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Then each of those who were arrested and who were 'in on the know, as you say, were given the $10 they put up for bail and $10 extra for being on hand to be arrested. Is that it?" "Dat's it." "And you figure that the 'Gink' wanted Gibson's raid to be a success because the 'Gink' has split with the bookmakers and wants to make trouble for them?" "Dat's da way I dope it," Murphy assented.
There was a lull suddenly in the noise of the race-course; the bookmakers' harsh shouts ceased, and even conversation stopped for a moment, for the last race had begun. The last race was an interesting event.
A dozen bookmakers turned leisurely to their slates, a dozen pieces of chalk were poised aggravatingly and a hoarse grunt of disappointment rose from the watchers. Black Bill the favourite, yes, but bet fives to win threes? Hardly. Wait a minute; don't go after it now. Maybe it'll go up. Regulator, 8 to 5 Holy Moses! What kind of booking is this, anyway? Miss Amber, 2 to 1.
The crowd saw it and howled, and the bookmakers screamed at the offending jockey as he rode off the course into the Paddock. "Plucky little effort!" shouted Old Mat in Silver's ear. "He deserved to pull it off." No harm, in fact, had been done.
Hereabouts, therefore, and hereafter, in as frank a fashion as heretofore, artlessly, too, and, but for crowding fancies, briefly shall follow a full and free confession of the embryo circulating library now in the book-case of my brain; only premising, for the last of all last times, that while I know it to be morally impossible that all should be pleased herewith, I feel it to be intellectually improbable that any one mind should equally be satisfied with each of the many parts of a performance so various, inconsistent, and unusual; premising, also, that wherein I may have stumbled upon other people's titles, it is unwittingly and unwillingly; for the age breeds books so quickly, that a man must read harder than I do to peruse their very names; and premising this much farther, that I profess to be a sort of dog in the manger, neither using up my materials myself, nor letting any one else do so; and that, whether I shall happen or not, at any time future to amplify and perfect any of these matters, I still proclaim to all bookmakers and booksellers, STEAL NOT; for so surely as I catch any one thus behaving and truly, my masters, the temptation is but small I will stick a "Sic vos, non vobis," on his brazen forehead.
Hereabouts, therefore, and hereafter, in as frank a fashion as heretofore, artlessly, too, and, but for crowding fancies, briefly shall follow a full and free confession of the embryo circulating library now in the book-case of my brain; only premising, for the last of all last times, that while I know it to be morally impossible that all should be pleased herewith, I feel it to be intellectually improbable that any one mind should equally be satisfied with each of the many parts of a performance so various, inconsistent, and unusual; premising, also, that wherein I may have stumbled upon other people's titles, it is unwittingly and unwillingly; for the age breeds books so quickly, that a man must read harder than I do to peruse their very names; and premising this much farther, that I profess to be a sort of dog in the manger, neither using up my materials myself, nor letting any one else do so; and that, whether I shall happen or not, at any time future to amplify and perfect any of these matters, I still proclaim to all bookmakers and booksellers, STEAL NOT; for so surely as I catch any one thus behaving and truly, my masters, the temptation is but small I will stick a "Sic vos, non vobis," on his brazen forehead.
Don't bet with those riff-raff, Berk. The great bookmakers will make you dead money, and the little Legs will do worse to you." The boy hung his head, but looked sulky rather than thankful for his brother's interference with himself and the welsher. "You have done the Turf a service, Beauty a very great service; there's no doubt about that," said the Seraph.
Your idea is the best, P. Q. Sit tight for a while and see what happens next." John told the story of his experience in Gibson's raid on the Spring street bookmakers to two other persons, the mayor and the publisher of the paper that employed him, Cyrus W. Phillips, known fraternally to his men as the "chief."
"I don't think so." "Did you know that Charlie Parker had enlisted in the Army?" "I have heard so." "When you heard that Taylor was arrested what did you do?" "I was greatly distressed and wrote to tell him so." "When did you first meet Fred Atkins?" "In October or November, '92." "Did he tell you that he was employed by a firm of bookmakers?" "He may have done."
Their place was in some degree taken, or rather usurped, for it was without Doggie's volition, by "Taffy" Jones, once clerk to a firm of outside bookmakers. As Doggie had never seen a racecourse, had never made a bet, and was entirely ignorant of the names even of famous Derby winners, Taffy regarded him as an astonishing freak worth the attention of a student of human nature.
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