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5 (Copyright, 192, by MoClure, Phillips & Co.) CHAPTER 1V. Porter brooded over worse still, the de- facing blotch that hed smirched his good Bamo M the unjust suspicion of the une thinking public. Wouched In its pocket, the public re- #ponded in unsavory references to Lucre- ta's race, Porter loved a good horse, and liked to #ée him win. The confidence of the publie 1n his honesty was as great a reward as the Stakes. The avowed principle of racing, that It improved the breed of horses, was But a silent sentiment with him. He be- Hoved in it, but, not' Being rich, raced as a wrofession, honestly and squarely. He had Sssotted more than omce that if he were wealthy Be would never rice a 2-year-old. But his incéme must be derived from his Rorsos, capital was in them, and just BOMEHOW, LANGDON' FELT MISERABLY INEFFICIENT IN THE PRESENCE OF CRANE—HIS SELF-RESPECT SUFFERED; THE OTHER MAN'S MIND WAS S0 OVERMASTERING. | Thoroughbreds. . By W, A. FRASER, . Author of “The Outcast,” “Moosws,” and Other Storles. ¥ only race, myself, in a way, just for the outdoor relaxation i{ gives me, you know, so I'm not much of a judge. The other horse you bought—the winner of the race, 1 mean, Luzanne—will also hglp put you right, I should say.” Porter hesitated, uneasily, He disliked to talk about a man behind his back, but he longed to give the banker a friendly word of warning; he knew nothing of the lattar's manipulation of the trai With & toueh of r quaintness he aild, with seeming irrelevance to the sub- Joct. “Have you ever plcked wild straw- the Belds,” Mr. Crane. nswered the other man, show- ing no surprise at the break, for life m Brookfleld had accustomed him to dis- Jointed deals. knew that Langdon tralned for Crane, and | to wondering whether the Dutchman might not beat Lucretia. A questiop of this sort was one of the few he discussed with Langdon. Cfane had smoked his clgar out, had sottied the trend of many things and de- veloped the routine for his chessman. “I'll_give Porter rope enough, in the way of funds, to tangle himself, and In the meantime I'l run up to New York hd see what Langdon thinks sbout the Dutehm: wae the shorthand record of Bhis thoughts s he threw away the end of his cigar, took his hat and passed out of the ban! That evening he talked with his trainer. “What should win the Eclipse, Langdon 1" he asked. “Well, I don't know what'Il start,” be- gan_the tralner with diplomatic caution, running through his Mind the most likely ‘Would Porter's mare have a chance?™ “I think she would. I hear somethin’ about & trinl she gave them good enough to win—If 1 could find out her time—Porter don’t talk much, an' Andy Dixon's like a clam. There's a boy in the stable, Shandy, that I might pump—"" “Don’t bother, Mr, Langdon; prying into anybod. business.” The tralner stared, but he didn't know 1 dislike “Did you ever notice that going down wind you could the berries better?” that Porter bhad told Crane all about the trial, and so the latter could afford to take ¥ this time be was sitting in a particu- streak of bad luck; fnancially, bole; morally, he stood 11l with reason told him that the ill-fortune not last; he had ome grand iittle to win, an honest i . e ””i‘ fl‘l'm 1t out with the mare doing, Andy?" he asked the race do to her?” better in her life,"” the ed look that was in the “She’ll win next shirt on that." cKay up.” good enough for the Belipos,' sir, dashed if I do I worked \he distance end she shaded the time g 13 i H i, 1 ; thinkin' it over,” Hizarded tentatively—"Bosfon Bill'a got & them can put it boss ain't got mothin’ in heo ‘Belipse,’ I know," same old game, Andy; get him into condition, can win i 354 i f H T i} 5 £ 3 §2 i §} i : i ] 8 i i g 13 | Crane thought for a moment. that's right; coming up wind the leaves hide them." “Just 80, commented Porter; “and when & man's got a traiver he's nearly always working up wind with him.” *The 'traimer hides things?" queried Crane. t ‘‘Some do. But the outsiders walking down wind aee the berries.” Again the banker pondered for a minute, then he sald, “Whose garden are the berries in, Mr. Porter, yours or mine?" “I see,” sald the other, meditatively. “I understand. I'm much obliged. If I thought for an instant that any trainer wasn't dealing perfectly straight fo with me, I'd have nothing more to do with him—nothing whatever."” Crane sat looking through