THE WEDDING DAY
IN England the roses bloom all the summer through. And nowhere are they
more lovely and plentiful than in the county of Surrey.
So the little English church on the Kent estate was filled one August
morning with white, pink, red and yellow roses.
Ruth wore a simple white tulle dress and hat. For she did not wish a
wedding veil, and Jim announced that he did not intend having his Ruth's
face concealed at the time he most desired to see it.
Olive, Jean and Frieda were bridesmaids, and Jack maid of honor. Frank
Kent was best man, Richard Grant, Giovanni Colonna and another friend of
Frank's acted as ushers. Donald Harmon had returned to London,
explaining that he felt compelled to join his mother and sister there.
Since the bride would have no unnecessary adornments, the Ranch girls'
toilets were of the same character--French organdies trimmed in Irish
point lace, and big picture hats. The three bridesmaids wore white, and
Jack, pale yellow.
Of course Ruth carried a big loose bunch of white roses and the four
girls yellow ones. Indeed, all the wedding arrangements were perfect in
their simplicity. There was only one possible flaw in the success of the
program and that was the behavior of the bridegroom.
For Jim began by insisting in the early days of the preparations that he
was more than likely to give a cowboy yell of triumph at the conclusion
of the ceremony, and the day of the wedding rehearsal became so nervous
and unreasonable that Frieda decided he would never be able to go
through with the real thing.
Jim did look white as a ghost as he came out into the chancel, supported
by Frank, to wait for Ruth. The English vested choir was chanting, "Oh,
Perfect Love;" the atmosphere of the church was heavy with the odor of
flowers; the light through the old stained glass windows shone dimly
golden.
There was a moment when Jim Colter had a strange and incongruous
sensation. What a queer setting this for _his_ wedding! Surely he would
have felt more at home under a group of tall pines somewhere out in his
western plains or under the roof of one of their homely neighborhood
churches.
[Illustration: RUTH STARTED UP THE AISLE ON LORD KENT'S ARM.]
Nevertheless, when Ruth started up the aisle toward him on Lord Kent's
arm and Jim caught the expression of her face, he did not know or care
about anything else in the world. Frieda always insisted that he never
answered the responses, since not a single sound was she able to hear
fall from his lips. There were other witnesses though, Jack and Frank
for instance, who agreed that the bridegroom did mutter "I will" at the
critical moment after being prompted by the bride. So that Frieda was
finally persuaded to believe that the ceremony was fairly legal.
Back at the castle Ruth had entreated that they need have only the
family to breakfast with them. Mr. and Mrs. Colter were leaving in
little more than an hour for London to take the train to Harwich and
cross on the night boat for Holland, where they meant to spend their
week of honeymoon. And Ruth had also said that she wanted a few quiet
moments alone with each one of the girls.
The marriage was probably as satisfactory a one as had ever taken place,
yet unquestionably the bride and the four Ranch girls were uncommonly
teary all during the wedding feast. Indeed, Frieda actually sniffled
when she drew the thimble from the cake proclaiming that she would be
the old maid of the group, and only recovered when Olive insisted that
some mistake had been made and exchanged the ring for the thimble.
But Jim had entirely regained his spirits, and he and Frank devoted
their best energies toward making the breakfast party as cheerful as
possible. Nevertheless, both Jean and Olive guessed that Frank Kent was
not so gay as he pretended to be. For his brown eyes had a way of
looking grave, even while he was actually laughing. And at least one of
the two girls believed that he had a definite purpose in his mind, which
must be accomplished before the day was past.
By and by Ruth slipped away to her room, asking that Jack be alone with
her for the first five minutes, and then that each one of the other
girls follow in turn, according to age.
Because Jim liked her best in the colors that he had been used to seeing
her wear in the old times at the ranch, Ruth's traveling costume was as
Puritanical a gray as in her most nun-like New England days. But the
hat was a coquettish Parisian creation with a pink rose under the brim.
Besides, Ruth's expression had so changed in the last weeks that there
was no chance of her ever again suggesting an old maid.
She had only taken off her wedding gown, however, when Jack, putting her
arms about her, stooped to kiss her.
"Ruth, dearest," Jack announced, holding the older woman at a little
distance from her, "I want to tell you again that nothing that has ever
happened to me in my whole life had made me so happy as your marriage to
Jim. I know I have always given both of you about twice as much trouble
as the other three of us. Yet I kind of feel it has been made up to you
by having known each other through your coming to teach us at the Lodge.
But I am grown-up now, I think. And this last experience has taught me
more than any of you can guess. If you and Jim can make up your minds to
live on at the old ranch I will try my best never to be a nuisance
again, not if I live to be a hundred years old!"
"Do you expect to live always at Rainbow Lodge, Jack?" Ruth asked,
smiling, but watching Jack's face pretty closely.
Jack nodded. "I don't think I shall dare trust myself again."
