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 in Streator and no longer he found Fidelia shy with him.

He thought, confidently: "The trouble with her was that we were in college where I'd been engaged to Alice." He made his few arrangements that evening and upon the next morning he stood with Fidelia before an Episcopal clergyman in the front parlor of Dorothy Hess's home. "Before God and this company," which consisted of Dorothy Hess's family, David and Fidelia entered into that holy estate which is "not by any one to be enterprised, nor taken in hand, unadvisedly, lightly, or wantonly, to satisfy carnal lusts and appetites, like brute beasts which have no understanding; but reverently, discreetly, advisedly, soberly, and in fear of God."

The words, when they were repeated, brought before David the image of his father; and David banished it. In his waistcoat pocket, where he had the ring by which he would wed Fidelia, he had a dried and faded flower—the daisy blossom which his mother had sent him. His fingers touched it as he felt for the ring.

On the evening of that day, their wedding day, David and Fidelia were in camp on the shore of the lake. They were in the Wisconsin woods at a spot like the haven of David's dream. They were alone; not even a guide was with them. They exulted, "Nobody within miles!"

Together, and with quivering hands held to the same utensils, they prepared and cooked their camp supper; and never was a meal like that in all the world, in all time, ten thousand years ago or now! When