followed his head rather than his heart, holding, as he did,
a deep-seated contempt for weak men who laid their courses otherwise.
The generations of discipline back of him spoke to his conscience. He
had allowed himself to become attached to this girl until--yes, he
knew now
he loved her. If
only he had not awakened her and himself with that first hot kiss; if
only--But there was no going back now, no use for regrets, only the
greater necessity of mapping
out a course that would cause her
least unhappiness. If he could have run away he would have done so
gladly, but he was bound here to this camp, with no possibility of
avoiding her. When he drove his reason with firm hands he saw but one
course to follow; but, when his mind went slack for a moment, the old
desire t
