Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 July 1936 — Page 20

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SHE prolonged tooting of the Sally G, in from Wincotta, pierced the deathly quiet of the Craddocks house in Snugbay Harbor. It was 2 in the morning. “She's hours late,” said Abiah Craddocks, just for something to

say. : “She is that,” agreed his neighbor, Deacon Sproul. Mehitable Craddocks, lank, oldmaidenly and forty-odd, sat in the old cane-seat rocker, as she had been sitting through all the dreadful hours since she and Abiah had realized that their little Jeddy— their only child—was lost. Rocking, rocking; silent, frozen. She broke silence now. . “Don’t go out again, Abiah. Stay with me. Let the others hunt.” “But, Mitty, I can’t stand doin’

coffee.” y 8 ” ” - Y wife'd be more’n glad to come back and set with you, ‘Mis’ Craddocks,” offered the Deacon. “I know. But Abiah and me, we're best alone this night. 'Tain’t na use . searchin’ anyhow, I'm afraid.” The mother withdrew again behind her icy barrier. Rocking, rocking, in the old chair in which she had rocked her only baby; her thin empty arms now tight-folded. “Guess I'd best humor her,” whispered Abiah to the Deacon, at the door. | : When the Deacon had gone, he came to her and laid a. clumsy gnarled hand on her bony shoulder. “Mitty—we must have faith.” “Faith! | “What's faith, without works?” Abiah sighed! “Let's go down to the shore and walk a spell.”

FORLORN suggestion; hut, to his surprise, welcomed. So down the steep rocky path, through bay and blueberry bushes, they went. The tide was in. Said the father, “Jeddy was so used to the water—no fear of his drowning.”

Throughout the day, they had thought their child was safely playing with the Brewer boys over in Fast Snugbay. where he often spent the day. Only when dark came, with no homing little boy, had they became alarmed. Abiah Craddocks was known among the neighbors as “A good man. but closer than the bark of a tree.” No telephone, no electricity, no car for him—although he was “well fixed.” He had to run over to the Sprouls’ to call up East Snugbay—only to learn that the Brewers had not laid eyes on his son that day. One anguished cry, and Jeddy’s mother. had withdrawn, into that ~ tearless silence, not broken until now. >

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S¥ and Abiah paced the shore until the cold drove them back to the empty house. At once, Mehitable sought the old rocking-chair again. She fook up the huge mail-order catalogue from the table, turned up the lamp, and turned the ragged pages. “The Brewer boys got a ‘lectric train last Christmas,” she said, dully. “Jeddy, he used fo leak and look at these here pictures of such . trains. , That's one reason—that train—he liked to go to the Brewers’. Always somewheres else for fun!” Abiah put up a trembling hand to hide his quivering lips. He spoke huskily. “If—when he comes home—TI'll get him—anything, Mitty. Guess I've been too close. Lottin’ too much on the future.” “Oh, I don’t blame you no more'n myself, Abiah. Pot and kittle. I jest feel we married too late to oughter raise a young one. Child of our old age. And just one is dretful

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lonesome, Abiah, with agin’ parents. Sot in our ways—you nursin’ dollars; me abettin’ you and cherishin’ my meat house above my little boy's fun. . God’s jedgment upon us, I guess.” | ” 8 » SHE got up and moved about the : prim, spotless room, touching objects that seemed still warm from

little boy hands. Absently, she took |

up a small iron savings bank from the mantel and shook it. “Abiah!” she cried, “Jeddy’s money's gone! All his little money he’s been savin’ so long from chores, to buy a sled! Our boy ain't lost! He's run away!” She sat down again, but she was unable to sit still, as before she had been unable to move. She got up and walked the floor. “Abiah, you remember that little orphan boy he took such a fancy to, that day we visited the Orphans’ Home in Wincotta. How he teased us to adopt that boy. ‘Gee, ma, I'd like a brother!’ he kept sayin’.” “You was as set agin it as me, Mitty.” / “Lonesome, Jeddy was. He run away from us, deliberate.”

” 2 =» i ON'T, Mitty. Don’t torment yourself so. I'll boil up some fresh coffee. You rest a spell and—" “Rest!” She opened the stairway door, and slowly she mounted. Her husband heard her strike a match, above. Then—he heard her calling softly to him. “Why, what's the matter, Mitty?” “Come! Come!” She led the way into their boy's austere chamber. And there, in Jeddy’s bed, lay two small boys, spread-eagled, sound asleep. \ “The goldurned little tyke!” whispered Albiah. “And look, Mitty! If he hain’t set his little alarm for 6! Aimin’ to do the chores early. To prove -two boys are more useful!

I~" Abiah’s voice failed him. He |

slid the lever of the little alarm clock to “Silent.”

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EHITABLE lightly touched her boy's tow head; then, the black curls of the orphan boy. The children did not stir. “They must have streaked it_ up Lere from the, Sally G while you and me were walking along the shore,” she whispered. She blew out the lamp’s low flame. She and her husband went quietly downstairs. _ Abiah started out—to take the glad news to the Sprouls and have the search called off. But he lingered a moment in the doorway, to say. “The smart little tyke! ‘Course, he shouldn't have done it—but he had it all figured out, innocent. well—they'll be. rakin’ Maine for that orphan! T'll have to telegraph, soon as Hank op2ns up the office.” “No,” said Mehitable. “You take the early boat to Wincotta, and you arrange for the adoption papers. Two boys don’t make much more muss and hullabaloo, and two boys —two boys are more fun.” ; | THE END: »

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APPEALS SIGNAL ORDER

Pennsylvania Railroad Attacks Bry-

ant (Ind.) Ordinance.

The Pennsylvania Railroad has

filed an appeal with the Public

Service Commission’ against an ordinance by the town of Bryant which sought to force the railroad to provide electric gongs and flasher signals at a crossing in the town. The petition alleges. that the board of trustees of Bryant have no authority to establish such an ordinance, and that a state law requires either gongs or flashers but not both. | |

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