Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 308, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 May 1925 — Page 32

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CHICKIE

Chickla (Helena), only daughter ot Jonathan and Jennie Bryce, feels a bit lonesome since Mary, her chum, has married Edward McPike, and refuses Jimmie Blake's proposal only because he is poor. Chick ie attends S party given for her by wealthy Jake Munson, friend of Janlna Knowles. Though Chlcklo now loves Barry Dunne, a young lawyer with Tufts & Lennon, she Is interested in Munson. He sends her a costly pin with a lovo note. She lies to Barry about the pin. Upon her request, Jake arranges so her father does not lose on his oil Investment. Jake tells Chlckie he considers Barry's feeling only a boy’s love and that he will be waiting when Barry has jilted her. Chiekte fears the fate that befell Stella Wilson because of her lengthy engagement and subtly trtes to urge Barry to think of their marriage as a present possibility, even thought he believes he cannot afford it. He Is hopeful when Jla Moore's father expects to engage him to represent locally the Gulf Steamship Company of San Francisco. Unfortunately the affair is dropped. Chickie'B vacation at Wawasee Is spoiled when Barry suddenly leaves after they decide that since their marriage must be delayed so long he had better leave her now. GO ON WITH THE STORY By Eltnoro Melierln knew that he kissed her, IO I that hls han<l ran a S ain and | I again over her hair, that he bent down to her whispering: “It’s no use! It’s too late now. Chlckie you lovo me? Oh, say It—please— look up—you won’t? Want me to go? You think I should offer this?’’ Then ho was going with hurried steps down the path; twigs snapped; leaves rustled. She was alone. She felt her spirit numb In a coldness, bleaker than death — Gone! He was gone! The bald, Incredible fact smote her, seeming suddenly monstrous —grotesque— unnecessary. Gone —why? She began running down the trail, in her wildness, her feet stumbled. Then she heard Jennie moving about the kitchen, singing In a gentle, high falsetto. She crept hack —lip the hillside. And she waited, crouched against the tree—listening. The silence sprang open with a, w'histle, hoarse, throbbing, prolonged. The train going out, carrying him away, carrying her heart, her thought. Leaving her to sink in this stark emptiness; leaving her to struggle with this gaunt specter—gone. He was gone now. Hours she sat there, limp, overpowered, drinking in tho impossible cruelty of his leaving. Again and again she started to her feet, goaded by a thousand memories. They assailed her like brutal whips. "You’re sending me away, Chickie. You think I should offer this?’’ And the strained passion of supplication on his lips—she fought against the lash—and took it. Yes—sent him away. She had done this —pushed him from her. Told him to go. And now she lay here beating the earth in a frantic protest—calling him back, denying with Impotent anguish the tiling she had done. * • * E EAVES crunching—Jonathan calling: “Chickie! Chlckie. girl!” Loud, anxious—calling again. She hid in the srubs. Plodding of his heavy feet: “Oh, Chickie — where are you? Dinner’s ready!” In tho morning a feverish impatience—almost a. gladness seized her. He would wire—send a telegram. He would say: “Ah, listen, Chickie, I can’t stay here. I’m coming hack!” She must get that message—hug it to her. She hurried to the station. There was no word. Nor the next day. It was the beginning of days that devastated her mind, tore away its poise and left In its place only a wild aching protest; made her heart a clamorous, seething thing that awakened her in the night, weak and terrified by its demanding. She lay there wide-eyed—listen-ing. Often it seemed that the stillness of the forest rang and there came flashing through the dark a music: “Ah, Chickie —you’re so dear. I love you!” She murmured again and again: “Come back’’ It was terrible being around Jonathan: meeting his kind, halfteasing eyes. Jonathan had such a way of raising her face and searching it, chuckling: “Chlckie, girl; lonesome?” “Os course, of course—Jonathan, don’t!” “Won’t tell your old dad? You love the lad?” Chickie managed to laugh. “Oh, I’m all full of love, you know. That’s all there’s to us weak wandering wlmmln!” “Keep a heart, girl! He’ll be here again. No time at all to Sunday.” That—or a scene like it, day after day Thursday she went to the station. She had to dress herself, comb her hair ali smooth, laugh, chat—wait. But nothing seemed to her necessary. Wanda Lent, pretty in a viva- < lour gypsy fashion and one of the youngsters who had tried archly to

