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The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories

CHAPTER XI
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My husband is a prisoner, and I am going into the Hills to find him.

You must follow with men and guns.

He must be saved--whatever it costs." The colonel laid his hand on her shoulder, looking down at her very earnestly, very kindly.
"My dear Mrs.Tudor," he said, "all that can be done shall be done, all that is humanly possible.

I have already told Turner so.

Did you know that he was safe ?" He drew her forward a step, and she saw that the man behind him was Phil Turner himself--Phil Turner, grave, strong, resolute, with all his manhood strung up to the moment's emergency, all his boyhood submerged in a responsibility that overwhelmed the lesser part of him, leaving only that which was great.
He went straight up to Audrey and took the hands she stretched out to him.


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