Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 67, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1925 — Page 14

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*■ CHICKIE

Chiekie (Helena) is the only daughter ot Jonathan and Jennie Bryce of hidtanapoMs. To start life anew after her child dies and Barry Dunne, her s*i laeurt, juts her to marry wealtny Ha Moore,-Chiekie soes to Chicago for employment, Sarah Dillon, the Abbott sisters, Amy Heaton. Stella Wilson. Mary Blake McPike, Janina Knowles and wealthy Jake Munson are Chickies home-town friends. Jimmie Blake, a childhood sweetheart, who still loves Chiekie, accepts a position in Honolulu. Chiekie goes to the home of her employer. Norp Wlllman, as companion for his daughter, Barbara. Lee. his son, loves Chiekie. Their sister. Edith (Mrs. Dirks Potter), secretly loves Timmy, an actor. Chiekie is asked to be a bridesmaid at the wedding of Barbara and Paul Scott. At the rehearsal, Myra King recognizes Chiekie and tells Edith of her past life. Edith orders Chiekie to leave. Dee attempts suicide when Chiekie confirms the story. She accepts a position in the office of George Edgeman. where Luis Lamarck. friend of the Willmans, has a studio. While Edgeman is away Lamarck tells Chiekie that her past means nothing to him. The climax comes when he insinuates that because of him she is receiving more salary than the work is worth. She tears up her check and leaves. The case of Elena Castanaday, youthful unmarried mother, impresses Chiekie. Chiekie returns home with her parents and begins training as a nurse. At a nurses’ dance Chiekie meets Dr. David Hamm. GO ON WITH THE STORY

By Elinorc Meherin The doctor’s eyes rested on Chiekie with a half amused flicker. “Shouldn’t a young nurse be studying for a quiz, Miss Bryce?" Chiekie colored, but Jake hunched his head with a rollicky: “A young nurse is doing just as sjie should! Shouldn’t a young doctor mind his p’s and q’s?” He held Chickie’s elbow, looking down with a challengeing, possessive pride. She felt a trifle ruffled, but answered: “Oh, the quiz is quizzed, and this, you see, is just an afternoon!" They spoke a moment together. When they were in the car Jake tucked a robe about her, for it was a sharp, brilliant day with a snap in every breath. He looked into her face, his black eyes teasing: “So, ho my dear! A man’s a man for a’ that, eh?” She pretended not to understand. Jake said: “Now, look here, my sweet, young friend, you ain’t stupid. And you wouldn’t keep secrets from Mr. Munson, would you?" “He ask me to go to a theater, Jake. I told him I never went out nights except with my dog." Jake burst out coughing. “So that’s what X am, is it?” “I meant my very best* dog. He saw him one day. But now he will think I didn’t tell the truth.” ‘Let him —the stripling! He’ll only know you didn’t wish to go—” “But that wasn’t it—” ‘Oh—ah! Then you wanted to go with him, Helena? Why didn’t you, then? You can have friends, can’t you? It would be perfectly right for you to go, if you wished it.” “I don’t. Oh, really—l want to be left alone —except for you, Jake. But, just the same, I’d like to tell graceful and clever lies and never be. caught in them." “Don’t let them catch you—be smart, my dear. Shrug and say you’ve changed your rule. Say you change very quickly and never can bet on yourself from one day to another. So—you never make dates, being as. you may not feel like keeping them when the time arrives!” Jake was in an Irrepressible and joyous mood. But he stopped abruptly and studied her: “Helena, are you getting lonesome?” “No—oh sometimes I feel a stranger to myself. I wonder who this person is that seems to be I and walks so very so-so and Is all quiet-like. I think you’re princely, Jake, to bother with me—” “Don’t be so sure of me, Chiekie. I’m not sure of myself. And don’t think I’m princely. I bother because I want to —because you are you. Don’t forget it—” She didn’t forget it. There were times when the thought of Jalje troubled her deeply; when, for instance, she would find his eyes, half laughing, all wooing, looking into hers; or when his warm, magnetic hand pressed with such vivid touch cm hers. Once she lowered her head —not thinking. He stooped and kissed, her neck. She didn’t move or look at him. Then he forcec- her eyes up. And he was very white. He said humbly: “You’re noi angry, Helena? I ■didn’t mean it—you know I didn’t mean it. Wo aid I, Helena? Please, now—your old lnend —’’ She answered then as now: “I do vou wrong, perhaps. I shouldn’t let you come, Jake. It’s weak in m:*, isn’t tl?” He laughed, exuberant again: "Do me plenty of wrong. Helena. I can stand it —” “But just the same . . “Now', look here, Miss Bryce, would you give the man the boot for one offense? Answer me! Why have you grown so serious?” A-soft, pensive laugh: “Shall you like to go on like, this years and a clay, Jake? And when I'm a nice wrinkled olfi lady and talK in a piptug voice, will you still be around to give me a ride?" “That I will! But listen, Helena, the day is enough. You don’t know the future —no more do I, though I’ve rrtany the hunch of late!”

