Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-19

on ST Patrlck's day. As were Remember
the Alamo" and Remember the Maine"
to the fighting men of the days that they
were live things, so were the habiliments
Of gentility to Billy Byrne at all times.
Billy Mallory was an older man than
the mucker-24 perhaps-and fully as
large. For four years he had played right
guard on n great Eastern team. and for
three he had pulled stroke upon the crew
During the two years since his Eradua-
tion he had prlded himself upon the main.
tenance of the physical supremacy that
had made the name OF Mallory famous In
collegiate athletics but In one vital essen
tial he was hopelessly handicapped in COM
bat with such as Billy Byrne, for Mallory
was a gentleman.
AS the mucker rushed upward toward
him Mallory had all the advantages of posi-
tion and preparedness, and had he done
what Billy Byrne would have done under
like circumstances he would have planted
n kick in the midst of the mucker's facial
beauties with all the power and weight
and energy at his command but Billy NAL
lory could no more have perpetrated a cow
ardly trick such as this than he could
have struck a woman.
Instead he waited, and as the mucker
came on IN even footing with him Mall
lory swung n vicious right for the mans
jaw. Byrne ducked beneath the blow came
up inside Malorys guard. and struck him
three times with trp-hammer velocity and
pile-driver effectiveness-once upon the jaw
ana twiCe-below the belt
The girl, cllnging to the rail. rveted
by the paralysis of fright saw her cham
pion stagger back and half crumple to the
deck Then she saw him make n brave
and desperate rally, as. though torn with
agony, he lurched forward in an endeavor
to clinch with the brute before him.
Again the mucker struck his victim
quick, choppy hooks that rocked Mallory's
head from side to side-and again the
brutal blow below the belt
But with the tenhcity OF a bulldog the
man fought for n hold upon his foe, and
at last Notwithstanding Byrne's best ef-
forts. he succeeded in closing with the
mucker and dragging him to the deck.
Here the two men rolled and tumbled,
Byrne biting, gouglng and kicking, while
Mallory devoted all of his fast-waning
strength TO an effort to close his fingers
upon the throat of his antagonist.
But the terrible punishment which the
mucker had inflicted upon him overcame
him at last, and as Byrne felt the mans ef-
forts weakening he partially disengaged
himself and raising himself upon one arm.
dealt his now almost unconscious enemy
half dozen frightful blows upon the face.
With n shrek Barbara Harding turned
from the awful sight as Billy Mallory's
bloody and swollen eyes rolled up and set.
while the mucker threw the inert form
roughly from him Quick to the girfs MEM
ory sprang Malory's recent declaration.
empty and vainglorious boastng of the man
in love. why, I'd die for you, Barbara,
and welcome the chance !"
Poor boy! How soon and how terribly
has the chance come !" moaned the girl
Then n rough hand fell upon her arm.
Here. you l' n coarse voice yelled in her
car. Come out o. de trance !" and at the
same time she was jerlSed roughly toward
the companonway.
Immediately the girl held back, and then
the mucker. true to his training. true TO
himself. gave her arm sudden twist that
wrenched a scream of agony from her white
lips.
Den come along" growled Billy Byrne.
"an quit dis monkey business or I'll twist
yer flipper clean often yeh -
with an oath Anthony Harding sprang
forward to protect his daughter, but the
butt of Wards pistol brought him uncon-
scious to the deck.
60 easy there, Byrne!" shouted Skipper
Simms "ther amt call to injure the
hussy--a corpse won't be worth nothing to
us"
In mute terror the girl now permitted