CHAPTER XV.
THE PARLOR AT OWLKIRK.
When he called, as he had said, in the evening, she looked much better, and there was even a touch of playfulness in her manner.

He could not but hope some crisis had been passed.

The money she had received for the ring had probably something to do with it.

Perhaps she had not known how valuable the ring was.

Thereupon in his conscientiousness he began to doubt whether he had given her its worth.