Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 46, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 July 1925 — Page 12

CHICKIE

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Chickie (Helena), now 22, ia the only daughter of Jonathan and Jennie Bryce of Indianapolis. To start life anew after her child dies and Barry Dunne her sweetheart, jilts her to marry wealthy Ila Moore, Chickie goes to Chicago for employment. Sarah Dillon, the Abbott sisters, Amy Heaton. Stella Wilson, Mary Blake McPike, Janina Knowles and wealthy Jake Munson are Chickie s home-town friends. Jimmie Blake, a childhood sweetheart, who still loves Chickie, accepts a position in Honolulu. Chickie refuses the friendship of Edgar Manx, fellow boarder at Mrs. Jariis’. Daisy Brack. Eloise Maxwell. Betty and Doris Ordin and Bobby Jones work with Chickie in the office of Norp Willman. Chickie goes to his Winnetka home as companion for Barbara. his daughter. Lee. his son, loves Chickie. _ Their sister. Mrs. Edith Potter, in the absence of Dirk, her husband, gives a party for Timmy., an actor, whom she secretly loves. Dirk arrives unexpectedly, but bears the situation meekly and goes for a game of billiards with Betty Jane.. Mel and Chickie at Edith's suggestion. In Lees absence Edith interfered with the elopment of Barbara and Paul Scott and speaks contemptibly to Chickie for aiding them. Chickie returns to the city after Barbara's father consents to the marnaJake calls and takes Chickie to din “ er GO ON WITH THE STORY By Elinore Meherin CHAPTER XIV The Lip Stick “Why should you take it so?’’ Jake’s hand moved slowly over hers. "Do you think I pity myself, Jake? No, I don’t —oh, really.” “Why should you say alll doors are closed, Chickie? This is a big, fine world. I told you this long ago. Because you make an unhappy twist and come against a blank wall, do you mean to tell me you must stare at it forever? Do you mean to say you can’t turn about and try another path?” All the while Jake’s eyes saddened and anxiously fixed on her face; but all the while she kept hers lowered. Now she smiled: “You could. A man can—” “So can you, Chickie. At 22? You can for you did no violence to your spirit.” Her cheeks blanched as though the blood sucked back. For suddenly she felt that Jake was going over all her life; was weighing her; her love and her giving—and that he knew it all, even to the words they might have said. This was, so, for he went on: “There are some who are inwardly hurt by such an experience. They can’t rise above the world’s opinion. They’re weak and so they are crushed.” “I am one of them —” Jake's hand gripped hers. "You are not.” The pressure of his fingers made her wince so that she raised her eyes and found his flashing; "You are not, Helena my dear. Don’t try and stall like that on me. I saw you in action. Come now—what shows havs you seen—what movie stars have you met?” “Oh —why, you know —” “What shows have you seen? Answer!” She looked at him, pleading. “Wildie and I don’t go to shows. We take long walks at night. It’s so nice in the parks.” “And when were you to a show, did you say? The last time, I mean.” “Maybe a year ago.” ' “Call it a year and a day, Helena. Tomorrow night we step.” “No. I’d rather ride with you, Jake. I want to hear about Jonathan —every single thing—and about you and Janina —every one. I’m starved for talk.” “You shall be filled. There’s time. We’ll ride tonight. Which of the drives down here do you like best?” “All of them —they’re beautiful —” “And you know none of them?” Again his eyes surveyed her, kindling and tender. “We shouldn’t have let you come alone, Helena, dear, should we?” “I guess you think I’ve not been very brave, Jake, don’t you? You think I’ve just sunk down and haven’t shown any heart at all? Maybe that’s true. But I thought I should keep to myself. I thought that was the only honest thing to do.” “Why?” “Oh if people knew, they wouldn’t want me. But I’m not going to tell any one, so I \ really haven’t a right to friendship. It’s like stealing. . . Jake answered: “I have a great re-

