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About one o'clock that night, since Charlie didn't follow Jessie's discreet example and retire early, Hattie finally suggested that Charlie had better get some rest. Charlie retired. To Sam this was the final test of moral courage. The next morning Charlie and Sam sat our in the shade which happened to be on the roof of the downstairs porch and filled in the time from Lorain days when they had separated, which made five years in total. Sam was looking heavier and healthier by far then in 1919 and as Charlie remarked that though Sam was still boyish he undoubtedly was now a mature man. There was a confidence and simplicity of bearing about him that bespoke that complete ability to maintain in the crowd the serenity attained in Solitude. Charlie put in a plea for the monopoly of Sam for one morning, "inasmuch as Hattie was to have him for the rest of her life," and the strange part of that is that quickly the prayer went through Hattie's mind that it might be the rest of her life. At four o'clock the minister arrived. Sam said, "Of course, living in the world we had to have the conventional stamp of marriage, whereas he had been married to Hattie in his heart the whole six months of reparation and whether or not it was ever physically consummated he and Hattie were there more truly married sans the physical and conventional stamp than most marriages. 
Little Buck wore a new white sailor suite with the much coveted long sailor pants and held Gam's right hand while, despite the minister's discomfort, he put the other arm around Hattie. Little Buck at the first pause said "Sam are we married now?" With a few more "faux pas" the ceremony was completed and putting on more practical clothes than a chiffon traveling costume, the Junkins and the Meyers's piled into the family barouche and where did they go? One answer. Out to the aviation field where Charlie was flying his "Avro" and had a barn full of the beginnings of his later successful Meyers Midget. The field was testimony to Charlie's ability as a pilot, having survived five years of take-offs and landings, it was a darn good conclusion that he wiggled a mean "stick". Little Buck stuck to Sam like a and no doubt itched Sam in the like manner. When he wasn't asking Sam questions he was telling the little kids that "we" had just been married. A couple of days later Sam and Hattie and little Buck left on the Caroline Special