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flirt with Barry, and had even asked him to paddle her to the beach once, stood at Chickle’s side. This had happened three times. Twice she had seen Chickie walk away without receiving any mail. Now she whispered in the fulsome sympathy of sixteen: “Oh, you ole dear, I hope you get one today. Not much of a letter writer, is he?” Chickie answered flippantly: Oh, these men, Wanda! Out of sight, out of mind!” ‘Now, I don’t know about. that. I guess perhaps he’s coming up again today or tomorrow. Don’t you let him go or I might take him!” “I’ll tell him Wanda.” And she had to keep that up while old Charlie fuddled over the mall, shifted his spectacles, answered a long-distance telephone. She was shaking lest there be no mall again today, hating Wanda's eager, sympathetic glance. There was a letter. It was from Janina. Chlckie tore It open. A sentence In the middle of the page leaped at her. It told a thing of Barry. Chickie read it, leaning on the bridge over the creek. She was unable to walk further . . . held in a fainting weakness. CHAPTER LVI Despondence SN the middle of the page Janina had written: “So you've turned cur brave Red over to lia, and he’s flying to San Francisco to settle it up quick. Congratulations, my dear protege. Glad to see you’ro getting sense.” Chlckie saw only that. Fogs that were thick and pulsed swirled about her. Her head grew light and cold. Through the trees went the flash of bright summer dresses, young girls waving their letters, beckoning to one another, laughing. They seemed remote, drifting farther and farther from her. The sun, too, was passing and she herself sinking into these gray, thronging mists that touched her with such chill Angers on her face and in her thought. Someone passed, said, “Good morning.” She heard it dimly—gave no answer. Someone bumped against her—a laugh, and three girls surrounded her. Wanda Lent, teasing, “Must be a hear of a letter! Let’s see the first line?” She was aware of smiling vaguely, stuffing the letter In her blouse, pushing them away. No thought came to her—only this fainting weakness stealing the life from her heart. She sat there a longe while without impulse to move; to protest. She said to herself, "I must go. I can't sit here.” Bui she didn’t stir. A corner of the heavy envelope stuck so hastily in her blouse, pressed against her flesh. Heat like guilt rose through her. She touched the letter, drew it out furtively, smoothed it slowly on a shelf of the rock. Janina had more to say: “Met Tufts on the street just half an hour ago. He gave me the lowdown, though he didn’t know it. What a shock! I thought you were gone for fair on the boy. I had visions of walking slowly before! you to the altar. Instead, off goes the groom. Some lure to the brain of callow youth, I’ll say!” • • • mT didn’t occur to Chlckie to doubt this. She let It sweep over her in rolling, desolate waves that bore her down and in their ebbing sucked the warmth from her veins. In her mind there grew an image of him going with hurried steps down the path, twigs snap) ing and of herself, crouching agamst the tree, listening for the steps to return. Farther away now—steps growing fainter—no sound at all. “Gone—” she said this aloud, and suddenly a frightened pulsing shot through her mind. “Gone Flying to ’Frisco. Gone for good.” She got to her feet and began running down the road, a blazing in her thought. Stop h m—call him back! That was It. Tell him not to *o. When she came in sight of the station her sudden wild courage flickered. In a whimpering misery she began accusing herself: “You sent him. You pushed him into it. You made him go.” In a way that gripped her so that she stood motionless, as though confronted by a living presence, that last moment under the madrone returned. He was bonding down to her. He was saying: “Chickie, you love me. Oh say It! You won’t? You want me to go? Chickie, it's too late now.” Too late now—her thought stopped at that, seized it. That was what ho said. He cared too much. He couldn’t let It end. “You don’t want me to go, Chlckie? Oh—look up, say it. After all we’ve felt? After all we’ve told each other”

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The drawing lesson In school the first day was to make the above book cover, the second day to cut out the letters of the title, the third day to paste the letters on the cover. Johnny was absent the third day so his teacher sent the letters and book cover home to him. He completed his lesson at home, but got a totally different title. What was it? puzzle answer: There' are two correct answers. The first, second, third and fourth must obviously cost the same, 97V40. The fifth costs either sl.lO or 97>4c, depending on whether 1 buy another computer’s book or* not.

