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which was definitely offered for one of the cars. I 

 would have sold it but Fournier dissuaded me : 

 " What's the good of parting with it ? We shall only 

 have to send to France for another as a model to work 

 from." 



There alone was lost two thousand pounds which 

 might have come to me out of the wreck. Ultimately 

 it was pawned and I never saw a dollar of its value. 



To make a long story short I never for one cause or 

 another enjoyed so much as a wheel of those automo- 

 biles. For instance one was smashed up by Fournier 

 who was showing a party of newspaper men how he 

 could race a locomotive and who got it on a level- 

 crossing. The car and the train met. Fortunately 

 no one was killed. 



The cause of my going back to Europe was that one 

 morning I got a cable from Mr Felix Oppenheim : 

 " Come at once Durnell warned off." I took ship 

 immediately and discovered on arrival that Durnell, 

 insisting on riding when I had repeatedly told him not 

 to, had actually been put on foot for incompetency. 

 He had been left at the post or something and the 

 Stewards took a serious view of it. I am quite sure 

 he meant nothing wrong and it was only his vanity 

 in thinking he was a jockey which brought it all about. 

 The results had to be put up with though and I had to 

 see about looking after the horses for their autumn 

 engagements. They belonged to Charron, Baron 

 Leonino, Felix Oppenheim, Lord Carnarvon and Mr 

 Debsay. We had only paid eleven thousand francs 

 for Mauvezin, Charron and I going halves in him. I 

 wrote to Lord Carnarvon telling him I had a good 

 horse and he had better come and see him. When we 

 bought him we were told that he couldn't stay more 

 than five furlongs, but the improvement made in him 



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