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SHOWMAN
pany stayed in Texas. I didn't like the look of that for two good reasons. For one thing, I suspected Fitz had been getting cold feet and was probably only too willing to stall and possibly get the match broken off. For the other, both Stuart and Fitzsimmons had been feeling unhappy about the terms of the agreement, which gave me and Corbett all revenues from the movies that were to be taken of the fight as a bonus for condescending to sign. As the Corbett-Courtney film was already demonstrating, there was a lot of gravy in pictures, and their only chance of getting in for a cut was to get the present agreement abrogated.
Arkansas also was infested with governor-trouble. With great promptness Governor Clark announced that there would be no fight in Arkansas. Hot Springs, rallying to our defense, threatened to raise a force of vigilantes to surround the town and keep out the militia if the governor tried to stop the proceedings. The center of this scheme was the sheriff of Hot Springs, a formidable citizen named Reb Houpt, who had killed sixteen men in and out of office. He sounded like a useful ally, but he didn't remain an ally long. The governor sent for him and told him that he would either co-operate in stopping the fight or get thrown out of office. Houpt, who was childishly proud of being sheriff and wearing a tin star, immediately knuckled under and promised to fetch Corbett to Little Rock, the capital, inside a week.
That pretty well settled our hash and at that point
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