Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 15, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 May 1925 — Page 24

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CHICKIE

Chickie (Helena). only daughter of Jonathan and Jennie Bryce, loves Barry Dunne, a young lawyer with Tuftr & Lennon. Wealthy Jake Munson, friend of Janina Knowles and Amy Heaton, sends Chickie a costly pin with a love note and arranges so her lather does not lost- 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, anil at Bess Abbott s wedding, subtly tries to urge B irry 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 Ttarry s absence. Mary's brother, Jimmie Blake. - renews his attentions and Chickie shudders at his faith in her. Barry returns with the deal unsettled. Tla invites Barry to tour the world with her party. When Chickie accuses him of loving Ila. a uuarrel follows. Barry leaves town without revealing his destination. The marriage of Mrs. Marjorie Parks is discussed by Janina and heartbroken Chickie. GO ON WITH THK STORY By Klinore Meherin mANINA shrugged. "Well, this comes to putting dynamite into the hands of infants. No frame for babies or amateurs. As I've said before, they can't get away' with It, because it grots away with them. Too had! Discredits the clever players.” Chickie turned impatiently, her heart sickened. "Clever players. Janina! Do you think all life Is a joke and a make-believe? Why should any one fool with love?” "I leave it to the pure and proud to a3k. If I were to answer, you wouldn't understand. And as a wise man remarks, it doesn’t do to tell the truth to those who do not wish to hear. . . . But I may say, in passing, that there are many who should not fool with freedom. It will make the fool of them." % “Who are your clever ones that get away with it, .Taninn?” "Clever, Indeed! They are the women, my dear, with a.callus where you have a conscience. Conscience is the terror of consequence; the clever do not fear what they eliminate.” "It is hideous, though, to look at life in this way, Janina. In the end what have you?” "Hell’s bells! If you’re going to get morbid about It! If you’re going to ask, ‘Whither thou goest, woman?' How do we know? But we’re on our way. Nice, new sea to travel. J/Ord knows, perhaps, if there be a shore ahead. I don’t! “So the pure and proud, as well as the young and stupid, had better keep to the old lands! Takes a crafty sailor and a hardy one to keep his boat afloat on these unchartered waters, let alone guiding it to port. "When others strike out, as witness our young flapper, Marjorie — you see what happens. Boat smashes up. Ducky for her, money throws out a lifeline. You and I and Peggy, the cobbler’s maid, In the same predicament, would sink sweetly and unlnmented to the seaweed forty fathoms deep!”. • • • S r— ~ UDDENLY moist, and disturbed, Chickie laughed uni... easily; and the next moment her cheeks' were blazing for Janina half read her thought. Janina said mockingly: "When one stays on the old shore she may come to a little grief but not to tragedy. And grief you know is but an emotion. It passes. Tragedy Is a fact; it must be borne. What do you hear from the lad, my dear?” "Only two days ago, .Tajiina, and he wasn’t going on an airplane.” “Will you be stepping out with us a hit, now?” "I may and then, again, I may not!” "You don’t think that he Is going to the Holden Gate and play the hermit, do you? You don’t expect it, if you have any sense. Well—in this day and age, if you want to be a match for a man, keep step with him. Or rather keep two etepis ahead of him. Much better for the woman to keep him on the run than to give him the on her. She’ll never overtake him, if she does. You mind me!” "Janina, do you think T’m to be forsaken?" Chickie laughed, and for the first time because of her great inward agitation, she appeared gay and untroubled. "Well—no! You’re not!” Chickie repeated carelessly; "No— Janina. I’m not! And I shan’t worry about keeping two steps ahead or two stepvs behind. Going is pleasant one way or another— ’’ Janina looked at her a long while in silence. She said: "I envy you, Chickie. I always have—” They got up. then. It was well they did, for Chickie’s eyes filled. She felt that in another moment she would seize Janina’s hands; she •Would say in a nervous frenzy—*,Don’t: Ho—envy me—You should fci^w —” /

