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I love you though you have only twelve thousand a year. And all over the hall we caught such phrases as, 'Yes, he dropped 25,000 on Non Sequitur at Bennings. 'Oh, just down for three weeks at Palm Beach, you know. 'Two millions in three weeks, they say, mostly out of Copper and Q.C.B. 'Yes, just back from South Dakota on the best of terms. Then the room vanished, we were by the sea, and Alice said wistfully, 'How limited our lives are, dear."
"My roll was just five thousand strong, and I began to wish for about two thousand more, so that I could take the little wife over the wild waves and point out Paris and the Riviera to her. In Washington I met a quick talker named Ike Gibson and he played me for a good, steady listener. Ike showered me with cinches and in short order I was down with Bennings fever. And then "
Uncle William Grey tiptoed into the parlor for a few moments and began to congratulate me on the good reports he had had from Alice with regard to my ability to save a bit of money. I could feel myself shrivelling up as he talked and the parlor began to turn around and start for the Bennings track." "I know the feeling," I said earnestly.
Old horsemen will tell you that Schwalliger no one knew where he got the name was rolling and tumbling about the track at Bennings when he was still so short in stature that he got the name of the "tadpole."
He may as well put aside his energy and say, "Well, perhaps he was a bad lot, but ." The present story is not destined to put you more in love with the hero of it, but The heat and enthusiasm at Saratoga and the other race-courses was done, and autumn and the glory of Bennings had come. The ingratiating Schwalliger came back with the horses to his old stamping ground and to happiness.
You went to Bennings, got dizzy, did a couple of Arabs and lose the price of a wedding trip that's all. Now we must get that money back before the minister steps up to start the fight." "How can I win out $3,500 in seven weeks, I'd like to know!" Bunch moaned. "A cincherine," I came back. "I've got a scheme cooking that will put you and me all to the splendid in short order."
This alleged unknown, with a suppressed record of victories at Sheepshead, Bennings, and The Fort, did no more than shove his long nose under the wire a bare half head in front of Black Eagle's foam-flecked muzzle. It was sufficient. The once wild stallion knew when he was beaten. He had done his best and he had lost. His high pride had been humbled, his fierce spirit broken.
While in Washington you met a couple of wise voices who talked nothing but sure-things, so you for the Bennings race track to spill your coin, eh, Beau?" "Well, John, I'll tell you how it was," Bunch tried to square himself.
The police at Bennings were not slow to answer a call like this, and they came running up, and Schwalliger, who, among other things, was something of an actor, told his story trembling, incoherently, while the operator looked on aghast. Schwalliger demanded protection. He had been robbed.
Some critics have thought the Tirlinks to be the same person with Liewena Bennings or Benic, whose story, as we know it, is much the same as the above. <b>TORMOCZY, BERTHA VON.</b> Diploma of honor, Budapest and Agram. Born at Innspruck, 1846. Pupil of Hausch, Her, and Schindler. Among her pictures are "Girl in the Garden," "Blossoming Meadows," "Autumn Morning," and a variety of landscapes.
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