The sun., 1908-04-26

a race meet hHod, he Gays. I have paid a
man In 1e cafe 10 burn some rags and make
ge big smoke. When eet ees time, he win
exolslm sFirel' In ~ confusion 10 lights
viii eTtinRiilsh themselves by me aud %
populaoe wili run into 70 street In alarm
EBefore ne populaoe return will have
snrinkle ALT on 70 Ave snail on whom We do
not plunge, and 70 favoTites will melt and be
what YOU oall2-out Of 20 commission
They will be not at all.
sAnd Seek will win ~ race meet. Now
will you make 70 gra-a-nd splash OF 10
Il RSsped. I amt no three card monte
man-nor yet 4 fool, | says, shaking my
head. The mob won't stand for play like
that, my friend
S'Calm yourself, replies Dubust They
will stand for anything We are In a place
of 40 innocents. They have been clean out
before. Ze play Get will 60, because have
what you oallf-pull with He bookmakers
Eet ees ze sure thing, and we will laugh ze
haha after ze finish
What could dol Twas In the hands o'
nv friend. forked over a fat wad and let
Harry work his way into the betting ring
and invest II N a crooked plunge on snails.
what yell went upl ,We---or was It II
happened TO be just In time 10 make up a
Ave hundred drinks In five seconds had
been on the water wagon-and as for cigars,
nv pockets we're bulging with imported
pennsylyania Havanas a. fast as ] could
an thsun. / was the good thing, all right.
mat then A skate with q diseased com.
nIaTlon and A face like Monday morning
sbot on a cap pistol and the race was on.
sHoW fast does h racing snail traveli
AJAX mel I've seen a Fulton street horse
car eambol faster, and I've seen the Empire
state Express run as sloW-just before
train time.
AT any rate, the bunch was going some
after they struck the pace. And little NO g.
was in the ruok, as expected. Ills shell
wasn't on straight OF ne had stone pIuise'
ar souethinR, Anyhow, at the quarter he
was trailing the string and losing ground
every moment, -.
Il hated 10 be made a monkey Of before
A crowd OF French sports, but was Tor
II aver a guy was guyed II was me But
fro,e INV teeth and looked at the game With
an ave iike Liberty on a lead half dollar
sEnd while ! Was standing pat the chan
IN the caf6 yelled, 'Firel and slmebody-t
NAV have been pubust-turned the lights
out as per agreement ,,.
Fl don't remember precisely what d'dnt
happen during the next forty-hyo SECONDS
because had my corns stepped on seven
times, and WAS hit in the appendicitis
by the end OF bench that had tipped over
In the r1lsh. In my opinion the mob went a..
tbroueh, the door Of the cafe at once, be-
cause there was a big noise-and theH
ali OF a sudden there was no noise AZ all,
eToept for NJ. Henri Dubust, who was
shufiinq around in the DARK trying to-
striLa q match on his ineXpTOssibes.
sThen he III one, and heard him pouring
out salt layishly upon the entries. tet
sss All right, he whispered, i have ssltel
"a raoehorses. Then | heard him dash
for a window, and he went out OF It iiEe
a clown through paper hoop. Ana
never saw him again. ,.-.-,.
Pretty soon the mob began 70 slragge
back into the room. was OH scaIeH,
bscausa DIbust seemed to have few the
coon. and / knew ! was financiering q
wata,S proposition that was without bot
tom. What would happen 70 me whan
the parleyvoos found that they had oeen
pmnqinq on little heaps OF salt, with only
entry No. alive to reach the tape,
II realized the consequences and edged
toward the door OF escape, and determined
10 sand Dubust around In the morning
10 collect the killing after the losers had
gone home 10 sleep II on ,,
sBut was tco late. Somebody--it wasn't
DubuRt, all fgnt-tuTneu On lho .Hkhit
and 500 parleyvoos dashed as one for the
ring side.
heard through a telephone wire al the
north pole. A revolution turned iato an
imperial Jubilee would have had nothing
on IL And It was a rear that was not
roar. IL was yell Of joy.
aAnd then somebody saw me going out.
In a moment | was grabbed and pulled
and dragged down by the race course,
with my hat over zone eye and the thumb
OF an excited Partisan sticking into the
other.
4 shook of the hat and the thumb, ard
looked Then 1 turned green, and my
hair began to rise like spring grass in the
park.
Imagined
sThere was one little heap of watered
salt where once a snsh had been, and the
five shell games were crawling
toward the finish line. leaving the salt ard
The little white shell of entry No. 8 as a
TO the diabolical genius Of a
French sport named Dubust.