But the rules are unknown and the stakes high: this is a duel to the death, a fact only gradually revealed to its two main players.

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But Humphreys' and Jones' kicking duel continued to the death as both sides failed to claim victory.

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As he fully expected, he lost this duel, bleeding to death in hospital after being shot in the intestine.

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