Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 40, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 June 1925 — Page 24

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CHICKIE

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Chickie (Helena), only daughter of Jonathan and Jennie Bryoo of Indianapolis, worked in an office in Market St. Sophisticated Janina Knowles, co-worker, was Chickie’s close friend. In an office across the alley worked Barry Dunne, a young law clerk. Janina took Chickie to a party given by wealthy Jake Munson, where she met Barry. Both Munson and Barry were attracted by Chickie and she fell in love with Barry. She promised to marry him as soon as lie was financially able. Barry had some business dealings with a Mr. Moore, head of a big steamship company, and through him met his daughter Ila. Later Chickie heard that Barry had left on a world tour on one of Moore’s steamships and that Ila was in the party. Chickie became frantic when she learned that she was to become the mother of Barry's child. She wired Barry and he returned only to tell her that he had been married to Ila for two weeks. \ Keeping her secret from her family. Chickie went to a farm in the northern part of the State. In order to give her family an excuse for her long absence, she told them she was working for the farm bureau. On that farm her child, a girl, was born. Four days after the child was born she received a message saying her mother was dying. Taking the child with her, she started through the bitter cold on a long walk to the railroad station, intent on returning home. .. . „ On the way the child died. Tunilng the body over to a doctor who promised to give it burial, sho returned to her home, finding her mother recovering. Chickie was summonded to appear at the coroner’s Inquest, and through this summons her parents and friends learned her secret. The coroner’s jury decided the child had died from natural causes. Chickie. her secret public property, returned home disillusioned. She was surprised at the kindly attitude of her friends and especially of Jimmy Hlake, her childhood sweetheart. THE SEQUEL To start life anew, Chickie leaves her parents and goes to work in Chicago. Having decided to live quietly, she refuses the friendship of Edgar Manx, a fellow boarder at Mrs. Jams’s. Jake Munson sends her flowers and asks for a letter. Daisy Brack. Elolse Maxwell the Orln sisters and Bobby Jones work with Chickie in the office of Norp Willman. His son. Lae, takes Chickie and his sister Barbara to lunch. GO ON WITH THE STORY

By Elinore Meherin CHAPTER IV Mary’s Letter mHERE was a joyous, impulsive youth about Barbara Willman. It drew Chickie, and at the same time pierced her. She was full of uneasiness and kept wondering: “Why did I come? Why am I here?” Yet she laughed often and flushed because of the girl'a warm friendliness. Barbara talked in a glow of excitement. Driving in from the country that morning a delightful adventure had overtaken her. A tire punctured. A young man—“Wei’, he was just the handsomest thing you ever saw, rose up from somewhere and fixed it. “And what do you think, Lee, he told me he was a poor, discharged waiter. Os course, I don’t believe it, for his eyes wrinkled up when he said that I could tell he was a great personage in disguise. This afternoon, in the very same spot. I'm going to puncture another one. Don’t you adore to have things happen like that, Miss Bryce? But I suppose you have thrilling affairs coming up all the time, don’t you?” “Why should I?” “Well, you have that kind of a look about you. Besides, you must be an exciting person coming up here alone. Lee says you’ve never been here before. I may take you to some of the maddest places,—oh, intriguing! Excuse me, Lee, dear. Don’t ever use that word, Miss Bryce. Lee can't stand it!” She went rippling along in little vivid currents of talk. Finally, she leaned across the table. “Did you know, Miss Bryce, that you’re to drive down to Winetka with us on Saturday? We have fun over Sundays—great gobs of fun.” She had-come to extend this invitation because her brother, whom she openly worshiped, wished it. Chickie perceived this. She said, reddening: “Not this Saturday. I’d like to, but I’ve promised friends.” "Oh —friends will wait. Can’t you put them off?” “No—not these.” Barbara glanced hastily at her brother. His lips were compressed. “We’re terribly disappointed, Miss Bryce,” she said hastily, “but you’ll come some other time. I guess we’ll have to wait, Lee.” Willman’s eyes dwelt mooftily on Chickie’s faco. He said slowly: “I wish you could have come. Miss Bryce. This is the loveliest time of the year. You should come.” Chick'e answered, uncomfortably: “I’m very sorry.” That night she stayed downtown and ate her dinner in a cafeteria. She was unnerved and had a hard time keeping her chin steady. She could feel Willman’s eyes; the quick pressure of his hand. She was weighted with foreboding. She wanted no man to look at her; there was nothing in her that could be stirred. She thought: “What 60S la a prescription for Colds> Grippe, Flu, Dengue, Bilious Fever and Malaria It kill* the germs.

