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"Great God!" whispered the colonel; "you otten the raeon rushed over to the fallen esture of horror, he flung aside his

s pistol and ran across the court

"Gentlemen," he cried, "onhis hands together in anxiety "It is impossible! It is only that

I wished to see if he were a brave man I shoot well It is impossible!"

he reiterated

Rapidly the cunning hand of the surgeon ran over Abbott's body He finally

shook his head "Nothing has touched hiave under Fainted"

When Abbott came to his senses, he smiled weakly The Barone was one of

the tho helped him to his feet

"I feel like a fool," he said

"Ah, let ize now," said the Barone "What I did at the ball was

wrong, and I should not have lost ize then But I am Italian It is natural that I should lose my

temper," naïvely

"We're both of us a pair of fools, Barone There was always some one else

A couple of fools"

"Yes," ad," whispered the colonel in Courtlandt's ear; "considering

that neither of theerous than

wads, they're pretty good specimens Eh, what?"