The reader never does get the actual description of the final duel, but he is informed of the outcome. The last words of this not-so-short short story are: “He had never slept in a better bed, Rainsford decided.”

Because he gets to sleep in the bed, the reader must infer that Rainsford has killed Zaroff. The reader doesn’t know for sure whether or not Rainsford actually fed Zaroff’s body to the dogs, but knowing Rainsford, I suspect he saved it as evidence for the police…

Decimating an ethnic group in order to establish another ethnic group as supreme and doing it bit by bit in the hopes of muting criticism. The ethnic cleansing of the Gaza is now under way. The habiru have been at this sort of thing whenever they have been in Palestine,whether 3500 B.B. or in our times. They also used a slow-motion approach and they still do.

In your example, the two men are getting ready to have a sword fight, thus the “on guard” or in French, “En garde” and the one who loses will be food for the dogs.

splendid means excellent, fine, or very good

furnish means supply or provide

repast means a meal

hounds means dogs

“Very good! One of us is to provide (become) a meal for the dogs.”