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The Dualist by David Dean from the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine May June 2019 edition.

With jackets removed and cravats undone,

the two men faced each other in the sweltering heat of the new morning.

The older man was tall and robust looking,

with curls and a large mustache, the younger of average height and delicate frame.

Like a fiery eye, the distant sun

rose above the sandbar they stood upon, revealing a desolate waste of scrub oak, sassafras

trees, and driftwood, a shifting island that lay just beyond the reach of Mississippi law.

Having no excuse to remove their own outer clothing, the small gathering of spectators

sweated and chafed. Most were also afflicted with hangovers, or remained actively drunk,

which only added to their discomfort. One gentleman, whose straw hat had blown off crossing the big

muddy, had passed out from the sun beating down on his bald pate.

Now he lay, pale as a corpse, beneath the meager shade of a tenacious palmetto.

Myron Gill, his own dented top hat, firmly settled on his large skull, predicted,

"'You'll have company soon enough,' nodding at the unfortunate bald man.

Only he shan't be breathing. Tall and

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