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Duel scene, "By right of sword"

Opens on a stage with a painted backdrop of a lake surrounded by forest. A bearded man wrapped in a dark cloak and wearing a dark fur shako--Major Devinsky--stands stage left. Behind him, a group of three soldiers move about impatiently, watching for someone offstage. From stage right enters the story's main character, Hamylton Tregethner, masquerading as infantryman Alexis Petrovitch. The duelers remove their…

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