A Terrible Revenge

An Italian who liad a pair of showy black eyes and was excessively vain of them permitted himself in a peculiarly outrageous marnier to insult a defenseless Englishwoman who had reeently lost her husband. An American painter slapped his face and reeeived i his challeng-e. In the art of fence the American was a proficient, and, as swords were chosen, I asked .him, writes Henry Harland in the Idler, on the night before the meeting what he was going to do with the little beast. "Not kill him?" "Oh, no, I shan't kill him. I don't want to soil my hands with his dirty little life. I think Hl just put out one of his handsome black eyes." The next morning in a wood near Viroflay the men crossed their swords, made a few feints and passes, and then, before they had been at it a full half minute, he Italian gave a scream. Suie enough, the American had pinked h-m in the eye.