“And you put the money up under such conditions?”
“I did.”
“The first trick!”
“What do you mean?”
“He knows my team has not played together yet this summer, and has not obtained much practise. He wished to get the game before we could put ourselves in the best condition.”
“Why, he led me to believe that you wished to play to-morrow, but that he wanted another day for advertising-purposes.”
“Which was his way of working the trick. Never mind, Mr. Carson; we’ll meet him.”
“And we’ll beat him,” put in Hodge.
“In that case, he will lose a good round sum of money,” said the cattleman.
“Five hundred does not seem much to a man like him,” said Bart.