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 Lefty can fight jest as well as he can pitch, an' that's goin' some."

"I am afraid," said Janet to Locke, "that you have set a bad example."

"But not willingly," he quickly declared. "I hope you do not think I would engage in a public fist fight from inclination. I assure you that the knowledge that you witnessed that wretched affair has caused me no little mortification."

"You were justified," she said. "I saw it all, and there was no manly way by which you could have avoided it."