CHAPTER XXV.
WHICH ENDS THE STORY OF TROY.
The wedding took place in less than two months after Mr. Fogo's dinner-party. A longer interval would have proved, I believe, fatal to both Peter and Paul, who wore themselves thin over small anxieties, from the trousseau to the cake.
Three days before the wedding, for instance, they rowed down to Kit's House and awoke Caleb at 4.30 a.m. by throwing gravel against his window.
"Oh, 'tes you," said Caleb, as he thrust open the lattice; "what's amiss now?"
"We have been considerin' which of us two es to gi'e Tamsin away."
"Toss up."
"We have tossed up—scores o' times."
"Well?"