s maid a quiet middle aged woman who said respectfully noted the difference between hers and cherry s manners � master says would you be pleased to come to study left alone rolled over on her face and almost bit her pillow through in a of jealousy and rage and agony was san becoming more to her horse for that night at least � yes � the eternal child that is at i chapter iv two tim came over next morning at miss s request bitter as and looking as only an can look on occasion wondering too what her game was he and mad had been cast down from their high estate by an unknown horse and a stable help from the country and he burned for revenge with such a horse and income at which he guessed pretty as now had at tim could have married his cherry and had as rattling good a time as and his stuck up mrs were having without in the least deserving it with the keen instinct of men of his class he smelt mischief suspected some reason out of sight for s rapid advancement and the of the horse at when his proper place should have been here in the racing stables he was all a for a bone to pick to fight over and it was with a surly touch to his forehead that he responded to s good morning when ushered into her he had no particular affection for the young though as regards looks he considered her a morsel fit for a king let alone his master reminding her that she should have sent oi the of the home stables not himself he told her of the resources of the latter as far as he knew them while affecting to listen measured him seeing that here was just such an instrument to her hand as she wanted presently she made some casual mention s hi insect s head � yet � of a sort and tim s an enemy to ho and to himself the major thinks a deal covert sneer p he never trusted women h done by her and she did not the resemblance between horse phantom is very abruptly that tim s eyes himself yes miss very curious h seems to have turned up in son time phantom disappeared � se i heard of course about it and master � tim don t know nothing about it there was a subtle i to husband and wife that did not yet as she looked out through j the lake suddenly two take it for granted all this is between ourselves it s s doing he always was a dirty low � tim spoke with lifted out of his proper sphere and set a b ar on horseback and he ll ride to the devil you ll notice miss it says most particularly horse not or when people about are bad they are very bad indeed if he had known it before very long would wish himself back in the cross roads stables � in the house beyond � for if his were little sound slumber was his and a conscience that never troubled him now though kept much to herself and her own delightful home he was to dread every chance word she heard for fierce meant mischief and s ruin meant s � no money could for the fraud he had helped his master to commit � if found out � but then continued tim ho he s got four brown legs that match while phantom had one white turned abruptly away her heart like mad often she had seen san ride the horse in and he had one white � � and now he had not � � of course it is a mere chance resemblance she said turning round her voice was a little s voice was never her strong point i heard them speaking of it at liverpool yesterday is devoted to mrs and would never dare to practise any trick on her besides the white finally of the whole idea tim grinned have their and hair just like the ladies miss but she cut him short by taking a sovereign from a little pile near and telling him she would have a look round the home stables though she had not the slightest intention of riding one of san s horses for was timid and tim went away iv shattered in the wife s disgust he would be woman who loved him no whit th behaviour yet from the day never seemed to get the cl him that she formerly had for was iu so that missed the fe then on for another where he cultivated men s before he was on view end and the few ugly some of his following died out assured bearing even if his na set him so high above the well known reputation for now in valuable stead for he ha pull a horse or deliberately lose a of riding on his part not the him a and the fact was quit ho was really what he pre hunted by mrs for yea his powers � � two and if some winked and talked of the was disregarded and very soon master and man living with eyes and ears open to every rumour every whisper of scandal afloat breathed freely believing like the actual moment of danger to be past but one man � and that s beaten rival � was under no the instinct that is than knowledge told him that ho was phantom s self and he swore a savage oath that no matter how long it took or at what cost he would establish the horse s true identity and publicly expose one of the most daring and gigantic in of modem times he took none of the racing into his confidence but employed to find out at what date phantom disappeared 