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Show HIS OTHER ENGAGEMENT her plan for the wedding; since, indeed, it was hardly possible to keep it a secret any longer. "The day after to-morrow, you know," said she, "we are going to take the Saguenay boat for Tadousac. Do you know that village curving along ·,he cliff at the base of the Mamelons; and the halfcircle of the bay opening out into the big St. Lawrence, full of sunshine and blue water; and the steep, shaggy mountains of the Saguenay in the background; and the tiny old mission chapel of the Jesuit Fathers where the same bell has been ringing for nearly three hundred years ? I was there the summer after I graduated; and I've never forgotten it. It's a picture and a dream. That is where I want to have my wedding. I don't believe that anybody else would have thought of it. Perhaps it's more than a hundred years since the last Indian wedding was held in that little deserted chapel; but it's all right, kept in good order, just as a relic beside the big new church. I think" -turning to the clergyman-" that it will be perfectly delightful and original to have you marry me there, at high noon, on the last day of June." 7~ HIS OTHER ENGAGEMENT Well, of course, there was a good deal of astonishment and confusion and reluctance when this extraordinary plan came out. No one had imagined precisely this turn in Ethel's originality. Her mother was in a state of paralyzed dismay at an idea so wildly unconventional; the twins and her brothers and Miss Nancy Bangs bubbled over with practical difficulties and protests; Father Bellingham Jenks was doubtful and embarrassed. "Would it be possible-- decorous-regular? The Roman Branch, you know, has not yet openly acknowledged the Anglican position in The Church. Might not objections arise -misunderstanding-refusal of permission to use the chapel? I should hesitate very much, you know!" But Ethel carried things through with her usual sweet, sparkling high-handedness; and Chichester supported her with irresistible determination, as if he had decided on exactly this thing years ago. "Certainly," he said, "splendid idea-entirely novel---<Juite correct-nothing could be better. Telegraph for one wing of the Tadousac Hotel, with drawing-rooms and private dining-room. Send down plenty of flowers and cakes and wines and whatever 73 |