Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1893-09-16
HOW HE WON HIS WIFE.

80 AANhh IpHps' iAH INTO tut DIX
there-there, right back of the judges
st'md-lady in red and the fellow with
the light bat--see?'
Yes. Who are theyl What about
emf
"Oh, They're staid married folks now
but they had enough romance in their
courtship to supply one of these female
ssnSationalists with plot for dozer
Quarto novels,
We'll. that fellow won his wife in a
race. first met him in England three
yeaTs ago at Newmarket the great rae
ing heath where nearly all their big
events come off. He is an American.
and inst happened to drop into the place
few days earlier than ! did. She is
English, and the daughter Of man who
has long b''en known rs one OF the nerv.
lest boolInakers on the English turf.
When ! met him it lacked four weeks OF
the date of the great Doncaster cup. one
Of the biggest stake races of the English
calendar me acquainted and
got 10 &Eucklng around together. His
name Is Shelby, Thomas Shelby. and. as
soon learsed. he came from that state
where the grass grows blue. not green.
aud where the tippling rills percolate
through filtering limestone to be caught
by man aud distilled into the nectar of
the gods-spur mash.
Furthermore. found ont that he had
mouey. lots Of II. knew all about horses,
and had fallen desperately in love with
Miss Molly. daughter Of William Mitch.
ell, the bookmaker
'As Shelby and got better acquaint-
ed he coutidel to me that he had paid
his addresses to the fair Molly ever since
the race meeting in Leicester, and that
while she had received them favorably
aud said YES" TO the all monentous
question her father had absolutely re-
fused 10 give any consideration 10 his
proposition for his daughters hand, and
that Miss Molly was sufficiently tilial in
her duty 70 refuse his proposition to
elope AZ that time Mitchell was rated
wealthy mar. and that his ambitions
anyway beyond bookmaking and racing
as professions was well known.
well. Shelby was the right sort He
had as much nerve ~ old Mitchell. and
money too. There's only one way to
make that old fool come around, he said.
for he's us pil' headed as the devil, and
I'm going 20 take that way.
What's thatY | asked.
ITO break him. replied my Kentucky
friend. and rm going to do IT,
II intimated that there were two sides
TO every proposition. that what Mitchell
didn't know about horse racing aobody
did. and that in his attempt TO break the
old man young Mr.. Shelby. of Lexington.
was very likely 10 20 broke himself
'Elope with the girl, | said, but don't
try To break Mitchell Remember the
bitter Oft gets bitten.
She won't elope.' he answered /
told you that, and as long as her respect.
ed dad has nothing but money he won't
let hm marry anybody while he has a
chance Of hooking some busted title for
her. Hes ambitious and he thinks he's
smart, but have scheme to do him
which ! think will start his downfall all
right, Listen: Now, I've got a colt oyer
here that, as soon as he's accliinated. IA
going to show some Of these crack 2-year-
olds the real Kentucky pace. Nobody
knows he's in the country. nobody knows
anything about him. and when ! enter
him in the Downesborough handicap the
handicappcr will let him go at feather
weight. and the odds will be 100 To
sure Well. amt going to start him in
the Doneaster, hut I'm going to get in on
old Mitchell's book for that bit first.
and then swoop down on him at Downes
borough aud finish him up Then III
stake him again II he'll let me marry the
girl Seer
II didn't see exactly. at least about the
Doncaster business. till the next day,
when heard OF rank outsider, owned
by Young fellow named Master, who
lived III the country down Leicester way.
bling backed by ei0.000 against cl POO
The colt hadn't appeared in the betting
at all previous to that, and nobody had
any idea OF mia being even possible,
winner. | saw Shelby that night, aud
he grinred when mentioned the inei
dent.
Part Of my scheme. dear boy. ne
said Master is a pal Of mine. and that
colts been kept bottled mp He's about
as near sure thing AS ever had No
( body knows what he is or who he il
Master let me in on my promise to give
min chance on my entry at Downes
borough.
"Th' next days papers recorded an
other bet Of e50O0 to El 900 by old
Mitchell and from that on. the talent
smelling rat, the Master colt jumed up
in the odds till only the fsvorite carried
as much money
1.-The old man stands TO lose f2a 900
on that colt Of Masters. said Shelby
gleefuIly the day before the race. and
I've got eij,00o Of it myself It's sure
money too
We'll, the race came off. and demon
strRted thar he was right The unknown
won handily and turf circles went crazy
IN their wild excitement Of the unex.
pected
"Old Mitchell was wild, but he settled
In full and told his friends that he'd even
mp Ht Downesborough. He didn't know
70 whom he had lost all the money. as
Shelby had done all his betting through
his pal. Master II was only three days
Rfsor the Doucaster race that the Downss-