New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-09-06
TIE Q|J.yIlE & AIN.


When was quite a yonng fellow and
hadn't long Joined the army \ used to.
belong to q fashionable club il London,
the members OF which were just the sort
Of men you read about IN Levers novels
as wild as wild could be, always IN some
scrape OF other, and pending their whole,
time in riding, ooting, gambling or
fighting all except one.
That one was small quiet, pale
faced, gray haired mar, with Q very sad,
weary look, as # he had once been;
crushed BY some great sorrow and had
never been able to shake it Off He hard
" ever spoke to any one, and when he
did it was in a voice as meek as mis- face.
So Of course we made great fun Of him:
among ourselves, finding these quiet.
ways Of his q very queer contrast to our
own rackety harum scnum style, and.
we nicknamed him the st(luietest Man
In the Club, !" though indeed, we might
just as well have called him the only
quiet man in it. s. s.&
3 Well, one evening when the room was
pretty full, and our friend the quiet
man was sitting as usual in the far cor
ner away from everybody else, we be-
gan totalk about.d ueling, q subject with
which we were all tolerably familiar, for.
there was hardl a man among Us who
hadn't been ..outt'' once. M 55
4 =
times = said Lord q. who was killed
afterward in action. 8. II GU remember
how those six ,chums of Henry III Of
France fought three to three till there
was only one left alive out Of the six. = u N
That was pretty fair certainly 2 cried
Charlie Thornton Of the Guards, shut
after all it doesn't beat the great duel 80
years ago between Sir Harry Martingale
and Colonel Fortescue.''
He had hardly spoken when up jumped
the quiet man aszif somebody had stuck
a pin into him.
# what on earth's the matter with
him?" whispered Thornton: 81 never
saw him like that before. \. .l.s
But what was the story, then, Char
LIEF" asked another man. 1--WE heard OF
Fortescue, of course, for he was the
most famous duelst Of his time III all
England, and I've heard Of his fight
with Martingale, too, butt don't think
I've ever had any particulars, or at
least none worth speaking Of"
Is can give them to you, then, ? an
swered Thornton; ''for my uncle was
1o-c cncnr3 -T,1,ri =.
tell the story many a time, and he al
ways said that although he had been in
plenty of dnels he had never seen one
like that and never wanted to see it
again. What they quarreled about Il
don't know, and dare say they didn't
know themselves, but my uncle used to
say he knew by the look in their ewes
when they took their places to fire that
it could not end without blood, and it
didn't.
.'They fred twice, and every shot told,
and then their seconds, seeing that both
men were hard hit and bleeding fast.
wanted to put an end to it. But Fort
escue-wh was one of those grim fell
lows who are always most dangerous to-
ward the end of the fight insisted upon
third shot. The third time, by some
accident, Martingale fired a moment too
soon and gave a him bad wound in. the
side, but Fortescue pressed his hand to the
wound to stop the bleeding, and then,
almost bent double with pain though he
was, he fired and brought down his man. =
KILLED him?'' 3A
Rather. Shot him slap through the
heart. But it was his last duel, for from
that day he was never heard Of again,
and people said he had either committed
suicide or died of broken heart. 2
AZ Well, I don't see why he need have
done that, for, after all, It was 4 fair
fight . struck in Lord H., who had been.
looking over the newspapers on the ta-
BILE. But, if you talk of dueling, what
do you say to this? .5.=ss
: Another duelling tragedy in Paris.
The notorious Partisan bully and duel
list, Armand de Villeneuve, has lust
added another wreath to his blood stained
lanrels, the new victim being the Chey-I
alier Henri de Polignac, a fine young
fellow of %, the only son of widowed
mother. Some strong expressions Of dis
gust used by the chevaier with refer
ence 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 a meeting
inevitable. tS aj3.
''Ihe chevalier having fred first and
missed, De Villeneuve called out to him. hin
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