Of course, I did not get all the above from her at that time. Some of it she told; but the rest came out long afterward. Long afterward I learned from her own dear lips how her feelings changed toward me, especially on that night when I saved her and brought her home. Jack became first an object of contempt, then of indifference. Then she feared that I would despise her, and tried to hold aloof. Despise her! ----!!!! All this, and a thousand other things, came out afterward, in the days of our closer association, when all was explained, and Marion had no more secrets to keep from me, and I had none from her. CHAPTER XXXVIII. GRAND CONCLUSION.--WEDDING-RINGS AND BALL-RINGS.--ST. MALACHI'S.--OLD FLETCHER IN HIS GLORY.--NO HUMBUG THIS TIME.--MESSAGES SENT EVERYWHERE.--ALL THE TOWN AGOG.--QUEBEC ON THE RAMPAGE.--ST. MALACHI'S CRAMMED.--GALLERIES CROWDED.--WHITE FAVORS EVERYWHERE.--THE WIDOW HAPPY WITH THE CHAPLAIN.--THE DOUBLE WEDDING.--FIRST COUPLE--JACK AND LOUIE! --SECOND DITTO--MACRORIE AND MARION!--COLONEL BERTON AND O'HALLORAN GIVING AWAY THE BRIDES.--STRANGE ASSOCIATION OF THE BRITISH OFFICER AND THE FENIAN.--JACK AND MACRORIE, LOUIE AND MARION.--BRIDES AND BRIDEGROOMS.--EPITHALAMICM.--WEDDING IN HIGH LIFE.--SIX OFFICIATING CLERGYMEN.--ALL THE ELITE OF QUEBEC TAKE PART.--ALL THE CLERGY, ALL THE MILITARY, AND EVERYBODY WHO AMOUNTS TO ANY THING.--THE BAND OF THE BOBTAILS DISCOURSING SWEET MUSIC, AND ALL THAT SORT OF THING, YOU KNOW. On reading over the above heading, I find it so very comprehensive that it leaves nothing more for me to say. I will therefore make my bow, and retire from the scene, with my warmest congratulations to the reader at reaching THE END