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spect for a clever thief.” And as he smoothed the frilly collar of Chickie’s sport suit he whispered, “I could teach you a thing or two about stealing, Helena. It looks as though I'll have to.” They drove out Sheridan Rd. Chickie gave a little cry. “Oh, I’ve missed things so much.” Jake slumped down cozily, making a place for her with his arm. “You missed it, Chickie? Y'ou miss home and all?” “Oh, so much.” “I had an idea. I’ll carry it out some day.” He laughed. “I was coming up here to fetch you with the car. Oh, It was to be quite fine. Jennie and Jonathan along. They’d like it. Chickie, I wonder why you don't 3end for them?" “Oh, no; I couldn’t do that —not yet, Jake. Well, it would be even hearder —I mean for them. Yes, it would. They’ve just anchored where they are.” “Do you think of coming back?” “Yes, but then I picture myself getting a job—away from Thirtieth Street. Then someone remembers about me and all and tells it, and you know how that would be and how the moil would stare; and things they would think. I’d never, never find any path open then. Isn’t that true?” For a long while Jake was silent. He kept his eyes on the water, his hand clasped on hers. He said sadly: “We don't always know what we are doing. Helena, I want to ask this of you—if such a thing happens and you feel that no paths are opened, will you send for me?” She didn’t answer, suddenly filled with foreboding. “Will you?” She said, breathless, “You’re sorry for me, Jake. You pity me.” He smiled. “Maybe. Call it that. But I won’t stand by and see Life play the bully with you. It’s an old trick of hers to lay her clubs on the white and the gentle. Now listen —” And he began to tell her a hundred bright incidents; an old woman who dabbled in stocks. He gave her a tip. She won, played another tip, cleaned up a hundred thousand, then asked him, Jake, the lord, if he’d like to marry her! She’d leave him all her money—- “ Now, it was downright hard refusing the venerable dame:; I mean doing it with eclat—dropping to my knees and pleading previous engagements. Oh, I did it gallant-like. Overidid it, in fact. “Well—you remember Nicky? Our dear old bachelor, Nicky? Trapped! By a long nosed Jane with, a Sunday school slit of a mouth. Poor Nick —never a cocktail again!” Chickie laughed: “More —tell me more, Jake —” She sparkling magnetism went racing through her veins.... She felt alive; felt young. She wished this meeting would last and last—no tomorrow— They stopped and sat hours at the lake’s edge, the breeze but a warm and tender song about their heads. They watched until the moon drew screens of jade and black across her face. Chickie’s eyes were full of tears. Jake raised his hand and wiped them. He said, “Why, Helen, dear?” “Oh, I never thought to feel like this again. Never, Jake!” Jake’s red smiling mouth was pale. At the boarding house he said: “Did you think we were to leave you here and forget about you the way they did to the lost girl of the San Nicolas?” “I don’t know her—” “When I take you out west some day and out in a yacht I’ll show you the island —the rock heap way off from Santa Barbara where they left her all alone.” “For something that she did, Jake? For some great sin?” “For nothing at all—just sailed away and forgot that she was left. Remember, now, tomorrow, and a new dress, my dear." “When do you leave, Jake?” ‘That’s a movable feast, Helena.” She went lightly up the stairs, smiling. She sat on the bed —shutting her eyes so that only the sparkle and the vividness was alive within her thoughts. Don't think—don’t go beneath —let loose the thousand images. the thousand contrasts Jake’s coming had so deeply stirred. Oh—it was enough to have a friend like this—she should be glad. And she bought the new dress. She polished her nails until they shope. Her face was like a white flower. Its dark eyes pierced because they thanked him so. He didn’t want her sad —why should she be? He said; “No lipsticks any more, Chickie?” She laughed: “I guess I don’t quite suit you, Mr. Jake. You aren’t pleased that I’m no longer vain.” He grinned. “Try mine, Chickie —won’t come off." He brought a little package from his pocket, made her onen it. In a gold case with the most deli-

