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Updated: June 29, 2025
Then he realized that the referee was holding Young Denny's right hand aloft; that Hogarty, with arms about him, was holding the boy erect. The little mail-carrier heard the ex-lightweight's words, as he edged in beside Morehouse, against the ropes. "A world-beater," he was screaming above the tumult. "I'll make a world-beater of you in a year!"
And I'll have him on the street the next morning I'll put him where he'll be glad to borrow a dollar to buy his breakfast with!" For a long time they stared back into each other's face: Hogarty taut at the table side, Morehouse slouched deep in his chair. The latter was the first to break that pregnant silence. He was nodding his head in thoughtful finality when he lifted himself to his feet.
Back in Denny's corner they were still working over him, but the whole house had sensed the dismay in that little knot of men. Hogarty, gnawing his lip, stopped and whispered once to the boy on the stool, but Young Denny shook his head and held out his hand. He laced the gloves back on them, over the purple, puffy knuckles. And then again that cataclysmic bell.
Swiftly, almost gutturally, Hogarty sketched it all out: Young Denny's calm statement of his errand, his own groundless burst of spleen, and the outcome of the try-out which had sent him hurrying back to Denny's dressing-room with many questions on his tongue's tip and a living hope in his brain which he hardly dared to nurse.
"Rather neat and tasty, if I do say it myself. 'Introducing The Pilgrim! Hum-m-m. You can't quite appreciate it of course, but oh, Flash, I wish you could have seen that big boy standing there in the door of that little backwoods tavern, just as I saw him, about a week ago! Why, he he was " "He's come!" Hogarty cut in briefly. Morehouse's chin dropped. He sat with mouth agape. "Huh?" he grunted.
He felt sure that there was a better moment coming. Hogarty fiddled with the dominoes and seemed to be considering that information with due deliberation and from every angle. "I see," he murmured at last. "Surely. Quite right quite right! And I may, I believe, safely assure you that I have several fine openings in the establishment for young men for just the right sort of young men, of course.
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