192 THE RACE AND ITS RESPONSIBILITIES. 
the result of their connivance was the removal of the horses, 
the cause of which was probably unknown to Mr. Scott to 
the day of his death. It was not until some time after, that 
I learned from undoubted authority what had taken place, 
and the object sought in bringing about the change. 
But the subject is a distasteful one, and enough has already 
been said to show that there is but one proper method in 
which to treat such communications, and that is, to put them, 
unread, behind the fire. 
