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With that he seized his poncho, stamped out into the stor sleet in his face, his thoughts a fury of holy anger against unholy things, and back of it all the feeling that he was the knight of true womanhood She had sent hiht of her It was during that tramp that he had made up his mind to ally hiood in the long run in his search for God or not, whether he even was sure he believed in God or not, he would do that much if he were pers s That the church was the shepherd-fold of the soul, that he would be nurtured and taught, that by and by these doubts and fears would not trouble him He did not quite see it, hoas to be nurtured on the distant battlefield of France, but it was a , anyway, and he accepted the state that stuck in his heart and troubled him deeply was the way the minister talked to hieneral thing, Cameron had no trouble with his coht and a young captain friend of his at camp, named Wurtz, tohoether sure that the ht love the sinner and hate the sin would hold good with regard to Wainwright; but there had been only a brief time before the coo His soul was filled with a holy uplifting as he stepped out froreat church

It had startled hi this act of allying hi between himself and God, with perhaps the minister and an elder or two He sat down in the place indicated for him much disturbed in spirit It had always been an annoyance to hiht to the notice of his fellonsmen, and a man in uniform in these days was aze was doard during the opening hymns and prayers But when he came to stand and take his vows he lifted his eyes, and there, off at one side where the seats grouped in a sort of transept, he caught a gli beside her tall Captain-cousin as hoht in her eyes that steadied hiht back the solemnity of the moment once more It thrilled him to think she was there He had not realized before that thisany church in particular, but as being a part of the great church invisible to which all God's children belonged It had not occurred to hiht be hurt that he had not chosen her church But when he spoke to her about it she shook her head and s There were no regrets She was too broadthere meekly over by the wall now, her hands folded quietly in her lap, tears of joy in her eyes She, too, had seen Ruth Macdonald and was glad, but she wondered who the tall captain by her side ht be