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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I Johnny Loses a Fight 9

II Boxing the Bunco-Steerer 24

III The Feasters See a Haunt 45

IV “Pale Face Bonds” 55

V Strange Doings in the Night 74

VI Johnny Boxes the Bear 85

VII No Box-a Da Bear 100

VIII The Girl and the Tiger 112

IX The Tiger Springs 124

X Gwen Meets a “Hay Maker” 134

XI The Black Beast 144

XII Johnny Wins Double Pay 160

XIII Pant’s Story of the Black Cat 173

XIV In Tom Stick’s House 184

XV Bursting Balloons 198

XVI The Wreck of the Circus 206

XVII “Get That Black Cat” 217

XVIII How Johnny Got the Ring 232

THE CRIMSON FLASH

CHAPTER I
JOHNNY LOSES A FIGHT

In the center of the “big top,” which shelteredthe mammoth three-ring circus, brass hornsblared to the rhythmic beat of a huge bassdrum.

Eight trained elephants, giant actors of thesawdust ring, patiently stood in line, awaitingthe command to make way for the tumblers,trapeze performers, bareback riders and thequeen of the circus.

The twins, Marjory and Margaret MacDonald,just past ten years of age, and attendingtheir first circus, stood pressed against the ropenot an arm’s length from the foremost elephant.Suddenly the gigantic creature reached out abeseeching trunk for a possible peanut.

Sensing danger, Johnny Thompson, the one-timelightweight boxing champion, who, besidestheir maid, stood guard over the millionairetwins, sprang forward. Quick as he was, hismovement was far too slow. Marjory jumpedback; there was an almost in

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