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"For my own sense of honor, suh!" "But he never got the challenge." "That makes no diffence, suh. I wrote it." And the colonel threw his head up, and looked Major Yancey straight in the eye. "But, Colonel, we've got the letter. Klutchem don't know a word about it." "But I do, Major Yancey; and so do you and Fitz, and the jedge and the major here. We all know it.
Indeed, before he had turned down the side street leading to the temporary hospital of the suffering man, he had arranged in his mind just where the ceremony would take place, and just how he would frame his opening sentence. He was glad, too, that Klutchem had been discovered so soon while Yancey and Kerfoot were still in town.
"I am positive that old Klutchem has either left town or is at this moment at police headquarters. If so, the dear old fellow will be locked up before sundown. Klutchem got that letter last night."
"I am aware, Fitz, that some secrecy must be preserved in an affair of this kind Nawth quite diffe'ent from our own county, and" "Secrecy! Secrecy! With that bellowing Klutchem? Don't you know that that idiot will have it all over the Street by nine o'clock to-morrow, unless he is ass enough to get scared, get out a warrant, and clap you into the Tombs before breakfast? O Colonel!
The colonel coincided, and said in justice to his antagonist that he would have to acquit him of this charge. He did not now believe that Mr. Klutchem had run away. Fitz, who up to this time had enjoyed every turn in the discussion, and who had listened to Yancey with a face like a stone god, his knees shaking with laughter, now threw another bombshell almost as disastrous as the first.
"If yo' enemy falls," he would say, "it is mo' co'teous to say nothin' but good of the dead; and when you cannot say that, better keep still. If he is alive let him do the talkin' he will soon kill himself." Fitz kept still because he felt sure if he could get hold of Klutchem the whole affair either outcome powder or law could be prevented.
You are young and impetuous, but I know my learned friend, Judge Kerfoot, will agree with me" here Yancey patted his toy balloon complacently, and the judge leaned forward with rapt attention "when I say that if any apologies are in order they should not come from Mr. Klutchem." It was delicious to note how easily Fitz fell into the oratorical method of his hearers.
Klutchem, certainly does not relieve that gemman from the responsibility of answerin' Colonel Caarter." The colonel said the point was well taken, and the judge sustained him. Yancey looked around with the air of a country lawyer who had tripped up a witness, decorated a corner of the carpet, and continued:
The morning of the second day the situation remained still unchanged; Fitz had been unable to find Klutchem either at his office or at his lodgings, the colonel was still without any reply from his antagonist, and no young man answering to my fears had put in any appearance whatever.
Klutchem, I cannot permit you, suh, to use such language in my presence unrebuked; you" "Now, see here, old Garden Spot, you know" The familiarity angered the colonel even more than the outburst. "Caarter, suh, George Fairfax Caarter," said the colonel with dignity. "Well, Caarter, then," mimicking him, perhaps unconsciously. "You know" The intonation was the last straw.
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