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The Dead Boxer

CHAPTER V
15/22

Stand back, man, stand back, if you murder him I will take care you shall suffer for it.

Stand back.

Lamh Laudher never injured you." "Ha!" exclaimed the Boxer, in reply; "why, what is this! Who have we here ?" Ellen, for it was she, had already thrown back the cloak from her features, and stepped forward between them.
"Well, I am glad it is you," said the black, "and so may he.

Come, I shall conduct you home." He caught her arm as he spoke, and drew her over to his side like an infant.
"Come, my pretty girl, come; I will treat you tenderly, and all I shall ask is a kiss in return.

Here, young fellow," said he to Lamh Laudher, with a sense of bitter triumph, "I will show you that one black kiss is worth two white ones." Heavy, hard, and energetic was the blow which the Dead Boxer received upon the temple, as the reply of Lamh Laudher, and dead was the crash of his tremendous body on the earth.


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