These people that you see are hard-
working farm laborers, who have no time to come in the day, and who
are now here to offer up their evening prayers, and also, some of
them, to examine their consciences preparatory to confession! They
can certainly be no interruption to this ceremony."
"Egad, I don't know that!" muttered Colonel Le Noir between his
teeth.
As for Cap, the sight of other persons present in the chapel filled
her heart with joy and exultation, inasmuch as it insured her final
safety. And so she just abandoned herself to the spirit of frolic
that possessed her, and anticipated with the keenest relish the
denouement of her strange adventure.
"Well, what are we waiting for? Proceed, sir, proceed!" said Colonel
Le Noir as he took Cap by the shoulders and placed her on the left
side of his son, while he himself stood behind ready to "give the
bride away."
The ceremony immediately commenced.
The prologue beginning, "Dearly beloved, we are gathered together
here," etc., etc., etc., was read.
The solemn exhortation to the contracting parties, commencing "I
require and charge ye both, as ye shall answer in the dreadful day
of judgment when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed, that
if either of you know any just cause or impediment why ye may not
lawfully be joined together," etc., etc.
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