e ninety-nine out of every hundred spectators had
backed the winner.

Fielden closed his glasses with a snap. He was conscious now that May
was clinging to his arm and that she was swaying backwards and forwards
ominously. It was only for a few moments, however, and then a slight
smile trembled on her lips.

"Take me away from here for a while," she whispered. "Let us take a walk
on the course. Do you know, I feel as if I could enjoy a turn on a
roundabout. I could even shy for cocoanuts. And only two or three
minutes ago I felt as if I were going to faint. I never saw a yard of
the race. If I had looked up I should have collapsed. I guessed how
things were going only by the cheers of the crowd. I knew by that
exultant roar that the colt was winning. But I don't want to go through
it again, Harry, I have had enough. Now that we have all made fortunes,
it will be so good to be at home again and feel that everything there
actually belongs to us. Some of my father's old friends want us to dine
in London. But I would far rather go home. You must back me up."

But Sir George wanted no particular backing. Tried sportsman as he was,
the strain had told upon him and he was glad, so he said, to find
himself once more in a comfortable corner of a railway carriage on his
way to Haredale. It was a lovely evening, too, and the face of the old
house was bathed in sunshine.

"It is smiling a welcome to us," May said. "To think that it is
absolutely our own! I hope we have done with gambling for ever."

"I have finished with it for good," replied Harry. "I have won a fortune
and a wife on the same day, and that is more luck than most men gain on
the course. If you are happy, darling, what more do I need?"

THE END

Transcriber's Note:

Changes to the original publication have been made as follows:

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there'll be a hatfull of money to _changed to_
there'll be a hatful of money to

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Perhaps you will be there, too, Mr. Field _changed to_
Perhaps you will be there, too, Mr. Fielden

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flat-racing was over. Probable _changed to_
flat-racing was over. Probably

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these people, Absolom & Co. _changed to_
these people, Absalom & Co.

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were exhausted and he could readily _changed to_
was exhausted and he could readily

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