Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 10, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 May 1925 — Page 28

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CHICKIE

Chlckie (Helena), only daughter of Jonathan and Jennie Jlryee, loves Barry Dunne, a young: lawyer with Tufts & Lennon. Wealthy Jake Munson, friend of Janina Knowles and Amy Heaton, sends Chlckie a costly pin with a love note, and arranges so her father does not lose cn his oil investment. Jake tells Chickie he considers Barry’s feeling only a boy’s love, and that he will he waiting- when Barry has jilted her. Chickie fears the fate that befell Stella Wilson because of her lengthy engagement, and at Bess Abbott’s wedding subtly tries to urge Barry to think of their marriage as a present possibility, even though ho believes he cannot afford it. He is hopeful when Xla Moore’s father expects to engage thim to represent locally the Gulf Steamship Company of San Francisco, and wires for him. In Barry's absence, Mary’s brother, Jimmie Blake, renews his attentions and Chickie shudders at his faith in her. Barry returns with the deal unsett'ed. He tells Chlckie he must work Saturday night, but she thinks he is with Ila and he finds Chickie spying on him. On the way home they ouarrel. GO ON WITH TOE STORY By Ellnore Meherin She hunched down, covering her face with her hands: “You’re cruel! Oh, so—l did it! Yes! I don’t know why. I was wild. Everything. Frightened. Oh, now you’re hating me—you look so. I wouldn’t do this to you. No matter what you did! No—Let me go. You can’t stop me. Ho —hold me here! How long?” She grew shrill, incoherent. And suddenly turned her head against the seat, terrible little moans rushed to her lips. He put his arm about her: "Well —this won’t do any good. No use now. Don’t cry about it! Why well, it doesn’t matter. I don’t care. I never thought you’d do a thing like that —why should you? I’ve tried to be square, haven’t I?” * • * B*" ARRY’S words drummed down to Chickie across a century i_J of pain. “I don't know how you could! I've never lied to you. But you’d come sneaking down there —’ “Oh don’t— ’ “Well —you did, anyway. Tufts saw it It’s shameful —” She put his arm from her. And now a calm that was heavier and more unsupportable than frenzy came like a weight. It was a still thing, yet it throbbed and had voices. She listened to it and to him. “I can’t stand this —that’s all. We can’t get by with it.” And each time that he recalled her coming, he seemed the more aghast—the more infuriated: “What right had you? Lord—it’s sordid! I’d never dreamed you’d stoop to this—” She gave a little broken cry: “No! And did I? Oh—you think I dreamed that I could ever be brought to this? Oh—do you? A year ago?—Even months ago—Do you? I wonder if you think that?” He drew in his mouth, sinking his teeth against it. She went on: "No! Now you say I stoop to things. Oh, yes! And you hate me—” He slumped down heavily, pounding the steering wheel with his fist. "Yes—you’re right. It’s my fault—all of it—Lord!” And after a long while: “Well—it’s done now—” Each sentence builded between them a wall—a cold, insensate thing. She felt driven into a void —an empty desolation. “Take me home—don’t say any more. I see—well—” He kept pounding his fist, like a dir-;e. “I don’t see what to do.” She repeated helplessly: “Never mind —oh, let us go anywhere.” They were at the door. She held her head down, looking at her hands, that she could see but faintly in the dark. She said, pitifully. “You have no love now? None? He didn’t answer. She touched his arm, ran her fingers down it. “It seems strange, Barry. T never thought—you seem so far away—well—” He took her hand a moment. Then he pressed it. He repeated again and again. "Oh, well.” And suddenly he grabbed the key from her hand. He said: "Go In. Tomorrow will be time—tomorrow we can talk.” She smiled. Tears poured down her cheeks. She laughed. “No, we won’t—l know. Will you kiss me? —do.”

CHAPTER LXXIV. Silence. r—n ER room was gray, bleak. HShe walked Into it uncertainly—sat on the bed. And she was trembling. The veins along her throat and up ibout her ears ran with fire. Their heat whirled through her. A long while sat motionless in this faint, overpowering weakness. Suddenly his voice, like an angry presence, struck across the room: "I can’t it! That’s all—we can’t get by!” She sprang to her feet, holding to the bedpost. And as she stood, there rushed against her with a blasting starkness the things he had said. More terrible now; more final—open hands beating her down.

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Oh, shameful! Oh, stooped to this! Incredible! Two hours ago she had pulled on her hat. Two hours ago this had not happened. Oh, if It could be two hours ago once more! She crept to the window, raised it softly, knelt there, her head buried in her arms. And burned on her eyes was the image of his face, leaden white, accusing—yes—scorning, hating. Ended! He would never forgive this. It crushed her; obliterated pride. She was an abject thing stealing through a corridor, loitering at a door, cowering against the wall. She saw herself so—only so. And now, If he had come to the door and called her, if he had reached down and touched her hand, she wouldn’t have stirred—wouldn’t have met his eyes. No—go away—let him never see her again. This feeling remained. And through the night each time his image passed her thought recoiled in shame. She dreaded going down to the offlc?—• dreaded the nearness of hi ■ window. That next day it seeme 1 to her that everything drifted in a gray mist and she herself was cold, utterly chilled, because the mist had got into her veins and was killing her. She didn’t look for him. Five o’clock that afternoon she went hurrying down Washington St., and though it was a bright, vital day, with sun and a merry breeze all about the buildings, she sped onward, feeling herself driven, voices' at her ears, i She hated to go home—into the kitchen—talk with Jennnie—meet Jonathan’s chuckle. She wished to walk until she was lost in a desolation that had no end. Her thought already dwelt there. She kept walking. Suddenly, In her Imagination, he overtook her, touched her hand, murmuring breathlessly: “Chickie, what of it? I don’t care now. Wasn’t so worse!” She hurried, half running. If only he might do a thing like that. _

