You see"-- and in the darkness Bud could picture her troubled smile--"they think you are an awful fool, in some ways.

The way you bet to-day was pure madness." "It would have been, except that I knew I could win." "They never bet like that.

They always 'figure', as they call it, that the other fellow is going to play some trick on them.

Half the time Jeff bets against his own horse, on the sly.

They all do, unless they feel sure that their own trick is best." "They should have done that to-day," Bud observed dryly.