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"He's got to put a hundred thousand down, or he don't get her. Old man's no mug." "Don't get who?" asked the other. "Minie," shortly. The fat man absorbed the news. "Hundred thousand down," continued Monkey. "That's the contrak writ out in red ink on parchment. It's a fortune." Joses was recovering himself. "It's nothing to what the mare'll carry all said," he mused.
"The old mare'll soon take you there, sir," said the driver. I jumped in. But at this moment I saw a man on the platform beckoning with his hand and hastening towards me. The cabman also saw him and waited. I dared not tell him to drive on, for I feared to betray any undue haste, and it would have looked strange not to spare a moment to my wife's cousin, Anton von Strofzin.
"Get out, you blackguards!" said he, raising his tandem whip, as if to strike them. "Get out, you robbers! Are you going to take the cart and horses clean away from me? That mare'll settle some of ye, if you make so free with her! she's not a bit too chary of her hind feet. Get out of that, I tell you;" and he lightly struck with the point of his whip the boy who had Lambert Brown's horse.
"That'll do for me," declared Danby. "To tell you the truth, John, I like the little mare myself; but I hear that Langdon, who trained Lauzanne, expects to win." "The mare'll be there, or thereabouts," asserted her owner; "I never knew a Lazzarone yet much good as a two-year-old. They're sulky brutes, like the old horse; and if Lucretia's beat, it won't be Lauzanne that'll turn the trick."
"He'll get no dollars out o' me. I ain't got 'em," replied Nicholls hopelessly. Then his temper rose. "But I'm just goin' to sleep with a gun to my hand, an' he'll get it good an' plenty, if he shoots the life out of me, an' burns every stick I got, after." Scipio nodded sympathetically. "I'd feel that ways," he said. "Well, I guess I'll be gettin' on. My mare'll be fed an' rested by this.
"Well," said Christina, still doubtful of her part in the play, "if you're scared to come with me girls, you needn't, but I can't wait " "Look here, Trooper," cried Duke, "hop in there and drive them kids home. That car at McKenzies looks like a thrashin' machine an' that mare'll go clean crazy. Here Christine, here's Trooper, he'll go with you."
The little mare'll have a straight run this trip. Here's the b'y comin' now, and a good b'y he is." A little man in blue jacket and white stars joined them, saluting Miss Allis with his riding whip. "Are you going to win, Redpath?" asked the girl. "I'm going to try, Miss. She's a sweet mare to ride, but it's a big field. There's some boys riding that ought to be in the stable rubbing horses."
"Well, we both can't win," he said, half insolently; "an' I don't think there's anything out to-day'll beat Lauzanne." "That mare'll beat him," retorted Porter, curtly, nettled by the other's cocksureness. "I'll bet you one horse against the other, the winner to take both," cried Langdon in a sneering, defiant tone. "I've made my bets," said Lucretia's owner, quietly.
But, thank you all the same, and you, too, Mrs. Taylor, I don't think I'll stay. It's getting late and the mare'll get cold." "Put her in the shed." "No, I think I'll be toddling. My missus says I was to give you her compliments, Mrs. Taylor, and she'll be round to-morrow to see if there's anything you want." "That's very kind of her. Thank you very much."
"And look, look! Bob's in the seat you'll win your money now. Well, Bob Gayner, afther that you'll never live till you're drowned! Come away to the double ditch; that's where they'll show what they're made of the mare'll be cooled now, and she'll run as easy as a coach-horse."
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