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"I've got an appointment to meet the First Lord this very afternoon, as luck would have it, so I'll mention the matter to him, and I've no doubt the youngster'll get his nomination in a day or two, at the outside. By-the-bye where are you stopping in London? You haven't told me that yet." My father, thereupon, gave him our address.
Here was a matter in which his rights must not be invaded. He, too, would have gone far to serve a man of Edward Gilder's standing, but in this instance his professional pride was in revolt. He had been defied, trapped, made a victim of the gang who had killed his most valued informer. "The youngster'll go free when he tells what he knows," he said angrily, "and not a minute before."
Hanover was a great horse to my mind we never had his equal in America but this youngster'll be as good as his daddy ever was. I don't think you ought to start him, sir, till the Derby, if you're set on winnin' it." He had moved up to the gate as he talked, and now opened it, waiting for the boys to come back.
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