ly, gloriously, triumphantly complete. There was a wedding dress,
and a bridal veil with orange blossoms. There were wedding gifts, for
somehow, no one ever knew how, the morning Times had got the news. There
was a church crowded with friends to wish them well, and the regimental
band with a guard of honour, under whose arched swords the bride and
groom went forth. Never had the Reverend Andrew McPherson been so happy
in his marriage service. Never was such a wedding breakfast with toasts
and telegrams from absent friends, from Chicago, and from the Lakeside
Farm in response to Larry's announcements by wire. Two of these excited
wild enthusiasm. One read, "Happy days. Nora and I following your good
example. See you later in France. Signed, Dean." The other, from the
Minister of Militia at Ottawa to Lieutenant-Colonel Waring-Gaunt. "Your
suggestion approved. Captain Gwynne gazetted to-morrow as Major. Signed,
Sam Hughes."

"Ladies and Gentlemen," cried the Colonel, beaming upon the company,
"allow me to propose long life and many happy days for the Major and the
Major's wife." And as they drank with tumultuous acclaim, Larry turned
and, looking upon the radiant face at his side, whispered:

"Jane, did you hear what he said?"

"Yes," whispered Jane. "He said 'the Major.'"

"That's nothing," said Larry, "but he said 'the Major's wife!'"

And so together they went to the war.

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