| Show fHOOLBOYS LOVE IS CAUSE OF DUEL 17 YEARS OLD FIGHT WITH 03 lI ISTOLS FOR SMILES OF PRETTY TEACHER TER ARRANGES ARMISTICE Arrives at Scene of Contest Just Ler First Volley Is Fired and i Her Plea to Desist Is Successful i anvlllo N YSuch valorous r I as Inspired tho knights of old tot to-t to the death for my ladys handled hand-led John Henry Wlllard and Hd i Daley as armed with pistols goiight a secluded wood on tho Skirts of tho village ch Is If and each attends theo the-o classes at high school where Flora G Carson 19 years of ago charming has taught for the past She smiled np Willard for sov months and he was mildly In love was therefore distracted when vII gossip reached his ears a few ago that Daley was boasting of i success attending his courtship of pretty school maam Wlllard went light to Daley with a demand to draw his suit Daley demurred t Bliatlcally transpired that tho lovelorn hs met nt tho fair charmers le whither they had gone to pay r respects Fast on tho heels of fry words came a challenge to fight pistols Plans for the duel were ussed In the hearing of Miss Car t and the gallants departed Impetu jy Miss Carson was determined y vert a fatality but her suitors wero er of foot than silo In reaching a built clearing in tho woods at the gc boundary She was still a hun I yards from the clearing when twos two-s rang out She pressed forward lush the woods with desperate en s screaming as she ran to distract I attention of the duellists Their I first shots had gone wide and as sho came Into tho open their pistols were poised She begged for opportunity to bo heard before they persisted In the fight The eloquence of her pleas Is best attested by the fact that tho pistols wero put by With an tinned gallant on each side Miss Carson led tho way hack to the village She wheedled them Into taking cozy chairs In hot t t s t 4 a r J All for the Love of a Schoolmaam parlor and with tact and vivacity which charmed away their rancor she soon had them passing occasional words Before they said their adieus sho had exacted a promise that there would ho no more murderous pistol work Granvllle Is In the dark concerning the terms of the armistice and signs which will betoken the accepted suitor are awaited with interest |
