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To such as were simple enough to expect a crooked man to return straight answers to foolish questions, Pitkin stated that he was not betting a plugged nickel on his colt, that he hardly figured to have a chance with such horses as Calloway and Hartshorn, that he might possibly be third if he got the best of the breaks, and that he had lost his regular jockey and was forced to give the mount to a bad little boy about whom he knew nothing.
Now, then, this is a mile race, and Calloway will go out in front he always does. Lay in behind him and stay there till you get to the head of the stretch, then shake up the colt and come on with him. He can stand a long, hard drive under whip and spur, so give it to him good and plenty from the quarter pole home.
Calloway did this in face of the fact that General Kuroki was making his moves and laying his plans with the profoundest secrecy as far as the world outside his camps was concerned. The correspondents were forbidden to send out any news whatever of his plans; and every message that was allowed on the wires was censored with rigid severity.
Boone made a signal to Calloway to take a sure aim at the sleeping Indian, so as to be able to despatch him in a moment, if the emergency rendered that expedient necessary. Boone, the while, crawled round, so as to reach the waking Indian from behind; intending to spring upon him and strangle him, so as to prevent his making a noise to awaken the sleeper.
Let us drop the curtain over the rest of the race Hartshorn won it in a neck-and-neck drive with Calloway just as Shea was flogging the bay colt past the sixteenth pole and we will lift the curtain again at the point where the judges summoned Pitkin into the stand to ask him for an explanation of Sergeant Smith's pitiful showing.
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