The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-01

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back there"
"Oh. The starts all right" said
Scotty anErily. go on
"All right, come along then yelled
| Blake, letting go of Amir's head a
little.
They were Only cantarlne: and all
the time the iron-glay Pegu, with the
black boy on his back, was slipping
away from them. People in the
stand, seeing the state of things,
thought it was a false start, and ban
tered cheerfully over the idiocy of the
native boy, Abdul. at doesn't make
any difference" some one said; 'Pegu
had no chance anyway"
Tobyn saw the gray opening up q
wide stretch of country between him-
self and the other two horses, and 60
upon his perSpicacity. "By Jove!' he
exclaimed, you're a good one at pick
ing them. They'll never catch Pegu
now. l suppose you've backed him
yOurself?'
Larraby's face was a study; but the
Babe didn't notice this; he never eX-
plCred faces.
Down on Amir, Blake was swearing
softly to himself. At last he spoke
why don't you go on, Scotty? Cant
you see that native slipping away
from us? He's got twenty lengths the
best of It now
I'm ridin' 'cording to orders an
swered Scotty sulkily. eco on your
self"
Did the old man order you to
throw the race aWay?" queried Blake,
petulantly, Wrenching at Amirs
mouth.
He told me not to throw it away
maxim the f1InniD' fer Won -
While they wrangled, and their
horses jumped sideways, like ladys
palfrey, because of their noses being
pulled down on their chests. Abdul
was stealing away into the distance
like a soft gray shadow. Luckily for
him, he never looked back in any
race so long as he was ahead. but
kept pegging away, like true native.
All the time he ihought the sahibs
were at his heels, ready for surging
rush as they swept into 'the straight"
And into 1.-The straight" and still no
sign of the sahibs. What if his
mount should win. He had put ten
rupees on him with the bookmakers.
The odds 20 to /. had tempted him.
besides. was it not the horse he was
going to ride-and had he not ten ru-
PEGS of confidence in himself?
serious problem had opened up
Because of astral communication.
Blake knew that his employer would
win if Rocket won; and ScOtty also
knew that Amir'S winning would ben
eft his master. Also were the Jockeys
in the same boat, because of arrange
ment. Then the third factor in the
problem appeared. or, in point Of fact
was disappearing native boy on
Pegu. Blake saw this and realized
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money. If Rocket would not so on he
would, so he set sail for the leader.
Scotty followed. They made up ground
rapidly, but the gray hung on sur
prisingly. Would they ever catch
him?
. In the stand the excitement was
terrific Nobody had backed Pegu-
nobody but the Babe. 1t was the
stand against the Babe. the fast
horses against the dead one, the jock
eys against the. native boy. 1t was
tragically unique, this race of the wise
men against the lamps.
Jump by jump Amir and Rocket
reduced the lead the gray outcast
had. Abdul could hear something
coming now-something numbering
along behind him still far enough
away so that he need not pull out
as he had always done. 1t was not
far to the winning post-wOuld the
gray last? He thought of the zoe
rupees he would win. and sWore by
Allah that he would give half of it i'm
charity, if Allah would only breathe
into the nostrils Of the gray and fill
his lungs with strength. The two
Jockeys were riding for second place
now; that was about all they could
see in it, The stand mad with eX-
thought they were riding
to win; thought it was either rare
ahorsemanship. this waiting race, or
else sheer stupidity. If thee native
won, it would be stupidity; if either
of the Jockeys won, his hackers would
label it splendid horsemanship.'
1t was stupidity. AS the gray just
tottered under the wire first, the 9TH
er two finished like lions. nose and
nose, in dead heat for second
money. Then pandemonium broke
loose in the stand. All the hackers
money was burned up. No, not all!
Babe Tobyn had $4,000 to draw out
of the flames. There he stood. the
only winner among those clever rae
ing men-the Babe.
Imagination needs no word-prck to
picture what the owners of Amir and
Rocket thought and said. Down at
the mess that night there was no hi
larity when Babe Tobyn walked in:
only the hush of awe. Such luck as
that clearly indicated the finger of AL
lah. He had passed through his no.
vitiate, and they were abashed.
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