Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 14, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 May 1925 — Page 16

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CHICKIE

Chickie (Helena), only daughter of Jonathan and Jennie Bryce, loves Barry Dunne, a young lawyer with Tufts * Lennon. Wealthy Jake Munson, friend of Janina Knowles and Amy Beaton, Bends 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 Abbott's 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. 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 unsettled. Ila invites Barry to tour the world with her party and they Quarrel when Chickie accuses him of loving Ha. When Chickie receives Barry's letter suggesting that they break their friendship, she phones for him. GO ON WITH THE STORY

By Elinor* Meherin CHAPTER LiXXVIII. , Ebb of Hope HE let him go. She moved into her room --as one mystttied in a dream of terror. Her lips repeated vaguely: “Going away—leaving.” And she began to pick up the clothes scattered on chairs; hanging them carefully in the closet. Numbness entered with frozen quiet on her thought. After this she sat on her bed her hands folded. Presently tears went slowly trickling to the corners of her mouth. She wiped them off, saying to herself in surprise: “Why am I sitting here? Crying?” and then more quietly: “It won’t do any good to cry. Don’t cry about It.” She turned out the light, lay staring Into the dark—aware that just below th'e surface of this icy calm was a wild thing of anguish, waiting. It would leap up and throttle her. She held it down. She was afraid of it. She kept her hands clasped on her heart. She closed her eyes, pretending to sleep. But suddenly she was sitting upright, moist, shaking, saying aloud: “God—O my God” Half tumbling from the bed, she ran into the hall —then cautiously to the front door—opened it, peered up and down the block. It was empty—silent. The air came chill on her bare shoulders. She stood leaning against the door, staring into the street. Its bleakness fastened on he- mind. She was alone now. He was gone. Face, with the vital eyes alight; hands closing on her—snatched away In the darkness. The moment of parting returned to her. His lips so cold, touching hers; his voice shaking: “Better so. Isn’t it better this way, Chickie?” The two of them talking to each other like tha.t! The two that so loved, so bound their hearts with all these thousand tender bonds— She shivered. She pressed her face against the door. The stark finality of the thing that had happened overwhelmed her. It let loose memories in a storm. These beat her. She crept back to the bed, huddling in the blankets, trying to get warm. The gray waste she had seen in the dream opened and claimed her. Its desolate waters came running to her feet. She watched them in a baffled, ■'ncredulous terror, looking this way and that. Oh, surely they would not rise; they would not rise; they would not mantle her. A hand would reach out and grab her back— Even yet, she hoped. Especially, after she had fought off the shock of awakening after she had stepped into the singing May sun on her way to work next morning. Barry telling her it was over; coming to give her that chill kiss of parting—a lifelong parting. This would not be the tragic finish of their love. * • • IARRY had not told her where r\ he was going or when. She ■ i had a childish expectance that he would. There would be some link between them still. But as the day wore on he didn’t phone; no shadow passed his window. She grew alarmed. She began to vision him closing his desk, stuffing papers into a valise, grabbing up his hat. A moment more and it would be too late. She picked up the phone, gave his number. The stenographer answered: “Mr. Dunne isn't in. . . . No. we don’t expect him back—l believe he left for the ‘Vest today.... No, we haven't his n ailing address as yet. Heave your number and I’ll let you know.” Chickie answered fa'ntly: "I’ll call again.” A sudden fury that was cold and yet swept up like a flame seized her—the first fury she had felt against him. He should treat her like this—take the matter into his own hands, push her aside. She went into the dressing room and stood at the window.

Puzzle a Day

A hat was sold at the end of the season for $5. Its price at the beginning of the season was five times as much, less one-tenth of the sale prices. If purchased at its first marked price, the milliner would have made five times as much as she actually lost on the transaction. What did the hat cost her? Last puzzle answer:

'A pint measure ' £ PINT

The farmer filled the three pint measure with cider. He poured its •enter.cs into the five pint pan. Then he refilled the three pint measure and poured two pii\ts into the .ive pint pan. As the plan already had three ;'!nts it would 'bold ieaving onk i . ..,<-:isllsi

