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A Fortune on Four Legs. CHAPTER I. "To my nephew, George OeofTry Jfar tindale, 1 give and bequeath the whole of my racing stud, horses in training, stallions, brood mares and young stock, for his sole use and benefit, to sell or continue running as shall seem most to his advantage at the time of my de cease. So ran the only clause affecting me in the will of my late uncle Geoffry Dakyn, Esq., of Stockwood, Sherbur ton, in tho county of Dorset, and of Boodle’s and tho Turf clubs in London town. ! “1 fear. Captain Martindalo,” re marked tho lawyer ns ho rolled up the document which conveyed to me this interesting legacy, ‘‘that your uncle’s ( “I tcar, Captain Martindalc,” remarked the lawyer. bequest will not prove so valuable ;i3 might have been the case some 20 years | back, or even when 1 drew up this in- ! strument 10 years ago.” 1 feared not also, for I knew that my j uncle’s stud, through a long run of ill luck and his own carelessness of ways \ and means, rather than any diminution of interest in his favorite pursuit, had of late years dwindled almost to noth ing. so that it was net likely I should take much benefit from the bequest. Still 1 was glad to have been remem bered. Dear old Uncle Geoff, warm hearted and true, cheeriest friend of my boyhood, had not forgotten his nephew. Little else had he to leave him beyond his beloved nags, remnant of a once large and fairly successful stable. His only personalty besides consisted of his household furniture, which was left to my mother—his only sister—with a picture or two and some antique chinaware of no great value. What money he had ever possessed had long been spent, with that free handed liberality which had made Geoff Dakyn while it lasted—aye, and even beyond, let it be said, to the credit of the sport ing coterie to which he belonged—most popular of men. Even his racing plate had gone to pay the interest of a mort gage on his real estate, which, being entailed, descended now to a second cousin, one Richard Dakyn, who was not greatly to be envied therefor, for Stockwood Lodge was fearfully out of repair, and the bit of pasture land about it heavily incumbered. However, there was the legacy, such as it was, and 1 must make the best I could of it. The question of course was. Should 1 sell the horses at once, or wait to see what could be made by running them? The sporting instinct which is present, even if undeveloped, in most Englishmen inclined me to the latter course, while my mother, who had seen and indeed suffered much from the indulgence of this instinct in her own family, strenuously urged the former—indeed she would listen to nothing else than the immediate dis posal of the animals. • If you had seen as much of it as I have, my dear boy,” the mater said sententiously, “you would rather pack them all off at once to the kennels than have anything to do with horse rac ing.” My sister Geraldine, on the other hand, was all for having a run with them and said 1 must give her a new suit of furs for next winter out of my first win. • lr you ever get so mucn as a new tennis racket, you will be a lucky girl, Jill," 1 rejoined, and indeed I thought so. but i meant to decide for myself in the matter all the same. But there was some one whom 1 was bound to consider before either mother or sister. What would Ella have to aay about it, and Ella’s people? My re lations with the Rev.Cholmondely-Dav enport, her father, were already some what "strained,” and as 1 had fully made np my mind to marry the daugh ter 1 was naturally averse to anything that would bo likely to increase the tension. Tbe Rev. Cholmondely and I had never hit it off well together at all. I tried to respect him as mnch as 1 could, because of bis daughter and because other people seemed to and because there was nothing in the least unrespect able about him. So far from that, he occupied an extremely good position. He was rector of Rampington and magis trate and rural dean, and both ecclesias tically and socially held in first rate es timation in his own county. Still some how I could not respect him. I am not particularly religious or over squeamish about such matters, and perhaps, being only a plain soldier, I don’t mnch un derstand them, bat 1 do like a man to be true to his colors, and this 1 did not think the Rev. Cholmondely conld be, or why should he once a week insist so strongly npon the absolnto nothingness of worldly possessions and social rank, while npon all other occasions his visi ble objects in life were to find the most advantageous investments for his money —of which he had a great deal—and to obtain the best settlements for his daughters in marriage? Again, it seem ed to me that a man who really be lieved in the predestination of a fear fully large percentage of his fellow mor tals to an unhappy future ought to be more concerned about it and not to be sitting there in his handsomely appoint ed dining room, sipping his port with such a complacent air, however well as sured of hi* own safety. I am not mnch of a theologian, and I don't know >vhat may by thy preci. ; grou 1m for such a lielief. but it seemed to me that if I felt so f u vo of it as the Rev. Cholmondely did the thought would almost drive me iuto an