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man?" asked Capitola, drawing her breath hardly. "Yes, coz." "You won't fight him?" "No, coz." "You won't?" "No." "Edwin Percy, look me straight in the face!" said Cap, between her closed teeth. "Well, I am looking you straight in the face--straight in the two blazing gray eyes, you little tempest in a teapot--what then?" "Do I look as though I should be in earnest in what I am about to speak?" "I should judge so." "Then listen, and don't take your eyes off mine until I am done speaking!" "Very well, don't be long, though, for it rather agitates me." "I will not! Hear me, then! You say that you decline to challenge Le Noir. Very good! I, on my part, here renounce all acquaintance with you! I will never sit down at the same table--enter the same room, or breathe the same air with you--never speak to you--listen to you, or recognize you in any manner, until my deep wrongs are avenged in the punishment of my slanderer, so help me----" "Hush-sh! don't swear, Cap--it's profane and unwomanly; and nothing on earth but broken oaths would be the result!" But Cap was off! In an instant she was down in the yard, where her groom was holding her horse, ready in case she wished to take her usual ride. "Where is Mr. John Stone?" she asked. "Down at the kennels, miss," answered the boy. She jumped into her saddle, put whip to her horse and flew over the ground between the mansion house and the kennels. She pulled up before the door of the main building, sprang from her saddle, threw the bridle to a man in attendance, and rushed into the house and into the presence of Mr. John Stone, who was busy in prescribing for an indisposed pointer. He looked up in astonishment, exclaiming: "Hilloe! All the witches! Here's Cap! Why, where on earth did you shoot from? What's up now? You look as if you were in a state of spontaneous combustion and couldn't stand it another minute." "And I can't--and I won't! John Stone, you must call that man out!" "What man, Cap--what the deuce do you mean?" "You know well enough--you do this to provoke me! I mean the man of whom you cautioned me this afternoon--the wretch who slandered me--the niece of your host!" "Whe--ew!" "Will you do it?" "Where's Percy?" "On the lounge with an ice in one hand and a novel in the other! I suppose it is no use mincing the matter, John--he is a--mere epicure--there is no fight in him! It is you who must vindicate y
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