The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-05-21

''r'ernaps so sir-perhaps =,
bet you an wen hundred he a. out IN
~Done! snd I'll make it 5Oon sar..
like" WV II yn
mo; you might start him on i,
won't risk more than a hundr.a ea
not starting; but here's 1000 to on On hs
don't win, onc more" h"W BE-
Sam Pearman shook his head -,
all events for nce in his life. well ana' At
CT Tattersall's thoroughly nuz,,a .sed out
knew his horse to be perfectly we'll d
had scen him that morning. A. f, "ell' be
had tried him, he had never tried : = b
year-old better. What were thas. 'nree
mer going on? ring
They make great mistakes At -:
these members of the magic circle r ~
brethren Of the Stock Exchange ooo. .ae''
ally get the worst of it also; but. on'
rule, either hackers or sharebolde,. sa
justified in feeling alarm st a pers;... as
assault on what their money NAV h. !:
vested in. The decline of the favor;t. u
u big race in the market is hardly % =, ~
astrous to the world in general a. hau |
shares dropping twenty per cent ha,.N
premium. Before Pearman left Lond,.
the next day, he vas aware, from var;o'.
sources, that Coriander's status in ,'
Letting was still further shaken, and th.'
as much as five to n had been oFo,os
against the crack of forty-eight hours a..
He thought of it all the way home ~.
felt more utterly bewildered than he hi
evcr done before in the whole of his ,u.,
experience.
Could Sam Pearman have been pre,an,
at a conference held in Silky Dallisoo',
rooms, between that astute gentleman and
Granville Rose, though he would bsv.
been still a long way from enlightened an
the subject, yet he would have learned ,
good deal. 1t was the Friday night befor.
that eventful Monday. Grenville had re-.
turned from Glinn the day previous. A
nlouldy old parchment lay on the tabls
between them; it had apparently been
consulted and thrown aside.
"Rumford says the deed is perfectly
good, and MI. Denison is quite certain
there has been no enfranchisement. That,
tie Case, Gren, ISL u!
Rose nodded, and Mr.. Dallison for .
few minutes pulled m%editatively at bin
cigar.
WELL" he continued, "the law part |
leave to you. l presume that is all righ:.
Eumford's opinion is quite good enough
to 70 on, and old Denison, you say, was
quite clear there has never been an en-.
franchisement. Odd there should not
his We been !; but no doubt Pearman de-
funct was quite unaware of the existence
of our friend here" and Dallison jerk.
al his head in the direction of the parch.
n,ent He wasn't the man to leave such
a blot in his game if he knew it. Though
for the matter Of that it was no blot
80 long as he lived. Now, look here.
l must trust to you for the legal work.
ing Of this affair; the racing part | an
manage. We've got Sam Pearman in a
regular hole, and, better still, he doesn't
know it. / can make probably a good
bit of money put of this, both for you and
myself, without any risk whatever; but
Interior events must decide that. Mr..
Denison, at all events, must make a good
bit but without hurting his interests, in
fact rather furthering them, you and |
might pick up some five thousand pounds
apiece. Do you understand"
mot in the least" replied Grenville.
"Well there's not much necessity you
should. Leave that to me; but you must
work the legal machinery as | direct.
Can you put it in motion by "Wednesday
or ThursdayY'
Lets say Thursday, certain" rejoin'
ed Rose.
every good, that will do; but don't
let's have any mistakes about it"
"All right" nodded the other. I'll
guarantee that, and go down myself"
"Good. You told me the stake you were
playing for, to start with, and as you
are in real earnest about winning a wife,
l think one may trust you. shall COM
mence operations at once. I'll see Plyat
the bookmaker tomorrow, and put tho
first part of the program in his hands,
We're going, you and l, to lay about a
couple of thousand each against Corr
ander; and I'm going to give him free
license to do as much as he likes for him
SELF"
(To he .our1nued.1