Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-03-20
I committed suicide or died of broken

| committed suicide or died OF broken
heart.
"'Well, don't see. why he need have
done that, for, after all, it was fair
fight, struck in Lord H, who had
been looking over the newspapers on the
table; but If you talk of dueling, what
do you say to this2
" Another Dueling Tragedy in Paris.
The notorious Partisan bully and duel
list, Armand de Villeneuve, has Just added
another wreath to his bloodstained laurels,
the new victim being the Chevalier Henri
de Polignac, young fellow of twenty
three, the only son of widowed mother
Some strong expressions of disgust used
by the chevalier with reference to one of
De Villeneuve's former duels having
come to the latter's ears, he sought out
De Polignac and insulted him so grossly
as to render meeting inevitable. The
cheyalier having fired first and missed,
De Villeneuye called out to him, 4" Look
to the second button-hole of your coat p
and sent bullet through the spot indi-
Gated into the breast of his opponent,
who expired half an hour later ia great
agony His mother is said to be broken
hCtlibS AT HIS bCdlh. IlON
we wonder, will this savage be allowed
to offer these human sacrifices to his own
inordinate vanity 2
Just then happened to look up, and
saw the Quiet Man rise slowly from his
chair, with face so changed that it
startled me almost as much as if had
seen him disappear bodily and another
man rise up in his stead. | had once
seen an oil painting abroad, in which an
avenging angel was hurting lightnings
upon Sodom and Gomorrah; and that was
just how this man looked at that moment.
He glanced at his watch, and then came
across the room and went quickly out.
"The next night, and the next, and
the next after that, the Quiet Man didn't
appear at the club; and we all began to
wonder what could have become of him.
But when / came in ON the fourth even
ing, there he was, though he looked-as
it seemed to me-rather paler and feebler
than usual.
"' Here's news for you, Fred, called
out Charlie Thornton. That rascally
French duelist, De Villeneuye, has met
his match at last; and DR.. Lansett of
the -th Bengal Native Infantry, who saw
the whole affair, is just going to tell us
all about it,
- Well, this was how it happened,
began the doctor. In passing through
Paris, stopped to visit my old friend
Colonel de Malet, and he and were
strolling through the Tuileries Gardens,
when suddenly murmur ran through the
crowd, :" Here comes De Villeneuve.
Then the throng parted, and had just
had time to catch a glimpse of the bully's
tall figure and long black moustaehe,
when man stepped forth from the
crowd and said something to him and
then suddenly dealt him blow.
g Then there was a rush and clamor
of voices, and everybody came crowding
round so that couldn't see anything;
but presently De Malet came up to me
and said, +" Lansett, we shall want you in
this affair, although I'm afraid that you
won't have a chance of showing your
surgery, for De Villeneuve never wounds
without killing"
Just then the crowd opened, and l
saw, to my amazement, that this man
who had insulted and defed the most
terrible fighter in all France was slim
little fellow with pale, meager face.
-" As the challenged party, ! have
the choice of weapons, we heard him
say, quite coolly; land / choose
swords
''s " Are you madln cried De Malet,
Selling his arm; don't you know De
Villeneuve's the deadliest swordsman in
Europe9 Choose pistols give yourself
a chanceln