Hand and Ring

BOOK I.

THE GENTLEMAN FROM TOLEDO.

I.

A STARTLING COINCIDENCE.

By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. --MACBETH.

THE town clock of Sibley had just struck twelve. Court had adjourned, and Judge Evans, with one or two of the leading lawyers of the county, stood in the door-way of the court-house discussing in a friendly way the eccentric...