The girl and the guardsman . t the partedcurtains. Perhaps the disaster fas-cinated him. At all events he didnot speak. ** Try not to think harshly ofme, came Ediths voice. ** Try toremember all the i^ood vou can ofme. But this is the truth, whatevermay have seemed to be true to eitherof us. I do not love vou. I mustnot see you as my lover any have done you a great wrong/ Barton drew back as if some onewere stabbing him repeatedly. Tib-betts had a confused sense of his eointr,and of Edith still speaking. ** I wasfoolish to think that love ever couldcome to me aiiain. The onlv man Iever
The girl and the guardsman . t the partedcurtains. Perhaps the disaster fas-cinated him. At all events he didnot speak. ** Try not to think harshly ofme, came Ediths voice. ** Try toremember all the i^ood vou can ofme. But this is the truth, whatevermay have seemed to be true to eitherof us. I do not love vou. I mustnot see you as my lover any have done you a great wrong/ Barton drew back as if some onewere stabbing him repeatedly. Tib-betts had a confused sense of his eointr,and of Edith still speaking. ** I wasfoolish to think that love ever couldcome to me aiiain. The onlv man Iever loved, the only man I ever could 54 THE GIRL &- THE GUARDSMAN love, lies buried at .Forgive me, Marcus — she hadarisen — * I have nt asked you to beseated, I have nt — uncle ! Only Tibbetts stood there, wring-ing his hands. ** Uncle ! and you let me My —my dear, he just wentaway. Away ! She sank again intothe chair. Yes, Edith. He has gone. I I am afraid, my dear, that you willhave to tell him again ! 55.
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