... HE TOOK IT FROM HIS POCKET, SAYING, "MILLIE, I WANT TO SHOW YOU SOMETHING"
"I have seen it!" she interrupted, laughing softly, glancing down at the object in its gaudy setting.
"Well, we mustn't disappoint Lightnin'," said Marvin. "Put it on your finger, dear, for the old fellow's sake and let him see it. It will show him that his efforts were not in vain—no ring could be more beautiful in thought than this one!"
"You're right, John!" she said, with shining eyes, as she slipped the thing on her finger and raised her face for a kiss.
At that psychological moment Bill stuck his head in the door. He withdrew, of course, but only to return in an instant with the whole party at his heels.
Bill was leading his wife by the hand. Gesturing toward Marvin and Millie, his shrewd old eyes fairly snapping with whimsical happiness, Lightnin' exclaimed: