Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 6, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 May 1925 — Page 12

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CHIGKIE

Chickia (Helena), only daughter of Jonathan and Jennie Bryco, loves Barry Dunne, a young lawyer with Tufts & Lennon. Wealthy Jake Munson, friend of Janina Knowles and Amy Heaton, sends Chickie a costly pin with a love note, and arranges so her father does not lose on his oil investment. Jake tells Chickie he considers Barry’s feeling only a boy's love, and that he will be waiting when Barry has jilted her. Chickie fears the fate that befell Stella Wilson because of her lengthy engagement, and at Bess Abbotfs wedding subtly tries to urge Barry to think of their marriage as a present possibility, even though he believes he cannot afford it. He is hopeful when Ila Moore’s father expects to engage him to represent locally the Gulf Steamship Company of San Francisco and wires for him. Chickie knows Ha loves Barry and the thought of her seeing him again chills Chickie with fear. In Barry * absence Mary’s brother. Jimmie Blake, renews his attentions. She shudders at his faith in her. Barry returns with the deal unsettled and Chickie s look of eil#nt accusation worries him. She fears her mother has learned her secret, and wonders what Mary would think it if she knew. GO ON WITH THE STOUT

By Elinors Mehexln fiSpPiHIS thought often B*zed her. I If she were to tell, vould she -i -i L-e left without a Mend in (he world? And all these that loved her—Jennie, Jonathan, Jimmy—even Mary would freeze her from their hearts? She asked Mary almost this very tiling the next evening. Barry happened to be working. So she and A v ar/ went to a movie. It was . Chickie’.s only chance to see her favorite etars, because he hated j.ijvies and always fell asleep when she did prevail on him to go. The play had as its central character a girl deserted by her lover. Watching a thing like this brought r, faintness over her; thinking of it afterwards worked her to a fenzy. She sat forward, taut, feverish. When the girl pleads with the man, clinging to him and he puts her coldly away, Chickie began to cry. Mary leaned toward her; "Only a picture ole thing—save the weeps!” Chickie laughed, but she wished Mary had not seen her tears over the plight of the heroine on the icreen. When they pushed out with the crowd into the garish lights of the vestibule, the jostling, the noisy talk and laughter of the people about her sounded strupid and - boisterous, She took Mary's arm. "Let’s hurry.” Mary tittered: "Heavens, Chickie, you’re sentimental!” “Well—l suppose so. It gets my goat In these pictures that the man is always the one who grows tired.” Mary shrugged. "Oh, pictures or life, Chickie, men are foot-loose, you know.” "But why should a man cease to care any more than a girl?” Maf*y considered this a long time. "Well, I, believe that women also get tired, but they’re afraid to let go for fear they’ll go down and down. They look on the man as a kind of life-saver, a protection. The man knows he has nothing to lose by getting tired: but the woman has, nr she thinks she hast It’s the same thing.” "You're talking old-fashioned, Mary. In this day and age a girl doesn’t think anything of the kind. She knows it’s no worse for her to do things than it is for a man.” Mary sniffed. “Oh, kid yourself! We’re the same dumb beasts today iha. we always were. And there won’t be any escape till they turn us out by anew pattern. That doesn’t seem very near. If there’s tny paying to be done, it's still little Eve that does it. Married or single, the woman’s the goat.” “Well—but when you come right down to it, Mary, what’s so wrong about it that she should have to pay? I mean, what’s wrong about a love like that in the play? Isn't It silly to call one emotion holy just because a few words are said over it; and the same emotion a crime because these words aren’t said?” She felt Mary’s arm tremble: fear raced through her. What was the matter with her? Crazy—Mary would guess. Mary said: "It’s a great deal more than just the saying of a few words, Chickie. It’s the whole intention to accept responsibility. And even If you say that kind of love isn’t wrong—well, it’s stupid. Why should a girl take a char.ee when the odds are all against her? If she has any bean at all, she doesn’t need to.” Chickie cried out impatiently: "Mary, don't be so smug! As though love stops to figure like that. You know it doesn't. But, anyway, the odds don’t; seem to be against the girls today. They get away with them prettty cleverly. And if they wish to marry, they do! The men don’t teem to mind.” “Bunk, Chickie! We don’t hear all of the cases. It’s my opinion that man hasn’t changed much in the last century. Let him have the gains without the pains, and you won’t find him two-timing to Lohengrin!” Chickie felt that a flame whipped up and hit her in the face. But she laughed: “Not-much of a recom-