Janina writes that Barry has left her for Ila Moore.

A trembling caught her. A sudden, piercing light seemed running through her mind, touching on all these words, these moments of shivering gladness; thpse promises, bringing them to her alive and glowing. Bringing him near, repeating them. Oh—as though he had forgotten! As though four days could put it from him. And he would run away now and never think again— Slowly, as ore waking from a dream of torture, she said: “It's not true. He Isn’t going.” Telling herself this she became lucid. She thought of Janina’s letter and grew hot with shame. What did Janina know of Barry’s thoughts; of the pleading eagerness In his eyes? What did she know of all these million threads that bound the two of them together? But she had allowed Janina to crush her; to throw bitter doubt on him. He had gone from her, but no sooner had the echoes ofhis steps vanished than her hope rose mightily, insisting. “He’ll come back!” Now at a mocking sentence from Janina she had accepted his faithlessness: had seen him rushing off; to gaiety and Ila Moore. ... read It coldly. But even In W.. J this arrogant return of confidence kept creeping a little restless fear. Why should she write this? Janina rarely lied. If she had met Tufts and he had said this— It began again, stealing over her in these sickening, remorseless waves. He was gene. She had sent him. When she said to herself. "Gone.” it was as though a hand pulled her under black, struggling waters, held here there. She fought back as one against drowning. She struggled against these doubts. And suddenly a plan shaped itself. She turned and walked swiftly to thi station. With action, an orld strength came to her. The thing she was to do now seemed clear, inevitable. Hope whispered: “Yes! Os course! He expects this! He’s waiting for it.” She wouid ring him up; tell him quietly, “Don’t go, Barry. You don't need to. Come here." In a flame she went Into the station, put in her call—waited. Now her heart knocked with fear; now it warmed with hope. She held herself blank and trembling, putting down this burning suspense. The bell jangled. She sprang to her feet, took the hook down slowly. To the girl’s impatient "Well—hello—hello,” she answered, shaking“Mr. Dunne, please?” Her thought collapsed at the crisp rejoinder. “Gone for the day!” Only a whisper came to her throat. The silence appalled her. She managed faintly: “Wait—wait a moment.” "Yes—well— ’’ “Will he be here tomorrow?” “Just a moment.” Now the girl had covered the mouthpiece, but her loud “Nell, Is Dunne coming hack? Has he left yet? Dame wants to know,” came roughly against Chickle’s ears. The girl said: "Call again at four, will you? I'm > t Just sure when he is to leave?’’ Chlckie said blindly; "You mean for the west?” An abrupt; “Yes. Mr. Tuf.s will be In at four. He can tell yr u.” As she came into the -oom thai wan hers on the table was a book

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he had given her. She turned from it sharply. She into the closet and hid her face In the green dress that he loved her to wear. He had said to her: “Ah—so beautiful she is!” Gone now—she had sent him. It seemed to her then that she would give up her life and gladly to hear that again. That night she sat on the porch, huddled down in her big coat. She felt that she was dying. She hoped that she was. Cold—stars, hut no moon—silence. Then an automobile honked. She listened till the sound died. She stared Into the shadows. One of them moved along the path She watched it. She got up curiously and moved to the rail of the porch. The shadow came toward her. Overcome with fear, she cried out. She saw a face emerging. She said: “Barry!” He reached up and caught her in his arms. (Copyright. King Feature Syndicate) (To Be Continued)

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