the open win- dow at John Porter, as the latter went down the street. About his thin-lipped, square-framed mouth hovered an expres- ion that might have beem a smile or sg intense look of Interest, or a touch of avaricious ferocity. The gray eyes peeped over the wall of their lower lids, and in too, was the unfathonable some- he repeated, as though Porter still stood bes'de him, “if Langdon tried to di celve me, I'd crush him. Poor dld Pos with his story of the strawberries! If were as clever as he is honest, he wouldn't have been stuck with a horse like Lauzanne. I told Langdon to get rid of that quitter, but L almost wish he'd found another buyer for him. The horse taint is pretty strong in that Porter blood. How the girl sald that Yine: * ‘And hush came over the clamorous babe on his neck I was sobbing.” “She’s cleverer than her father.” Crane sat for an hour. Porter had van- ished fram the landscape, but st!ll the banker's thoughts clung to his"personality 04 though the peeping eyes saw nothing else. From the time of the first loan obtained upon Ringwood, Crane had coveted the place. It appealed to him, with its elm- bordered, sweeplug driveway, leading from gate to old colonial residence. Its thick- grassed flelds and runping water made it just the place for a man who tempered his passion for raclng with common sense. Apd It would pass from Porter's hands right enough—Crane knew that. Porter wight call it ill-luek, but he, Crane, the banker, knew it was the lack of something, | the inability to make money, “Made music to me on Crusader,” yes, With the and | Dutchman as cheap as you can and run him 3 ] i : | i i) : 3 i R : : i 4 a virtuous pose. “Has the Dutchman & look in?" con- tinued Crane. “On his runnin’ he has; he wasn't half fit, an’ got as bad a ride as-ever 1 see in my life. The race ought fo be between ‘em—I aln’t m no 2.year-olds out to beat that pair.” ’ “It 1 thought the Dutchman woild win T'd buy him. I itke game horwes, and men, too—that'll take the gaff and try." “I don't know as the owner'd seli him.” “Do you remember the buying of Silver Foot, Langdon?” “Yen.” “He was a good horse.” ““The best handicap horse in the coun- try an’ he was sold a song—seven thou- sand.” “Less than that, the first time," rected Crane. “Yes; they stole him from old Walters; made him belleve the horse was no good." “Just 80,"” commented Crane; “I've heard that story,” and his smooth putty-like face remained blank and devold of all meaning, as his eyes peered wacantly over their lower 1'ds at the trainer. Langdon waited for the other to con- tinue, but the banker seemed wrapped up in & retrospect of the Sliver Foot deal. * “I know Billy Smith, that trains the Dutchman,” hasarded Langdon. “I'm gl of that—I mean, that you know Smith,” declared Crame. “1 happen to know the owner—his name is Baker. His racing is what might be ealled indiserimi- nate, and like men of that class he some- times blunders upon a good horse without knowing it and I doubt very mueh but that it he knmew all about the other race—how bad Lauzanne reéaily is, now the mare, Lu-! cretia—well—got shut off and couldn't get through her horses—say—of course his own trainer, Smith, would have to tell him these things, yoy understand. In fact, if he knew the exaot truth, he might take a reasonable offer for the Dutchman.” «~ Langdon nodded approvingly. He loved this subtle matter; cards up his sleeves tingled his nerves and loaded dice were s Joy forevermore. Crage proceeded to unwind the silken cord. “Naturally Smith would to lose a falr horse out of his stable would, perbaps, attempt to thwart any desl; so, 1 think you might remunerate him for his loss.” “When Silver Foot was sold they gave Him & bad trfal before the sale—" “I'm pot interested’ In Silver Foot,” in- terrupted Crane *‘and [ shouldn't lke to have eaything—well, 1 don’t want my name | sssocisted with anything shady, you understand, Langdon? You are to buy the cor- as your own horse in the Eclipse. I t Porter's mare will win it, 5o we needn’t 10%e anything over the Dutchmai Langdon started. With all his racing finesse he was & babe. The amooth. com- placent-faced man in front of him made him realize this. “But,” he gasped, “there was a row over Lausanne's race. 