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"Trouble, trouble, trouble, like gnats on a filly's flank!" and in spluttering words, twice bracketed in muscadella, he told of Michel de la Foret's arrest, and of his purpose to go to England if he could get a boat to take him. "'Tis that same business brings me here," said Buonespoir, and forthwith told of his meeting with Angele and what was then agreed upon.
"If I could hold my watch on him," said Nal to himself, "I'd give a hundred dollars." A smile illumined his pleasant features as he remembered that Mr. Bobo, like himself, was sitting upon the anxious seat. That same afternoon he had tried, in vain, to extract from Nal some information about the filly's speed. The old man's weakness, if he had one, was betting heavily upon a certainty.
Dropping the reins upon his filly's neck and allowing her to choose her own gait, he drew his Newbern paper from his pocket, and began looking for the article of which Mark Goodwin had spoken. He could not run amiss of it, for the black headlines were too prominent.
"That Captain Jack horse would murder any man but th' Ramblin' Kid that tried to get in the stall " "Well, by hell!" the Greek exclaimed, clenching his hairy fists, while his mouth twitched with passion, "that filly's got to be kept out of the sweepstakes someway or other "
It was the shifting of the weight that seemed to bring home to the grey filly the true facts of the case, and with the discovery she shot straight up into the air as if she had been fired from a mortar. The rope whistled through Johnny Connolly's fingers, and the point of the filly's shoulder laid him out on the ground with the precision of a prize-fighter.
The filly's getting used to the idea of a bit, and will go steady from now on." All of which went to show how little the squire understood the nature of women, for the lack of tears should have been the most alarming fact in his daughter's conduct.
Without a word she handed it to Garrison, and he spread it out on his filly's mane. It was a photograph of a jockey Billy Garrison. The face was more youthful, care-free. Otherwise it was a fair likeness. "You'll admit it looks somewhat like you," said Sue, with great dryness. Garrison studied it long and carefully. "Yes I do," he murmured, in a perplexed tone. "A double. Funny, isn't it?
"'Och! by the elevens, says Jack, 'we're done at last; it's the dark fellow, and half the country after us. 'Put your hand, says she, 'in the filly's right ear, and tell me what you find in it. 'Nothing at all, says Jack, 'but a weeshy bit of a dry stick. 'Throw it over your left shoulder says she, 'and see what will happen. Jack did so at once, and there was a great grove of thick trees growing so close to one another, that a dandy could scarcely get his arm betwixt them.
The lad, who feared Miss Boy as he did the devil, obeyed with alacrity. "Put me up!" Boy ordered. Again the lad obeyed, and the next thing he was aware of was the swish of the filly's thoroughbred tail as she disappeared round the corner of the street. An hour later the girl clattered into the yard at Putnam's, the filly in a foam. Monkey Brand, a chamois leather in his hand, came running out.
She almost sniffed, and she became angry, too, that a man like Crozier, who had faced the offensive Augustus Burlingame in the witness-box as he did; who took the bullet of the assassin with such courage; who broke a horse like a Mexican; who could ride like a leech on a filly's flank, should crumple up at the thought of a woman who, anyhow, couldn't be taller than Crozier himself was, and hadn't a hand like a piece of steel and the skin of an antelope.
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