Your money's all on the
other way already.'
On the Friday before the race Silverbridge dined with Tifto at the
Beargarden. On the next morning they went down to Newmarket to see
the horse get a gallop, and came back the same evening. During all
this time, Tifto was more than ordinarily pleasant to his patron.
The horse and the certainty of the horse's success were the only
subjects mooted. 'It isn't what I say,' repeated Tifto, 'but look
at the betting. You can't get five to four against him. They tell
me that if you want to do anything on the Sunday the pull will be
the other way.'
'I stand to lose twenty thousand pounds already,' said
Silverbridge, almost frightened by the amount.
'But how much are you to win?' said Tifto. 'I suppose you could
sell your bets for five thousand pounds down.'
'I wish I knew how to do it,' said Silverbridge. But this was an
arrangement, which, if made just now, would not suit the Major's
views.
They went to Newmarket, and there they met Captain Green. 'Tifto,'
said the young lord, 'I won't have that fellow with us when that
horse is galloping.
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