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Mr. Mulligatawny , B.C.S. , Deputy - Assistant Vice Sub-Controller of the Boggleywollah Indigo grounds , Ramgolly branch . Macgillicuddy should have stuck to sword 's play , and he might have come off in his second duel as well as in his first ; as it was , the civilian placed a ball and a part of Mac 's gold repeater in his stomach . A remarkable circumstance attended this shot , an account of which I sent home to the `` Philosophical Transactions : '' the surgeon had extracted the ball , and was going off , thinking that all was well , when the gold repeater struck thirteen in poor Macgillicuddy 's abdomen . I suppose that the works must have been disarranged in some way by the bullet , for the repeater was one of Barraud 's , never known to fail before , and the circumstance occurred at seven o'clock . -LCB- 1 -RCB- I could continue , almost ad infinitum , an account of the wars which this Helen occasioned , but the above three specimens will , I should think , satisfy the peaceful reader . I delight not in scenes of blood , Heaven knows , but I was compelled in the course of a few weeks , and for the sake of this one woman , to fight nine duels myself , and I know that four times as many more took place concerning her . I forgot to say that Jowler 's wife was a half-caste woman , who had been born and bred entirely in India , and whom the Colonel had married from the house of her mother , a native .