fr Demorvaiic Jaton Bellefonte, Pa., April 24, 1914. er —— Ohe Abysmal Brute By JACK LONDON i ————— , from the first by a gun fighting had € Copyright, 1913, by The Century Co. = PROLOGUE. Few authors living today have the force and directness, the rugged strength and vitality of style of Jack London. This new novel is one of his best. Itisa story of the prize ring, a real man’s story, big and vigorous and thrilling. Behind the tense life, the excitement of the fight itself, one can see in reading it the crookedness, the devious ways of the keen witted men who stage the big fight and reap the profits. More than this, one can see into the soul of the Abys- mal Brute himself, one of the strangest, most human and fas- cinating characters London has ever drawn, a bruiser who is a scholar as well, who is honest and clean and innocent up to the moment of his disillusion- ment—a veritable cross section of a strange phase of American life. became a manager of prize = fighters, he was accustomed to a various and bizarre correspondence. Every crank, sport, near sport and re- former seemed to have ideas to impart to him. From dire threats against his life to milder threats, such as pushing in the front of his face, from rabbit foot fetishes to lucky borseshoes, from dinky jerkwater bids to the quarter of a million offers of irresponsible nobod- ies, he knew the whole run of the sur- prise portion of his mail. In his time having received a razor strop made from the skin of a lynched negro and a finger, withered and sun dried, cut from the body of a white man found in Death valley, he was of the opinion that never again would the postman bring him anything that could startle him. | But this morning he opened a letter that he read a second time, put away in his pocket and took out for a third reading. It was postmarked from some unheard of postoffice in Siskiyou coun- ty. and it ran: Dear Sam—You don’t know me, except my reputation. You come after my time, and I've been out of the game a long time. But, take it from me, I ain't been asleep. I've followed the whole game, and I've followed you from the time Kal Aufman knocked you out of your last handling of Nat Belson, and 1 take it you're the nifti- est thing in the line of managers that ever came down the pike. 1 got a proposition for you. 1 got the greatest unknown that ever happened. This ain't con. It’s the straight goods. What do you think of a husky that tips the scales at 220 pounds fighting weight, 4s twenty:two years old and can hit a ‘kick twice as hard as my best ever? That's him, my boy, Young Pat Glendon, that’s the name he’ll fight under. I've planned it all out. Now, the best thing you can do is hit the first train and come ‘up here. I bred him, and 1 trained him. All that I ever had in my head I've hammered into his. And maybe you won't believe it, but ‘he’s added to it. He's a born fighter. He's a wonder at time and distance. He just ‘kmows to the second and the inch, and the don’t have to think about it at all His six inch jolt is more the real sleep ‘medicine than the full arm swing of most geezers, Talk about the hope of the white race. This is him. Come and take a peep. ‘When you was managing Jeffries you was crazy about hunting. Come along and I'll give you some real Bunting and fishing that will make your picture winnings look like 30 cents. send Young Pat out with you. I ain't le to get around. That's why I'm send- ing for you. T was going to manage him myself, but CHAPTER I. AM STUBENER ran through his mail carelessly and rapidly. As . fight. it ain't no use. I'm all in and likely to pass out any time So get a move on. | want you to manage him There's a for- tune in it for both of you, but | want to draw up the contract Yours truly, PAT GLENDON. | Stubener was puzzled It seemed. | on the face of it, a joke—the men in the fighting game were notorious jok- | ers—and he tried to discern the fine hand of Corbett or the big friendly | paw of Fitzsimmons in the screed be- | fore him. But if it were genuire, he knew it was worth looking into. | Pat Glendon was before his time, ' though, as a cub, he had once seen Old Pat spar at the benefit for Jack . Dempsey. Even then he was called “Old” Pat and had been out of the ring for years. He had antedated Sul- | livan in the old London prize ring! rules, though his last fading battles | had been put up under the incoming | Marquis of Queensberry rules. What ring follower did not know of | Pat Glendon?