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THE PRIZEFIGHTER AND. THE LADY

By FRANCES MARION

CHAPTER VI

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Steve

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1934.

guts to irrigan's nii-Boction! And a lot to the jaw! marrigan's hearing the birdies, joiks: What a night. What a gat Morgan is murchess! it looks like it is all over noodo, what a beating this Harrigans taking Morgan's for tuo kill—he в—”

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KOWLOON CASE

"This sounds an extremely fishy story" said Mr. Wynne-Jonca at the, Kowloon Magistracy yesterday dence given by a Chinese woman, afternoon, after listening to evi Chuon Yuen, who appeared no complainant against Chan Ho Kap, alleged to have harboured complainant's younger sister, ao unmarried girl. Defendant discharged.

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The announcer's voice was drowned put by the rush of sound that came from the radio. Boiro could imagine that vast assemblage going mad with delight and enthu

Inspecter A. Elston, attached to sinsm. The noise grow less voci-

erous and Beise could hear the re- the S.C.A... prosecuting, said that

eight, the young girl

not quite feled counting: "Seven, nine, ten!"

Then the announcer eighteen years old and was under married alater. cut in: "Yo, tolka, it's all over! the care of her Harrigan's asleep!" and again came. She had at one time worked in de- on January i pandemonium of noise from the fondant's shop and

12, without any arrangements radio,

with her sister, had gone to live - In his dressing room at the Gar-with defendant. The defondant dea, Steve was receiving the con- stated that the girl was willing to gratulations of the reporters. go with him although he already carried him an extra round," he had" a wife and" a grown-up laughed, "to give the crowd their daughter."

als fishing rod which he had thrown | nouncer's voice from the radio. SELLING HER SISTER. on the ground, the lino in the "digan rusnes out-he's got mur- water, and made ou at a run, v der, in his eye this time. ries

Steve grinned at the girl. "You told to lah han I guess and MAGISTRATE'S COMMENT, IN acard what he said ta nó quillig at Awo, three terrine

Uumm," sho nodded, "but you've got to catch it first!"

She jumped up and ran along the "I wouldn't be either."

shore of the lake, blere pursued, WHEN THERE'S NO CHAM-

""That & all for today, Stove," caught her up in his arms and car- PAUNG AROUND

called the Professor, et in 101 ried her, unresisting, away from the shore. Her arms stole about Stove trained hard and genially, your rubdown."

"There's always to-morrow, Pro-us neck, tightened, drew his head but not always initially, at Gus fessor," said Steve, his eyes and down to hers.

Untakilla.

Now that she was married to Martin's pute in tho

Steve, Belle found that she did not The Troickour proved a hard task smile for the girl. She smiled

unlimited sweetly at the hostile Professor. master but with an

As Stove, cind in flannels and want to go to the Garden to see his supply of patience, backed up by sweat-shirt, jogged along a wood-out with Harrigan-did not want his faith in the championship quali-land path near the lake the next to see his face bruised and swollen ties of his boy. Steve was prone morning, he kept an eye on the and bloody. It might not prove the to depend on the sludge-hammer shore. He stopped as he caugat cinch Stave expected. Sae sat lis

and the power of his rigat urm

sight of a smail, roadster nearly tening to the radio, The fight an- Professor spent hours drilling into hidden in the shrubbery, made his nouncer's voice came from it, clear him the necessity of learning, to

"Ohooool Thero ought to have keep his opponent away with his way through the bushes to the lake and excited.

shore and there saw the girl lying on her back, a little white kimona hurt but they didn't seem to a biti, Steve missed Belle, wanted her, over her bathing suit. She turned Harrigan caught. Morgan on the. but the longing was partly nasung-over lazily on her stomach and got chin with a terride left and right. ed by the aum.ring eyes of feminine to her knees, the kimona falling but he might just, as well have hit

drew the Empire State Building-ouch the training camp away from her, as visitors to

Morgan pulled one from Buinewhere One small, smart-looking young wo-near. man in particular awoke a blaze in

"ill," said Stove. "What are in Jersey and laid Harrigan un against the ropes! Morgan's on "Thinking.".

him now! Keops going in there! Taking three to get over on t what a blow when it la delivered No sideshow curiosity, this Mor- gan! Speed-power-the making, of A sensational kenvyweight! Uh-o! And he sure can take it! Yes, there's the first scarlet. folks "So what...? said the girl. Morgan's got a cut over the eve-

An attendant came in and topped "Why, you little" Stove had the Ohhhh! Two Three! Four! started to reach for her when alle rocked Harrigan's head like a Stove on the shoulder: "Your

Chun Yuen, the girl's older sis- bag! Hia right fa wife's on the 'phone."

ter, gave evidence that they had boy's whistling caused him to drop punching his hands. A chirpy, nine-year- brutalt Harrigan's knees are ang-

Steve, still in his bathrobe, rush-drst met defendant in Canton, old country boy came along the ging-he's holding on! Morgan's ed into the hall and picked up the where he was staying with his

trying to push him away 1" shore. He stopped.

