What do you think she asked me?
She wanted to know whether the air down on Long Island had malaria in
it, and especially around Sheepshead Bay, where the horses ran.
I assured her that so far as I knew it was considered fully as healthy
as any other part of the shore.
[Illustration]
Then she let the cat out of the bag.
Several times of late after Cribber had been to the races he looked
careworn and cross, and complained that there was something radically
wrong with his system.