Then she went back to her typewriter and phoned the boarding house. They knew nothing there; the proprietor was out. She’d be in at four, most likely. But she believed Mr. Dunne had given up his room. It was for rent now. Her mind emptied of Its straining hppe. Janina, seeing her with a fixed, white stare on her face, paused: “Time to go, baby. Shall I get your hat?” Janina did this, brought It to her. “Don’t mind, ole thing, if I stroll along with you, do you? Got something to tell you. We’ll drop In around the corner and have a cup of tea. How’s that?” Immediately Chickie’sl face and her heart burned. Janina had something to say Perhaps?—So she went with her to hear. "Well, old lady, not going to break your heart over that, are you?” "Over what, Janina dear?” “Have sense, Chickie. Can’t blame the boy for grabbing a chance like that, can you?” “He isn’t going on the tour, Janina." “You don’t say! Then why the Weeps all day ? Why the whispered phoning?” She would have liked to bluff. It •ook all her control to keep her hands still, her eyes lowered—smarting with a wild pain. “Well—his mother Is 111. He's going to her.” Janina smiled. She said, quietly: “You shouldn’t be so grieved over the health of the lad's mother.” “Oh, I’m not! He may be gone a long while.” Very softly: “And you’re afraid be isn’t coming back, Chickie?” The cup In Chickie’s hand shook find the tea spattered on the table. She laughed at that became absorbed, mopping it up. She wished to jump up, shout at Janina; run from the place. “Well, this Is what I’ve got to say .old thing: Don’t worry about him. It’s the quickest way on earth to lose him. Worry digs the grave for love deeper and swifter than cruelty or sin. If he’s gone for good, ole dear, then he is! There’s nothing on earth will drag him back. And tfears make a sea that love won’t sail, i know.” Chickie smiled: “Why all the wisdom today, Janina?” “I’ve had my eyes opened lately, Chickie. No use to tell you you were making a fool of yourself, then; but there Is now. Oh, by the way did you know that Ila‘s party starts tomorrow? They go to New York where one of Moore’s boats will pick them up. Chickie said: “No—l didn’t know that” The knowledge sickened her. He was going with them, of course. Clear enough to see it all now. He loved Ila Moore—brilliant and a poet. Ha Moore loved him. * * • HE remembered the radiant flush on Ila’s face that evening so long ago when Barry and she had met after an absence of some three years. Remembered Ila awake when she returned from the pool so late that night. Ila wished to talk of him; wished to know if Chickie was a very old friend of his. But that was the night of glory —the night when the darkness closed about them like an Immense black flower, made them one with the holy beauty of the scene; the night he said for the first time, “I love you, Chickie—tell me, oh, I have to know —you love me—say it!” And so she had not talked of him to Ila— too sacred that.

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y She tries to find out where Barry Dunne has gone.

Now into her pain came a dismal misery. Lied to her —cheapened her like that—going away with them after all his hot denials. She said to Janina: "No—l didn't know that ” “Leaves at noon tomorrow. Wish the sweetest poet had made me a guest—l'd dance to her tune!” All evening Chickie kept saying to herself: “He Wouldn’t do that — wouldn’t He about It. He’s not going—” The next morning she asked Lewis if she might leave at 11 o'clock. She had urgent business. She went to the Union Station where a crowd waited in little groups. Chickie edged close to one of these groups. Suddenly she heard a soft happy laugh. Ila Moore, in a blue tailored suit, blue hat, brushed ®o close she could have touched her nand. Basil Arthur, another girl, another man, then Ila’s mother. But Barry wasn’t these. CHAPTER LXXIX Barry’s Letter, Wj—HIS may Interest you, ole I dear.” Janina, watching L* ,JChickie narrowly, handed a newspaper clipping across the table. They were at lunch. It was the day after the steamer sailed, and the iterq gave the guests in Ila Moore’s party. Barry’s name was not included. Chickie read it twice, aware of Janina’s shrewd scrutiny. "Makes it nice that she can give her playmates such an outing, doesn’t it? Fancy the eclat of saying to your steady: ‘Hit the deck, old kid—off we go to the Riviera! Leave your wallet in your overalls. Dad has the sack!' Gold touch like that makes a nice foil of one's charms, doesn’t It?” "Do you think men consider that, Janina? I mean does a man care about a girl’s wealth or the house she lives In?” “Ask yourself, baby! Is a rose growing in a mire as fair as one blooming among lilies? Women or diamonds—makes no difference — —must have the right setting to bring out their fires and deepen their lures.” “A man wouldn’t love a girl more for those things? You think he would be attracted by them?” “He would—and deny It! Just a case of being tricked by his imagination. How Is he to know where the girl herself begins and her setting ends? No way! So he endows her with the beauty of her clothes: the fragrance of her favorite perfume; the brilliance of her associates. Stars make the 'sky darker; sky makes the star brighter! Pity the light, that must shine in a smudgy coal oil lamp! No chance —poor thing ” Chickie laughed—“ Not exactly fair In life, is it, Janina?” “Life doesn’t need to be fair. Too many pawns to play with.” Janina's lips curled with contemptuous humor. “Speaking of even chances, did you hear about Marjorie Abbott? You didn’t! Well, the child got herself engaged once too often and she had to make a marriage of It.” "Not to that limp, sallow Teddy Parks?” ' “The same.” “Why did they let her?” “Use your bean, my dear. Those who make love for fun sometimes find love taking them with consequence—with one of your great and holy purposes, as it were.” Chickie looked at her aghast.

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“She’s only 17, Janina." “It seems her age wasn’t asked. Well, only half a hundred of the intimates of the family will ever know of it. In a year or two they'll dismiss it from their thoughts. Mrs. Theodore Parks will be listed among the bon tons wherever and whenever she wishes. But tb icy If this happened to Peggy, the .cobbler's daughter, or to Flossie, thq belle of the factory! If love caught up with them In this nice, friendly way they’d have a -fat chance of catching up with a husband, wouldn’t they?” Chickie said blankly: "Isn’t that awful—lsn’t that a shame? Now her whole life is spoiled.” “Spoiled? My dear simpldton, how do you figure that?” Chickie trembled. “She didn’t love him —it's awful.”. (To Be Continued) (Copyright King Feature Syndicate)

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