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been — on business," Swaynton said, hesitating 

 for a moment, and then cutting his explanation 

 short. " Any news to-day ? " 



" No, sir. We're waiting to hear about the 

 Steeplechase ; but the news can't reach us for a 

 good hour and a half." 



" What's to win ? " Swaynton asked. '' What 

 do you think about it, Stubson ? " 



'' Here's the man that can make a good guess 

 at it, I'll lay," Garrett cried suddenly. " Here's 

 Capper." 



And a tax-cart pulliug up at the door, Capper 

 descended, leaving the driver to continue on his 

 way. 



Stubson, who hated Capper, grunted with 

 angry contempt, but most of the others looked 

 with some interest on the young man who 

 came in. 



Capper was some two or three and thirty, 

 with black hair, deeply-set eyes close together, 

 and a rather saturnine expression of face, most 

 disagreeable to see, perhaps, when the sneering 

 smile, which was a characteristic expression, 

 came to his thin lips. 



*' Well, I can guess what you're talking 

 about," Capper began. 



"I dare say you can; and I dare say you 

 can guess something else better than we 



