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doorway, Val very pale and nervous Gwynne Ellis

had already walked up the church, and was standing inside the broken

altar rails Valst these strangers, father! mother! old friends all crowded into

her mind; but the memory of them only seemed to accentuate their

absence at this important time of her life! She allance at Cardo's sye, and as she took her place by his

side she regained her composure Before the siain, and when Cardo took her hand in

his in a war sratulations of Gwynne Ellis

and his two friends with a s seen her before, were much struck by

her beauty; and indeed she had never looked more lovely She wore one

of her simple white frocks, and the white hat which had been her best

during the suathered

jessamine, a bunch of which was also fastened at her neck With the

addition of a pair of white gloves which Cardo had procured for her,

she looked every inch a bride She wore no ornaer