128

BOOK III
SILVER MUG

XXI. The Berserker Colt 137

XXII. Ragamuffin 147

XXIII. The Duke's Hounds 153

XXIV. The Man With the Gamp 160

XXV. The Black Bird 170

XXVI. Jim Silver Goes To War 179

XXVII. The Fire in the Dusk 185

XXVIII. The Fat Man Goes Under 191

Battle 193

PART II
THE WOMAN AND THE HORSE

BOOK IV
THE TRIAL

XXIX. Albert Edward 201

XXX. The Bible Class 208

XXXI. God Almighty's Mustang 221

XXXII. The Fat Man Emerges 229

XXXIII. The Gallop 234

XXXIV. The Lover's Quarrel 245

BOOK V
MONKEY BRAND

XXXV. The Dancer's Son 255

XXXVI. Monkey Sulks 262

XXXVII. The Early Bird 268

XXXVIII. Ikey's Own 272

XXXIX. The Queen of Kentucky 278

XL. Man and Woman 285

XLI. The Spider's Web 290

XLII. The Doper 294

XLIII. The Loose-box 299

XLIV. Monkey Brand Gets the Sack 306

BOOK VI
MOCASSIN

XLV. Aintree 313

XLVI. The Sefton Arms 317

XLVII. On the Course 324

XLVIII. The Star-spangled Jacket 336

XLIX. The Last Card 356

L. The Fat Man Takes His Ticket 365

LI. Old Mat on Heaven and Earth 374

LII. Putnam's Once More 376

PART I

THE GIRL AND THE FOAL

BOOK I

OLD MAT

CHAPTER I

The Trainer

The Spring Meeting at Polefax was always Old Mat's day out. And it was
part of the accepted order of things that he should come to the Meeting
driving in his American buggy behind the horse with which later in the
day he meant to win the Hunters' Steeplechase.

There were very few sporting men who remembered the day when Mat had not
been a leading figure in the racing world. For sixty years he had been
training jumpers, and he looked as if he would continue to train them
till the end of time. Once