“They’re off—it’s a good start,” said Langford, and we put up our glasses.
Jack Harman went straight to the front.
“Who’s that leading?”
“Storm Drum.”
“Storm Drum has bolted!” they were crying out.
“Devil a bit bolted. Jack thinks that to win at all he must take the lead and keep it, and, by Jove, he’s right,” said Langford. “But I have never seen him go like that before.”
“How about Storm Drum now?” shouted out some one, as he came past the stand leading by twenty lengths.
“Ah, then, who’s got the laugh this day?” Pat Brady cried out.
“There’s lots of time for him to come out with his old tricks, but if he don’t they won’t catch him,” said Langford.
Muzada snarled out a sentence hideous with blasphemy.