The Richmond palladium. (Richmond, Ind.) 1906-1907, 1906-10-12

| meanor. lie hung Ine reIns te his man
as he spoke and ciambered- down from
the curricIe. Stafford had gone before
him to the gate and was now stamping
from one foot to another in exquisite
enjoyment of the situation.
.Ha. ha. ha, Hello. Morning. colo
nell Sorry to see you this way. Ha,
ha, Have you brought another bath
chair for our man? Oh, come, yes
'Twon't be fair il he do not sit in a
bath chair too. Say, FouIks, you wheel
one chair. I'll wheel the other, and we
will run them one at the other and let
them fire as soon as they please. Cad,
what q joke.
Colonel Viiliers turned upon his VIOLA
tile friend countenance the color of
which presented some resemblance TO
a well defined bruise on the third day
It was yellow ard green with pain
where it was not purple with fury.
Mr.. Stafford, s.r. these jokes, sir,
are vastly out of place. Curse this
80; --3---, .z-.- $500
to explain. Major Topham. explain
to these gentlemen that l have come
out to fight. sir, and that fight 1 will,
by the living jingo-'
He struck the arm of the chair in his
fury, gave his suffering foot a nasty
Jar and burst into a howl of rage and
agony.
soon fight an old bear, Whisper
FouIks, is he going to shoot in his
cage-beg pardon, | mean his chair:"
"Such is his Intention" said Mr..
Foulks; grinning nervously as he spoke
and showing the set of tine Bond street
ivory already referred to by Mr.. Stat
ford. But it strikes me it is some
what irregular"
Somewhat irregular?' calculated
Lord Markham. 1T is altogether ir-
regular. / decline to have anything to
say to it,"
Sir Jasper remained standing gloom
lily looking at the ground and driving
his gold headed malacca into the soft
mud as il all his attention were di-
rected to the making of a row of little
tunnels
what is the difficulty? What is the
difficulty" beloved Colonel Villiers.
"You wheel me into position and you
mark the PAGES, eight PAGES, Foulks.
not foot more, and you give me my
pistol What is the difficulty? Blast
me, Blast you all, 1 say! What is the
difficulty?'
''The combatants will not be equal"
suggested Major Topham. II told Vii
Tiers that I will gladly take his place."
mo, no, nov' screamed the old man,
turning round, and then, "Oh!' cried
he, and screwed up his face. And then
the govt had him with such fury that
he gripped the arms of his chair and
flung back his head, displaying a
CHASTITY countenance.
Il remember" champed old Foulks,
''the dear Duke of Darlington insisted
upon fighting Basil Verney chats Yer
ney's father, you know with his left
arm in splints, but as my Lord Marquis
of Cranbroke, his graces second, re-
marked to me at the time
"Oh, spare us the marquis" inter-
rupted Stafford brutally. Let US keep
to the business on hand, If you please.
The whole thing is absurd, monstrous!
Look here, Jasper look here, colonel,
you two cannot fight today. How
could you be equally matched even
ii we got another bath chair for Jas
per? We cannot give him the govt,
man, and 'twould be too dashed I'M
fair. Colonel, you would shoot too
we'll or too i'll; 'twon't do! Come, come.
gentlemen, let us make a good bust
ness out of a bad one. Why should
you fight at all? Here's Jasper will
ing to apologize. (Yes; you are, Jas
per. Hold your tongue and be sensible
for once. You pulled off his wig, you
know. 1t was not pretty behavior
not at all pretty.) But, then, colonel,
did not he think you had cut him out
with his wife, and was not that
compliment? The neatest compliment
you'll ever have this side the grave!
He was jealous Of you, colonel. Faith,
I don't know another man in Bath
that would do you so much honor
nowadays!'
"Oh. take me out of this. cried the
colonel suddenly giving way to the
physical anguish that he had been
struggling against SO valiantly.
POUNDS, will fight you all some day.
Take me out Of this. Where is that
birthstone idiot, my servant? Take me
out of this, you devils!
Between them they wheeled his
chair into the road, and his screams
and curses as he was lifted into the
coach were terrible to hear.
Lord, If he could but call out the
goutv' cried Stafford. well, Jasper,
what did l say? No duel today"
do not make so sure of that" said
Sir Jasper. He was moving toward
the curricle as he spoke and turned
sinister face over his shoulder to his
friend.
"Oh," cried the latter, and fell back
upon Markham, "the fellows look
would turn a churn full of cream.
No, 1 will not drive back with We.
thank We, Sir Jasper; 1 will walk" said
Stafford. Il don't mind a little jeal-
ousy in reason myself, and if hus-
band has been given pair Of horns
I don't see why he should not give
somebody a dig with them, but il 1
were to drive home in that company
I'd have no appetite for dinner. Come,
pppflomon. its lovely dav. lot rS