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with Fielder, who trains for Fielder and Layitt, 

 the men who bought your horse Decimal last 

 year.' 



' Yes,' said Reggie Miller ; ' I didn't know 

 it before, but get on.' 



' Well, sir, for the last two or three weeks, 

 whenever I have seen him he has always 

 seemed very serious, and especially since 

 Phoebe has been up to stay wdth father and 

 mother, and he has got to know her, and knows 

 that she is the daughter of the head keeper, 

 and that you are the owner of Fortitude.' 



'Well, what does he say?' said Reggie 

 Miller, whose curiosity, to say the least of it, 

 was now fairly roused. 



' He says nothing, sir, except that Decimal 

 is very well and can't lose. And the other 

 day, when I told him that you sold the horse 

 because he cut it so many times, he said he 

 would bet all he ever expected to own in the 

 world that Decimal beat Fortitude wherever 

 they finished.' 



' What does it mean ? ' 



