near-off

Updated: May 11, 2025

When she consented finally to risk the money, she did not know that Willy Forrest was the man who laid against her horse, and that if she lost it would be to him. "The boss is good enough," he told himself, "but the near-off is dicky or I never saw one. She'll lose the money and the old boy will pay up if I compel her to ask him. That depends on the kid.

Sir Max Pemberton - Aladdin of London : or, Lodestar