As a result he dared you to fight him, and you couldn't refuse before your own men, although you endeavored to back out.

That you chose pistols for weapons, and compelled their acceptance.

On the field, he said, you fired before the word was spoken, and while he was still lying on the ground, shocked by the bullet, you flung the derringer at him, cutting his forehead; then drew your own revolver.
Unarmed, believing he was to be murdered, he turned and ran." "And you actually believed all this of me ?" "Why," bewildered, "he was a soldier, and my father's friend.

How could I imagine he would run without cause?
His story sounded true, as he told it, and he was hurt." "He must have got that when he fell--his head struck something.

And is that all ?" "Yes; only we talked about how he might get away.