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shall I do? They may ask me again. It will seem ridiculous to keep on refusing. But they don’t know me. If they did —” Oh —if Lee Willman knew, he wouldn’t have brought his sister to meet her. He wouldn’t be wishing that she might drive with him, this loveliest time of the year. Nor would he have said in that young, awed voice: “You’re very beautiful.” As she went on with these thoughts she became oppressed and faint. She went walking down State St., where a balmy, holiday Hit drifted in the air; long lines of men and women stood before the movie houses waiting for entrance, and girls in bright, summer dresses walked chummily as on Mission St. Chickie glanced at them and then in the shop windows. She kept thinking; “I wonder what I shall do?" Late that night she wrote to Janina: “I wonder if I have a right to go on as I am? Is the past my own affair only? Or have others a right to know that they may not offer me friendship unaware? Don’t curl your lip, Janina, and say, ‘Bunk—you're good enough for any one/ because others don’t believe as you do. Others would not rotice me; they might no( even giv< me a job if I were to tell them. I m Ia cheat because I conceal all these things? “Sometimes I’m sorry I didn't stay home. But I don’t think I could ever have borne it. It seems terrible things that are gone are never done. I don’t feel a bit different than.l used to, long ago. “Write soon, Janina. I love to see letters stuck in the rack on the wall. You’d laugh if you knew that I read them over and over. I have so much time alone.” The next afternoon Willman stood at her chair, glancing down at her face. “Why did you refuse to come, Miss Bryce?” “Why—l told you. I had the day promised.” “I was just wondering if that was the reason; if you really have other plans—have you?” “Yes.” “Well —that’s too bad. If you’re not intending to stay here long, you’re missing a chance to see the country at its best. But you’ll probably come again—” He spoke very casually. Chickie wwas relieved, yet surprised. For a week Lee Willman didn’t come to the office. She laughed a little sarcastically at herself. Why—imagining the man serious because he offered a kindness —offered it very carelessly. Perhaps he believed in throwing a bit of sunshine in a stranger’s way. The other girls said he was queer. She didn’t need to worry. She wasn’t so wonderful that men would block her path with their attentions. Why, she had worked four years already, and not so many had succumbed to her lures. And then she was flirtatious enough and rather hungered for conquests. Now —a quiet, pale thing, who didn’t care to mark her lips with rouge any more—why—not much charm to her. She would be left, as she wished—alone. One night there was this from Mary: “You don’t speak of any friends that you have made. Do you spend all your time alone? You shouldn’t, Chickie. No one can live so. Oh, why don’t you come back here and be with us? But I suppose it’* easy to talk. I think and think, and Sometimes I want to shout out against everything. Then I wonder why in the world you are letting