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mendation the dear men, and you •such-a beloved wife, Mary!” She hurried down the street. Dizziness.....whirled about her. Rounding the corner she leaned against a garden rail, wiped her face. It seemed to her that her ideas were falling about her like blocks that a child has unsteadily builded into a tower. She said to herself: “Mary doesn’t know! What does she kow?”, But she went in,to the kitchen. When Wildie, yawning and slow, crouched at her feet, she pulled him up, his head on her shoulder. She whispered. "Hush, Wildle!” When he licked her face he seemed to know the tears, or she fancied that he did, because of the eager devotion in his eyes. It made her cry. All the next day she was depressed. She identified herself with the girl in the play. She'' imagined Barry, the hero, looking at her coldly, putting her off when she clung to him. The sense of desertion laid hold of her. By 6 o’clock she was excited .. a still, deadly excitement. It drove her; made her half-wild. When he met her she turned this on him. And in a moment the thing was beyond her control. CHAPTER LXV7II. The Clash SHERE was the buoyant lilt about him that delighted her so when he danced. Now he came swinging lightly, aa though there were no problems in the world, lie said, breezily: ’’Listen, frail—have a bite downtown with your lover. That’ll give us an hour, anyway.” “You have to work tonight?” "Yes—” She followed .without glancing at him. Her breath quickened. They took a booth in a small restaurant. And he launched impetuously into a dozen themes. He recounted whimsical scraps of information he had gathered in an old law book—laws about witches; dogs brought to (rial— She listened, the resentment in her growing. He didn’t even notice her melanc. oly; didn’t seem to perceive that l.tr heart was bursting. But finally, leaning over and touching her hand, he laughed. "Well, frail, appreciative, aren’t you? Five dollars’ worth of entertainment and not a smile. Why so mute?” "Nothing—nothing much—” "Worked hard today, didn’t you? Not even a moment to steal a glance alleyways, did you?” She kept her head lowered, stirred her coffee. “Oh, I didn’t know—” Then he was aware and half guessed what was coming. He waited, the merriment in his face flattening to a moody resignation. Finally: "Oh, what’s the use Chickie? Why are you feeling so low? Isn’t everything going all right?” "Is It?” A little, high-pitched laugh: "Is it going at ail?” He was puzzled: “Why get ex cited about It, now, Chickie? Well—wo knew all along there’d be a good wait—” "But months and months—nothing changed—!’ “We’re happy, aren’t we? We’re living. Listen, Chickie, why create troubles? I don’t see that we have any particular kick—” "You don’t—no?” Her lips moved. When she could control them she said brokenly: "It may go on like this for years—we may grow tired and then we never will be married!” He regarded her with leisurely astonishment. This maddened her. He said calmly, shrugging: "Well, if that’s to hoppend and we’re going to get bored with each other, I’d say it was a whole lot better if we aren’t married—” She half rose. She pressed her hands on the table: "Oh —you feel like that—do you?” “What’s the matter with you, any 4 way, Chickie? What’s happened? Why bring this up? I thought we were happy as larks. You were!” "You think so? You want it like this? You meant it to be like this?” She rushed on tight, shrill with excitment.' "Oh, you don’t care—you’re satisfied! You have the gains—” Suddenly his eyes blazed with hurt; with a mounting fury. He caught her hands: “Chickie, stop! That’s enough—” She shook him off: “All right, it is!” She grabbed up her purse and half blinded with tears, went rushing to the door. • * * SHE cool air touched her with forlorn shock. She hurried down the street, but her ears strained wildly, listening for steps that followed. At the comer she stepped behind a building. She looked back, clenching her hands. Oh, in a foment he would come; grab her arm, laugh at her.

Puzzle a Day

Brown and Willis Baking Cos. dissolved partnership, as Willis wished to do trucking. Brown asked Willis to loan him $1,600 so that he would have twice as much money as his former partner and would be better able to run their' old shop. But Willis refused to do this, but asked Brown to loan him $1,600 so that he and Brown could start their new enterprises with the same amount of money. How much money did each one have at the time of the discussion?

Last puzzle answer:

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Are established conventions wrong? Mary thinks not:

