What time have you told young mooney- face ?" "Nine.

He's sure to be in time." "Well, we'll start a little before, you know, and meet you quite by accident, and the young beggar won't smell a rat till we are safe in Gurley." "And if he turns cantankerous ?" "Then we can put Shaddy to look after him." "Who's going to win the Gulley Plate, Gus ?" And then the party fell to canvassing the entries for the morrow's races, and making their bets, in which, of course, Tom stood almost bound to lose, whichever horse won.
Long ere they had parted company Charlie was sound asleep and dreaming, with me under his pillow..