But this hope is doomed to be a disappointment, for Pil is in a hurry.
"Just going to get the house tubs ready," he says; "I'll be back in time for the mile." "Then is the hurdles over ?" "Rather!" exclaims Pil, in astonishment.

"Why, where have you been?
Of course you know who won ?" "No," says Cusack, eagerly--"who ?" "Why, Wyndham! You never saw such a race! At the fourth hurdle from home Wyndham, Bloomfield, Game, Tipper, and Rawson were the only ones left in.

Game and Tipper muffed the jump, and it was left to the other three.

Bloomfield had cut out grandly.

He was a yard or two ahead, then Wyndham, and the London man lying out, ten yards behind.