"
"It's a go, Cad. To-morrow we will take in the races and chum for our
game."
On the following day the two detectives, well gotten up for their
"chumming" scheme, started down for the Sheepshead Bay track.
They went on the course and played the role they had determined to play
to perfection. They attracted considerable attention and that was what
they most desired, for it was their "chumming" game to bring around the
fish.
CHAPTER II.
CAD METTI AND OSCAR DUNNE DO SOME FINE "CHUMMING" AND SUCCEED IN
BRINGING A BIG FISH TO NIBBLE AT THEIR BAIT.
Oscar Dunne and Cad Metti were indeed great experts in enacting a role.
They took a seat in the grand stand and through a messenger boy bet on
the races. They won, and they laughed and tittered in delight over their
success, and, as intimated, attracted a great deal of attention, and
they exhibited considerable money. Oscar was playing the role of a dude
with plenty of "stuff," as the vulgar phrase puts it, and Cad was
playing the role of a fast young girl who was leading the exquisite fool
to squander his roll. Well, it was a great chumming game well
played--played before a lot of men who were as avaricious as impecunious
gamblers always are. There were men there who bet and lost. There were
men there who had no money to risk, and they all thought themselves
possessed of brains, and here was a silly fool loaded with money, and
here also was a silly girl reaping a rich harvest in greenbacks from her
enamored dude, _as it appeared_, and so the game went on until a man
with a keen eye got them under his glance.
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