* * AYS of this. She had no heart to look from her window, no courage even to raise her eyes. Once she saw his shadow. The blood swept with such wild beat to her face that she caught her desk, steadying herself. Janlnta, sitting opposite, saw this. She dropped a note: “Why the panic, baby? Why have we no more balcony scenes, sweet Juliet? Ldtttle lovers’ quarrel, I take it. Cheer up! Kissing and making up is awfully cozy, doncher know?” Chickie crumpled the note, and a moment later, fearful because of the hot stinging in her eyes, she went to the dressing rom. She sat on the window ledge. Then Janina was at her side, slipping a friendly arm about' Chickie’s waist. “Didn’t mean that, old dear. Not sore, are you?” Chickie shook her head. "Something serious? Not broken off, Is it?” She tried to make some flippant remark. The most she could accomplish was a snap of her fingers and a pathetic: "Well—so it goes, Janina!’ "Oh, rubbish! You had a s.crap, I suppose, and neither of you is big enough to come around and say: ‘My fault, old thing—forget it!’ That’s the way with a woman always. Not big enough to bend! Why can’t you hop to It and take the blame for once?’ Chickie laughed: "Thanks, Janina! You’re such a fountain of wisdom.” "And all culled from experience, my dear —so it’s good. Take it! It behooves woman to be independent. Independent enough to be wrong once in a while and get away with it. As for me, I accost the world thusly: "Os course I sin! What about it?’ Put a brazen face on it, ole dear, and the world slinks off like a pup with its foolish tail of prejudices stuck botwen its legs. Try it!” Oddly enough this chatter of Janlna’s brightened her; broke the tension of her emotions. And now, going back to her work, she could look to that night of withering excitement without a fainting rush of shame. She said to herself in surprise: "Was it such a sordid thing to do? Oh—that I should never lift my head again?” Her mind quailed: “Yes—into that corridor” But love —couldn’t love overlook that? Would love keep only that

She repents her hasty action in spying on Barry.

memory of her and banish all the sweeter, happier ones? She kept thinking of this—one memory brought another, like children running through a bright field snapping flowers. Rides they had taken about the city; pointing out a golden star, shinier than others; tracing a ripple of copper in a sky of Jade. Merry things he had done —bringing her the ugly black water-dogs, because they might delight her yapricious fancy, then kneeling on the floor, grinning as he unwrapped them. Why—only that night such a little while ago, dropping the nugget in her glove— Moments of piercing tenderness when he took her face in his hands— Could all this be wiped out so readily? All this forgotten? She could as well take the pulse from her heart, and ask it yet to beat. Then could he dismiss it so? Not a pang? Not a backward look? Oh —he must be thinking, too. He must be seeing images— Now he came so close she could almojt hear his breath, feel Ills hand: Now she looked over to his window and whispered: "Oh —come— why don’t you?” • • • mHAT night she wrote to him. She could take the blame. It was all hers. And couldn’t he forget? Couldn’t he let it pass? “After all that was so beautiful would you have it end like this. Barry? And will you think of me always doing a mean and shameful thing? That is hard. If I could blot that out —won't you let me? Won’t you remember other things? So many of them. And they were glad, weren’t they? “Perhaps you know what these days have been. Perhaps you gue3s now all those tbt igs you said keep coming back and I can hear them always. "I hear them and they shout so loud that all the laughter and all the songs we knew are silenced. If you would only come—if you would Just do that—Will you?” She ran down the block and slid the letter in the mail box, staring through the opening after it. In the morning he would get it. What would he think? Would he tear it up angry—fling it in the waste basket? Would he look over to Tufts and remember that Tufts had seen and might be guessing? Or would he seize it gladly? Would it make his veins glow? And he would come rushing at noon time to meet her? Yes —would he? In her excitement she hurried. Then she saw the door of the Blakes’ house opening; saw Jimmy’s tall figure swinging down the steps. She turned and ran feverishly around the corner. Jimmy passed but he didn’t see her. He had his hands dug in his pockets. He looked big and full of power. She watched until he was out of sight. A sudden loneliness enveloped her—a sudden realization that she was, indeed, alone. That Jimmy

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and Mary were no longer in her life. They couldn't be. She had put them out—everyone. Except him. Except Barry. Pushed the whole world aside that sh* might have him. Now he was going—gone perhaps. And there was no one else—no other thing. Her life was wholly his. She grew frightened, seeing herself thus Isolated. She struck the fear from her mind. No—wait—tomorrow— By noon she was in a kind of panic, reluctant to leave the office — reluctant to brook the disappointment that might be hers. She waited till Janina was gone. Then she went swiftly through the alley to the restaurant where they usually met. With a shivering uncertainty she took their table. She said to the waitress with a bright smile: "I’ll wait a while.” So the waitress set places for two. (Copyrlpht Kins- Feature Syndicate! (To Be Continued) Restore Noted Buddha TOKIO, May i. —Prominent citizens of Japan nave raised a fund of $75,000 to restore the huge statue of Budha in Uyeno Park, which was decapitated during the 1923 earthquake. Sot let on “Bat Path” TOKIO, May H.—Soviet Russia has purchased large quantities of rat poison in Japan, and soon will start an extensive pest-killing campaign.

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