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simpler language, he was to run in the City and 

 Suburban in the ensuing year, and to win it. I 

 daresay you have already gathered the fact that 

 Mr French's financial affairs were rather involved. 

 The Nip and Tuck incident, however, was only 

 a straw showing the direction of the wind which 

 threatened in a few months to strengthen into a 

 gale. Only an incident, for the debt to Harrison 

 was not considerable, and it would not require 

 more than a week or so to collect the money to 

 satisfy it. 



The bother to Mr French was that in the spring 

 of next year he would have to find fifteen hundred 

 pounds to satisfy the claims of a gentleman named 

 Lewis, and how he was to do this, and at the same 

 time bear the expense of getting the horse to 

 England and running him, was a question quite 

 beyond solution at present. 



Not only had the horse to be run but he had to 

 be backed. 



French had decided to win the City and Sub- 

 urban. He wished sometimes, now, that he had 

 made Punchestown the Hmit of his desires; but 

 having come to a decision, this gentleman never 

 went back on it. Besides, he w^ould never have so 

 good a chance again of winning a big English race 

 and a fortune at the same time, for Garry owen was 

 a dark horse, if ever a horse wa.s dark, and a flyer, 

 if ever a creature without wings deserved the title. 



"Oh, bother the money! We'll get it some- 

 how," French would say, closing his bank-book 



