IN AND OUT
BY EDGAR FRANKLIN
Frontispiece by PAUL STAHR
New York
W. J. Watt & Company
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1917, by
W. J. WATT & COMPANY
PRESS OF
BRAUNWORTH & CO.
BOOK MANUFACTURERS
BROOKLYN, N. Y.
The girl weighed, perhaps, one hundred and twenty pounds,and handling that amount of weight was a mere joke to Wilkins
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. The Great Unrecognized
CHAPTER II. Theory's Victim
CHAPTER III. Opportunity
CHAPTER IV. The Reluctant One
CHAPTER V. The Wee Sma' Hours
CHAPTER VI. Johnson Boller Proposes
CHAPTER VII. The Butterfly
CHAPTER VIII. Scorned
CHAPTER IX. Crime?
CHAPTER X. The Web
CHAPTER XI. The Other Lady
CHAPTER XII. The Crash
CHAPTER XIII. In the Box
CHAPTER XIV. Concerning Three Groups
CHAPTER XV. Thick and Fast
CHAPTER XVI. The Lie
IN AND OUT
CHAPTER I
The Great Unrecognized
Up in the ring, the long-nosed person who had been announced as KidHorrigan was having things much his own way with the smaller personbilled as the Bronx Tornado.
It was the wont of Kid Horrigan to step forward lightly, to rap theTornado smartly on the bridge of the nose, and thereafter to step backas lightly and wait until the few wild blows had fanned the air and theTornado had returned to his meaningless and somewhat bewildered crouch.
Thereupon, in almost preoccupied fashion, the Kid stepped forward oncemore—and when he had done it again and again the performance began togrow monotonous and, down in Box B at the ringside, Johnson Bolleryawned aloud.
The yawn finished, he leaned over wearily and addressed Anthony Fry.
"If that little wheeze had the pep of a dead mosquito," said JohnsonBoller disgustedly, "he'd take that big stiff when his hands are up likethat and slip him an uppercut that would freeze him solid!"
Anthony Fry's intellectual features relaxe