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"Why, it's a ten-to-one shot the track'll end on your claim." With one accord all looked across the level quarter, where the new green was creeping in after the late rains. "A railroad! An' a town!" The section-boss pulled at his grizzled goatee. "They'll make this piece worth a heap!" "They will," agreed Lounsbury.
Anything that beats that pair, fit and well, a mile and a quarter on a fast track'll have to make it in two-five, an' that's the record." "It looks good business for the Derby, Langdon." "Yes, it does. That's the first showing I've had from the colt as a three-year-old; but I knew he had it in him.
Then he shifted the direction of his pointing finger to a distant house on the hillside, which stood in full view. "The track'll take you to that shanty there, with the veranda facing this way. That's Charlie Bryant's place, and, unless I'm mistaken, that's your brother standing right there on the veranda looking out this way. For a rancher he don't seem busy.
I believed it six months ago, when Elliott and Ainnesley and the rest of them were so keen for it, and I believe it still, even though I have seen Elliott's engineer and know what he has already accomplished. That track'll never go through on schedule and that's why I'm up here for the winter. It's going to be a hot little race against time, with some millions for a purse.
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