Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-10-02
TIE EMERALD RING.

the w arsaW GaZette gives tn
following account:
\ CoantLodislas was breakfast
ling OH the I'd of last Decembe
in his rooms in the Royal Col
lege Building at Warsaw. 4
friend, Paul Barowski, was il
his company. The servan
brought in a letter, which tn,
Count read with a laugh.
pheasant news, ,evidently, "re
marked Barowski.
"Charmingly original at any
rate" /" replied the Count.
GA love-letter?"
"No, a challenge"
GA challenger 1.g
"And from a woman, too
Read"
And Count Belinski tossed
his friend the letter.
1t was q challenge to a meet
ing with reyolvers at five o'clock
that evening, at a lonely place
in Warsaw surburbs. "If you
are not there" said the chal-
lenge, 81 will seek you at once
and have a public reckoning be-
fore a new day breaks"
This strange cpistle was sign
ed "Helene Gnda."
"Helene Gudal" repeated
Barowski, stupefied. "Why it
is the actress at the opera!"
'FThe same"
'tAnd your mistress?"
"Just So"
"But is the girl then mad?"
"She is certainly very angry"
CAT what?"
"Oh, nothing" replied the
Count coolly, lighting a cigar,
"cxcept that / got tired of her,
and last week bought a new
girl"
"You'yc discarded her, then?"
GAS l say"
"And do you intend to meet
her?"
"Mon anil Life is at best
gloomy enough, and such fun as
this is not to be passed by. Of
course / shall meet her."
"And fight?"
sob, that is an entirely diff
fcrent matter. The only assault
made will be on a dinner, which
shall order at the Diamond
Crown. Pray join us there at
seven"
At the appointed hour Bar
owski was a the Diamond |
Crown, a famous resort for the
1issipated better class of War
saw. A superb dinner for three
1ad been prepared in accord
lnce with an order brought by
Count Belinski's servant al
loon. It was to be served in a
private room, and there Paul
3arowski lounged b ef ore a
wood fire, awaiting
lis friends arrival.
Seven o'clock skipped by,
hen eight, then nine. The
own bells were striking ten, and
le still came not. Thoroughly
harmed, BaroWski set out to
eek him. Very naturally hel
vent first 10 the suburb to
which the challenge had point
d. Therein the snow, he found
is friends corpse, with bullet
Trough its heart. The dead man
till clutched a revolver, q cham
er Of which was empty. A long
lr-row in the snow showed
hat he must have fired into
be ground. He had evidently
ustained the spirit of what he
as a pleasant little ,
lrcc TO the end, while his OPT
had gone seriously to
york to create a tragedy.
BaroRski reported the case
nd the circumstance of the /.
hallenge to the police at once,
nd the arrest of Helene Guda
Tas ordered.
That belligerent young female
yas a fifth-rate singer, who play-s
d small parts in comic operas
Or few forms q week, and
we'd like an unscxed Sardana-
alus. Her house was most
lxurious, h er tnrnouts the
wellest, and her diamonds the {
lost brilliant in all Warsaw.
ike another Succubus, she had {
le faculty Of winning as newl
,ycr every seven days. Yet I
len only looked into her eyes, 4
} full of languorand passion, {
nd wentto embrace their DOOM C
irh hot blood and throbbing G
carts. I
Only one of her adorers had y
ONE out of the furnace of hot 7
We unscathed. This was Count /
odisIas Belinski. In his case h
le rules of relation between a
[e.ene Guda and her admirers @
ad been reversed. They a
lored her, and she profitcd u
Iercilessly by their alteration. a
,ut she loved the handsome Q
oung Pole, and while the for
mos of others were melting bel i