54 A Good Day 



away talking earnestly, Wennington turning to give me 

 a friendly nod and say, " At the coach after this race ! " 



* Once more I was left to my own devices, and returned 

 to my accustomed place in the enclosure. Out came my 

 card. Which was the Stanton horse, Wadlow's ? He 

 said Wadlow, surely? I searched the most puzzling 

 document I had ever come across, hut there was no 

 Wadlow ! It ought not to have been such a puzzle, either, 

 for there were only three runners : 3, Lord Bradford's 

 Mainsail; 7, Mr. L. de Eothschild's Diana; 10, Mr. 

 Manton's Koseleaf. 



' Of course ! That was it. " Manton " was a misprint 

 for " Stanton." Even in carefully edited papers misprints 

 are not infrequent ; they are, indeed, found in books that 

 have passed through several hands in course of pre- 

 paration, so what more likely than that they should be 

 common in such an ephemeral publication as a race- 

 card ? How " Wadlow " came in I did not understand ; 

 for certainly Wennington had said Wadlow. There was 

 the old gentleman who had told me who trained Spitfire 

 — perhaps Wadlow was also a trainer ? I would ask, 

 and frame my question artfully, I thought. 



' '' Wadlow's is running, isn't it ? " I remarked, care- 

 lessly. 



' " Yes, certainly — it is indeed ! " he answered, with a 

 look of curiosity at me, and a wave of his hand to the 

 number-board. 



' " Oh, yes, of course ! " I replied, as if I now knew all 

 about it — which wasn't at all the case. Evidently I was 

 right this time — " Manton " was a misprint for " Stanton." 

 I would go and interview Mr. Eoaster, who, I was 

 gratified to find, knew me at once. 



' " I've been expecting the pleasure of seeing you, sir," 