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Why should he reason, or object, or counterplot, or do any- thing, but just follow blindly the dictates of this past master in the obligue game he loved so well? 7 Crane wanted the Dutchman because he was a good Porse; he also wanted to haye a heavy plunge on Lucretia; but with the son of Hanovea in other hands, the good thing might ot come off. * |y Somehow felt miserably inef- flcfent in {he presence of Crane-—his self- respect suffered; the other'man's m'nd was 80 overmastering, even to detall, The trainer felt a sudden desire to right him- self In Crane's ‘estimation, *give some evi- dence of ordinary intelligence, or capability to carry out his mission. “If the Dutchman’'s owner was made to think that the horse was likely to break down, throw a splint, or—" But Crane interrupted him in his quiet, masterful way, saying: “I know nothing of horee trading; I simply furnish the money, Joan it to you, my dear Mr. Langdon, and you buy the animal in your own best way. You will pay for him with a check on my bank.” No man could close out effectually as Crane. As Langdon slipped away as though he bad been thrust bodily from the room there was in his mind nothipg but gdmiration of his master—the man who backed up his delicate diplomacy with liberal capital. In spite of what he had sald to Langdon there was little doubt in Crane’'s miud but that the son of Hanover was a better horse than Lucretla, A sanguine owner— even Porter was one at times—wsas 80 apt to overrate everything in his own stable, especially it he had bred the animal him- self, as Porter had Lucretia, To buy the Dutchman and back him on such short ownership to beat Lucretia ‘would have been the policy of a very ordi- nary mind indeed; he would simply be fencing, with raplers of equel length, with Jobn Porter. Crane bad attained to his success by thinking a liftle deeper than other men, golng a little beyond them in tbz eareful- ness of his plans. He knew iptuitively—in fact, Porter's unguarded convorsation had trended that way—that Lucretia’s owner meant to win Nimself out of his diffieult position by backing the little mare heavily for the Holipse, expecting to get his money on at good odds. By owning the Dutchman Crane could whipsaw the situation, fore- stall Porter (n the betting by bdacking Lucretia down short price himself d have Jakey Faust lay with a full vigor against the Hanover colt. He would, thus confine Porter to the stake momey and Ringwood would stiil lie chained to his bank by the golden links he had forged 2« the place. Almost insensibly, side by side with this weel\ of villainy, there was growing In Cranv's mind & most pecullar fSower of sontinent, & love blossom. Strive as he would-~though the apathy of his rebellion somewhat startled him—Crane could not obliterate from his thoughts the wondrous gray eyes of Allls Porter. 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D. assented Dixon, service “but we've got our own troubles today. that Included everything—even the secret ““That they shouldn't,” back the mare at even money than I would it she ten to one. If I'm any Judge, we're Faust and Crae had a reclprocal under- | being buncoed good and ‘plenty. standing. When the bogkmaker needed, “I thifik jot're right, Digon. Il financial assistance ' he kot it ‘from the | back and; have &’ good bet down em her at banker; when Crane neaded a missionary | even.” But in five minutes: Lucretia’s owner was move to make; he sent for Jakey Faust, the bookmaker. for him. back in the paddock with the cheerful in- *'I want to back Lucretia for the ‘Eolipse,’| telligencs that the mare was Do ree to Crano said to the bookmaker. five, CHPE “Lucretia! culated Faust,’ “Shel1 | ‘I wouldn’t back “Salyator' amongst have a rosy u"' beatin’ Dutchy on their | 10t of -cart. horses that price,”. com- last race. They’ll put a better boy up op | mented Dixon; “leave it alons, an' we'll go the colt next timé an’ he oughter come |for the stake, ' We're up against it good home all Lv himself.”” R and hard; somebody seems to know more “Yes, fairish sort of & jock will bave the |bout our own Rorses than we. do our- ‘mount, I think—Westley's a good enough | Selves.” o y “I think, myselt, that the gods are angry o R wonderingly from | With us, Dixon,” said Porter, moodtly; “and M o - the mortals will be furious, too, whichever s way the race goes. They've backed the o Lanwles: quay the " DUURERAR ] iiue meate ot thin: ahars Brioh ke’ AGUbk : an’ If she's beaten they'll howl; it ® The Cherub pursed his llps in a soft » whistle