He was in need of a new suit anyway, he said, and he had put off ordering it for a long, long time, not because he was parsimonious but because he did not like going up town for the "try-on." He also had a new silk hat made from his special block, and he would doubtless be compelled to have his hair trimmed up a bit about the nineteenth or twentieth, if the weather turned a trifle warmer.

Of course, there would be the trip to City Hall with Anne, for the licence.

He would have to attend to that in person.

That was one thing that Wade couldn't do for him.

Wade bought the wedding-ring and saw to the engraving; he attended to the buying of a gift for the best man,--who under one of the phases of an all-enveloping irony was to be George Dexter Tresslyn!--and in the same expedition to the jewellers' purchased for himself a watch-fob as a self-selected gift from a master who had never given him anything in all his years of service except his monthly wage and a daily malediction.
Braden Thorpe made the supreme effort to save his grandfather.