Then, speaking in the native dialect, he told them that he was about to make us man and wife after the Christian fashion and in the sight of all men.

This done, he proceeded to read the marriage service over us, and very solemnly and beautifully he did it.

We said the words, I placed the ring--it was her father's signet ring, for we had no other--upon Stella's finger, and it was done.
Then Mr.Carson spoke.

"Allan and Stella," he said, "I believe that the ceremony which has been performed makes you man and wife in the sight of God and man, for all that is necessary to make a marriage binding is, that it should be celebrated according to the custom of the country where the parties to it reside.

It is according to the custom that has been in force here for fifteen years or more that you have been married in the face of all the people, and in token of it you will both sign the register that I have kept of such marriages, among those of my people who have adopted the Christian Faith.