The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour, Volume 6: v. 6 by Louis L'Amour

Author:Louis L'Amour [L'Amour, Louis]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780553905793
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2008-10-22T00:00:00+00:00

That night I dropped in on Bid Kerney. Race Malone, the sportswriter, was sitting with him. We talked around a while, and then I put it up to him.

“What you doing with Abro?” I asked. “Got anybody for him?”

“Abro?” Bid shrugged. “Heck, no. McCall wants the champ, an’ Blucher wants McCall. There ain’t a kid in sight I could stick in there that could go long enough to make it look good. Even if I knew one, he wouldn’t fight him.”

“What’s in it?” I asked. “You make it ten grand, and I got a guy for you.”

Race looked up, grinning. “For ten grand I have, too. Me! I’d go in there with him for ten grand. But how long would I last?”

“This kid’ll beat Abro,” I said coolly, peeling the paper off a couple of sticks of gum casually as I could make it. “He’ll stop him.”

“You nuts?” Kerney sneered. “Who is he?”

“Name of Morgan, Kip Morgan. From over at Copper City. Stopped Patrick the other night. Got ten straight kayos. Be fighting the champ in a year.”

When I talked it up so offhand, they began wondering. I could see Malone smelling a story, and Bid was interested.

“But nobody knows him!” Bid protested. “Copper City’s just a mill town. A good enough place, but too far away.”

“Okay,” I said, getting up. “Stick him in there with Charlie Gomez. But after he beats Gomez, it’ll cost you more.”

“If he beats him, it’ll be worth it!” Bid snapped. “Okay, make it the last Friday this month. That gives you two weeks.”

When I walked out of there, I was feeling good. There would be three grand in this, anyway, and forty percent of that was a nice cut these days. Secretly, I was wondering how I could work it to make the kid win. He had some stuff. I’d seen that when he was in there with Pete, and while Gomez was tough, there was a chance. Pete was fighting Tommy Gomez, Charlie’s brother, so he would be training. That took care of the sparring partner angle.

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