I'm going to forgive you.

Free and fair and open.

And give you back my half of that ring, and--" Dern it! I had forgot I had lost that half of that there ring! I remembered so quick it stopped me.
"You always kept it, Danny ?" she asts me, very soft-spoken, so as not to give pain to one so faithful and so noble as what I was.

"Let me see it, Danny." I made like I was feeling through all my pockets fur it.

But that couldn't last forever.