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Updated: May 23, 2025
"What do you mean 'Sabota having th' Ramblin' Kid doped?" he asked sharply. "Why, didn't you know?" the hostler replied. "I thought everybody knowed. Gyp Streetor told me about it the day of the race I used to know Gyp when he was a kid back east. I saw him as he was beating it to get out of town. He borrowed five dollars from me.
"Well, he won the race," Parker said admiringly, "drunk or sober, you've got to give him credit for that!" Saturday the Ramblin' Kid got Pedro to stay with the horses while he went over to the Elite Amusement Parlor. He had nothing to say to Sabota or any of the loafers in the place. He was looking for Gyp Streetor. Until Sunday afternoon he searched Eagle Butte, trying to find the tout.
Tom Poole arrested him, but th' Ramblin' Kid got the drop on him and got away. He was justified in beating Sabota up anyhow," he added, "on account of the dirty cuss hiring a feller to 'dope' him so he couldn't ride the maverick the day of the big race " "'Dope' him?" Old Heck interrupted, puzzled. "Yes," Skinny explained, "the Greek had a feller named Gyp Streetor put some stuff in th' Ramblin?
Wednesday night he called "Gyp" Streetor, a carnival tout, who had one time been a jockey but was ruled off the track for crooked work and was now picking up "easies" at the Eagle Butte Rodeo, into a side room of the Amusement Parlor. For half an hour the two talked earnestly and furtively. "Nothin' doin' absolutely nothin'!" the tout finally said in reply to some suggestion of Sabota's.
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