The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-06

gree? Has he run before? Is he q r,noay
from the old country? Why are YOU sd
confident of him?
1.-THE man raised his lantern so that its
rays struck my face, and for fully three
minutes he regarded me earnestly and
without word.
" You ask a lot of questions said he.
for a man whose money L haven't seen
the color Of
ST pulled out a stray handful of one
lantern to them and nodded his head.
=" All right. said he Slowly. .rhat
looks tidy enough. I'm to get half of fine
winning you understand, when Hellbent
strolls in all aIone?
&c 'Strolls in, sounds great said I. but
are you fully aware of the makeup of
the field of twenty-three horses chat goes
to the post for, the cup?'
He smiled grimiy at me then.
" IF you're a bounder.' said he short
~. out with It! I've got thing on four
hoofs that wins the cup as sure as the
sun rose this morning: If you've sport
in blood. give me a bond for your ten
thousand that you'll put it up. If not
be good enough to keep your tongue be-
tween your teeth and play, the ,favorite,
anything-but you'll lose he added. his
teeth clicking together sharply. Y QUIZ
LOSE
81. The man nettled me bit 1 dfdn t
like that term bounder. And ten thou
sand pound wasn't much more than
bag O. shells, TO me in those daysa a5..!
2 Sporting blood? says l., pulling out
athe main, orolls- Race downoethe street
after the man you've just been talking
with, and, Pll hand the money over to
him to be put. on your nag on the day
of the race for the cup, come Tuesday q
fortnight. How's that?' a., - 80
THE qneer-lookfng man gave me
cordial grip of the hand sid .a9i3aafs.
You are OF the right Sort said he.
> Come Always and We'll find him.
I'VE found him In pub UP the town,
and the queer-loeiking man told him that
he'd found a hacker for HelIbent to the
tune of ten thousand.
/" The more bally ass he,' said the man
who had turned down the Hellbent prop
osition in the shed, and yet he looked
ruminative. He was well,known owner
of horses, whose work wasn't always on
the square with his animals.
why are you going in for that bun
dle?' he asked me after pause.
Because said L, hall from the
iUnited States where we're even willing
to be blooming fools to get a jolt of dead
game excitement out of it. And be-
cause I added more sedately, 7 am of
the opinion that this man has got the
goods. He looks It. o gl,ua.ss5
''The man, who had been doubling
TomaSio hoped up.
We're just as dead game out here,
pail said he, handing me his mitt, as
they were eyer made in the States. And
to Show 1t, I'm IN for the other ten thou
sand. Shake
We'll, that's the way we made it up
on the He1fbent thing. We were a bit
gone with the drink, perhaps, but that's
the ,way.aArld weJ stuck,to it. There was
no morning after business The cup
race was stiTl two weeks off, but we
didn't nag at the owner of Hellbent to
have a look at the horse. We saw him
every night i'm his shed-whicf. was an
odd-looking place, full of strange tools
and bellows and electrical contrivanees-
but we never asked for a sight of He'll
bent He was silently grateful to9us for
this, and every time we saw him he told
s us, in that queerly confident manner Of
his, that the race was as good as in for
Hellbent, if. not better
70 sftWe stookBsthe future book by storm
@on Hellbent three days before the race.
The horse had never been heard of. He
Jhad been entered as by an obscure Eng
lish sire and as six-year-old that had
never before faced the starter Conse-
quently he was the very rankest eutsid-
er of the bunch. There was 500 to L
against him every on tap in1Etfe
futures, andET we knocked lit, DOWN to
100 to L by spreading our twenty thou
sand pound from the alpha to the. omega
2 of the future line When we got through
betting the bundle, we. stood to win just
precisely seven millions of pounds ster-
ling ~
cup, you ay?s:Well, y'ougft to be-but
anyhow, there must ha' been 100000 peo-
fple on the grounds-easly that 9bFhey
mortgage their property down there to
be on that race. Sheep men come in
from stations 1900, miles distant, toesee
the run-off. Melbourne is full of thou
sands and tens of thousands of wagon
campers fon days before the cup. The
town is boiling drunk for a week be-
fore and for at fortnight after the race.
g As for me" and devoting himself
Qohee more to the green amphora,, the
man with the rowing eye waved his hand
deprecatingly-"f far be it from me not to
7, have shared the holiday spirit Of that
great throng on that great day. I, too,
! even l. was just merrily joyous enough
to have an enhanced appreciation of the
spectacle of the flashing coforse of the
jockeys in the sunlight, the grandstand
ike mower garden with the women 8
superb dresses-say, the turf writers all
ways say that, don't ti1ey?-and the
''Howevert'tf went on the unsteady eyed
man, pulling up short, you may conceive
the agitation of mind with which my
friend who had gone in With me on He'll
bent, and.1, Awaited the calAhgs eff the
horses to. the post for the great race.
We had NOT seen Hellbent's owner on the
previous evening" he having informed us
that he would be extremely busy. But on
the day antedating that he reiterated his
statement that Hellbept was the greatest
pipe that ever was smoked on the globe.
cat last the trumpet sounded, and from
our position off the ran near the judges
stand, we saw the twenty-three animals
filing out Of the paddock to parade
There was Sir .Galahad, Tubbins, Mildred
Jersey Lily, Fortunatus, Iron Duke
James L., McCrea Red Heather Grape
juice, Hyderabad-a the great ones, an
I array of animals that had won fame and
fortune for their owners on the English
as we'll as son the colonial turf aAnd last
i-HelIbent.
"Hellbentl- But there's no use trying
to describe that brute. He was the most
magnificent thing that ever stood on iron
fully II hands high, blacker'n the under
side of a ravens wing, muscled like g
sgladiator,Lsa thing of beauty from his
muzzle to his final fetlock He made EN-
gasp. They raced into the ring. to bet or
this unknown dark one, and then oul
craftiness in getting on in the futures
was made manifest; for simply on the
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