The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1860-02-17
Here is the place and now is the time

rendered him alarmingly cognizant of the
fact
AS last effort to shake the resolution
of the belligerent mounaineer and avoid
the encounter for which he felr no inclina-
ton, the gambler said with effected calm
ness:
If we fight at all, ii must be alone, and
! in this room, each armed with revolver
and bowie
Il am fortunately provided with BOTH
Was the resolute reply.
sIhen, d--n you, take the conse-
qences,' returned the gambler, determined
/ to fire before the word, and finding cour
are iu the dishonorable resolution. He
found little consolation in the smile Just
perceivable through the heavy beard Of
his antagonist.
The arrangements for the desperate en-
counter were soon made. The principals
each armed with knife and revolver, were
to be placed on opposite sides OF the room;
the door was TO De locked on the outside,
and, at A word from the seconds, the fight
was to commence, with either weapon, and
to continue for ten minutes, at the eud of
which time the seconds wee to enter the
room
The weapons we're examined, and the
combatants placed for slaughter by candle
| LIGHT. Tue door had scarcely been closed
and locked before the gambler raised his
pistol and fired. The ball lodge in the
ceiling not an, inch from the head of the
other. With the spring of tiger the lat
ter threw himself upon the gambler and
crushed him to tie floor before be had time
10 again use pistol or knife. Wrestling the
weapons from his grasp he seized him by
the throat, and holding knife to his
! breast the miner swore he would bury it
! there if he uttered word.
'All righl-give the word , said the
miner, as the second were about to enter
to ascertain the reason Of the report.
Are you ready!
! Yes
! Fire .-one-two-threer
No report followed and the seconds look
ed at each other in silence.
Now tell me, Mark Brigham, why l
should not sIay YOU. who attempted to as
sassinate me- said the miner
The shot was accidental. indeed it was
returned the trembling gambler Spare
me. and will return every dollar you
have lost-giye you all | possess.
Let me tell you now why should slay
you. 1t is not for the dollars YOU won
from me, for do not value them-pot for
your cowardly attempt to murder me, for
| expected it. Listen Ten years ago
your stole yourg girl by the name OF
Jane Farley. from boarding school in
Rochester, New York, and under promise
| Of marriage, induced her to elope with you
to New Orleans. Her parents, who lived
three miles from the city, did not know
you, for yOu were not resilient of the
pee, and never visited the family but
! once. You did not marry the girl You
made her your mistre>s-t|le mistress Of a
cumberland as ucL she become a moth.
cr. Shame prevented her from communi
eating with her parents and they are still
ignorant of her fare. Three years ago she
acc, mpauied YOU to California Her broth>
er who had become man, and vowed to
terribly revenge the dl>honoI of his sister,
should he ever meet her seducer, followed
shortly after, unaware of ber presence here
One night he heard her name pronounced
in the street. he followed her TO a gam
bling he'll, and recognized her, and by her
side sat her sedUcer, whom he had seen but
twice before. In venturing his money, he
found ready means OF bringing about an
encounter, in which he determined 20 kill
! you. lie met you in loom alone. You
attempted to assassinate him. DO you
know me now !?
Mercy spare me" said the gambler,
and
'On one condition. replied Farley.
Name it,
| That YOU marry the woman you have
dishonored, and abandon your thieying vo
/ cation
i consent-but when ?
This very hour
L promse,' sail the gambler
But your promise is not sufficient re-
piled Farley : | will have better guaran
tee This pistol shall not leave my hands,
or your side, until the romise is fulfilled;
and by my hopes Of heaven, ify you hesitate
| in the performance, or show a disposition
to escape, will put ball thIoug gh your
! body"
Placing all the weapons in his pockets,
except the pistol which he had he'll cock
ed in his hand, Farley released the gam
bier and ordered him to send for Jane and
carriage Through the half opened
door, which the seconds had opened in re
sponse from knock within, Br CHAM re
peated the order to his astonished friend
! Learning that no blood had been shed, the
latter left the house, and in few minutes
Jane was in the presence of the silent com
batants. She requested an explanation.
/ bnt WAS told that all would soon be made
clear. and the whole party entered the
carriage and were driven TO the house Of a
clergyman on Stockton sreet, where. at
ten o'clock at night, with pistol ready TO
use upon the bride groom should he falter,
Mark Brigham and Jane Farley were made
man and wife The unshorn miner then
called his sister, and as she hung upon his
nee k, she thanked God that the same hour