With Broussard escorting her, Anita walked the length of the long ballroom to the point where, with one touch of the hand every light went out in an instant of time, and the ballroom was plunged into the blackness of darkness and the stillness of silence.
The band then played softly the delicious waltz "Auf Wiedersehen," with its sweet promise of eternal meeting.
On the stroke of twelve came a great roar and reverberance from the outside and a dazzling flash of light blazed in at the window from a _feu de joie_ on the plaza.

At the same moment, the young bugler played the splendid fanfare that welcomes the dawn, the reveille.
Broussard and Anita, looking into each others' smiling eyes, began the new year of their perfect happiness with the joyous echo of the silver trumpet proclaiming the coming of the sunrise.
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