"That is quite true; and we should have done so, only Behrend chose to interfere."
"You should not have allowed it; you could have stopped it. When does the duel take place?"
"As we had no swords we could not fight this morning. It is against the law to have a duel in the afternoon, therefore we have postponed the second meeting until to-morrow at daylight."
"Before daylight to-morrow I will put a stop to the duel."
"How so?"
"I shall speak to Behrend; I shall explain everything to him."
"If you tell him that this affair has arisen out of a joke, the result will be that, instead of fighting a duel with one man, Behrend will have six duels on his hands."
"I will tell him in such a way that he will not ask to fight with any of you."
"Then you will have ruined Salista."
"How so? What has he to do with it?"