Show BOTH DODGED A Duel In the Dark Which Proved the Truth of the Old Adage uIt has been said that all men are cowards in the dark n remarked Peyton Truitt when called upon by the StoryTellers Story-Tellers club of the Laclede to lldo his turn I am half inclined to believe the saying true I was in the British army when a young man and was stationed for some time in India Our colonel an old campaigner who had won his spurs in the Crimea became be-came Involved in a difficulty with a fellow officer who was well nigh damned in a fair wife and a duel was the result The colonel being the challenged party selected pistols as the weapons and elected that the affair should occur in a dark room We secured a room twenty feet square closed every crevice that would admit light placed our men in corners diagonally opposite and withdrew Each man was provided with three charges and when these were exhausted we rushed in to gather up the mutilated remains Each man stood erect and soldier like in his corner untouched but directly behind the head of the aggrieved husband wore the three bulletholes made by the colonels pistol 1 How is this said a grizzled old Major Had you been standing here when those shots were fired you would have been killed The culprit was compelled to admit that ho had dropped to one knee 4 You are a coward sir and unfit for the company of soldiers and gentlemen snorted the Major Hold on Major said tho Colodel It is a stand off While he was one his knees in one corner I was on my stomach in tho otherSt Louis Globe Democtat |