Outing . FLYCATCHER. A Tale of The Hunt Cup, Y HAWLEY SMART Author of Breezie Langton, The Great Tontine, Long Odds,, &c., &c., &c., & Chapter IX.—Continued. T all events Mr. Bygrovesanxiety was re-lieved on onepoint. His mes-s a g e from thegrand stand in-formed him thathe could have avery good boxon payment of 20guineas, the renter of which was pre-vented from being present. This mes-sage simply required an answer to clinchthe bargain, and that Mr. Bygrove im-mediately sent; now there was nothingfor him to do but to await the arrivalof Charlie Trayton. The afternoon woretediously away. Mr
Outing . FLYCATCHER. A Tale of The Hunt Cup, Y HAWLEY SMART Author of Breezie Langton, The Great Tontine, Long Odds,, &c., &c., &c., & Chapter IX.—Continued. T all events Mr. Bygrovesanxiety was re-lieved on onepoint. His mes-s a g e from thegrand stand in-formed him thathe could have avery good boxon payment of 20guineas, the renter of which was pre-vented from being present. This mes-sage simply required an answer to clinchthe bargain, and that Mr. Bygrove im-mediately sent; now there was nothingfor him to do but to await the arrivalof Charlie Trayton. The afternoon woretediously away. Mr. Bygrove vaguely os-cillates between the hall and the smok-ing room, watching in the former the ap-parently endless evolutions of the tape,though the results thereon are as incom-prehensible to him as if written in gazes at the constantly varying bet-ting on the Hunt Cup as solemnly as ifit conveyed some information to him;but as he has no conception even of whatis the name of the horse that his nephewhas backed for him, needless to say heprofits but little by the study. In thesmoking room he is conscious of havingcons
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