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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY,

THE PRIZEFIGHTER AND THE LADY

By FRANCES MARION

CHAPTER III

From Ring to Cabaret

|cards, Morgan,"

JANUARY

"Willio

1934

Don't you over look at a girl. and after she's gone, don't you think of her, just s little?

First, a woman around an up-and-fle hung up, stared at the wall: kid about this?” coming young, fighter is like, a and muttered: "Steve Morgan.” “Inover have, Willie. If this maggot in a beautiful red apple. At his words the Adopted Son had ever happened to me before, And second, she belongs to the arces and looked at Wills as you know you'd have known about toughest charactor in this town though awaiting orders.

Willio It." | Willie Ryan.".

shook his hend slightly and said: "What's gotten into vou all of n You mean Ryan, the trigger "Don't be ally," as a boy entered sudden? folia?" He chuckled at the Pro-to announce:

"Miss Ferbor's hero, air. She's fossor'e nod. "No kiddin'?" apportion you your women when

"I'm not! Inhuman, Stephen. I'll gone to her dressing room.""

After b moment's thought. the time comes, just as I'm goingWille arose and left his office, the

"Not since you've given me the Adopted Son following him. Ho and what you're going to drink and how much you're going to sleep, dressing room,

"I'm sorry

This is getting and how and when you're going to

Come in, Willie," a voice called. a little nutty. How about taking train. That's all in my hands. When he had closed the door softly, your girl friend home to-night and And this girl is the first case. Is she turned to him from her dress-continuing the discussion there?" sho out or fan't she?"

ing table. "Hello, Mister, Did you think I had fallen down drain?"

got up suddenly amid the crowd's take your shower, Morgan: to tell you what you're going to co knocked on the door of n particular chance to think about you."

The girl flicked a drop of sweat from Stove's nose with a little The Professor, his eyes shining, handkerchief, "You go along and acclaim for the unknown fightor, look for you in the papers." "Young Gaffney broke through his Steve took the handkerchief and tombstone to-night! My Boy's grinned: "You're not going to get come back to me" Ho struggled away from me like this!" through the mass of excited and

"I've gotten away from lots of still yelling humanity, after Stevo things, Morgan. Good-bye." She who had stopped in the aisle to hurried down the corridor with a speak to a girl in evening wrap. semblance of flight in her gait. A The promoter tagged after him say fifteen-year-old boy stopped to look ing:

"Now wait a minute, Profes-admiringly at Stevo in parsing. sor.

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"Come on," Steve was saying to the girl who was smiling up at him. They fought their way down the aisle. Steve took her into a little areaway in the tunnel to the dress ing rooms and there turned to con- front her. She held out her hand. "You're pretty good, Morgan. "Good-bye."

He Ignored the outstretched hand. I'll be dressed in three min- utos. You wait and figure out what we'll do after."

Her hand was still extended. "There isn't going to be any after, Morgan. I've a taxi waiting."

He took her hand. "Good. I hav on't ridden in a taxi in à long while."

She laughed, somewhat sadly, in spite of herself. "No, Morgin ..

"You're sure?" "I'm positive. It isn't in the

"Hey, want to earn a dollar?" At the boy's eager nod, Stave said quickly; "Go find out what address that lady gives her taxi!”

"You betcha!" said the boy, and was off.

The Professor awaited him in the dressing room. He got up eagerly. "Stephen, my boy, I've gone back thirty years!"

"Suro you haven't gone back thirty drinks?" Iaughed Stove.

"I'm forgetting all that, boy, just

as you must forget everything now that interferes with your career."

The boy he had sent to get the girl's address hung about the dress. ing room door. Steve, smelling the scent in the handkerchief in his closed fist, put a finger to his lips and nodded to the boy to wait out side.

"Okay, Professor, she's out." Steve smiled to himself. But say, If you're going to apportion my life like that, how about apportioning me that sixty bucks?"

"Did you?" he asked, simply, staring straight into her eyes.

"Funny-just before I left to conie over here a girl I know in Clove" She broke off and turned quickly to him again, laughing, "We both know, that's a lot of

hoooy, don't we?"

it a good fight, Bello?"

Willis nodded and smiled. "Was

"All right." She patted his shoulder affectionately as he left to onter the cabaret. They made their way to a table where the Adopted Son sat with two middle- aged, sharp-looking men. The men stood up and Willie introduce them

Sid Munsey from Chicago and Georgie Lyons from Philadelphia. Bella threw a kind word to their towns, nodded at the Adopted Sun. and sat down

"You know," said Willie, "since "Pretty short," said Bello Ferber, I sold out my plece in the champ "It's here, Stephen. You'll have and turned again quickly, "Look I've been looking for a new heavy- it when you're dressed. And re- here. Mister, you havent been hav-weight to back. Belle's just been member-save your money. Later ing any of your bird dogs follow doing a little scouting for me. She on I'll advise you about Invest-me, have you ?"

Rees a prospect and then loses in- "You know better than that.terest in him while " Just a couple of nosey boys who were there, and thought they'd get in strong if they told." He came passion for polookas?" close to her. "Since when this

ments-"

"Okay, Professor. Hurry it up, you boys, I'm tired and want to get

"So, I've got a career, have I?

out of here." You're a champion. You and I are going a long, brilliant path.young man neatly dressed in dinner Willie Ryan, a comparatively But there's one thing we've got to coat, sat at the desk In his office at settle right now--that female."

the cabaret of which he was the proprietor, a telephone receiver at his ear. Opposite him sat a wea zened, gray-haired, jockey-type little man known as the Adopted Son, whose slate-blue eyes glittered ns he listened.

"Yeah," grunted Stove under the pressure of his bandiers. What Willie Ryan,"

"She's not for you two reasons.

"Yes, yes, I know she was there," Willie was saying, "But what was the fighter's name?... Morgan, Eh? Nover heard of him That's all."

Since I drove into the ditch at dawn... Let's forget it, Willie. He did me a favour and in return I went up to see him fight. And If there ever was a balloon-headed, fresh-lipped, puff-chested specimen. he's it."

"In other words he's kind of in your hair?"

"Ummmhmm-but I'm taking a shampoo when I get home to-night." Ryan took her arms and turned her about to face him. "I can't really

He broke off at the sound of an argument a short distance away. The headwalter was barring the progress of a well-set up young man in a sack suit. "I'm sorry. It's a strict rule. You must be in a dinner coat.

"What for?" said the volco of Steve Morgan. "I don't want any dinner. Just a couple of drinks." He caught sight of Miss Ferber, sa- luted her with an easy amille.. "Just put me in a corner any where."

Belle's eyes met those of Willia Ryan a little falteringly. "Why that's our old friend, Steve Morgan, (Continued on Page 11.)

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