Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1936 — Page 17

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OU'RE—you're goin’ to sell Dandy!” There was a catch in the boy's throat, “Aw, gee, Dad— have you got to?” “It's just that, Tom—I've got to. The Tarm ain't doin’ so well, an’ a 20-year-old horse doesn’t pay for his keep. I'm plumb sorry, son.” “Aw, gee—" began the boy, twisting his bare toes in the earth of the farmyard. “Tell you what I'll dé, Tom. Tomorrow’s the Fourth of July, ain't —4t? Now, the feller I sold him to is comin’ for him this afternoon, an’ when he pays me, I'll give you two bucks for yourself. You cn blow it on fireworks or anythin’ you want. How's that?” The boy brightened for a moment, but soon his eyes were somber again as his thoughts went back to Dandy. His father's hand gripped his frail shoulder sympathetically. “Here's the feller now.”

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RED-FACED MAN with a rope 4 halter swinging from his arm had come in from the road. The boy faded into the background and watched the deal concluded. The man paid his money, slipped the halter onto Dandy's head, swung himself onto the horse's back, and turned him in the direction of the highway. At the gate, he pulled up to speak to the woe-begone youngster, who was waiting there, : “Wotcher want, Bub?” “Will—will you tell you're taking him?” | “Where I'm takin’ him?” repeated the man. He shrugged and grunted. “I'm takin’ him a lang ways from here, an’ I guess that's all you need to know.” “Then—then, would you do some- - thin’ for me, mister? It ain’t much. You see, every night before I go to bed, I sneak down to the barn jest to say good-night to him an'— an’ I give him these!” He opened a small fist. to reveal two lumps of sugar. “He'll miss it, I reckon. I—I thought, if you'd just give him these tonight—for me—" | For a fleeting instant, there was a queer softening of the man’s face before it stiffened again to its nor- . mal hardness. Abruptly, with the loose end of the halter, he struck

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Brivo his lips to check a sob, Tom turned away. Slowly, he trudged up a path which took him to the crest of a small hill behind the house. ’ From the branches of an apple tree, he had a view of the highway as it wound across the valley. There were the man and the horse. Tom watched them as they moved onward. Soon, they'd come to a curve in the road, and after that, he would never look again on the gentle old creature that had been his pal— They did not reach the curve! Just short of it, the | man guided Dandy from the highway through the handsome granite gates of the Kidrick estate. His eyes wide, Tom watched their progress until they reached the stable where wealthy, pompous - Nathaniel Kidrick kept his blooded, blue-ribbon horses. e stable door opened to admit them, then closed behind them. . . . “Geel” whispered Tom, and wriggled so excitedly that he nearly fell from the tree. “I wonder—gee!” 2 a |» HE carefully did] not tell his A father what he| had seen. His father had no use at all for Nat Kidrick and had sternly forbidden Tom ever to set foot on the old mau’s place—and Tom had no wish to be reminded of the ban just now! Right after supper hé went to bed with a willingness that surprised his mother. |As soon as it was dark, however, he was up again. He slipped out of the window of his ground-floor room and stole away into tiie might. In one moist paw were clutched two lumps of sugar. . . . ji ‘The Kidrick stable, when he got there, was dark, and) silent save for

the thud of restless: hoofs. Tom entered cautiously. “Dandy!” he called softly. An answering whinny came from

a stall on his left. |He groped his

DAILY SHORT STORY ET Sugar for Dandy

A Fourth of July Story By Armstrong Livingston

ATHANIEL KIDRICK was giving a Fourth of July party for his grandchildren and some of their little playmates. There were things to eat first, and then, as soon as it was dark, there would be fireworks down by the pond that was close to the stables. Mr. Kidrick, unwontedly genial, promised to lend a hand himself. With those roman candles, for instance. He had procured some fine large roman candles. , .. He loosed the contents of two successfully, but with the third, came catastrophe. Either the candle had been badly made, or else something unaccountably diverted his aim. Instead of soaring harmlessly aloft to drop finally into the pond, several large balls of flame went flaring off at a sharp angle. Even the children shouted in consternation as the fiery missiles hurtled through an operi embrasure in the hayloft of the stable. “Fire!” cried old man Kidrick in anguished accents. “My horses!” He started running in the direction of the stable, but stopped as 8 number of things happened most unexpectedly. Men came rushing from the shadows about the stable. They tore into the building and up to the loft and began frantically to piteh out masses of blazing hay. Another man, a silver star on his left lapel, strolled up to Nathaniel Kidrick and dropped .a heavy hand on that gentleman's shoulder. . . .

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ALF an hour later, a reporter was eagerly beseeching the sheriff to give him the story. ‘What was Kidrick’s game?” he demanded, his pencil poised. “Insurance fraud. He needed money, so he took his horses away on the quiet, then got ready for a fire. But he had to have burned horses’ bones to show, so he filled his stalls with nags he picked up cheap.” : “But who tipped you off?” The sheriff gestured toward where a boy and a horse, their heads together, were communing happily. “That's Noonan’s lad—Tom. The horse was sold by Noonan to one of the crooks workin’ for Kidrick, an’ the boy happened to see where the critter was taken. He came here last evenin’—wanted to bring his pal some sugar. he says. When some men came in an’ started talkin’, he hid behind a feed box. They let out enough to put him wise, so when the coast was clear, he got out an’ come to me with the story. Then I fixed up an ambush to catch Mr. Kidrick in the act of commitin’ arson—arson with Fourth of July fireworks for camouflage! A man that would burn up a horse-—ugh!” “Ugh is right! Say—that youngster ought to get a medal.” “A medal? Well, I dunno . jest what he'd do with that, but the insurance agent has jest been tellin’ me he can fix it so the company will give the boy back his horse an’ a nice little check besides.” ? THE END

1936. by _ United Feat Syndicate, Inc.) ealure

368 TAXI STICKERS ARE ISSUED BY CITY

$7655 Received in Cab Fees Under Ordinance, Boetcher Says.

Walter C. Boetcher, city ‘controller, today said that 368 windshield tax-stickers for taxicabs had

been issued. ; He said that $7655 in taxi fees, under the new ordinance, were collected yesterday. All fees must be paid by July 3. Mr. Boetcher estimated that the potential revenue from taxi fees would be approximately $26,000. : Dog license fees must be paid by Wednesday, he said.

48 WOMEN PRESENT AT CANNING SCHOOL

Instructions Given at Purdue Under Supervision of WPA.

Fifty-eight women representing 41 towns are attending a week's teacher training school in canning methods at Purdue University under the supervision of the WPA and the Governor's Unemployment Relief Commission. Half the class cooks in the morn-

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