A Duel Between Two Brothers

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 7, 17 January 1884, Page 3

A Duel Between Two Brothers

Two brothers, sons of a promineat Russian family, were students at the best college in St. Petersburg, and on graduation became officers in the same crack regiment. The young men differed greatly in their mode of life from their comrades, and only seldom joined in che customary ' revelries of the jeunesse doree. Three jean after leaving the regiment the '"•elder brother married a young and ! "4»eautir\il girl of excellent family. Grad- ■■> JttsJly, iMwerer, the newely • wedded pair ;, ;• became estranged m affection, so much «o that after three years of married life „ they occupied separate rooms. In the. '"■ meantime the youngest brother fell in : tare with his sister-in-law. At first, the young wife surrounded by* a host of ■ admirers;- was -not aware of the passion ' «hehad kindled in her brotherin-law's heart, but soon she, ia turn, experienced toward her adorer a love so passionate that she was unable to struggle against it. : The young husband's jealousy was rightfully aroused." Terrible scenes 'ensued, followed .by mutual recrimination, a challenge, and finally a duel between the brothers. The elder— the outraged hus- . band— was wounded j.n the side; the . w , younger, who had wronged his brother, " remain«d«ntouchedby thelattei's bullet. The last act of this life's drama, begun iso tragically; was :that of a farce. After the duel, the wounded man was brought - • info the city and than taken abroad, where the combined care of his wife and „ brother snatched' him from the j aws of ' death. Out of gratitude for this he „ allowed his wife to secure a divorce from ' him, taking all the blame on his shoulders; This she did, and than; married her lover. —London Echo. . .