Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 16, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1925 — Page 12

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CHICKIE

Chlokla (Helena), only daughter of Jonathan and Jennie Bryce, loves Barry Dunne, a young lawyer with Tults It Lennon. Wealthy Jake Munson, friend of Janlna Knowles and Amy Heaton, sends Chlckie a costly pin with a love note and arranges so her father does not lose on his oil investment. Jako tells Chlckie he considers Barry's feeling only a hoy’s love, and that he will be waiting when Barry has jilted her. Chlckie fears the fate that befell Stella Wilson because of her lengthy engagement, and at Bess Abbott's wedding, übtlyv.trl ob to urge Barry to think of their marriage as a present possibility, even though he believes he cannot afford it. He ts hopeful when Ila Moore's father expects to engage him to represent locaDy the Gulf Steamship Company of Ban Francisco, and wires for him. In Barry’s absence, Mary’s brother. Jimmie Blake, renews his attentions and Chlckie shudders at his faith tn her. Barry returns with the deal unsettled Ila Invites Barry to tour the world with her pai i*. When Chickie accuses him of lonng Ila, a quarrel follows and Barry leaves town without revealing his destination. After several days she receive* his farewell letter which she hides with her bridal things, but with terror she realizes she cannot blot out the past. Bv Elinore Meherln CHAPTER LXXXI The Secret Fear aT went piercing through her brain —a long, bright needle of terror. Ita sharp point transfixed her thought, holding it aghast, moist with apprehension. And, standing before her bureau, this sunny morning in the end of May, quietly adjusting her hat, Chlckie’s hand dropped limp to her sides. She sat down suddenly, shaking—her face bloodless. Life, cornering her now; life that had allowed Janlna, Amy Heaton, a hundred others, to play fast and loose, was now rushing up and overtaking her; shoving this last, incredible consequence upon her. Now- And she alone, with no way at all to meet It, He gone—he, believing that the past they knew together was all quiet anad ended. Ended like a beautiful, sweet dream. But not ended for her. Following her —overtaking her as it might a Woman of Jennie?*; old-fashioned day. This couldn't be. Couldn't. Not for her. She wasn't stupid. She wasn’t seventeen, like Marjorie Abbott. Suddenly she remembered what Janina said of Marjorie: "Lucky for her she has money—so they get married. But if a thing like that happened to you or me or Peggy, the cobbler’s daughter, we could sink to the seaweed forty fathoms deep! Fat chance xo catch up with a husband!" Happening to her—to this Chiekie that Jonathan loved so—that he thought sw:eet and innocent aa an angel? No! It couldn’t; it couldn’t! The abrupt, violent heat sweeping up about her neck made her faint —like a poison-or a deadly sickness, ghe took long, harsh breaths, drawing them with effort. After a moment, wetting her lips, she said to herself, dimlyt 'l'm crazy!, I’m going out of my mind, This is insanity!" And she went back ever the days to that fateful one last August. She remembered how doggedly this fear obsessed her in the beginning. Gradually it ha d passed, Until finally she did not think of it at all. IShe walked the free road as she did; na men do, forgetting that if toll there were to pay, she must be the one to yield it. She lost the fear of consequences. And now she put it from her as one Who imagines a horror, but knows the horror can not be, She Mdd to herself: 'fDon’t go wild. Have sense, It’s not this, it's not—” Yet she went to work, trembling, weak, * • the memory of this fear that ___J had come upon her with such panic, returned, Now it was no longer the sharp needle in her brain. It was a heavy hand that had got hold of her heart, pressing It— turning It slowly. She was at sudden momenta awane of its weight—lts suffocating, unbearable pressure. Especially when she triject to keep her mind away from it-r-keep her mind a blank. Or if shp laughed. Then the hand squeezed, leadenly—made her remember. The day with its hurry of work over. Getting ready to leave, she was suddenly hot with restlessness. I>o gomethir.®—have sense, get back her poise. She slipped her arm in Janina’s; "Come on, ole thing—do a little shopping with me,” Janina, always facile, answered; •’I will. If you’ll eat downtown and come for a swim, I need exercise. Will you?" "Yes!” So matter what Janina asked, Chlckie would hawe assented. She wanted company. Wanted to hide from herself; talk inoesaantly, at lightning speed. That would hush her mind —that would flout the hand on her heart. And when she plunged into the tank and felt the allm. ready movement of her body through the cool waters, she put her head under-, Inwardly laughing. The idea! What a fool she was! Beside herself with terrors. And all because he had written that letter and let her know so starkly that his love was dead. Why, because of that she began to imagine things! But now—well, she wouldn't, Joy still in the world

