Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-04-02

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GHalr IN the room, was making an,,o 49,
~ some abstruss calculations on n;aco
vi paper, and referring frenuen+lv 60
5u "an TO gaily bound betting book,
al rlgnt old fellow" he said. in re-
~ u'n 20 GrenVille's greeting. Wanted
nave talk to you; knew you would
eoine up by that train; told the old party
70 get food for two at half-past seven
wants just ten minutes. Go and wash
your hands, while I finish what T am
about" "hi
AFTER the bit of fish and beefstesk"
lnae constitute an ordinary bachelor din
ner IN chambers, the two began to smoke.
Now said Dallison, shall be back
~ uinner OF course meant, as we agreed
IL snouid' tnat Pearman had yielded TO
your terms. | was off to Plyart directly
! got your message, and we have had a
Dusy afternoon of it. We rather woke m
the Subscription Room at Knightsbridge
L Halter myself. From being an outsider
III the betting, we brought Coriander back
TO TO 2 and made him once more first
navorite. told you we had Pearman in
hoie' and we had. suppose you got a
lot OF money out Of him?"
Yes, indeed; we made him paw f1O.-
wv to let off our claim" And then
GrenVilie recounted his interview with
Pearman.
Very good; then he's now absolute
master OF the horse again. Of course,
exactly what | expected from your tele-
gram. Now I'll tell you what I've done.
In the first place, l laid, between us, or
rather Plyart did for US, f3 300 to FL 200
against Coriander; that was before he
was driven back in the betting; of course
that left us to win Fl 200 if he was beat
or didn't start After getting your tele-
gram I went down to Tattersalls, and,
with Plyart's assistance, got that whole
1000 on the horse at long odds We
now stand to win, between us E1O,17O if
Coriander wins the Two Thousand, and
just quits IL he loses. Not a bad book,
Grenville?'
by Jove no; and he's a good chance,
hasn't he?"
Yes, on previous running, wonderful.
We know Pearman has backed him to win
him a lot of money. It's not likely he
would have paid you 10000 to-day I'M
less he was very confident about his
chance. To wind up with, his own COM
missioner backed him to-day for a good
bit of money although he had to take
shortish odds, owing to our having ap-
propria ted all the long prices against the
colt"
Grenville's eyes sparkled, though he
said nothing, but smoked on in silence
for minute or two. Yes, if that should
bo irbf of
Dallison had regarded him intently.
Suddenly he broke silence:
II saw your eye flash up, and then
you plunged into reverie. | had for
gotten the stake you told me you had on
this, when you first spoke to me about
it. Whether it's been any good to go SO
far, of course | don't know; but you
stand as fair a chance as a man can do
of winning f5,0SO next week, if that will
help YOU at ALL There's no certainly
about anything in this world-about how
long it's been a world, or about how long
we've been preying on each other in it.
Practically, mind, we are as much canni-
balls as ever, and eat each other up with
As much alacrity as the Feejee Islanders,
A good heavy city swindle gulps US down
much as a whale takes behring's; but
there's plenty Of pike about, who do their
cannibaIism one at time, and not by
the shoal. Old Pearman was pike OF
renown; in fact, he might have aspired
TO the dignity of a shark, if he hadn't
been of a retiring disposition, and ever
anxious to hide his light under bushel
Young Pearman has a fair dash of the
nike about him, too Which way he can
make most money out Of Coriander l don't
know. but I should think, by winning !;
and if I'm right in my conjecture, bar
accidents, we shall win our money, Gren.
"And if it is the other way"
"Sban't lose it. thank goodness But
I'm, afraid if his book makes up few
hundreds better on the lose, Coriander
will not run up to his previous perform
ances We've done pretty well; win or
Iosn we stand a big stake to nothing
Goodnight
Granville unused far into the night. Yes,
ba had been playing for high stakes late
=. ond winning game after game. Let
10 only come off, and he should have
e.;rlv won his sweet cousin. Then the
tl,orgbt came into his head that he must
go # and then it flashed across him that
1Iorda must be with him. How ne was
70 manage it, he didn't know AS lnsplra-
ions fash across mankind, so do superstl-
t;ops Coriander's winning the Two
Tbousand depended upon Maude and MN
being there to see. rho.o 80
ridiculous y you'll say Ihere IS
.-ot+v we'll as much romance and super
stition going about the world as hereto
fore; but our nineteenth century traln, ing
.o,o MS above all things, not to lay
o cT open to ridicule. We may m
oui ndlr admit such things; we don't ac-
knowledge them. >
NN' Ito be continued)