Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 298, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 April 1925 — Page 12

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/^T TTr' 1 After a week’s absence Barry’s attitude is cold.

EYNOPBIS Chlckiß (Helena) beloved and only daughter of an old-fashioned couple, .lohnnthaii anil Jennie Bryce, feels a bit lonesome since Mary her chum has married Edward McPike and she refuses Jimmy Blake's marriage proposal only because he is poor. Chickie 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 Bariy 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. Chickie lies to Barry about the pin. At a house party given by Bess Abbotl Chickie meets ilia Moore, an old friend of Barry s. Upon Chickie's request Jake arranges so her father does not lose on his oil investment. Chtekie fears the fate that befell Stella Wilson, because of her lengthy engagement. and at Bess Abbot's wedding subtly tries to urge Barry to think of their marriage as a present possibility, even though tie thinks he cannot afford it. Barry is worrief and stays away. in her loneliness Chickie accepts Jake's invitation to rido in the country. He promises to take her again on Saturday to inspect a beautiful home about which Chickie Is curious. GO ON WITH THU STORY By Elenore Meherin CHAPTER XU The Breach HP" — ER pillow was damp. She turned it over and pressed her face against the cool fabric. Then she switched on the pretty blue lamp over het bed and reached for a. hook. It was a book Barry had given her —the story of Ethan Frohm. But she didn't read. She sat upright and let her thoughts and her emotions beat and exhaust her with the battle they waged. Her love railed against her resentment; in the end love won, leaving her shaken with regret because she had allowed Jake to lure her into another date. Her thought protested; “I have a right to take a little pleasure! He doesn't care! He's hardly let me see him this whole week. He means that about waiting years and years Why. he think* I'm throwing myself at him! And he must remind me—oh!” Love answered: ‘‘He's working like a slave. He can’t run from the office as you did! And didn't he say he wished it could be right away? He loved enough to wait end wait—” Ah, yes—and didn’t his eyes go down like holy lights into her heart? And didn’t his arms sweep about her as he whispered: “Chickie —I wish it could be now!” She was drawn back to the piercing tenderness of that moment when the tumult of her feelings stilled her;#when she had seen the flush staining warmly to his forehead, his lips parted. He called her "the dearest thing in the world.” And, oh —he meant it! She knew that —well enough. • * * j. LI, these images of Barry spoke to Chickie: they sent * the tide of emotion warm and high. As its gentleness suffused her, she was ashamed of the day given to Jake; ashamed of the shallow anger, the hurt vanity. Regret for the thing she had done sharpened like a pointed tooth in her mind. Running down the country with Jake, because she was piqued! Furious with Barry, because he had to work nights and couldn i entertain her, because he happened to say lightly that they had years and years to talk. Ah—that was a mean, petty way for her to act! But she would make amends. She would be worthy of the fine, strong beauty she saw in him. There would he no “next time” with Jake; no long drive through the hills; no more dinners at quaint, out of the way places that only he might know. Oh — she would give it up, and gladly. lx>ve bathed her in its sad, terrible humility. She went to work the next morning in a state of exaltation. Yesterday she would wipe away. She wouldn't speak of it. But there was the future—all of it, bright with promise. And it was for him. She phoned to Jake. The girl answered that he was out of town. He would he in the office Saturday morning. Time enough! She ■would cal! him then—say she couldn't possibly go. The fervor of her resolution made her radiant; filled her with a happy mirth. Janina observed and made her own deductions, which she promptly conveyed to Chickie In a note: “Not. such a habe in the woods, after all, huh? Glad to see you're not going to follow in our dear Stella’s footsteps! Have a nice li’l trip and get hack ‘as was.’ We got your stall, ole dear, but Mitchell didn't. Better look a little pale. Remember, you were too ill to work yesterday!” Reading this, Chickie's mood dropped a few degrees from its rapt intensity. It di-opped still further when at noon. Stella Wilson, with the seMsh unconcern of those swathed in melancholy, insisted on accompanying her to lunch. Stella's desperation had now mellowed Into a tearful sentimentality. She was no longer furious against John Bluely. she was sorry for him. She had discovered that reason—how or where, she didn’t mention—for his marriage to Eva Bowman. It was a reason, of course, that puffed to huge dimensions Stella’s pricked and suffering egotism. John had not forsaken her. Never of his own wish would he have chosen another. His spirit still was hers. He had married Eva only because of business complications with

