The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-10-09

snap they clashed. loud in the still
ness of the night-both men tried to
hit hard, they weren't fencing for
points. For a long time neither could
touch the other, for both, having been
man-o'- wars men, were experts at
broadsword practice. Evidently they
did not realize that swords were for
thrusting, for freely they chopped at
each other as though they were hand
ling eutlasses. Milano was quietly
chuckling with suppressed laughter,
and when 1 saw how things were
going the humor of it struck me too.
Stop" cried Milano suddenly,
'honor is satisfied"
mo. no." yelled the two combatants
together. 'blool! blood"
And they fell to with redoubled vigor.
'.All right, hack away" said Milano.
and aside to me. IF 1 had known they
wanted blood / would have brought
some bedding. Morning will come be-
fore blood"
Russo had lain down on some dried
seaweed and watched the entire affair
as though it were merely a cockfight.
Meanwhile the foils kept up continual
clashing and quick scraping, and the
two fighters darted nimbly around each
other and over the sands, occasionally
one dealing the other a good blow, but,
of course. drawing no blood
Suddenly Juan was thrown off his
guard, and down came ManuePS foil.
the point tearing across Juan's breast,
leaving a long red stripe. 1t was an
accidental blow.
Here Milano and / sprang in and
separated them, throwing up their
weapons with ours and thus disarming
them. Both were half dead from ex-
haustion, for they had been at it nearly
an hour. Juan's wound was only a
deep scratch, but covered his breast
with blood.
Honor is satisfied cried Milano;
Juan fought bfavely, like tiger, but
fate was with Manuel. Both of you
are brave men-clasp hands"
The two glared at each other mo-
ment, then their faces softened and
their hands met. Honor was satisfied.
With some fresh seaweed We
stanched the wound on Juan's breast,
and then he and Manuel replaced their
shirts and coats. Our next duty was
to seal the entire affair over a bottle
of wine, which we might do at small
inn half way up the road to the city.
So in that direction we five set out.
A fifteen minutes walk brought us
there First we hid our weapons in
clump of bushes outside, for While our
entrance into the wine room with naked
rapiers in our hands might have been
strikingly picturesque, it might also
have excited some undesirable COM
ment. even in that unconventional
country.
The bottle of vine was good and
soon disposed Of. 1t so happened that
we had money with US, so another bot
; tie. followed, with a third close after
BY this time we were all in jolly
mood, so jolly that we thought it would
. oe quite a joke to let the bos'n and cap
tain stand our anchor watch. Feeling
thus. we decided to go on to Trieste
and take in some of the sights.
Arm in arm, chained across the road,
we five made our way into the city,
sampling the various vintages Of the
wine gardens that we happened to pass.
AT one of these places we got separated
somehow, and Juan and l found our
selves alone. Finally we two brought
UP before a brilliantly Illuminated re-
sort in a small by street and, feeling
tired, we entered. The place was Il
large cafe. and numbers. of men were