From the radio sounded the bell,ngung receiver of a pay tele- wife and child. Defendant left

phone.

for Hongkong and later offered to ending the round, accompanied by a

give witness's husband a job in "Hello, baby! I knocked him out mixed Round of cheering, whistling

his shoe shop. Witness, her hus clapping of hands, atamping of feet into Fifty-first street! He foll

band and the girl then came to Belle sat tense, her fingers clenched. down a man-hole!"

Hongkong and visited the defen- She scarcely heard the voice of her

"Oh, Morgan darling!" came dant. He employed the young girl neighbour, Mrs. Twever, who stood

Belle's excited, breathless volce, "Int his shop for somo ton days as was so worried, but I'm so proud an earth moulder, but she left of you! They said you had a cut this work and wont to the Tai

Ping Yan shoe store. On Janu on your eye, dearest!"S

his oyca. Several times she had you doing?" tled her horse to a tree and stood, clad in niity jodphurs, watching him spar.

"I like to. Sometimes it gives me goose-flesh."

He knelt in front of hor. And there was a "You've got everything. You don't warmth in her eyes, in the half need to think." smile that responded to his glances, that stirred Steve. One morning she came up to the side of the ring, leaned on the ropes and looked across at Stave, fnvitation openly in her eyes. He clinched with his sparring partner near the ropes and grinned over his shoulders at

her,

Hello, half-pint! You're got

to be a regular visitor." take the scenery," aho sald

bluntly, her eyes on his figure.

When he had finished sparring, Steve leaned on the ropes by the girl. "Get a kick out of it, huh?" She nodded and smiled provoca- tively. "I saw you running out by the lake this morning."

"You up that oarly 7"

"Well, how about getting a tan, too-this sun bath business?"

"Hello, you goin' shin'?" "No." "Well, go ahead and talk, it He cast a won't bother me none." line into the lake. Steve saw his bait was pork rind and gave the boy fifty cents to go to the store and buy a can of helgemvte, doin the doorway. claring that was the only bait the fish would bite at. The lad's eyes almost popped out with astonish- morament.

"I usually take a swim-and sun bath-before anybody's up."

"How about to-morrow

Ing?"

"Thanks! And listen-anything She smiled. "I wouldn't be sure you catch is yours!" He indicated

"I can see now why you don't want to go and ses him fight."

Belle stirred after a time and re- sponded: "I thought I could, but being married to him-"

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"We thought you were kidding," said one of the reporters to the happy Professor,

"Kidding! Hear that, Stephen, my boy? Kidding! To-nignt, my friends, you witnessed the begin ning of ring history,"

"Aw, that's nothing! It's just the wind-burn where he missed me1"

She laughed. "Hurry home. "You're coming right home, aren't you, darling?"

The girl from the Catskill lake- shore approached him as he started to answer, and caled: "Hello, my barefoot boy1 What are you using for balt?"

"Wait a minute, baby," said Steve into the 'phone and covered the mouthpiece with his hands. He was really surprised at seeing the girl. "Well, where did you come from?"

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"Surprised, handsome?" said the girl, archly, "Get your clothes on. There's a very private little pent house uptown that I'm thinking of renting furnished. Want to in- spect it with me?"

Mr. Wynne-Jones reminded In- spector Elston that the Chinese law permits a man to have more than one wife. However, the pro- accution were, relying upon con- sent from the girl's guardian, which had not been given although the defondant marry the girl.

was willing to

Bister's Version.

ary 12, defendant's daughter in- formed witness that the girl was doing night work at her store and was therefore unable to be home. When the girl did not arrive Back the next morning, witness and her husband reported the matter to the Police: Witness and her sis- ter had been born in Annam, where their mother was now stay- ing. Witness had taken her sis- tor to Canton in order to find her a good husband. -

Mr. Wynne-Jones questioned this woman's evidence, saying that she had brought her rather attrac- tive younger sister down" from Canton and immediately taken her to work in defendant's shop.

Inspector Elston replied that defendant was willing to pay for the girl, even to sending money to the mother in Annam, but family love had caused last witness to Instead of answering her, Steve refuse the money. Defendant and spoke into the telephone: "Am his wife were quite willing to take coming right home, honey? Watch the girl as a concubine. me! I'll be there before they re- vive Harrigan!" He slammed up the receiver and turned to the dla mayed girl."Sweets, that was the wife. You're pretty cute, but the wife is the wife and when she's within walking distance you'll and me hurrying to get there!"

"You mean you don't" began the surprised girl.

Stevo took her chin in his hand, "I mean the wife is champagne with me-twenty dollara a quart. Only sometimes when there isn't any champagne around, a guy finds himself taking a little sarsaparil- 11,"

Mr. Wynno-Jones: "This last witness is holding out for mora money. I think. This woman brought her sister from Annum to find a good husband and has been around. She is hawking her merely trying to put up the price. for defendant to pay and I refuse to have thia Court doing this for ber. The defendant made a falr offer; they knew he was already married yet they bring the girl down here to him saying they were won't going to make shoes. 1

спас tolerate that. The whole actually depended upon last wit-1

credibility. The defen- ness's

Her eyes blazing, the girl slapped his face soundly and hurried down dant. Is discharged." the corridor. Steve grinned: "IS that all the thanke I oft

(To be Continued.)

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