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cate figures done in enamel was a fine French rouge. Chickie touched it with her finger, dabbed a little on her pale, sweet mouth. “That’s better,' Helena.” She said, “You think I've been a coward, Jake?” “No —but you must be vainer than you ever were. The world wants a bright face toward it. Don’t you know that?” “Oh, I see what you are meaning! And I should be ashamed of pale lips—” She laughed. “You make everything seem different, Jake. You make it seem worth while . . “It is Chickie —” His eyes were deep and glowing. He leaned across the table, taking her hand in both of his. Then he smiled. “Yes—worth while —” CHAPTER XV. Jake’s Plea mHEY walked along chummily, like nice old maids, Jake said. Chickie's thoughts clung to him; held fast to the strength and vivid faith he offered. Often in these three days she had •xianced upward suddenly, and met a. smile of royal kindness. Each time she thought: “What does he think? Am I ever so much less in his eyes? Is he remembering? Os course—of course—” Yet his eyes dwelt glowingly on hers, and it made her heart warm the way he drew her arm in his, clasping so firmly her slim, white hand. “So, this i3 where you walk of nights, Helena?” “Yes.” “Just you and Wildie? But you’re not going to do that any more?” There came a Wistful quiet, like a twilight, to her eyes With her free hand she traced the curve of the lake shore through the trees. A breathless night, the air sighing with the warmth and languor of the day that had passed. She said, with a little break in her voice: “Oh, Jake, those are wonderful friends to have. You don't know, perhaps, but I can feel them like a person. They seem kind —kinder than anything excepting you. And I don’t mind the loneliness —no, really. I feel so qui/et here, so safe. But it's not that way with people. I'm afraid then; I suppose that’s the‘coward In me, but I’m always afraid then.” "What dd you fear?” “Well,” she lowered her head, running her finger back and forth across his hand, “you know, Jake. It could happen. I often dream about it. Someone comes up and stands so close the breath smothers me. They say, ‘Oh, Helena Bryce! Ah, \ou come from Indianapolis—’ ” Jake shook back the proud black head, glancing at her with pondering eyes. “If that happens, Chiokei, you will meet it You have met worse." She trembled, her fingers clenching on his arm. “Not again! I would

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rather die! Oh, I would die, Jake!” He kept looking at her —at her profile, with the white, chiseled purity that had once so fired his exultant passions. He put his hands on her shoulders, held her so. "Chickie, never say that again. Never think it. You can’t do it! I say, you can't!” She tried to smile, awed by the tenseness In his face. He took out his hankerchief, drew it over the thick, glossy hair. Presently the smile returned to the red, flashing mouth. “That’s not the way to look at it, Chickie.” “What do you mean, Jake?” “That you can't go on as you have. Y’ou can’t keep to yourself and brood.”“Oh—it’s easy to say that, Jake. But what should I do? What else may I do?” “The very same as you did before any of this happened. Look at life freely. It can be a fine, happy thing. Yes it can! Look to the future just as you did a few years ago when you wanted that grand old wind to come sweeping over hill tops. It will come, Chickie—” Tears leaped to her eyes. Oh, that vision of her girlhood—love coming in glory, setting her and one other in a glowing world apart. She had spoken of it to Jake; told him with wide-open, fervid eyes how much she hoped from life. He had looked into the young, ardent heart and because he was to seasoned, read aright its sweetness and its dream. “Look to that, Chickie, and not to the moments that are gone. Don’t let them touch you at,all. Put them from your memory.” She looked a long while at her hands. “Do you know what you’re saying, Jake? Why, you talk as though I could have it all my own way. But I can’t. And the past isn’t gone. Oh, it isn’t at all. And I’m not the same as I was. I never can be. You know that. But even if I were callous about it, people woudn’t let me be the same. It's just as I said before —if people knew about me, they would be furious. What do you think the Willmans would do? He—they would think their home was outraged because I went there —” (To Be Continued) (Copyright. Kins Feature Syndicate)

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