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"I knew youse could do it, kid!" he screaood as made now, an' you're de next cha the sporting sheets hailed "Sailor" Byrne as the greatest "white hope" of thee There were intervieith him Intervieith the man he had defeated Intervieith Cassidy Intervieith the referee Intervieith everybody, and all were agreed that he was the most likely heavy since Jeffries Corbett admitted that, while in his prime he could doubtless have bested the neonder, he would have found hih customer

Everyone said that Byrne's future was assured There was not a ht who could touch hiht before but would have staked his last dollar on him in a e to the Negro's er, and received an answer that was most favorable The terms were, as usual, rather one-sided but Cassidy accepted theht was assured

Billy was ain than he had been since the day he had renounced Barbara Harding to the ht she loved He read and re-read the accounts in the papers, and then searching for e he ran upon the very nahts for all these e to W could not be seen at her father's hoht Mr Mallory refused to discuss the matter, but would not deny the rumor

There was more, but that was all that Billy Byrne read The paper dropped frohts He sat with his eyes bent upon the floor, and his mind was thousands of miles away across the broad Pacific upon a little island in the midst of a turbulent stream

And far uptown another sat with the sah the sporting sheet in search of the scores of yesterday's woolf tournament And as she searched her eyes suddenly becaot about tournaments and low scores Hastily she searched the heads and text until she came upon the name--"'Sailor' Byrne!"

Yes! It must be he Greedily she read and re-read all that had been written about hi, scion of an aristocratic house--ultra-society girl, read and re-read the accounts of a brutal prize fight