The Dead Boxer

The Dead Boxer is about Nell M'Collum and her life as an old widow with a thankless, damned son. Excerpt: «And that was because he wouldn't see one wid the blood of Lamh Lauder in his veins married to a woman that he had reason to think—I don't like to my it, Nelly—but you know it is said that there was darkness, and guilt, too, about the disappearin' of your child. You never cleared that up, but swore revenge night and day against my father, for only preventin' you from bein' the ruination of his cousin. Many a time, too, since that, has asked you in my hearing what became of the boy.»