Jonathan reached over and patted her hand. "Kind of took your breath away, eh. Chiekie, girl?” Though her lips trembled she said, with a meaning look at Jake. “Oh, I’ve breath enought to blow me where I wish to go!" He answered, challenging: “So have I! As you see, Chiekie dear!" She got up leisurely, defying him with her eyes. But she stood uncertain and almost In tears at the door of her closet. Now —she would be judged again. Barry would judge her. The fear burned like a hot coal in her breast. Jennie came in with her long gloves: "See, dear, I cleaned them for you. Wear the blue georgette. You’re so lovely in that. Wear your crystal beads. It’s nice you have pretty things." She stooped down for Chickie's slippers, the gray silk drawn tight over her plump arms. She took short breaths, so great was her excitement. Chiekie polished her nails with elaborate slowness. Her neck was hot. She said, biting her lips: “You could have phoned and told me about this, Jennie. I like to know things. I didn’t want to go " "Didn't want to go?” Jennie's chin dropped. A frightened pallor fell like a grey veil over her flushed face. "You didn’t want to gi ? We thought you'd be surprised." She looked suddenly so crushed and tremulous, Chiekie put down the buffer, laughing: “Ho—Jennie, ole dear—what's the matter with you? I didn't mean it that way. Why—well, you see, 1 would have bought new gloves. Os course, 1 want to go ” But she had a sense of bating trapped—an overpowering reluctance to step into Jake's limousine. He said to her kindly: “Chiekie, deai-, you're not that sore at me, now-, are you? Why, I think this was pretty brilliant in your dear friend, Jake. I thought you’d see the hurnor of It. Take a look be hind you, my dear Isn't Jonathan looking grand as St. Peter tonight? This is a night to l>e remembered, little while darling." His exuberance was a magnetic current charging thf-ough her with its dynamic warmth. "Chiekie. you’re a t>oor sport Now I would have thought to get one smile, anyway! ‘Who’s hurt if you take an hour of happiness'—answer that." “You could have told me, though." “Would you have come, then?" “No.’’i “That'B the answer, my dear. I meant to hax'e you in that box. hook or crook. You’Tl say it's worth it If there’s an ounce of truth in you. I'll gamble on that." • • • H E walked down the center aisle with his flashing, prlncely air and in spite of herself. Chiekie felt a high throb of pride. People in the other boxes stared at him. Many smiled. He ushered Chiekie to her seat aa though she were the only girl in the world. He whispered close to her ear: "Look around, my beauty! Jake's got the brightest Jewel In the whole blooming house." She caught a look at Jennie's fare, vivid almost to pain; at o.lnathan, erect and stately. Jennie whispered In awe: "Chiekie,’ dear—My! My!" She could find no further word for her hushed, stupendous enjoyment Chiekie laughed. “Well—you like it?” .Take asked She answered gayly. “'Tis, Indeed, gorgeous!” Jake folded his arms, smiling, leaning down to Jennie and point ing out this celebrity and that. Her startled eyes followed him. wide with gratification. They went to a club afterward She and Jake danced. He said softly, his lips moving her hair: "You enjoyed ft, Chiekie?” "Yes. Who could help It?” “I have the box for the refct of the week. Help me fill It?” "It was glorious tonight. Every other night this week Is taken.” Jake laughed: ‘‘You aren't engaged, Chiekie, and you aren’t going to he married. Well—you said it yourself. But you have every night taken?” "That’s easy. Yo% see I'm exceedingly popular.” “Break a date. That always adds to a girl’s prestige. I tell you now it does." She shook her head. “So you've fallen that hard, ('’fickle? You don’t even want to go out with any on? else? You’ve fallen In love. But look here, he’s a ninp youngster and all that, but you can’t go out with him every single night. That'll neved do! Who's hurt If you give me the evenings he can’t fill?” She was silent.

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“Here's something else for you to consider, my dear. That boy's just beginning. It’ll be years and years before he can give you a tithe of the things you ought to have. Now, are you going to sit around and ght old and rusty waiting? Are you going to give up all the joys of life? Why, my dear, you’ll make an old hag of yourself! “You owe it to the lad to keep yourself gay and alluring. Tomorrow you’ll be a thousand times brighter and more interesting because you’ve had a little spice tonight. Not so, my dear?” •• • * SIIEY sat on a red dix’an at the far end of the corridor, shut off a little from the bright dash of the palm court and the couples moving in and out. Through locked glass doors they saw the machines parked In Meridian St. Jake had his hand clasped on Chickie's bare elbow. His eyes sought hers . with gay, insistent pleading. But she kept seeing another sac red to the roots of his hair as he told her there was no other since she had come upon the scene: Barry whispering, "Ah. Chiekie, you're so sweet!” She smiled, answering dreamily: "Yes—it has been lovely—but all the other nights are taken." “For how long are all your other nights taken?" “Chiekie—are you the girl who has a friend named Mary? And another friend named Lucy?” * “Indeed I am that very girl, kind sir." He shook his head, a touch of sadness in his eyes. “So you think you've changed, Chiekie dear? You think a little love will make you like all that? But it won’t. We can get over our love much easier than we can get over stomachs. Emo-| tions pass, but appetites remain. We don't cease to be cold. You’ll still: want luxurious dinners; you'll hate 1 that nice black coat of yours.” She sighed: “Are you pushing rne i into that yawning grave, Jake? But j I'm not dead yet." "You’re running Into it yourself, | Chiekie. You don't seem to realize' what you're doing. Why, my dear, the next five or six years are the best and sweetest of your life. You should fill them with pleasure—store up memories for the later quiet. No man has a light to ex peet you to cease living while you’re waiting for him to catch up with you; while you're waiting for him j to earn enough to give you what you should have." “Think of that side of It. Don’t s be like other girls. Chiekie. and throw a way your head because you’ve found your heart. You’ll need boih when it comes to men." "You're a hard lot to manage, aren't you?" “We are? Now what night shall It be?” “Please. Jake—you see I'm telling you the truth—" (To Be Continued) (Copyright King Foatur.e Syndicatei

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