of enlightenment. It bad stag- | Maa gine 1 olicn b oney was on today and that I pulled her in her last race.” gered him at first that Orane, for whose (To Be Continued.) acumen he had a profound respect, should bave intended such @ hazardous gamble; Dow he saw light. “Then my book is full on the Porter mare?” he said inquiringly, Crane nodded his head. “An' I iay against the Hanover colt?" Again Crane nodded. “It's mot bookmaking,' OUT OF THE ORDINARY. Reform school lads make good fighting material, as England has discovered re- cently. Lord Lelgh says that in ths South African war soldiers who graduated from reform schools won three Victoria crosses, commented | ten distinguished service medals (D. 8. 0.), Faust. two promotions to commercial rank and “I'm not a bookmaker,” retorted Crane. four mentions in dispatches. “And see here, Faust,” he continued, “when you've got my money on the Porter mare— bound up with local advertiseme: “It the mare goss wrong” objected | mngland f to have b g Faust. {llustrated technical montbly, of own. “I don't think she will, but you needn't | Mr. David Page, the editor, has beem t be in a hurry—there's plenty of time.” English director of Cassicr's Magasine. “What's the limit?" asked Faust, - “I want her backed down to even money | So many horses have been frightened by at least,” Crame answered; “probably ten |automobiles in and around aristocratic thousand will do it. At any rats you can|Lenmox that Courtland Fleld Bishop and Al- g0 that far." bert B. Shattuck have undertaken the task Then for & few days Langdon prepared (of accustoming all horses to the unusual his new horse for the Belipse according to | sight and sound. Every morning they take Lucretia to In a manner that gladdened | John Porter's heart. They knew nothing of anything but Lucretia was very fit, that they had Boston Bill's jockey to ride straight and honest for them, and that with & good price against the mare they would recoup all their losses. The day of the race, when John Porter went in to the betting ring, he was con- duce them to the motor cars. Thelr efforts have met with great success, nome of the horses 80 treated now showing any fear of the autos. British army authorities have been wres- tling with the weighty gquestion whether tall coats should be substijuted for the short jackets mow worn at mess. The of the Lord's day. In at least one branch ice, the navy, Sun- w than lont with tha years in tokens of respect. Mrs. Berwind, whose servants all went on r spléndid Newport villa a week or 5o ago, is still ‘having trouble with her domesties. The. force with which she re- placed the' dgserters ‘included some shady specimens, two of whom got into & fistic argument the other evening over the ques- tion which should serve coffee to the guests at dinner. The row developed in the pan- try, and one of the men nearly lost.an eye. Tho" other was' sedt to fafl for thirty days. This deplorable scaddal was ome of the reasons why Mrs. Berwind's butler took leave on short not saying he did not lke the rules of the blishment. Lighthouse keepers on Percy .Island, oft the coast of Queensland, In 1900 were tor- gotten for months by the government au- The food supply of Percy supposed to be delivered once but no food' arrived ‘at the chanced to: pass in -Octo- The islanders, twenty in number, were delirious from lack of food,” man- aged to hafl the vessel, which left behind an ample supply of provisions, and re- minded. the Queensland government of the lighthouse men whoce existence it had forgotten. The largest raft of lumber that' ever floated down the eurrent of the father of dronted with even money about his mare. It be had read on the ring black-board a notice that she was dead, he would not have been more sstonished. He fought his way back to the open of the paddock with- out making s bet. “Even money!" ejaculated Dixon when his owner told him of the ring situation, “why they're crasy. Who's doin' jt7"” “Not the public,” declared Porter, “for 1 was there just after the first betting. It must be your friend Boston Bill that had forestalled us; nobody else knew of the mare's trial.” “Not on your life, Mr. Porter; Boston plays falr. D'ye think he could live at this game If he threw down his friends?” “But nobody else even knew that we'd got & good boy for the mare,” “It dom't make Ba dlderence,” curtly answered Dixon; “it's a million dollars to & penny