Show COLONEL BEGGED FOR MERCY Jacque Had His I Revenge as He HH Threatened Jacquo was tho baber of tho reel ment and a valiant man with the blade Jacquo was an excellent raieur but ho was also of vindictive dtanol Ion and revengeful When ho hall 1 been punMcl by his colonel ho vow cd that ho would be rovonBol by slay lug his commander Thero were those In the regiment who bellcvvl the bar ber lInt the colonel Wns not among thorn Summoning Jncquo before him ho confronted him fiercely ISo I-So ho thundered at hltn so you havo sworn to kill I me have you Uoll you are a coward nnd daro not I sworo to bo revenged sir heclc cd yacque trembling Dont speak to your commanding officer roared the colonel Oet out your Implements nnd shavo mo Wo shall see what we shall sec Tho colonel threw htmse back In his chair and Jacque having obeyed orders approached him with cup and blade Ho lathered the colonels face and began lie shaved and shaved Ho scraped nnd scraped Utit he did not let tho heavy blade pierce the colonels neck Ho continued shaving shav-ing and scraping The colonel writhed writh-ed and squirmed and twisted and groaned but Jacquo shaved on For heavens sak ° at last shouted the colonel kill me and put me out of this misery Jacque looking the otner way smiled and shaved onNew York Herald |