The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-06

when they thought of the inevitable dis
appointment IN store for the eager ex-
cited old man. 1t was only a matter of
, furlongs-a question of half minutes-be-
fore The Canon would be out of It. All,
there! He had already reached his dis
lance; and that was a mile and a half
from the finish But, no. He was still
going strong; no signs Of Tagging yet
Extraordinary inexplicable! The mile
was past, and The Canon was still
in the race. But surely he must crack up
in a few seconds! No! on and on! The
devill A mile and a half had been COW
cred. The Canon still running strong as
any of them. Others began to flag-to fall
out; but not The Canon. mile and three
quarters! Six were left in, and The Canon
among them. Sir Johns face was now
stiff and tense as that of statue; but
his eyes burnt like Goals in their hollow
sockets. There was a dead silence along
the whole course. Every eye was fixed
on the light chestnut, who now held third
place, and seemed full of running. Was
Sir John a wizard? Had he bewitched his
colt? Had Satan a finger in it? The dis
tancel The Canon took second place.
Then a low murmur-a murmur OF
acknowledgement from lip to lip. the
Canon was challenging the leading horse!
For hundred yards both ran neck-and-
neck. Gameness alone kept them gong.
"A iOuu SHOut went up ne 1dilhi was
the gamer He forged ahead. The shout
increased into a roar. The Canon had
his opponent safe. He passed the judges
box a length In front. Sir Johns face was
perfect blaze of triumph He now spoke,
for the first time since the start.
"By God My dream-my presentiment!
Truel True! Truer
He staggered suddenly and fell. Tho
strain had been too much for him, They
picked him UP, with bloodless face and
and lips, in a dead faint,
1t was not until many years later that
the public learned the true explanation.
country ergyman-incumbent of a
parish on Salisbury Plain-was sent for
late one night to the bedside of Sir John
Kendric, who had been stricken with
apoplexy, and whose life, so the doctor
said, was now numbered by minutes. AL
most with his last breath the baronet
made the following remarkable confess
sion:
"Only the night before Sister Mary Mar
tha's foal was born 1 had a dream. I
dreamed that-that she had foaled O colt
with-with two heads; and that--that now
one head seemed to vanish now the other,
and that then both would appear together;
but only for an instant. The dream i'm
pressed me. l had always paid great at
tention toto dreams. And the-the-im-
preston was strengthened when, next
I-I-didn't know what I-I-meant to do.
| I had no fixed idea at that time but-but-
| influenced by my dream, and
and-other inexplicable presentiments.
| II suppressed the fact that
twins had been foaled and brib-
ed the two other witnesses to hold
their tongues. Then the dream and the
| presentiments began to explain them
selves. The colts grew up as like as two
| peas. vista of possibilities was OPEN
| ed to me; and when l found that one of
the colts possessed exceptional stamina,
while the other was entirely without it,
1 saw my way-to-to-the fraud which /
actually perpetrated. A week before the
| Cesarewitch L poisoned The Canon; and
my man and / buried him In quickime.
| This obliterated all evidence OF my de-
| ception and made discovery impossible. II
-it-was The Canon's twin that won the
| race. l cannot die with this secret on
my conscience. After am dead, see that
| 1t is given to the world"