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Baldwin Forgets the Stirrup-iron
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refused; so he quite naturally flogged him with his stirrup-leather, but forgot to slip the iron off first. . . . Careless beggar, Baldwin. He’ll be hurting somebody, one of these days. I'm only just telling you———”

Robertson went rather white. “Don’t rot, Harper,” he said. “D’you know what’s become of Tony?”

“Honestly I don’t, but I should say he'd be all right. You’re bound to hear of him again. He got rations here, and passed through before I knew he’d been, or else I’d have stopped him for you. But he'll be all right, from the little I know of him. He’s not the kind that goes under.”

Robertson agreed, but he was anxious, and it was long before he got any news of Tony.

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