recognized by promotion to a colonelcy on the battle-field of Malvern; and how, when McClellan was wronged by Stanton, and removed from the army, Jack broke his sword and swore that he would never serve again.  But, thinking better of it, he applied for a place in Hancock’s corps, and was by his side from Fredericksburg to Gettysburg.  You have seen from the very first what was going to happen.  The marriages all took place, just as you have guessed from the beginning.  Young Dick was too impatient and too skeptical to wait until the end of the war, and, to the amazement of his aunts and the amusement of Acredale, he carried Rosa off, one day, and was secretly married in the rector’s study at Warchester, so that his first son was born under the Stars and Bars in Richmond, while Dick was beleaguering the walls at Fort Walthall, four miles away.  The other young people waited rationally until a month or two after the peace, and while they were still entitled to wear the blue, and then they were wedded.  It was said that Kate made the most beautiful bride ever seen in Warchester, for it was there they were married.

THE END.