'WHHtEN m BKCAUnmBOTp'PHM

—fun to be splashing about here with Janlna, shouting—getting the water in her ears—in her hair—making it all curls about her face. Afterward they called to each other from the showers; they got weighed; they went into the gymnasium and danced with two other girls who happened to be there. * • * UT when they took a table in the cafeteria and Janina read j tie evening paper, ignoring her —these fears rushed back. Chickie said, In a voice cf excitement: “Hear anything more about Marjorie?” "Give the girl a chance, ole thing!” "I suppose she’ll stay a lontf while away.” "Any old time, my dear! They're off to Seattle on their honeymoon, and they won’t come back till the 1 conventional pc od elapses. And who knows whether a baby is six (months of age or 10? Often meet >up with precocious infants—espeJanlna, folding the paper must have seen the blanched, driven look ,In Chickie’s fae. She smiled: "Shocked? Thought that was rather a pleasing bon mot! 'Souse, baby, I'm crude but not unkind as you've learned! "No—but I was just thinking, Janlna—a thing like that could happen to anyone, no matter how free or bold or clever they are.” Janlna shrugged. "You don’t think so? Quite certain it couldn't happen to you?” A pitying smile: "Yes—lnnocence —quite coldly certain! Nothing can happen to me that I can’t meet, my dear!” "But suppose it did—l wonder what you'd do?” ”1 can never prove that to your satisfaction, because it's not going to happen. But at that, I could brazen it out! I could be the woman who dared! You can get away with murder If ychi think you can!” Chickie launghed: "Yes—you can get away with murder 'ln theory. But if you’ve got the blood of murder on your hands, you’re not so cool, I Imagine. And then you can’t get away with It.” "Well, I know a girl who did. She just said to people: "I wanted this. I’m going to have It! What about it?” And she stayed right here In the city and he has a son five years old and supports him and doesn't give a hang who knows it. Her friends stuck with her. But of course, that’s rather bizarre and startling. , “At first they all held off, hut when they saw her getting away with It—they shrugged and came hack. If all women had courage like that and wouldn’t allow themselves to be hounded off the earth, we'd have a better world and we'd soon have a single standard. But, of course, it would be rather hard on the pioneers—” "Would you like to he one of them, Janina?” "If it came to a showdown and I had to take my choice between persectuion and defiance, I’d take the latter.” Chickie was now breathing noisily —her cheeks blazing. She said in a faint tone: "It would be a rather hard choice, wouldn’t it?” • * * R*| IDING home in the street car, Chickie stood on the platform, letting the cool breeze blow down her throat. She kept saying to herself: "Stop now—you’ll only make a fool of yourself. It’s not this—Oh, have sense!” She couldn’t hear to look at Jonathan or at Jennie. One evening Jonathan said: "When is Barry returning?” For a moment the pulses froze. Then she heard herself answering; **l don’t know!” And she saw the astonishment In her father’s eyes. She answered hastily; "He won’t come till his mother Is better." Jonathan staxed at her, his face turning gray. Afterwards he followed her to her room, closing the door In his mysterious way, saying in a voice that sagged: "Chickie— Chickie —you mean you may leave us—” She bent over an open drawer, and began sorting its contents. Finally she could laugh—she ran over and buried her head against his shoulder: "Old cutie love—no— Old Jonathan—want me here? Cutie wants his little lamb?” "Chickie—you won’t go? Promise me that?" ‘T may—and then I may not! I migh ask you to promise something, Jonathan, darling.” “What do you want, Chlckie?” His seriousness affrighted her. She answered in a high, false not*; “Oh, I might ask, would you wan; me though I should get all pock* marked, with warts on the end of my will you promise to want me for better or worse—for the woraest worse?” And suddenly tears flew Into her eyes and were wet on her father’s rough cheek. He took his great palm and wiped her face, laughing at her, saying with a hard anxiety* “Then you don't mean to go, Chickie? Not thinking of that?”

Chickie fights a growing fear of consequenses.

