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She was getting the thrills she had pined for with a vengeance, now that her freedom, her future, were to be colored by the issue of the race. The Heathflower thing could not win, of course; still, it was pure delight to have her so far redeem herself. If she was even near the real contenders at the finish, Billy's faith would be justified.
So many, at shorter odds, had already fallen out, there would be distinction in staying all the way. If the impossible happened, the Heathflower thing won, then she would have Hilary in a very proper frame of mind. Losing always hurt him dreadfully it would be gall and wormwood to have lost to such a winner.
Adair, watching him narrowly, saw it also whiten when, at the second mile post, the three leaders swept the turn barely heads apart, with the Heathflower thing right on their heels. More than that, she was running strongly, easily, clearly not distressed, although Aramis, still leading, rolled the least bit. Could that leggy bay really stay the route?
"'Tain't much only a thousand. Lordy! if I could, wouldn't I burn up these ringsters! You ought to a-heard 'em, Miss Allys, when I went at 'em. 'The Heathflower thing, did you say? the first one asked me. 'Oh, say! do you want to rob us poor fellows?
The fields then are greener than in the heats of July and June, they have got back the luxury of a second spring. And still, beside the paths of the travellers, lingered on the hedges the clustering honeysuckle the convolvulus glittered in the tangles of the brake the hardy heathflower smiled on the green waste.
The Heathflower thing came straight off the course, and stood spiritlessly, drooping her head and blinking her eyes. Clear eyes, matching the loose, satiny skin, beneath which whipcord muscles stood out, or played at each least motion, they told the eye initiate that she was in the pink of condition.
I'm sure you couldn't tell half so much about either of us," Adair said, with a deeply injured air. Allys shook her head at him. "They are dears," she said, emphatically. "And they taught me a lot I should never have known about horses and men." "Anything specific as about the Heathflower thing?" Hilary asked, affecting to speak with awe. Allys nodded. "A heap," she said.
Whenever we rode out he was my steadfast gallant he managed somehow to pass through or by or around Haw Bush, where the Heathflower thing was bred. Old Major Mediwether, her owner, is Billy's best chum. They match beautifully though the major is nearly eighty, and Billy just my age rising nineteen." "They must have made it interesting for you.
"Don't you see the favorites have got so much on their backs, the longer they wheel and turn, the more they take out of themselves?" he asked. "I'll bet they are frettin' like everything, too. See there! One of them chestnut-sorrels can't tell whether it's Aramis or Aldegonde is cuttin' up high didoes. And the Heathflower thing standin' like a little lamb "
The cheers, the roars, mounted in deafening volume. The Heathflower thing answered them by going down, down, till it seemed she lay quite flat on earth. And then she came up, up, with a leap so long, so lancelike, it recovered all she had lost. Again she thrust herself forward the horses either side of her thrust as far.
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