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“Sword fights?”

“It’s very strange He killed Wish and another man hat appears to be soet the drop on a un? You can’t hide a sword”

“What about a sword cane? Plenty of men in San Francisco carry sword canes for protection”

“But just unsheathing it, drawing the blade out of the cane, would give a un all the time he needed to shoot first”

“Well, if he comes after you with a sword, he’ll be sorry You fenced for Yale”

Bell shook his head with a s difference between sport and co that the fencing mask hides your opponent’s eyes As he put it, the first tiaze of a man who intends to kill you”

“Were you?”

“Was I what?”

“Shocked” She sht a duel”

Bell sht of spurting red blood soon convinced us that we didn’t really want to kill each other In fact, we’re still friends”

“If you’re looking for a duelist, there can’t be too e”

“Likely, a European,” mused Bell “Italian or French”

“Or Ger scars on his cheek Didn’t Mark Trite that they pulled the surgeon’s stitches apart and poured wine in their wounds to lier?”

“Probably not a Ger blow The thrust that killed Wish and the other felloas more in the style of an Italian or a Frenchman”

“Or the student of?” Marion suggested “An American ent to school in Europe There are plenty of anarchists in F