A STORY OF A RING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5628, 29 November 1879, Page 7

A STORY OF A RING.

A DA.Y or two ago a jeweller o£ the Rue Uainbuteau was mnch surprised by a visit from a working- =nan, who offered to sell him , a spleadid diamond ring, worth at least IO.OOOf, for the small sum of 400f. Hie suspicions being aroused by the divergence between tha value of the trinket and the sum asked for it by the would-be-vendor, he said he would call at the abode of the latter, Aubervilliers, on the morrow and pay.the amount. The workman, apparently well satisfied, went off,- and the jeweller immediately communicated the matter to the Commissary of Poliue, who proceeded to Aubervilliers, and fend the possessor of the ring at supper, suv rounded by his balf-s> dozen children. O;t being told that the ring was woith 10.000f., he evinced much unafficted astonishm.ei t, and said he could not understand how his sister could have sunk such a sum in a ring. Upon inquiry, in fact, it turned out that his sister had undoubtedly left him thering upon her death twoyears previously, and that she had acted as lady's maid to the wile of a nobleman attached to a embassy. This news gave the official a clue which he was not tardy in following up. Having presented himself at the diplomatist's residence, the wife of the latter at once recngoised the ring as one that had mysteriously disappeared eix years before. The upshot of the affair is that the workman who had acted throughout in Rood faith, and had stated that, had he known the ring was not honestly and justly his, he would have taken steps to return it, is rewarded by the rearing and education of his sis children being takeu in hand by the rightuii owner of the jewel. Thus the matter endii happily for ail partis. The lady very unexpectedly r'e-eover3hfci-"t<-.st diamond, an-i the woyltciaa'a. I honesty inadequately rewarded.— Giv.(jrtitni.