Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-03-18

/ exactly what | expected from your tele-
gram. Now I'll telIyou what I've done.
In the first place, 1 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 1920 il he was beat
or didn't start. After getting your tele-
gram | went down to Tartersall's. and.
with Plyart's assistance, got that whole
1920 on the horse at long odds. We
now stand to win, between Us f10,1T0 if
Coriander wins the Two Thousand and
just quits IL he loses Not bad book.
Grenville?"
by Jovs! no; and he's good chanc.
hasn't hep
es, on previous running. wonderful.
We know Pearman has backed him to win
him 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-
propristed all the long prices against the
| colt"
Grenviles eyes sparkled, though he
said nothing, but smoked on in silence
for a minute or two. Yes, il that should
come off. he might marry Maude at once
Dallison had regarded him intently.
| Suddenly he broke silence:
81 saw your eye fash up, and then
you plunged into a reverie. I had for
gotten the stake you told me you had on
| tbig WhoD fret oba fo hN,
it. Whether it's been any good to 90 so
far. of course | don't know; but you
| stand as fair a chance as a man can do
of winning 5000 next week, if 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
cannibalism 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 Coriander | don't
know; but l 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?"
"Shan'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
lose, we stand a big stake to nothing
| Goodnight"
Granville unused far into the night Yes
he had been playing for high stakes late,
IL, and winning game after game. Let
this only come off, and he should have
fairly won his sweet cousin. Then the
thought came into his head that he must
see it, and then it flashed across him that
Maude must be with him. How he was
TO manage it, he didn't know. As inspira.
tons flash across mankind, so do supersti
tons Coriander's winning the Tive
Thousand depended upon Maude and him
being there to see.
Ridiculous ~ you'll say. There is
pretty we'll as much romance and super
stition going about the world as hereto
fore; but our nineteenth century training
teaches us. above all things. not to lay
ourselves open to ridicule. We may in
wardly admit such things; we don't &C
knowledge them.
(To be continued.)