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Darkness
Author: Robert E. Howard * A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook * eBook No.: 0609051.txt Language: English Date first posted: December 2006 Date most recently updated: December 2006
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Alleys of Darkness Robert E. Howard
WHEN THE GONG ended my fight with Kid Leary in the Sweet Dreams Fight Club, Singapore, I was tired but contented. The first seven rounds had been close, but the last three I'd plastered the Kid all over the ring, though I hadn't knocked him out like I'd did in Shanghai some months before, when I flattened him in the twelfth round. The scrap in Singapore was just for ten; another round and I'd had him.
But anyway, I'd shaded him so thoroughly I knowed I'd justified the experts which had made me a three to one favorite. The crowd was applauding wildly, the referee was approaching, and I stepped forward and held ou