asylum. On the other hand, 1 was pretty sure the Rev. fJhoimonde l.v did not r< sp< ct me at nil. ft would not occur to him to respect any one with so small a for tune as mine, and indeed when 1 came to propose for Ella he demonstrated this in sufficiently plain terms. Had he objected conscientiously to giving his daughter to one of my profession, 1 could have reverenced his scruples. But he assured me this was not the caso at all. lie entertained the high- st respect for my profession. It was only my rank in it that he took exception to, and the absence of any family interest to render it likely I should ever obtain any high military appointment. When I endeavored to point out the inconsis tency between his preaching and his practice in connection with this, he be came so irritated that I had to drop the Buliject for the time, and no definite ar rangement had been arrived at when 1 came iu for my uncle’s legacy of the horses. Now. hero I knew ho would be fully consistent. He abhorred racing, not merely from principle, but, like my mother, from actual experience of its evil consequences. After some schem ing and nearly spoiling the life of a very estimable young clergyman in a neighboring parish, who was devotedly attached to her and whom she would have married and been a happy woman but for her parent’s interference, the Oholmondely-Davenports—for so his wife insisted on their being styled, though Cholmondely was but his Chris tian name—had succeeded in marrying their eldest daughter to the profligate son of a gambling baronet, “a more suitable match,’’the mother called it and persuaded her husband to dispense with the settlements which were not forthcoming, in honor of the alliance. The result, however, of this maneuver was disappointing. The baronet was on his last legs, and the young people were now living abroad on the worst of terms with each other and mainly on an al lowance from her father, with no pros pect on his part of inheriting anything beyond the barren title. All this on ac count of horse racing and baccarat, so that to hear that I was going on the turf would rot be likely to propitiate my father-in-law elect. 1 say "elect” because, although I had been in a way refused by her par ents, neither Ella nor I had any inten tion of giving each other up. Ella Dav enport was a fine girl and had inherit ed from her father a fine will of her own, quite equal to his, and she had at this time rather the whip hand of her parents by reason of her sister’s unfor tunate marriage, which would not have occurred had she been left to choose for herself. Accordingly, Ella refusing to throw me over, the matter remained in abeyance. There was no recognized en gagement, but we perfectly understood one another, and I regarded myself as much bound to marry Ella at some time or other as if we had been betrothed with the full sanction of her family. At this time we did not often meet. The Rev. Cholmondely had never gone so far as to forbid me the house, but know ing his feelings toward me 1 could not bring myself to visit there, preferring to see Ella whenever 1 could at the houses of our friends or at the various public balls which took place during the winter months. We were both young enough to bide our time. Though not without some small for tune derived from my father, I waa by no means sufficiently well off to marry Ella without the £5,000 or so dowry which her father could well afford to give, and no doubt would give upon her making such a match as might be deemed “suitable.” I was now 32, and as will be readily believed had saved nothing out of my pay. First I had gone to Oxford, but on finding, to ward the end of my second year, that 1 was only getting into debt with no sort of chance of obtaining honors—to which, having been in the sixth at school, I had at first aspired, little aware of the standard required for a class—1 passed mods and went up for the army as a university candidate. Then, having been gazetted to the Ninetieth Hussars, I had served in Ireland and subsequently in India, taking part in one of those lit tle punitive expeditions in which we are continually engaged upon the fron tiers, wherein I gained my captaincy. We had now been home a year and a half, during which time I had fallen in with Ella, with the result already men tioned. My mother was staying at Bournemouth, and I was with her on leave when Uncle Geoff died and left me his horses. CHAPTER II. The first thing to be done was obvi ously to go and look at them. Now, I am no great judge of horseflesh, though, like most other men, I fancy I know a good nag when I see one, than which there is no commoner delusion among mankind. It was therefore necessary to take some one with me who knew more than myself. I don’t suppose there was a youngster in the regiment who would have hesitated to accom pany me on that same understanding, for all our fellows seem to think that the mere fact of being in a cavalry reg iment confers upon them an absolute in fallibility in such matters, but at least 1 knew enough not to trust in them. There was not a man of them who would not have voted for having “a shy with the crocks,’’ or would not cheer fully back them through esprit de corps, or with equal cheerfulness borrow mon ey of me to pay up with