“You haven’t made the promise! Why, you haven’t said for better or for worse—ever so worse—” She ran from him Into the kitchen, calling to the dog; and calling back to Jonathan: “All right! All right!” She put the collar on Wiidie. She pressed her lips aaginst the brown, Bleelc head, whispering: "I’ll have you, dog—you, anyway—no matter how worse—” CHAPTER LXXXI I. The Summons. mHE fear sat on her breast—sat LUte an Incubus, awful in Its Imperturbable heaviness. She tried to fling it from her. She was helpless before these alarms that went shaking and cold Into her'mind and made of her heart a frantic thing that hid and whimpered. She beat them down, fighting in panic. She stood before her mirror, staring at herself. And, seeing her face, pretty as a flower; eyes so gray and beautiful, she smiled. And In the office she Joined Stella Wilson, and Janina, clinging to them, laughing the merriest, talking with the old gay fllppance a hundred fold increased, until Janina said: “Congratulations, ole kid! Real sand, haven’t you? Didn't think it was in you!” That made her feel light as foem; made her glad. She was Just the same; she was like any one e se. They could see that. And why mt? Why should this thing of agony and shame be hers? It wouldn’t! Walt—and soon she would laugh at the wildness that i drove her so—that made her desolate as a fugitive flying from his own thought; driven as an animal is not, from his fellows; even from himself. Walt—and soon in her relief she would be the blithest thing that ever the green earth knew. Oh, she would forget that <?ne had mourned. In her gratitude she would bless the air and little flowers and the dear, ap- ! pealing stars that twinkled so—bless them wl;n a gayety that make her i brave to endure—oh, anything—ls ! only this might pass, might leave ! her free! So she pushed it down and kept { it from her thought with an insistent "Os course not! How could i it be? Oh, it's not!” At her desk, typing at lightning speed, concentrating with new intensity on her work, she gained peace. She was able to think calmly, ridicule this obsession of hers; even to say: "The idea! Os all the Idiotic things to pick on, why this? And now?” • • • rm UT alone—away from the I D I comfort ot Janlna and StelI la's chatter; with no wall between herself and her fear, It reached up and shook her mind. It did this at odd moments—as she dried the dlsheß In the evening. She would stand rigid, a cup In her hands. Coming out of this terror she glanced stealthily at Jennie. Jennie didn't notice. Or it seizes her sometimes as she took a dress from the closet. Suddenly, leaving her weak, leaning against the wall, murmuring in fright: “Not Oh, God—no—■” More terribly than ever after she said good-night to Jennie and Jonathan—then. Just as she closed the door of her rooom—then it sprang; then the walls were alive, whispering in the pulsing quiet, “it is! It is!” She turned to this side and that; she covered her face, and sometimes she sank on her knees at her bed, twisting the blankets in her hands, mad, pitiful players at her lips: “Ood —don’t let this happen—oh, please—anything but this—you wont—■” Bhe rose quieted. Tomorrow she would forget—be glad again. Each night it was another tomorrow; each morning take up the lockstep with Fear. Until sometimes she fancied a visible presence dogged her—a relentless, forbidding shadow; and others would see her stop short, catching her breath, So she became unnaturally alert, watching herself. So she became unnaturally winsome. Oh—she' couldn’t do enough for Jennie, Let her bring in the dinner. Sit Still, Jennie darling—let her bring the tea .... Jennie blossomed under all this attention; Jennie grew young. They went out in the evening togetherstrolled down Washington Street; shopped. Once Jennie said: "Jonathan, you wo'"t be lonesome! Chicklea and I are going to make new curtains for the living room.” Jonathan answered: “Take your time, girls! Don’t flirt with the lads! That’s all!” Puzzle a Day |r[p[ |n|e[m| E_J_ D A’wcfl NI O V|D N A JIX-IHA R CSUE M lelfiultirle Here is a secret signal system of a mysterious club. Each person who Wishes to enter the club rooms is given the above slip of paper and asked to start at any point and vith one single line trace the hidden.password. If anyone makes a mistake and touches the same square twice, or what is still worse, not touch r very square with his pencil, he Is not allowed to enter the club rooms. What is the password and how is it traced? ljast puzzle answer: The picture traveled 6,136 miles. Just work backward, and it is easy. Mentioned Nos. 500 plus 300 plus 30 plus 25 equals 855. Stun of these digits, 8 plus 6 plus 5 divided by 3 equals 6, or smallest part; 600 times 6 equals 3,000, Ist part; 300 times 6 equals 1,800, 2d part; 30 times 6 equals 180, 3d part; 25 times 6 equals 150, 4th part; o plus 3.00s plus 1,800 >s mus 150 equals 6,136.

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A thing like made Jennie blush—made her old heart glow. Silly fellow, that Jonathan! She linked her arm In Chickie's, went spryly down the block. She was proud of this 'child of hers; never done with the wonder of it—the thrill of being Chickie's mother. (To Be Continued) (Copyright. King Feature Syndicate) 666 Is a prescription for Colds, Grippe, Flu, Dengue, Bilious Fever and Malaria ft kills the germs.

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