The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-02-02

OF color on them, and then the deep NUT
tering roar OF the crowd merged intc
= sharper. quicker, impa uent cries. as the
. horses turned into the stretch with only
their heads showing towards the goal
Some of the people were shouting Fire
fly!" and others were calling on ''vixenn'
and others, who had their glasses up.
cried Trouble leadsi" but he only
e waited until he could distinguish the
: tightly together Then they came so
1 close. that their hoofs echoed as loudly
n as when horses gallop over bridge, and
head and shoulders showed like sealslin
IN the sun, and the boy on her back
leaned forward and touched her gently
2 with his hand. as they had so often seen
!, him do on the downs. and Siren, as
though he had touched a spring. leoped
forward with her head shooting ha ok
and out. like piston rod that has
broken loose from it's fastening and beats
the air. while the Jockey sat motionless.
sa Wi'h in1 ms rsht t,o,rT arm hansing at his side
with his left moving forward and back
IN time with the desperate strokes OF
the horses head.
SIREN winsl' cried Lord Norton. with
8 grim smile, and "Siren.' the mob
shouted back with wonder and angry
disappointment, and "siren.'' the hills
Harringford felt as il he had suddenly
been lifted into heaven after three
| iiioHtHS Oh puTSdtoTy, ana smiled Uncpr-
talnly at the excited people on the coach
about him II made him smile even now
when he recalled young Norton's flushed
Ia;e. iaSe and and the ave aye and reproachh in his
w ny, Cecil, they say In the ring you've
won fortune. and you never told u.s.
and how Griffith, the biggest of tho
boolmakers with the rest Of them at his !
pack, came up TO him md touched his |
nat resentfully, and said, You'll have
TO give us time. sir; I'm very hard hit" !
| and how the oh y
looked at him curionsly, and the Certain
koyal personase turned and said, 'Who
mot that boy, surely Then how, on
the day following, the papers told Of the
young gentleman who of all others had
Won fortune. thousands and thousands
OF pounds they said. getting back sixty
tured him in baby clothes with the cup
! m his arms. or In an Eton Jacket: aud
how all OF them spoke of him sighting
P,nnger"
He did not care TO 20 on after that:
TO recall the modification of his father
whose pride was hurt and whose hopes
were dashed by this sudden, mad freak
of fortune, nor how ne rallied at and pro-
voted him until the boy rebelled and
celebrity and a king.
The rest is very common story, For
trns T., ,,.;,n,i and greater fortune at frst; days
which he drove hack TO the crowded inns
choked with dust, slInburnt and tagged
with excitement, 70 riotous supper and
oaccarats and afterward went TO sleep
only 20 see cards and horses and NOV |
ing crowds and clouds of dust: days spent ]
III snort covert coat, with a field glass {
over his shoulder and with pasteboard {
ticket dangling from his buttonhole and 6
then came the change that brought CON {
science up again. and the visits to the 5
Jews and the sights of tie men who !
had never been his friends, bu. whom he 1
had thought had at least liked him for +,
himself even II he did not, like them; 7
borrowing Of money to pay Eere and
there. and threats OF executions; and |
with 1T all. the longing for the fields and
trout springs OF Surrey and the walk c
across the park 10 where she iived This c
grew SO strong that he wrote to his IA l
ther, and was told briefly that I've who .
dragged II into the dust OF the race !
courses and had changed 1t at his own !
wish TO that of the Boy Plunger-and !
that the breach was irreconcilabie.
Then this queer feeling came on. and Z
he wondered why he could not eat and :
why WHY he shiyered even when the room 7
fear came upon him that with all this $
trouble and disgrace his head might give '
way, and then. that II had given way !
This came To him at all times, and lately 9
more frequently and with a fresher,
more cruel thrill OF terror and he began
10 =, watch at himself and note, how lie spoke. I
see II 1t were sensible, and 10 question O
himself as to why he laughed. and at =
Swnat 1t was not a question of whether e
IT would or would not be oowardly; It Q
was simply necessity. The thing had s
TO be stopped. He had to have sleep and e
peace again. He had boasted in those c
possible chance he should lose nis money t
ne would drive hanson, or emigrate
10 the colonies or take the shilling. He
had no patience III those days with men y
who could not I've on I'm adversely, and I
who were FOUND In the gun room with c
hole in their heads. and whose family r
IN g,-ia
that man used to firearms from his Il
school days. had tried to load a hair n
trigger revolver with the rnuzzle pointed d
now he had forgotten all that. and h
thought 10, only OF the relief it would bring s
II ne did consider this, II was only TO II
conclude that they would quite under b
stand. and be glad that MS pain and h
Then no planned grand coup which II
was 70 pay off, all his debts and give e.
!, MN q second chance a to present himself n
failed. he would have 10 stop this queer d
feeling In his head at once. The Grand "
coup. On this. depended everything.the g
return Of his fortunes. the reconciila ton h
With his father, and the possibility OF II
ay he ase asa and IT Wss xsry sys
the tall poplars on the road to the races hi
seerned to stop growing just at q level II
VIII nis eyes. bclOW tRar II was clear "
enough but all above seemed black-as f
-housh a cloud had fallen and was hang "
ns Just over the peoples heads He nj
thought Of speaking OF this 10 his man II
!Valtors. who had followed hts fortunes o,
rom the first. but. decided not TO do go, to
'or. as II was. he hsd noticed that Wal. to
ters had observed him closely OF late. | ~
Ind had seemed TO spy upon him. The al
ace oegan; and he looked through, his te
sIase lot the English horse in the front
nan beside him cried. "Frou Frou:" as IA
tTou trou passed the goal. He lowered In
Ms glasses slowly and unscrcwed thon1 ~
icry carefully before dropping them hack 10
nto the case; then he buckicd the strap, dr
ina turned and looked abou, him Two p.
trencnmen who had won a hundred ! ~,
rancs between them were jumping and -