The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-07

know. He has fought one other dtel on
my account. l don't know just how it came
about, or Just what the circumstances were,
but l know he bested his opponent. His
opponent, / think, was German count.
The duel was fought near Brussels and the
count was wounded. Swords were used on
that occasion. The marquis is a great
swordsman, as we'll as a wonderful pistol
shot. / don't know all about his other duels,
but know he fought his first when he was
very young. 1t was on account of the Queen
of Naples, too. The queen was In love with
him for a long time, two or three years,
| think. I know the marquis was not
worsted in the fight. He is man extremely
reckless of his life. He is a man of her
culean strength. He is not healthy man
by any means, but he has giants strength
and very violent temper. When he was
in America some of the papers made fun or
him on account of his mincing walk They
said he wore tight shoes, and that he had
ladies' heels on his shoes. 1t is not generally
known, but his peculiar walk is the result
OF wound received in q duel. He was
sashed on the thigh with sabre, and the
operation that was performed made one OF
his legs shorter than the other. He wears
high heel on one shoe TO hide as much as
possible of the deformity The duel that
he received that wound in was over
woman he didn't care much about, he has
told me. lie knew her; that was all. he
took offense at something that was said and
fought for her.
Mrs. Leslie talked at some length and
very entertainingly on some of the per
sonal peculiarities of the marquis. He Is
very eccentric man, she said. She was sur
prtsed that the reporter with whom he is
billed to fight the duel was representative
of Gil Bias -,
"Why, that paper five or six years ago" y
she said, ''was most lavish in its praise OF
him. She hunted through the drawers III
her desk and brought out a little book full
of clippings from newspapers, all OF them
referring to the marquis, and all of COM
plimentary nature.
LISTEN she said, and she read an extract
from Gil Bias of April. IA, 1888, as follows:
"He has attained too high celebrity In
England, as well as in France. for us to
dilate upon it. He is the real chief OF the
aesthetics, and possesses one of the most re-
markable and striking types of face and
expression in existence. He revlves IN our
time the grand simplicity of the middle
ages. Chivalrous, his dream is world OF
chivalrous men, superbly. grandly and
magnificently using the old short SWORD:
and ever ready to die for their lady loves y
Mrs. Leslie read other extracts from on
Bias, all of them of similar nature.
"You see." she said, why am surprised
that the paper is now attacking him. The
last 1 heard from the marquis personally,
was the cablegram that created so much
talk some time ago. You must remember
it? l answered that. l presume he will
think strange that l haven't cabled him
about this affair" While Mrs. Leslie was
talking boy came in with letter. She
took it and opened in quickly. "This may
be news" she said, with just shade OF
| anxiety in her voice and manner, both OF
which changed a moment afterward, when
she said: mo, it is not" Naturally she
was anxious 10 hear the news from the
dueling ground, but said she did not expect
| to hear anything before morning, when she
would read it in the papers.