96 LORD GEORGE BENTINCK 



for many other visionary misdeeds of which everyone 

 knew he was entirely innocent. But as the accusation 

 was made on the bare word of his lordship, whose state- 

 ments my father had found out were often of a very 

 ex parte nature, and in this case entirely uncorroborated, 

 my father would not comply with his wish. This was 

 the first cause leading to the separation, and the next 

 completed it. Nothing, I imagine, can be more clear to 

 an unbiased mind than that Lord George would not 

 have cared who was laying against Crucifix (or his other 

 horses), if he himself was not doing so, at the time when 

 he knew she was lame, or would be if she galloped ; for 

 in such a case he would sustain neither loss nor injury. 

 On the other hand, if he was laying against his own 

 horse, he may, indeed, have disapproved of anyone 

 getting a part of what he hoped to get for himself, and 

 of ( the interference with his rights,' if any such rights 

 he had, of which he so bitterly complained, forgetting 

 that ' those that live in. glass-houses should not throw 

 stones.' He wanted her (Crucifix) to be sent home from 

 exercise, and have her clothing changed, for the purpose 

 of deceiving old Mr. Sadler and the touts ; but my 

 father would not consent. Lastly, altercations took 

 place between them- and before me, which ended by 

 my father saying : ' If your lordship insists upon this 

 being done, you may take your horses to Goodwood or 

 wherever you please.' To which his lordship ironically 

 replied : ' Perhaps, sir, I may.' 



These facts have come within my own knowledge 

 I vouch for their accuracy, and have no hesitation in 

 relating them as a matter of history, and as a flat con- 

 tradiction to Mr. Eice's account. 



It was not till a very long while after the horses left 

 Danebury that Lord George could be induced to settle 



