One ray intruded through the shutter into the darkened room, and rested on a ring, which I had never observed before, on Ellen's left hand.

It was on the third finger, and its appearance there was so unexpected to me, that for a moment my strength forsook me, and I leaned against the table on which the coffin rested, for support.
"'Lucy,' I said, 'when was that placed there ?' "'I put it there, ma'am.' "'But what induced you ?' "'She told me to do so, ma'am.

A few days before she was taken sick, she called me and took from her bureau-drawer, that ring.

The ring was in a small box.

She was very pale when she spoke--she looked more like death than she does now, ma'am.