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Brief though the respite had been, it had servedfroetting, every now and then, into

my eyes, my brain was clear as we fronted each other for e

both knew hty shoulders stooped so across his

chest, and, so long as we fought, I watched that great fist and

knotted forearh he struck oftener with his left, it

was in that passive right that I thought er really lay

It is not h, and ard; suffice it then, that as the fight progressed I found

that I was far the quicker, as I had hoped, and that the majority

of his blows I either blocked or avoided easily enough

Time after time his fist shot over my shoulder, or over my head,

and time after time I countered heavily--now on his body, now on

his face; once he staggered, and once I caught a limpse of his features convulsed with pain; he was smeared with

blood froht desperately now, savagely, taking advantage of every

opening, for though I struck him four tiht of mine; my forearasps; and always I