The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-05-08

l you will fight at twenty PAGES.
shall count three and when l drop m,
handkerchief you are both to fire."
Solomon turned to Jack and said
IF We fire quick mebbe ye'n take
the crook out o. his finger fore 1t has
time to pull"
The other party was coming. There
were six men in it. The general and
his son and n other were in military
dress. The general was chatting with
a friend. The pistols were loaded by
Solomon and General Clarke, while
each watched the other. The Lieu
tenants friends and seconds stood
close together laughing at some jest.
That's funny, I'll say, what
what!" said one of the gentlemen.
Jack turned to look at him, for
there had been a curious infection in
his what, what" He was a stout,
highly colored man with large, staring
gray eyes. The young American won
dered where he had seen him before.
Preston paced the ground and laid
down strips of white ribband marking
the distance which was to separate
the principals. He summoned the
young men and said: Gentlemen, is
there nc way in which your honor can
be satisfied without fghting?"
They shook their heads.
"Your stations have been chosen by
lot. Irons, yours is there. Take your
ground, gentlemen"
The young men walked to thsir
places and at this point the graphic
Major Solomon Binkus, whose keen
ayes observed every detail of the
scene, Is able to assume the position
of narrator, the words which follow
being from q letter he wrote to John
Irons of Albany.
sour young David stood MP thar as
straight an handsome as a young
spruce on a still day-not a culver In
airy twig. The Clarke boy wat a lsetie
pale an when he raised his pistol l
could see q twitch In his lips. He
looked kind @ stiff / see they was
one thing bout shootin' he hadn't
learnt. 1t don't do to deny it-'cause
q gun don't allus nave to be p1ntsd
careful to kill 9 man.
I'VE all stood watchin' every move.
1 could hear a bird sfngin' twenty rod
that still. Preston stood a
leetle out o. line bout halfway be-
twixt 'em. Up came his hand with the
handkerchief in it. Then Jack raised
pistol and took a peek down the
line ne wanted. The handkerchief was
in the air. Don't seem so it had
fell an inch when the pistols went
pop! pop! Jacks hollered fust.
Olarke's pistol fell. His arm dropped
an swung limp as a ropes end. His
hand turned red an blood began to
squirt above it. 1 see Jacks bullet
had jumped into his right wrist an
tore it wide open. The lieutenant
staggered, bleedin' like a stuck whale.
He'd "a gone to the ground, but his
grabbed him. I run to Jack.
"Be We hitT 1 says.
az think his bullet teched me a
little on the top o the left shoulder
he.
II see his coat were tore an we
ook 1t off an the jacket, an I ripped
he shirt some an see that the bullet
kind o. scuffed its foot on him
,oin' by, an left a track in the skin.
t didn't mount to nothin'. The Doc
or washed it off an put a plaster on. ,
"Looks as if he'd drawed a line on
heart an yer bullet had lifted his /.
s~o 7 enrrc w. chna+ o,,iaH TaoI~
n mebbe that's what saved We ;
ut looked kind O. neevarious like :
hat ere Englishman had intended !.
hey was goin' to be one Yankee less. :
ack put on his jacket an his coat an :
We stepped over to see how they :
7as gettin' erlong with the other :
The two doctors was tryin' fer :
. fix his arm and he was groanin' :
Jack leaned over and looked :
t him. n
Tim sorry he says. is there any :
hing I can dor :
"No, sir. You've done enuf,'
rowled the old general. .
One O. his party stepped up to ,
ack. He were dressed like a high-up =
in the army. They was a ?
lr'ous look in his eyes-kind O ?
,eered like. Seemed so I'd seen him u
fore somewheres. =
81 fancy ye're a good shot, sir-a .
BOD shot, sir-what-what?' he says
Jack, an the words come as fast ID
$ a birds twitter. ,
GIVE had a lot O. practice says u
If boy. a
"'Kin We kill that bird-what- y
hat?" says he, pintin' at a hawk =,
lat were a-cuttin' circles in the air. =
" If he comes clus' 'nough,' says a
ack. d.
Il passed him the loaded pistol. In .
out two seconds he lifted it and
ang she went, an down come the y
awk.
"Them fellers all looked at one ~
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