The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1910-10-27

philosopher, she concluded that the
man was %, 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 a 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 inscrip-
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-
quisite tracery of a little coat of arms
on either side of the setting, done in
miniature but with a skill to marvel
at, too small even for her brilliant
vision to decipher in detail.
The other she recognized with
sheer as one of those letters of CON
vention, wedding ring. 1t was a
heavier hoop of gold much engraved
within. She washed it in the stream
and rubbed it in the sand until she
could make 1t out, 81. r. c." she
read, ito NJ. p T." There was a 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,
fit source from which to select the
'posy of a ring" agreeable to those
who submit to such ancient follies as
the well-named bonds of matrimony.
She reached for the Bible and with
unfamiliar fingers searched through ii
until she found the place: 81 will
very gladly spend and be spent for
you; though the more abundantly !
love you, the less | 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 lone
years and with the ring sparkling in
her own white hand she embodied It's
tradition in personality and the WON
an who had been so loved stood be
fore her Her eyes fell again upor
the man and the dream was broken.
She pieced together now all thai
she had of him, smiling as she did G,
at the thought of certain strange stor
les she had read wherein men of mar
velous deductye powers had brough
to solution problems which appeare,
, as impossible of detection as this nre
sented to her.
John Revell Charnock, evidently IN,
, father of the man of the island ha,
married one M. p. r. on the 10TH q
September, 1869. Perhaps within
/ year afterward this John Reveu Cha,
mock, assuming him, as was likely +,
have borne his fathers name vo
born. The best English stock in IN.
colony were Massachusetts and Vii
, ginia. The stern piece of the boa
4 borne the name OF Virginia river am,
t of a Virginia town. The man beror
4 her was a Virginian, therefore So
S he was born in 1871, It would moi,
5 him 20 years old in accordance vit
her first guess. The father am
h mother, possibly ruined by the resnl,
OF the civil war, had embarked ~
r some vessel to seek a fortune in a No,
d land. Something had happened f.
h the ship and the woman. the Inn W.
e and the dog had landed in some wa
upon these shores alone after SON,
+ horrible voyage, perhaps like that sb
( had passed through. The how ,o,',
s. have been five or six years old els
e ne would have died being deserto,
G The woman had. indeed, died, and tn