The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1883-11-22

nave cndu2eQ my NINA. ne SAD.
q accept your challenge. My friend,
George Griffith, here, viii act as my
second.
The Captain and 1 stepped aside, and
after a few moments private conversa-
ton, in which a meeting with pistols
was arranged for an hour later at
designated place, the visitors took their
leave
Reginald wrote two letters, one to his
widowed mother, and another to Lois
Goodwin, to whom he was to be married
in six months. These he committed in
my care, to be posted in case the worst
should happen.
We had barely time left to keep our
appointment. Colonel D'Epee and the
Captain, with a surgeon they had
brought, were ahead of us-the former.
watch in hand, counting the minutes
with manifest Impotence.
The Captain produced a case of pis-
tolls, which he loaded in my presence,
and then babe me choose one. The
ground was measured, and the COM
batants placed, and each given his
weapon. The Captain gave the word,
and both fired. Reginald stood un-
harmed, while the other reeled, pressed
his hand to his breast and fell back
ward on the ground. The COloneps
second and the surgeon bent over the
wounded man, but had scarcely begun
their examination when n loud, heart
rending shrek broke the stiffness, and
a woman ran forward and threw her
self upon the PROSTATE form.
my husband! my husband!'' she
walled, piteously; then raising herself
on her knees, and turning her face, its
features now set and rigid, toward
Reginald, where hestood translixed, she
exclaimed, in tones that seemed to thrill
every fiber of his being;
Murderer! you have slain my hus-
band! May Heavens weightiest VEN
geance fall upon your guilty head!''
Reginald clasped his hands over his
eyes, as if to shut out the horror of the
scene. Captain Bowigg approached,
and whispered in my ear:
1.-The Colonel's wound is fatal-nOt q
| spark of hope, the surgeon says. For
| Gods sake, get your friend away The
affair must be hushed up or it will ruin
us all. / shall see you tonight at your
lodgings; there will be no danger till
/ them
1 led Reginald from the spot, and got
him To his room, where Iremained with
him till it was time to keep my appoint
ment with the Captain.
I ~ AftbtGA Lll6 AdbbtL oesAtt1 IL -
| all over with my poor friend. He died
where he fell Luckily, nobody but
/ ourselves, the surgeon, and the sorrow
stricken wife knows the truth; and the
surgeon, partly for a consideration and
| partly to screen himself, has agreed to
report the death as the result of an APP
/ poplectic stroke; so there will be no in
/ quest, and the burial can take place
/ without exposure. The sOrrow-stri cken
wife remains in an unconscious state,
and can reveal nothing at present, By
the time she RECEIVERS steps may be TAX
en- to secure her silence.
Mr.. Forsyth" he added, as if cas-
uallv, Il believe is a wealthy man.
l did not deny it.
1.-The Colonel" he continued, 'Ieaves
his wife destitute OF course, it is not
my place to advise, but l venture the
suggestion that your friend might find
some alienation of the remOrse he must
naturally feel, under the circumstances,
in doing something to mitigate tho des-
titution to which his act has reduced an
estimable lady"
| could not but assent to the justice
of this, and requesting the Captain to
wait l fastened to Beginald's room
and laid the case before him.
81 have but moderate sum with
me-" he answered. But going to his
trunk, he took out his portfolio and
filled up a check on his Paris banker fol-
an amount which astonished me, gen
erous rs l knew him to be.
''Send her that he said, ''and when
she needs more it shall be forthcom-
ing"
The Captain opened his eyes at the
sight of the check, and 1 hoped il
might prove as consoling to the be
reaved lady as it evidently was to him
/ felt that every moment we remained
was fraught with danger. Reginald
too absorbed in his own gloomy
l thoughts to be otherwise than passive
yielded everything to me. 1 packed VI
for both, settled our bill, and, will
Reginald in company, took the mid
night train for Paris Reginald spok,
but once during the journey.
That woman cry" he exclaimed
"will it never stop ringing in m,
ears2
1t was noon the next day when tn
; train arrived at Paris.
As we stepped upon the platform
noticed two men before us, at the sigh
4 of whom 1 started. They walked int
n restaurant.
l called a carriage and hurried Reg
inald in.
"I'll meet you at the Hotel -,
said, whittier L directed the driver t
, proceed.
n Hmrying into the restaurant 1 en-
. tered a stall next to one in which
heard voices I had no difficulty in recog
r nizing.
I'VE must lose no time in preSentin
r the check remarked Colonel D'EpeC
g in n voice wonderfully clear and stron
2 for Il man who had just received bu
= let in his thoraX.
= ''Ha, ha! haH' laughed the Captain
u what quiet conscience the poor dup
: might have had if he had only know
:, it was a target of chain armor he We
firing at!'
He might have hit me in the heaC
y though, -" suggested the Captain, prof.
l. ably with a view to claiming an il
creased share of the spoiis.
- Not one chance in q million,
/ secuted the other; "but come along!
1 followed them out, and calling
{ cab, told the driver to keep close in tt
u rear of that taken by the two friend
= and stop when they did.
y When the halt came I looked OF
! cautiously, and saw the Colonel an
# the Captain mounting the steps of tt
i - Bank. 1 followed quietly and el
- tered almost with them.
'sStopr l shouted to the teller,