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Chapter 9 THE RACE

Word Count: 902    |    Released on: 30/11/2017

ty. Hope c

roached her across the racecourse. The sun was

ith a certain eagerness, see

!" he echoe

er handed

s round half

the writer had been working all the morning and was a little

t back with

eret?" he asked. "Ha

he is, surely-just going into the weighing-tent. What a superb

o preoccupied an air that Mrs. Latimer smiled,

young Carteret issue forth at the farther end, and start off at a run with his saddle on his shoulder

later Baring r

"I didn't get near him. Time is just up. I hea

s seated in the midst of a glittering crowd of natives and British officers. She

aler. He was foaming and stamping uneasily, an

can be well," she said

a dissatisfied not

re ten horses in the race. It was a fair start, and the

e stretched himself out like a greyhound, galloping splendidly over the shining green of the course

t and grim. Obviously, the boy was not hi

ll be the biggest fluke

. Latimer. "I never saw young C

think he understood Hope's fa

o hotly contested the leadership. He was running superbly, thou

course, he was galloping next to the rails. As they fin

also his owner, made so strenuous an effort that it b

Don't give it away!" And the Waler's rider, as if startled by

-post. It seemed a dead heat; but, immediately after, the news spread tha

white and exhausted, sat so loosely in the saddle that he seemed to sway wi

s later, Hyde and his jockey came up together. The boy's cap was d

Baring, pushed

hat did you think of the race?" He coolly fastened on to Baring's elbow, and the latter had to pau

himself for the occasion, and overdone it. He'll pull round with a little feeding

l minutes; and, when they finally

e seen. And he wondered rather grimly as he walked away if Hyde

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Contents

Chapter 1 HOPE AND THE MAGICIAN Chapter 2 THE VISITOR Chapter 3 THE FRIEND IN NEED Chapter 4 HER NATURAL PROTECTOR Chapter 5 MORE THAN A FRIEND Chapter 6 HER ENEMY Chapter 7 THE SCRAPE Chapter 8 BEFORE THE RACE Chapter 9 THE RACE Chapter 10 THE ENEMY'S TERMS Chapter 11 WITHOUT DEFENCE
Chapter 12 THE PENALTY
Chapter 13 THE CURSE OF THE VALLEY
Chapter 14 HOW THE TALE WAS TOLD
Chapter 15 THE NIGHT OF DESPAIR
Chapter 16 A PROMISE OF MARRIAGE
Chapter 17 A RING OF VALUE
Chapter 18 THE HONEYMOON
Chapter 19 A GREVIOUS WOUND
Chapter 20 A STRUGGLE FOR MASTERY
Chapter 21 AN OFFER OF HELP
Chapter 22 THE DELIVERER
Chapter 23 AFTER THE ACCIDENT
Chapter 24 THE END OF A MYSTERY
Chapter 25 TAKEN TO TASK
Chapter 26 MONEY'S NOT EVERYTHING
Chapter 27 II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII, XVIII, XIX
Chapter 28 No.28
Chapter 29 No.29
Chapter 30 No.30
Chapter 31 No.31
Chapter 32 No.32
Chapter 33 No.33
Chapter 34 No.34
Chapter 35 No.35
Chapter 36 No.36
Chapter 37 No.37
Chapter 38 No.38
Chapter 39 No.39
Chapter 40 No.40
Chapter 41 No.41
Chapter 42 No.42
Chapter 43 No.43
Chapter 44 No.44
Chapter 45 A TIGHT PLACE
Chapter 46 A BROKEN FRIENDSHIP
Chapter 47 DERRICK'S PARADISE
Chapter 48 CARLYON DEFENDS HIMSELF
Chapter 49 A WOMAN'S FORGIVENESS
Chapter 50 FIEND OR KING
Chapter 51 THE REAL COLONEL CARLYON
Chapter 52 THE STRANGER ON THE VERANDA
Chapter 53 A FIGHT IN THE NIGHT
Chapter 54 SAVED A SECOND TIME
Chapter 55 II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX
Chapter 56 No.56
Chapter 57 No.57
Chapter 58 No.58
Chapter 59 No.59
Chapter 60 No.60
Chapter 61 No.61
Chapter 62 No.62
Chapter 63 No.63
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