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Then dinner-hour drawing near the white-capped nurse came in as a gentle hint that her patient had had about all the excitement he could stand, and Mrs. Harold suggested their departure. Their last glance showed them Lewis Dunmore looking at his class-ring, for he could move that arm just enough to enable him to raise the hand within his range of vision.
Back in his room at the boarding-house he examined the additions to his personal property: Sixty-five dollars in bills. A platinum ring with three medium diamonds, worth, probably, about seven hundred dollars. Diamonds were going up. A cheap gold-plated ring with the initials O. S. and the date inside '03 probably a class-ring from school. Worth a few dollars. Unsalable.
Harold had given him a downy bathrobe; Peggy had made him a hop pillow; Polly had made up a nonsense jingle for each day for a month, sealing each in an envelope and labelling it with dire penalties if read before the date named. But best of all, the class had sent him his class-ring and when it was slipped upon his finger by his roommate, the poor lad broke down completely. Mrs.
Harold hastened to the bedside and the others did their best to relieve the situation. The class-ring is never worn by a second-classman until the last exam is passed by the first class. Then the new class-rings blossom forth in all their glory, for this ring is peculiarly significant: It is looked forward to as one of the greatest events in the class' history, and is a badge of union forever.
She could never doubt him for an instant, he felt assured, and he well, he couldn't begin to realize his blessed fortune at all, so she must excuse his incredulity; but he declared he would leave her utterly untrammelled. There should not even be an "understanding." He would not ask her to accept his class-ring, all he had to offer, but write to her he would. Grace and Mrs.
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