Paul's fate takes a twist when he makes a winning bet on a horse that earns his family a handsome sum of money.Paul attempts to keep his secret from Basset and Uncle Oscar because he was doing something that bounds on sorcery.
Step-by-step explanation:
- Paul makes a winning bet on a horse that earns his family a good sum of money,
- but he falls off his rocking horse and stumbles down into a semiconscious state.
- Paul collapses as he descends from the rocking horse.
- Paul dies because he gives himself over more and more to the rocking horse.
- And fetching the winners of races so that he can collect more money for his mother.