There are some men who are strong enough to run away from weakness. Not
that Harlan Thornton admitted that he was weak in the presence of
Madeleine Presson. But he felt a sudden hunger for the big hills, the
wide woods, the serene silences. He wanted to get his mental footing
again. He had been swept off in a flood of new experiences. Just now he
found himself in a state of mind that he did not understand.
"I'll go back and let the old woods talk to me," he whispered to
himself.
Then he tore up the letter he had written to Clare Kavanagh.
It had occurred to him that he could tell it to her so much better.
So when he came to Fort Canibas in the evening of the second day he
mounted his horse and rode across the big bridge.
He went before he had read the letters piled on the table in the gloomy
old mess-hall. And he brusquely told the waiting Ben Kyle to save his
business talk until the morning.
CHAPTER XX
A GIRL'S HEART
He walked his horse when he reached the farther shore. He was wondering
just what he was to say to Dennis Kavanagh.
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