whistle that Boston hasu't a dol- lar on yet. Our agreement was that he'd sepd bis commission when they were at the post, an' his word's like your own, sir, #s solid as & judge's decision. It's some- one else. Theie's somehody behind that damned Langdon—he's.not clever enough for all this. D've know that the Duteh- man's runnin’ in Langdon's name todey? “He W1 “Yes, he's supposed to own him.” “But what's that got to do with Lu- eretia’s price “It means that we're goin’ to be allowed to win. The other day they laid against her ap’ she got beat; today they're boldin® her out, so I suppose she'll win, but some- body else gots the beneft.” “Gad! that Langdon must be a crook,” muttered Porter. Tm golug to speak to my triend Crane about him sgain. No hopest man should have horses in his stable.” opinions of regimental commanders have been asked as to the matter and ome of them has dared to poke fun at the whole affair in this profane fashion: “I beg to report \l.at (1) I approve the adoption of & tall coat for mess, and (2) I consider one tafl should be red and the other blue.” Passengers arriving on the westbound St. Louls & San Frapclsco train at Joplin, Mo., report the death of Owen Greelish of Leavenworth, Kan., who committed sul- cide by climbing on top of s water tank and leaping into the funmel of & locomo- tive. The deed was committed between Lebanon and Springfleld. Greelish gave & whoop before jumping. He was pulled out by the trafnmen with dificulty, terri- bly burned. His body wae taken to Lebanon. To the long list of ange deaths must be added that of James W. Carroll, a me chant of Lambertville, N. J. Mr. Carroll's death was caused by & rooster. He was taking two hens from the chicken yard when & rooster flew at him and thrust one of his spurs into Mr. Carroll's band. The wound became very painful, but was not regarded as serious. A few hours later he dropped dead. It is supposed that the rooster's spur plerced an artery, causing &' blood clat, which went to the brain. The only flag ever allowed to float above the stars and stripes on the vessels of our navy is the church flag. & broad wihite streamer with a blue cross. Its presence marks one of the most lmpressive sights on shipboard—the sacred service held every Sunday morning, sttended by all officers men. Nearly all the denominations, in their national assemblies, have Jately pro- tested agalnst the growlug secularization the Minnesota pineries. Not only was it the biggest raft on record, but it made re- markably quick time to its destination, It contained 5,600,000 feet of lumber and was towed by two steamers. It left Stillwater, Minn., June 10 and arrived at'St, Louls in a little over three weeks, It would have been in earlier, but an accl to the ma- chinery of ome of the towing steamboats caused a tieup at Alton until repairs: could be made. There is no record of any raft of the size ever resching St. Loufs. All existing, raflroad spans of over 500 feet have been bullt since 1879, amd prob- ably more In America than in all the rest of the world together, and certainly thess are much better and cheaper and have been more rapldly and eafely’ constructsd than those of any other eountry. In w word, American engineers have bullt mest of the sreatest and most difficult bridges in the world and in less than balf & eentury, largely within the last quarter eentury, have developed the art of bridge bullding to & perfection that no other sort of con- struction has reached in hundreds of years. They have brought It to pragtieal Hmits that cannot be greatly extended until some radically new maierial is provided that in n‘n.t:‘bb stronger, cheaper or lighter tham steel. EDUCATIONAL. . Dr. Guy Pot Bent: it the” Upbar Jows unveralty, hae St g:& p(g.lldtm!y of Miam! university, Ox- Father A. Barry, chaplain of ’t‘h. Rev. Carmelite convent at Rnliurl Ins a doctor of Reb. e Ui '\ Mass., sacred’ the: been s Slogy n that taatitution. Prof. Hrander Matthews of Col R A GO Hon ‘Graa ind on the dramatists et 8" Prof. HMen Nelson dor " been elect b oot W ] "ih.o g Sjocded . James feauor of eihics and astronomy. | PTO Rev. Willlam H. on_ of ol Sxbiem 3 $AmE e o ‘% sumiingned fo"the 4Ty pRtcr ningned 'b:ul b e £ e el B 2% Iy o TR b Shusotin" Tastim m:'a.u‘., N T Yo st KBZER Sgirle ,m‘g Em«m of the American e T waters arrived at St. Louls recently !rom“‘ e et S S \

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