after the shy. However, by a lucky chance, the very man 1 wanted was within reach. This was Natty Forwood, as knowing a lit tle chap as you’d find in a day’s ride. He’d been our coxswain at Oxford what time I rowed in the college boat, and clever he was with the lines as a water man’s boy. Many a bump hod he saved ns from when, as would sometimes happen, we fell to pieces a bit. Nat’s father had kept hounds sc inewhere, and he knew a lot about horses and could steer one us w 11 as a boat—had, in fact, won hurdle races at Sundown and Kcmpton bark as well as several stee plechus's. He was quite a little man, not more than 5 feet 4 in his socks, and could ride nine stone or but a few pounds over; but ho was strong limbed and clear headed, as many a bigger man is not. Since leaving college, which, like myself. Natty did without a de gree, ho had tried the law-, but liking, as ho said, "a fair course with a straight run in," he had paid forfeit and was now at Downton Agricultural college, learning fanning and paying particu lar attention to the veterinary school, with some thought of going up for the A. V. D. I wired to Natty to meet me at Templeton Junction, whence on a bright spring morning we ran down to Sherburton. A hired dogcart took us quickly out to Stockwood, and finding my late uncle’s stud groom, Purkiss, on the premises, we at once set to work to inspect my legacy. 1 perceived im mediately that the lawyer had been cor rect in his surmise. There were but six animals in all, two brood mares with their foals at foot and two horses in training. There had been an old stallion. Koh-i-noor, at the beginning of the year, but he had succumbed to old age in the preceding month. On be holding the stud I turned away to hide my disappointment, being fully resolved to sell the remaining animals for what they would fetch. Natty, however, after looking at the biood mares and hearing their pedigrees, went into the boxes and commenced a careful examination of their occupants. These were a big 3-year-old chestnut colt and a plain looking bay mare of a judy and tucked up appearance, a year old er, concerning which 1 remarked with some bitterness that 1 dared say some cab owner might give £15 for her to run in a hansom. Natty paid no attention to this re mark, but having felt the mare’s legs, cleverly evading the vicious kick with which she resented this liberty, he pro ceeded to examine carefully her eyes and listened for some seconds to the beating of her heart, 1 supposed to show off his veterinary knowledge. Then we turned to the next box, and when 1 saw the colt stripped I felt for the first time a glow of pride in my ownership, for a handsomer animal 1 had seldom seen. Fully 16 hands, of a bright chest nut color and in splendid coat, he shone, as Natty remarked, like a copper kettle. This was all Natty did say of him, to the evident disappointment of Purkiss, who seemed very proud of his charge. The colt’s name, he told us, was Bril liant, by the aforesaid Koh-i-noor, whose dam was the famous mare Golconda, winner of the Oaks and One Thousand Guineas, etc. As yet he had never run, but great things were expected of him when he should do so, my late uncle having esteemed him the finest colt he had ever bred. Natty, however, ex pressed no opinion as to his merits, but having completed his examination or dered the horses out. In a few minutes they were saddled and paraded before us, Purkiss himself being on the colt and a stable lad on the mare. Being ordered to gallop, the colt went away pleasantly enough, while the mare fol lowed reluctantly, laying back her ears and showing the white of her eyes as she passed us. “What do you think of him?” I ask ed of my friend as we watched Brilliant romping along the upper stretch of the gallop. The colt was fresh and inclined to play, yet did not appear to pull over hard and seemed easy to ride. I thought him a splendid goer, and visions of As cot and Goodwood floated before my eyes, with Ella arrayed in dark blue and gold—my uncle’s colors—watching me as I led in the winner of the cup amid the cheers of the applauding mul titude. But Natty cruelly dampened my ardor with the disparaging com ment: “Seems to have a good mouth, and I should think a pleasant horse to ride— ought to make a good looking second charger for you some day, with a chance of winning a military steeplechase, if you can teach him to jump.” So much for Ascot! At that moment I wished I had brought one of my brother officers in place of Nat. Be fore, however, I had time to contro Natty paid no attention to this remark. vert, after the manner of mankind, the opinion I had been at so much pains to secure, the horses were round again, and the mare, who had been going unkind ly all the time, now swerved and then stopped, refusing to pass the wicket which led back to the boxes. In vain the lad urged her. She showed temper and lashed out. “Get off, my lad,” said Natty, and took the boy’s place in the saddle. How he managed it I don’t know, but somehow he succeeded, though a total stranger to her, in getting the jade un der way again, and she certainly went much better in his hands. ‘ * A queer tempered one, ” Purkiss said she was. The mare had shown some speed at the beginning of the preceding season and had