The Death Ring

No purifying deed was done, to drive the fiend from his bright home and this little star. Sir Robert Wappell bestowed the ring on the lady of a British legislator whose political honor he wished undermined. Many a dismal and unhappy tale might be wrought out of its other adventurers. All this while, its ominous tinge of dusky red, have been deepening in darkening. If laid upon white paper, it cast the mingled hue of night and blood,. strangely illuminated with scintillating light in a circle roundabout. But this peculiarity only made it more valuable. Alas, the fatal ring, when shall its dark secret be discovered?