| Show anneal life w h I 1 Ther ewas s a bridal couple put u up here few night sago 0 aid taid the I 1 proprietor of an up uptown town hotel ciote in newyork New York 49 who owe their ciral mee an incident or rather a I 1 I 1 series eri which occurred occurred in 11 the room they tl ey occupied that ni it Is is ft very pretty story ti 11 I 1 ll I 1 I 1 told and will lay over any atly Ordil mry teat tent of the imagination through pure luck and nod active rapo reasoning fee I 1 11 i a you id fellow hag has won nyon the th prettiest 6 t it ic t little sweetheart one could he 13 is him and handsome hall II and holds a responsible position I 1 as agent for a largo large har hardware aware rm in the tile west he ile has bas stopped t my ray house lie bras ras ill itt town for three years and over the first act not ip the romance I 1 aej arp I 1 telling you occurred about a year ago 1190 and and the scene was laid in room floor front J A bell boy came tome to roe on OIL the evening in n question and eaid said the gentleman in in no 26 wished to me meat at mv my c convenience veni ence I 1 went up tip a and nd found jimmy we alway palled him by hia his first name here I 1 found uund him bitting eitting eit ting on his sofa admiring a neat little diamond ring which flashed in ill the gaslight like an electric spark it was a ladya ladys ring and must ticer have had iad a very very slender little e finger to milt fill t it occurred to ni eclid alib alln ring g was for hi ina ts bitite intended rid adl a and nd tai that A a ho ile 64 wag going 0 to tell me all ab out it it is is quit natural youe for an tin enthusiastic young boye to maka confident of a ffriend it soma over ill in I 1 toils them adwill iud ou t why hy I 1 la iad I 1 a loan manold old enof enough tilli hot uever never mind that ril VII finish this story I 1 begin another ill fierstat fi fir rat stat at the ring rin and auk at jimmy all ali said taid Y I 1 althen lornit toj to bon congratulate you and 11 ask sk who the fortu fortunate I 1 youn young g 1 fady might be ire ife ht laughed pleasantly es hotly and said he lie was cut out iut for a bachelor just as all young follows oo 00 d then he lie went on to explain labout the ritia I 1 it t seemed lie had haa dropped some loose change upon the sofa and it had slid dol down v I 1 i into luto the lini linius ag in fee feeling dog around for it lid had fished out this r ring i log we examined it for somo some mark of identification but at found not 1 jing except letter letterS 9 Sen engraved graved anthe on the inner side that was certainly rather a small clew to the owner owner but boutwe we used it for all it wa we warth rafi i e bear clied our registry for over a year back taking e every v cry nam name opposite room no 26 which began with S we had bad about a dozen smitha 1 d two or three Shor taa shanks an and d other names to tho the number of thirty or more we wrote to each to know if they biad lost a valuable ring and asking them tile in to write and describe it if they bad lied only about half balfa a dozen answered and none efthem of them had lost a ring I 1 jimmy went from here to philadelphia adelphia in and aria then to washington it was about three weeks bell before ore he e showed allowed up at the hotel here again of course ho be inqui inquired rid about the ring the first thing if we ever discover the fair owner lie as he started d for room 26 preceded by a bell boy with his satchel and a pi pitcher teller of ice water jf if we ever discover the owner of that ring I 1 shall claim the privilege of personally presenting it to td her r twenty six said the clerk to a boy who stepped up in response to an electric call from one of tho the rooms it was after eleven no and d I 1 was smoking my customary goodnight good night cigar in iha the office the toy booy came ca back downstairs a minu minute to later I 1 tiep twp steps at a time Ijes ho abaid aid 26 acted a little wild and wanted me 0 0 o COMO UP right away I 1 coufa 1 I icart jimmy came running aown do ivri hims himself elf ii i have H ave you got your register for he be asked nervously I 1 said bala that I 1 had 1 I then well boon soon know who that ring belongs to he added we vy e got the 1882 register and he turned to page 3 running 18 eye down the numbers af f rooms room s james shepard wife and sod daub daughter ter was scrib scribbled bleil appo site rooms aall 0 and hod 20 with the th e address addren in full a large manufacturing ing town in one ond of the new england states ahll iv letter de 93 sin n that t ring stands for shepard shouted jimmy hilariously arious ly 4 YOU see beffie cinc to bed taft preparations tos bave the mirror before which he lie was to perform t the he operation reflected the I 1 light ight 01 of a gas gag jet on oil either side plainly cut in one caught eight af 0 f t the ne t aune 3 1882 1 I 0 roin the n inscription to j vai wai OUT anas j aay BUT step in n a it train of f thought and ani from a diamond to tile jewel found in jibe tile game room wai wa another it ans was b but ata a fin natural tUral conclusion in the rin wae the tile same that had cut tho the agns gns Y and tid still more inore natural that theadate the date on the glass was the date of the cut it then became almost certainty that mhd person who occupied aupied romarn 0 26 on june 3 1882 and the owner of the ring were tile same rhino I 1 veu ji jimmy in my sta started e cast ast I 1 tho the next day and nod took the rin ring 9 with him MIA aalt lot got a letter from him lihn a few tow deyp P later saying that misa hard was the owner of the tile ring and 00 sd pretty face and most charm charming ing kellher iler parents he wrote were very grateful for the return of the ring and had invited him hilli to call again when in town I 1 littina lit tint heard from mhd boy since J I 1 i az I 1 flopped tura his wedding trip last week his charming I 1 wife v ife wore that diamond ring on tile daintiest daintie st of little wb white I 1 I 1 e f fingers it 1 geia gers a As I 1 eaid at netho the outset they i would have none but room 20 on ow mirror just att beneath the 1 aune 1882 they left february 3 1885 il their wedding day r yew ok taif s |