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“I do know it —as sure as the' sun’s on high! I know it exactly for I’m making it myself—every last minute of it.” 1 He held her hands quietly, looking at their white, tapered fingers: “Pretty little hands for such a job, Helena, dear. If you're making your own future completely you must be making the future of the entire world. Don’t you know that? For you never know at what point the life or the thought of another will rush into and transfigure your own. You can't make the future, Chiekie —nor can any„of us/ We can only make our acceptance of it as w r e will. Your thought can’t stop the time from sweeping in, or the earth from shaking. But if the tides keep you, you carv strike out and swim; or throw up your hands and drown. You have free choice not to make the tides but to meet them. Isn’t it enough?” “No! How did we get talking of this? I only meant to say, Jake,” she became embarrassed and finished weakly: “Well, that you've been mighty good to me—" He laughed, digging his elbow against her arm: “And you don’t want to lure me along with any false hopes, eh? Being as you’re ninetynine and settled you don’t contemplate making any changes, eh? I get you—let be as is!” , Towards the end of the week, Chiekie was waiting one morning for a car. She was going down town to buy a pair of shoes and she had chosen this hour that she might not meet any one and also because she was on night duty now. David Ramm was just getting in his machine. He drove to the corner and leaned out with a friendly: “I’ll take you down, Miss Bryce.” When she got in he asked her questions about her work, her opinions, whore she had been to school. Then he said suddenly: “Is Jake the only one for whom rules may be broken?" “Ha’s a very old friend.” “Now—not as old as all that, Miss Bryce—” She laughed: "Yes he is—he knows my father and my mother and where I live and eat for dinner. Besides he has a lot of very useful information . . .” “So have I. You don't really mean that you never go. out nights? You haven’t let them scare you into that, have you?” “Oh, they don’t try to scare us. We have a late pass—" “Once a week — And you need It. You can’t keep fit for your work if you don t have a little change—” She said softly: "Well, I’ll tell you Doctor David—” He gave her a surprised look and grew faintly red. She went hurrying on, with a ■mrug as though she were in the habit of accosting every one by their first name: “It suits you. That’s my way. I call people as I choose. David is a much better name than ‘Ramm.’ That sounds harsh. Besides ‘David’ is in the Book of Kings—” “And he slew a giant, didn’t he?" She gave a little, mocking laugh, for it was a bright, sunny morning and she felt glad: “Oh, he did many things that other Davids may not!” “You read a great deal, Miss Bryce.” "Yes—sometimes. When I was away I read hours every night—” “And lost your taste for company?” “No—only books are so agreeable, One can close them at will.” He looked at her musing. She Seemed extremely young —very sweet because of a sadness that dwelt on her pale, beautiful mouth. “And people aren’t Miss Bryce? You’ve found them unpleasant? Aren’t you a little young to love your own company so much?” “Oh, no—it's not that. I’m fond of people. Oh, very, But I just want to get started well in this work. It's altogether different from anything I ever did beftfre,” she laughed: “And I want to be as expert as you are in your line —” “Expert—what do you think I am—a painless dentist? We’re not experts—none of us—” Then he began to tell her of clinics In Vienna and marvelous experiments conducted there ~ . He and she would enjoy the life on the continent. He talked in a soft, musical tone, hut as though he were ready to cease at any moment; as though he feared to trust himself— Finally he broke off. She said, excited: “Go on—what happened then—diil the girl live—” He said boyishly: “I’ll tell you the next time I see you! I know a great many such tales—” She was stirred and uneasy, and when she was buying her shoes kept thinking of his tone; of his musing eyes. Pictures and were in her mind. That night she thought of many things. It was mysterious and sometimes a little terrifying—the long, quiet watch through the night hours. She was glad when the green lights flashed; glad when the patients wanted water, wanted a pillow straightened—she had thirty of them. They kept her busy.

