The girl and the guardsman . HE trolley into thecity ran scarcely ahundred yards fromthe house, hut Bar-ton struck blindlyacross the valleywith little thoughtas to the direction in which his stepscarried him. How he left the Lyn-wood house would at any later timehave been a matter as trying to hisrecollection as an elusive hiatus in adream. Fate IS credited with a whimsicalhabit in manao-ins: children and 56 THE GIRL &? THE GUARDSMAN drunken men. Doubtless there is aspecial formula for lovers who blun-der, otherwise drama might perishand ordinary fiction go lame in anearly chapter. However, th
The girl and the guardsman . HE trolley into thecity ran scarcely ahundred yards fromthe house, hut Bar-ton struck blindlyacross the valleywith little thoughtas to the direction in which his stepscarried him. How he left the Lyn-wood house would at any later timehave been a matter as trying to hisrecollection as an elusive hiatus in adream. Fate IS credited with a whimsicalhabit in manao-ins: children and 56 THE GIRL &? THE GUARDSMAN drunken men. Doubtless there is aspecial formula for lovers who blun-der, otherwise drama might perishand ordinary fiction go lame in anearly chapter. However, the great fact just hereis that Barton and luiith managed tobe deceived in defiance of every rea-sonable probability that such a thingwould not happen. It was a chancein a million, and even that millionthchance demanded Tibbetts. Thething could not have been done with-out him — and it could not havebeen done had he meant to do it. The blinding bitterness that seizedupon the soldier bore with it a dis-torted image of Ti
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