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Mr Chester was on his knees before the oblong box, and I saw the

glint of the pistols as he handed them up The distance had

already been paced and round--Sir Jasper, still in his greatcoat, his hat over his

eyes, his neckerchief loose and dangling, one hand in his pocket,

the other grasping his weapon; his antagonist, on the contrary,

jaunty and debonnair, a dandy fro boots

Their arlanced

from one to the other, a handkerchief fluttered, fell, and in

that instant came the report of a pistol I saw Sir Jasper reel

backward, steady himself, and fire in return; then, while the blue

sered blindly, and fell

Mr Chester, and two or three more, ran forward and knelt beside

hi off

his hat, pointed out the bullet hole to his white-faced second

And in a little while they lifted Sir Jasper in their ar, a sudden sickness ca back never up at the blue heaven with

the same fixed intensity as they had done at the inn

Then I, too, looked up at the cloudless sky, and round upon the

fair earth; and, in that o And, indeed, the day was glorious