As God is my judge it
was not for the money I did it.'
'Then it was revenge.'
'It was the devil got hold of me, my Lord. Up to that I had always
been square,--square as a die! I got to think that your Lordship
was upsetting. I don't know whether your Lordship remembers, but
you did put me down once or twice rather uncommon.'
'I hope I was not unjust.'
'I don't say you was, my Lord. But I got a feeling on me that you
wanted to get rid of me, and I all the time doing the best I could
for the 'orses. I did do the best I could up to that very morning
at Doncaster. Well;--it was Green put me up to it. I don't say I
was to get nothing; but it wasn't so much more than I could have
got by the 'orse winning. And I've lost pretty nearly all that I
did get. Do you remember, my Lord,'--and now the Major sank his
voice to a whisper,--'when I come up to your bedroom that morning?'
'I remember it.'
'The first time?'
'Yes; I remember it.'
'Because I came twice, my Lord. When I came first it hadn't been
done. You turned me out.'
'That is true, Major Tifto.
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