The carriage containing the dude and the man Morris whom he had picked up at the saloon stopped at a roadhouse a short distance from the stables.
Nick was not yet posted regarding the conference at the saloon between Morris and the man Brower, who had summoned him there.
He was satisfied that some scheme was on foot which had nothing to do with the plot engineered by Johnson, who had staked forty thousand dollars against twenty thousand of James Wheeler’s money that Denver Bay would not win the race.
Johnson wanted the horse to run and be beaten.
The detective did not know exactly what the Brower crowd did want.
He went over to the stables in company with Morris to find out.
The dude and the roughly-dressed horseman attracted some attention as they walked into the quiet little bar-ro
