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"Yes, I bet you twenty thousand guineas that you do not pass the winning-post ahead of me! And what's more, non-starters to forfeit their money! Oh, egad, I'll take you!" "And I also," said Mr. Chichester, opening his betting-book. "Gentlemen, you are all witnesses of the bet. Come, Viscount, Slingsby, here's good money going a-begging why not gather it in eh, Marquis?"
It was not until after school that an opportunity offered itself. He went across to Outwood's and found the two non-starters in the senior day-room, engaged in the intellectual pursuit of kicking the wall and marking the height of each kick with chalk. Adair's entrance coincided with a record effort by Stone, which caused the kicker to overbalance and stagger backwards against the captain.
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