The drive from Canleys to the Royal Sovereign could be done by good pacers in an hour and a half, little more-with Ives and the stables ready, and some astonishment in a certain unseen chamber.
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"This side-wheeling business gives me a pain," Billy remarked, as the pacers ambled by for the fourth or fifth time.
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Billy turned his face away from a rolling dustcloud that came down the home stretch with the pacers, and looked curiously at Andy.
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