The girl and the guardsman . PartJ&vcn^. =*-^ OE came into thestudio diffidently. Joehad no habitual dif-fidence. He was notwithout his own sortof sensibility, but hisimagination never an-ticipated disaster. With regard tothe case of Barton, he felt that gravecrises impended. Distressing thingsalready had happened, and doubtlessthere was further trouble ahead. You better eat something, after all, Mr. Barton, he ventured to say. 152 THE GIRL (5r THE GUARDSMAN ** The band aint playin* now, andyou cant go with so Httle.* Barton was lying on a couch in acorner of his studio, trying to pullhimself
The girl and the guardsman . PartJ&vcn^. =*-^ OE came into thestudio diffidently. Joehad no habitual dif-fidence. He was notwithout his own sortof sensibility, but hisimagination never an-ticipated disaster. With regard tothe case of Barton, he felt that gravecrises impended. Distressing thingsalready had happened, and doubtlessthere was further trouble ahead. You better eat something, after all, Mr. Barton, he ventured to say. 152 THE GIRL (5r THE GUARDSMAN ** The band aint playin* now, andyou cant go with so Httle.* Barton was lying on a couch in acorner of his studio, trying to pullhimself together. The effort con-tinued to call up monumental diffi-culties. He felt as if the bottomhad dropped out of the world, andas if he had an exceedingly insecuregrip on the sides thereof. For an hour after Ediths visit hehad been too dazed and crushed tothink. Wounded to the quick, ex-asperated with fate, disappointed withhimself, mystified by a sense of some-thing fantastically perverse and unrealin the disaster which had overwhelmedh
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