Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1904-09-17

strip OF paper W ieAoi barrel of
-four or some other household neces.
sity.
Its actual message was so unusual
and unlocked for, that Il took him n
moment or two to realize the words
then he answered the summons for
his father promptly. Miriam proceed.
ed Mt once to give him such informa.
ton as she possessed. Bran stood
gazing at the beautiful, earnest girl
and felt all the fear and force of her
words: but for some moments he
could not speak, nor decide on his first
step.
"Why do you waltz" pleaded Miriam.
AT sunset. tell you 1t is now near
It. Oh. no thanks! do not stop for
them, but hasten away at once"
He obeyed like one in a dream.
Semple was Just leaving business. He
put his hand on him, and said, Elder.
no time have you to lose. At sunset.
Neil and that d. English soldier a
duel are to fight"
"Eh? Where? Who told your"
con the K&lchhook Hill Stay not
for talk"
Run for your father, Bran. Run.
my lad. God help me! God spare the
lad"
At that moment Neil and Hyde we're
on the fatal spot.
Neil flung off his coat and waistcoat
and stood with barred breast on the
spot his second indicated Hyde re-
moved his fine scarlet coat and hand
ed It to Capt. Earle, and would then
have taken his sword; but Beekman
advanced to remove also his waist
coat The suspicion implied by this
act reused the soldiers Indignation.
and with his own hands he tore off
the richly embroidered satin garment.
and by so doing exposed what perhaps
some delicate feeling had made him
wish to conceal-a bow of orange rib
bon which he wore above his heart.
The sight of it to Neil was like oil
flung upon flame. He could scarcely
restrain himself until the word go
gave him license to charge Hyde.
Hyde was an excellent swordsman
and had fought several duels; but he
was quite disconnected by the deadly
reality of Neirs attack In the sec
ond thrust his foot got entangled in
tuft of grass, and, In evading a
lunge aimed at his heart, he fell on
his right side. Supporting himself,
however, on his sword hand. he
sprang backwards with great dexter.
ity, and thus escaped the probable
death-blow. But, as he was bleeding
from a wound in the throat, his sec.
ond interfered and proposed recon,
citation. Neil angrily refused to lis
ten. He declared "he had not come
to enact a farce" and then, happen
ing to glance at the ribbon on Hyde's
breast, he swore furiously He woult
make his way through the body o
any man who stodr ustwver him ant
his just anger"
Up to this point there had been il
Hyde's mind latent disinclination t,
Stay Neil. After IT, he flung ava,
every kind of memory, and the figh
was renewed with an almost bruta
impetuosity, until there ensued one o
those close locks which II was evi
dent nothing but the key Of the bod,
could OPEN" In the frightful wrencl
which followed, the swords of bot
men sprang from their hands, flynn
some four or five yards upward will
the force. Both recovered their wear
ons at the same time, and both, bleed
ing and exhausted, would have agail
renewed the fight; but at that me
ment Van Heemskirk and Semple, witt
their attendants, reached the spot.
Without hesitation, they threy
themselves between the young mer
But there was no need for words. Nei
fell senseless upon his sword, maxim
In his fall last desperate effort t
reach the ribbon on Hydes breast; 70
Hyde had also dropped fainting to tn
ground, bleeding from at least half
dozen wounds. Then one of Semple'
young men, who had probably divine
the cause of quarrel, ald who felt
sympathy for his young master, mad
as If he would pick up the fatal bit G
orange satin, now dyed crimson 1
Hyde's blood.
But Joris pushed the rifling han
fiercely away ITO touch 1t would b
the vilest theft, he said. His ow
it is. With his life he has bought it.
CHAPTER VII.