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And she was more excited that afternoon than she had been before—more distracted. She said to herself: "Forty fathoms deep—ho!" And then—"l don’t know where he D. He’ll wire. He’ll surely tell me that—” She looked over to Janina and wondered with a bleak, withering chill—" You envy me—proud and pure—oh my, yes! But I haven’t the Callus—that's all. I’m not like you, Janina. I can’t look back and shrug—" She decided to call up his office again; inquire If his address had come— But one noon time she humped into Tufts on the street. She was unneryed and said sharply: "Oh— Mr. Tufts!" "Well—lie's fine—enjoying himself." “Too bad he cleared out like that —think he gave up a good chance here though it was slow, of course.” "His mother was ill —” "Yes—l know—he's gone to San Francisco, hasn't he?" "Why, yes— ’’ / "Well —brilliant fellow—but too Impulsive. Warn him against that. Miss Bryce—” She laughed—"l will!" So Tufts i In’t knbw where he was to go—Tufts couldn’t help her! Five days after their last meeting a letter came. It was from him. At first she didn’t realize Its import. Gradually the completeness of Its admission swung against her —like a heavy door slamming in her face. CHAPTER 1., XXX. Whar is Past C' HIOKIE tore the envelope with jagged swiftness. And ■ stood for a hot, storming moment, with the folded paper shaking in her hand. Here was her sentence. She dreaded it. It was clearly given. "There are some things I want to say again, Chickie, before the past, that was ours together slips completely from us. I want to say that T loved you and that your love was very dear to me. It will always be. No matter how our lives run from now on I can think of you only as something sweet and beautiful like a dream that has passed. “I would have held this dream always. I would have kept the love we knew—kept It as it was hi the beginning. I wanted it. I suffered torment when I saw it fading. I tried to hold it. And you tried. We failed. "But is this any reason we should look back now with anger and renounce the feelings that were stronger than ourselves? They were a part of life; they were inevitable. Because' of this it seems to me they were right. I think in your heart you, too, admit this. Doving as you did, you must acknowledge it . . . must believe we had a right to this year—every right on the earth. We couldn't deny it. "Now because it is over and leaves us with a sense of loss, we can easily regret; easily blame each other. We can look back over two roads and having taken one, wish that we had taken the other. Why should we? "The emotions we shared were an enrichment and not a cheating of life. They seem right and fine to me and all my thoughts of you are filled with tenderness. "Why don’t you think the same of me, Chickie? You know I didn’t hurt you and this year hasn’t hurt you. You say you gave me all you had, and you say this as though I took your happiness and gave nothing. This isn’t true. You know as well as I that to go on would be the real tragedy—go on when both of us have changed, you as much as I. “Is it fair, Chickie, that you blame me; that you make me out the one who robbed? You cared for me. You felt as I did. If you gave, I returned. All you gave I treasured. The love we knew was beautiful. Why should its passing make it unholy or a thing to bring us shame? "It shouldn’t, Chickie. We caji’t let it. This Is to dishonor ourselves and the hundred memories of that past. “These memories of you, Chickie, are all sweet to me. No matter what other experience may come to either it will not alter this for me. Chickie, dear, won’t you think of me in this way—please?” He offered her this—this calm, final as the moveless smile on the facO of the dead. He spoke of their love, all quiet like this; and of her as something sweet and beautiful but a dream that had passed. And she'folded the letter—folded her hands over it—sat without a murmur in the low chair at her window.

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Barry Dunne writes her a final letter of farewell.

Tears that were warm went up softly to her throat. She smiled, raised her chin up, sent them back. She thought, still smiling, "No use to cry. I won’t cry” * * HICK IE felt that her heart opened and its life drained w— from her. Soon it would be still. She would sit, unprotesting —wait for this—sink—oh, gladly—in the kind, enveloping silence. If this could be—if life were tender —so In the kitchen Jennie sang with a quavering pathos, "I Dreamt That I Dwelt in Marble Halls.” The song broke off. Now Jonathan moved heavily about the dining room, placing the chairs. She would have to go out to them in a few moments; have to laugh. Jonathan would say, “Chickie girl, lonesome?” Or he might he in a curious mood and ask questions?" "Did he lose much by his absence?" Well, turn her head away from Jonathan’s eyes, make fun of him. fight against that love of his that might hear her down; make her throw herself into his arms; make her say: "Oh. what has come" There was Jennie calling her. She knelt down before the bureau. She took the letter and hid it In the bridal set so fragrant with sachet; so gay with all thoße tiny French flowers and ribbon:. She touched the soft fabric,’dosing her eyes. * They were waiting for her—those two. If she could walk In between them, bury herself in their arms—he closed away from these things they did not know—be shut out from herself— Something like : that she must do. The past was gone. She would have to go back —take up anew life; 1 egin all over. She helped Jennie with the dishes. took up her song again. She did this—some times dwelling on the same strain at intervals during a whole day. Now she shook scouring powder on the drainhoard and scrubbed to the tune, her voice pausing on a high note with a pathos that would have made the happier Chickie roar with laughter, but that now made her tremble. Nights and nights like this—her whole life stretching out In a piercing melancholy. And she would be old, like Jennie. But she would not sing so—would not be going back to the yesterdays, tears in her oil voice, as Jer.nio did.

