ROMANCE OF A RING

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 166, 10 April 1926, Page 22

ROMANCE OF A RING

The late Lord Long once told this story at uinner on board the Admiralty yacht Enchantress, vouching for its ta-uith, says a writer in tue “Ltiily Graphic.” An English naval officer found himself in a train in France during the war in company with a French naval officer. They got into conversation, during which the 1-rcneU-man, "talking” with his hands, showed a somewhat peculiar ring on a ‘lnger. The Englishman said: “Excuse a personal remark, but that is a very curious ring you are wearing?* “Yes/* said thtT other, “aud I came by it in a very curious fashion. Just before the war our fleet visited England. We put in at Weymouth, and 1 saw this ling displayed for sale in a fishmon ger’s shop. The fisherman told me ho had found it inside a fish while cleaning it. 1 bought the ring as a curiosity.” Thereupon the Englishman explained his inquisitiveness about the ring. “It is also a curious fact,” he said, “that I used to have a ring exactly like that, and I lost it while fishing for mackerel off Weymouth not lona before the war. It is not likely to be the same, but if it were it would have such and such an inscription engraved inside it.” The French officer took the ring off his finger, and there inside was the inscription quoted!