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"Oh, come, come!" cried the Duke, delighted, as he hurried after his party. "Where's Mrs. Woodburn?" Chukkers joined the two J's, who were hobnobbing with some of Ikey's Own under the Grand Stand. Monkey Brand and Joses stood together on the outskirts of the group. Jaggers, austere as the Mogul Emperor, approached the tout. "You're a monkey down, Joses," he said, cold and quiet.

It was said that if a wall-eyed pack mule, carrying quartz in the Nevadas, showed a disposition to gallop and jump he would be in Ikey's stable in a fortnight, and, if he made good, at Dewhurst within six months. It was, of course, with the Walers that the little Levantine came nearest his desire. He imported them into the old country on a scale never before dreamed of.

Ikey's legs carried him to and into that famous place of entertainment known as the Cafe Maginnis famous because it was the rendezvous of Billy McMahan, the greatest man, the most wonderful man, Ikey thought, that the world had ever produced. Billy McMahan was the district leader. Upon him the Tiger purred, and his hand held manna to scatter.

Flushed with happiness, Herrick tossed Ikey's cage out of the wagon, and opened the door of the one that held Bruno and Clara. On their part, there was a moment of doubt. As though suspecting a trap, they moved to the edge of the cage, and gazed critically at the screen of trees and tangled vines that rose before them. "They think it's a new backdrop," explained Kelly.

"Ikey's got two other horses in." "Which?" "There's old Jackaroo in the purple and gold, Rushton riding." "Which is the second Dewhurst horse?" "This in the canary. Flibberty-gibbet. Little Boy Braithwaite." "He's only a nipper." "He can ride, though." "They're to nurse the crack through the squeeze." "She'll want nursing." "She's all right if she stands up till Beecher's Brook."

"Selling them?" inquired the Virginian. "Solid goods, my friend. Havana wrappers, the biggest tobacco proposition for five cents got out yet. Take it, try it, light it, watch it burn. Here." And he held out a bunch of matches. The Virginian tossed a five-cent piece over to him. "Oh, no, my friend! Not from you! Not after Ikey's. I don't forget you. See? I knowed your face right away. See?

Aunt Martha heard my comment on Ikey's infirmity and was about to become intensely sympathetic and tell him how her brother's wife was cured when Bunch interrupted loudly by asking after Uncle Peter's health. "Never better," answered Aunt Martha. "He has spent all the morning arranging the program of dancing for our little party.

Mocassin was being led into the Paddock. Nothing could be seen of her. Ikey's Own had formed a close-linked phalanx about her. No Englishman might penetrate that jealous barrier or help to form it. Within its sacred circle the mare was being stripped and saddled. Then there came another roar. Chukkers was up in the star-spangled jacket.

At a greater distance stood all of the servants and farm hands, and as the wagon backed against the gate, with the door of Ikey's cage opening against it, the entire audience, with one accord, moved solidly to the rear. Herrick, with a pleased but somewhat nervous smile, mounted the wagon. But before he could unlock the cage Kelly demanded to be heard.

Once or twice there were rows between Ikey's Own the Yankee doodlers, as the local wits called them and the English silver-ring bookies; and the cause of the quarrels was invariably the same the treatment of the mare at last year's National. Throughout the week Boy went her quiet, strenuous way, unconscious of the commotion about her, or careless of it.