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"Then come here, both of you," said Cokeson. The combatants complied. "Don't hold and hit. Don't butt nor trip. Don't clinch. Don't use knee, elbow, nor shoulder. When I call 'Break away, break without hitting. If you do any of these things you will be jolly well disqualified. Fight fair and God have mercy on your souls."
"If the little kid lasts three rounds with that" observed Cokeson to Coxe Major, "he ought to be chaired." Dam was disposed to agree with him in his heart, but he had no fear. The feeling that his brief innings had come after the Snake had had Its will of him for a dozen years swallowed up all other feelings. Coxe Major stepped into the ring.
"De Warrenne wins," said Cokeson, and then Flaherty of the Sixth stepped into the ring and stopped the fight with much show of wrath and indignation. Dam was wildly cheered and chaired and thence-forth was as popular and as admired as he had been shunned and despised. When he did, it had a most momentous influence upon his career.
The play opens in the office of James How and Sons, Solicitors. The senior clerk, Robert Cokeson, discovers that a check he had issued for nine pounds has been forged to ninety. By elimination, suspicion falls upon William Falder, the junior office clerk. The latter is in love with a married woman, the abused, ill-treated wife of a brutal drunkard.
The bully's grunt of anguish was drowned in howls of "Shake hands!" "They haven't shaken hands!" "Stop! Stop the fight," shouted Cokeson, and as they backed from each other he inquired with anger and reproach in his voice: "Is this a friendly boxing-contest or a vulgar fight?" adding, "Get to your corners and when Time is called, shake hands and then begin."
Some experienced youth, probably Cokeson himself, had made arrangements as to seconds, time-keeper, judges, and referee; and, though there was no ring of ropes and stakes, a twenty-four-foot square had been marked out and inclosed by forms and benches. Seating was provided for the "officials" and seniors, and two stools for the principals.
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