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j As she walked through the ward ohe could see her image in the glass partitions. It was as though many shad jws of herself came out to meet hei . . . Frightening—that— The flippant Chiekie of a few years back—ah, fancy her, paying up all night, changing packs, giving medicine. Or even the Chiekie. of a year “gone, so buried :'in her own heartbreak— She thought tonight as her many shadows passed: “Who ye you? What are you going to be? Oh, I wonder what?” She was disturbed, too —remembering the meeting of the morning. Would Dr. David find out about her? What would he think—What would all these people think? Suddenly she was afraid. What good did all this concealment do when she lived in the perpetual fear of detection? Was the world any kinder than in Hester Prynne’s time? How? Why, it was even better to have that scarlet letter right out —sewed on one’s dress and be done with it. Because when people learned they were just as relentless as in that time a hundred years ago. And all the pretense was no better than a glass house she had builded to hide in. At any moment it might crash upon her. She would take no more chances! Too menacing—she had too much to lose. She dared not lose —no matter what Jake might say the future would be hers. She was going to make it y she wished!CHAPTER XLIX Resulution Mary’s little girl sat on Chickie’s lap. It was a dainty creature, with dimples and smiles and winsome lights in its blue eyes. Mary adored her daughter. But it always touched her to pain when Chiekie held the child. She had a sense of guilt, as though it were wrong for her to have all this happiness and Chiekie so little. And she Imagined a great hurt in Chickie’s heart. Today she said abruptly? “Are you resentful, Chiekie? Does it make you wild to think, sometimes?” “Not now. I’m satisfied. I’m Interested—” “You see a lot of Jake Munson, don’t you?” “Somewhat.” “And others?" “There are no others.” Then Mary came over and sat on a stoiil at Chickie’s knees. She said aimlessly: “Isn’t she pretty? I’m glad the girl got the dimples. Her hair is lovely, like yours, Chiekie.” Then sharply: “But there will be others. For you, Chiekie—of course. You have a right to expect it —” Chiekie was buttoning the baby’s shoe. She kept on doing this. She gave an odd, wistful laugh: “Why need there be another, Mary? I’m going my way alone. Yes, I am—l don’t want -anything to spoil it —nothing shall-—here, take your lovely child, and don’t worry about your weak sister —” Walking away from Mary, Chiekie said to herself suddenly: “I’m more alone here In a way than I was in Chicago—l’m more, cut off—” She had resolved on this —shunning even careless attentions. Jake was away and for six weeks she had npt seen David Ramm. ' One night when she was on duty from 4 until midnight a rather spectacular thing happened. A patient, who was a severe abdominal case, grew suddenly worse. The internes consulting over her decided that an immediate operation was necessary. One of them said to Chiekie, “Call the chief.” The woman was a patient of Dr. Ramm’s. He said in his soft, musical tone: “I’ll be right oyer. Get her ready, Miss Bryce—” This excited her like a call to aid. It was her duty to prepare the woman for the operation. She did it with feverish intensity—all but praying with each move that she made. It was midnight when the patient was taken to the amphitheater where everything was ready, and, as if by miracle, the nurses ; and internes waited. Chiekie was off duty. She wanted to see this operation. She went down the corridor. Another girl in her own class was also free ’now. This was Irene Underwood. She said to Chiekie: “What’s up? Well, I’ll go with you—” It was the first night operation Chiekie had attended. She could look down directly at the work. She was breathless and gripped her chair as though the instruments were in tier own hands and the incision hers to make. She felt a faint heat—then it seemed to her that the doctor was a machine who worked noiselessly with Inspired swiftness. She heard his voice—heard him swear—softly —saw his eyes (tense —his hands moving with incredible delicacy. For an hour they went like this, dramatic —sure; his face had a lean, brilliant look as though he were pouring out his energy. It seemed to Chiekie that he worked oyer this woman as though It were a mother or someone dearly loved. Then he threw off .his apron, leaving the Internes to finish. Chiekie was spent—her hands and riveted to the chair. Miss Underwood said: “I want to ask hin something. Come, there’s nothing more to see.” Chiekie answered: "It’s too late—it’s after one—” . But they passed him as he went through the office and Miss UnderwQod sdid: “I didn't quite understand whafyou did there —” He stopped, bowing to them. Then he took up a piece of chalk and made a drawing on the blackboard. He was very willing; very anxious for them to understand. Miss Underwood asked questions but Chiekie listened. He looked directly into her eyes: "Do you get it. Miss Bryce?” “Well—a little—” “Lpok here—” He made anew figure—went through it al) again. - Chiekie said fervently: "Oh, yes! I see, wonderful —’’ He was still looking at her—a flickeriin his eyes: “So— all right?” She flushed: guess it was—” He nodded. Chiekie said to Miss Underwood: ‘He'll be on duty again at 8. I don’t see how they stand it —” “Humph—but 1 still don’t understand why he did it that way—Dr. Oakum wouldn't have —” Un-

