The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-02

honor of the frontier corps, to see their
! late comrade through the coming trou-
! BILE.
Before the wine filled the glasses.
Adolf was already deep in the story Of
| Unziar's shooting match with Aben-
feldt.
ALLOW me the honor of drinking with
you. monsieur said Colendorp to
Hollywood. 1T was in truth a notable
performance; we have never had even
| in the guard a Surer shot than Unfair,
he added, abiding to the anecdote.
Hollywood had just time to make up
his mind and determine upon his course
of action.
The glasses clinked together and
then clashed upon the floor, when the
men set their heels upon them. Then
Hollywood turned to Unfair:
81 compliment you, Lieutenant I'm
ziar," he said. Il already knew that
you were a swordsman not easily to be
matched, since, in fact, the little affair
at Alfau, when L had the pleasure of
acting as your second. But the pistol
| is, venture to say, another matter.
| Unfair set his shoulders back with
an understandable suggestion of scornful
defiance.
May 1 ask you to state precisely
what you mean, MONSIEUR" he an
swered.
Il mean that although a man may
shoot any number of swallows of
| morning before breakfast, it does not
follow that he can hit a man at, say,
twenty PAGES" Hollywood spoke de-
| liberatelv.
The whole group of men listened in
silence. Then Unfair leant toward
Rallywcod with a smile
1--WE can but try, Captain Rally
wood" he said, gently.
Although everyone in their immediate
neighborhood was listening, from the
other side of the hall they looked, no
/ doubt like a group of tall men en-
gagged in the ordinary conversation and
common amenities of society, the only
noticeable difference being that Unfair
was little more deprecating and low
voiced than usual. Elmur, standing
near by, filled his glass and drank,
with a silent nod at Unfair.
Il shall be delighted to assist you in
settling the question: returned Rally
wood: then. consulting his card, he
added: Il find that 1 have an engage
ment for the last dance, some twenty
minutes hence May I recommend the
interval to your consideration"
The two frontier men stepped for
ward simultaneously to offer their ser
vices to Hollywood. He thanked them
and was about to accept, when Captain
Adiron interposed.
IF either of these gentlemen will re-
sign in my favor 1 shall feel it an obli-
| CATION as / can then offer myself to
Captain Hollywood as one of his sec
onds.''
Courtesy demanded that Rallywood
and his friends should fall in with this
proposal and Hollywood, replying to
Adiron, added:
You have heard exactly what passed
between Lieutenant Unfair and myself,
and l am sure l cannot do better than
leave the matter in your hands, in con-
junction with my friend, Colonel Je-
nard."
Colendorp and Adolf, as representing
Unfair, accompanied Rallywood's sec
onds to make the necessary arrange
ments. Meanwhile Hollywood strolled
back to the gallery above the ball room
and looked down at the dancers. He
could not see Valerie, but he remem-
bered Selpdorf and his injunctions to
avoid a quarrel, and smiled as he
thought over the words, since the cham
cellor must have been perfectly aware
that he had pushed an unwelcome
foreigner into a position that could only
be held by force of arms, even In the
case of a Maasaun candidate OF noble
blood. At that moment he saw his own
position clearly. He knew himself to
be an unconsidered unit in the big
game of diplomacy that was being
PLAYED over his head, and he remem-
bered that the day of human sacrifices
is not yet. as many suppose, quite
thing of the past. The gods are changed
or called by other names, ana the nigh
priest no longer dips his hands in the
actual blood of the victim, but the
whole deadly drama goes on repeating
itself as it always must while the gen.
erations of men have their being under
various notifications of the primeval