Nelly's face was very sober and subdued. She felt frightened at tho extreme secrecy that Mark assured her had to be observed. She wanted her father's reassuring smile. Mark fidgeted mi was ,rery restless

during tho ceremony, scarcely brighter than Nolly. He looked around frequently, as if dreading interruption, at which Dag mar Votoski, tho solo witness to tho ceremony, wondered. She, contrary to all expectation, had a short fit of weeping. " I always think marriages aro such mournful affairs," sho said to Nolly. "Is that the reason you could never induce any ono to have you ?" asked Mark, abruptly. She gave him a queer stare, but mado no reply. " Woro you expocting 01 ga to come and comfort you that you kept jerking your head round ?" she asked.
