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Title: In And Out
Author: Edgar Franklin
Illustrator: Paul Stahr
Release Date: August 9, 2010 [EBook #33392]
Language: English
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IN AND OUT
BY EDGAR FRANKLIN
Frontispiece by PAUL STAHR
New York
W. J. Watt & Company
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1917, by
W. J. WATT & COMPANY
PRESS OF
BRAUNWORTH & CO.
BOOK MANUFACTURERS
BROOKLYN, N. Y.
[Illustration: The girl weighed, perhaps, one hundred and twenty pounds,
and handling that amount of weight was a mere joke to Wilkins]
CONTENTS
I. THE GREAT UNRECOGNIZED
II. THEORY'S VICTIM
III. OPPORTUNITY
IV. THE RELUCTANT ONE
V. THE WEE SMA' HOURS
VI. JOHNSON BOLLER PROPOSES
VII. THE BUTTERFLY
VIII. SCORNED
IX. CRIME?
X. THE WEB
XI. THE OTHER LADY
XII. THE CRASH
XIII. IN THE BOX
XIV. CONCERNING THREE GROUPS
XV. THICK AND FAST
XVI. THE LIE
IN AND OUT
CHAPTER I
The Great Unrecognized
Up in the ring, the long-nosed person who had been announced as Kid
Horrigan was having things much his own way with the smaller person
billed as the Bronx Tornado.
It was the wont of Kid Horrigan to step forward lightly, to rap the
Tornado smartly on the bridge of the nose, and thereafter to step back
as lightly and wait until the few wild blows had fanned the air and the
Tornado had returned to his meaningless and somewhat bewildered crouch.
Thereupon, in almost preoccupied fashion, the Kid stepped forward once
more--and when he had done it again and again the performance began to
grow monotonous and, down in Box B at the ringside, Johnson Boller
yawned aloud.
The yawn finished, he leaned over wearily and add
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