Tales from the Morgue: A duel over a woman
What would motivate two men to duel it out with pistols? One must assume the motivation is much the same as that for murder. Love or greed, or in the case of Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, intense political differences.
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Two men fought a duel because one had an affair with the other man's wife. When was this? Perhaps the 1800s, you might think.
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