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Thank you very much, Colonel," Frank said. "I only wish I knew where to send a copy to Julian." "I am sure I wish that you could do so," the colonel said. "Poor fellow! he has paid dearly indeed for his well-meant though rash attempt to seize Faulkner's murderer. I shall have finished my business in two or three minutes, and shall be glad if you will stop to have a chat with me." As soon as the magistrate had concluded his talk with Mr. Henderson, and the latter had gone off to carry out the arrangements, Colonel Chambers turned to the captain and said, "Have you seen any of the London papers, Downes?" "No, Colonel. I have had enough to think of this morning since we moored up. Is there anything of importance in them?" "Nothing perhaps extraordinarily important, but something certainly interesting at the present moment. Here is the _Morning Herald_. This is the item: 'Our correspondent at Canterbury states that much excitement has been lately caused in military circles there by an affair of honour--'" "Oh, that is too bad!" Frank broke in hotly--"'between an officer of the Lancers, Captain M--l, and a cornet of the 15th Light Dragoons, Mr. W--t. It is said that Captain M--l has been engaged in several similar encounters, and is famous for his skill with the pistol. The affair began, we understand, at a mess-dinner of the cavalry depot a few days since, at which several well-known gentlemen of the town were present. Captain M--l used insulting language to a recently-joined young officer of the Dragoons. Mr. W--t took the matter up hotly, and rising, denounced Captain M--l in such strong language that a duel became inevitable. In view of the youth and supposed inexperience of Mr. W--t, the affair was regarded with extreme disapprobation by the officers of Captain M--l's regiment, as well as by those of the Dragoons. It seems, however, that Mr. W--t had for some time been practising with the pistol under the tuition of our respected townsman, Mr. Woodall the gunsmith, and before the parties met he confided to the officer who acted as his second that he intended to aim at his opponent's trigger-finger and so to incapacitate him from further adventures of the kind. Extraordinary as it may appear, this intention was carried out. Captain M--l not only lost his finger, but the bullet passed up his arm and broke it above the elbow. We understand that the limb has been successfully amputated by the surgeons of the two cor
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