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her father. Dragged into It! This explanation offered a fine, stout crutch for Stella's vanity. She was now free to follow John on the tragic road of his bitter marriage to the ultimate misery she was perfectly confident would be his. She was also free to return to the dream of John that had warmed her hopes for seven years. She now took some faded snap shots and pushed them across the table to Chickie. There were half a dozen poses of a young man. bonny and laughing, a girl, vivacious with the wondrous, fresh beauty of youth. Chickie looked at them and gasped. “Wouldn’t know me. would you? Don’t look much like that now. do I?” The change from the lightsome face of the girl in the picture to the hardeiing features of the still handsome Steila was not the thing that shocked Chickie. It was the odd resemblance she fancied between this girlish Stella and herself—a kind of bright eagerness as though her white hand held a gift and offered it —a frank joyousness—she didn’t knoW what it was exactly—perhaps only the love she fancied in Stella's eyes. Whatever the similarity, it frightened her now to see it. She would admit nothing in common be tween herself and Stella Wilson. She said hurriedly: “Oh. I don’t see much difference. You look about the same. This is John? You loved him terribly, didn’t you?” Stella reached for the pictures. She said grimly: “He loved me just as much! Humph—fine for some people the way things turn out. isn’t it? [f I had it to do over again—” “What would you do, Stella?” “Take while the taking was good!” * * * mN the week just passed Chickie had found Stella’s face, Stella’s bitter words coming into her mind relentlessly. Especially when she sat at lunch waiting for Barry, and Barry hadn’t come. She heard with a faint clutch of terror in her ears, Janina’s cynical: “Men are all alike! Take a leaf from Stella's hook, Chickie, or the first thing you know it will be written into your own. Get yourself planted in a beautiful jardiniere while yctu still can grace it!” Now —in the present highly sensitive state of her feelings she felt Stella’s misery like a load of iron damped on her neck. She was in a frenzy of anxiety to see Barry Dunne: to have her absurd fears brushed aside by the glad joy she would find in his eyes. He was coming that night. She put, on a dress of green. That made her eyes so dark —her hair so bright. And she rushed to the door when he rang. With an impulsive ardor that seized her like a sudden breeze she raised her face, laughing to his. When he kissed her gaily; when he said with the lilt in his voice; “Ah—the fair one is glad to see me? she felt like singing; like flinging out a mighty “Oh, hurrah!” He went on breezily: “All prettied up, aren’t we? The dear, blessed damoscl and no mistake. Ride or sit —which? Beauteous night for any little thing.” They rode. She slid low in the seat, glancing up at him, already tremulous with relief and pleasure. She said: airily "Twice seven days in this week. Not so!” “There were, indeed. Funny case came up—" He began to talk quite rapidly and brightly. And she was always a little in awe of his mind. He knew so much; quoted so freely a hundred poets she had never even heard. Tonight she would have liked much better if he had just looked down at her. saying warmly: “Ah — I miss the dear frail!" They stopped; a gate stood open, dark and free. No veil of silver fog; no drape or purple mist. Black and austere the trees were etched against. the sky. This night walked chaste in self-abiding beauty. She moved toward him, touched with a sudden loneliness. She waited for his arm about her. He •Loi<ed absent Iv.

—Posed by Fdythe Elliott of the Berkoll Players.

Her hand stole to his and she said with a rush of eager tenderness; "I missed you. Mr. Red. How about you? Do you get mad when you have to work so hard?” “A raving maniac!” He laughed, recounting odd quirks he discovered in ihe old people who came to the office. He talked and talked. And she had the bleak, chilled notion that he talked to evade her —to put her at a distance from him She sat quiet, her hands clasped in her lap, unaware of the soft, white beauty of her neck: the winning sweetness of her lowered eyes. Suddenly she felt his glance. His voice was low: ‘‘What did you think of Ethan Frohm?” “The saddest thing I ever read. It was too cruel.” “But that’s life, Chickie.” ''lt didn't seem right to me. They loved each other so—” ‘lt wasn't right!” His eyes then, beautiful as she wanted them to be struck down through hers, opening the radiance in her heart. “Ah—light!” He laughed softly, his arm for one swift moment catching about her. “Love has the first right. Not so Chickie? Don't you know that? By Heaven I know it! They were cowards—” ' What should they have done? What, Barry?” She f<jlt her heart, swelling, holding her breath mute. “What none of us has courage enough to and it goes— ’’ His arm dropped from her quietly. She thought with instinctive understanding. "He doesn't want to love me! He fights against it. He's afraid to love me!” A dozen times her hand went reaching to his arm. She drew it back. He kissed her good night and waited as though he wished to say something. She wouldn't help him. wouldn’t look up. She was ashamed of her brimming eyes. He could chill his feeling for her. She would crush hers! Beat it down. Indeed, she would. She said to herself bitterly as she hung up the lovely green voile: "Well, Stella, ole thing—stretch yourself out and be walked on!” The next morning—Saturday—she didn't phone to Jake v

CHAPTER XIAI Competition S 1 O'CLOCK approached, the pale nervousness that all morning heir. Chickie taut with excitement had just mounted to pain. She caught up the telephone, put it down again, biting

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her lips. No—let the date stand! She had suffered last night—lain awake long, aching hours after Barry Dunne had gone. Her young ardent heart, all aglow with the consuming tender parity of a first deep love, drew back to itself the flame it had offered. The flame burned inwardly with a deadly hurt. Barry didn't want her love. Oh—he was making that gently clear. It would interfere with him. He had work to and to win. Brush away obstacles—love—her—any-i thing Even in the dark of her own room: even lying with her face against the pillows. h“r thought, raised proudly, ordered the tears back. She should break her heart about it! She should throw away her you*h wildly hoping and waiting as Stella Wilson did. Better to let it end —now In the dressing room she pulled the small blue hat coquettishly down to her dark, appealing eyes, letting a touch of hair show at her ears. She would look gay: She would laugh merrily. No one in the world should know. But she went out of the building to the limousine where Jake waited and at every step her trembling apprehension grew. She cast about anxiously like one afraid of pursuit. As Jake, sweeping his hat low, met her she stept breathlessly to the car. She wanted to get in—be off—escape. She took her seat. She looked up—then down. For a moment her senses reeled. Barry was there—on the sidewalk—staring, first a shock, then n fuiy of accusation in his eyes. He bowed and passed. Chickie's day was ruined. She had a crazy impulse to jump out and run after him, stop him on the street and explain—oh tell him how her heart was broken—. She sat limp and motionless. Jake appeared not to notice. He became busy with the engine. She was thankful for that. (To Be Contintiedi (Copyright Kmir Feature Synd'oatel

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