Burke recognized as that of Captain Sawyer:

"To the Prince of all the Rookies and his Princess, from his brother
cops. God bless you, Bobbie Burke, and Mrs. Bobbie."

Ex-officer 4434 Burke blinked and hugged his happy fiancee delightedly.

"What's in that old bandbox, Bob?" asked Lorna. "It's marked
'Glass--Handle with care.' I wonder how it ever held together. Some
country fellow left it at the door this afternoon, but wouldn't come
in."

They opened it, and Mary gasped.

"Why, look at the flowers!"

The box seemed full of old-fashioned country blossoms, as Mary dipped
her hand into it. Then she deftly reached to the bottom of the big
bandbox and lifted its contents. Wrapped in a sheathing of oiled
tissue paper was a monstrous cake, layer on layer, like a Chinese
pagoda. It was covered with that rustic triumph of multi-colored icing
which only grandmothers seem able to compound in these degenerate days
of machine-made pastry of the city bakeries.

A wedding ring of yellow icing was molded in the center, while on
either side were red candy hearts, joined by whirly sugar streamers of
pink and blue.

A card pinned in the center said:

"From Henrietta and Joe."

"That's all we needed," said Mary with a sob in her happy voice, "to
make our wedding supper end right. Wasn't it, Officer 4434?"

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