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"Did he? I had five hundred dollars at the bank and he tried to

bet me that. I never bet, because I've never had enough money to

throw it around. A good deal changed hands on the first race, but

none of it was mine. I raced for sport and not for money, and I

told Nat so when he tried to bet with me. If I had raced for

money I couldn't have withdrawn that day and gone to St. John for

cargo the way I did."

"Then it seems to me that he must have known he couldn't lose or

he would not have tried to bet."

"Exactly."

"But how could he know it?"

"That is what I would like to find out."

Code absently thrust his hand into his coat pocket and

encountered the mirror he had found aboard the Nettie B. He drew

it out and polished its bright surface with his handkerchief.

Elsa was immediately interested and Code told her of its

unexpected discovery.

"And he had it!" she cried, laughing. "Of all things!"