"You deserve that and more, and I hope you will not refuse if I offer you another hundred to match it."
"I shall not refuse," replied Joel, "for I know the spirit in which it is offered."
"Will you take charge of the horses while I am away?" asked Jack. "I leave for Fremantle by the next boat."
"Willingly; they are both worth keeping in training, and will pay their way."
"You must run them when you like," said Jack. "Please use them as though they were your own, and I will leave a couple of hundred pounds to your credit to back them with."
"I will do my best," said Joel, who appreciated the confidence placed in him.
Bricky came in for his share of the plums, and found himself in possession of a far larger sum than he had been accustomed to handle of late years. Fred Manns, the head lad, had no cause to grumble, nor had either of the jockeys who rode "the two boys."
"I told you he was a good sort," said Bricky.
"He is," replied Fred Manns, "one of the very best."
It was now public property in Sydney that Barry Tuxford had left suddenly to claim the best part of the Bundoola Creek Mines, and Jack Redland was congratulated on all sides at being the partner of such a successful man.