’ ‘Don’t be a little fool,’ Gerald snapped irritably. It occasionally troubled the major that Hilary’s staunch loyalty had led him into hair-raising exploits at Gerald’s side, for he was perfectly aware that Hilary would not have dreamed of deserting him. "Maybe he realized that he was slipping fast and thought a fine action might give him a hand-hold on life again. I spent this afternoon in detention. He was twenty-nine at the time, practically an old man. Lost me place, that’s all. I love everything to-day, and all of you, but I love this, this—this innocence upon us most of all. “I am sure you will marry Nigel sooner or later, and then all your work will be thrown away. Life’s hard enough nowadays for an unprotected male. “I wonder how it is,” she exclaimed, “that my friends have so much more confidence in me than I have in myself. In the end, resolution triumphed, as it was sure to do, over the weaker emotions, and he laughed at his fears. Impassive by nature and training, he was conscious to-night of a strange sense of excitement, of exhilaration tempered by a dull background of disappointment. All these circumstances,—slight in themselves, but powerful in their effect,—touched the heart of the widowed carpenter, and added to his depression.
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