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Show AN EVEN .THING. .-.. A Unci In a Dark Itoom' lloth Men Proved CownrilH., lb has been said that all men are cownrdH in the dark, nnd thre in doubtless some truth in tho statement. A correspondent of the St. Louis Globc-Deinocrat Globc-Deinocrat cites nn Instance in illustration. illustra-tion. Two officers of the British army in India had a difficulty whicli resulted in a duel. The colonel, the challenged party, was an old campaigner who hail won his laurels in the Crimen and was a most gallant soldier. The choice of weapons being' his, he named pistols, arid elected that the affair should occur in a dark room. Wc secured a room 20 feet square, says the narrator of the incident, closed every crevice that would admit light, placed our men in corners diagonally di-agonally opposite, and withdrew. Each man was provided with threo charges, and when these were cxhaiist-pd cxhaiist-pd wc rushed in to gather up the mutilated muti-lated remains. Each mun Btood erect and soldierlike in hiB corner, untouched; but directly behind tho officer who had given the challenge were three bullet holes made by the colonel's pistol. "How is this?" said a grizzled major, "llnd you been standing here when those shots were fired, you would have The culprit was forced to admit that he had dropped to one knee. "Von arc a coward, sir, nnd unfit for the company of soldiers apd gentlemen!" gentle-men!" cried the major. "Hold on, major!" said the colonel. "It is a stand-off. While he was on his knees in one corner, I was on m,v stomach in the other." |