Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1909-08-06

hio arHs. mine now, Forever, lSn IL
Yes, Gren. Yours or no ones" she
replied, as she lifted her lips shyly TO his.
Please write"
Every day, dearest. Good-by;" and,
with one more kiss, Grenville Rose tore
himself away.
How he Travelled up to town In the
same carriage with Pearman we have al
ready seen. On his arrival at Waterloo
Station he jumped into cab, and pro-
ing his rooms the first thing that caught
bis eye was the figure of Silky Dallison,
who, comfortably ensconced in the easiest
chair in the room, was making, apparent
ly, some abstruse calculations on a piece
of paper, and referring frequently for
guidance to gaily bound betting book.
"All right, old fellow" he said, In re-
turn to Grenville's greeting. Wanted
to have a talk to you knew you would
come up by that train told Lhe old party
to get food for two at half-past seven
wants just ten minutes. Go and wash
your hands, while finish what I am
about"
After the "bit of fish and beefsteak"
that constitute an ordinary bachelor din
ner in chambers, the two began to smoke.
"Now," said Dallison, "'shall be back
to dinner of course meant, as we agreed
1t should, that Pearman had yielded to
your terms. I was off to Plyart directly
| got your message, and we have had a
busy afternoon of il. We rather woke up
the Subscription Room at Knightsbridge,
l iatter myself. From being an outsider
In the betting, we brought Coriander back
to to 2, and made him once more first
favorite. l told you we had Pearman in
a hole, and we had. l suppose you got a
lot of money out of himT
Eyes, indeed we mado him pay f10,-
600 to let off our claim" And then
Grenville recounted his interview with
Pearman.
VERY good; then he's now absolute
exactly what expected from your tele-
gram. Now I'll tell you what I've done.
In the first place, laid, between US, or
rather Plyart did for us, f3, 800 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 l went down to Tattersall's, and,
with Plyart's assistance, got that whole
fl 200 on the horse at long odds. We
now stand to win, between US f10,170 If
Coriander wins the Two Thousand, and
just quits II he loses. Not 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 un-
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-
propriated all the long prices against the
colt"
Grenville's eyes sparkled, though he
said nothing, but smoked on in silence
for a minute or two. Yes, IL that should
come of, he might marry Maude at once
Dallison had regarded him intently.
Suddenly he broke silence:
81 saw your eye flash up, and then
you plunged into a revere. 1 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 20 so
far, Of course don't know; but YOU
stand as fair chance as man can do
of winning f5,0SO next week, il that will
help you at all. There's no certainly
about anything in this world-about how
long it's been 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 herrings; but
there's plenty of pike about, who do their
cannibaism one at a time, and not by
the shoal Old Pearman was a 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 a bushel.
Young Pearman has a fair dash of. the
pike about him, too. Which way he can
make most money out of Corlander don't
know; but l should think, by winning
and if Pm right in my conjecture, bar
accidents, we shall win our money, Gren."
"And if it is the other way?'
"Shan't lose 1t, 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
lose, we stand big stake to nothing.
Goodnight"
Grenville unused far into the night. Yes,
he had been playing for high stakes late
IL, and winning game after game. Let
tl.is only come off, and he should have
fairly won his sweet cousin. Then the
thought came into his head thai he must
see it. and then it flashed across him that
Maude must be with him. How he was
to manage 1t, he didn't know. As inspira-
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