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"And all dressed in your new clothes as fine as ever was! stand back a bit and let me have a look at you." "How are they, Natty Bell?" inquired Barnabas with a note of anxiety in his voice "the Tenderden tailor assured me they were of the very latest cut and fashion what do you think, Natty Bell?" "Hum!" said the ex-pugilist, staring down at Barnabas, chin in hand.

"He's got the making of a champion in him," the ex-pugilist would say regretfully; "in another five years, when he has got his full height and filled out, I warrant he will fight twelve stone; look how quick he is on his pins; and I tell you I have all my work to do now to guard my head, he hits like lightning, and once or twice has fairly knocked me off my pins.

But McCorquodale's companions were a pair of flashily dressed young "sports" who, thinking they saw a chance for some fun at Kendrick's expense, had proceeded to tread upon Mr. McCorquodale's professional pride McCorquodale, one time known to ringside patrons as "Iron Man" McCorquodale, one time near middle-weight champion. "Y'see, it's this way," the ex-pugilist had explained earnestly.

At the head of the table sat the ex-cowboy and ex-pugilist, Stormy German, his face usually, and now, reddened with liquor square-shouldered, square-faced and squat; a man harsh-voiced and terse, of iron endurance and with the stubbornness of a mule; next him sat Yankee Robinson, thin-faced and wearing a weatherbeaten yellow beard.

How little we know of the "Knights of the Road," or the compelling circumstances that turned them adrift upon the world! "All sorts and conditions of men" are represented, from the college professor to the ex-pugilist.

'Because, later, you will have to get a gang of fellows to be about the house the day after, when I pay my visit. 'Fellows of our own sort, or the police? 'Neither. I thought of fellows of our own sort. They would talk and guess. 'Better get some of Ned Mahony's gang? asked Trevor. Mr. Mahony was an ex-pugilist, and a distinguished instructor in the art of self-defence.

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