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THE days that follow, as can easily be imagined, were ones of great anxiety for Montague Mackerel Twiggs. He was playing for high stakes, and his nerves were strung up almost to breaking point at the consideration of all he might win -- or lose.
For many years a puny flutterer upon the racecourse, he had a very clear perception of the remoteness of the chance of Ginx's Baby in the great Melbourne Cup, and imbued as he was with the sanguine temperament of the little punter, he could not yet persuade himself to believe that the Baby's prospects were anything but very poor.