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As soon as he was alone Oswald took the Conte's fateful letter from his pocket, and read it through once more.
No! he had read it aright, there it stood in black and white! . "After what I have thus told you," so the letter concluded, "it is evident that a duel between us two can be nothing but a mere formality -- it is, however, a formality which I demand as due to my honour as a man."