Mr. Raleigh bent and regathered them; there was nothing for Marguerite but to allow that he should do so.

The service ended, and the people scattered, but the organist played on, and the boy choir regathered, but less formally.

Anna and Greenleaf and the other couples regathered about the carriage, and Miss Valcour from her high seat smiled her enthusiasm down among them, exalting theirs.

"Mustn't anybody touch them but me, ever any more," she said, regathering the stuff, regained her feet and moved on.

The men regathered the lines.

"But now," he says, regathering his composure, and speaking with a resolute, stern quiet; "I have no other resourceyou have left me nonebut to come to you, and ask point-blank, is this true, or is it false?"