The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1904-10-15

The same night [ was removed in an
ambulance, via Midland Railway, from
Leicester to Sir Jasper nursing home in
North Audly street Here [ rapidly be-
came convalescent, and within a month [
was, as he had foretold, back at Somerset
House. Before left his home, Sir Jas
per had exacted from me promise to say
nothing to anybody of what had occurred,
adding that the further 1000 pounds,
which he hoped, in no long time, to be in
a position to pay over to me. would be con-
tingent upon this promise being observed
| assured him that | would keep my
promise, and | was scrupulously careful to
do 50. But time went by; the weeks grew
into months, the months into years, and
heard nothing more from him, until | was
driven to the conclusion that the operation
had been less successful than he had ex-
pected and that those 2000 pounds would
not come my way after all.
But at last, three years later, when
had long abandoned all hope, Sir Jasper
himself looked in one evening to see me.
lie was in the best of humor and spirits.
His very look betokened it.
"How do you do p he said Give
Just come to tell you that operation has
turned out successfully-most successfully.
So here's your 2000 pounds, you lucky
fellow.
As he spoke, he handed me his check
for that amount.
by Joye am glad. Thanks aw-
fully, | exclaimed, feeling in the mood
to stand upon my head for delight
You had need TO be glad, smiled Sir
Jasper Il doubt if 5000 pounds was
ever so cheaply earned before By the
way. | promised, when the time came, to
enlighten you upon certain matters. Well,
the time has come now There is no longer
any reason for secrecy, seeing that the
operation has turned out so well. The
house to which took you on that memor-
able occasion was Bishopsford Castle
what! The seat of the Earl of Car
shalton?'
Yes And the patient into whose
system your blood was transferred was -
Lord Carshalton' daughter? The
beautiful Lady Constance Rosehill?'
No, answered Sir Jasper, quietly,
but Lord Carshalton' beautiful three
year-old illy, Running Track, who has
today realized for his Lordship his life
ambition and won him the first victory in
the St. Leger.
In the course of further explanations of
this astonishing statement Sir Jasper said:
The idea was Lord Carshalton' 5. He
has always been, in his eccentric way,
bit Of physiologist, and it somehow crossed
his mind that, II the blood of man was
transfused into the system of newly born
foal some Of the physical and nervous
qualities of the man might also be commu-
nicated-the superior to the inferior. Lord
Carshalton Is very old friend of mine, |
must tell YOU aud at the outset of nv career,
laid me under obligations which, even to
this day, make it difficult for me to refuse
him anything So when he pressed me to
cooperate with him in the scheme which
he had in view felt bound (though |
considered the scheme wildly chimerieal)
to lend him MY assistance. That scheme,
in fact, was nothing less than to Try the
experiment upon the little fly toal with
which his famous brood mare. The Alb
bey, had Just presented him.
All her stock, he said are flyers up
to a mile but they are non stayers. And it
is the dream Of my life to turn out a real
stayer- Can We not get hold of some
athlete Of tried Stamina-Some prominent
long distance runner-and induce him, for
a consideration. to sumbit to the expert
ment?
tried TO dissuade him. | suggested
I that If the TRANSMISSION were made at all it
should be made from another horse But
he would not hear Of it.
f must be a man, he declared. The
essence Of my idea Is that the blood of the
superior animal will dominate that of the
! inferior
AT length consented TO cooperate
/ He had liked on you as the most promising
,ubiec, from the inst 1t was left with
me to secure your compliance on whatever
/ terms and in whatever way | could. So
partly in order to persuade you the more
easily, partly because | did not want it
/ known that | was associated in such an
apparently insane proceeding, represented
nv patient as human, and adopted those
other precautions against discovery of which
YOU are aware Now, however, that the
experiment has proved 50 astonishingly
successful -
What You really believe, ejae
ulated. THAT my staying qualities were
transfused together with my blood, into
that eonfounded flly foar -
Sir Jasper shrugged his shoulders and
raised his eyebrows in comieal gesture.
Anyway, that confounded little filly
foal has won the Leger, he said, which
was all that Lord Carshalton aimed at
And you We got your 5000 pounds which
Is all that you bargained for. If you re
not satisfied, you ought to be. And IN
not going to answer any more questions.
! Good pight