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MARRIAGE AT ST JOHN'S
There were more than a few lookers-on to see Katy Lennox married, and the church was literally jammed for full three-quarters of an hour before the appointed time Back by the door, where she commanded a full view of the middle aisle, Marian Hazelton sat, her face as white as ashes, and her eyes gleaely wild even from beneath the thickly dotted veil she wore over her hat Doubts as to her wisdo kept her sitting just as others sat waiting for the bride until the sexton, opening wide the doors, and assu an added air of consequence, told the anxious spectators that the party had arrived--Uncle Ephraim and Katy, Wilford and Mrs Lennox, Dr Morris and Helen, Aunt Hannah and Aunt Betsy--that was all, and they came slowly up the aisle, while countless eyes were turned upon the the carpet with so long a trail, and knowing by some queer female instinct that it was city- for breath in that pew near the door, and trying to forget herself by watching Dr Grant She could not have told what Katy wore; she would not have sworn that Katy was there, for she saw only two, Wilford and Morris Grant She could have touched the forarhtly, and then she turned to Morris Grant, growing content with her own pain, so much less than his as he stood before the altar with Wilford Cameron between him and the bride which should have been his How pretty she was in her wedding garb, and how like a bird her voice rang out as she responded to the solemn question: "Will you have this man to be thy wedded husband?" etc
Upon Uncle Ephrai which Aunt Betsy denounced as a "'Piscopal quirk," classing it in the saot it to do she wanted him to do it well, and she had taken some pains to study that part of the ceree her brother in case he failed of co up to time
"Now, Ephraim, now; they've reached the quirk," she whispered, audibly, almost before Katy's "I will" was heard, clear and distinct; but Ephraily upon Katy's shoulder as he signified his consent, and then fell back to his place next to Hannah But when Wilford's voice said: "I, Wilford, take thee Katy to be ht confusion near the door, and those sitting by said to those in front that some one had fainted