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She hung up the dish towel with an abrupt: "Jennie, darling, see you anon. I’ve business with Mary.” • • • 1 sHE walked up the hill, look- | C lng. Suddenly she remem--1 l>ered the night of her first dance—standing here in a dream, raising her face to Arthur’s, knowing that U was near to his, seeing his eyes, beautiful as he said. “Chickie. you're so sweet," and the kiss that fell like petals, staining red and sweet about her mouth. Now the tears rushed to her eyes. She hurried on. Don’t think—never think—dream that is beautiful — dream that is past. But now as she walked he came beside her, reached her hand, grinned down at her with a merry “Sad fray? Why, for—” Run from these image**—let them all be blotted out. She wns alone. But It was hard to let finality build this wall of cement between her and the thousand living memories that drew her—lured her with their cruel ties. Each time she said to herself. '"Ended. It doesn’t matter. Don't look back.” she found them pulling. Oh, she would get away from this empty dreariness—get back— In these days <she read his letter often, because it brought the Stillness to her heart; because it made her see that smile, moveless on the face of one dead. One night after\she read It she went In to Jennie; "Mother, darling—let you and I go out for a walk.” Jennie put down her mending. "To a movie, dear? Now I was just wishing—why. yes ” "Well, all right, then— a movie •” Jennie was all excited. Chickie helped her dress. She thought: “We’ll do this often —yes —years and years.” And sometimes it seemed that her life was more completely finished than her mother’s. Another evening as she came from work she met young Tommy Blake —husky little fellow now. about twelve. He had a baseball cap and swung a hat. Chickie said: "Tommy—like animals? IJke little pets?” He whistled —a brisk alertness In his pug nose: “Wlldie —say — want me to take him out?" "Not Wildle—but water dogs—like to hAve some?” Tommy cogitated: “Well humph. Can they do tricks? White mice can got some you don’t want? I might see them " She was unable to explain the sudden Impulse that moved her — the suspense while Tommy stared at the tall aquarium. Then he asked patronizingly, hut with his eyes eager. “Olmnite the ease too?’’ "The whole thing—”

Inside Like Outdoors Eveythlng is arranged for the convenience of our students. Not only do we aim. to keep our quarters eomfortably heated In winter, but thev are so planned as to make them particularly pleasant In summer Instead of small, stuffv rooms with solid partitions, eutttng off light and free eireulatlon of air. everything is in the open on the order of a large, modern office We are let ting the big outdoors come in. So. it's a good pla<-e to spend your ■sumnter. He ahead bv entering now. Attend Indiana Bulness College at Marlon. Muncle. Logansport. Anderson. Kokomo. Lafavette, Columbus. Richmond. Vincennes or Indianapolis. Charles C Crtng is president and Ora K Bull. general manager. Get in touch with the point you prefer, or see. write or telephone * red W. Case. principal. Pennsylvania and ” r ermont Sis.. First Door North V. W. C. A.. Indianapolis.

“Honest, Chickie? Not fooling now—? Criminee!” Tommy lifted it with a wink that was like Jimmy’s: "Gee, Chickie, ain't you a peach!” Tommy walked gingerly down the block, carrying the great cylinder Chkckje watched behind the curtain. She felt it' was her heart torn out that Tommy carried. Past now—all past. Take up new threads—begin again—hind herself to Jennie; to Jonathan. She would make his face grow dim—banish It from her thoughts. Face white with intensity of feeling as that Sunday when he rode behind her on the bridle path, fte caught up suddenly, the flunks of their horses touching. He dropped the sprig of yellow broom, took the reins from her, forcing her glance to his. The flush that tinged his forehead; and breathless "quick, Chickie!" And she stood a little in the stirrups, waiting till he kissed her twice. He murmured with pain: “Ah, Chickie—l wish it was today!” That a hundred others —she laid quietly away. Hers no longer. Past they knew together slipping completely from them— The past does not end. It only merges with the present—only glides with silent step from yesterday into today and then tomorrow — And it bore in upon Chickie with a deadly terror that this was so—and the past is never past. And she was linked to it and to him, irrevocably. (To Be Continued) (Copyright King Feature Syndicate) Salt was so rare in the old Roman days, that tsoldiers received a small portion as part of their pay.

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