—though few were alive who had seen him in his prime, and | there were not many more who had : seen him at all. } Yet his name had come down in the | history of the ring. and no sporting | writer's lexicon was complete without it. His fame was paradoxical. No man was honored higher, and | yet he bad never attained champion- | ship honors. He had been unfortunate and had been known as the unlucky | fighter. | Four times he all but won the heavy- | weight championship. and each time he | had deserved to win it. There was | the time on the barge, in San Fran- cisco bay, when. at the moment he | had the championship going, he snap- | ped his own forearm, and on the is- land in the Thames. sloshing about in ! six inches of rising tide. he broke a | leg at a similar stage in a winning | In Texas, too. there was the | never to be forgotten day when the police broke in just as he had his man : going in all certainty. ! And finally, there was the fight in: the Mechanics’ pavilion in San Fran- cisco. when he was secretly jobbed man of a referee backed by a small syndicate of bettors. Pat Glendon had had no accidents in that fight. but when he had knocked his man cold with a right to the jaw and a left to the solar plexus. the referee calmly disqualified him for fouling. Every ringside witness. every sporting ex- pert. and the whole sporting world knew there had been no foul. Yet, like all fighters. Pat Glendon had agreed to abide by the decision of the referee. Pat abided and accepted it as in keeping with the rest of his bad lack. This was Pat Glendon. What both. ered Stubener was whether or not Pat had written the letter He carried it downtown with him. : “What's become of Pat Glendon?” Such was his greeting to all sports that morning. Nobody seemed to know. Some thought he must be dead, but none knew positively. The fight editor of a morning daily looked up the rec- ords and was able to state that his death had not been noted. It was from Tim Donovan that he got a clew. “Sure an’ he ain’t dead.” said Dono- van. “How could that be—a man of his make that never boozed or blew himself? He made money and. what's more, he saved it and invested it. Didn’t be have three saloons at one time? An’ wasn’t he makin’ slathers of money with them when he sold out? “Now that I'm thinkin’, that was the last time I laid eyes on him—when be sold them out. 'T was all of twenty years and more ago. His wife had just died. I met him headin’ for the ferry. ‘Where away, old sport? says I. ‘It's me for the woods,’ says he. ‘I've quit. Goodby, Tim, me boy.’ And I've never seen him from that day to this. Of course he ain’t dead.” “You say when his wife died—did he have any children?” Stubener queried. “One, a little baby. He was luggin’ it in his arms that very day.” “Was it a boy?” “How should I be knowin’?” It was then that Sam Stubener \ i 5 \ 3B Le \ ¥/ a w / HT fo py 2) v, The Fight Editor Was Able to State That His Death Had Not Been Noted. reached a decision, and that night found him in a Pullman speeding to- ward the wilds of northern California, Stubener was dropped off the over land at Deer Lick in the early meorn- ing, and he kicked his heels for an hour before the saloon opened its doors. : No, the saloon keeper didn’t know anything about Pat Glendon, had nev- er heard of him, and if he was in that part of the country he must be out beyond somewhere Neither had the one hanger on ever heard of Pat Glen: don. At the hotel the same ignorance ob- tained. and it was not until the store- keeper and postmaster opened up that Stubener struck the trail.. Oh, yes; Pat Glendon lived out beyond. You took the stage at Alpige, which was forty miles and which ‘was a logging | - camp. From Alpine. on horseback, you rode up Antelope valley and cross- ed the divide to Bear creek. Pat Glendon lived somewhere beyond that. The people of Alpine would know. Yes, there was a young Pat. The storekeeper had seen him. He bad been into Deer Lick two years back. Old Pat had not put in an appearance for five years. He bought bis supplies at the store and always paid by check. and he was a white haired strange old man. That was all the storekeeper knew. but the folks at Alpine could give him final directions. It looked good to Stubener. Beyond doubt there was a young Pat Glen- don. as well as an old one. living out | beyond. That night the manager spent at the logging camp of Alpine. and early the following worning he rode a moun | tain cayuse up Antelope valley. He (. G Russ “Jeffries could a’ worried the young un a bit.” rode over the divide and down Bear creek. He rode all day through the wildest, roughest country he had ever seen, and at sunset turned up Pinto valley on a trail so stiff and narrow that more than once he elected to get off and walk. [Continued on page 7 Col. 1.1 I —— Dry Goods, LYON & COMPANY. Honors More Than Even. The Parson — “Lottie, don’t you know it is wrong to worry your mother so?” Little Lottie—“Huh! You don’t know mamma! She worries me more than I worry her.” to a man’s wife.” widow.”—Baltimore American. EE. EN Quite a Difference. “A wife gots a third of her hus- band’s property, doesn’t she?” “Why, I thought the law gave that The Lack. He—"I saw a fellow looking over the diamond ring case at our store this morning.” She—“Oh, how I wish I were the woman in the case!—St. Louis Times. “No.” “No; only to his BIG LAND OPENING. 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