Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-04-08

his warped and shattered knee, paid
It the last five minutes Of the race"
Burton was silent. Arnold went
| on: +
There's two people in the world
| Drake will listen to: Ones me an
the others Jessie. T can't run him,
I'm stove up. Jess is .expectin' to
run him. If she does. he may win.
II she don't, he won't win. I tell
you, know. know that dog inside
and out. Nobody but mo or the girl
can stop him when he gets started.
He'll hunt where he pleases. or he'll
strike q bee line for the next state.
You know what that means, Mr.. Bur-
ton II you don't. Ferris does. The
judges will rule him out"
But old Burton wanted that big
young pointer worse than ever. He
had been a boiler himself when
young-had run away from home. lie
liked boilers. But, also, he wanted
tc win the championship.
Let the girl run him. then" he
said. Suits me. I'll pay her. and
pay her we'll. II the dog wins, she'll
get the stake"
Arnold flushed. She'll run the dog.
sir; but not for you. 1 mean. she
won't run him if she knows it's for
you. She's a high strung girl-and
proud; she mustn't know a thing
about this deal. She must think
she's runnin' her dog an mine
Then you mean to deceive her in
the natter" demanded Burton.
Again Arnold flushed. Sometimes.
Mr.. Burton, a man has to do q thing
ne don't like to do. I'll have to de-
ceive the girl until the rtial. 1t amt
easy. l lay awake all night last
night, after l go your telegram. It's
this way, sir. I have to tell you in
order for you to understand: II can
tell the bank positively that I'll have
$4,000 in a month, I can renew a
note I've got to renew--or lose the
place here. That's the reason I'm
sellin' Drake. But IL tell Jess now
that 1 have sold him. the life won't
be in her to handle him. She'll be
ashamed In the midst Of all them
people. She's a high-strung girl.
And that brings me to the matter
of the check you started to write" he
went on. II don't want that check
now. Ever since l was laid up Jess
! has tended to things for me. If that
checks in the house she's liabble to
| find it. II 1 deposit 1T in a little
| town like this, people will find 1t
| out, and some bobyll blab it to her.
You send it to me after the trial,
when I'm ready 10 explain to the girl
without runnir' your prospect of
winnin', an brakes. That's my con-
| dition."
~ he went up the street toward
"A the station, Burton heard from
behind the cottage the challenging
bark of the championship hope-his
dog now.
| Ferris" he said, "I believe we've
got the champion this time. I think
III attend that trial myself"
| For more than ~ generation. the
national championship, bird dog
classic of America, had been run
near Breton Junction. where, two
weeks later, Burton got off the train
! and was met by Ferris.
| Your dogs here. sir" was Ferris
whispered greeting. wilder look
ing than ever. The girls here, too.
! Jim ARNOLD CouIQH COME. LalQ up
with his knee"
Burton looked around. He had
reached a spot where for a few
weeks every winter the bird dog is
| undisputed king. Down the sunlit
village streets pointers and settlers
were out with their handlers. They
came from every section OF the coun-
try, from Canada, from England
Each dog represented in himself the
survival Of the fittest. There was not
one who had not gained a victory
in some trial. Now they were to try
for the greatest victory Of all, -.