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bondage to an imaginary disease, and she had 

 pointed out to French the way he should go and 

 the methods he should use in carrying out his 

 assault on what, to a lower order of mind than Miss 

 Grimshaw's, would have seemed the impossible. 



Commonsense of the highest order sometimes 

 alHes itself to what commonsense of a lower order 

 would deem lunacy. When this alHance takes 

 place, sometimes great and world-shaking events 

 occur. 



French had conceived the splendid idea of 

 winning a great English race with an unknown 

 horse, in the face of debts, enemies and training 

 disabihties. Miss Grimshaw had, with misgiv- 

 ings enough, brought him the aid of her practical 

 nature. The first move in the game had been won, 

 the knight's gambit had been played, Garryowen 

 had been hopped over three squares and landed in 

 Sussex ; nothing threatened him for the moment, 

 and Miss Grimshaw's mind, turned from the big 

 pieces, was now occupied with pawns. 



Norah was a pawn. She had a great-aunt 

 Hving in Cloyne, and should she forsake The 

 Martens and return, driven by home-sickness, 

 to the roof of her great-aunt, the game might very 

 easily be lost. Mr Giveen, who had inkhngs of 

 French's debt, would discover, by hook or by 

 crook, the Sussex address, and when Lewis's man 

 arrived to find Drumgool empty the information 

 he would receive from Giveen would be fatal as a 

 loaded gun in the hands of an unerring marksman. 



