If you had cared so much for the ring you couldn't have talked about it, or shown it; could you ?" It relieved him to think that this might be true; he certainly had not looked at it in that light before.
"But did you really find it ?" she asked, with sudden gravity.

"Really, now ?" "Yes." "And there was no real May in the case ?" "Not that I know of," laughed Cass, secretly pleased.
But Miss Porter, after eying him critically for a moment, jumped up and climbed back again to her seat.

"Perhaps you had better give me that handkerchief back." Cass began to unbutton his coat.
"No! no! Do you want to take your death of cold ?" she screamed.

And Cass, to avoid this direful possibility, rebuttoned his coat again over the handkerchief and a peculiarly pleasing sensation.
Very little now was said until the rattling, bounding descent of the coach denoted the approach to Red Chief.

The straggling main street disclosed itself, light by light.