It is not your usual method." "Nor was it with her," the colonel declared, twisting his moustache proudly.
A captain of the North-West Mounted Police, by virtue of his magisterial office, may perform marriages in time of stress as well as execute exemplary justice.

So Captain Alexander received a call from Colonel Trethaway, and after he left jotted down an engagement for the next morning.

Then the impending groom went to see Frona.

Lucile did not make the request, he hastened to explain, but--well, the fact was she did not know any women, and, furthermore, he (the colonel) knew whom Lucile would like to ask, did she dare.

So he did it upon his own responsibility.