CHAPTER XVI

THE MUSICIAN DEPARTS Isbel commenced unbuttoning her left-hand glove, with slightly trembling fingers. “Something is to go out of the window, but not you.” She removed the diamond ring from her third finger, and eyed it pensively, before handing it to him. . . . “Throw it out! Let strange find strange. I never should have worn it.” “Better return it to the giver.” “As long as I carry it about with me, I haven’t cast off the past. Do as I say. That episode is finished.” Judge, without further demur, took the ring to…