But Ruth shook her gently. "That is what I wanted to speak to you about
alone, dear. It was a foolish fancy of mine, wishing to say farewell to
each one of you this way. You must remember how much happiness I have
kept from Jim and myself because of a mistaken idea. Don't repeat it, my
dear. If ever you feel you can care a great deal for any one and that
your love is returned, don't get any silly fancies in your head. Don't
let your one mistake--"
"But, Ruth," Jack interrupted, more seriously than the older woman had
expected, "suppose your foolish fancy happened to be connected with some
one else? Suppose you could only be happy at another's expense! You see,
you never had a rival in Jim's affections."
"And I never would have paid any attention to her if I had," Ruth
replied so emphatically that her companion laughed. "If a man loves a
woman and she loves him, that is the end of it. The third person I am
afraid is the one that must suffer. For can't you see that she must
suffer any way if her affection is not returned!"
There was no thought in Ruth's mind at the present moment that Jack's
words had any special bearing on her own case. For although Ruth and Jim
had suspected Frank's feeling for Jack, their imaginations had gone no
further. Indeed, they were both afraid that the girl had no more than a
passing affection for her former friend.
Ruth now walked over toward her mirror to fasten a diamond brooch in her
dress, which had been the Ranch girls' engagement present.
"I believe our time alone is almost up, and Olive will be appearing in
another moment. But Jim and I have a gift for each one of you which we
want you to keep always if you can in remembrance of our wedding day."
And Jack noticed that there were four jewel cases side by side on Ruth's
bureau, a white, a green, a blue and a scarlet one.
Ruth opened the white one first and clasped a string of pearls about
Jack's throat. Then before the oldest of the Ranch girls could thank
her, she gave her a gentle push toward her bedroom door.
"Go now, Jack, I hear Olive outside. And promise not to let any one shed
a single tear when Jim and I drive away."
Olive flung her arms about the bride with more emotion than Ruth had
ever seen her show. "I wish I could say things like the other girls!"
she exclaimed. "But oh, Ruth, you do understand how grateful I am to you
and Mr. Colter for all you have done for me? Because, however kind the
girls wanted to be, they could not have succeeded without your aid and
Jim's."
"You are as dear as the other girls to me, Olive, I know no difference
between you," Ruth answered, choking a little over Olive's unusual
display of feeling. And as she clasped an emerald chain about her neck
she whispered, "I can hope in return that some day you may be as happy
as I am."
Olive said nothing; only shook her dark head quietly, but before Ruth
could speak again, Jean danced into the room.
"Jack stayed so long there won't be any good by turns for Frieda and
me," she pouted, "unless Olive comes away at once. Jim is already raging
up and down the veranda like a bear, saying that he is sure you will
miss the train."
Jean's gift was a necklace of sapphires set with tiny diamonds in
between. And Ruth had only a chance to kiss her favorite Ranch girl
(for Jean was her favorite, though she would never have admitted it) and
whisper:
"If you don't leave Giovanni alone while we are away, I will make Jim
lock you up alone in your stateroom for the entire voyage home."
Then Frieda, with a slice of wedding cake in her hand, made her
appearance. "I didn't have a chance to eat hardly any at the table," she
defended immediately, answering Jean's teasing glance. "Jim says you
must say what you have to say to me when you get back from your trip,
Ruth; you simply must come on down now right away."
So Ruth had only time to push the scarlet jewel case into the hand
Frieda did not have occupied with cake. And begging her to be a good
baby and not eat too many of Dick's chocolate drops in her absence, she
hurried off to her impatient bridegroom.
Faithfully the four girls kept their promises and not a tear followed
the departing carriage. However, when the last sounds of the wheels had
rolled away they stared at one another as though the world had suddenly
come to an end.
"Well," Frieda remarked, as she held her pretty chain of rubies in her
hand, "I must say I never supposed that Ruth and Jim would ever want to
get married. They _knew_ each other so well. Now take the rest of us.
Nobody would ever want to marry any one of us except a stranger. Jack is
too high-tempered and wants her own way too much, Jean is a perfectly
horrid tease, Olive goes and stays by herself and cries when her
feelings are hurt--"
The day was saved! The three Ranch girls burst into laughter instead of
tears, in which Frank and his sisters, who were standing near, joined.
"And what about you, Frieda Ralston?" Jack demanded, pulling at one of
Frieda's blond curls. "Could anybody ever know you and love you? Tell
us, because a good many times we have felt the strain."
Frieda blushed slightly. "Oh, I suppose I have some faults," she
conceded. "But though I suppose Ruth's wedding has made you forget it, I
would like to mention that I have been cross fewer times than any one of
us on our European trip. Ruth showed me the record and I am to have the
prize when she gets back."
In the face of this evidence there was no chance for a dispute, so
within a few minutes the girls disappeared to their rooms. They were
tired, and each one of them wanted to be alone and to rest in her own
particular way.
