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determination to run into the cart at full speed 

 and smash it up. I suppose it was wicked, but 

 it was fine." 



*' See here," said Mr Dash wood, anxious to turn 

 away praise from himself, " what we have to think 

 of now is Giveen. What's to-day? The tenth, 

 isn't it? Well, he'll see that man Lewis to-day, 

 as sure as nuts." 



" If he does," said French, " Lewis will have a 

 baiUff here to-morrow and I'll be done for." 



"I'm not so sure of that," said Mr Dash wood. 



" How do you mean? " 



"I've been thinking the thing out on the way 

 down. If he puts a baihfP in, let's corrupt the 

 baihff." 



" Sure, I've got nothing to corrupt him with," 

 said French. " Money's the only thing to corrupt 

 a man with, and I haven't any." 



" We might offer him a percentage of the profits 

 if he'll just shut his eyes and let us take the horse 

 to Epsom," said Mr Dashwood. " We don't 

 want to run away with the horse; we only want 

 a loan of him for the race." 



" That's not a bad idea," said Miss Grimshaw. 

 " If the man has any sporting instincts," said 

 Mr Dashwood, "it ought to be easy enough. 

 Give him a few glasses of whisky and get him 

 jolly, and the thing's done." 



"Faith, and it's not a bad idea after all," 

 said French. " I was thinking myself of getting 

 hold of the chap and making a prisoner of him 