won an unimportant race or two. but after that she had trained off, and he, Purkiss, did not think she would ever run straight again. “What did you say she was by, and what name did she run under?” Nat in quired carelessly when he had dis mounted. "By Gamester, out of Anony na, sir, and master 'jailed her Skittles.” "Not bad Mood that. Gamester was a good horae, and the dam was a very well bred one.” “Yes, sir, but the mare don’t seem to sort alter one nor t'other of ’em. She’s u bad doer and a 1 ad temp, r. and 1 don't believe as she'll ever do any thing, -sir." "Perhaps not. You like the colt bet ter, then, PnrkissV” “1 do, sir—a deal better, lie’s quite another stamp, is Brilliant. They ain’t to be named in the same day.” ”1 fancy you aro right there.’' After this Natty said nothing more about the horses until we were on our way home. Then, as we light d our cigars while waiting for his train at Templeton, 1 said: "1 see you don’t think much of my legacy, Nat. I sup pose you advise me to sell both the horses, together with the brood mares, for what th y will fetch?” "I don't advise anything of the sort. If you get a good offer lor the colt, you might s.ll him, but the maro 1 should certainly keep." "What for? Because no one would give anything for her?” "No. because you might make a good thing out of her. She’s a flier. ” "Nonsense!” "Fact.” "You are surely chaffing me. Bril liant is worth 20 of her.” “To look well on parade, yes. For racing 1 should say the mare was worth 20 of liim. ” I never was more astonished in my life. I demanded what in the world ho meant. I will try to explain, said JNat, coolly puffing his cigar, "but you must be a perfect child in horseflesh. George, not to see i t for yourself. I grant you tho colt is a good looking one, well top ped. and so on. but bo’s too wide in the chest ever to be a real fast one and don't move with any freedom—can’t stride over a 6traw, in fact. Didn’t you see how the mare overhauled him when 1 got on her back? Now, she’s all over a race horse, made like a grey hound, high behind, well ribbed up, but not too close for her big hind quar ters to have free play, light muscular forehand, good shoulders and deep girth, with wear and tear looking joints and large bone for a thoroughbred. I’ll bet you that mare can both gallop and stay when in condition.” “But she won’t gallop a yard and is evidently a regular jade. You heard what Purkiss said?” ‘ ‘ I did and perceived how little he knew. The fact is, Purkiss has done his best to ruin the mare. He has over done her both with com and work. What she wants is a couple of months’ rest, with some nice green food. The natural juices of fresh grasses or clover will renovate the tone of her stomach and restore her health, so that when she is put in training again her temper will be much improved, and you will find her go in quite different style. She looks cut in two now, but you won’t know her again in the autumn if you follow my advice.” “Upon my word, I think I will—at least it is certain 1 should get nothing for her now.” There were more horses spoiled, Nat assured me. by overtraining than own ers had any idea of. In his opinion, the natural powers of more than half the horses running were lessened in this way. Trainers had not sufficient edu cation, and in consequence there was a want of elasticity in their system. To overtrain was the tendency of the age. The competition for the more valuable prizes was so keen that the trainer was overfearful of sending a nag to the post on what he would call the big side, forgetting, or more probably not knowing, that a large proportion of the highly bred horses of the day run bet ter in that condition than when drawn too fine. My mare, he said, was of a constitution which required compara tively little work to make her fit. Horses varied in their temperament as much as human beings, and the work which a greedy, hearty horse like Brilliant re quired and the corn he could assimilate with ease would be enough to upset the freer and more nervous temperament of the mare. Much more Natty said to the same purpose, and perceiving that he had studied the veterinary science of the subject to some effect I thought I could not do better than place the manage ment of my little stud in his hands, which I did then and there. It was de cided to gi ve both the horses a couple of months’ holiday at Stockwood before its new owner took possession, and then send them to a smaller trainer on the Dorset downs, where they would be un der Natty’s occasional supervision. Purkiss took a situation as coachman to an old lady, where Nat thought he would bo more in his element. The bfluod mares were to be sent up for sale as soon as opportunity offered. CHAPTER m. It took mo all my time to persuade my mother that I was not going to ruin myself on the turf. I had to make out that it would be impossible to realize the true value of the horses or indeod to ascertain it without a public trial before she would hear of my running them. Her theory—instilled into her mind by my dear uncle, who had him self been a victim of the same doctrine —was that in no way could racing be made to pay except by betting. Natty grinned when I mentioned this to him. 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