Evening star., 1923-05-27

4 dainty head, no challenge in the dis
tended notwithstanding but despair
and anguish written in every line
of Susanna's slig figure
The Kids lips buttoned. and his
mind flashed back to the afternoon
when Susanna. at fifteen to one cap
tured the Lexington Baby Stakes on
her first start. and then dragged
four colored grooms twice around the
barn in a terpsichorean revel. That
was but the first of her triumphs. and
| the Information Kid had played her
every time.
ITS murder, all right" he NUT
tered. THAT guy Nixon has put the
old oofy-soof on the little filly; there
amt no Virginia horse that can live
under the colors OF a crook. Yea,
boone OF these days she'll bust
herself aEainst the fence. and then
some greasy slob will walk forward
with q sat. Bang!--and the glue
works. Gee, what finish for q
queen
He tramped disconsolately back to
the ring, and McIvor beckoned to
him. The bookmaker had followed
the Kids advice and had bet the
| followers OF Susanna to q standstill.
Nixon and his trainer Just had a
| fist fight back OF the stands" con-
| fided McIvor. Bart accused Jim OF
| doping the filly. and he's gone down
to the barns with a veterinarian. See
what you can find out"
| The Kid shook his head gloomily.
mo use. I was talking to one of the
J stable rubbers last night aud he told
me Susanna was the poorest feeder
he ever saw. I didn't say nothing.
| but / know that when she's right,
she's manger glutton. One of the
| jocks told whalen about the filly
being daft over tomatoes, and he
ordered basket Of them. All she
did was back away. There's no
veterinarian going to cure that look
in Susanna's eyes. She's just begein'
! for something, and if 1 knew what
it was. I'd get II for her, even IL 1t
was my right leg"
The handsome knight of the black
| board favored his friend with q
| curious glance. Experience had
taught, him that sentiment usually
| interfered with good judgment, and
! the latter was his stock in trade.
The fact that Susanna had raced
| thirty pounds below form had made
a difference in his favor OF $4,000.
His chief concern was to make sure
that her indisposition was not such
| that it would vanish overnight as
soon as the price.layers grew care
| less, and Bart Nixon slipped the right
word to his friends.
| But the Information Kid had called
| the turn. One after another, as the
days went by. skilled veterinarians
| examined Susanna and none could
diagnose her ailment. Dawn O. vir-
ginia's daughter remained in her
stall, quiet and sad-eyed, and the
golden -ch estnut limbs with the
white stockings moved only auto
matically in the hopeless early
I morning exercise. Susanna was
tinued to revolve other theories in his
but the appearance OF fairy prince
knights Of the rag spread the tip
| straight from the fodder troughs that
/ the virginia star would never wear
racing plates again. she had internal
| henorrhasee, they said, and Nixon
was trying to unload her while there
was yet time. The Information Kid
/ scowlad at this explanation and con-
| tinued to revolve other tnories in his
| fertile imagination. And somehow
the fancy crept into his mind that
Dawn o virginia's daughter needed
I but the appearance OF q 1aiy pTinCe