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2:20, and he never liked him better than he did that day. We 

 decided to play $.iOO apiece on the roan gelding, making 

 $1,500 in all. Sullivan and myself gave McAloon $500 each, 

 he was to put his $500 with it and play the entire amount on 

 his horse. He said he had a good man to do the business. 

 It usually takes the third party in such matters to attend to 

 the finances. We went out and commenced ; Ezra L. 

 stepped off and won the first heat in 2;22|, I was second, 

 Judge Davis not acting ven,' well in that heat. The roan 

 horse won the second heat in 2:24^. By this time I wanted 

 to know whether the business end was going off right. I 

 wanted to know if the money was in the box, so while the 

 horses were cooling out I took a little stroll. I met Pat Sul- 

 livan' and said to him, " Have you seen Mac ? " He said 

 •Xo; why?" I said, " You better go and see him and find 

 out how much of that money is in the box, and find out how 

 we stand ? "' So he went over and had a talk with Mac. He 

 came back and said, " The money is all in on Ezra L.," but 

 said, "Mac acts a little funny, he called to me when I came 

 awa3^and said, ' I am afraid old Peek is going to drive it out 

 on us ; I don't like things." Pat replied, • Why ? that is 

 all right ; I hav-e done a good deal of business with Jack and 

 he has always done as he has agreed with me, and I have no 

 fears." But Mac seemed to be uneasy, and Pat said, " His 

 head did not seem to be just right." 



That talk began to make me a little suspicious that some- 

 thing was wrong, and brought me to a knowledge of my duty 

 to look after matters and find out what was going on. So I 

 walked up towards where they were selling pools and listened 

 to the voice of Frank Emerson, who was the auctioneer that 

 day. I found out to my surprise, notwithstanding Ezra L, 

 had won two heats and it was understood that he was to go 

 along and win the race, King was selling for full as 

 much as Ezra L., which was from thirty-five to forty dollars 

 apiece, and plenty of business at that. This did not look 

 quite right to me and I began to get considerably uneas\-. I 



