Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-06-10
Daily Short Story
By ANTHONY RUD

BY ANTHONY RUD
| TEDOMITABLE courage is bred
Tin his breed, and that is why
| here Is a tale 10 tell of Danny.
1.-Two minutes and forty seconds
4ffer the pair Of torpedoes struck
hfr, the Trondjem buckled her
torn plates and sank in the mile
deep Atlantic. Save for slight
. feg that streamed here and there
0Ser the tossing black waters. the
| forbidding cliffs of the Orkneys
| would have been in sight.
But who was there 20 see or
| care, save the cynical men who
stood on the washing deck OF the
| U-boat. and noted that the Trond-
| lem had not managed 10 dump a
dory from the davits?
There seemed 10 be little point
| N machine cunning the few black
dots who were struggling SWIM
| mers, so the Jerrys retired into
the bosom of their tin fish, and
went onward, looking for other
helpless prey.
Danny. the boxer. property Of
Second Mate Jan Mortensen. broke
the surface of the chilly sea about
IS seconds after he had been
sucked down into the after-funnel
81 the stricken freighter.
Danny was swimming furiously,
and came up so fast he broke
water almost like tarpon start
ing its leap at the spur of the
barbed hook.
For minutes on endthen ne
swan in circles. shifting the salt
spume. Danny was a sober
minded and completely single
minded dog. wrapped up in loyalty
10 one man alone.
a He was searching for Jan
8ortensen, but finding no sign of
Hat master-or indeed of any
4her survivor Of the ill-fated
Gondjem.
HE SEEMS TIRELESS
Al But no matter how the strug-
cling human swimmers had Jared.
since they were not well equipped
Nth instincts given TO this giant.
streamlined, caoutchouc muscled
BULLDOG plus.
Danny kept swimming -. and
,nce he decided the master was
Dot near his strokes kept him
moving slowly but steadily for the
Ahore, distanct perhaps two miles.
He could swim all day and all
light il need be.
Exhaustion was something that
never came to him, except he was
Il ienied necessary food over long
4eriod of time. During slum days
with his master, before the latter
aad gone TO sea, there had been
such periods. Not for over three
pears now, though. ~
VA Danny came TO the base of the
-liff on the crest of a long, ravel-
ng roller.
When the tons of water tried to
snatch him back into the ocean,
shough, he scurried his capable
egs. just held his own for an in
ytant or two, then suddenly shot
Forward and out to a rocky, sea-
shelled strand, where white gulls
Rheeled. and gray shapes Of seals
lay about on a low scarp that was
their mating ground.
For a good hour the big white
1og-white save for two brown
and-black marks over his eyebrows
-picked his way back and forth
above the incoming tide.
but at length the shore mar
rowed and disappeared. Danny
bad to climb the cliff then, or go
back TO swimming. He climbed.
IA Naturally he looked for men and
their habitations, but found none.
nere was a small village several
niles distant on this wild, forbid
mig island, but the rest was
mostly gorse, bracken, heather
I'd third-growth, stunted forest
4herein game was plentiful.
&Ravenously hungry, yet COM
Dlete stranger to the wild. Danny
9Fns forced TO shift for himself or
4arve. Many a dog might have
node few attempts vainly. then
1iren up TO eat rotted clans and
Skirlies. and sicken unto death.
n But Danny. wrinkling his smooth
brow just trifie, decided that live
fi1eat would have to be his dish.
PLENTY OF 1T ABOUT
From the scents, there seemed
10 be plenty Of it about. But from
bheer chance il was a roebuck that
Danny CHANGED upon first. and
chased.
Il Now IL is true that a boxer
BOSSES both keen scent and good
Dyes, and that a roebuck is the
hiniest of the Orkney deer, but
ven his excellent faculties and
6reless speed-a speed on the level
which would almost match that OF
b whippet--Danny never made a
meal of roebuck haunch.
The sad truth was that the little
Heer enjoyed himself thoroughly
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