He knew that she would hear of it if he went to any saloon in town; so he stole the key from your bunch, and went to help himself out of the club-house wine-vault.

That's how he came to be there.

What followed, who knows?
He won't tell, and we can only conjecture.

The ring, which she certainly wore that night, might give the secret away; but it is not gifted with speech, though as a silent witness it is exceedingly eloquent." The episode of the ring confused me.

I could make nothing out of it, could not connect it with what I myself knew of the confused experiences of that night.