150 KACECOUESE AND COVERT SIDE. 



was devoted to that terribly difficult business, 

 getting the lost money back. 



When things had looked prosperously for 

 Frank, old Lomax had been willing enough to 

 see him at the Fox and Hounds ; but the old 

 man had no notion, he declared, of a fool who 

 couldn't keep his money when he had got it. So 

 cold words and snubs had been all the consolation 

 Frank received for his losses, and he sauntered 

 miserably about the village, earning a pound 

 when he could, and living hardly enough. 



It happened that young Swaynton had been 

 at the Goodwood Cup this year himself, but 

 the next day he was at Chipbury, and had 

 seen Capper bring off another cowp, which had 

 made Eutters, who believed that for once he 

 had a certainty, whistle with dismal emphasis, 

 and had inflicted another blow on Garrett's 

 system. 



In time the Eoyal Southern Steeplechase day 

 came round again, and was of all the more 

 interest to Chipbury because a local magnate, 

 the Earl of Spii'etown, owned one of the 

 favourites, Star of the West. Between this 

 mare, Jupiter, and Primrose the race was 

 supposed to rest, and as it was getting on 

 towards five o'clock in the afternoon, a group, 

 very similar in its constitution to that which 



