The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-01-15

/ will take a lot of beating. His names
/ Goldfinder. He won over big timber
/ in Australia
Hope is q good tonic, and the way
!. Shade rushed things until he had Sc
| cured Goldnnder was appalling. Not
| but that there was trouble over H.
and it really seemed as though every
body was in league 10 keep him from
! winning the Cup. Baldetk wanted
| il himself; in fact, mad brought TINS
| horse out 10 win IL TO take back to
| Australia. Goldfnde1's price, $500,
was. all right. Slade gave that eager
| ~ enough, and he got over the, diff
| Guilty OF the Cup for Baldeck by agree
| ing that, If the horse won, he would
Ihave a duplicate made in gold. if he
| liked. and give it TO him. This SEEM
| ed a triiing and happy arrangement;
| but like a good many other triflng
things il turned out selisus IN the
| end.
| You'll have to come up With me
| to my place and get Goldfinder fit,
| Slade said to Johnson. Il want to
win this race and then quit the turf.
| I'll have something else to think OF
| then" h. added impressiNely.
| So Johnson and his own racing
stable were transported up To Tirh DOT.
There was no difficulty about this.
for Captain Frank had shed the army
land was a racing gentleman pure and
| simple-l'o; so very pure and Simple
perhaps. Stale agreed TO make MIN
a present vt GSldfinder after the race
was run and Won
! EVEN have Il great chance to find
oui how the new horse is going.
Slade remarked, with Chang in the
string. Changes almost good enough,
| and il my horse turns out Il bit bet
ter, Wen scorch them this trip
While Shade and Johnson got the
L H., - N,t.l. no
| indigo planters estate, something else
| was being got ready in Calcutta. That
| was tile working of one John May
lnard's mind over this same Bally-
| gunge Cup. He was in the Service,
| too, but that didn't matter. What
did matter was that he thought Beth
| Cavendish the only girl he wanted 10
marry.
So while others worked faithfully
in Tirhoot, he trained Il sprinter TO
| go fast for q mile, and jump viciously
1T everything in sight. Though May
| n8rd's morals were slightly oblique,
| his pluck was all right and he never
thought of his own neck in the mat
| ter. If he broke the other fellows
| we'll, necks sometimes do get brok
en- in a steeplechase over Il stiff
country.
Il think it's fairly satisfactory
he confided to himself. IF by any
chance / fail TO bring him a cropper,
Lord Dick is pretty sure to beat him
out on Musket" SO he took u pret
ty heavy bet. backing Lord Dicks
horse to win a small fortune. You
see it was all gain NTH him-love
| and coin.
Why Maynard had put Diablo in,
nobody knew. Certainly he couldn't
| stay the course. three miles and half,
and he was we'll named Diablo, for
| he had the temper of fiend. 1t
bothered Captain Frank not little.
| II hat a man of Maynard's cleverness
| should play the fool was quite out OF
the question: besides. Maynard could
surely get something that Wodld go
the distance and have some chance
| of finishing with tile others. Then,
when he found out that D;ahi31 own
| er had taken long bet about Mus
llet's winning, he commenced 20 do
considerable Neutrality-suspicious.
thinking.
''Iil keep an eye on Maynard in
l the race he told Slade. He played
me a bit of trick once at Umballa
and l shouldn't half mind wiping
out the score. Chang's a pretty big
horse. and betwee1i us we can take
care of ourselves, and somebody else
too, if it's needed.
What do you mean?' asked Slade
Nothing. only Wen sort of win
I the CUP between us. gu IL SOl III
ride under my order and when | give
YOU the word in the race, do just as
| say. even it does seem a bit queer.
| "Ill take your coaching, Frank,
for YOU know the game better than
/ do
That was only two days before Cup
day. Shade said nothiry TO Beth about
winning the Cup. When he had won
it would be soon enough; if he lost
well. he had not lost yet. anywa
'rhere'll be some collar bones
cracked to-day" said Captain Frank
10 Slade. as they put on their silk
colors in the dressing room the, day
of the race. The top bamboos on
all the jumps are IRON bound, and
if any horse hits them hard. he'll
come down for Keeps: and he'll stay
down. too
Dangerous, that eh?" answered
Sladc. Might upset our good thing.
| Hardly" said Captain Frank, with
his drawing twang; ''somebody'H
| find them dangerous. but you won't
! Goldfinder'n fly them like q bird
| What about Chang inquired
Sladc.
Chang and his rider are all right,
replied Johnson. They're only out
| for an airing. I've backed Goldfnder
| for | can't beat the other two.
The terms of the race We're simple
| enough. 1t WAS a gentleman s. race,
for all horses owned solely by mem
| beers of the Ballygunge Association
lit was open TO all riders This also
was a simple arrangement that turned
out very complicated at the end.
| OF course Beth was there; every
| body who was anybody was. 1t was
the Grand National" of India. Beth
| had not. thought that Douglas Shade
would take her banter so seriously.
| Why had he bought horse that real
| ly had a good chance of winning the
| Cup--for people We're saying that he
might win? Good judges liked The
| big chestnut, and We're saying that
he had great chance.
Beth kept asking herself a knottyt
question. IF Douglas Slade won,
| what then?" He had kept so quiet
about it that she thought he had for
| gotten the whole thing. Surely he
was a valiant knight 1t would al
most be too bad for him TO be beaten
now. The thought gave her start.
| What if he should be beaten-he had
been so plucky about it, so deter