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"Did you doubt it?" said the young captain

"But if I rong"-"I watched you during the whole scene of that challenge yesterday; I have been thinking of your firht, and I said to myself that justice er to be relied on"

"But, Morrel, Albert is your friend?"

"Simply an acquaintance, sir"

"You met on the same day you first saw me?"

"Yes, that is true; but I should not have recollected it if you had not re the bell once, "Look" said he to Ali, who came immediately, "take that to my solicitor It is o and examine it"

"What?" said Morrel, "you dead?"

"Yes; , dear friend? But what did you do yesterday after you left me?"

"I went to Tortoni's, where, as I expected, I found Beaucha theed?"

"Listen, count; the affair is serious and unavoidable"

"Did you doubt it!"

"No; the offence was public, and every one is already talking of it"

"Well?"

"Well, I hoped to get an exchange of arms,--to substitute the sword for the pistol; the pistol is blind"