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 another opportunity for rejoicings and the Governor gave a ball, the brilliance of which surpassed if anything the other.

H. H. left Sydney in November 1913, and he and Lady Heaton went on to the South of France for the winter. From Nice he was recalled to London for the duty of giving his younger daughter in marriage to Major Adrian Porter, King's Messenger.

At the wedding, his old friends were delighted to see him looking so well after his long absence from England; and he spoke of wintering the following year in the West Indies—but when the time came he had taken the Last Voyage of all.