How was he
to be in two places at once? Yet he was in two places, almost at
once, cub-hunting in the morning at Egham and Bagshot, and sitting
on the same evening at the stable-door at Newmarket, with his eyes
fixed upon Prime Minister.
Gradually had he and Captain Green come to understand each other,
and though they did at last understand each other, Tifto would
talk as though there were no such correct intelligence;--when for
instance he would abuse Lord Silverbridge for being pig-headed. On
such occasions the Captain's remark would generally be short.
'That be blowed!' he would say, implying that that state of things
between the two partners in which such complaints might be
natural, had now been brought to an end. But on one occasion,
about a week before the race, he spoke out a little plainer.
'What's the use of going on with all that, before me? It's settled
what you've got to do.'
'I don't know that anything is settled,' said the Major.
'Ain't it? I thought it was. if it aren't you'll find yourself in
the wrong box. You've as straight a tip as a man need wish for,
but if you back out you'll come to grief.
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