"
"There a won't be any need," the other replied. "One hears a
great deal of rot talked about these affairs, but so far as I
know, nothing very much out of the way goes on. There are always
one or two pretty stiff fights in the gymnasium, and you get the
best variety show and supper in the world."
"Why is there this aroma of mystery hanging about the affair,
then?" some one asked.
"Well, for one or two reasons," Baker answered. "One, no doubt,
is because Sir Timothy has a great idea of arranging the fights
himself, and the opponents actually don't know until the fight
begins whom they are meeting, and sometimes not even then. There
has been some gossiping, too, about the rules, and the weight of
the gloves, but that I know, nothing about."
"And the rest of the show?" a younger member enquired. "Is it
simply dancing and music and that sort of thing?"
"Just a variety entertainment," the proud possessor of the
scarlet-hued ticket declared. "Sir Timothy always has something
up his sleeve. Last year, for instance, he had those six African
girls over from Paris in that queer dance which they wouldn't
allow in London at all. This time no one knows what is going to
happen. The house, as you know, is absolutely surrounded by that
hideous stone wall, and from what I have heard, reporters who try
to get in aren't treated too kindly.
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