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and forthwith proceeds to read the entries, as also 

 does the Hstener. He has no idea who " those 

 people " are, but is at any rate aware that a Selling 

 Race is in the programme. 



" There's another in it," observes No. i as a 

 result of the inspection. There are seventeen 

 others in it, to be accurate, as the man in the 

 corner perceives, and he feels that he is getting no 

 forwarder ; but evidently No. 2 understands, for 

 he rejoins : 



" I don't think so. This is six furlongs. She 

 won't get the course." 



" Third last meeting, and that was six furlongs, 

 you know .? " 



" Not third best. I watched the race very 

 carefully. The other two were out by themselves 

 and the rest were pulling up." 



" Yes, now you mention it I remember the 

 race," says No. i, leaving the listener more 

 perplexed and rather exasperated. Of course he 

 does not know that " those people " are Captain 

 Percival and his associates, who put a very useful 

 horse in a selling race to gamble on a fortnight 

 before, bought her in, and have entered her again ; 

 nor does he understand that in the opinion of these 

 good judges one other seems to stand out from the 

 rest, so obviously to them that when No. 2's 