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derwood was one of those persons whose knowledge is like a poison oak or some other itch —bothersome and very much on the surface. She always had an opinion. Quite frequently this opinion differed from the doctor's. This never deterred her from expressing it. Now she said: “Dr. Oakum is mOre clever—don't you think so?” — “I don’t know —*’ “Well —Ramm is a friend of yours, isn’t he? You knew him before you came in?” “No—” “Is that so? I heard he was. You go out with him, don't you?” “No—” “Hazel Standard saw you—" Chiekie shruggjd. She was used by now to a dozen people keeping tab on her. It was like a big family and everyone- knew when you bought anew pair of shoes, when someone sent you a box of candy, and especially if someone called to take you out. (To Be Continued) (Copyright. King Feature Syndicate) Dizzy? Headache? Appetite Gone? Probably your liver is torpid, and at a result you have coated tongue, -onRtipation, sour stom-ch and poor digestion. Viuna gets /gilt at the seat ol the trouble, and r. the same time, corrects sluggish ki .neys and tones up the whole system. n a short time you feel like a different person—vigorous, clearheaded, able to eat without distress, able to enjoy living. Viuna has brought real health to thousands of sickly, nervous, worn-out people. Will you give it a chance? VIUNA The vegetable regulator. For Pleasure or Business Ront cne of our handsome sedans, disk wheels, balloon tires. Drivurself Indpls. Cos. At Plaza Garage LI. 6363, 30 W. Vermont St. EVERYTHING FOR BIRDS Bird Seed, 2 lbs. for \ 25c. Bird Cages, Stands and acees- > sories. We carry a splendid line of cages from $1.75 up. ” Everitt’s Seed Store 227 W. Wash. 3 and B N, Ala. OLD TRAILS” Automobile Insurance Assn. HOME OFFICE—INDIANAPOLIS PHONE. RILEY 1901 Broader Protection at Low Cost! Diamonds, Watches and Jewelry on Credit Kay Jewelry Cos. 137 W. Washington Street ' Rootless Plates . 1 1 .... . .... Buell Say About Our Rootles Plates “The roofless Plates that Drs. Eiteljorg & Moore made for us are perfectly wonderful and we are delighted with them. We certainly recommend them most highly. ‘ (’HAS. BUELL. ANNA BUELL 50 S. Fifth Are., Beech Grove. Eiteljorg & Moore Corner East Market and Circle Few Steps From C’lrcle Theater

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