The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-06
BET ON DARK HORSE
e7,OO0,OO0 ON MELBOURNE
CUP
THOUGHT HE HAD SURE THING
Tip on HeIlbent Would Have Been
Like Getting Money From
Home Only for Owners
Oversight.
New York Sun.

New YORK Sun.
Ever been to the Melbourne races?''
Inquirer the man with the dull. rowing
|, eye, pouring out four fingers of raw alb
sinthe with no more outward evidence
of shock than If the liquor had been so
much bIushful hippocrene.
'sWhat Melbourne?" asked the quiet
looking man who happened to be on the
other side of the table in the alcove, sip
ping stein of malt.
Down below" replied the man with
| the rowing eye, kicking the floor Win
his heel. "Other side O. this"
-; '-Oh. Melbourne. Australia" put in the
qufer-l looking man, regarding W. an ap-
sent gaze the other who was again. al
ready. funlbling the absinthe nagon.
Nope. Never saw Melbourne. Worst of
it is. he added with a grin, ST don't
want, to. Little old"
Uh-huh; little old Moo Yawk'n do
you: never mind saying that; gets tire
some broke in the man with the row
ing eye again, regaling himself with a
drink of the green fluid that would make
a Minnesota lunberman bite holes out
, of all the foremen and timekeepers of
the outfit. and yet he never batted an
eye over It, 'If you haven't been to
Melbourne y'ought to We been. And II
you haven't seen the race for the Mel
say so. Hey?"
IS eG'wan," said the quiet-lookfng man,
slipping from his stein. and making rings
on the table with the bottom of it.
''Your Hnehpin's loose
T The man with the rowing eye smiled
greasily and leaned over the table.
Let US have peace he said amiably-
''Don't you feel so bad just because I
saw the race for the Melbourne cup and
you didn't. Don't be jealous. You're all
right, anyhow"
G'way,' said the quiet-looking man.
You've got katydids in your loft. What
dye think I'd go to Australia to see a
race for. when I can stink over the way
to Long Island and drop me coin without
taking a wet and foggy ride on a boat
for couple o. years?"
''II1 tell you why" replied the man
of the green cordial. Because the Mel
bourne Cups a race, race-race, race
race-race-raee-race-r Real thing,
you know. Time I saw it run off the
race was supernatural
Cit OUT said the quiet looking man.
Honest" said the unsteady-eyed one,
leaning over the table confdentia1ly.
Supernatural. Most amazing piece of :
well. dye want to hear about it?''
'Oh, FL listen to any old thing, to
the music of the choo-choo cars, any
old thing, answered the man with
the stein. cts my watch off, and lis
Jennings where I shine biggern big
red moon over a mist swamp. Git ap,
if you want to-
Thus invited the man with the dull
rowing eyes once more refreshed him
self with enough OF the raw green pro-
duct of NORWOOD to paralyze dozen
French boulevardiers in row, took three
long irlhalationS from a rank yellow Gu
ban cigarette, and began:
1T behooVeth me not to lay befoge
you what I was doing in Melbourne in
the year 81, nor whom was doing; but
I was there bigger'n salt water tur-
tie in the bottom of a Kanaka canoe,
and I was there just to see the Mel
bourne races. [ saw 'en, and they saw
me coming, saw me coming so effectu-
ally that. demme, it looked for a time
as if Id have to go to work However,
and he took three more long inhala-
= lions, "a bit of luck eventually obiat-
ed that gruesome necessity, and so !
was on big on the dark one that was to
go out for the Melbourne cup.
Got tipped off on that dark horse in
Z a. peculiar way, too. Was walking aim
leSsly on the outskirts OF Melbourne one
night, wondering why it was that they
couldn't make anything to cause me
shed. heard the low pitched voices
of two men inside the shed.
., q It's not a gamble one of EN- was
saying earnestly to the other It's a
steaE It's cinch. My horse HelIbent
can run away from any field of horses
that ever went On iron. He can go
around any track on earth twice to their
once
' ION, the DEVIL growIed the other
man In the shed, Who ever heard of
this Hellbent? Lemme have a look at
the horse, and maybe I'll think over
putting UP the money
- But that's just what I cannot do
SAID Hellbent's owner. The horse won't
be shown to mortal man besides myself
until he walks to the post. for the c,1r
I've got reasons for this You know Pm
no ;sundowner OR crook. Take NV word
for 1T and put up the 100000 at the long
price, and you'll go back to old England
with millions
You must take me for tidy ass,
gTumbleds the other man. I won't go a
darthlng on this pig in poke Of yours,
not a farthing. Goodnight and L heard
MIN coming out of the shed.
= o I stepped to one side and watched him
stride off down the dark street, and then
Il stepped into the shed. A queer-Iooking.
tall, angular fellow, with a stubbly. gray
1sh beard, that I'd never clapped an eve
on before, was just picking UP a lantern
and preparing to come out.
= Hello, chum,' said l. stepping right
before him. If HelIbent's as good as Won
say, L m your man. Eve got ten thousand
pound thatH stand for my word on II
Whered you get him? What's his pedi-