To Jacqueline resting meant being out of doors, now that she was strong
again. So within an hour, after the bride and groom's departure, their
maid of honor slipped down the big oak staircase, arrayed in a very
different toilet. She wore a short brown corduroy skirt, leather boots
and leggings, and a soft hat, much the same style of costume that she
had been accustomed to wearing at the Rainbow Ranch.
Five minutes later she was off across the fields on the riding horse
which her host had designated for her especial use during her visit. It
was not a customary thing for an English girl to ride alone;
nevertheless Jack refused the services of the groom. She knew the
English roads and lanes in the neighborhood thoroughly well by this
time. All afternoon she rode, sometimes galloping across an open stretch
of meadow, often walking her horse along a narrow, wild rose-bordered
lane.
The English country was fascinating to Jack, perhaps because of its
utter unlikeness to her own broad, open country. She had been amused at
first by its smallness, its trimness and look of dignified old age. Yet
she had since learned to love the wonderful greenness of the English
landscapes, the quantities of exquisite flowers and trees, such as she
had never seen in her own land.
Certainly the scenery on this special afternoon must have been unusually
fascinating, for suddenly Jack realized that the darkness was coming
down and that she was some distance from the castle. She must not allow
Lord and Lady Kent to become uneasy on account of her absence. Her horse
was comparatively fresh; she would enjoy a hard gallop home.
So Jack paid little attention for the first half mile or so to the sound
of another horse's hoofs pounding after hers. Finally, however, Frank
got within calling distance. "Look here, Jack," he said, "this style of
riding after you reminds me of our first meeting on the Norton ranch.
Remember how you rushed off without allowing me to show you the trail. I
was pretty well out of breath when I caught up with you then, and I am
now."
Jack laughed and slowed her horse down a trifle. "No such thing, Frank;
you look cool as a cucumber. You English people never seem to get upset
and disheveled as Americans do. But it is awfully jolly, Frank, that you
are perfectly strong these days. You used to look pretty sick sometimes
when we first knew you."
"Wyoming gave me two great gifts, Jack; it gave me back my health and it
gave me my love for you."
Frank said this so quietly and so simply that Jack felt she must have
been mistaken. Surely she had not understood him! He ought to have given
her some warning, allowed her a few moments of preparation. She could
never have imagined that a man could declare his love in such a
matter-of-fact tone of voice. Jack hardly knew what to do or say.
Surreptitiously she made a movement of her bridle so that her horse
quickened his pace.
But Frank's hand reached out and caught hold of hers firmly. "You must
not run away from me, Jack," he protested. "For you would not like to
have me ride after you shouting out my love for you for all the
neighborhood to hear. And if you won't listen to me quietly, that is
exactly what I will do. Why is it you have been unwilling to listen,
Jack? If it is only that you don't love me in return, I understand that.
But a girl like you has got to get used to refusing men."
"Oh, Frank," Jack protested, "please don't say such foolish things."
Nevertheless, she slowed down her horse, seeing that Frank was
determined that she should listen this time.
"I have loved you always, Jack, from the first day of meeting you. I
have never cared for any one else. I think it only fair to let you know
that I mean to make you love me in return some day."
Frank's tone was so quiet and so positive that Jack smiled. She was not
accustomed to being spoken to in this fashion, but she was not at all
sure she disliked it.
"Why don't you answer me?" Frank asked a few moments afterwards. "By and
by, when you have gone back to the ranch, I suppose you know I shall
follow you. Will you give me my answer then?"
Just for a moment Jack's face turned the warm, radiant color Jean had
seen there once before. Bending slightly from her horse she took Frank's
hand that was now hanging at his side and an instant held it close.
"Don't think, Frank, I don't appreciate what you have told me, or that I
am so cold and unfeeling, as you seem to think I am. It is only that I
don't know, that there is something I may be mistaken about, that I
can't trust to any one else's judgment except my own. But, Frank dear,
if you think I am worth coming across the water and the land to far off
Wyoming to see, why then, then I shall know what to say."
Frank kissed the hand that had held his the moment before. They were now
riding up the avenue within a short distance of Kent castle.
"There is no land and no water that can divide us, Jack," Frank
answered, "if ever there is a chance of my hearing you say you love me
on the other side."
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Transcriber's Note: Two different copies of this book were searched and
both end in the middle of the final ad.
Obvious punctuation errors repaired.
Page 80, "rock" changed to "Rock" (historic Rock)
Page 85, "along side" changed to "alongside" (anchoring alongside the)
Page 166, "chaperone" changed to "chaperon" to match rest of usage
(turned to her chaperon)
Page 201, "to night" changed to "tonight" (theater party tonight)
Advertising page, Harry Castlemon's Books, "the" changed to "The"
(Houseboat Boys, The)
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