He searched everywhere for me, and at last he found me.

So delighted and affectionate was he that I forgave him my sufferings, only I was jealous of a letter in his other pocket, which he read over many times, murmuring that it explained everything.
"Her I never saw again, but I heard her voice.

He kept me now in a leather case in an inner pocket, where I was squeezed very flat.

What they said to each other I could not catch; but I understood afterward, for he always repeated to me what he had been saying to her, and many times he was loving, many times angry, like a bad man.

At last came a day when he had a letter from her containing many things he had given her, among them a ring on which she had seemed to set great store.
What it all meant I never rightly knew, but he flung the ring into the Thames, calling her all the old wicked names and some new ones.
I remember how we rushed to her house, along the bank this time, and that she asked him to be her brother; but he screamed denunciations at her, again speaking of 'that fellow,' and saying that he was going to-morrow to Manitoba.
"So far as I know, they saw each other no more.