For a space there was no sound but the rhythmic beat of hoofs and the rattle of the buggy wheels; but in the heart of the Mennonite maid, who had fought her last battle for freedom and won, there was ineffable peace and content; and her happiness smiled from quivering lips and shone in her steadfast eyes.

Mr. Abe Wackernagel, of the New Canaan hotel, was very fond, in the years that followed, of bragging to his transient guests of his niece who was the wife of “such a Millersville Normal perfessor—­Perfessor Fairchilds.”  And Mr. Jake Getz was scarcely less given to referring to his daughter “where is married to such a perfessor at the Normal.”

“But what do I get out of it?” he was wont ruefully to add.  “Where do I come in, yet?—­I where raised her since she was born, a’ready?”

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