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._ a Champion Sam. TT TT He wheeled the table back into a corner, and | good stock likely to train well for you to make tied his suspenders tight round bis waist, while ; profit of; but you did not corrupt them, Your Chase, at the other end of the big room, had drawn tight a belt, and stood, with his bare arms folded, in a dark-blue silk jersey, which clung to his figure. As Cola at last turned round, pale and vicious-Jooking, Chase said coolly: ‘“QOne moment, please. You don’t know who Iam yet.” ‘“A€nd you don’t know who Jam, either,” said Cola in a half whisper, ‘‘ We’re alone now, and Ill tell you. Did you ever hear of Tiger Jack, the man that killed the heavy weight, Tom Tucker, in the fifteenth round, at Jackson Mississippi?’ Chase smiled. ‘Yes. I've heard Steve Marshall tell me of him. He was a good man, they tay.” Cola curled his ~ ‘*Steve Marshall! Bah! He brought you up, did he? Well, I’m Tiger Jack, and I won ten thousand dollars in that figbt. It made me what I am. Now, Sam Chase, I'll give you what I gave Tom Tucker. Take care of your- se)f.” He was advancing again, when Sam called eut warningly: ‘* Be careful. Jobn Nichols,” ‘1 don’t know and I don’t care,” retorted Cola, slowly advancing, with the look of a de- mon. Sam stood without raising his bands, and Cola’s «ye fell, for the first time, on the belt round his waist. It was made of solid silver plates, every plate embossed with some design or inscription; and, the instant that the dark man saw it, he changed color, halted, and fell back, a single, wary step. Sam laughed. ‘*‘ Aha! you’ve seen that belt before, and you kn .w to whom it belongs now. You shall not say [ ook unfair advantage of you. You mur- dered my father like a coward. You struck down an inoffensive and honest old man with a treacherous blow by which you meant to kill him. That man has trained me for twenty years to deal justice on you, and the time has come at last, John Nichols, Tiger Jack, mur- derer, cowardly villain! IL’il show you Catapult Sam)’s here at last.” Nichols or Cola made no answer, but fell back a step, as the young man advanced on him without lifting his hands. There was some disproportion in their sizes, but hardly more than there had been between Catapult Sam and the ex-champion. Tiger Jack looked like his prototype, crouch- ing for a spring on a rival, half afraid, half savage—all demoniacal. Catapult Sam came forward, an inch at a time, his bands still down by his hips, half gipened, but without coming to any regular vara, , By degrees Tiger Jack ceased to retreat; his eyes glowed like hot coals, his body quivered as be braced himself for a deadly spring, and he lanched himself full at Catapult Sam’s throat. for the secret blow that had served him so well beforo, But the young champion had been watching him too close to be caught unawares. He, too, had b en settling and quivering for a spring, and, in a fraction of a second before Tiger Jack sprung, Sam lanched out in the terrible “‘ stapper,” the very acme of the boxer’s art. The champion’s blow went home, full on Tiger Jack’s right cheek, close to the ear, its force doubled by the impetus of two strong men meeting,.and a crack was heard like a pistol- shot, as the jaw-bone broke. Tiger Jack never uttered a sound, but fell like a log on the carpet, and lay there like one dead. Catapult Sam looked at bim, felt his heart care- fully, and then turned away and resumed his clothing with the utmost deliberation, before he paid any further attention to his fallen foe. Then he picked him up and laid bim ona sofa, dashed water in his face, and had the satisfac- tion of seeing him revive in a short time, and look stupidly up. Then the oxpression of Cola’s face changed from stupidity to fear and intense pain, the anxious, pleading look of a man suffering from severe shock, as he realized what had happened and felt the agonizing pain in his fractured You don’t know who I am yet, aw. Sam looked at him coldly and said: ‘Give me the key out of your. t.” Cola obeyed nervously, and Sam went and un!ocked the door to look out. No one was in the passage and he came back, and sat down by Cola... _.. Now,” he said very Weaken “T have a few words to say to you, John Niehols, I know your secret blow and could have given it to you as easily as the other. Do you know what saved your life to-day? Maggie’s prayers for mercy. You have cheated and outraged her as you have every one in your life In your remorseless ¢ did one oud selfishness and gred. But you g action in your life when you took — = tive was bad. ome Ta y because you knew they came of son loved me and I love him. For the sake of others you escape further punishment now,” Catapult Sam rose up, went a few steps, then wheeled round and added: “At the same time Il advise you not to force me to.sue you for that monéy. You claim that Maggie broke her contract once by ae to go on the wire when she wassick. My sister nearly lost her life that night, and you were sorry when I saved it. Do justice now, and re- store what you have stolen, and I cease to mo- lest you, Refuse and—you know who I am now. He nodded slightly and left the room, while Cola, as soon as the door closed, broke into a oan of inexpressible Y agin wrung from his ron nerves in spite of himself; and fainted away. - The reader who has not wearied over the re- cital of our hero’s adventures, and the incidents of show-life connected with his career, can need but little more to complete the tale to his own satisfaction. : The Mlatfoot Party still bides its time, which ig sure to come, when— Gastric fever floors the monarch of all show- men. | Liiy thinks of going on the wire again some day. Maggie-would be only too glad never to see one again. Bristol Joe’s “‘ Public ’Ouse” is a success, and Steve is coining money ina Dime Museum in the Bowery. Gittuppe is dead, but Cola flourishes like a green bay tree, on the best of terms with the great Hoopler. 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