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Chapters from My Autobiography

CHAPTERS FROM MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY
18/39

An officer of the Tenth Dragoons charged an officer of the Ninth Dragoons with an offence against the laws of the card-table.

There was a defect or a doubt somewhere in the matter, and this had to be examined and passed upon by a Court of Honor.

So the case was sent up to Lemberg for this purpose.

One would like to know what the defect was, but the newspaper does not say.

A man here who has fought many duels and has a graveyard, says that probably the matter in question was as to whether the accusation was true or not; that if the charge was a very grave one--cheating, for instance--proof of its truth would rule the guilty officer out of the field of honor; the Court would not allow a gentleman to fight with such a person.


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