THE MYSTERY OF THE MAGIC RING

When I awoke the house was very still. I got up, went down stairs, and did not see anyone around. It was almost like daylight, I thought I had slept all night. I walked through the sitting room, not noticing anything different about it. I went out to the courtyard and looked around not a sign of any one. Just some very old wicker furniture and a glass table with a jug and two glasses on it, the jug was full of lemonade. I paused for a moment, and then went down the path leading into the woods, when I came into a clearing. There in the clearing was a wolf; this time it was just the male. He was sleek and lean. He did not have the normal markings of a wolf his body was a silver gray, but on his head, there was black running down behind his ears from the forehead, and the eyes were the warmest sea green. I jumped back a little startled, then stopped, as it sounded as if some one called my name. I looked around, but did not see any one. I heard it again. Looking down at the wolf, he was now sitting in front of me, his eyes were telling me to use the ring. I looked at my hand and the ring was glowing. Looking down at the wolf, he was repeating, “Please use the ring and release me from this curse.” “But I don’t know how.” He told me to look into his eyes. I got down on one knee; he put his head in my hand. He told me to look deeper into his eyes, some how I was no longer afraid of him. As I looked into his eyes, it was as if he was telling me what to do. All of a sudden, I stood up and raised my arms up to the sky. And in a loud voice said, “Here is this wolf, in front of me,” “That was my own true love to be!” “I ask the heavens and the gods to release my loved one from this curse” “And stand him before me on this earth!” All of a sudden, there was thunder and lightning. Coming from the ring there was a very bright light all around us. When I was able to see, there standing in front of me, was the most handsomely, young man. I was so taken by his splendor, that I must have past out. When I came to, I was laying on the most beautiful bed. The young man was kneeling by my side. With skin of golden brown, long black hair that had a blue shine in the light, dressed only in a piece of cloth that hung from the waist to just above the knees and the most noticeable thing were the eyes; they were the same as the wolf’s. I was dressed in the most beautiful, white buckskin gown. Beaded with the most exquisite jewels that matched the ring on my finger. When I asked what had happened. He looked at me with such loving eyes, and said he would explain everything to me when I felt up to it, and that I should just lay there for a few minutes; and with that, he disappeared. I must have passed out again, for when I came to it was morning. I got up and went down stairs; every one was having breakfast. I came into the room, looked around, and was very disappointed not to see the young man I met the day before. After we ate my friends suggested, we all go down to the beach. I told them that I had to go into town, but stayed at the house. Feeling kind of down at not finding the young man when I got up.