asium, of course, denied it, but
every circumstance, including the size of the purse, now believed to
be five thousand dollars, would indicate that Flynn's Unknown, unless
a well-known Westerner in disguise, is a man of more than usual
ability--or else a millionaire sport, bent on enriching the
hard-fisted sailor, who thinks he sees a chance of picking up some
easy money besides his share of the gate. Whoever Jim Robinson is, we
welcome him cordially.

But we also warn him that New York is tired of ring fakes and that
nothing but a good mill will justify the prices asked.

I showed the thing to Ballard, who read it through eagerly, his lips
emitting a thin whistle.

"Ph-ew! They're getting 'warm,' Pope. Somebody's leaked."

"But who--?"

"May be the management--to draw the crowd." And then, looking at the
front page, "That's only the twelve o'clock edition. Perhaps--"

He paused and rang the bell (we were at his rooms again), instructing
his man to go out on the street and buy copies of the latest editions
of all the afternoon papers.

"It would be the deuce if they followed that up."

He walked to and fro while we waited impatiently. And in a short while
our worst fears were realized, for when the papers came we saw the
dreadful facts in scare heads on the first page of the yellowest of
them. I give the item here:

JEREMIAH BENHAM--PRIZE FIGHTER.
MULTI-MILLIONAIRE SEEKS LAURELS IN RING.
FLYNN'S MYSTERIOUS UNKNOWN REVEALED
IN PERSON OF MILLIONAIRE SPORTSMAN.

Jack Ballard swore softly, but I read on over his shoulder,
breathlessly:

The latest mystery of the prize ring has been revealed by a
reporter of the _Despatch_, who proves here conclusively that
the so-called Jim Robinson, matched to fight Sailor Clancy in
the big event at the Garden tonight, is no less a person than
Jeremiah Benham, son of the late John Benham, Railroad and
Steamship King. Last month it will be recalled that this paper
sent a reporter up to Horsham Manor, the magnificent Benham
estate in Greene County, where the so-called Jim Robinson was
finishing his training at the invitation of Mr. Benham, who was
supposed to take a warm sportsman's interest in the ring.
Horsham Manor, one of the wonders of the State, is surrounded,
as is well known, by a wall of solid masonry, and much secrecy
was observed in the training of the so-called Robinson, all