ble, he left us; however I saw him no more. The hour fixed for the fight drew nearer and nearer. We now took an hasty breakfast and went to the appointed place where we found the Baron awaiting our arrival in company with a foreign officer his second. He was impatient to begin the combat directly, but I begged him to have patience, and to remove a little farther from the town, into the field, left the report of their pistols might be heard by the centinels on the ramparts. Though the young spark thought it needless to be over cautious, as he scornfully called it, he consented at last to my proposal, riding a good distance farther. We thanked him for his readiness to oblige us, and alighted.
The combatants were placed opposite each other, within the short distance of four paces. My friend fired first, but missed his antagonist; the Baron doing the same was not more successful; my friend fired a second time, but he missed his aim once more; Baron T———'ssecond
