club stand and a half-dozen of Pinkerton's men closed in around him
and in a flying wedge pushed into the ring. The news-papers had
done their work, and he was instantly surrounded by a hungry,
howling mob. In comparison with the one of the previous day, it was
as a foot-ball scrimmage to a run on a bank. When he made his first
wager and the crowd learned the name of the horse, it broke with a.
yell into hundreds of flying missiles which hurled themselves at
the book-makers. Under their attack, as on the day before,
Ambitious receded to even money. There was hardly a person at the
track who did not back the luck of the man who "could not lose."
And when Ambitious won easily, it was not the horse or the jockey
that was cheered, but the young man in the box.

In New York the extras had already announced that he was again
lucky, and when Dolly and Carter reached the bank they found the
entire staff on hand to receive him and his winnings. They amounted
to a sum so magnificent that Carter found for the rest of their
lives the interest would furnish Dolly and himself an income upon
which they could live modestly and well.

A distinguished-looking, white-haired official of the bank
congratulated Carter warmly. "Should you wish to invest some of
this," he said, " I should be glad to advise you. My knowledge in
that direction may be wider than your own."

Carter murmured his thanks. The white-haired gentleman lowered his
voice. "On certain other subjects," he continued, "you know many
things of which I am totally ignorant. Could you tell me," he asked
carelessly, "who will win the Suburban to-morrow? "