As the sun rose high in the sky, as the cows passed clumsily down the lane behind the field so the fool, with eyes staring and heart thumping, saw these two fight a duel to the death.

There could be no question, from the first, how it would end.

The beautiful young man in his fine blue suit and his white cambric shirt had despair upon his face.

He knew that his hour had come.

And the eyes of the Scarlet Admiral were ever sadder and ever fiercer.