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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7835, 30 May 1905, Page 4

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this adventure to its conclusion, I had volunteered to be the red-fa«ed man's second. But it seemed now that on'-' or the other, or both, must be killed. - " Sir," said the man tvith the cigar, turning to me, I believ* Master Jactpies to be an honest man but though I cam vouch for his wine, 1 can't vouch /or his pistold. Before that gentleman and I make a target qf one.another, lie so good •is to throw that five franc piece into the air to see how my pisiol carries." 1 did as he desired, and tossed the money ab'ou.t seven yards high. . I h£ard tbc report of a pistol, and iiie piece of money fell indented. "Bet," said the man with th» moustaches, " that 1 pierce that leaf, vibrating at the extremity of yonder hough. Before the other could answer thi trigger was pulled, and the leal' was pierced, " Bet," continued the man, with the most ridiculous coolness, " that I- Shoot you clean through the pupil of the left *■ eye, and lay you dead, and that you miss me." The other was white as a ghost. : " I teKeve you," he said, trembling from head to foot. " I guess your motives, and admire your stratagem. and as I am not prepared to die, shall take the road back again to Marseilles." In fact, we saw him deposit himself in the imperial diligence. X turned to the lnoustachcd gear tlonian for an explanation, and with a great good htimour he proceeded to solve the enigma. He was a Mend of the young lieutenant's and famous as the most deadly shot in France. He had neceived a letter only the day before from his friend, him to come to 1' -t—, and help him to carry out a ruse which he trusted would enable him to marry the girl he was passionatoly in - love with.' T!hc moustached gentleman complied, left Paris, and reached F - in time to receive from his friend's lips particulars of the stratagem he and the young girl had cooeu'ted Ibiv twecn them. That stratagem was perfectly successful. That little rpd-facetl man, as I afterwards heard, on his reaching Marseilles, wrote to the father of the intended bride, apologising for not having bfcen~able to Keep his promise to go down to them, .but lie had no intention of breaking off his marriage, until he was accosted one morning in the streets of Marseilles by the moustached gentleman, who asked if he still persisted in his intention to marry the young lady. " Certainly," was the reply. " Then," said the other, if y o u want to reach her hand, you will hmo to mount, first, on mv de-a<l body, and, secondly, on the dead 'body of the lieutenant. Are you prepared to scale those fortresses ? " ' Certainly not." "Then go home; write to the lady s father that circumstances compel you to abandon your promise to wed her. 1 shall know bv the day after to-morrow if that ' letter liaS been written. If yes. 1 will- be yoi T friend, and help,you, as! have helped the lieutenant, in any honourable l o ve scheme you may choose to enter upon ; if no, be prepared to meet me in the evening." The letter was. >y;rltt e n, and six months after the young ladv was married lo the lieutenant.

A Perth paper n yoiwg Italian, aged 22 years* known as Ambrose,, who for somi; tiiiil- - lias been employed as handy man at the hospital at Kalgoorlio, has estafilishhis claim to be Mar<|u:s Tulliamo.of Italy. owner of estates worth £30,000 a year. First com« the chills, with other ills, To set iia all a-sn«zing. We pay our bills and make our wills, With coughing and with wheezing. Around our beds, with shaking heads, .. 'fte doctors keep us poor, Till all '6ur dread at last is sped By Woqds' Great Peppermint Cur?,