“’Ow did he? ’ow did he?”
“I don’t know, but he did. Besides that, you were fool enough to say you had confidence in me.”
“Never said hanything of the kind! Who told you all this?”
“Merriwell himself called you my friend and said you expressed great confidence in me.”
“He ’ad no right to say it! I only said an Englishman might win the race.”
“And I’m the only Englishman entered! That was a wise remark!”
Huntley’s sarcasm was cutting.
“I didn’t stop to think he might make hanything of it,” said Hollingsworth, with some humbleness. “’Owever, it can’t do no ’urt.”
“It can do any amount of harm. I fancy this Merriwell is a shrewd fellow. If he should learn that I have been staying in the country within ten miles of Ashford for the past two weeks, he might get an inclination to investigate and so discover that during that time I have every day been over the course we are to run.”
“Heven then he could not prove hanything damaging, Harthur. ’Ow could he say you found hout the course through me? Why, sir, no one ’ere ’as any notion I know the course, which Mr. Hashley will give hout to-morrow.”