CHAPTER IX.
LOVE AND A PRIZE-FIGHT It is best not to repeat the expressions Brewster used regarding one S.
Jones, after reading his telegram.

But he felt considerably relieved after he had uttered them.

He fell to reading accounts of the big prize-fight which was to take place in San Francisco that evening.

He revelled in the descriptions of "upper cuts" and "left hooks," and learned incidentally that the affair was to be quite one-sided.

A local amateur was to box a champion.