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第52章 THE MEXICAN(9)

Rivera's seconds were not half-caring for him in the intervals between rounds.Their towels made a showing, but drove little air into his panting lungs.Spider Hagerty talked advice to him, but Rivera knew it was wrong advice.Everybody was against him.He was surrounded by treachery.In the fourteenth round he put Danny down again, and himself stood resting, hands dropped at side, while the referee counted.In the other corner Rivera had been noting suspicious whisperings.He saw Michael Kelly make his way to Roberts and bend and whisper.Rivera's ears were a cat's, desert-trained, and he caught snatches of what was said.He wanted to hear more, and when his opponent arose he maneuvered the fight into a clinch over against the ropes.

"Got to," he could hear Michael, while Roberts nodded."Danny's got to win--I stand to lose a mint--I've got a ton of money covered--my own.If he lasts the fifteenth I'm bust--the boy'll mind you.Put something across."And thereafter Rivera saw no more visions.They were trying to job him.Once again he dropped Danny and stood resting, his hands at his slide.Roberts stood up.

"That settled him," he said.

"Go to your corner."

He spoke with authority, as he had often spoken to Rivera at the training quarters.But Rivera looked hatred at him and waited for Danny to rise.Back in his corner in the minute interval, Kelly, the promoter, came and talked to Rivera.

"Throw it, damn you," he rasped in, a harsh low voice."You gotta lay down, Rivera.Stick with me and I'll make your future.I'll let you lick Danny next time.But here's where you lay down."Rivera showed with his eyes that he heard, but he made neither sign of assent nor dissent.

"Why don't you speak?" Kelly demanded angrily.

"You lose, anyway," Spider Hagerty supplemented."The referee'll take it away from you.Listen to Kelly, and lay down.""Lay down, kid," Kelly pleaded, "and I'll help you to the championship."Rivera did not answer.

"I will, so help me, kid."

At the strike of the gong Rivera sensed something impending.

The house did not.Whatever it was it was there inside the ring with him and very close.Danny's earlier surety seemed returned to him.The confidence of his advance frightened Rivera.Some trick was about to be worked.Danny rushed, but Rivera refused the encounter.He side-stepped away into safety.What the other wanted was a clinch.It was in some way necessary to the trick.

Rivera backed and circled away, yet he knew, sooner or later, the clinch and the trick would come.Desperately he resolved to draw it.He made as if to effect the clinch with Danny's next rush.Instead, at the last instant, just as their bodies should have come together, Rivera darted nimbly back.And in the same instant Danny's corner raised a cry of foul.Rivera had fooled them.The referee paused irresolutely.The decision that trembled on his lips was never uttered, for a shrill, boy's voice from the gallery piped, "Raw work!"Danny cursed Rivera openly, and forced him, while Rivera danced away.Also, Rivera made up his mind to strike no more blows at the body.In this he threw away half his chance of winning, but he knew if he was to win at all it was with the outfighting that remained to him.Given the least opportunity, they would lie a foul on him.Danny threw all caution to the winds.For two rounds he tore after and into the boy who dared not meet him at close quarters.Rivera was struck again and again; he took blows by the dozens to avoid the perilous clinch.During this supreme final rally of Danny's the audience rose to its feet and went mad.It did not understand.All it could see was that its favorite was winning, after all.

"Why don't you fight?" it demanded wrathfully of Rivera.

"You're yellow! You're yellow!" "Open up, you cur! Open up!""Kill'm, Danny! Kill 'm!" "You sure got 'm! Kill 'm!"In all the house, bar none, Rivera was the only cold man.By temperament and blood he was the hottest-passioned there; but he had gone through such vastly greater heats that this collective passion of ten thousand throats, rising surge on surge, was to his brain no more than the velvet cool of a summer twilight.

Into the seventeenth round Danny carried his rally.Rivera, under a heavy blow, drooped and sagged.His hands dropped helplessly as he reeled backward.Danny thought it was his chance.The boy was at, his mercy.Thus Rivera, feigning, caught him off his guard, lashing out a clean drive to the mouth.Danny went down.When he arose, Rivera felled him with a down-chop of the right on neck and jaw.Three times he repeated this.It was impossible for any referee to call these blows foul.

"Oh, Bill! Bill!" Kelly pleaded to the referee.

"I can't," that official lamented back."He won't give me a chance."Danny, battered and heroic, still kept coming up.Kelly and others near to the ring began to cry out to the police to stop it, though Danny's corner refused to throw in the towel.Rivera saw the fat police captain starting awkwardly to climb through the ropes, and was not sure what it meant.There were so many ways of cheating in this game of the Gringos.Danny, on his feet, tottered groggily and helplessly before him.The referee and the captain were both reaching for Rivera when he struck the last blow.There was no need to stop the fight, for Danny did not rise.

"Count!" Rivera cried hoarsely to the referee.

And when the count was finished, Danny's seconds gathered him up and carried him to his corner.

"Who wins?" Rivera demanded.

Reluctantly, the referee caught his gloved hand and held it aloft.

There were no congratulations for Rivera.He walked to his corner unattended, where his seconds had not yet placed his stool.He leaned backward on the ropes and looked his hatred at them, swept it on and about him till the whole ten thousand Gringos were included.His knees trembled under him, and he was sobbing from exhaustion.Before his eyes the hated faces swayed back and forth in the giddiness of nausea.Then he remembered they were the guns.The guns were his.The Revolution could go on.

End

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