text:  "We have a warrant here and soldiers!" "For as much as Frederick and Lucy Hesseltine " (I said as calmly as I could though with my heart quaking within me) "have consented together in holy wedlock and have witnessed the same before God and this company and thereto have given and pledged their troth either to other and have declared the same by giving and receiving of a ring and by joining of hands--I pronounce that they be man and wife together!" "Now then my lords and gentlemen " cried the great lady springing to her feet "to the defence! We are witnesses of this marriage and clashing swords must play the wedding peel