“What’ll he bet on?”
“Oh, anything.”
“Twenty per cent; is that enough?[{35}]”
“’Tain’t ’nuff, but I s’pose it’s all I’ll get.”
“Suppose I put him on Denver Bay even?”
“Don’t do that,” said the other, hastily, “because if the horse shouldn’t——”
The fellow hesitated with some confusion in his manner.
“What’s that?” demanded the pool-room man, sharply. “Are there any new tricks over that horse?”
“I don’t know anythin’ about any tricks.”
“Well, if you don’t no man in New York does.”