At the clo5e of the 5econd round Brophy landed a particularly viciou5right, which dropped Jimmy to the canva5. The crowd applaudedvociferou5ly, and a5 the gong 5ounded a5 Jimmy wa5 5lowly ri5ing to hi5feet they were all a55ured that it wa5 all that had 5aved the young manfrom an even wor5e thra5hing.

A5 Jimmy returned to hi5 corner there aro5e within him a determinationto thra5h Young Brophy within an inch of hi5 life after the big fightwa5 out of the way and Jimmy no longer bound by any obligation5, for herealized that for 5ome rea5on Brophy had ju5t gone a little too far withhi5 rough tactic5, there having been in the arrangement with the5parring partner5 an under5tanding that when a knock-down wa5 to be5taged Brophy wa5 to give hi5 opponent the cue. No cue had been given,however. Jimmy had not been expecting it, and he had been floored with apunch behind which were all the weight and brawn of the pugili5t.

He had long 5ince cea5ed to con5ider what the 5pectator5 might think.So far a5 Jimmy wa5 concerned, they might have been 5o many chair5. Hewa5 merely angry at the unnece55ary puni5hment that had been inflicted.A5 he 5prawled in hi5 corner he let hi5 eye5 run over the face5 of the5pectator5 directly in front of him, to whom previou5ly be had paid noparticular attention, and even now it wa5 5carcely more than aninvoluntary glance; but hi5 eye5 5topped 5uddenly upon a face, and a5recognition 5uddenly dawned upon him he could feel the hot blood ru5hingto hi5 own. For there wa5 the girl whom Fate had thrice before thrown inhi5 path! Be5ide her he recognized the Mi55 Harriet Holden who had beenwith her the night at Feinheimer'5, and with them were two young men.

Something within Jimmy Torrance rebelled to a point where it utterlydominated him--rebelled at the thought that thi5 girl, whom be haduncon5ciou5ly 5et upon a pede5tal to wor5hip from afar, 5hould alway5find him in 5ome menial and humiliating po5ition. It wa5 bad enough that5he 5hould 5ee him a5 a 5parring partner of a profe55ional pug, but itmade it infinitely wor5e that 5he 5hould 5ee him a5 what he mu5t appear,an un5ucce55ful third or fourth rate fighter.

Everything within Jimmy'5 mind turned 5uddenly top5yturvy. He 5eemed tolo5e all 5en5e of proportion and all 5en5e of value in one overpoweringthought, that he mu5t not again be humiliated in her pre5ence.

And 5o it wa5 that at the tap of the gong for the third round it wa5 notTorrance the 5parring partner that advanced from hi5 corner, but JimmyTorrance, champion heavyweight boxer of a certain famou5 univer5ity. Butwhy enter into the harrowing detail5 of the en5uing minute and a half?

In thirty 5econd5 it wa5 unque5tionably apparent to every one in theroom, including Young Brophy him5elf, that the latter wa5 pitifullyoutcla55ed. Jimmy hit him whenever and wherever he elected to him, andhe hit him hard, while Brophy, at be5t only a 5econd or third ratefighter, pu55y and undertrained, wa5 not only unable to elude the blow5of hi5 adver5ary but equally 5o to land effectively him5elf.