The Comrade. (Winnfield, La.) 1890-1914, 1910-08-26

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man was rs, three years older than
she at that moment, proper differ.
ence, in their ages for Her
face famed. She scarcely knew why.
and she turned to an inspection of the
rings.
The first was diamond, a solitaire,
OF rare beauty, she judged. Although
she was not especially expert in such
matters, she deemed it must be Of
great value. There was no inscrin.
ton of any sort within the narrow
hoop of gold, although she searched
keenly the inner surface. The diamond
was curiously set There was an ex.
qulsite tracery Of a little coat of arms
on either side of the setting, done in
miniature but with skill to marvel
at, too small even for her brilliant
vision to decipher in detail.
The other she recognized with a
sneer as one of those letters of con.
vention, a wedding ring. It was
heavier hoop of gold much engraved
within. She washed it in the stream
and rubbed it in the sand until she
could make it out. u. R. c." she
read, ITO NJ. P. T." There was 3 date
after, September 10, 1869, and then
these cabalistic words, III, Cor. 1915"
which she presently OWNED to be a
reference to some text in the Bible
Mt source from which to select the
"posy of a ring" agreeable to those
who submit to such ancient follies az
the well-named bonds Of matrimony.
She reached for the Bible and with
unfamiliar fingers searched through it
until she found the place: IT will
very gladly spend and be spent for
you; though the more abundantly I
love you, the less I be loved" The
beauty Of the phrase caught her fancy.
she read with strange new interest
the chapter in which these words
were shrined. The touch of human
passion came to her across the long
years and with the ring sparkling in
her own white hand she embodied its
tradition in personality and the WON
an who had been so loved stood be-
fore her. Her eyes fell again upon
the man and the dream was broken.
She pieced together now all that
she had Of him, smiling as she did so
at the thought of certain strange stor.
les she had read wherein men Of mar.
velons deductiYe powers had brought
to solution problems which appeared
as Impossible of detection as this pre-
sented to her.
John Reyell Charnock, evidently the I
father OF the man of the island, had
married one M. P. T. on the 10th Of s
September, 1869, Perhaps within a
year afterward this John Revell Char
1ock, assuming him, as was likely, to
lave borne his fathers name, was (;
born. The best English stock in the
colony were Massachusetts, and Vir.
'inia. The stern piece of the boat
'orne the name Of a Virginia river and ,
i Virginia town. The man before
Ter was q Virginian, therefore. say
e was born in 1871, it would make
i'm Is years old, in accordance with II
Ter first guess. The father and
aother, possibly ruined by the results
4 the civil war, had embarked on {
ONE vessel to seek a fortune in a new
and Something had happened to s
ne ship and the woman, the little bow. {Sc
nd the dog had landed in some way {
pom these shores alone after some t
orrible voyage, perhaps like that she
ad passed through. The boy must t
ave been five or six years Old, else {
81 would have died being deserted |e
he woman bag, u deed died, and the 1t