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He finds that the favourite is at two to one, and Royal Scot at threes, eight to one being offered against anything else. "What are you backing?" he says. "Favourite and Royal Scot," says the Oracle. "Put a pound on Bendemeer," says the tipster. "It's a certainty. Meet me here if it comes off, and I'll tell you something for the next race. Don't miss it now. Get on quick!"
There was even a totalisator for those, which meant everybody who could obtain an advance on his pay-book, who liked what is called in racing circles "a flutter"; and there were always several amateur "bookies" as well. The only adjunct familiar to the race-courses at home missing from our meetings was the professional tipster, with his information "straight from the horse's nosebag."
The ideal tipster would at once be a great historian a great antiquary, a great zoologist, a great mathematician, and a man of profound common-sense. It is no accident that an ex-Prime Minister was one of the few Englishmen to spot the winner of the Derby of 1920.
This deprived Gilmartin of his income as a tipster. Griggs had kept on speculating and had lost all his money and his wife's in a little deal in Iowa Midland. All that Gilmartin could hope to get from him was an occasional invitation to dinner. Mrs.
The killer was determined to destroy this other the first chance he got. His mind was now weighing chances and possible opportunities and Hanlon read and learned. Yes, this must be one of those "interesting people" that unknown SS tipster back on Terra had mentioned. Was the victim another? Probably. For Hanlon had not yet read any thoughts in this killer's mind about any confederates.
He himself was no tipster, he was an owner; he even went the length of flashing a bright yellow badge, as occult evidence of his standing. These matters did not interest the searcher in the slightest; they only wasted his precious time. If he did not find Alan Porter soon the stolen money would be lost, he felt sure. "I must find my friend," he said, cutting the garrulous man short.
Oh, that was a sovereign, half a thick un half a sovereign, twenty-five pounds a "pony," five hundred a "monkey," flash notes were "stumers," and a bookmaker who couldn't pay was "a Welsher." That? That was "the great Brockton," gentleman and tipster. "Amusement enough!"
"I thought some of your people were ill when I came in here," I said after some minutes, "and the whole thing turns out to be some gibberish nonsense about Tom Webb, a tipster, and some rotten horses." "You are most refreshingly green," Ward replied, and he screwed the telegrams together and threw them into the fire. "What are you going to do?" I inquired.
Two or three years ago I was dependent on literature for my daily bread. I was a regular man-of-all-work. I was also engaged as sporting prophet to the Tipster, and was not less successful than my contemporaries as a vaticinator of future events. The editor had expressly requested me to make things rather more lively, and I therefore gave my imagination free play in the construction of my plot.
Then Simpson told about his brush with mysterious callers. He said that Jackson was not alone as far as mysterious callers were concerned, the Tacoma newspapers had been getting calls from an anonymous tipster telling exactly what was going on in Simpson's hotel room.
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