Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-02-04

warned you, lay it ON thicker
d X Napssl play tdexclaimed the sick man,
with a stare Why what do You mean al
am but in q sorry mood for losing. ]
do remember playing fory and losing some
gloves and gartefs 20 the ladies'
y IeAnd let me tell you am in still less
licking hunior than yOarsolf,k retlifned the
Captain in high dudgeop, through your
cursed ebstipacy played against my pefI
ter judgment land was cleaned out py
Count r. - of eighteen Thousand
francs. How shall come to book, 7 In
the devils name, how can ! face myicre-
ditor this evening at Madame's reunion 2
The three hundred maps I won from you
will go but a short way TO meet nay los
ses. think shall go mad arlT 81. 20 b
And ] 'faney11 am mad already
groaned the sufferer from the bed; do
end thisfolly ----- r. 49, 81 ~
Did l not know you, should fancy
you intended me offence, replied the cap
tain rather angrily; what, have you such
a convenience of memory as to forget that
you lost three hundred maps to me, eight
hundred to the count, and Eve and forty
| to Madame La c?
Before the unhappy youth could find
words to respond, the valet announced
another visiter, and Count F. was
shown in.
Monsieur lie Comic, pursue the gal
liant captain, 'are you too in testing
mood :? My young friend here cannot
be persuaded that we had little play
last night. Excuse me paying but half
my loss till evening and in the meantime
accept these 6Rlets de Janque,' and 'little
joe handed the cheyalier roll OF bank
notes you will find there ten thousand
francs
Gentlemen cried the astonished citi-
zen, pray you will end this farce. l
know am indebted to Madame heavily in
gloves and ribbons
why, fiends and furies ! exclaimed
the captain, do you pretend, sir, to assert
that you did not lose three hundred maps
to me o
COR that this acknowledgment for eight
hundred was not given?'
The youth, astounded as he was, took
the paper. 1t purported to be en- l.. O..
u, but the forgery was clumsy.
That is not my writing-nor do l
| WV SltlIS' VI "" " SON"'
The scene that followed may be i'm.
agined. Instant payment, or legal Sc
curity folithc Slledged debts WAS demand
ed--or the alternatives meeting in the
Bots de Boulognc within two hours
Half bewildered, the young dupe assented
to the latter-and at the time appointed,
he alighted, without friend or weapon, at
the place named for the duel by these in
famous men.
Several other persons were on the
ground-all strangers to the unfortunate
young man. Another attempt was made
| to induce him to admit the debt of honor,
and it was proposed that reconciliation
should take place between him and his
former friend, the captain To do them
justice, the gentlemen unknown were ar
dent in their endeavors to accommodate
the matter, and persuade the citizen to
pay the money, and they were perfectly
sincere in meditation on the occasion, for
they were all members Of the same dis
honest clique. But nothing could shake
the youths determination to repudiate the
infamous demand. Captain K, irri-
tated to madness at his total failure, de-
manded that the duel should instantly
proceed-and the gang as furious, from
the unexpected disappointment, determin-
ed to murder one who could not be per-
suaded to submit TO barefaced spoliation.
Never were combatants more unequal
ly opposed than the young merchant and
the desperate gambler-the one, probably,
had never discharged pistol in his life
the other, and within six months, had kill
led his man on the very spot where the
doomed youth was standing.
Other, and fouler circumstances, went
to render the result of the impending
duel almost certainty. K fought
with his own pistols-with the firing sig
nal he was particularly familiar-his back
was to the sun, and open sky behind him.
The scoundrel second who had volunteer
ed his services, placed the young English
man in position where the trunk of a
large beech formed leading line of FIRE,
and the stream of sunshine through the
vista in the trees, was almost binding
TO the intentional murderer, and the in
tended victim, the loaded weapons wert
delivercd-a preparatory word was spo'
ken-the signal fell. k coolly
raised his pistol, while, by snap shot
the hurried Englishman anticipated hi
executioner by second On that mo
mentary advantage life or death depended
The bully, shot directly through the
heart, fell on the sward, dead man.
While the bullet destined for the breas
of his antagonist, cut the grass harmless
ly at the foot of the fortunate survivor
Never was thoughtless youth more pro
videntially delivered by accident from
certain murder-nor scoundrel sent t,
his account so justly and unexpectedly a
Captain K.
In riding an hour after the affair hat
terminated in the forest, met the bod,
of the dead gambler on stretcher, e
route to the Aforgwe.-AaecdOtss Of Dueling
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