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"And you are willing to bet a thousand guineas that you ride third among all the best riders in the three kingdoms, are you?" "No, sir," said Barnabas, shaking his head, "the bet was a rash one, I humbly beg leave to withdraw it. Instead, I will bet five thousand guineas that I pass the winning-post before you do, Sir Mortimer."
Æneas speedily silenced all contention by declaring that the promised rewards should go to the three who had arrived first at the winning-post; but he added that he would show his sympathy for the disaster which had befallen Salius, and therefore bestowed on him the shaggy hide of a Getulian lion, still retaining the claws, which had been gilt.
Victory ultimately rested with Lieutenant Conneau, who, on 26th July, 1911, passed the winning-post at Brooklands after having completed the course in the magnificent time of twenty-two hours, twenty-eight minutes, averaging about 45 miles an hour for the whole journey. M. Vedrines, though defeated, made a most plucky fight.
Railsford looked sharply round and perceived who the intruder was. "I can't speak to you now, Mr Bickers, I'm busy. Now, boys, are you all ready? Off!" And he started to run beside the race. Mr Bickers put as cheerful a face on this little rebuff as he could, and presently walked across to the winning-post to make another attempt.
We thought only of the conclusion. Where the actual winning-post could be we had given up trying to conjecture. "It seems," Haigh remarked once, "that those two fools have made up their minds to race round this five-franc bit of an island for so long as we three fools choose to chivy them. It's a mad set-out whichever side you take it from, and the fun's evaporating.
"Through backing the wrong horse," was Crozier's instant reply. "That phrase is often applied to mining or other unreal flights for fortune," said the judge, with a dry smile. "This was a real horse on a real flight to the winning-post," added Crozier, with a quirk at the corner of his mouth.
Round this clump the racers were to go, and to come back to a tree near where the party had dined, which was to represent the winning-post. The next thing was to place the racers at their proper distances. All were at last arranged. Ernest, Buttar, and Bouldon, who could ride well, were in high glee, and it must be confessed that they thought very little about poor Ellis.
I never heard anything more of him; but hope his small offence was forgotten as well as himself. I have been often asked whether I ever owned a racer. In point of fact, I never did, although I went as near to that honour as any man who never arrived at it a racer, too, who afterwards carried its owner's colours triumphantly past the winning-post.
"There's about a mile of capital going over the downs without trespassing. I'll ride forward, and be judge and winning-post, while Sartoris will start you." And so saying, Jim trotted forward. "Now," exclaimed Blanche, as, quitting the main highway, they turned into the cross-country road that led over the downs towards the sea, "this is where you ought to start from.
"You see, I was a week or so behind you, but I mean to catch you up and come neck-and-neck into the winning-post," he continued. "This," laying one of the notes upon the table, "will suffice for the bill. As for the rest " He tossed them into the fire, and they went up the chimney in a single blaze.
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