Now she was a little cool and wanted this. The door swhng open. She pretended to walk on "swiftly. She looked back. No one was coming. And she reached the street car; let three pass, then five. v Weights of Iron seemed hung from her shoulders, bearing her down. She said to herself miserably, “Not coming—ah!” At last she got on the car, squeezing herself in the corner. She didn’t think. His eyes, blazing with fury, followed His hand, suddenly seizing her wrists, was there like a burn. erable, with a chill, fluttering disquiet. She tried to go back over the Scene; she could only remember its shrill Incoherence. And now it seeftied unreal. Incredible. Why had she done this? The happiness of the past weeks flashed like sun in her face—the nights they had watched the water, her head-on his shoulder; the long Sundays on the hilltop. She was half moved to get off the car, dash back. Then she began to expect that he was following her. He would be at the house when she arrived. He would say, impulsively, "Chickie, listen—we don’t want this” But he wasn’t there. He had gone back to the office. And now. perhaps, he was standing moodily at \s\q window, thinking of her. Oh, he would be sorry. He would pick, up the telephone— She saw him doing these things. She wandered aimlessly about her room, stopping at the bed. at the bureau —waiting. The phone didn’t ring. The night became insupportable. She felt as though she were being, flung now this way, now that. One moment her mind seethed with indignation; the next it was chilled and humble. When she lay in bed, going over U endlessly, fighting it off, then wooing it back, she suddenly saw his face alive with merriment as he had come swingingYoward her. She saw it like this, then flattening In that annoyed resignation. Mary—what did she know —lot she knew! Mary had plunged her into this — • f ♦ f p | HE went Into the office the lUI next morning in a hard. | ' I steely quiet. She glanced to his window —saw a shadow. She felt her breath, hot. bursting. At noon, typing relentlessly, she was nevertheless waiting for his fbrm to come to the window —a boyish grin to light his mouth, full cut, sweet. The noon hour soon passed. Janina said: "Suppose we chow, together, baby? Yop don’t seem engaged.” Janina "was talkative. A young girl both of them knew was suing for divorce. The papers were full of it as they had been of the marriage a year previous. This furnished Janina with a theme. "Thts comes.” she pronounced with her infallible air, "of allowing youngsters to sign away their lives. As I’ve always held, no man under 30, no girl under twenty-five should be allowed to contract a permanent marriage.” . “Ho—Janina! Permanent anything! They don’t!” “But there’s all this bother about divorce; ail this unnecessary publicity. Does no good to any one. In my plan there would be trial contracts for the younger set. When the ties were found intolerable to either party, as of course they're bound to be sooner or later, they could be set aside. Why not? Since first loves never last, and yet they will have their sway ’• Faintly: “Why shouldn’t they last, Janina?” "No foundation, ole dear. Noththlng but the grand animal urge that sweeps everything out of its way. When it’s appeased, nothing left to hold the pair together.” "Lots of first loves last! How can you know that it’s only a kind of attraction?” • "By its folly, baby! By its blindness. By the insanity of Its thrill. Typical case in your own mitts, ole dear. Otherwise you’d grab off the man who could give you happiness plus, and you wouldn't be languishing for the grand and glorious Galahad of the empty pockets!” Chickie shut her eyes, smiling vaguely. She managed to say: “That wise you are, Janina! But watch.” "I am ” Janina's words condemned him. Listening to them, Chickie wanted to steal away; never to look at that window again. There was no gladness left on earth. All afternoon she worked In this bleakness. At 6 o’clock she said to herself coldly: "No—l’ll not go down there. Let him phone! He might know I didn't mean all that” Yet her steps took her to the alley. , She waited. Girls passed. She pretended to walk back to the office. She glanced upward to his building. Cruelly it came to her that he wasn’t coming. She was alone in the narrow street. Another day passed. The third she was beside herself. She wrote a note, tore It up. She

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went into a telephone booth after lunch. And went out again without calling him. She said to herself faintly: "It’s over." It was. a doom. CHAPTER LXIX Amends. Af“ "U LL afternoon she sat with her profile to his window. From J the shadow he would see her. He would know that her heart was breaking. And In his quick, impetuous way he would brush aside this absurd quarrel. He would grab up his phone and call to her, “Hey, there, frail, why so sad? Smile won’t you!” Chickie kept hoping Barry would telephone, but he didn’t, though she hoped for this with a hope that became anguish. Five o’clock—another day gone. As she put on her hat she turned from the sight, of her own face. Its prettiness hurt her. Walking down the street she kept taking long breaths to hold the tears from her eyes. Now the feeling of expectance that had nerved her for three days was gone. to herself: “He won't come. He doesn’t care. He’s glad. He must be—taken an excuse like this. Oh, he wanted to be done with it all!” She dropped these thoughts cruelly, like hot stones, into hei* heart. It grew so heavy she felt she could no longer endure its weight. She had reached the breaking point, and she knew it. Too incredible' to have it end like this. She saw herself rushing to him, twining her fingers in his hand, matting him speak to her —making him turn. This vision of herself pleading made her wince—it was pitiful. She denied it—no, she would never do this. Cry her eyes out first. Three days and he let them pace—let her go out of that ant. Oh, he was probably hard and confident about it—knew she would come begging to him. Her eyes were filled now'. She didn't care. Suddenly someone walked at her side; a hand on her elbow'. She stopped, overcome. He said: ’’Chickie!” Breathless like that. Then: “Chickie. want me here?” She gave him a swift glance, all tremuluos, not daring to meet his eyes. Though she could scarce speak for the tumult; though she wished to lean agalns/t him, laugh and laugh —for all this she walked on silent. Oh, he was the one who had come. He cared! Well—then he was the one who should kneel—(To Be Continued) (Copyright. Klnr Feature Syndicate)

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