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yourself be robbed of happiness and pleasure and everything that makes life worth while. What really did you do, Chickie, that was so awful? You loved and had a child. Well, so did I. I remember now what you said that awful day when you came here, and I was such a fool I didn’t guess—that day you made up the story of Kathryn Armour. You said the world should let her have the child and make no fuss about it. I often think of the way you cried then, and of all I might have done. Oh, it seems such a cruel shame. “Chickie—do you know about Jimmy? He never talks any more about, his own plans—except to mother, a little. But he’s going away. At firtt it was hard but now mother says it's better so. He will take charge of that plant in Honolulu. We don’t know if it is to be for always. Well —l'm just writing this, Chickie, because I felt you ought to know and perhaps you don’t hear from him, though you have his heart. You always cid. Remember how he loved the points on your finger nails and made such fun of mine? “Well—Chickie, don’t think me a blundering fool but you are nearer than % sister to me and if you could —well—why don’t you—why don’t you go with Jimmy? Something sweet should come to you and Jimmy in that, Chickie. There is a greatness In him—truly. “If this hurts you have to forgive it —but It seems that I or mother should say it. You are dear to us.” Mary’s letter seemed a sacred thing. Chickie’s e; is blinded, reading It. Glorious Martha Blake would even be willing that she should have Jimmy. And he was the idol of her noble life. Thinking of this, Chickie could raise her head—she could feel a strengthening and an immense grati tude In her heart. Lonelinessv became easier to bear. Suppose she did have to fight? Suppose she did have to meet with unpleasantness and struggle” Well—she would. There were weeks—three or four —Lee Willman came In often. Chickie always took his dictation. He was sometime restless, impatient. When he talked his eyes were always fastened on her face. One afternoon —as she walked home, he overtook her. He said eagerly: “I’m going your way. You don’t mind if I walk along? I want to ask you something.” CHAPTER V Barbara’s Overture C r ~~~ HICKIE’S breath quickened. Willman went on hastily: “You heard about Barbara?” “No.” “Oh—you didn’t. She fell from her horse a. few days after we had lunch together. She’ll be all right, but she was badly shaken. She has a broken ankle and several sprains. She’s up now, but she can’t get around.” He spoke rapidly with a kind of hot eagerness and looked at Chickie with his boyish, magnetic smile: “She asked me to give you a message.” He paused. Chickie said: “Yes—what is it?” “Well —the fact is, she’s sick with

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loneliness. You see she’s at Winetka with the nurse. There’s no one else there. Her friends come in, of course, but they don’t stay very long. She wanted me to ask you to come and stay with her a few days. . . .” Chickie gave him such a wide, sharp look of astonishment, he colored and bit his lips together quickly. ‘‘ls it such an amazing request. Miss Bryce?” “Well —yes, I think it is—” “Why? She’s not used to solitude. The nurse is older. Why Is It amazing that she should want company —a girl like herself around? She can't insist that her friends sit with her eight hours a day. Yet it would be no harder for you than working in the office. I thought you might even find it rather a lark. Miss Bryce. The two of you could drive around together. You’d have quite a chance to see the country and nothing to do but endure each other’s society.” Chickie glanced upward, puzzled. “I would be glad, of course, but I’m not free to go and come as I please, yo uknow—” “Oh —about that—” He gave his short, infectious laugh, “It would simply mean a transfer of your place of business, Miss Bryce. What do you say? Barbara wanted me to find out if you’d like it of your own accord before she spoke to my father. Because what she asks of him, she gets. No argument about it. What do you say? You have no idea how beautiful the hills and the gardens are now.” Chickie felt a dazzling about her; the air suddenly vivid and sweet. But her throat was dry. She looked straight before her, feeling Lee Willman’s eyes lighted, expectant. She said: "I wonder if I should—l don't know—” “Why shouldn’t you? I think you would enjoy it. Barbara is very diverting. You and she might become great friends. I rather thing that —” They reached the top of the long hill—walking slowly. It was warm. June roses*climblng In bright, scarlet ladders over and old brown shingled house breathed perfume upon them. Down the level block Wildle came j bounding. “I would have to take my friend, you know.” “Take him, since he minds his own business so well. I can phone Barbara that you’ll go?” “I'm not sure —well, won't the morning do?” He frowned, glancing at her with i moody uncertainty: “All right, then , —I wonder what the problem is? j Why do you hesitate?” Chickie laughed: “You don't like j opposition. Mr. Willman? There may be many reasons why I should consider— ’’ That night Chickie went over them, growing excited, walking about the room, pulling the old posters and calendars from the dusty walls. Resentment burned darkly in her heart. Hesitate —yes But why? Not long ago she would have thought this a regular Cinderella adventure —the very merriest thing. Why, if j Mitchell had come to her and said. "My daughter has been ill —would

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