Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-01-04

a Dette1Tpart than a squire with an
old house. or poet with a new book
-eh, Bisset ?"
You are Waveney," said Bisset
sadly; you have am echo of his voice
ii you've lost his face and walk"
Richard Waveney reused himself
from his own thoughts to grid at him
again. There seems to be a parlia.
mentary election going on in Eng.
land" he said. 81 suppose you would
have stood for the county, like your
father before you? BY this time the
Blues would have been cheering for
you in Asgarby market-place. and she
would be dressed in your colors. TO
sit beside you while they dragged
your carriage up to the hall;- unless
one of your sons"
Waveney paused; he had spoken
slowly and deliberately, and seemed
to lick his lips as he spoke.
The other man turned upon hi.
companion with the scream of an an.
cry child.
"You-you beast!" he cried: ute
all gone. I've lost it all, life, and hap.
plness, and-it's all gone!" And he
rushed at the professor of English
as at one who had suddenly robbed
him.
Waveney tottered behind his table
and pushed it forward, the tea-cur
rolling off to smash itself ON thu
hearthstone. Keep off, you old foolr
said he. II tell you, keep off"
I'D like to have your life," painted
I'D like to bite your throat" said
Waveney, from the shelter of the
table-and he said it convincinplv.
Keep your blood warm till to-mor.
row morning, if you can"
The very early morning was com.
ing in over a sad, slate-colored sea.
A trim little gendarme pacing under
the trees beyond the quay heard from
lar away over the sands the twice.
repeated bang of a pistol. With a
sigh for his lacquered shoes, he pat
tered down over the pebbles and ran
seurrying over the wet beach. still
ruled in wavy lines by the retrea ting
sea. No one was in sight, but he
made for the black ribs of the Eng.
Ilsh bark grinning out of the sand to
the westward. Another bang sound.
ed as he ran-the suicide was decid-
edly bad marksman. AS he skirted
the wreck he came upon a scene.
which panied and astonished him-am
Old man, who groaned feebly in the
puddle of salt water which had col
lected under him as he was living
wrrthing in his agony. Five PAGES
away another man, old, too. lookin O
strangely out of place in his rusty
Diack coat, was crawling on his knees
toward the PROSTATE man. A duel.
without seconds, without medical as
slstance, without journalists? A
duel? Say rather barbarous con.
hict, a breach of the peace!
A step nearer, and the gendarme
could see the kneeling mans white.
drawn face, and the red trail where
he had crawled. Revolver in hand
the professor had struggled up to his
enemy, nerved by his purpose, when
Blsset ceased to groan and his limbs
to tremble. Seeing this, the profess
sor let fall the pistol from his bony
fingers, and as he laid himself quietly
down great govt of blood spurted
from his breast
ut would appear, nv dear''-said
Sir Edmund Frockmorton, returning
to his wife, who was sitting in the
sum on the pebble slope, impatiently
sfapping her little brown boots with
the handle of her parasol-"it would
, appear that two poor unfortunate
creatures, at some unear thly hour
this morning, while we were all safe
in bed and asleep, actually went and
shot each other behind the wreck out
there"
You don't mean to say that they've
left the bodies there?" said the lady
| nervously.
Eyes"
DO they know who the poor Great.
ures were? questioned the lady, pity.
ingly.
"One of them had cards on his per.
son, and would seem to have been "a
er-commercial traveller of some de-
scription.''
81 didn't know that persons of that
class fought duels," said Lady Frock.
morton; but l dare say it was some
gambling quarrel. 1 ann more than
ever glad, Edmund, that l forbade
your playing at that sinful chemin de
fer betting game in the Casino YES
terday. l hope you see now what
comes Of it. The wind is blowing out
to sea now, so if you want to smoke
cigars you must move your camp.
stool on to the sands"
The white whiskered old gentleman
moved dutifufly away. Lady Frock.
morton watched the neat little figure
until it was out of sight. and then
fastened TO the scene of the duel.
There before her lay the bodies Of
the two old member lovers CT TWEEN.
ty years ago.-The Argonaut.
To Annul q Charter.
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