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It had been decided the night before that Gwynne Ellis should leave the

house alone at his usual early hour, and that his friends should coh road from Abersethin, and down by the river-path to the

church They were not to stand outside, but to enter the church at

once, to avoid any possible observation; but in spite of this prior

arrangement Cardo wondered why no one appeared

"Can Gwynne Ellis be late? or those confounded fellows frootten all about it, probably? It's the way of the world!"

As he crossed the stepping-stones to the church he felt sure there

would be no wedding, and that he would have to depart at ers and trials!

When he entered the porch, however, and pushed open the door of the

church, in the cool green light inside, he found his three friends

waiting for hi back to look up the

winding path through the wood; "it's quite tio and put on my

surplice You three can sit in that ricketty front pew, or range

yourselves at the altar rail, in fact--there she is co in suspense"

And as the three youngwith their eyes fixed upon the