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him to speak had been ' notorious ' for a long time 

 past, and ought not to have escaped the notice of the 

 Stewards. Mr. Lowther very properly declines to be 

 a * detective,' but the common complaint has been for 

 years and years (before and after Lord Derby's letter 

 of 1857) that the Club and its Stewards will not see 

 what is going on under their very eyes. To many an 

 outsider, again, it was evident that the accursed 

 betting was at the bottom of the whole wretched 

 affair ; and to many an outsider it occurred that the 

 place of a gentleman, or a nobleman, or a semi-noble- 

 man, who confesses to owing a considerable portion 

 of his annual income to systematic, scientific betting, 

 is not in the Jockey Club but in the Eing, whether 

 with or without a stool and an umbrella, and a clerk 

 and a slate and a white hat, whereof the brim is 

 turned up with blue or red. At any rate, Sir G. 

 Chetwynd's virtual condemnation seems to have had 

 no effect beyond depriving the Club of his services 

 and the benefit of his experience — perhaps only for a 

 while. 



