"He is," replied Jack, smiling, and the trainer said—
"It is no use trying to trap you."
"Not a bit," said Jack.
"He has left everything in our hands," said the trainer, "but it would be far more satisfactory if he were here, or even if we could communicate with him."
"I am afraid that also is impossible. A telegram would not reach him, besides what is there to wire about?"
"Nothing, when you come to think of it," answered Joel.
"We must give orders for both horses to be ridden out, and then we shall discover which is really the better of the pair. I confess the solution of that question interests me as much as the result of the race itself."
"And so it does me, and I am not at all sure, Mr. Redland, that the second string will not win," replied the trainer.