Frank Merriwell's Races

n, sporting men, sightseers, touts, race-track gamblers, women in gay attire, and all the differe

end the races. The most of them were friends of Fra

scarcely slept the night before the races.

would be given odds that his horse did not take a purse. He had received an anonymous letter ridiculing hi

on his horse. If he had been timid he would have hesitated about backing Nemo for anything; but the ones who had

med the horse repeatedly, and he felt confident that Nemo could not fai

d that his last effort to suppress Frank had resulted in a most painful train of incidents, th

n, who wore a Prince Albert coat and looked like a parson. This man

lt like knocking the man down, but, instead of that, he bet three hundred and fifty

he most sneering manner possible, offered to let him out of his bet for fifty dollars. He told Frank that Nemo was a "dead one" and could not even c

d time Frank regretted that he h

t the lad. "I'll win

le where Nemo was kept. Toots was found vi

cayn't com' 'roun' dis chile wid none ob yere 'swinuations an' yore offers ob money to throw de rac

her fellow, after trying to strike back a few times, to

ank, who had rushed to the scene of

says he, 'If yo' pulls Nemo so he don' take a purse it am wuff two hundred dollars to yo'.' An' he flashes his ro

" laughed Frank.

n' dis chile dey strikes h

n the race. Rattleton and Diamond were on hand, and

to bet all the money he had about him that Nemo would take either the first or the second

k to Yale brok

"It strikes me that the fellow who is furnishing y

ery mildly. You

y about my clothes

I'll take your paper against my good m

you want to r

um you

ou for fiv

on

chosen a man who was interested in the track, but was known to be

, and he felt it his duty to cau

me, Mr. Davis," said Frank,

bet was made John Baldwi

hat piece of paper I'll use it to ruin Frank Merriwel

e rush

wind blows now. I have made my commission on this work to-day, and I have no

d a cigar and

an hour's sleep. Then the colored boy came out feeling first rate, a

ll have to loan me the money to settle for the feed. I've staked ev

"Haven't you been plungi

'll have money to start a conflagrati

reed Jack; "but

g to leave Nemo in your care for a sho

' you may 'pe

my boy. Come

, laughing and joking, like the

e stepped out of the stall for a bucket. As he picked it up he fanci

e saw a tough-looking young man in a plaid su

houted Toots, as he flung the

down, and he lay stunned almost benea

ag had fallen and the "free fo

e lads who were excitedly watc

rtwick, Harl

fool!" declared Harlow, his eyes

se eyes were bloodshot and whose face was flushed

an agitated voice. "I should not wonder

came gratingly from Hartwick.

?" asked Harlow. "He

s he?" echoed Harris.

"He had everything fixed with one of the stablemen,

ome out on top again," fluttered Harris. "It is just

eginning to tell on Merriwell's racer at just the right time. We'll send the fellow back to Yale penniless, and then I will jump on him with his paper. I'll expose him as a race-track gambler, a fraud, a swindler! I'll ruin his college career, as he ruined mine! But I'll not be satisfied then. I'll ho

his reddish eyes glared as if there were a

m with awe, and Harris shivere

wonderfully aroused by the liquor he had tak

red Harlow. "The boy is taking it easy. If I did not know t

d Harris. "I am willing to bet all I

ot care which horses secure the purses,

satisfaction from Harlow. "Black Boy is the favorite and he

the field glasses he held and broug

erriwell's horse is fifth, and the animal will not hold out to get around the track. I believe Nemo is swaying

t reached the quarter now. Wait till they pass us

rack and came flying down toward the judges' stand on their first round. Men

e winner for a thousand!" roare

shouted another. "Sh

of holding the lead. In the second quarter Fanny D. crept alongside and

ground his teeth as he saw Nemo come into fourth place. St

Nemo's back. He leaned far forward, and appeared to be talking into Nemo's ears, which were laid almost str

as awakened! That horse is all right! Hartwick, I be

h Evan, his eyes glaring. "The

, it was seen that Fanny D. had taken the lead away from Pawnee, while Black Boy was s

nded nobly to whip and voice. He went ahead in a marvelous manner. He was soon nose a

riwell's racer leaned forward and talked into the ears of the horse, and t

with fury. Then it was seen that Nemo was gaining on the others. He crept up beside Black Boy til

Black Boy was leading by a neck, w

that came from his lips cannot be printed here. In vain his comp

of another pe

! My head was near broke and they made me take a bite outer ther apple I was tryin' to feed

and drawn, if he were, indeed, ill, and

snarled Hartwick. "You bungli

and, as the other lads were trying to pull them apart, there came a gr

the question Harl

by a full length,"

ho lay pallid and still on his back, l

k Merriwell's room to offer him congratulations

rriwell?" asked Jack Diamond. "I want to

"Your father hasn't money en

with him?" asked Rattleton.

-morrow is my queen's birthday,

ng loafed in

ews, fellows

it?" cried se

's been a

ed? Wha

knew how to get at the old gentleman's dough, and he swipe

ted before the Mystic P

, my

me into so many bets. He had Hartwick's money, and Hartwick was behind the en

t," declared Jack Diam