Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 April 1940 — Page 19

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CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE | WHEN VAL FINALLY went, tg! bed she knew what she was going to tell Rodney Blair if he asked. her | @gain to marry him. When they finally. slipped alongside their dock and were made fast, she saw Rodney waving up at her. Sam Golden was there, too, so excited he almost fell into the bay. A half dozeh sports writers were on hand and a battery of photographers. She recognized Tommy Evans from her own office. , : ig Once ‘agdin she had changed into ike. © d 4 NL more feminine clothes, donning the 2 k $40 by United Pesters Syndicate Inc,

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when she ran down the gangplank ‘and up to the tall, mustached man at the gate. He saw her kiss him lightly and turned away. Eddie Cavalier was too busy tryIng to drive the memory of Val kissing the stranger out of his mind. Sam Golden embraced him like a long-lost son. The cameramen were snapping pictures all over the’ place. But when they looked for Val Douglas she had disappeared. Eddie swore at himself when he gearched for her face at the boxing commissioner’s office when they reported for the weighing-in ceremonies at noon the next day. She wasn’t there. He wondered if she'd be at the fight. J He posed for the photogFaphers shaking hands with Corky Briggs. Corky looked good. He looked bigger and stronger than when Eddie had last seen him. The photographers asked them to. square off for a shot and Eddie wished someone would ring the bell right then and let them get it over with, ” ” w

DUFFY AND PQP didn’t let him out of sight once™that afternoon. They went back to their hotel. Pop told him to lie down and nap for a couple of hours. He lay on the bed for 10 minutes and got up. He was thirsty, he explained to Duffy. Duffy pulled up a chair and sat down next to him. “Eddie,” he said, “youre not fooling me. It's that girl. I know.. Of all the times for a dame to put the clamp on you it had to be now! “Eddie . . . don’t you see ., . . you've got to get her out of your mind. Look, Eddie . . tryin’ to run your private life. at a time like this . . . this is different. Anyway . .. anyway, she’s| strictly poison.” “Don’t ever say that again, Duffy. Never. I love that girl.” i ‘A great weight seemed to fall on Duffy Kelso and crush him. There] were tears in his eyes as he got to his feet. He crossed to the window and looked out. Duffy Kelso also had a love. He loved Eddie Cavalier as a father loved a son. And now Duffy felt like a father] seeing that son hurt. If only it were! a dream. But it was real. Brutally | sg “Teal 3 Pop Grimes could never recall when it had been so quiet in ‘Eddie Cavalier’s dressing room before a’ fight. Absolutely no one was to be, admitted, Duffy had notified the | guard outside.” No one. Not even reporters. Pop gave Eddie’s bandages a final | inspection, wordlessly. Pop didn’t like things the way they were. It was a violin string stretched too tight. He was afraid. He wished the preliminary would; be over so they could go to work. | f Qutside he could hear the muffled roar of the crowd. Someone must have been belted a good one. Then, after hours, it seemed, they knocked on the door. “Okay, Cavalier,” a muffled voice said, and they went out into the night and down the crowded aisle. Eddie almost ran. A tremendous roar went up as he climbed through the ropes. Another, an instant later, heralded Corky Briggs. Corky came over and shook hands with Eddie in his corner. ts

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something but couldn’t. He turned . CON ACCOUNT away quickly and Welk io the middle OF THE EVIL URE of the ring for instructions. : NA Back. Pais corner he slipped out OF NEN, WHO WOULD of the blue bathrobe with the large PRACTICE white “E. C.” on the back. Duffy ASSASSINATION AT was intoning last-second instruc-| | THE BOTTOM OF THE tions in his ear, but he didn’t hear| | SEAS BY BREAKING a word. And then the bell which| | THE HULLS OF BOATS mercifully forced all other thoughts| | AND WRECKING THEM | WITH ALL ON BOARD!”

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knew the 10 pounds Briggs had on him was going to mean a lot. He speared Corky with another left and ‘danced away. ; Briggs followed, worked him into a corner and landed to his body again. He hooked ‘Eddie sharply with a left and then dug into his ribs. “He's working downstairs,” Duffy told him hoarsely between rounds. “Keep dancingjaway and . spearing him with your Jeft.: Don't let him get in close.” Eddie didn't have to be told that Corky Briggs was tough. At the end of. the third round Eddie's body was“red,. “Two more rounds like that and he’ll have you broke in two,” Duffy said savagely. “You petter get to him with a. couple of good ones this time to slow him down.” i Pop sponged him Toff and rubbed his leg muscles. The bell again. Eddie walked right into Briggs and hooked him~ with a wicked 1eft. He followed it up with ‘two straight left jabs to the face. Eddie bobbed and threw a right, but he was a little too eager. He went off balance ‘just a trifle, but enough for Briggs to step in. Corky looped a right that landed high on Eddie’s cheek. “It stag-

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against khe ropes with a short right to the heart. Ne Eddie’s guard._.ecame down momentarily ang-Briggs flashed a left to his head.” .It caught Eddie just above the eye. .* Eddfé covered up and weathered the storm as the bell sounded, but

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Val Douglas could see the damage from where she: sat. And it was with a sickening feeling that she realized that Corky Briggs had reopened Eddie's blackjack wound. The same blackjack wound she had ‘been responsible for the night she had shanghaied him.

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