“And why wasn’t he?”
“Because he wasn’t among the eleven first favourites. We took them as they were quoted in the betting list published in the Sportsman.”
“How was it, then, that you put in Silver Braid?”
“Yer needn’t get so angry, Sarah, no one’s cheating; it is all above board. If you don’t believe us, you’d better accuse us straight out.”
“What I want to know is, why Silver Braid was included?—he wasn’t among the eleven first favourites.”
“Oh, don’t be so stupid, Sarah; you know that we agreed to make an exception in favour of our own ‘orse—a nice sweep it would ‘ave been if we ‘adn’t included Silver Braid.”
“And suppose,” she exclaimed, tightening her brows, “that Soap-bubble had won, what would have become of our money?”
“It would have been returned—everyone would have got hi
