"
"Now I wonder which of them--" he mused, and then an appalling
idea came to him. "Supposing he's put them both into the same
beast!" He hurriedly ordered another prairie oyster.
Belturbet was known in his club as a strictly moderate drinker;
his consumption of alcoholic stimulants that day gave rise to
considerable comment.
The events of the next few days were piquantly bewildering to the
world at large; to Belturbet, who knew dimly what was happening,
the situation was fraught with recurring alarms. The old saying
that in politics it's the unexpected that always happens received
a justification that it had hitherto somewhat lacked, and the
epidemic of startling personal changes of front was not wholly
confined to the realm of actual politics. The eminent chocolate
magnate, Sadbury, whose antipathy to the Turf and everything
connected with it was a matter of general knowledge, had evidently
been replaced by an Angel-Sadbury, who proceeded to electrify the
public by blossoming forth as an owner of race-horses, giving as a
reason his matured conviction that the sport was, after all, one
which gave healthy open-air recreation to large numbers of people
drawn from all classes of the community, and incidentally
stimulated the important industry of horse-breeding.
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