ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INCLUDING THE RIGHT OF REPRODUCTION EN WHOLE OR
IN PART IN ANY FORM 1956 BY GUY ENDORE PUBLISHED BY SIMON AND
SCHUSTER, INC. ROCKEFELLER CENTER, 630 FD7TH AVENUE NEW YORK 20, N.
Y. FIRST PRINTING LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER 56-9908
MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AMERICAN
BOOK-STRATFORD PRESS, MC, NEW YORK TO Marcia and Gita, my daughters
And my thanks to the library staff of the Uni versity of California
in Los Angeles for providing me with many hard-to-find books, and
to Mary Clarke for friendly discussions and help on the manuscript,
and to Joseph Mischel zichrono livracha, may his memory be a
blessing for his invaluable encouragement and stimulation. CHYptO,
PUBLIC UBRARV Le liure de la vie est le lime supreme Quon ne pent
ni fermer, ni rouvrir a son choix Le passage attachant ne sy lit
pas deux fois, Mais le feuillet fatal se tourne de lui-meme On
voudrait revenir a la page ou Ion aime Et le page ou Ton meurt est
deja sous vos doigts. Verse written in an album by Alphonse de
Lamartine CONTENTS PAGE PBOLOGUE The Secret That Every Man Takes to
His Grave 1 CHAPTER 1 Duel after the Masquerade Ball 13 2 How to
Give a Horse a Ride 33 3 A Black Devil 45 4 The Omelet Masterpiece
51 5 Duel with God 68 6 Out of Sheer Natural Abundance 83 7 Iron
Shoes for a Prince 98 8 Six Hundred Glasses of Absinthe 111 9 The
Gold Is Gone 121 10 A Private Secretary for a Poor Lad 127 11
Cherchez la Femme 137 12 Clique versus Claque 149 13 . . . a Prince
of Wales Was Born to Me 168 14 BirthAdulterous 178 15 The
Invincible Stomach 199 16 . . . and Palaces Where Kings Lay Dying 9
207 17 A New Religion The Grotesque 221 18 Thunder in Jour Fist 238
vii viii ContentsCHAPTER PAGE 19 A Plundered Man 254 20 Love for
Love 262 21 Duelist 274 22 Annexation versus Stealing 287 23 The
Whole World for Ten Sous 301 24 Marriage a la Mode 314 25 I Want to
Be a Legend 321 26 The Font of Money 339 27 N0t S ioes and Old
Mistresses 349 28 The Dueling Code 356 29 Douw tmtfi the Stars 365
30 A Bagatelle 372 31 T ie Incomprehensible Red and White Camellias
378 32 As Little Time As I Have to Live, It Will Be Longer Than You
Will Want to Love 392 33 The Two Writers 400 34 This Time I Want a
Corpse 414 35 If He Can Fight for His Father, Why Cant I Fight for
Mine 9 429 36 The Secret That Must Be Kept Inviolate 437 37 Duel
after the Masquerade Ball 451 38 Visit to a Dead Man 469 EPILOGUE
Thou Knowest 475 MORE EPILOGUE A Penny to Your Memory 485 A Final
Word 496 PROLOGUE The Secret That Every Man Takes to His Grave HE
WAS ONE of those men who live ten lives while the rest of us are
struggling through one. What an experience it must have been to
have known him in person. In the flesh. In his towering mass of
warm flesh, never tired and never cold, six feet three in his
stockinged feet. Laughing at all his enemies, shrugging off their
scorn and their ridicule, saying, What do you expect of me Im once
and for all simply incapable of hate. Rage Yes, I can be enraged.
Because rage is brief. But hate No, I cant hate. Hate endures. And
this in spite of the fact that he wrote The Count of Monte Cristo,
classic novel of implacable hatred. He fought, according to his own
count, at least thirteen duels. The result of his momentary rages,
of course. And one of these duels has the distinction of being
perhaps the shortest on record. Pistols cried Dumas. I insist on
pistols Swordscountered Jules Janin, the well-known critic and
novelist. Am I not the injured party Have I not the right to the
choice of weapons Very well then I say swords You must be mad Dumas
exclaimed. Dont you know that Tm a genius with the sword I command
every one of the 12,210 com binations of the eight positions.
Pistols or you are as good as dead. Do you question my ability with
a pistol Janin protested. Why, I can snuff out a candle at thirty
paces. Youre finished if you put a pistol in my hand. No. It must
be swords. Such mutual magnanimity proved irresistible...
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