Who can protect a girl against her own guardian? Who can protect a guardianagainst his own heart? The was a libertine. The ladies of the London tonand the Versailles court loved him far too well for their own good andlearned too late that he loved no one. To this handsome, bitter man, SirJohn Lawley had, by mistake, assigned the guardianship of his beautifulyoung daughter. No man, save the Marquis, could look upon her silvery blondeinnocence and deliberately plan her undoing. Any man, save the Marquis,would have seen that he, as much as she, would soon need a GUARDIAN OF THEHEART.